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From Dear JavaScript, by Jamie Kyle

…ard thing to do either. I focused on the problems I had, and tried to figure out their root causes. Generally, I favor documentation as the thing that needs improving because anything else can be presumptuous. I focused on what would have the most positive impact on every user’s experience. Trying to communicate it in a direct way that isn’t just an expression of anger.

From When Roman “Barbarians” Met the Asian Enlightenment by Ben Thomas

That’s certainly what most of us (in the West, anyway) are taught in school. Back in my school days, I was taught a fair amount about Rome, a tiny bit about China, even less about Persia, and nothing at all about the Kushans, or the Axumites, or any of the other powerful empires that controlled large chunks of the globe — and often helped shape the cultures and fortunes of European nations.

From The Story of Enlightenment: The Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation by Bill Ulammandakh

…ing to, and when starved of outside external stimuli, things that are inside of us start coming up: past memories and experiences, pleasant and unpleasant; desires, wishes, regrets and ambitions, mental complexes, and deep-seated repressions.

With a well-connected System 1 and 2, one also consciously experiences how, along with these re…

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On Kōans and Turing Machines

Ron Gross