Today, I believe happiness is really a default state. Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life.——Naval Ravikant
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning · Journal of Design and Science
https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand/release/2
https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand/release/2
Journal of Design and Science
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning · Journal of Design and Science
Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable…
The Epicurean Life - The Commonplace by Thomas J Bevan https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/on-epicurus-and-living-well ，
How Greek definition have changed.
The titles of different Greek philosophical movements have become English words, and all of their definitions have changed. The first step to understanding Greek philosophy then is to shed yourself from these twisted modern definitions.
Stoicism: A modern definition of Stoicism refers to the way people suppress their emotions and hold their facial expressions still. But Stoic philosophy is designed to give you a more powerful calm, where you can stay centered in the face of adversity and remain indifferent to pleasure or pain. I've always liked this definition from Nassim Taleb: "There is nothing wrong and undignified with emotions – we are cut to have them. What is wrong is not following the heroic or, at least, the dignified path. That is what Stoicism truly means."
Cynicism: The Cynics believed that people gained happiness by rejecting wealth, power, and fame in order to live a simple life free from material possessions. The word cynic derives from the Ancient Greek word kynikos, which translates to dog-like. Thomas Bevan writes: "Before it referred to an attitude of jaded and scornful negativity, 'Cynicism' referred to the rebellious, ascetic, deeply radical worldview espoused by Diogenes, the original punk."
Epicureanism: Epicurus believed that pleasure what the highest good. Not a hedonistic pleasure, but a soul-filled one. He encouraged people to engage in simple and sustainable pleasures that created lasting fulfillment. As opposed to the binge-drinking, luxury good accumulating culture of the modern West, he saw happiness as something to take seriously and work towards. The entrance of Epicurus' garden had a sign that said: "Strangers, here you will do well to tarry; here, our highest good is pleasure."
How Greek definition have changed.
The titles of different Greek philosophical movements have become English words, and all of their definitions have changed. The first step to understanding Greek philosophy then is to shed yourself from these twisted modern definitions.
Stoicism: A modern definition of Stoicism refers to the way people suppress their emotions and hold their facial expressions still. But Stoic philosophy is designed to give you a more powerful calm, where you can stay centered in the face of adversity and remain indifferent to pleasure or pain. I've always liked this definition from Nassim Taleb: "There is nothing wrong and undignified with emotions – we are cut to have them. What is wrong is not following the heroic or, at least, the dignified path. That is what Stoicism truly means."
Cynicism: The Cynics believed that people gained happiness by rejecting wealth, power, and fame in order to live a simple life free from material possessions. The word cynic derives from the Ancient Greek word kynikos, which translates to dog-like. Thomas Bevan writes: "Before it referred to an attitude of jaded and scornful negativity, 'Cynicism' referred to the rebellious, ascetic, deeply radical worldview espoused by Diogenes, the original punk."
Epicureanism: Epicurus believed that pleasure what the highest good. Not a hedonistic pleasure, but a soul-filled one. He encouraged people to engage in simple and sustainable pleasures that created lasting fulfillment. As opposed to the binge-drinking, luxury good accumulating culture of the modern West, he saw happiness as something to take seriously and work towards. The entrance of Epicurus' garden had a sign that said: "Strangers, here you will do well to tarry; here, our highest good is pleasure."
Substack
The Epicurean Life
Commonplace Newsletter #012
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?s=09
One of the best essays by David Foster Wallace.“Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. ” “Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform — and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled”
One of the best essays by David Foster Wallace.“Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. ” “Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform — and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled”
NY Times
Roger Federer as Religious Experience
How one player’s grace, speed, power, precision, kinesthetic virtuosity, and seriously wicked topspin are transfiguring men’s tennis.
http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html?s=09
Jerry Neumann wrote an excellent introduction to Carlota Perez' framework of The Deployment Age, from her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. The book comes highly recommended by people like Alex Danco, Fred Wilson, and Marc Andreessen. Based on the theory, we're moving into an age of "production capital," which Neumann explains well.
Jerry Neumann wrote an excellent introduction to Carlota Perez' framework of The Deployment Age, from her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. The book comes highly recommended by people like Alex Danco, Fred Wilson, and Marc Andreessen. Based on the theory, we're moving into an age of "production capital," which Neumann explains well.
Reaction Wheel
The Deployment Age
A couple of weeks ago James Gross, co-founder of Percolate, had me speak at their Transition conference. I talked about Carlota Perez, her theories, and the transition to the deployment period that…
“Stoicism is Not Enough” by Simon Sarris https://link.medium.com/gefHQ0Uu2ab
“We should concern ourselves less with individuality, which in modern times takes on cultish proportions, and in aggregate leads to boring, nihilistic living. To live well, we must create things outside ourselves, through ritual and poesy.
This is not an easy philosophy to prescribe. It does not have the advantage of being straightforward, there is no umbrella of specifics or rules. But it is the opposite of stoicism: A philosophy of noticing the world, and remaining open to it. The acknowledgement that ultimate goals lie beyond ourselves, in society and family, and in the worlds we choose to create and pass on. It is in this participation with the things beyond ourselves that we might learn to inhabit communities again. As we cultivate our environment, we will come to cultivate ourselves”
“We should concern ourselves less with individuality, which in modern times takes on cultish proportions, and in aggregate leads to boring, nihilistic living. To live well, we must create things outside ourselves, through ritual and poesy.
This is not an easy philosophy to prescribe. It does not have the advantage of being straightforward, there is no umbrella of specifics or rules. But it is the opposite of stoicism: A philosophy of noticing the world, and remaining open to it. The acknowledgement that ultimate goals lie beyond ourselves, in society and family, and in the worlds we choose to create and pass on. It is in this participation with the things beyond ourselves that we might learn to inhabit communities again. As we cultivate our environment, we will come to cultivate ourselves”
Medium
Stoicism is Not Enough
Where the ancient and popular philosophy falls apart.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7E21BF91F3F9683
Stanford university professor Robert Sapolsky's Human behavioral biology course
Stanford university professor Robert Sapolsky's Human behavioral biology course
Startup School for Future Founders | Startup School - The Best Resource for Founders
https://www.startupschool.org/future-founders
https://www.startupschool.org/future-founders
Y Combinator
Startup School for Aspiring Founders
A free online course by the world's top startup accelerator - Y Combinator.
“How to do a Product Critique” by Julie Zhuo https://link.medium.com/0XMz9UfM5ab
Medium
How to do a Product Critique
Watch and learn