✍Ore

✍Ore

Incomplete notes. A complete mess, in progress. Expect little narrative, and expect little evidence. Ores are prone to direct copying from Roam.

14 posts

How to learn something new

This is a quick write-up on how I learn something new, such as a new field, discipline, hobby, or skill. [[Knowledge Work]] is contextually fickle: it works only when you have defined the constraints, and in this constraint we aim to do something with our bodies what we have injected...

by Norm

Creativity

The Concept Definition (Explicit) From Wikipedia: Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something somehow new and somehow valuable is formed. Definition (Tacit) From Aravind Balla: I always thought it as a muscle. But perspective changed when when I read [[Big Magic]]. It's an energy that comes to you. It's not just...

by Norm
Capacity to Desire

Capacity to Desire

Desire is a difficult beast to handle. It comes natural, just like evolution. Your goal is to design the environment in a way that influences the animal to do what you want. It's a horse waiting to gallop, a bull waiting to tackle, a cheetah waiting to pounce on its...

by Norm

Table of Contents (TOC)

The Concept Definition (Explicit) First few pages of a book. List of headers, titles, etc. that summarise key findings of a book with relevant page numbers as a reference. Useful for navigation. Definition (Tacit) Physical embodiment of an outliner. eg. if we have a very limited [[Roam]] graph of a...

by Norm
Kazan

Kazan

Kazan is the visual designation in my mind where all my imagination resides. Think of it as my internal universe.

by Norm

Cultural Immortality

The Concept Definition (Explicit) So far, there is no explicit definition. This is a neologism. As of published date, have not made any effort to find already-existing terms out there. Definition (Tacit) Neologism: This is to determine the relationship between an individual and society in general, asking a simple question:...

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Why (Question)

This feels like the final question to answer once everything is done. Better yet, even before I start something: * Why at all? * Why do anything? * Why must we continue? * Why must we end things? I'll leave it open. Maybe years later, I can flesh this post out. For now, here...

by Norm

The Human Loop of Embodiment

* From an individual, there comes an [[Epiphany]]. And that leads to understanding of [[Self]] * And from there they release [[Ambition]]. This is a two-way transaction, where you must first create ambition and also receive it from others Provoking/seeking both [[Epiphany]] and [[Ambition]] results in [[Tension]] and [[Energy]]...

by Norm
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