├── Learning └── README.md ├── README.md ├── beliefs.md ├── books.md └── movies.md /Learning/README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Learning 2 | ======== 3 | 4 | This is a project where I will capture knowledge from the content I consume, whether that's in the form of books, lectures, presentations, or whatever. 5 | 6 | ## Problem and Purpose 7 | 8 | The goal is to master the problem of long-term benefit from knowledge, i.e. it really sucks to spend time consuming information only to not be able to recall what you got from it weeks, months, or years later. 9 | 10 | ## Approach 11 | 12 | Entries will come in the form of single files per source, in Markdown format. Major concept captures will be single hashes, subconcepts will be double hashes, etc. 13 | 14 | The naming convention will be book_lord_of_the_flies.md, and preso_some_ted_talk.md, etc. 15 | 16 | ## Best of Luck 17 | 18 | Hopefully this will inspire us to capture what we learn in an organized, sustained way. 19 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Self 2 | ==== 3 | 4 | This repository will serve as a tracking system for everything about myself that I want to keep current, such as my beliefs, my passions, my must-haves, my must-dos, my favorite movies, books, quotes, aphorisms, etc. 5 | 6 | Basically, if it's a list of any sort, related to me in the long term, 7 | I'm going to track it here. Doing so through git offers a couple 8 | of interesting advantages: 9 | 10 | 1. You get to track your changes over time through git history 11 | 2. It's an ideal way to both share and fork your lists 12 | 13 | I hope the concept is exciting to you as it is to me, and feel free to 14 | reach out to me at http://danielmiessler.com/connect if you'd like to 15 | chat about it. 16 | 17 | Best, 18 | 19 | Daniel 20 | 21 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /beliefs.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Beliefs 2 | ==== 3 | 4 | This file will track my beliefs over time. 5 | 6 | ## Reality 7 | 8 | - Human existence is subordinate to the laws of physics, and thus we cannot have free will as defined as "the ability to have done otherwise" 9 | - Because we have no free will, true moral responsibility does not exist 10 | - We, being human, cannot build societies based on the fact that free will (and thus personal responsibility) does not truly exist, and thus we must must knowingly embrace the illusion of free will in order to enjoy our lives to the fullest and construct a civilization worth living in 11 | - While this is contradictory it is essential, as we can neither 1) pretend we actually have free will (because believing untruths is dangerous over time), nor 2) live our daily lives as if we are mere configurations of matter and energy 12 | 13 | ## Morality 14 | 15 | - On top of this reality framework, we can construct a moral framework 16 | - This framework is based on the work of Bertrand Russell and Sam Harris, and states that our goal as humans and as a civilization should be to reduce suffering and increase happiness for conscious creatures by leveraging reason and compassion 17 | - This should be pursued through the embrace of science to harvest data on what changes should be implemented in the world to best bring about the reduction of suffering and an increase in happiness 18 | - This moral framework allows one to evaluate common moral or political questions with a quasi-objective system, which yields consistent results that are likely to be embraced by the most possible people (given a requisite amount of education and respect for science) 19 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /books.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Books 2 | ===== 3 | 4 | This file will track my books over time. 5 | 6 | ## To Read 7 | 8 | ### Classics 9 | 10 | * Manufacturing Consent 11 | * Camus, the Plague 12 | * Walden 13 | * Zorba the Greek 14 | * ORWELL 15 | * HITCHENS 16 | * RUSSELL 17 | * Oxymoronica 18 | * I never metaphor I didn't like 19 | * Crime and punishment 20 | * WALLACE 21 | * NEIL STEPHENSON 22 | * Cat's Cradle 23 | * Slaughterhouse 5 24 | * ROBERT GIBSON 25 | * Florence and the Machine 26 | * Necromancer 27 | * WILLIAM GIBSON 28 | * PETTER WATTS: Blindsight 29 | * Neil Gamon 30 | 31 | ### Science Fiction 32 | 33 | 34 | ### Fantasy 35 | 36 | 37 | ### Non-fiction 38 | 39 | 40 | ## Favorites 41 | 42 | * Ender's Game 43 | 44 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /movies.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Movies 2 | ====== 3 | 4 | I've always been a very casual moviegoer. I've never been much into it. But now, as I'm turning 40 I feel like I'm starting to enjoy film much more. Or perhaps art in general. 5 | 6 | My latest idea has been to parse the last 10 years of the top contender films in the main film festivals, and watch those movies. Some great movies hit the mainstream, but most do not. So I will go where I know I can find them. Once I do that collection project I'll add them to the "to see" category below. 7 | 8 | ## Movies to See 9 | 10 | * Pushing Daisies 11 | * Donny Darko 12 | * Momento 13 | * Iron Giant 14 | * Nobody Knows 15 | * Inc 16 | * Primer 17 | * Brick 18 | * 12 Angry Men 19 | * Russell Peters 20 | * Anchor Man 21 | 22 | # Favorite Movies 23 | 24 | * Pulp Fiction 25 | * Snatch 26 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------