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A Noble Aim
08 Sep 2017
Jordan B. Peterson speaking in the Introduction to the Idea of God: Have a noble aim. Otherwise you have nothing but shallow, trivial pleasures. And they won't sustain you. And that's not good. Because life is so difficult, so much suffering, so...
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Maxwell
19 May 2017
Maxwell is my one year old boy. He instills way more meaning to the things I enjoy and also to the things I don't - like maybe the Wiggles are okay. To Max: I hope you've had fun so far. Both mum...
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Create RSS Feeds
18 Jul 2016
I love RSS. It is one of the best ways for websites to notify me of significant content updates. Sadly not all websites provide this where it could be of high value. This means the author is either not aware or does...
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Hawai'i
31 Aug 2015
I went to Hawai'i in the spring of 2015 for 3 weeks and these are the things I tried and would recommend. Honolulu Steak Shack serves steaks and chicken on rice. With outside seating looking out to the gorgeous Waikiki bay, eating...
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Singularity Outcomes
02 Apr 2015
Elon Musk on AI: "Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable." Elon's comment got me thinking about the likely outcomes for us when a general AI becomes more intelligent than the humans that...
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Emoji Bonanza
27 Mar 2015
You can find more iOS native emojis from the Chinese (Simplified) - Pinyin keyboard. Access is then through this new keyboard in the symbol section (much like the way you get to the '=' character). There is an extensive collection of unicode...
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Ghost City of Ordos
20 Mar 2015
"Over the course of our 24 hours in Ordos, we had tried every door within reach – and not one of them had been locked." I love well documented travel writing. @DarmonRichter's piece on the ghost city of Ordos encourages a level...
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Alzheimer's Disease
12 Mar 2015
When my grandfather died of cancer, it wasn't the ravages of the cancer that horrified me the most. It was the fact that Alzheimer's Disease had already quietly stolen the last oppurtunity for me to be meaningfully there for him. It erroded...
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Illustrations by Gediminas Pranckevičius
09 Mar 2015
These illustrations from Gediminas Pranckevičius remind me of the personal myths & reflections of Carl Jung.
A combination of the surreal and a sense of shared archetypes makes a compelling work of art.
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Guide To Autodidactism
05 Mar 2015
@JackKinsella in Guide To Autodidactism Learning learning strategies should be treated as equally fundamental in our schools, yet it isn’t. My schooling reality starkly differed, in that the powers that were deemed it preferable to dedicate an hour a day during our...
