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💡 Favorite Concepts and Ideas

Here you’ll find concepts I found valuable, identify with or want to read and write more about in the future.

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✍️ Interesting Blogs

This page is continuously updated; it’s publication date reflects the last time changes were made.

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📚 Favorite Books

These are books I’ve thoroughly enjoyed and have affected the way I see the world.

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🤝 Initiatives and Organizations Supporting Open Source

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🌱 Main Information Sources and Entertainment

These are resources I enjoy and sporadically review to get an idea for what’s going on out there. I don’t watch cable news and consume the content listed here and elsewhere slowly and sporadically.

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📦 Free Asset Aggregators

Here you’ll find links to some content aggregators I’ve used and continue to use.

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Excellent Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations

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.

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Benjamin Franklin on the Tension between Liberty, Virtue, Safety, Wealth and Power

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

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Ghost in the Shell (2017)

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🍂 Ryōkan: In the scenery of spring …

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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].

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Paths are Made by Walking

paths are made by walking

This aphorism is also found in German as follows:

Wege entstehen dadurch, dass wir sie gehen

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

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Oppenheimer: Death, the Destroyer of Worlds

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.

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Thurston’s Paean

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]

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai

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.

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Seneca: We Suffer more from Imagination than Reality

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.

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Epictetus: Decide, Do, Become

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”.

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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

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Invictus by William Ernest Henley ✊

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🎙️ Enriching Podcasts and Radio Shows

Here you’ll find podcasts I’ve found valuable over the years.

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💡 Idea: A Placeholder for Topics I Want to Write About

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.

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