How can writing a blog like this be useful? This log has become a kind of diary, but it also reflects how I think (or have thought) about stuff. For instance, in earlier posts, you can see some speculation, descriptions of how I understand things as I look at more …
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While the forms which many of our modern technologies take are new, the basic actions we do with them are not. It follows that wisdom handed down for hundreds of years can be helpful in discerning good/proper uses for these things, though it may take some work to "translate …
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When reading and studying (physical) books, there is more going on than just reading words on a page which also happens when reading off of a smartphone or a PC. There is spatial information—where some words appear on the page. There is the overall look and feel of the …
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What follows are some practical notes to myself; they may be useful to you too.
"Multi-tasking" isn't so much of an issue as failing to integrate a multiple activities working towards a common goal. When doing any complex activity—take driving a car as an example—you must take charge …
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Some issues with many of the platforms of the Internet is that they
- subject your work to centralized control
- restrict the form of the content you can produce
- may exercise editorial control over your content
The idea of centralized control here is that by doing something like uploading a video …
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Looking at the tools we have in front of ourselves today, an exercise you can do is to ask what sort of thing is some modern invention. For instance, before automobiles there were chariots. Now, we have digital tablets but in earlier times there were stone/clay tablets. There are …
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In this post I am going to summarize some useful ideas on training. We train ourselves to be able to do things we wouldn't be able to do without training—for example, you might physically train for more strength or you might memorize some procedure to do some work, or …
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One major time sink is to do destructive activities to oneself and then have to spend a lot of time undoing or repairing the consequences of these actions. Sometimes, our work gets thwarted by events outside of our control; for instance, one might set out clothes to dry in the …
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The weather is getting colder as we advance into December. Many people seem to be just waiting for current stuff to clear up. With respect to state-wide policy and other administrative issues, most of us don't really have any say in how stuff goes. Overshadowing all of this is glowing …
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Lots of this lock-down business comes down to telling other people what to do. Rather than operating on a principle of personal responsibility whereby we care for ourselves (and maybe family), we are now being pushed into a system wherein every other person is considered a potential threat. The default …
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