be aware of influence
2024-09-04
Being influenced is a most normal thing.
These days we even got so called “influencers” outside of thinkers and the
realm of culture, both topics that would generally be counted as influential.
Recently I’ve been more and more aware of how certain pieces of media do
influence myself, as in writing or lifestyle choices. Both of these I find to
be highly personal things that I’d rather develop myself instead of being
heavily influenced by another’s ideas. I have not always been at this point, but
in recent months I found these categories important pieces that build a
character and identity, so one just takes that being interesting away by
adapting from certain places. And hinders personalized developments of said.
Minimize required trust
2024-09-02
Trusting services and the companies behind them is not easy and I’d argue should
not be required.
Let us take [e]mail as an example because it’s easy to explain.
If you want to have mail secured then don’t use proton and trust them, however
few issues there may have been. If you instead just use any mail provider and
encrypt your message before it reaches the hosts server, you won’t have to trust
them at all. Thus being able to feel safe.
You can be happy when on top the provider is a trustworthy one, but why would
you lay your fate in their hands?
Avoid to have to trust them, that way you’ll have less sleepless nights.
Find relations in behavior
2024-09-01
Finding relations between activities you pursue may can be very beneficial, to
lay down that idea let me take an example from my own life.
I’ve found productivity to be dependent on physical exercise and social
interactions, giving them a correlation.
From that discovery I could then reason that to be productive, sports as well
as spending time with friends and family is not a distraction but maybe even an
essential part to be able to go through unreasonably rational and too long
difficult periods of rational thought.
Learn the tools that other tools use
2024-08-30
Whenever you use a tool that does something that a cli tool can do as well, then
in most cases you can assume that the cli option will be much faster.
An unnecessary distinction to make for 1-2 iterations, but whenever it comes to
the thousands or any multitude above it can make a difference of hours if you
hacked together a vim macro that manages to do the job or if you just pipe
grep/awk/sed/tr and such into each other.
Thus I’d argue, being comfortable with the cli and bash scripting basics to do
any matter of text editing is most useful, not just to save you time. But to enable
you to be independent on the text editing abilities of any program. Instead
just use whatever they’d either use under the hood themselves or of which
they’ve crafted a worse alternative that are not standard since the 1980s and
have stood the test of time, such as the tools mentioned above.
You don't lack inspiration, you lack boredom
2024-08-28
When you think you need “inspiration” you could just as well say you’re lacking
thoughts. And as you might be able to tell from spending too much time on
youtube and social media, thinking is not promoted by distraction, much less,
stimulation.
All you need to be “inspired” is to shut every digital noise around you down and
stare at a blank wall.
Do that for three minutes and you may again have an idea to pursue.
Do that for half an hour and you’ll have enough thought and ideas to fill
a weeks time with pursuing.
Everybody has good intentions
2024-08-25
Everybody is undertaking their actions well intentioned.
May that be a normal citizen or a political assassin, they will have a reason to
pursue the actions they undertake thinking it’ll make the world a better
place.
That motive is then required to be understood, before doing any judgement on the act.
Because without that you just take their whole reasoning of why they did the
decision away, which obviously makes it seem like a bad decision.