Time for Real Thinking
Realizing a lot (80%?) of the value of YCB derives from semantic scroll/neighbors
Personal Library Science (PLS)
A society that wishes to succeed in creating an activated and knowledgeable populous should be interested in how to train people to notice better, and to create insightful follows.
I'm looking for real places I can give talks about PLS. I think random posts on my domain won't align with the ambitious goals I strive for PLS. I don't know how to start this search, but I'll keep my eye open for opportunities.
In the meantime, I'll work on a general proposal!
Your Commonbase
"YCB feels like a technique/structure analogous to the BuJo"
Realizing a lot (80%?) of the value of YCB derives from semantic scroll/neighbors. Seeing cool connections is awesome, and taken further by serving as catalysts to comment.
Gonna add new files to ycb/architecture!
your-commonbase
Reading
After Constantine died in 337, his three surviving sons—Constantine II, Constans, and Constantius ... were immediately embroiled in a succession struggle that led to a bloodbath in Constantinople. ... For more than two decades after Constantine’s death, a kind of murderous internecine chaos reigned. ... went by the name of Christianity, with various rivals outdoing each other in claiming pious motives for political machinations. The result? In 361, a member of the family who had been raised in this pathological culture of holy violence succeeded to the throne. His name was Julian.
Julian, right after declaring the end of the Christian empire, ordered the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem rebuilt, stone upon stone, to falsify the very words of Jesus. He ordered the city opened to Jews again, and he empowered Jews to govern it. All of this was a measure less of Julian’s affection for Judaism than of his hatred for Christianity.
He took Perseus by boat to the mainland. ... He was fond of the boy, ... and it grieved him to be complicit in so foolhardy an adventure. ... When they arrived on the mainland Perseus thought that ... The man he had called father since he had been able to speak suddenly looked very small and shabby ... Perseus embraced him with fierce affection ... He ... was patient enough to stand on the quayside and wave Dictys and his little boat goodbye, even though he was desperate to get going and explore the strange new world of mainland Greece.
They had fully intended to be at the protest, but at the last minute they’d had to jump on a client call, and that neighborhood was quite a long way away.
They and all their friends belonged to an imprecise political left. They identified as feminists and spoke out against social injustices, which in practice meant they were willing to express outrage at instances of racism or sexism that took place in New York. ... they were unsure whether to admire Hillary Clinton as a woman or despise her for her ties to the pharmaceutical industry. Of course, all that was theoretical; in practice, their social commitment amounted to using Uber only if it was snowing ... The Americans were not the least surprised to turn up in a foreign capital and find a readymade community of people there to welcome them and discuss their country’s politics in their language. Why would they be? They felt at home in Berlin.
Terms that serve your purposes one day will not necessarily do so the next.
Beneath that veneer of cool, students are full of potent questions; they want to know how to navigate life, ... Matters of faith and worldliness are of great import to our students and by turning away from them, ..., we do our students injustice. We secular professors often forget that America is a religion-drenched nation. Ninety percent of us believe that God knows and loves us personally, as individuals... Some may well disagree with me about the centrality of religious matters, ... in shaping a true literary education. I teach in the South ... after all. Fine. But I think the point stands nonetheless. Get to your students' ... defining beliefs. Uncover central convictions about politics, love, money, the good life. It's there that, as Socrates knew, real thinking starts.
Creative Coding
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Fitness
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Songwriting
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