lanamo

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by lanamo 9d ago
Walter Benjamin basically predicted this in The Storyteller (1936) — nearly a century before smartphones: > "If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that h
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by lanamo 2mo ago
+1 - using Orion on iOS & MacOs for a few years and i like it!
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by lanamo 3mo ago
Or you could say in other words: Everything is a remix! Dale Carnegie and Steven Covey have both been heavily influenced by Alfred Adler, the Austrian psychotherapist and founder of individual psychology.
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by lanamo 4mo ago
Halal food does not belong to Japan, and it is very cruel. > "I realized that educating the people around me was going to be a permanent part of my life here" The entitlement and arrogant ignorance is really strong. As a German
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by lanamo 4mo ago
also interesting: Dale Carnegie admired Alfred Adler, the Austrian psychologist; Adler said “the solution to the world’s present problems lies in social interest: concerned relationships between people and groups”. Adler never rose to fame
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by lanamo 3y ago
You must refer to the author David Whyte :) his narration voice is fantastic as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IygDX7Vdql0
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by lanamo 3y ago
here is a lecture (on Zoom) from Prof. Chittka about the very same topic as the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSaqi2ysDoA
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by lanamo 3y ago
i keep Asian honeybees on Lantau Island / Hong Kong - fully agree with you, there is so much more to it the more time one spends with bees. you will like this book a lot [Song of Increase]: https://www.goodreads.com/en&
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by lanamo 4y ago
John Wick here. please be nice. you probably never had a dog - i hope you will one day and experience the joy of such a companionship.
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by lanamo 4y ago
"insist" is a bit harsh; we're all trying to help here ;-) https://xkcd.com/386/
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by lanamo 4y ago
if you start tracking reps and weight, i guarantee you will loose interest fast. while tracking might certainly be useful for muscle building, gmb.io has a different approach and focuses on movements that are safe and help you in real life
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by lanamo 4y ago
+1 for gmb.io - it's the only program(s) that i ever paid for - they are that clever. (i am athletic, walk my dog daily, have access to crossfit gyms etc). gmb.io "fills the gaps" of daily movement deficits and is for everyon
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by lanamo 4y ago
We have three levels of "bullshit": 1. The liar: The insidious lie fulfills this criterion, because the liar wants to deceive and is sure of success. 2. The bullshitter: thinks "What I'm saying could be wrong? So what?&q
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by lanamo 4y ago
the URL is https://freedom.to
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by lanamo 4y ago
+1 for Exhalation by Ted Chiang. And also: "Sum - Forty Tales from the afterlives" by David Eagleman. A small book that makes you think very very deeply.
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by lanamo 4y ago
One of my most used phone apps is WeCroak https://www.wecroak.com/ Reminds me several times a day of the impermanence of life and of death, with a thoughtful quote. It is a buddhist thing. It somehow makes your everyday wor
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by lanamo 4y ago
Nassim Taleb said it: "Crypto is a gigantic construction built by maladjusted children." https://mobile.twitter.com/nntaleb/status/159059960483560652...
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by lanamo 4y ago
relevant: how to draw an owl http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/572/078/d6d...
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by lanamo 4y ago
https://www.one-tab.com You're welcome. :)
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by lanamo 4y ago
drones make unwanted noise and ruin the atmosphere of natural settings. does the world need your boring selfies from an aerial perspective? No. absolutely not. Only worse than these snapchat plastic teeny drones would a V2 with built-in fl
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by lanamo 4y ago
fellow HK gweilo here - me too would have gone full John Wick mode! it is impressive to witness such a mass psychosis, but if you touch my dog, then...
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by lanamo 5y ago
this is a case for John Wick.
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by lanamo 5y ago
xSearch for Safari makes the search experience on the Apple ecosystem much better. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xsearch-for-safari/id157990206... Makes switching search engines easy and you can use "ba
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by lanamo 5y ago
I am using MELA https://mela.recipes - also being frustrated with recipes and the amount of unnecessary blabla, this app is awesome. it de-clutters recipes, has a cooking mode (shows you step by step) and a grocery shopping func
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by lanamo 5y ago
whenever you transition from one activity to another, be aware of what you are doing in exactly this moment. that’s it.
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by lanamo 5y ago
My dad is 81, bricklayer by trade and had his own small construction business, he worked 6 days a week. The physical strength certainly helped him for a good while into his old age, but walking is becoming increasingly difficult (now using
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by lanamo 5y ago
addendum: You can run this M8 Tracker as a "headless" version with a Teensy 4.1 on your computer. https://github.com/Dirtywave/M8HeadlessFirmware (might be a good option for tracker fans since this hardware
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by lanamo 5y ago
Trackers are making a comeback: check out M8 Tracker, a fantastic hardware device, celebrated by the music making community. https://dirtywave.com (it's in very high demand and sold out quickly every time a new batch is a
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by lanamo 5y ago
Dynamo for Safari - slows down videos and lets you skip adds. https://dynamoformac.com Also: Dark Reader https://darkreader.org/safari/
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by lanamo 5y ago
Have a look at the German software 'The Archive' https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive , this might be what you are looking for. It is not overloaded with fancy features and is text/markdown based. Enables you

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