Smart, educated people tend to avoid junk food. They tend to be thinner and have better diets because they’re simply more aware of the downsides of eating crap, including the negative effect it has on productivity. It should be the same for junk information. This includes not just television shows and entertainment news, but more stealthy forms of…
Archives for July 2012
Planned vs. Random Leisure
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the habits of productive people. When I say productive I mean successful–as in setting out to accomplish something and then doing it. I’ll put up Paul Graham and Sam Harris as examples. They produce. They spend very little time on random enjoyment. They plan their fun, and that fun comes in…
On the Vim Path
I just uninstalled TextMate. I also just revamped my git workflow, and am going full-on Vim everywhere. That’s MacVim, Janus, using git within Vim, posting to WordPress from Vim, using Vimium in Chrome… Everything. I’m going to consume a massive number of tutorials, screencasts, lessons-learned blog posts, a few core books, and use those to update my /study/vim/…
Does Modern Philosophy Fetishize The Classical Thinkers?
It seems to me that every time I come across real philosophers they have an extremely pompous view of non-academic, amateur, or overly modern or political thinkers. In short, they relate everything to the greats: Kant, Plato, Aristotle, Hume, etc., and they seem to dismiss modern thought that’s more practical if it doesn’t seem sufficiently reverent of these…
Flirting With Android Again: Galaxy S III
I am demoing a Samsung Galaxy S III. It’s the new flagship Android device, and I like a lot about it. The screen is stunning and call quality actually seems better on it. It’s also on AT&T’s 4G network, which I’ve honestly noticed when using a speed test app, actually (unless the call quality has something to do…