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Tech minimalists and hipsters. The website itself is shockingly heavy, though, with hi res images resized down to thumbnails. Yuck.

Okay, Heraclitus might be a stretch, I'll give you that. But I do recommend giving the Tao Te Ching a read with Whitehead in mind. :)

Except maybe Heraclitus and Lao Tzu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi

Well, the new-age has swallowed quantum woo whole. It is a kind of religion or attempt at modern myth making, I suppose. More respectably, a number of eminent physicists have fallen hard for philosophical Hinduism and or certain strands of Buddhism. Bohr, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, and Bohm among them.

"I imagine that if this article makes its way onto Hacker News, I will be criticized."

God I love maps, real or otherwise. In fact, I recently re bought The Lord of the Rings for the cartography!

My favorite by a country mile, though, is the Japanese scroll map detailing (and I do mean detailing) the road to Kyoto:

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2022/07/the-road-to-kyoto/

Totally true. I'm just in it for the lulz.

Seriously, though, https://bearblog.dev is like blog.txt without the line wrapping problem.

I mean, it's called a rake, right?

At times, the destruction was also quite utilitarian. For example, if you destroyed a piece of agricultural equipment, and it took three months to get another one up from London, you and your chums had work for the season. That's an entirely rational course of action (though not necessarily the most effective or moral one).

Oh, that's good. "Facts: 1. Ninjas are mammals."

One of my favourites so far.

https://ashidakim.com/

The art of ninja as expounded upon by a master ninja. I mean, my brain says it's a joke, but it's so extensive and has books for sale.

The site is filled with gems, like this piece of advice on tailoring your training: "If I were in the Ring ... I'd have to regulate my diet and do a lot of running for stamina. When I'm a bouncer, I practice drinking and smoking."

Sound.

Maybe my typo in the header? Regardless, it's fun to see people still plugging away at their little journals.

No! And it's too late to edit! Oh, well, at least it opened the door to a bad pun or two.

Gif Cities?

https://gifcities.org/?q=notepad

Sure. The point was more about the many small frictions that may or may not exist in any given friendship, with a lack of messaging capacity being no more egregious than any other.

Demanding all your friends switch or kill their messaging apps is quite another matter, and an eccentric one at that.

Probably true. Still, perceptions change over time. Not too long ago vegetarianism (never mind veganism!) was widely seen as an irrational fringe position.

Similarly, I live sans messaging for the simple reason that I never upgraded to a smartphone. In the 2000s this solicited reactions of amazed befuddlement and surprise, occasionally mirth. Nowadays, in my experience, most people intuitively understand the decision.

In my view, and as someone who's never used instant messaging, it should be a small accommodation to make for a friendship. In the same way that I would be happy to provide a vegetarian option at a dinner.

Yeah, if memory serves, the reviewer in this case was 'housing' editor at Whole Earth. At the time he was into geodesic domes and Buckminster Fuller, a worldview and technology he would shortly disavow.

The reviewer's blog is worth a look if you're up for a bit of architectural hippydom. [1]

As for Gen X. Well, My Morning Jack apparently did an album inspired by the Whole Earth Catalog. [2]

[1] https://www.lloydkahn.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Distortion

Review by Lloyd Kahn of Shelter Publications.

Mediocrity aside, I generally prefer pre Y2K games to their contemporary brethren. Maybe I'm in a tiny minority, though.

True. Regards media peeps, if AI can do your job, you need to try harder.

I thought process philosophy's emphasis on dynamic interactions and transcendent organization might be of interest to HN. Like you, I suspect it could make for an fruitful exercise or two.

Regarding James, Heidegger, Dewey: I don't think it's so much the willing or teleology as an inclination to emphasize process and becoming over being and permanence. That and a penchant for fusing subject and object.

Nietzsche is maybe a stretch, I agree. The author of the piece is a fan. Perhaps that goes some way towards explaining his inclusion?

>... it's just a complementary way of presenting the question "what is the meaning of life?"

Yes and no. The framing implies the answer and is fully in keeping with Camus's brand of admirably droll epicureanism.

Try to imagine a parallel in your own personal sphere. If a friend or loved one came to you and declared their intention to think of a reason not to kill themselves, would you see it as sign of philosophical depth?

Camus has his virtues. I would not, however, look to him for philosophical guidance.

“There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide,” is hardly a statement indicative of a sound disposition.