K. Mitch

Warrior.

[K. Mitch @kmitchhog]

( Self reminder )
Plus ➕ Minus ➖ for myself

[Libertario 🟨⬛ @QuotesforGoal]

"La autoeducación es, creo firmemente, él único tipo de educación que existe"

Isac Asimov

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

laying bricks isn't mundane when you know you're building a cathedral

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”

— Jeanette Winterson

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Prō focīs — “(Fight) for our hearths.”

[successmovers @successmoverss]

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

— Lao Tzu

[The Still Point @thestillpoint_]

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
~ Ramakrishna

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Charlie Munger had a way with words:

[Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook @QuoteNietzsche]

there is this one nietzsche line:

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Maturity is the ability to prioritize values before feelings. The child does what feels right, the adult does what is right.

[Voltaire @VoltaireQuote]

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies. It is the first law of nature.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

People believe they think clearly and just struggle to "put it into words." It's almost always backwards. The struggle to put it into words is the discovery that the thought wasn't clear yet.

Writing is the brutal honesty machine. It takes the warm fog in your head that felt like understanding and forces it onto a line where every gap shows. You didn't lose the clarity in translation, you never had it. The page just told you.

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty.”

— Franz Kafka

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[garçon @boymolish]

Live by it.

[Dane @UltraDane]

About a decade ago, a baker in a small mountainous village in southern Austria noticed his cow doing something unusual. When Veronika had an itch, she would grab a stick in her mouth and use it to scratch her body.

Over the years, the brown bovid’s technique improved!

She could pick up objects as large as a broom or rake and move them around with her prehensile tongue, changing their length and orientation to ensure the best possible scratch.

The behavior isn’t just a clever trick: It’s the first documented case of tool use in cattle, scientists report.

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

Morgan Housel will never use AI to write. To him, it defeats the whole purpose of writing.

"The process of writing is what gets the author thinking. When they write a book, they didn't have all that knowledge in their head. They started out with one brave sentence, and then that taught them something.

If you're using any kind of LLM to do any of the broad structure for you, you're not actually thinking. You stripped out everything that was good about writing."

He'll use it for research, as a "Google on steroids." But even then he argues that the research process is different:

"When you're doing the reps of research, it's gonna hit you in a different way."

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

Has social media turned people into better writers?

It's at least a better writing education than school.

"Social media turned a lot of people, in a very good, healthy way, into maxim writers. You've got 240 characters to make your point. It was the exact opposite of how most people learned to write, which was their fifth grade teacher saying, five pages, minimum."

But concise doesn't mean short.

"A lot of times when it's short, there's no insight. They stripped away the meat. More than the fluff, they took away the meat."

-Morgan Housel