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Fuse and Synthesis of Ideas
Great ideas, and perhaps many future great ideas, are syntheses of other ideas. Bitcoin, for example, is a synthesis of cryptography and money. A computer is a synthesis of the idea of number and the idea of machine. Try to find a great combo. And not just a combo, a match, but rather a fusion.…
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Living Inside the Mind’s Model of Reality
I think we do not understand objective reality well, but we live in a model of the world that our brain has constructed from each ones personal experiences, destiny and genetics. The world of a child, a teenager, and a thirty-five-year-old person is different. You live in your model of the world, not in the…
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Intellectual Freedom
Intellectual freedom is absolutely necessary for high quality thinking and real action. Long-term success is impossible without that. A crucial part of freedom is allowing mistakes and criticism. Freedom is not a prepared path where every step is approved in advance. We need room to try, be wrong, hear criticism, correct themselves, and learn. Without…
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It Takes Time
Very often, almost everywhere, everything truly good, high, and valuable needs time. You simply have to wait. A tree grows for many years. You cannot buy that process. No amount of money can force it to grow in an hour. The same is true for many other things: real ideas, strong projects, good brands, meaningful…
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The Human Mind
People today admire artificial intelligence and create hype around it, as if it were something supreme. In reality, this is just late-stage capitalism spreading another narrative. People seem to forget that artificial intelligence was created by the human mind. The human mind, the reason, it is what is the highest. And it is ours. Sadly,…
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Computer Privacy: As Simple as Closing the Blinds
Closing the blinds is not a confession. It is not an admission of wrongdoing, suspicion, or shame. It is a small boundary, drawn without apology. Privacy works the same way. It is not designed for criminals. It is designed for people: for thought before speech, rest without performance, intimacy without audience, and freedom without constant…
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This age
Found a quote in my notes, most probably it’s from the internet, sorry, but I forgot/lost the source… My commentary: that’s right—the current system is not balanced, and hard times are coming, y’all.
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Time and Healing
Accept emptiness. Accept pain. Just accept it, and let yourself experience it. Don’t hide from it. Don’t replace it with something else. Just understand it. I have known many hardships and much pain in life, and I know this: when you are alone, you learn to accept it. You take it as it is. Then…
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Echo Chambers Are Not Built Only by Algorithms
People usually explain internet echo chambers in a very simple way: algorithms show users more of what they already like, so communities slowly become more radical and isolated. That is true, but it is only part of the story. A more interesting explanation came from researcher Petter Törnberg from the University of Amsterdam. His study…
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Systems and structures and their cells
Capitalism and all that, all this big-tech stuff — any large corporation, whatever sweet little thing it may have been in the beginning, will in the end become a dumb, all-consuming monster. The essence is not only in the biggest structure itself, after all, but in its units, its cells — that is, in people.…
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Life and death
Only those truly live who have understood death completely.
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Untitled
It begins when the old taboos of primitive society stop working; when society grows, becomes more complex, and starts to change. At that point, human being begins to ask questions — and, more than that, is forced to ask them. Something like this happened in the time of ancient Athens, with the rise of the…
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My lifestyle: minimalism
Only minimalism can save you from all this consumerism and capitalism , from all this bullshit. Besides, with minimalism you are always ready to move, ready to face any problem. I mean it as a lifestyle. I have been living like this for years, and this approach has truly proven itself: whether times are extremely…
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Thoughts about color of grey
How little we, as human beings, grasp the depth and complexity of reality. I look at the colour grey: pure grey, the exact middle between black and white. On a monitor, it is only a fill, a point in a transition, a calculated balance of light. But then I begin to think of pure grey…
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The Moment Belief Starts
I am curious asin the exact moment when the mind decides that information is true. Not truth in the abstract. Not a full theory of knowledge. I mean the practical moment inside consciousness when a person reads, hears, or sees something and thinks: “That’s right. That’s true.” This moment is important because it often happens…
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Inner flow
You do not have to control every movement inside your mind. Sometimes it is enough to step aside and let the flow move on its own: like, let the water drain, the glue set, the ice freeze. Not every tension demands an immediate solution. Some things become clearer not when you press harder, but when…
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The Only Ideal
There is no perfect form, no perfect ideal, you must understand… except the simplest one. Not that banal simplicity, but the one that comes after you have tried and understood all the complexity.
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Posture and gait
Feet should never move faster than the head. Action should never outpace sense And when I say this, I mean not only the abstract idea but the real physical presentation too: it literally just looks better when a person walks straight and without a hurried, rushed, unbalanced appearance.