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2024/08/12

Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life

1. Good physical and mental health

2. Good personal and intimate relations, such as those of marriage, family, and friendships

3. Seeing beauty in art and in nature

4. A reasonable standard of living and satisfactory work

5. A philosophical or religious outlook that fosters resilience

Taken together, Jung’s ideas about happiness and his five pillars of well-being stand up solidly to modern research findings. I propose this practical seven-point summary:

1. Do not fall prey to seeking pure happiness. Instead, seek lifelong progress toward happierness.
2. Manage as best you can the main sources of misery in your life by attending to your physical and mental health, maintaining employment, and ensuring an adequate income.
3. If you’re earning enough to take care of your principal needs, remember that happiness at work comes not from chasing higher income but from pursuing a sense of accomplishment and service to others.
4. Cultivate deep relationships through marriage, family, and real friendships. Remember that happiness is love.
5. If you have discretionary income left over, use it to invest in your relationships with family and friends.
6. Spend time in nature, surround yourself with beauty that uplifts you, and consume the art and music that nourish your spirit.
7. Find a path of transcendence—one that explains the big picture in life and helps you comprehend suffering and the purpose of your existence.

2022/06/02

I tried to read all my app privacy policies. It was 1 million words.

"Cranor at Carnegie Mellon has experimented with making privacy policies that look like the nutrition labels on packaged food. A label, she says, not only communicates quickly but also makes it easier to compare the practices of different websites and apps."

2022/05/17

How You Move Through the Universe

Feel small yet?

2022/05/11

Pinball Funzies

Pinball

2022/03/25

When someone tells you who they are....

Sen. Mike Braun claims he said interracial marriage should be decided by the states because he was focused on abortion and transgender women in sports

"It should be very clear where I'm at there, and that's an extrapolation that wasn't fair given the context of what we were talking about," he added.

Nope, I heard you the first time and yep - you were very clear.

2020/08/26

History Lesson

The Lessons of the Great Beaufort Skedaddle

"It is estimated 8-10,000 slaves were left behind in the Sea Islands when the white population fled. They were soon joined by thousands of others who escaped to the region once they realized that Northern occupation meant freedom. They all needed food and shelter, and since the Emancipation Proclamation had yet to happen, their legal status, beyond being “contraband,” was unclear. The Army asked for help and received it in the form of the Port Royal Experiment. Financed and organized by Northern abolitionist charities, the Experiment worked as a test case to create self-sufficiency among the former slaves. Its success points to what Reconstruction might have been if less corruption and more competence had been at its helm. Northern missionaries and teachers flocked to the Sea Islands to create schools and aid societies. Former slaves were allowed to farm the confiscated plantations and were paid $1 per 400 lbs of cotton they were able to harvest. The Penn School on St. Helena Island was one of the earliest schools established for freed slaves and can be visited as part of the Penn Center today."

2020/08/16

Time To Fight

From the article outlining why Wisconsin might be in play for Joe Biden:

How Suffering Farmers May Determine Trump’s Fate

"His current mood reminded him of an unruly cow that once wandered off his farm. “I was on a four-wheeler and was trying to round her up,” he said. “I chased her round and round. Then she got tired of me chasing her and she stopped, turned, and she was going to fight. She was too tired to run, but she was going to use what she had left. She was challenging me—she was going to fight. I guess that’s where I’m at. I’m running my ass off, I’m tired, and I don’t have the energy to run anymore. But, by God, I’ve got enough in me to stand here and fight.”

2020/08/11

Generous Orthodoxy

I'm cruising thru the back catalog of "Revisionist History" and came across the episode titled "Generous Orthodoxy" (Season 1 Episode 9)

In Malcoms own words, generous orthodoxy is "...comes from a theologian named Hans Frei. It’s an oxymoron, of course. To be orthodox is to be committed to tradition. To be generous, as Frei defines it, is to be open to change. But Frei thought the best way to live our lives was to find the middle ground because orthodoxy without generosity leads to blindness and generosity without orthodoxy is shallow and empty. One of the hardest things in the world is to find that balance. Not just for those pursuing a life of faith but for anyone interested in making their world better. I think Chester Wenger shows us the way."

Here is the letter mentioned in Malcom Gladwells article

An Open Letter To My Beloved Church

2020/07/30

Why Isn't this A Movie Already

Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth

Good lawd that story from the Smithsonian magazine has it all. I dare you to read it and tell me it doesn't deserve to be a movie (if even only a made for tv movie)

2020/07/28

I'm With Cathy O'Neil on This One

From Cathy O'Neils article: The political uprising we should have expected

"The aftermath of the coronavirus is likely to include a new political uprising—an Occupy Wall Street 2.0, but this time much more massive and angrier. Once the health emergency is over, we will see the extent to which rich, well-connected and well-resourced communities will have been taken care of, while contingent, poor and stigmatized communities will have been thoroughly destroyed. Moreover, we will have seen how political action is possible—multitrillion dollar bailouts and projects can be mobilized quickly—but only if the cause is considered urgent. This mismatch of long-disregarded populations finally getting the message that their needs are not only chronically unattended, but also chronically dismissed as politically required, will likely have drastic, pitchfork consequences."

2020/07/18

In My Day We Just Called em Dumb Ass

Bad Thinkers

"Gullibility, carelessness and closed-mindedness are examples of what the US philosopher Linda Zagzebski, in her book Virtues of the Mind (1996), has called ‘intellectual vices’. Others include negligence, idleness, rigidity, obtuseness, prejudice, lack of thoroughness, and insensitivity to detail. Intellectual character traits are habits or styles of thinking."

2020/07/14

75 Years of American Finance: A Graphic Presentation 1861-1935

This is too cool not to share. An historical accounting of American capitalism's progress and failures

75 Years of American Finance: A Graphic Presentation 1861-1935

2020/07/08

Still on Facebook?

Just checking in.

Yep.

Still glad I canceled all social media.

https://www.engadget.com/facebook-audit-civil-rights-hate-speech-134739868.html

"...It revealed that executive decisions by the company caused “significant setbacks for civil rights” and that the site could become an “echo chamber” of extremism if it doesn’t take stronger measures. “The company must recognize that failure to do so can have dangerous (and life-threatening) real-world consequences,” the report states."

2020/05/19

Whats on The Night Table Now

The local library just emailed me that we're good to go for picking up stuff. COVID-19 forced some safety measures which actually I prefer. I park at an assigned spot, call the number and provide my library card number and they walk out with my book.

Can we do this forever?

So the book I finally get my greedy little hands on?

Winners Take All

The Elite Charade of Changing the World

By Anand Giridharadas

Im very excited to devour this little tome.

Oh, and the quote page before the table of contents? This little gem.

Giddy Up!

2020/04/29

Architect Michael Sorkin succumbed to COVID-19. Here are some of his thughts to remember him by.

From: 250 Things An Architect Should Know

Michael Sorkin

TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS
AN ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW

  1.    The feel of cool marble under bare feet.
  2.    How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months.
  3.    With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week.
  4.    The modulus of rupture.
  5.    The distance a shout carries in the city.
  6.    The distance of a whisper.
  7.    Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as   ‘modernist’ avant la lettre).
  8.    The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City.
  9.    In your town (include the rich).
    The flowering season for azaleas.
    The insulating properties of glass.
    The history of its production and use.
    And of its meaning.
    How to lay bricks.
    What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’
    The rate at which the seas are rising.
    Building information modeling (BIM).
    How to unclog a Rapidograph.
    The Gini coefficient.
    A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old.
    In a wheelchair.
    The energy embodied in aluminum.
    How to turn a corner.
    How to design a corner.
    How to sit in a corner.
    How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure.
    The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda.
    The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses.
    The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi.
    The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travellers.
    The basics of mud construction.
    The direction of prevailing winds.
    Hydrology is destiny.
    Jane Jacobs in and out.
    Something about feng shui.
    Something about Vastu Shilpa.
    Elementary ergonomics.
    The color wheel.
    What the client wants.
    What the client thinks it wants.
    What the client needs.
    What the client can afford.
    What the planet can afford.
    The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections.
    What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building.
    Another language.
    What the brick really wants.
    The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed.
    What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri.
    What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe.
    What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
    Where the CCTV cameras are.
    Why Mies really left Germany.
    How people lived in Çatal Hüyük.
    The structural properties of tufa.
    How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil.
    The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells.
    Vitruvius.
    Walter Benjamin.
    Marshall Berman.
    The secrets of the success of Robert Moses.
    How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built.
    The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building.
    The cycle of the Ise Shrine.
    Entasis.
    The history of Soweto.
    What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas.
    Back-up.
    The proper proportions of a gin martini.
    Shear and moment.
    Shakespeare, et cetera.
    How the crow flies.
    The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood.
    How the pyramids were built.
    Why.
    The pleasures of the suburbs.
    The horrors.
    The quality of light passing through ice.
    The meaninglessness of borders.
    The reasons for their tenacity.
    The creativity of the ecotone.
    The need for freaks.
    Accidents must happen.
    It is possible to begin designing anywhere.
    The smell of concrete after rain.
    The angle of the sun at the equinox.
    How to ride a bicycle.
    The depth of the aquifer beneath you.
    The slope of a handicapped ramp.
    The wages of construction workers.
    Perspective by hand.
    Sentence structure.
    The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal.
    The thrill of the ride.
    Where materials come from.
    How to get lost.
    The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space.
    What human differences are defensible in practice.
    Creation is a patient search.
    The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte.
    The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering.
    Many ideas about what constitutes utopia.
    The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon.
    Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque.
    How to dérive.
    Woodshop safety.
    A great deal about the Gothic.
    The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa.
    A distaste for imperialism.
    The history of Beijing.
    Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century.
    Aristotle’s Politics.
    His Poetics.
    The basics of wattle and daub.
    The origins of the balloon frame.
    The rate at which copper acquires its patina.
    The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin.
    The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon.
    Where else to sink it.
    The fire code.
    The seismic code.
    The health code.
    The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy.
    How to listen closely.
    That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation.
    The exquisite corpse.
    Scissors, stone, paper.
    Good Bordeaux.
    Good beer.
    How to escape a maze.
    QWERTY.
    Fear.
    Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan.
    The proper way to behave with interns.
    Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever.
    The history of big machines, including those that can fly.
    How to calculate ecological footprints.
    Three good lunch spots within walking distance.
    The value of human life.
    Who pays.
    Who profits.
    The Venturi effect.
    How people pee.
    What to refuse to do, even for the money.
    The fine print in the contract.
    A smattering of naval architecture.
    The idea of too far.
    The idea of too close.
    Burial practices in a wide range of cultures.
    The density needed to support a pharmacy.
    The density needed to support a subway.
    The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce.
    Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes.
    Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx.
    Constructivism, in and out.
    Sinan.
    Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents.
    The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures.
    Several other artistic media.
    A bit of chemistry and physics.
    Geodesics.
    Geodetics.
    Geomorphology.
    Geography.
    The Law of the Andes.
    Cappadocia first-hand.
    The importance of the Amazon.
    How to patch leaks.
    What makes you happy.
    The components of a comfortable environment for sleep.
    The view from the Acropolis.
    The way to Santa Fe.
    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
    Where to eat in Brooklyn.
    Half as much as a London cabbie.
    The Nolli Plan.
    The Cerdà Plan.
    The Haussmann Plan.
    Slope analysis.
    Darkroom procedures and Photoshop.
    Dawn breaking after a bender.
    Styles of genealogy and taxonomy.
    Betty Friedan.
    Guy Debord.
    Ant Farm.
    Archigram.
    Club Med.
    Crepuscule in Dharamshala.
    Solid geometry.
    Strengths of materials (if only intuitively).
    Ha Long Bay.
    What’s been accomplished in Medellín.
    In Rio.
    In Calcutta.
    In Curitiba.
    In Mumbai.
    Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.)
    Why you think architecture does any good.
    The depreciation cycle.
    What rusts.
    Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard.
    How to play a musical instrument.
    Which way the wind blows.
    The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs.
    How to guard a house from floods.
    The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha.
    The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha.
    Where north (or south) is.
    How to give directions, efficiently and courteously.
    Stadtluft macht frei.
    Underneath the pavement the beach.
    Underneath the beach the pavement.
    The germ theory of disease.
    The importance of vitamin D.
    How close is too close.
    The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer.
    The draught of ferries.
    Bicycle safety and etiquette.
    The difference between gabions and riprap.
    The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall.
    How to open the window.
    The diameter of the earth.
    The number of gallons of water used in a shower.
    The distance at which you can recognize faces.
    How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good).
    Concrete finishes.
    Brick bonds.
    The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels.
    The prismatic charms of Greek island towns.
    The energy potential of the wind.
    The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect.
    Paestum.
    Straw-bale building technology.
    Rachel Carson.
    Freud.
    The excellence of Michel de Klerk.
    Of Alvar Aalto.
    Of Lina Bo Bardi.
    The non-pharmacological components of a good club.
    Mesa Verde National Park.
   Chichen Itza.
    Your neighbors.
    The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields.
    The remediation capacity of wetlands.
    The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges.
    How to cut a truly elegant section.
    The depths of desire.
    The heights of folly.
    Low tide.
    The Golden and other ratios.

2020/04/23

I Quit Social Media Over 6 months Ago and Haven't Looked Back

"What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance"

--- Epictetus

2020/04/01

Cant Disagree

Leaving without further comment

https://johnpweiss.com/blog/139447/surprising-advice-from-a-wealthy-man

2020/03/19

Whats Important To You?

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