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📚 Favorite Books
- 13 April 2024
These are books I’ve thoroughly enjoyed and have affected the way I see the world.
🤝 Initiatives and Organizations Supporting Open Source
- 07 April 2024
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✍️ Interesting Blogs
- 01 April 2024
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🌱 Main Information Sources and Entertainment
- 10 February 2024
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Excellent Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
- 28 September 2023
While on a military campaign which started in 170 and ended in 180, Marcus Aurelius[1] wrote his Meditations in Greek for his own guidance and self-development. The original title of the work, if it had one, is unknown. ‘Meditations’ – as well as other titles including ‘To Himself’ – were adopted later. He had a logical mind, and his notes were representative of Stoic philosophy and spirituality.
Benjamin Franklin on the Tension between Liberty, Virtue, Safety, Wealth and Power
- 28 September 2023
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
🍂 Ryōkan: In the scenery of spring …
- 23 September 2023
This poem by Ryōkan was quoted by Alan Watts[1] in one of his lectures[2]; this was what originally motivated me to look for it in full and reproduce it here. The source of the painting is not related to Ryōkan[3].
Paths are Made by Walking
- 04 September 2023
paths are made by walking
This aphorism is also found in German as follows:
Wege entstehen dadurch, dass wir sie gehen
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- 07 August 2023
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Oppenheimer: Death, the Destroyer of Worlds
- 07 August 2023
We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of the shelter and then it was extremely solemn. We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed; a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multiarmed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
Thurston’s Paean
- 18 July 2023
On an uneventful Tuesday afternoon I was, as usual, enjoying my lunch while mindlessly scrolling HackerNews and, also as usual, a post caught my attention which hit home[1]
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai
- 18 July 2023
Although it might be a cliché by now, I’ve always been quite fond of ukiyo-e, the Japanese art of woodblock printing[1], and of course of Hokusai’s work. As for many, my earliest exposure to this type of art was Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa [2] and so it’s here for posterity.
Seneca: We Suffer more from Imagination than Reality
- 22 August 2022
In his thirteenth letter[1], “On groundless fears”, Seneca the Younger[2] writes to Lucilius about, predictably, human fear and how we, often without sufficient grounds, are affraid of that which is yet to come.
Epictetus: Decide, Do, Become
- 17 August 2018
In the third volume, chapter XXIII §1, of his discourses compiled by Arrian[1], Epictetus[2] gives his advice “to those who read and discuss for the purpose of display”.
💡 Favorite Concepts and Ideas
- 07 August 2013
Here you’ll find concepts I found valuable, identify with or want to read and write more about in the future.
📦 Free Asset Aggregators
- 18 July 2013
Here you’ll find links to some content aggregators I’ve used and continue to use.
🎙️ Enriching Podcasts and Radio Shows
- 18 June 2013
Here you’ll find podcasts I’ve found valuable over the years.
💡 Idea: A Placeholder for Topics I Want to Write About
- 20 May 2013
This is a simplistic and implicit backlog to which I can link from other places. This makes it easier to remember what I want or wanted to write about as well as programmatically generate a listing.