post post post post Pullman, Philip - The Book of Dust series Liu, Cixin - The Three-Body Problem Fforde, Jasper - The Eyre Affair post post Safety is about feeling safe and being safe Life is unpredictable (or is it?) and mostly out of our control. Things will happen to us. People will make choices we don’t like. Random December 6, 2022 post post Notes are for better thinking Andy Matuschak talks about taking notes that aren’t just for the purpose of accumulating a big library of notes but for actually thinking, December 4, 2022 post A MOC is a map of content, an index, a list The MOC is an index, a list. A meta note that lists all related notes on a specific topic or area; essentially a linked TOC for a particular topic. December 3, 2022 post a cheat code for building friendships I’ve found this beautiful little cheatcode for building friendships, for keeping those important relationships alive and open, for maintaining December 3, 2022 What is human deserves our affection What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations December 2, 2022 post Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference Book 10, 37: Learn to ask of all actions, ‘Why are you doing that?’ Starting with your own. — Marcus Aurelius Book 11, 16: To live a good life: December 1, 2022 post Novik, Naomi - Uprooted Carson, Rae - Any Sign of Life Equilibrium means finding the few essentials within the infinite possibilities There are too many options. I know that already. The most difficult discipline for me is to ignore the options, to tune out all the things that November 29, 2022 post Feist, Raymond E. - Magician Apprentice Hannah Wilke Moral panic seems like it works, but it doesn't really This paper talks about the “outraged opposition” to novel-reading in 18th century England as an early example of moral panic in response to popular November 27, 2022 Sivers, Derek - Anything You Want Gay, Ross - The Book of Delights