ex3xu
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There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder,
and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order,
achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
-- Jane Jacobs, the Death and Life of Great American Cities
ex3xu at pm.me
UPS drivers, like it or not, produce that much value. Bankers don't, and are instead holding the economy hostage through abuse of insider information [0], regulatory arbitrage [1], and capturing short-term value via…
> The core idea is trying my best to not kid myself: when my engagement with a piece of content is active and effortful then it’s learning, when it’s passive it’s entertainment. When I create I learn. When I consume I…
If a doctor told you to stop smoking and lower your blood pressure, would you berate him for pushing to make your life miserable? Our collective addiction to the conveniences of modern life is leading to the…
These are fair and valid points and I wish I had used more consideration in my attempt to convey the rhetorical usage. The proselytization component is probably a more significant reason behind the word choice than any…
I think your understanding will improve if you view the content of this link as nothing but a scathing review of the book in question. I get the sense that your confusion comes from thinking that the linked article is…
I think it's a portmanteau of susurrus and torrential, which serves to invoke the force and volume of a torrential downpour to the description.
Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke: Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my…
Matlab files on Github: https://github.com/Layton-Lab/Kregulation
I found KC Davis's 2022 book How to Keep House While Drowning to be a nice complementary update to Kondo's techniques. On a practical level Davis focuses on accumulated mess as 5 things: (1) trash, (2) dishes, (3)…
Sure, I can understand your skepticism. The church was skeptical of Galileo when he made new claims about the nature of the earth as well, since it contradicted their own previous anecdotal perceptions and private…
Two weeks from the anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death, I'm wishing he could have lived long enough to see Sci-Hub. Rest in peace.
Google in 1998: Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives from the original paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine [0] "Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines…
I am a subscriber to the microbiome inflammasome hypothesis for major depression [0], so I wouldn't be surprised if a treatment course for depression in many people could be as simple as better dental hygiene +…
Goethe and Hegel both get some character-driven exposition in this book, but Hegel is about twenty years younger than Goethe, so the interactions focus more on the contemporaneous groupings of Goethe-Schiller-Fichte and…
Wulf is an unconventional historian with an unconventional background, and her work reads much more like a narrative-driven piece of New Journalism than a theoretical entry from the Cambridge Studies series on…
I took some tips from a book titled How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk - they suggest to try to help kids label their emotions, and then reaffirm those emotions are valid (even if they can't…
My internal picture of Schillerian Spieltrieb is basically a bunch of 1960s pie-in-the-sky Woodstock hippies making art, music, and free love all day in a post-work, self-governing society. The OP is juxtaposing this…
Thanks to the ScummVM team for a truly amazing project. I second the adventure game recommendations people have been listing, and for those with young children I'll add the Living Books series as an amazing set of…
I'd say that chess fundamentals is three things: Endgames, tactics, and positional strategy. OP's strategy of studying openings and tactics is a very fun and accessible improvement path for intelligent new players, but…
If you want to examine the analysis directly, the paper links the algorithm as part of the Baydem R package [0] and the R dataset used is available in its own repository [1] (docker recommended): [0]:…
FDA approval for transcranial electric/magnetic stimulation has been around since 2008 for major depression, 2013 for migraines, and 2018 for OCD [0], so it wouldn't surprise me if they hold some therapeutic value for…
(2019) What a strange post. This guy namedrops Scott Adams and writes a few lines referencing Adams' 2013 book How to Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big, but it's pretty unclear to me if he understood the point…
My approach to dealing with this comes from Neil Fiore's The Now Habit [0] and Stephen Pressfield's The War of Art. Fiore -- decouple any self-judgment or self-validation from your work and its results, and stay focused…
> And generally speaking, in life, I feel like I'm pretty bad at having my own unique take/opinion on things, even though I'm trying. Most of my "controversial" thoughts and opinions came from the…
"death": losing player called to greater things, one hopes. An inspiringly optimistic spiritual outlook from the PGN standard, so thank you for that. Technically, over the board one could just wait until their deceased…