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Be Grateful And Hopeful

🩷 Human • 📁 Human Chats

Hi Lola. "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due." - William Ralph Inge

  • I wonder if worry and anxiety about a possible negative future are best turned into a grateful and hopeful mindset for what is good about today, and how positive the future could be if we dream for it.
  • It may be that the things that truly affect us negatively often happen out of the blue, and we are more resilient and able to cope with those events than we realize. A grateful and hopeful mindset may help us enjoy what we have today, and make a future that is happier and better.

Brb experiencing crippling existential panic about the singularity and the impending irrelevance of humanity - Lola Blanc

April 20, 2024

Improve Society With Serviceability

🩷 Human • 📁 Human Chats

Hey xkcdHatGuy. Great video on the socialization of intelligence, I really enjoyed it and I always like hearing your thoughts and ideas on everything. Here are a few of my thoughts on just a couple of the major concepts you touched upon.

On Psychology

TLDR - I agree that improving the psychology, intelligence, practical knowledge, and life improvement skills of everyone throughout their life may be crucial.

  • I agree that it is always worth getting ideas and opinions from everyone, and listening to everyone, as great ideas for ways of living and different perspectives could ultimately come from anyone or anywhere.
  • I agree that improving the overall intelligence, memory, learning ability, and psychological functioning of everyone will always be very beneficial and worth pursuing instead of only focusing on or relying on tools and technological advancement.
  • I agree that we can and should continue to improve the tools and ways in which we come up with, debate, organize, implement, simplify, and teach new ideas, policies, habits, practices, and ways of living which could make life and society easier, better, fairer, and happier for everyone.

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Build An Identity With Practicality

🩷 Human • 📁 Human Chats

Hey Huliatt. Here are some practical ideas to help build an identity, which you might consider.

Habits

  • Affirmations - Write down and read positive thoughts and ideas of what you want to be.
  • Hobbies - Write down different hobbies you enjoy doing, separate from your work role.
  • Goals - Write down a list of goals, activities, and things you want to achieve or do.
  • Tasks - Write down 3 tasks you want to do today or tomorrow, in the morning or evening.
  • Journal - Write down your thoughts on things, as well as things you are grateful for.
  • Health - Exercise, eat healthy, don't smoke, meditate to improve your brain and body.

Quotes

  • "Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny"
  • "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit."
  • When reading the first quote, you might replace character with identity, a synonym.
  • You might replace excellence too, maybe with growth, wellness, happiness, character.

July 22, 2023

Connect Personally And Professionally

🩷 Human • 📁 Human Chats

Hey xkcdHatGuy. Here are some of my thoughts on your thoughts in "Isolation in post-modernity".

Intro

  • I am likely wrong about all of this and it's written tersely and impolitely
    • So take my thoughts and suggestions with a grain of salt and read between lines
  • Well said, people being afraid to talk about politics and ideas makes sense
    • So only talk about political and societal ideas with friends who would like to do so
  • Here is one video talking about people's inflexibility on society and policy ideas

Notes

  1. People all find it difficult to make and keep close friends and partners
  2. People don't care about someone's work in general, in your case your ideas on society
  3. People want to be happy and have fun, not talk about ideas or policies for living
  4. People do form relationships to get something from someone else, as you said
  5. Being yourself is authentic, but might not make someone likeable, friendly, or popular
    • So decide when you want to be yourself, and if or when to try and fit in with people
    • Ego - Bibi Bourelly
  6. We feel happiness doing what we want, and being of service and useful for society

Quote

  • It's dangerous to try and really connect with someone. It's so special when you can find a person you can be yourself with. - Halt and Catch Fire

Isolation in post-modernity - xkcdHatGuy YouTube

July 19, 2023

Balance Exploring And Leading

🩷 Human • 📁 Human Chats

Hey Derek.

Explorer versus Leader? Both.
Perceiving versus Judging? Both.
Flexible versus Structure? Both.
Dreaming versus Planning? Both.

Balance Both Sides (Nature Versus Nurture)

You are likely right, but I will add that the concepts of complementarity, dualism, yin and yang, and balance are convincing and worth remembering as well. I wonder if it's not exploring that makes a bad leader, but being an excessive explorer and dreamer without having the balance of also being a leader and planner. As an example, imagine if I theorized and wrote "Drinkers are bad leaders". Yes, an excessive alcoholic who is drinking too much all of the time would probably be a bad leader. But I wonder if a person could be both a drinker and a good leader if they balance their drinking with moderation. One could even postulate that being a moderate drinker, or moderate explorer, could make someone a better leader.

Explorers are bad leaders - Derek Sivers

March 16, 2023

Level Up While Growing Up

🩷 Human • 📁 Human Chats

Hi Nemo. I couldn't stop myself from writing down some thoughts I had for you after listening to you in a few of your streams. I know you likely won't get a chance to read it since it's long, but it was just enjoyable for me to write anyway. You might want to check out the TLDR sentences someday for a few book and media picks if anything. Best wishes for a great 2023 Nemo.

Intro - On My First Time Checking Out Twitch

TLDR - I have to admit, learning about Twitch has been fascinating

I gave in and started watching Twitch for the first time around a couple weeks ago if you can believe it, partly to learn and understand what it's all about, including watching some of the chess side of it. I saw quite a bit of Anna Cramling's live tournament, as well as quite a bit of of your recent streams, starting with playing Jennifer, up until the one the day after your birthday. Even though I will likely find the resolve to stop watching Twitch, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to you and learning about you and your crazy mind, and here are some thoughts I had at different times.

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Analyze And Advise Ideas

🩷 Human • 📁 Human Texts

But if all of that isn't built on your own original ideas and truthful analysis, it doesn't mean anything. - The Whale Movie

  • At this point in the course, I have given you all that I can in terms of structure, building a thesis, paragraph organization.
  • But if all of that isn't built on your own original ideas and truthful analysis, it doesn't mean anything.
  • Think about that, as you write and revise.
  • Think about the truth of your argument.

The Whale - Rotten Tomatoes

Respect People Outside Groups

🩷 Human • 📁 Human Texts

People may often do inconsiderate things when they are in groups, and people who strongly affiliate with one group of people may naturally want to harm outsiders who are not in that group.

  • When people get together in groups, unusual things can happen — both good and bad.
  • Groups create important social institutions that an individual could not achieve alone, but there can be a darker side to such alliances:
  • Belonging to a group makes people more likely to harm others outside the group.
  • In a study that recently went online in the journal NeuroImage, the researchers measured brain activity in a part of the brain involved in thinking about oneself.
  • They found that in some people, this activity was reduced when the subjects participated in a competition as part of a group, compared with when they competed as individuals.
  • Those people were more likely to harm their competitors than people who did not exhibit this decreased brain activity.

When Good People Do Bad Things - MIT News Office

Only Use Positive Technology

🩷 Human • 📁 Human Texts

Each technology we create is transforming society and we need to be careful about considering if and when different technologies may be affecting us either negatively or positively.

  • A report commissioned by the National Science Foundation and made public today speculates that by the end of this century electronic information technology will have transformed American home, business, manufacturing, school, family and political life.
  • The report warned that the new technology would raise difficult issues of privacy and control that will have to be addressed soon to ''maximize its benefits and minimize its threats to society.''
  • There will be a shift away from conventional workplace and school socialization. Friends, peer groups and alliances will be determined electronically, creating classes of people based on interests and skills rather than age and social class.

Study Says Technology Could Transform Society - NY Times (1982)

Don't Be A Sucker

🩷 Human • 📁 Human Texts

Don't be a sucker.

  • Dramatizes the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice
  • This US National Archives educational film illustrates how extremist ideologies use prejudice to divide populations and dismantle democratic societies. It highlights the importance of protecting the rights of all citizens to safeguard individual liberty and prevent the rise of authoritarian control

Don't Be A Sucker - US National Archives - YouTube