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  1. Mar 2024
    1. ChatGPT Vision: The Best Way to Transform Your Paper Notes Into Digital Text

      Upload a photo into ChatGPT and request it to transcribe the photo into text. Better than OCR? It creates meaning out of surrounding context; even though words may be wrong.

    1. Virtus (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Classical Latin: [ˈwɪrt̪uːs̠]) was a specific virtue in ancient Rome that carried connotations of valor, masculinity, excellence, courage, character, and worth, perceived as masculine strengths

      Virtus as denoting valid, masculinity, courage, character, worth

    1. Gravitas (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Classical Latin: [ˈɡrawɪt̪aːs̠]) was one of the ancient Roman virtues[1] that denoted "seriousness".[2] It is also translated variously as weight, dignity, and importance and connotes restraint and moral rigor.[1] It also conveys a sense of responsibility and commitment to the task.[3]

      Gravitas as denoting seriousness, weight, dignity, restraint, moral right, or responsibilities and commitment.

    1. Driving under the influence (DUI) is the offense of driving, operating, or being in control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely.[1] Multiple other terms are used for the offense in various jurisdictions.

      Driving under influence (DUI) under alcohol or drugs

    1. Jared presents this dilemma between hard work and enjoyment. For me, such a choice doesn't have to be there. Work itself can be made enjoyable. Nor does work have to be hard. Imagine being in the zone while working (you might have already experienced this); where you lose track of time, completely engaged with the work at hand, and way more work is done in less time. Left with a feeling of bliss and ecstasy, you desire more of it. The work itself was so satisfying and rewarding that you seek it for its own sake. It is no longer seen as a sacrifice for enjoyment; it is enjoyment itself.

      See other note

    2. 56:00 The host presents an ultimate dilemma: between hard work and enjoyment in youth.

      For me, there is no dilemma. If one can tap into states of flow, work itself becomes enjoyable. And, it is reduced to like 3/4 hours. Hustle and grind is even counter productive to being productive.

    3. Self Improvement Will Change Your Life - Michael Fricker
    1. Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his novels, he also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer.
  2. Feb 2024
    1. It tells of the escape of the Israelites, led by Moses, from the pursuing Egyptians, as recounted in the Book of Exodus.[2] Moses holds out his staff and God parts the waters of the Yam Suph, which is traditionally presumed to be the Red Sea, although other interpretations have arisen.
    2. The Crossing of the Red Sea or Parting of the Red Sea (Hebrew: קריעת ים סוף, romanized: Kriat Yam Suph, lit. "parting of the sea of reeds")[1] is an episode in the origin myth of The Exodus in the Hebrew Bible.
    1. al-Muqaddima and the rest of Kitāb al-ʻIbar
    2. Ibn Khaldun (/ˈɪbən hælˈduːn/ IH-bun hal-DOON; Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī, Arabic: [ibn xalduːn]; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 AH) was an Arab sociologist, philosopher, and historian[11][12] widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages,[13] and considered by many to be the father of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.[14][15][note 1][16][note 2]
    1. Does latin really have no synonyms (or pronouns, apparantly)? No-one is ever weaponless, or without excuse, for example. It’s always “absent weapon” and “absent excuse” etc. Is there no verb ‘to be’ in latin? Nobody is Roman, they “stand roman”, they ‘stand’ anything that they might otherwise be. They stand hungry, they stand a senator, and so on. Characters never speak, or say, or tell anything. They only “break words”. Oh, and they all seem to be absent pronouns whenever they stand breaking words.

      The use of "absent" is excessive in the show Spartacus. This, supposedly, is done with intention. It need mimic the Latin language structure. Though, how does absent this and that aid in that?

    1. Why is the Bahrain Grand Prix on a Saturday? Bahrain, which has hosted the season-opener since 2021, usually hosts its grand prix on a Sunday as is customary in the sport, but due to Ramadan the 2024 race will be on a Saturday night.The Islamic holy month of Ramadan starts on Sunday 10 March, when the second race of the season in Saudi Arabia would have taken place.To avoid a clash, that race in Jeddah has been brought forward by one day to Saturday 9 March, and as FIA rules dictate, there must be at least seven days between races - meaning the Bahrain GP has a Saturday slot too.

      There needs to be 7 days in between races. And Jeddah race is earlier due to Ramadan.

      Bahrain weekend thus starts from Thursday till Saturday.

    1. Gaius Marius (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs ˈmariʊs]; c. 157 BC – 13 January 86 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars, he held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times.
    1. 16:00 Even though the Abbasid caliphate lost much of its power in the 11th century; the caliph in Bagdad still remained the leader of Islam. The Seljuks respected them as such. So Seljuks allied themselves with the Abbasids against shi's in the region.

    2. 13:10 Introduction of nomad life and Turks into Islamic world

    3. 12:30 Tughril Beg acting as Islamic leader rather than steppe warlord. He proclaims himself Sultan and asks guidance of Islamic judges.

    4. 12:00 Seljuks securing Khorasan after Battle of Dondanaqan in 1040

    5. Mainly because they gave up their nomadic Horde-like lifestyles and adopted a more civilized structure of government. The Seljuqs adopted many essentials from the Samanid Persia to produce a machine of an empire which they gallantly became.

      Seljuks giving up nomadic lifestyle for a civilised structure (Samnavids)

    6. 04:00 Why did the nomadic Turks islamise?

      Korean historian Kim Ho-Dong: "Islam provided nomadic tribal people with the consciousness of a homogenous religious community and religious sanction for the expansion of the domain of Islam, becoming an ideology of unification as well as an ideology of expansion."

    7. 966-990 Seljuk converted to islam

    8. Rise of the Seljuk Empire - Nomadic Civilizations DOCUMENTARY
    1. The Battle of Dandanaqan (Persian: نبرد دندانقان) was fought in 1040 between the Seljuq Turkmens and the Ghaznavid Empire near the city of Merv (now in Turkmenistan).[6][7] The battle ended with a decisive Seljuq victory, which subsequently brought down the Ghaznavid domination in Greater Khorasan.[1]

      Seljuks win against Ghaznavids and end their domination in Greater Khorasan

    1. In the 8th century, they formed a tribal confederation conventionally named the Oghuz Yabgu State in Central Asia. Today, much of the populations of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan are descendants of Oghuz Turks.

      Many Turks descend from the Oghuz Turks

    2. The term Oghuz was gradually supplanted by the terms Turkmen and Turcoman (Ottoman Turkish: تركمن, romanized: Türkmen or Türkmân) by 13th century.[5]

      Turks were often called Türkmen

    3. The Oghuz Turks (Middle Turkic: ٱغُز, romanized: Oγuz) were a western Turkic people who spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family.[3]
    1. 08:18 Technology like AI enables one person businesses (see Sam Altman statement on 1 billion one person company)

    2. Zero To $1 Million As A One-Person Business (Working 2-4 Hours A Day)
    1. Flag Flag this item for Graphic Violence Explicit Sexual Content Hate Speech Misinformation/Disinformation Marketing/Phishing/Advertising Misleading/Inaccurate/Missing Metadata texts Ready for anything : 52 productivity principles for work and life

      Ready for anything : 52 productivity principles for work and life

    1. An appanage, or apanage (/ˈæpənɪdʒ/; French: apanage [a.pa.naʒ]), is the grant of an estate, title, office or other thing of value to a younger child of a monarch, who would otherwise have no inheritance under the system of primogeniture (where only the eldest inherits)

      Granting resources or other properties under royal family and supporters

    1. From Ottoman Turkish ⁧اوبه⁩ (“large tent; nomad family”). Cognate with Azerbaijani oba, Turkmen ōba (“village”).

      Roughly translates to a large tent or village where a tribe lived

    1. Modus vivendi (plural modi vivendi) is a Latin phrase that means "mode of living" or "way of life".

      Modus means way and vivendi means of living

    1. A useful model for note-taking is that of system 1 and 2 thinking. Try to do as much as possible in system 1. So, most work is done without much work and effort. Chris places his hypothesis.is workflow within system 1.

    2. Tinderbox Meetup Sunday 18 February 24: Tools for Thought with Chris Aldrich
    1. "If I have nothing else to do then I write all day; in the morning from 8:30am to noon. Then I go for a short walk with my dog. Then in the afternoon I work again from 2pm to 4pm. Then it's the dog's turn again. Sometimes I lie down for a quarter of an hour.... And, then I usually write until around 11pm. I'm usually in bed by 11pm where I read a few more things."8

      Luhmann his output might be a result of his work ethic and routines. Attributing productivity merely to his zettelkasten is misleading. Also Chris Aldrich on The Cargo Cult of Zettelkasten https://chrisaldrich.wordpress.com/2023/02/03/a-note-on-the-cargo-cult-of-zettelkasten/

    2. Niklas Luhmann's communication with his slip-box began not with trying to find a place for independently conceived notes, but with reading and developing new ideas in light of ones he had already begun.

      Reading with an eye towards a zettelkasten is a communication process.

    3. Keeping the Zettelkasten in Mind When Creating New Notes
    1. Contrary to a literature note, a fleeting note is usually comprised of your own thoughts, things you'd like to remember, a passing bead of "brilliance."

      Fleeting notes are loose thoughts and aren't part of a source.

    2. The term "fleeting note" comes from Sonke Ahrens' book, How to Take Smart Notes, and describes a note which is impermanent or, to use Ahrens' language, not permanently stored in your zettelkasten.

      Fleeting notes aren't permanently stored in the zettelkasten

    1. Praetor (/ˈpriːtər/ PREE-tər, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Classical Latin: [ˈprae̯tɔr]), also pretor, was the title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected magistratus (magistrate), assigned to discharge various duties.
    1. isnād, (from Arabic sanad, “support”), in Islam, a list of authorities who have transmitted a report (hadith) of a statement, action, or approbation of Muhammad, of one of his Companions (Ṣaḥābah), or of a later authority (tabiʿī); its reliability determines the validity of a hadith.
    2. The isnād precedes the actual text (matn) and takes the form,

      Isnad precedes matn

    1. Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn al-Wāthiq (Arabic: أبو إسحاق محمد بن هارون الواثق‎; c. 833 – 21 June 870), better known by his regnal name al-Muhtadī bi-'llāh (Arabic: المهتدي بالله, "Guided by God"), was the Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from July 869 to June 870, during the "Anarchy at Samarra".
    1. Nadat de Bataven aanvankelijk overwinningen hadden behaald op de Romeinse legioenen, slaagde een groot Romeins leger onder leiding van Quintus Petillius Cerialis – gestuurd door de nieuwe keizer Titus Flavius Vespasianus – er uiteindelijk in de opstand neer te slaan en de toestand te stabiliseren.

      Deze werd neergeslagen onder Vespasianus

    2. De Bataafse Opstand, ook wel de opstand van de Bataven of opstand van de Batavieren genoemd, was een opstand (69 – 70) van de (vermoedelijk) West-Germaanse Bataven onder leiding van Gaius Julius Civilis in de militaire provincie Neder-Germanië (Germania Inferior)
  3. spartacus.fandom.com spartacus.fandom.com
    1. The primary event of a series (usually a day's worth) of gladiatorial games. Basically, the "main event" or "main attraction".
    1. During the Arab conquest of Persia, the term became a racial pejorative.[3] In many languages, including Persian, Turkish, Urdu–Hindi, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Kurdish, Gujarati, Malay, Punjabi, and Swahili, Ajam and Ajami refer to Iran and Iranians respectively.
    2. Ajam (Arabic: عجم, romanized: ʿajam) is an Arabic word meaning mute. It generally refers to someone whose mother tongue is not Arabic,[1] as well as non-Arabs.[2]

      Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shu%27ubiyya

      And they speak "mute" (non-Arabs)

    1. The Kharijites,[a] also called al-Shurat,[b] were an Islamic sect which emerged during the First Fitna (656–661).
    1. After Muhammad's death, this institution was adapted by the Umayyad dynasty to incorporate new converts to Islam into Arab-Muslim society and the word mawali gained currency as an appellation for converted non-Arab Muslims in the early Islamic caliphates.

      Non-Arabs integration into Arab Muslim society

    2. In the Quran and hadiths it is used in a number of senses, including 'Lord', 'guardian', and 'trustee'.[1]
    3. Before the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the term originally applied to any form of tribal association.[2]
    4. Mawlā (Arabic: مَوْلَى, plural mawālī مَوَالِي), is a polysemous Arabic word, whose meaning varied in different periods and contexts.[1]
    1. Shu'ubiyya (Arabic: الشعوبية) was a literary-political movement which opposed the privileged status of Arabs within the Muslim community and the Arabization campaigns particularly by the Ummayads.[1] The vast majority of the Shu'ubis were Persian.[2][3]
    1. Open the Safari app on your iPhone. Tap and hold the tabs icon, which looks like two overlapping boxes and appears in the bottom-right corner of your screen. In the pop-up menu, tap “Close All Tabs.” Confirm that you want to close all the open tabs in the browser by tapping “Close All Tabs.”

      Long press on the tab button and select "close all"

    1. The Umayyad dynasty (Arabic: بَنُو أُمَيَّةَ, romanized: Banū Umayya, lit. 'Sons of Umayya') or Umayyads (Arabic: الأمويون, romanized: al-Umawiyyūn) was an Arab clan within the Quraysh tribe who were the ruling family of the Caliphate between 661 and 750 and later of al-Andalus between 756 and 1031.
    1. Automatically fill in your information in Safari on iPhoneIn the Safari app , use AutoFill to automatically fill in credit card information, contact information, and user names and passwords.
    1. Various modern figures such as the chair of the Federal Reserve in the United States, the prime minister in parliamentary systems, the president of the Swiss Confederation, the chief justice of the United States, the chief justice of the Philippines, the archbishop of Canterbury of the Anglican Communion and the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople of the Eastern Orthodox Church fall under both senses: bearing higher status and various additional powers while remaining still merely equal to their peers in important senses.

      This is still relevant today as the political form of Republicanism is still present nowadays.

    2. Primus inter pares is a Latin phrase meaning first among equals.[a]
    3. After the fall of the Republic, Roman emperors initially referred to themselves only as princeps despite having enormous power.

      Even emperors continued referring themselves as such

    4. Historically, the princeps senatus of the Roman Senate was such a figure and initially bore only the distinction that he was allowed to speak first during debate
    1. Spartacus (Greek: Σπάρτακος, translit. Spártakos; Latin: Spartacus; c. 103–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator (Thraex) who, along with Crixus, Gannicus, Castus, and Oenomaus, was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.

      Spartacus was Thracian

    1. When writing ranges of numbers, most style guides agree on the use of an en dash (although the AP style guide prefers a hyphen). Do not use an em dash.

      Use en dash for number ranges and no space either side

    1. The Getae (/ˈdʒiːtiː, ˈɡiːtiː/ JEE-tee, GHEE-tee) or Gets (/dʒɛts, ɡɛts/ JETS, GHETS; Ancient Greek: Γέται, singular Γέτης) were a Thracian-related[1] tribe that once inhabited the regions to either side of the Lower Danube, in what is today northern Bulgaria and southern Romania.

      Getae were a Thracian tribe

    1. If this is true it refers not to its capture in the Second Punic War (211 BC), but to its submission to Rome in 338 BC. This places the date of foundation at about 600 BC, while Etruscan power was at its highest.[3]

      Etruscans submitted in 338 BC and were completely taken over in 211 (Second Punic wars)

    2. The name of Capua comes from the Etruscan Capeva.[2] The meaning is 'City of Marshes'. Its foundation is attributed by Cato the Elder to the Etruscans, and the date given as about 260 years before it was "taken" by Rome

      Capua belonged to the Etruscans before Rome took it

    1. Banu (بنو) is Arabic for "the children of" or "descendants of" and appears before the name of a tribal progenitor.

      Banu translates to "children of" or "descendants of" and precedes name of a tribe like (hashim tribe is "Banu Hashim")

    1. Banū Hāshim (Arabic: بنو هاشم) is an Arab clan within the Quraysh tribe to which Muhammad belonged, named after Muhammad's great-grandfather Hashim ibn Abd Manaf.
    1. "..man's task, is...to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious...As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence" Carl Jung

    2. Becoming Your True Self - The Psychology of Carl Jung
    1. 1:18) A persona is a mask you wear out in public. Parts that don't fit into persona (ie shadow) and then you understand who you truly are.

    2. Jordan Peterson - The Mask You Wear In Public - The False Persona
    1. Novus homo or homo novus (lit. 'new man'; pl.: novi homines or homines novi) was the term in ancient Rome for a man who was the first in his family to serve in the Roman Senate or, more specifically, to be elected as consul.
    1. "HAD THEY BEEN WILLING TO ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABOURS IN PEACE AND TRANQUILLITY, THE GREATEST AND BEST PART OF THE WORLD WAS THEIR OWN. IF THEY MUST HAVE VICTORIES AND TRIUMPHS, WHAT SCYTHIAN HORSE, WHAT PARTHIAN ARROWS, WHAT INDIAN TREASURES COULD HAVE RESISTED 70,000 ROMANS, LED ON BY POMPEY AND CAESAR?" PLUTARCH

      What if Caesar and Pompey fought together?

    2. 07:48 Talk of victory and spoils were already being discussed whilst the battle had not yet begun. Pompey's side was overly confidence.

    3. "CAESAR AND THAT ARMY, WHO HAD STORMED A THOUSAND CITIES, SUBDUED OVER 3000 NATIONS, GAINED NUMBERLESS BATTLES OF THE GERMANS AND GAULS, TAKEN A MILLION PRISONERS AND KILLED AS MANY IN THE FIELD"

    4. Battle of Pharsalus 48 BC - Caesar's Civil War DOCUMENTARY
    1. The Battle of Dyrrachium (or Dyrrhachium) took place from April to late July 48 BC near the city of Dyrrachium, modern day Durrës in what is now Albania. It was fought between Gaius Julius Caesar and an army led by Gnaeus Pompey during Caesar's civil war.

      This battle happened before the deciding battle at Pharsalus

    2. Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC)
    1. The Second Triumvirate was an extraordinary commission and magistracy created for Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian to give them practically absolute power. It was formally constituted by law on[1] 27 November 43 BC with a term of five years; it was renewed in 37 BC for another five years before expiring in 32 BC.
    1. Commentarii de Bello Gallico (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Classical Latin: [kɔm.mɛnˈtaː.ɾi.iː deː ˈbɛl.loː ˈɡal.lɪ.koː]; English: Commentaries on the Gallic War), also Bellum Gallicum (English: Gallic War), is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative
    1. Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (died 495 BC) was the legendary seventh and final king of Rome, reigning 25 years until the popular uprising that led to the establishment of the Roman Republic.[1] He is commonly known as Tarquin the Proud, from his cognomen Superbus (Latin for "proud, arrogant, lofty").
    1. 1. We first read an excerpt from Ibn Khaldun, a great historian of the Muslim world. His family came from Muslim Spain, but he was born in North Africa. He spent many years working in the administrations of local rulers, until he eventually moved to Egypt, where he died in 1406. We will encouter him quite often in this course and will discuss his life in week 6. This week, we turn to his famous book The Muqaddimah (or, Introduction), in which he lays out his vision of history, its patterns and purpose. In the excerpt that we read this week he is trying to make sense of a question that should bother us too: how were the Arabs (meaning, pre-Islamic Arabs, not Arabs in the modern sense), a fragmented society, able to conquer the known world and establish their rule over it? What do you think of his answer, is it any good? 2. The other source we read this week is by another famous Muslim historian, al-Tabari. al-Tabari was originally from Iran, but lived most of his life in Baghdad, where he died in 923. He wrote a massive historical work, History of Messengers (or Prophets) and Kings, in which he collected all he knew about the world from its creation to his days. Translated into English in its entirety this work takes up 40 volumes. When we say that al-Tabari wrote this book, we need to understand that his role was often that of an editor, not an author: he selected, arranged and edited accounts that he found in the works of others. Usually, he names his sources. In the excerpt we read today, al-Tabari is telling what happened before a major battle between the Persians (representing the Sasanian Empire) and the Arabs, the battle of Qadisiyya that took place in the mid-630s (perhaps, in 636). On the eve of the battle, the Persians want to talk and the Arabs (Muslims) send an envoy. Here you have a vivid account of how this messenger arrives to the assembled Persians. Historically this encounter is not important: the battle took place regardless and the Arabs won. But the narrative is significant for how it shows the values of the two sides involved in the fight. So what are these values? For the Arab side, to what extent are their ethnic (that's the way Arabs are) and to what extent religious (that's the way Muslims are)?
    1. 30:00 Maintenance — cut something for every new item or have rules for new stuff entering.

    2. 24:00 Possession purging

      Put everything in one room. Make two piles — keep or cut? Question: does it advance my pursuits?

    3. 13:00 how minimalism can make flow easier to enter

    4. 11:00 Owning too much stuff as decreasing rumination/creativity

    5. 07:27 Lower cognitive load makes it easier to enter flow

    6. 04:00 Cost of ownership — leads to more thinking

      05:00 This increases cognitive load

    7. 2:30 Not about deprivation — rather of removing everything else from essentials

    8. 1:30 Warriors throughout history — Spartans, Samurai, Mongols — with life of simplicity

    9. This Ancient Idea Will Solve Your Modern Problems
    1. 16:00 Flow channel — where challenge meets ability

    2. 11:00 Spontaneous like experience emerges when in flow

    3. 09:00 Body and identity disappears — how I feel, what other people think — when in flow/ecstasy. We can't process more information when we are fully engaged with one task. "Existence is temporarily suspended"

    4. 06:17 Ecstasy is stepping into an alternative reality. Stepping out of ordinary routines (see Greek word translated)

    5. 07:23 Greek amphitheatre as place of ordered life and experiencing ecstasy

    6. 03:00 Mihaly attended Carl Jung lecture in Zürich on Second World War

    7. Flow, the secret to happiness7,449,106 views | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | TED2004 • February 2004
    1. 1:15 Kyle forced his progress from 25-30 years. Trying too hard, chasing too hard, is counter-productive ("cosmic paradox")

      See ZK on trying too hard is counterproductive

    2. How I Broke a Vicious Cycle To Get Into The BEST Shape Of My Life
    1. 24:41 Associate flow (dojo) with focused work. Also music, caffeine, etc.

    2. 21:52 Deter distractions

    3. 20:00 Eliminate friction

    4. 17:53 3. Change positions. (50% standing, 25% sitting, 25% walking)

      Standing setup: desk, motion board, treadmill (walking)

    5. 12.54 2. Anchoring bias. Default, norms, dictate behaviour. So, clear clutter. Be disciplined.

    6. 09:25 1. Filter out unnecessary option to distractions (put phone away f.e)

      11:30 "Have less to ignore, so you can focus more" Less devices. Simplify.

    7. 08:00 New information gives dopamine. Distraction arises from too many information that is goal irrelevant.

    8. The Top 1% Workspace Setup For Maximum Productivity
    1. To Al-Jallad, however, the inscriptional evidence, containing many references to peoples, events, and places that appear in the Quran and other early Islamic narratives, suggests the opposite: an evolution of Arabian ideas and practices. “This kind of society would have been very similar to the first audience of the Quran,” Al-Jallad said. “The inscriptions tell us what their world was like.”

      (see previous) Or perhaps, there was a slow evolution of ideas and practices, rather than a radical break?

    2. But traditional Muslim theology, along with much Western scholarship, regards the birth of Islam as a radical break with Arabia’s past.

      Islam was a radical break with the previous Arabic past

    3. The real Jahiliyya, the scholars argue, probably had much more in common with Islam than previously thought.

      Maybe these pre-Islamic people had more in common with the Muslims than we think?

    4. The time before Muhammad’s revelation is known in Arabic as the Jahiliyya, usually translated as the Age of Ignorance. According to Fred Donner, a historian at the University of Chicago, “The Islamic account of the Jahiliyya is a saga of unrelieved paganism, which emphasizes the difference between the darkness of unbelief and the light that Islam brought to Arabia.”

      Pre-Islamic Arabia was ignorant, unbelievers (jahiliyya)

    5. Michael Macdonald amassed a vast collection of photographs of these texts and launched a digital Safaitic database, with the help of Laïla Nehmé, a French archeologist and one of the world’s leading experts on early Arabic inscriptions. “When we started working, Michael’s corpus was all on index cards,” Nehmé recalled. “With the database, you could search for sequences of words across the whole collection, and you could study them statistically. It worked beautifully.”
    6. The effort to decode the Safaitic texts began in the spring of 1857, when a young Scotsman named Cyril Graham set off from Jerusalem on a tour of Syria
    7. The study of early Islam has traditionally depended not on rock inscriptions but on chronicles and literary sources composed a few centuries after Muhammad’s death—a method of research that Al-Jallad likens to reading the history of North America entirely from the perspective of the first European settlers. He is confident that scholars will soon be able to tell the earliest history of Islam using evidence from the time of Muhammad’s birth.

      Primary sources few centuries after birth of Muhammed.

    8. The history of Arabia just before the birth of Islam is a profound mystery, with few written sources describing the milieu in which Muhammad lived.

      Few primary sources before Islam

    1. Right as the Witch King says "The world of men will fall", the horn was blown. The Rohirrim came.

      02:44 "Forth and fear no darkness!" (and Theoden speech) "Ere the sun rises"

      03:27 "Death! Death! Death!" The Rohirrim ride to their death, willingly, facing it.

    2. Return of the King: The Ride of the Rohirrim [4K]
    1. Sirat Rasul Allah (The Life of God's Messenger) is a biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Ibn Hisham published a further revised version of the book, under the same title Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah.
    2. Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah (Ibn Ishaq)
    3. There doesn't seem to be a date on when it was published?

    1. 08:40 Sourcing clothes. Have keywords at this stage. AliXpress, Zara, H&M for cheap sourcing.

    2. 07:00 Find inspo. Check fashion shows. And, fora (like/malefashionadvice).

    3. 06:28 TLDR 1. Style is a lifestyle reflection of who you are 2. Good style requires understanding self 3. Bad style is trying to be something that its not

    4. 02:42 Clothing should be a creative expression. Men tend towards pragmatic clothing

    5. Find Your Fashion Style In 3 Steps (an evidence based guide)
    1. Different types of notes and use cases
    2. Can they really do all of them at once? While some may come close and do well enough, the added complexity and overreach of all these functionalities may be diluting the base power of what the zettelkasten is capable.

      Trying too many things with a Zettelkasten makes it worse. Adopt simplicity.

    3. While it can be used as a productivity tool specifically for writing, some are adapting and using it (and tools built for it) for productivity use writ-large. This includes project management or GTD (Getting Things Done) functions. Some are using it as a wiki, digital garden, or personal knowledge management system for aggregating ideas and cross linking them over time. Others are using it as a journal or diary with scheduling and calendaring functions tacked on. Still others are using it to collect facts and force the system to do spaced repetition. These additional functionalities can be great and even incredibly useful, but they’re going far beyond the purpose-fit functionality of what a zettelkasten system was originally designed to do.

      The ZK is a simple system. It isn't't a Second Brain. Nor is it GTD. Nor all the other things that people sometimes use it for. I have held this opinion for a while, and it is reassuring that Chris holds the same opinion.

    4. Zettelkasten Overreach
    1. during periods of stress or illness, you may feel an increased need for sleep.

      Oversleeping can be a result of stress, depression, and other (mental) illnesses.

    2. Physical Side Effects of Oversleeping
    1. Lewis Hamilton will make a shock move to join Ferrari in 2025. The Guardian understands that the seven-time Formula One world champion has agreed a deal with the Scuderia that is set to be announced as soon as Thursday evening.

      Announcement to be made on 2024-02-01 Thursday evening

  4. Jan 2024
    1. The Boy Who Lived came face to face with Lord Voldemort precisely seven times in the Harry Potter series. This number held a lot of significance throughout the series—there are seven Harry Potter books, Voldemort created seven Horcruxes, a wand costs seven Galleons, and the list goes on and on.

      7 is an important number in HP. Also, just an important number in general. Look at the 7 deadly sins, f.e.

    2. All 7 Times Harry Potter Faced Lord Voldemort (& Why Harry Always Escaped)
    1. Persbericht Waaromislam en Daliel aan Pegida: 1 tegen 1000

      Daliel geeft 1000 korans — tegen reactie op koranverbranding van Pegida

    2. Deze actie is blijvend: iedere keer dat hij (of iemand anders) probeert een Koran te verbranden, zullen wij duizend Korans uitdelen.

      Bij elke Koran verbranding, gaan ze 1000 uitdelen.

    1. ```dataview list where file.cday = date(<% moment(tp.file.title,'DD-MM-YYYY').format("YYYY-MM-DD") %>) sort file.ctime desc ```

      Didn't work.

    2. ew, show all notes created today on daily note with DD-MM-YYYY? .t3_1689wtl._2FCtq-QzlfuN-SwVMUZMM3 { --postTitle-VisitedLinkColor: #edeeef; --postTitleLink-VisitedLinkColor: #6f7071; --postBodyLink-VisitedLinkColor: #6f7071; } Tried all the stuff I have seen, simply get an empty table. Any ideas?If anyone has a way that would link it on the graph too, that would be great. Thanks :D

      Obsidian Dataview query — Show all notes today on daily note

    1. A number of temperance organizations exist that promote temperance and teetotalism as a virtue.

      Temperance and teetotalism as a virtue

    1. SPQR, an abbreviation for Senatus Populusque Romanus (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Classical Latin: [s̠ɛˈnäːt̪ʊs̠ pɔpʊˈɫ̪ʊs̠kʷɛ roːˈmäːnʊs̠]; transl. "The Senate and People of Rome"), is an emblematic phrase referring to the government of the Roman Republic.

      SPQR refers to "The Senate and People of Rome", the government of the Roman Republic

    1. 06.24 Giving into despair slips a person into his lower self. You must have hope, in dark times (Uncle Iroh). Despair is the lowest instinct.

    2. 05.44 Shame is inward looking, humility is outward looking

    3. 04.00 Humility is not thinking less of oneself, but rather less about oneself

      See 5.2 Musashi quote "Think lightly of yourself, and deeply of the world"

    4. Reflections on the Wisdom and Virtue of Uncle Iroh
    1. Podcast 3.03 - Arjan Broere - 'Ik zie dat kenniswerkers geen afspraken maken en niet normatief zijn'

      16:00 Begin van productiviteit is jezelf tegenkomen. "Zie het als een onderzoek"

    1. 04:30 Use bottle of lubricant at end of reservoir.

      Doing this makes pulling reservoir easier.

      Rinse reservoir, fill halfway.

    2. 02:52 Water hardness test

    3. 0:55 Accessoires

    4. How To: Initial Setup & First Use of Gaggia Cadorna Espresso Machines
    1. 29.00 No matter what we experience(d), we can become anew. Kratos is still the man who destroyed Olympus, a monster, but also no more (see conversation between Kratos and Athena)

    2. 20.00 Masculinity isn't inward, but is outward.

    3. We Must Be Better - The Beautiful Masculinity of Kratos in God of War
    1. What Maximus meant is that Quintus shouldn't ask for forgiveness because he (Quintus) can handle the shame of his actions, and if he couldn't then he would simply act differently. Maximus essentially tells him to deal with the fact that what he's doing is shameful in both their eyes and not try to hide behind excuses.

      Quintus seems to look for forgiveness and excuses. But, he is a responsible man. He should take responsibility for his action. But, isn't there some extension to this? Doesn't the quote imply, also, that whatever burden is bestowed upon men, we can bear it? So, Quintus should take responsibility, but also could have chosen otherwise and would have been able to bear the burden.

    2. Quintus: "I'm a soldier, I obey"

      Maximus: "Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear"

      What does Maximus mean with this? Is it a jab at Quintus? Could Quintus have decided, perhaps, "to not obey", and bear his burden that is bestowed upon by nature, that anyone can bear?

    3. YOU are responsible for your deeds... not anyone else... you always have a choice

      So, take your responsibility, and accept the burden that is bestowed upon you by nature. You can surely bear it.

    1. Deep processing is the foundation of all learning. It refers to your ability to think about information critically, find relationships, make sense of new information, and organise it into meaningful knowledge in your memory.
    1. 2:00 In the mids of darkness, death, war; humans still can see light, the good, the beauty (stoic philosophy)

      Epictetus would say that there are two handle on a situation; you pick the one (see above). This also aligns to the notion that situations are what they are, it is about your reaction.

      How do you look at things? Do you only look at the bad, the ugly? Or, do you see the good, the light?

    2. 1:00 Gladiator (2000) happens during the Macromannic wars (one of the campaigns of Marcus Aurelius)

    1. 28.00 Put yourself in life situations that engage your higher self versus your lower self

    2. 27.09 be consumed by the system, or serve it purposefully

      Live in the system, don't try to change it, resisting it (Joseph Campbell)

    3. 25.00 The hero leaves the light into the darkness, at the threshold, and faces a creature of the unconscious self. (Belly of the whale)

    4. what all the myths have to deal with is transformation of consciousness

      16.57 Trials give revelations, which then transform consciousness

    1. Guts, accustomed to heartbreak and death, and empathising with the emptiness that follows the loss of a loved one (especially at the hands of Griffith), comforts her, encouraging Schierke to cry and express her emotions. He got a scalding from Godo months before; he now understands how dangerous it is to manage emotions poorly. Bottling up the pain cannot help Schierke. Guts allows her to have time to cry, and Schierke rushes to him for comfort. Her actions are childlike here, which is a change from her usual adult-like demeanour. Schierke is used to behaving older and wiser than she is, but with Guts, she learns to be a child again

      How to handle emotions — not bottling it up, letting them be.

    2. Akin to the pirates’ philosophy in One Piece, Guts doesn't set out to be anyone's hero. He's had a rough life and he lives for his own convictions, and yet somehow, people are drawn to him. Guts, regardless of what happens to him, keeps pushing forward. He had reason to give up numerous times each arc, but he never does. Instead, he uses his conviction and personal principles—initially a revenge quest but transforming into a means to restore his beloved—to propel himself through the story, and it's beautiful to read.
    3. At the same time, there is a slither of light that penetrates the dark narrative. Although the protagonists have all led fractured, traumatic lives, they never succumb to the impending desire to give up. Guts embodies stubborn perseverance, and through his struggles, the reader learns to cling onto hope.

      Throughout the dark narrative, there is a slitter of light. They never give up.

    4. Only recently when we discussed Berserk did we find a name for it: claustrophobia. Berserk makes you feel trapped, and its world is so small, and the hardships are so great, and it is so bleak and violent and unforgiving, that as a reader, you begin to suffocate with it. There is nothing you wish for more than Guts's happiness and Casca's peace and Griffith's destruction. Nothing more. It’s mind-boggling to consider just how much bad fortune Guts has experienced. Berserk is a story where bad things happen to decent people, and it can be depressing.

      Berserk makes the reader feel claustrophobic