Nature Ego Ego jest ciągle pomiędzy instynktami, sumieniem, etyką, socjalizacją, normami społecznymi, i nie tylko.
Wisdom Perfect, unspoilt, waiting for you: your next hour "The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career."
Nature The wish to accomplish something extra The wish to accomplish something outside their formal programme is common to all men who in the course of evolution have risen past a certain level. -- Arnold Bennett, "How to live on 24 hours a day"
Wisdom Old, unfulfilled aspiration Unfulfilled aspiration may always trouble the man who perished on the way to Meccca. But he will not be tormented in the same way as the man who, desiring to reach Mecca, and harried by the desire to reach Mecca, never leaves Brixton.
Wisdom Wisdom: Big questions "Big questions — Who am I? Where am I going? What is truth? — give way to little ones."
Wisdom Wisdom: Sincerity Sincerity represents a strict correspondence between an individual’s professions and their actual feelings and beliefs. Sincere communication is thoroughly honest — free of hypocrisy, pretense, deceit, and contradictions. Insincerity can be evinced when we act as if our feelings for something are stronger than
Wisdom Wisdom: Getting past behind While we don’t know what Emerson experienced as he looked into the vault where his wife lay, we can surmise the effect this act had on his life. Within months, he’d resigned his prestigious position as minister of Boston’s Second Church
Ghost Ghost: What memberships are for Memberships are a cool way of building a community and optionally monetizing your content. Especially with the addition of comments, this feature has become even more valuable. ‒ https://nehalist.io/ghost-5-review/
Wisdom: Time "Though you have the wealth of a cloak-room attendant at the Carlton Hotel, you cannot buy yourself a minute more time than I have, or the cat by the fire has."
LaTeX LaTeX: Performance tune-up needed On Overleaf, typesetting LaTeX documents is pretty fast, but the time required grows quite quickly when your document reaches about 70 pages. For my master thesis, I needed to start a premium subscription trial to be able to typeset my thesis in full for
Learning Organizing knowledge Feynman once prepared for his oral examinations by opening a fresh notebook titled "NOTEBOOK OF THINGS I DON’T KNOW ABOUT."
Publishing Publishing: Illustrating ideas John Bell promoted good literature using attractive graphics.
Wisdom Wisdom: Kofeina Istnieją dowody naukowe, że małe dawki kofeiny mogą wywoływać bardziej korzystne efekty niż jej duże ilości. Kofeina bowiem blokuje receptory, ale nie hamuje produkcji adenozyny. Im wyższa dawka kofeiny tym dłuższy czas blokowania adenozyny, która po ustąpieniu działania kofeiny łączy się ze swoimi receptorami
History Lessons from history: False statement in a book At sixteen years, Alexander the Great was the world's leading general. -- Buckminster Fuller, "Grunch of Giants" This is not true. If it is, then this is not: Alexander was just 16 when Philip went off to battle and left his son
Design Design: User interfaces "I strongly believe that you can “begin anywhere” and don’t need to learn technologies in any particular order. But I also place great value in gaining expertise. Personally I’ve mostly been interested in creating user interfaces." says Dan Abramov
Software Engineering Software engineering: Complex code Measuring your skill by the number of lines of code you have written.
Marriage: Contract or covenant? It may seem like marriage is simply a contract. "I'll do my part; you'll do yours. If we disagree, we can compromise and still keep the deal (the contract) valid." It sounds just like a contract statement. But, there is an alternative
Terraform Terraform Declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform: Why, and how to get started.
Publishing Blogs @ Akamai (writers - technical and non-technical) I delight in reading first-hand notes, reports and analyses. Even at a company like Akamai, it turns out to be a rare thing to find an active blogger. If you're curious what they're up to, here's a list to get you started.