Dimas Zuhair

nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

[Dimas Zuhair @bkdpoteto]

Going to start a thread for my personal collection of screenshoted scene from anime, movies, shows or any vids I've watched. Will be updated every now and then. Cheers!

[daily zen @dailyzen]

"While washing the dishes one should only be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing the dishes. ... If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not 'washing the dishes to wash the dishes.' What's more, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes. In fact we are completely incapable of realizing the miracle of life while standing at the sink."

— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

👋 ¡Bienvenido, Mourinho! 👋

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Reading the favorite books of your favorite authors is the quickest path to becoming well-read. As a teen I set out to read the works that inspired Lewis & Tolkien, which is how I fell in love with The Faerie Queene, the Arabian Nights, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight and a dozen others. As an artist you have a sacred mission to pass down works you love that are in danger of being forgotten, keeping them alive for the next generation. This is how the great tradition is handed on from one age to the next.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.”

— Italian Proverb

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The comparison sounds clever on an Accenture slide. It falls apart the second you check the history.

Edison spent years studying gas lamps, arc lamps, and every existing illumination technology before building the lightbulb. His key breakthrough, a carbonized bamboo filament that lasted 1,200 hours, came from testing 3,000 materials across 14 months of continuous iteration. He didn't skip the candle. He studied every candle ever made and then built something better.

The iPhone was a continuous improvement of the Palm Pilot, which was a continuous improvement of the Newton, which was a continuous improvement of the Psion Organizer. Google was a continuous improvement of AltaVista. Tesla was a continuous improvement of the GM EV1.

The consulting version of innovation sounds like "think different and skip the boring work." The actual version is "study every existing solution until you understand the constraints so deeply that the next step becomes obvious."

Accenture charges $500/hour to show this slide to Fortune 500 executives. The companies that actually build the next electric light are in the lab running experiment 2,999.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

Not every star has planets. Not every planet can support life. Not every place where life begins will produce intelligence. Not every intelligent species will survive long enough to explore the universe or make its presence known.

The chances are low, especially in our local neighborhood of stars. But we must keep looking.

We cannot help it. Life looks for life.

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

Yoshiyuki Okuyama’s “Five Centimeters per Second.” A film I really wanted to see in theaters, but missed my chance, so I had pre-ordered the Blu-ray. When I spotted it on the plane, I couldn’t resist and had to see it. It’s been quite some time since I last watched Makoto Shinkai’s original animated feature, so I had completely forgotten the finer details. And yet, what an experience. Truly beautiful. Dialogue is stripped down to the bare minimum, letting the imagery speak: cherry blossoms, snow, clouds, the sun, the moon, shooting stars, bicycles, convenience stores, vending machines, railroad crossings, trains, rockets, PHS phones, computer screens. All familiar Shinkai motifs, but reinterpreted in live-action through a photographer’s eye, they take on a completely different texture. The child actors are exceptional, their performances, their presence, even their very look. The direction of them is especially impressive. At times, it even brought to mind Shunji Iwai. In this era of streaming, it’s reassuring to see that a Japanese film like this can still be made. I’ve long been a fan of this directors’ younger brother, Hiroshi Okuyama, but Yoshiyuki Okuyama is a genius in his own right. So, pre-ordering the deluxe Blu-ray edition? Absolutely the right call.

[Dave @thought_harbor]

There's a concept in chess called zugzwang. It's a position where any move you make weakens your position. The best option is to do nothing, but the rules force you to move.

Life puts you in zugzwang more than you realise. Sometimes, every option looks wrong. Every door feels like a trap. In those moments, the answer isn't finding the perfect move. It's accepting that imperfect action still beats standing still.

Move anyway. A wrong step teaches you more than no step ever will.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I get blown away every time I read this paragraph by Carl Jung:

To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us. You cannot stay away from yourself forever, you have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question-whether you can love yourself, and that will be the test.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph from Carl Jung hits so hard.

“The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”

[LiorLefineder @lefineder]

This isn't well known outside the academic community, but nobody actually studies to become an 'entomologist.'

What happens is that all of what we would call 'entomologists' used to be regular people, like me and you, but during their lives they angered a gypsy or disturbed an ancient tomb, causing them to be cursed to be constantly swarmed by fresh spawns of insects. Having no other recourse in life, they then take up the mantle of entomology.

[Dex @DexxterUtd]

🚨 Wayne Rooney on racism:

“I had it in DC with one of my players who got racially abused and he was crying on my chest. I was holding him as he was crying on my chest. I don't think people realise - they say it as a throwaway line, but it hurts.

You have to hit the Clubs by taking off points and money from them, otherwise it will keep on going. Hopefully the right people sit down with the right organisations to try and get something serious in place.”

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

a woman said she was so annoyed with her neighbor who played violin every night at exactly 11pm. same time, same 30 minutes, for months.

it felt like noise to her, so one night she finally went upstairs ready to complain. the neighbor opened the door in hospital scrubs, looking exhausted, and explained that she works double shifts and those few minutes of playing are the only way her 4-year-old daughter can fall asleep.

she even apologized and said she would try to play softer.

what used to feel like an irritation shifted instantly. the woman said the music stopped sounding like a disturbance and started feeling like something human, something tender.

it became a reminder that we rarely know the full story behind what inconveniences us. sometimes a little understanding changes the whole sound of things.

[Josiah Hawthorne @JosiahHawthorne]

I was once doing a crossword and the clue was "Wood from Lord of the Rings." Six letters.

"Mallorn" didn't fit. Neither did "Fangorn," nor "Mirkwood." "Willow" didn't match the nearby other words. I tried every Ent's name. I was so frustrated.

The actual answer? "Elijah."

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

If you’re a parent, watch this.

It will stick with you forever.

[Dimas Zuhair @bkdpoteto]

@SketchesbyBoze Open mindedness can be a poison when coupled with ignorance. It'll be even more deadlier when society start normalizing these "open-minded" thoughts as a moral high ground instead of point of reflection.

[Dimas Zuhair @bkdpoteto]

@sv_prolivije @janeluve_ Not to agree with the original tweet's point, but I'm sure you're correct. Even the guy himself said he's working with team of indie dev making an ambitious AA game.

https://t.co/gm7fVSf5e9

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

What is your favorite opening line of a book? ✍️

[Kristoffer @indiohistorian]

What an insult to the workers in the original photograph.