A blog of aggregated miscellanea and things I like uncovered from my daily travails. I'm @jacobjay, a peripatetic designer/developer of British persuasion, having interests in gastronomy, fashion, technology, interiors and sustainability. I'm currently living between New Delhi and France, working on a Lua web platform and e-commerce. I dig Macs, mountain biking and smelly cheese.
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Posts tagged “philosophy”
The Holstee Manifesto: Lifecycle
(Source: youtube.com)
Interview with a Stoic: William O. Stephens - Boing Boing
Stoics believe it is reasonable to respond to every event virtuously, to do the very best you can under the circumstances, and accept the rest. A Stoic focuses on what is up to her and doesn’t worry about anything that is not up to her. […] Health, sickness, wealth, poverty, fame, ignominy, life, death, and all such things are neither good nor bad in themselves, because each can be used well and virtuously or badly and wickedly. How we deal with these things which are indifferent to happiness determines our happiness or misery. Our happiness, therefore, is up to us, it is not up to luck, according to the Stoics.
“ «Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.» Steve always aspired to make beautiful later. He was willing to be misunderstood. ”
“ Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. […] The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators […] ”
Essay II, Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (19thC).
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
People commonly use the word “procrastination” to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what’s happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working. —Paul Graham
