1. Corona Virus Diary, Part 52

    Here, I will share a technique for learning language(s) in a wholistic system.

    1. Acquire an old text, translated into many languages. Some suggestions are: pick a favorite Psalm or Proverb from the Bible.
    2. Learn the basic pronunciation of your target language(s); one trick is to find a YouTube …
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  2. Corona Virus Diary, Part 51

    Today, I got friends visiting from afar. It is a joyous occasion to have people drive many miles to see me—to quote Confucius 1

    子曰。學而時習之、不亦說乎。 有朋自遠方來、不亦樂乎。

    The Master said: “Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when …

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  3. Corona Virus Diary, Part 50

    The last post here, I shared that I was interested in investigating Orthodox Christianity further. So far, it has been an overwhelmingly positive experience. In this post, I relate one way in which Orthodox Christianity (as opposed to other varieties I've been involved with, Protestant groups) has thus far presented …

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  4. Corona Virus Diary, Part 49

    A friend I met through the Internet shared this jaysanalysis with me. So far, I've been really impressed by the quality/depth of the content. There's a handful of topics here that interest me, including

    • Christianity, Church history
    • Cultural/symbol analysis
    • Geopolitics

    I think I've mentioned on this blog once …

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  5. Corona Virus Diary, Part 48

    Today's post will be kind of scattered; there's a few ideas I want to discuss.

    Productivity Strategy: Circuits

    In a previous blog post I briefly discussed how iterating through different "stations" (e.g. doing a workout routine with various machines, doing a fixed number of reps on each machine) could …

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  6. Corona Virus Diary, Part 47

    Faced with scarcity, people naturally plan. It is necessary to be efficienct when resources are few.

    • Going on a camping trip with limited food, you'll have to decide what to eat when
    • Knowing you only get one hour to study for some exam, you'll want to know what the most …
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  7. Corona Virus Diary, Part 46

    This week, I've been working on learning DevOps things. From wikip, a definition:

    DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality.

    In plain English, I call …

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  8. Corona Virus Diary, Part 45

    This month, Google told me that I only walked 3 miles! I purposely leave location tracking and stuff on my phone. 1 What a sad, low number! Maybe it is better if I virtue signal to Google.

    So, this month, I'm doing an experiment. As much as I can, even …

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  9. Corona Virus Diary, Part 44

    Today, I'll be discussing the topic of content
    I've done intentional stepping away (physically) from rando Internet browsing, learning, etc., making use instead of:

    • Communications: what links do other people send me (not search engines)
    • Books/resources I already have

    The goal is to better make use of the resources …

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  10. Corona Virus Diary, Part 43

    I shuffled around some peripherals to get a little night stand next to an old computer with limited available applications installed. This old computer has only 2 GB of RAM, but it is enough for most things that might be considered a "good use of time" on a computer, e …

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