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  1. Jan 2024
    1. where the prohibition of wine has been followed by such enormous excesses in opium, coffee, and tobacco, and is in accordance with the known passion of man for that high state of excitement, which for want of a better name I have called intoxication, a term commonly applied to that particular species of excitement only, which is produced by spirituous drink.

      New substances (including coffee) for higher states of consciousness/excitement — "intoxicating substances"

  2. Feb 2023
  3. Jun 2022
    1. All I know for sure is that they are trapped in the box.My solution for them: This isn’t working. Free yourself. Get out of this box. Putit away for another day and start a new box.

      Don't get trapped in a particular project. Sometimes variety of projects can be just the medicine the doctor ordered. The zettelkasten method works, in part, because it makes it easier to work on things which inspire you while still knowing that you can slip away for a while, but still come back and find all your prior work there waiting for you. This is particularly useful even if you've forgotten that work.


      Link this to examples of Luhmann and Ahren's descriptions of not becoming bored with their zettelkasten.

  4. Jan 2022
  5. Nov 2021
  6. Jun 2021
    1. They gave me a work permit. They gave me everything that I needed. I even got my taxes one year [Emotional]. I got $3,000 back, put my taxes on my wall, like I'm really doing it.

      Time in US - fitting in

  7. Jan 2021
  8. Sep 2020
  9. Aug 2020
    1. Now, you feel a sudden urge to use it. You ping your team lead or send a message to your whole team about this cool new way of doing things, and you suggest that you start using it.
  10. Jul 2019
    1. Agendas had to be flexible, had to allow for spon­taneous shifts in direction.

      I found spontaneity to be one of the hardest things to grow comfortable with as a teacher. I think that's the case because I rarely ever witnessed spontaneity as a student, and if I did, I doubt I knew what had just occurred was, in fact, unplanned. I think the more teachers can make their pedagogy transparent to students, the better both groups can understand why and how to create more opportunities for the kind of excitement hooks is describing.

  11. Dec 2018
  12. Mar 2017
    1. I realized that what sold was not the script but the connection of excitement, the acceleration of a heart beat, the comic tone, the sudden absurd eruption in the life of another.

      Facts count for nothing.

      Excitement. - Career? Power? Attachment? Identification? Meaning? Numbers?