Eclectic Reason and Rhetoric.

Summary of Ray Dalio's 'Changing world order'

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8&ab_channel=PrinciplesbyRayDalio I like making summaries, and notes. I figured I can publish some of them. So here's one on a cool macroeconomics video from Ray Dalio: What happened in the past, can happen in the future. Especially

Meaning excerpt

Expedient experiences come about by following blind impulse. Meaning follows from its more mature counterpart; intention. Meaning emerges when impulses are regulated, organized, and unified. From the interplay of the possibilities of the world, and the value structure operating within that world. Taken from the book 12 Rules for Life:

Motivation and productivity

Consistency is for the ego

Consistency for consistency's sake is for the ego. It's simple. Consistency for progress' sake is for added value. It's hard.

systematic mastery

Launched! The Systematic Mastery Podcast

Everyone can attain mastery. That is the premise of the systematic mastery project. How do we believe this can be done? By using a systematic approach. The goal is to find the tools, practices, and principles that - when applied systematically - allow anyone to attain mastery in life. Why

Thinking tool

Relationship^2

We often find ourselves doomed or graced by our relationship with the world. This is a mental model to help manage relationships with the world.

DevOps

Digest - Stoicism and building software without a real computer

Stoic philosophy, values, engineering without a laptop.

Motivation and productivity

Happiness ensues values

The Cambridge dictionary describes 'values' as: the principles that help you decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations. Seems pretty important.

Thinking tool

Commitment grounding

Thinking about a potential commitment in terms of its outcome, with your own core values as the end and your energy and time as the means.

Thinking tool

Rubber duck debugging

As if you’re explaining the problem to a child (or better yet, an actual rubber duck), go through a situation step by step.

Information digests

Information digest: Relationships, ethics, anxiety (of generation Y)

Here’s a small summary of things I consumed recently that were pretty interesting. I listed the cool stuff cause, well, it’s cool, obviously.

Ideas Featured

Happiness and trivial suffering

If we relate suffering to the effects it has on us, we can clearly see that our response to suffering helps us find meaning in life.

Thinking

Reflection on gratitude

You’re your own tool and life partner. Improving your life and that of others greatly depends on how you develop yourself and the relationship with yourself, and allows you to reach common goals of growing in power, strength and handling and maintaining power well.

Thinking

Ugh, so what IS meaning?

We experience truth, a truth that corresponds to our values and accentuates our own manifestation in this world. Self actualization.

blockchain Featured

Blockchain's role in the global distribution of power

Innovations that enable efficient distribution of information or wealth can change the world. Think of the internet and our banking system. I believe the internet enables a constant, gradual change in power structures through stimulating distribution of information.

Thinking tool

Habitual recalibration

Remove habits or change behavior by changing the availability of something (fully, or form of) in your life, making room for new things to fill that time or ensuring you create new habits.

Thinking tool

Self-subjecting (visualization)

Thinking about a concept that can be experienced, while you think of yourself experiencing it.

Stories

Polertiek nominated for Dutch Interactive Awards

Polertiek, an app built by Elastique and BNNVARA and using the API of Kieskompas that we've built, has been nominated for the Dutch Interactive Awards! Polertiek Polertiek was an initiative by #BOOS, a YouTube channel where Dutch presenter and extremely funny Tim Hofman joyfully helps people with their

How to

How to: Autoscaling Gitlab Continuous Integration runners GCP 🤓

Test runner servers can consume quite some resources, which is rather expensive. But even more problematic is a filled up queue of pipelines that block releases..

Security

DDoS Kieskompas 2017 (Dutch)

Hoe gerichte DDoS aanvallen op Kieskompas de verkiezingen een onverwachte wending gaven

Programming

Optimize Django for Performance

Django is good stuff. I'm very convinced of that. However, there are always tradeoffs for awesomeness :) In Django, and in my opinion, this is performance. But a part of Django's awesomeness is its community, and boy did it take care of this problem the right way!

DevOps

Good quote on security

AviD's Rule of Usability: Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security. Taken from: Security StackExchange Very accurate and a good KISS message in there as well :-) Not only in interfaces but also in security, our limitations of us humans have to be

Kieskompas

Het Kieskompas TK2017 - wat een werk!

DDoS aanvallen Lees hier meer over de DDoS aanvallen op het Kieskompas. Het Kieskompas Zaterdag 11 februari is het Kieskompas voor de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen live gegaan. Kieskompas is een wetenschappelijk verantwoorde stemhulp die - sinds 2006 - miljoenen Nederlandse kiezers heeft geholpen bij het maken van een afgewogen keuze. Naast

Leadership and organizations

Service, Tech and Startups

I'm the founder and managing director of the technical startup, Luminum Solutions, and a co-founder/co-developer/partner of two others: Freundlich and Capture Camera. Here, my day-to-day responsibilities include building cool solutions as backends and platforms, scaling large systems, operations, strategy, decision-making, and communication. I'm also