Self?

https://github.com/davidgasquez/handbook/blob/master/content/values.md

Embrace Weirdness. Don't be just another human. Find your place, do what you love and put yourself outside the comfort zone. Unexpected and unconventional things make life more interesting.

https://github.com/busterbenson/public/blob/master/book-of-beliefs.md

I guess look up random topics and write down. Otherwise you tend to forget

This is why people do their writing on laptops in coffee shops.  You can't just stop and masturbate.

You just can't do everything every day.  Once you are at peace with that, and not worrying about 'doing everything' (as facebook and other highlight reels make you think you should do), you'll be fine.
For things you want to do, you will find time.  Just let go of when the right time is.

I spent a while ago trying to figure out 'exact' definitions of functional vs object oriented programming
Or exact formalisms for quantum mechanics
Or 'correct' ways of working with git
Or precise guides of composing music
etc.
but at some point you realise there is no right way once you understand things enough, there is a continuum.
There is no right way and often you can do great things regradless exact formalisms etc
need to develop this thought more and come up with more examples

https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/year-in-review-2019/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9HVAHbg_3k

https://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/1218739120714985472

• Read everyday.
• Spend time with nature.
• Ask questions.
• Never stop learning.
• Don't pay attention to what others think of you.
• Do what interests you the most.
• Study hard.
• Teach others what you know.
• Make mistakes and learn.
• It's Okay to not know things!

And if we’re not out there, if the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multiplanet species, I find that it’s incredibly depressing if that’s not the future that we’re going to have

https://twitter.com/jborichevskiy/status/1224129914057773056

I really like this. Definitely intersects nicely with how I’ve been looking at my goals and objectives and how they interact with the people I connect with.

https://anaulin.org/blog/my-book-ratings/

done! the cool thing about doing this is that it has revealed its structure to me – I didn't plan out how all of this was going to be sorted, but "origin story / context", "tactics", "challenges", "end goal", "what I think I know" feels correct to me.

https://collegeinfogeek.com/about/meet-the-author/my-impossible-list/

interesting list of possible life goals

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/2el542/how_to_break_up_with_someone_you_cant_bare_to_hurt/ck13yo8/

some comprehensive advice on mirroring, emotional honesty, questioning a relationship

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZbgCx2ntD5eu8Cno9/how-to-be-happy

Develop the habit of gratitude. Savor the good moments throughout each day.38 Spend time thinking about happy memories.39 And at the end of each day, write down 5 things you are grateful for: the roof over your head, your good fortune at being born in a wealthy country, the existence of Less Wrong, the taste of chocolate, the feel of orgasm... whatever. It sounds childish, but it works

cause some things are not visible on github

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZbgCx2ntD5eu8Cno9/how-to-be-happy

https://twitter.com/schlaf/status/1208471743108509696

I just sat down to kickoff my annual review for 2019 and begin to think about what I want to accomplish in 2020.
If you would like to complete your own, here's the template I use each year:

https://redd.it/f96e75

https://twitter.com/nikitavoloboev/status/1231337713858732039

@nikitavoloboev: Recently inspired by @cgpgrey post on themes. Decided to note down some general themes of my own I want to focus my life on going forward.
wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusi...

It's okay to build things that aren't popular, that don't scale, or that aren't economically viable, for the delight of a few users.

Todo
from Exhalation by Ted Chiang

maybe the next project – I'll only share pointers to the tests & examples, let them figure out how to run it themselves

https://uses.tech/

/uses
A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software and configs.

Apparently `yourhandle/yourhandle` is a
special
 repository that you can use to add a http://README.md to your GitHub profile.

This shirt makes meeting new people so fun + easy.
Gives a new meaning to "wearing one's
❤️
 on one's
👕
". Why advertise a corporate logo when you can proudly wear your passions?

damn, Wolfram's thoughts on death and meaning are so similar to mine!

gives me tears, every time!

damn, even this brought me some tears when I saw people cheering. fascinating

need to exercise
      v
it's suffering  -> need to reduce the suffering -> don't exercise when it's hot -> wake up earlier -> go to bed earlier
                                                                                \> exercise late? but still might be hot even at 22:00
                                                                                   (either way, better to eat late than to exercise when it's hot)
      v
so need to get as much from it as possible -> don't eat junk (and less bready things). if I exercise I could at least reap the benefits and look rip(er?)
      v
just eat fucking supplements

3:42:00 "death is bad. people will find meaning in anything. if someone is tortured, they would write a poem how it had a profound influence on their life"

During my research I interviewed a guy who said he was a libertarian until he did MDMA and realized that other people have feelings, and that was pretty much the best summary of libertarianism I've ever heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz4NaOtbWqc&feature=youtu.be

словарь эмоций
радость, интерес, страх, стыд
отвращение, тревога, раздражение, грусть

https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1317657970864312321

wow, Hotz has a similar opinion on Ayn Rand (the books in kind of entertaining pornography)

fucking hell… he also named

• permutation city
  
• metamorphosis of prime intellect
  

wow!

(After refactoring porg/orgparse)

maybe share mine?..

there is stuff to build and solve

If I encounter some problem in the software I use on daily basis and I can't google it in couple of minutes, I will download the source code and investigate it myself. I'd normally fix it myself as well :) Check my Github and Bitbucket

nature environment family, sex, etc etc

I'm 100% down for this plan. I *have* to be here when we meet aliens for the first time, develop interstellar travel, start exploring other galaxies, and eventually discover the meaning of life.

If there was an option, right now, that could take the part of me that can spend eons just focused on a single task, and immortalize it, I would do it. I don't give a f*ck about youth or beauty or relationships in terms of preservation. That stuff is beautiful in its ephemerality

https://twitter.com/arula_artwork/status/1133327170594467843

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/9jcxfn/hobbies_that_provide_cognitive_benefits/e6rd1f6/

Complex balance oriented sports like skiing, snowboarding, inline skating, skateboarding, wakeboarding, surfing, rock climbing and mountain biking. These kind of sports require you to be completely focused on your task or else you end up on your ass. By being so laser focused, body and mind, you can cheat your way to a zen like state where it's impossible for you to think of anything but the here and now, you are fully in the moment.

Just do new things. Go to new places, talk to new people, try new things. It can be as simple as not taking the same route to work/grocery store/etc every time. Mix it up.
Some claim that time feels quicker as you get older because each passing minute is a smaller and smaller portion of your life(e.g. summer for a 6 year old is 5% of their life, whereas it is only half a percent of the life of a 50 year old). But I don't buy that.
Time goes quicker as you get older because people get stuck in the same routine, and it is quite easy to compress memories together when you do the same thing every day. So, go explore, every day, even if it is just mental exploration through books or music, and time will surely slow down.

TL feels heavy today so let's do another vibe check with the feel wheel. how's everyone feeling today? in as much or as little detail as you're into

Like, unconditionally assuming that there is data and there is code, and that there is no middle ground whatsoever
often assuming there is one single way of doing things and that's it. incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfLkBXIIVBs&list=WL&index=21
good talk, most clear explanation I've seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8JW0Oys8TE&list=WL&index=22
TLDR: be as honest as possible

I hope this is relevant here since the blog itself is at the intersection of these two subjects. I'm aware there was a long thread about therapy recently, but this is a more specific question.
I've tried a few different therapists now in the attempt to find one who's right for me, and at least two have independently told me the same thing: that my mode of discussion in the therapy sessions is too "abstract". This tends to happen when I start talking about percentage probabilities, or how well a theory fits the available facts, or whether a causal chain has a weak link – in other words, what they call "abstract", I would call scientific or rationalist.
When I use language like this, I'm usually trying to clarify and evaluate some assertion they've made about how my unconscious works, or what is happening in my life, or whatever. ("You think you want X, but maybe really you want Y, and that's why you do Z" etc.) And I feel like, in some cases, when their hypothesis is analysed more rigorously, it's revealed as a bit strained or patchy – as in so many fields, a vague formulation makes a half-baked claim sound at least initially plausible.
I'm not trying to claim I'm "too intelligent for therapy"! (These therapists have stunned me with their insights sometimes.) Only that a rationalist approach sometimes helps cut through some of the fog – and yet therapists don't seem to welcome it much.
Is there a real conflict here? Is therapy – at least as it's conventionally practised in the English-speaking world – inherently wary of an empiricist mindset? Or do I just need to keep looking for a therapist who thinks the way I do? I assume that when Scott Alexander is seeing patients, he is open to this stuff!

https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1062032179016818691

Without the sunk cost fallacy I'm not sure I'd ever have finished anything 

No, when it comes to dating, society frowns upon thinking too much about it, instead opting for things like relying on fate, going with your gut, and hoping for the best. If a business owner took society’s dating advice for her business, she’d probably fail, and if she succeeded, it would be partially due to good luck—and that’s how society wants us to approach dating.

https://www.hedweb.com/quora/2015.html#radical

I once received a letter from an eminent logician, Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin, saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were no others. Coming from a logician and a solipsist, her surprise surprised me.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkNGdzo_3EA
wow the ending almost caused some tears

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9tckh1/therapy_and_rationality/

I was discussing a problem with my good friend and he said something very interesting to me: "You are intelligent enough to provide an internally consistent rational framework to justify pretty much any belief you might have. But you don't have that belief because it is the rational thing to believe; people don't work like that. You started with your emotions and rationalized them to yourself. So I'm not even going to discuss that rationalization with you. I will give you advice about how to react to your emotions and I think you'll end up happier if you listen."

[me doing body positivity] I love my skin prison

https://twitter.com/caithuls/status/1005980923249283073

https://why.degree/motivation/

https://lobste.rs/s/fvwmp1/things_i_dont_know_as_2018

интересный факт: если много месяцев подряд хуячить, свету белого не видя, то когда таки разжимаешь булки, можешь обнаружить, что вместе с шедевром из тебя случайно высралась вся душа.

https://twitter.com/alphyna/status/1138068869279621120

Here's the good news: emotional deficiency can be trained. Basically, fake it until you can make it. It will however take its own sweet time, so you have to be persistent.

Really enjoyed this episode, so much passion when Fyodor speaks of his work 

I like when people are passionate and excited about their work and hobbies? Makes me smile and kind of inspired?

1:16 Carmack speaking about good sides of online

need to live long <- need to be physically healthy <- need to eat good food <- research/learn about the nutrition, different diets etc <-
log all food <- can't log restaurant/takeaway food <- cook almost all food by youself
need to spend less time cooking food <- become less fussy, cook in bulk, as little prep and processing as possible_

proof assitants, visual things (autopology)

SOME QUESTIONS TO PONDER:
* WHAT DO I ENJOY ABOUT BEING MY GENDER?
* WHY DO I IDENTIFY WITH MY GENDER?
* WHAT GENDERED EXPECTATIONS DO I PUT ON MYSELF? DO I ENJOY THOSE EXPECTATIONS? WHY OR WHY NOT?
* WHAT GENDERED EXPECTATIONS DO I PUT ON OTHERS? WHY?

Among those who do, interest in spectator sports is low to non-existent; sports are something one does, not something one watches on TV.

huh, it's ridiculous how me is that

I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe…

I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.

very similar to my perception!

I literally cannot believe that a full year down the line, people still use ‘it won’t kill *me*’ as an argument in public.

Think what you like about any of it, but if the fact that you personally not being in a risk group is your cue to not take care, that says a lot about you.

feels like covid taught me something about cooperation & personal risk
I definitely became more appreciative of regulations (even though governments are kinda shit at them)

from How to Think https://www.technologyreview.com/s/409043/how-to-think

>you don't give a damn about other people in the process
Not necessarily true. INTJs don't inherently lack empathy, they just appear to because they're bad at expressing emotions compared to the average person.
That's an aside more than anything. Life itself only has as much meaning as you ascribe to it. If you're dead set on believing it's meaningless, then so be it.
My take: I'm a human, I belong to this species. I owe my existence to the humans that came before me and did the heavy lifting. My purpose is to continue that. That doesn't mean have as many children as possible, I don't mean it from a classical darwinistic approach. That means that however insignificantly brief my existence may be, if I end up contributing more to the human race than if I had been aborted by my mother, then I have served my purpose. That doesn't necessarily mean to cure cancer, solve the climate crisis, or fix world hunger. That means to contribute something, bit-by-bit, to the betterment of at least one person. If my actions in a single day/week/year worked towards this goal, then I have served my purpose.
I hope this helps friend. If not, I hope you find your way somehow. I know what it is like to live life without an apparent purpose, it's isolating and empty. Again, life is only as meaningful or meaningless as we make it out to be.

@pee_zombie: sometimes I feel like I'm not really conscious for weeks straight, just going thru life, doin my thing, not reevaluating top level goals, continuing on the same course of action
then once in a while I "come up for air", when journaling or on a long walk
suspect others do too