#Inspirations
Words and ideas from others that inspire me and shape my mental models.
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🌱 From the Garden
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Takeaways from Debt by Graeber
Takeaways from finishing Debt: The First 5000 Years I think he’s saying:
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enactivism
Enactivism is a theory in cognitive science and philosophy of mind that fundamentally challenges how we think about knowledge, perception, and …
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Poem by Rilke
You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything: The darkness that comes with every infinite fall And the shivering blaze of every step up.
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Robert Penn Warren on Continuity of Identity
“This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, …
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Exhalation by Ted Chiang – Book
Exhalation My favorite book. I adore his style of intersecting science with fiction to make something more than your standard science fiction as a …
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Literate Programming (def)
Literate Programming (def) I love that I stumbled across this on an old internet friend’s site:
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Graeber on Time, Money, and Honor
Money existed, but it was not used to buy anything; important men lived their lives in pursuit of honor, which took material form in followers and …
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Exploring Nietzsche's 4 Errors
Exploring Nietzsche’s 4 Errors up:: Friedrich Nietzsche Errors in Causation “the four great errors” but concisely?
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we are born a garden
We Are Born a Garden “Become who you are.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rhizomes
Rhizomes While I’m still early in my understanding of it, the philosophy of Philosophers – Deleuze and Guattari speaks to me.
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Philosopher – Zizek, Slavoj
Philosopher – Zizek, Slavoj up: philosophy-my-most-influential-thinkers related: Mental Model MOCs
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George Lakoff on Frames
George Lakoff George Lakoff is a huge influence for me (see Philosophy — my most influential thinkers
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Learning demands change
Learning demands change Unlike education, learning demands change. Learning makes us incompetent just before it enables us to grasp mastery.