From e9f984462ef391075b0ac45829e24d72b3e996ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Shilko Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 23:57:23 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 1/9] If you die before you die, then you won't die when you die --- README.md | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 056c1dd..cda1d25 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -942,6 +942,9 @@ Interestingly, this is a core Buddhist teaching as well. In Zen in the Art of Ar > Life is a bridge, build no house upon it; it is a river, cling not to its banks; it is a gymnasium, use it to develop the mind on the apparatus of circumstance; it is a journey, take it and walk on > -- [not Buddha](https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/life-is-a-bridge-dont-build-a-house-on-it/) +> Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman -- a rope over an abyss +> ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra + > The essentially self-transcendent quality of human existence renders man a being reaching out beyond himself > -- Viktor Frankl, The will to meaning @@ -1079,7 +1082,6 @@ The **genius or daemon comes to us at birth. It carries with it the fullness of In effect, you are freeing the genie from the bottle. And if you do it wrong, the genie has to go back into the bottle. According to the Greeks and the Romans, if you did it wrong, then the genie, the daemon, the genius becomes a malevolent household spirit that will destroy you and destroy your home. And how many of us kind of know a creative person who just didn’t follow through with it, and ended up drinking, and doing drugs, and kind of destroying their lives, because they didn’t have the whatever to really pursue the passion that should have been their destiny? > -- Chuck Palahniuk [talks on book "Gift" by Lewis Hyde, interviewed by Tim Ferriss](https://tim.blog/2020/09/05/chuck-palahniuk-transcript/) - > You don’t become completely free by just avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master > -- The bed of Procrustes: philosophical and practical aphorisms by Nassim Taleb @@ -1128,6 +1130,9 @@ Accept lifelong urge for escape, for that _Human_ is a transient notion. #### Developmental Stages +> You have to die few times before you actually live +> ― Charles Bukowsky + > In human existence there are seven times that we call “age”: infant, child, adolescent, young, adult, mature man, old man. The changing period of the Moon, during early childhood, is replaced by that of Mercury, in which the first knowledge is acquired, then that of Venus, which reveals its strength in the passionate emotions of adolescence; then comes the zenith of life, the three seven years of full life force and desires for expansion. The kingdom of the evil Mars generates a sudden change and leads to the struggles, bitterness and disillusions of adulthood. Then, under the scepter of Jupiter, once again appears a peak of life, maturity proper, which, wise and serene, contemplates the joys and sufferings of existence, always contributing joyfully. Finally, under the star of Saturn, slow and far from the earth, comes the great age in which the vital forces cool and slowly stop. > -- Hippocrates (460 – 377 B.C.) @@ -1161,6 +1166,9 @@ Ken Wilber's attempt to create [Integral Theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I > The idea is to die young as late as possible > ― Ashley Montagu +> If you die before you die, then you won't die when you die +> ― The inscription above the entrance to St Paul’s monastery in Mount Athos in Greece refers to the rituals of Eleusinian Mysteries + > Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best > — Robert Baden-Powell @@ -1170,7 +1178,10 @@ minds. Our luggage we leave behind us, and return as naked out of the world as w eternity; and it is the only way to it. So that what we fear as a rock, proves to be but a port, in many cases to be desired, never to be refused. And he that dies young has only made a quick voyage of it > -- Seneca. Consolations against death - + +> Then, Simmias, as the true philosophers are ever studying death, to them, of all men, death is the least terrible. Look at the matter in this way: how inconsistent of them to have been always enemies of the body, and wanting to have the psūkhē alone, and when this is granted to them, to be trembling and regretting; instead of rejoicing at their departing to that place where, when they arrive, they hope to gain that which in life they loved (and this was wisdom), and at the same time to be rid of the company of their enemy. Many a man has been willing to go to the world beyond in the hope of seeing there an earthly love, or wife, or son, and conversing with them. And will he who is a true lover of wisdom, and is persuaded in like manner that only in that other world over there can he worthily enjoy it, still be regretful at death? Will he not depart with joy? Surely he will, my friend, if he be a true philosopher. For he will have a firm conviction that there only, and nowhere else, he can find wisdom in its purity. And if this be true, he would be very absurd, as I was saying, if he were to fear death +> -- Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo + > Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. > The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. > ... From 240e913ccbc3026d055a0095b280ae26a92903e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Shilko Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:00:35 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 2/9] syntax --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index cda1d25..f4f9b3a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -942,8 +942,8 @@ Interestingly, this is a core Buddhist teaching as well. In Zen in the Art of Ar > Life is a bridge, build no house upon it; it is a river, cling not to its banks; it is a gymnasium, use it to develop the mind on the apparatus of circumstance; it is a journey, take it and walk on > -- [not Buddha](https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/life-is-a-bridge-dont-build-a-house-on-it/) -> Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman -- a rope over an abyss -> ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra +> Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman - a rope over an abyss +> ― Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche > The essentially self-transcendent quality of human existence renders man a being reaching out beyond himself > -- Viktor Frankl, The will to meaning From 3252ef9b55c0154bb7400ff30e51b7bbc67c54e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Shilko Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:44:26 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 3/9] add Den of Rich and John Vervaeke --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f4f9b3a..7b3b6f5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ to explore the limits of human knowledge despite the [limitations of language](# - [FAQ by Derek Sivers](https://sive.rs/bfaq) - [Awakening from the Meaning Crisis](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ) lectures series by John Vervaeke, Universilty of Toronto - [The Art of Improvement](https://www.youtube.com/c/TheArtofImprovement) channel +- [John Vervaeke](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/john-vervaeke/id1680606350) podcast feed +- [Den of Rich](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/den-of-rich/id1541635615) #### CS - computer science & tech * [GoogleTechTalks](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtXKDgv1AVoG88PLl8nGXmw) From 6280576d3f2eb473ebd929188556e04d9fa0782b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Shilko Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:07:05 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 4/9] compare willpower vs habbit vs curiosity drive / efficiency --- README.md | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7b3b6f5..39b2d6f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -421,6 +421,12 @@ Deliberate experimentation (exploration, [BFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bre Later focus on the chosen path with [Warren Buffett's 5/25 Rule](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkhtYs22bLI) +| Drive source | Energy consumer | Energy capacity/efficiency | Optimal use case | +|---|---|---|---| +| Genuine curiosity, passion, intrinsic motivation | unconscious process | infinite | any | +| Habbit | semi-conscious, incentive-induced routine | moderate | long-term strategy, marathon | +| Willpower | conscious effort, cortex | low | short-term tactics, sprint | + ### Values @@ -589,10 +595,6 @@ Amateurs have a goal. [Professionals have a process](https://fs.blog/2017/06/hab * Nulla dies sine **code** linea **commit** * Calm stressed mind with [Yoga Nidra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_nidra) recorded audio session -Willpower requires conscious effort - energy inefficient. Habit is an automated unconscious process. -Willpower is for sprint, Habit is for marathon. -Willpower is short-term tactics, Habit is for long-term strategy. - ##### Morning ritual > End your day thinking about an important question MIQ and then wake up the next morning and brainstorm on it From bfccfeebc2a3435893159e3c8732e5f667a344a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Shilko Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:18:14 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 5/9] Watch your thoughts, they become your destiny --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 39b2d6f..f9dd1fd 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -577,6 +577,13 @@ Amateurs have a goal. [Professionals have a process](https://fs.blog/2017/06/hab > We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. > -- Aristotle +> Watch your thoughts, they become words +> watch your words, they become actions +> watch your actions, they become habits +> watch your habits, they become character +> watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. +> -- [attributed to Frank Outlaw, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lao Tzu, Gautama Buddha, Bishop Beckwaith](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/10/watch-your-thoughts/) + > Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,” the maxim goes > ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People From bc692f85997d02cc5166c55967955023ed89d9e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Shilko Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 11:11:03 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 6/9] The Flywheel momentum concept by Jim Collins --- .gitignore | 3 ++- README.md | 11 +++++++++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index c6ef218..5c977de 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ -.idea +/.idea + diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f9dd1fd..68cf7ec 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ 1. Stand up on the Shoulders of Giants with [Wisdom Gems](#gems-of-wisdom) -2. Bootstrap your framework of [Mental Models](#mental-models) for [reasoning](#reasoning) +2. Bootstrap your framework of [Mental Models](#mental-models) of [reasoning](#reasoning) 3. [Update](#iterator) mental models with [Knowledge Streams](#streams) to fuel cognition - along the [Lifelong Learning](https://fs.blog/learning/) way + along the [Lifelong Learning](https://fs.blog/learning/) way and [Build Momentum](#flywheel-momentum) 4. Navigate [Pointers of Truth](#pointers-of-truth) as [support vectors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_vector_machine) in [uncertainty](#uncertainty) to explore the limits of human knowledge despite the [limitations of language](#limitations-of-language) @@ -384,6 +384,8 @@ Push yourself out of comfort zone, keep [Bruce Lee's "Broken rhythm"](https://br Embrace the ["Kierkegaard's School of Anxiety"](https://academyofideas.com/2018/02/soren-kierkegaard-psychology-anxiety/) +Build [Flywheel momentum](#flywheel-momentum) + Expertise requires going from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence to conscious competence and finally to unconscious competence. @@ -567,6 +569,11 @@ The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits. > -- [between 1am and 4am is the "second day" of Demis Hassabis](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/16/demis-hassabis-artificial-intelligence-deepmind-alphago ) +##### Flywheel momentum +> In building a great company or social sector enterprise, there is no single defining action, no grand program, no one killer innovation, no solitary lucky break, no miracle moment. Rather, the process resembles relentlessly pushing a giant, heavy flywheel, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough, and beyond. +> ― [The Flywheel effect concept](https://jimcollins.com/concepts/the-flywheel.html) from "Good to Great" by Jim Collins + + Amateurs have a goal. [Professionals have a process](https://fs.blog/2017/06/habits-vs-goals/). [Deliberate practice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_%28learning_method%29#Deliberate_practice) makes perfect From 8ad4fdfb08077d6a59106fabfb3175ae7b5b5505 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Shilko Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:21:33 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 7/9] second mountain --- README.md | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 68cf7ec..f7e3290 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -487,7 +487,10 @@ Later focus on the chosen path with [Warren Buffett's 5/25 Rule](https://www.you > -- [Stoic Ethics by William O. Stephens](https://iep.utm.edu/stoiceth/) > Alas, I have known noble men who lost their highest hope,And henceforth they slandered all high hopes. Henceforth they lived imprudently in brief pleasures, and they had hardly an aim beyond the day… Once they thought of becoming heroes: now they are sensualists. The hero is to them an affliction and a terror. But, by my love and hope I entreat you: do not reject the hero in your soul! Keep holy your highest hope! -> Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche. [The Psychology of Heroism](https://academyofideas.com/2020/06/how-to-be-a-hero-psychology-of-heroism/) +> -- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche. [The Psychology of Heroism](https://academyofideas.com/2020/06/how-to-be-a-hero-psychology-of-heroism/) + +> I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it and to live with it happily, till death do ye part - unless you should meet another and even more fascinating problem or unless, indeed, you should obtain a solution. But even if you do obtain a solution, you may then discover, to your delight, the existence of a whole family of enchanting, though perhaps difficult, problem children, for whose welfare you may work, with a purpose, to the end of your days. +> -- Karl Popper * The [Golden Rule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule) principle of treating others as you want to be treated is spoiled by [hypocrisy of double standards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy) * [This is watter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI) [speech](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water) by David Foster Wallace @@ -1127,10 +1130,11 @@ Individual self-reflection, return of the individual to the ground of human natu > The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly > ― Illusions by Richard Bach -> If the first mountain is about building up the ego and defining the self, the second is about shedding the ego and dissolving the self. If the first mountain is about acquisition, the second mountain is about contribution. -> On the first mountain, personal freedom is celebrated — keeping your options open, absence of restraint. But the perfectly free life is the unattached and unremembered life. Freedom is not an ocean you want to swim in; it is a river you want to cross so that you can plant yourself on the other side. -> So the person on the second mountain is making commitments. -> [The Second Mountain by David Brooks](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/moral-revolution-david-brooks.html) +> No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. +> -- Aion by Carl Jung, Page 44. + +> But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil. +> ― Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche. The drive for [Self-actualization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization) depends on [basic bodily and ego needs - physiological, safety, belonging and social esteem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs) needs been fulfilled @@ -1148,12 +1152,27 @@ Accept lifelong urge for escape, for that _Human_ is a transient notion. #### Developmental Stages +> Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. +> — Pablo Picasso + > You have to die few times before you actually live > ― Charles Bukowsky > In human existence there are seven times that we call “age”: infant, child, adolescent, young, adult, mature man, old man. The changing period of the Moon, during early childhood, is replaced by that of Mercury, in which the first knowledge is acquired, then that of Venus, which reveals its strength in the passionate emotions of adolescence; then comes the zenith of life, the three seven years of full life force and desires for expansion. The kingdom of the evil Mars generates a sudden change and leads to the struggles, bitterness and disillusions of adulthood. Then, under the scepter of Jupiter, once again appears a peak of life, maturity proper, which, wise and serene, contemplates the joys and sufferings of existence, always contributing joyfully. Finally, under the star of Saturn, slow and far from the earth, comes the great age in which the vital forces cool and slowly stop. > -- Hippocrates (460 – 377 B.C.) +> If the first mountain is about building up the ego and defining the self, the second is about shedding the ego and dissolving the self. If the first mountain is about acquisition, the second mountain is about contribution. + On the first mountain, personal freedom is celebrated — keeping your options open, absence of restraint. But the perfectly free life is the unattached and unremembered life. Freedom is not an ocean you want to swim in; it is a river you want to cross so that you can plant yourself on the other side. +> So the person on the second mountain is making commitments. +> [The Second Mountain by David Brooks](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/moral-revolution-david-brooks.html) + +> If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Head. +> -- [Attributed to Edmund Burke, Victor Hugo, King Oscar II of Sweden, George Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill et ali](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/) (Modern paraphrase: If you're not a Neo when you're young you have no heart, if you're not a Cypher when you're old you have no brain) + +> A point exists at about the thirty-fifth year when things begin to change, it is the first moment of the shadow side of life, of the going down to death. It is clear that Dante found this point and those who have read Zarathustra will know that Nietzsche also discovered it. When this turning point comes people meet it in several ways: some turn away from it; others plunge into it; and something important happens to yet others from the outside. If we do not see a thing Fate does it to us. +> -- The Black Books by Carl Jung, Vol. I, Page 11 + + [Stages of physical, emotional, mental development](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_development) along [The Stages of Life](https://www.institute4learning.com/2012/08/07/the-stages-of-life-according-to-rudolf-steiner/) and [7 year cycles](https://www.giorgiotarditispagnoli.com/post/biosophy-the-9-seven-year-cycles-of-man-s-biography) proposed by Rudolf Steiner - father of [Waldorf education](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education) school. From bea95bdf021c314aa297478d1ec7877f5e3c612a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Shilko Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:25:31 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 8/9] remove old footer --- README.md | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f7e3290..95d8680 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1301,11 +1301,3 @@ A Need for [Sence of Heroic Worth](https://academyofideas.com/2020/05/the-psycho Symbolic System is [a map, not the territory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation) it represents. - - -# bITs - -[Startup Playbook](startup_playbook.md) - -[Python code protection via obfuscation or compilation](security_review_python_code_protector.md) - From b9194040bb795e2f547a317ccb4637d51d41d40a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Shilko Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:56:11 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 9/9] stoic introspection by Epictetus --- README.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 95d8680..25a4f80 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -906,6 +906,17 @@ _**Unknown knowns**_ refer to cognitive bias of self-denial to accept new facts > The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own > — Epictetus +> Remember that it is not he who reviles you or strikes you, who insults you, but it is your opinion about these things as being insulting. When then a man irritates you, you must know that it is your own opinion which has irritated you. Therefore especially try not to be carried away by the appearance. For if you once gain time and delay, you will more easily master yourself.. +> Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.. +> Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself.. +> For it is better to die of hunger and so to be released from grief and fear than to live in abundance with perturbation; and it is better for your slave to be bad than for you to be unhappy.. +> Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.. +> But you yourself will not wish to be a general or senator or consul, but a free man: and there is only one way to this, to despise (care not for) the things which are not in our power.. +> He watches himself as if he were an enemy and lying in ambush. +> What you avoid suffering, do not attempt to make others suffer. You avoid slavery: take care that others are not your slaves. For if you endure to have a slave, you appear to be a slave yourself first. For vice has no community with virtue, nor freedom with slavery. +> -- Enchiridion by Epictetus + + > No one can hurt you without your consent > -- Eleanor Roosevelt