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# wisdom



Some bits of wisdom: much of it about technology, spirituality, and free

sustainable living -- that I've collected and wanted to keep somewhere.



Have suggested reading? Open an issue! :tada:



 - [Healing from Trauma](#healing-from-trauma)

 - [Sustainable Living](#sustainable-living)

 - [Self Growth](#self-growth)

 - [Spirituality](#spirituality)

 - [Technology](#technology)

   - [success](#success)

   - [fundamentals-oriented thinking](#fundamentals-oriented-thinking)

   - [problem solving](#problem-solving)

   - [software engineering](#software-engineering)

   - [hacking](#hacking)

   - [node & javascript](#node--javascript)

   - [the unix way](#the-unix-way)

   - [open source community](#open-source-community)

   - [power structures in society](#power-structures-in-society)

   - [technology](#technology)

   - [productivity](#productivity)



**+**: I found particularly insightful; recommended.



# Healing from Trauma



- **+** *The Body Keeps Score*: the most effective & interesting book I've ever read on trauma. This helped me so much in understanding what trauma is, the depths of how it effects us, and how to start to heal. Highly recommended if you have trauma or even suspect you might.



# Sustainable Living



- (WIP) **+** *The Bay Area Forager* by Mia Andler and [Kevin Feinstein](http://feralkevin.com/)

- [Rob Greenfield](http://robgreenfield.tv/)

- [The Moneyless Manifesto](http://www.moneylessmanifesto.org/book/foreword-by-charles-eisenstein/) by Mark Boyle

- [Moneyless World](https://zerocurrency.blogspot.com/)

- **+** *The Man Who Quit Money* by Mark Sundeen

- **+** *Voyaging on a Small Budget* by Annie Hill

- (WIP) **+** *Walden* by Henry Thoreau



# Self Growth



- [Religion for the Nonreligious](http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious.html)

- [Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think](http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming-mammoth-let-peoples-opinions-run-life.html)



# Spirituality



## "General" Spirituality



- **+** *A New Earth* by Eckhart Tolle

- **+** [Peace Pilgrim](http://www.peacepilgrim.com/steps1.htm)



## Taoism



- **+** [Tao Te Ching](http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html)



## Stoicism



- [The Enchiridion](http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html) by Epictetus

- [Eckhart Tolle on "Epictetus & Stoicsim"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7RSdiwECgc)

- *Ego is the Enemy* by Ryan Holiday

- [The Discipline of Assent](http://www.traditionalstoicism.com/2015/12/28/the-path-of-the-prokopton-the-discipline-of-assent/)



## Buddhism & Zen



- **+** *Fearless: The 7 Principles of Peace of Mind* by Brenda Shoshanna

- *Reflections of Zen*

- *Rebel Budda* by Dzogchen Ponlop

- **+** *The Issue at Hand* by Gil Fronsdal

- **+** *Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm* by Thich Nhat Hanh

- *Smile at Fear* by Chogyan Trungpa

- *Expect Nothing* by Clarice Bryan

- *Stages of Meditation* by Dalai Lama XIV

- *The Best Buddhist Writing of 2011* by Melvin McLeod (Editor), various

- *Peace is Every Step* by Thich Nhat Hanh

- **+** *Radical Acceptance* by Tara Brach

- **+** *The Authentic Life* by Ezra Bayda

- *The Zen of You and Me* by Diane Musho Hamilton

- **+** *Everyday Zen* by Charlotte Joko Beck



# Technology



## success



[Hamming, "You and Your Research"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw)

[aggregation of marginal gains](http://jamesclear.com/marginal-gains)

[repititions, not goals](http://jamesclear.com/repetitions)

[plan for failure](http://jamesclear.com/plan-failure)



> "Success is a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is

> simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day." —Jim Rohn



## fundamentals-oriented thinking



[Cutting through to what matters](https://bradfieldcs.com/knives/)

> This is not a general disdain for the new: they want to see innovation as

> much as anybody, but are skeptical of newborn frameworks, tools and technologies

> that fail to embody the timeless principles that they've found

> most valuable.



> Frameworks descend and burn up in the atmosphere like meteors. Technology

> changes fast enough that today’s problems are never tomorrow’s problems.

> Historically, our greatest technologies have been created by those who kept

> digging until they hit bedrock; who understood foundational ideas and

> technologies well enough to improve upon them.



[You Aren't Gonna Need It](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?YouArentGonnaNeedIt)



[Emtpy Your Cup](http://sachachua.com/blog/2015/02/getting-started-emacs-empty-cup/)



[Hiding Behind

Pillars](http://web.archive.org/web/20141010002101/http://gapingvoid.com/2004/07/31/pillar-management/)



## problem solving



[The "XY Problem"](http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=542341)



[Fundamental Attribution Error](http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi)



[The 15 minute

rule](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4w6tsv/ama_we_are_the_google_brain_team_wed_love_to/d6diast)



## software engineering



[How to be a

Programmer](https://web.archive.org/web/20150912025917/http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html)



[Simple Made Easy](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy)



[The Value of Values](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsiVyC1kM)



[How Software Gets

Bloated](http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/04/05/how-software-gets-bloated/)



> It's hard to get new developers interested in a software project if we force

> them to not just learn how it works, but also how it got there, because its

> process of evolution is so critical to the final shape it ended up in. [...]

> These kinds of clever tricks incur, not a technical, but a social debt that

> strictly accrues over time.



[dumb predictable tools](https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/3t5frz/forever_doesnt_run_forever_node_v4_any_updates_on/)



> it's better for your tool to be dumb and work in predictable ways than to

> implement surprising "convenience" behaviors. The presence of magic numbers

> set by default is a good indicator that some tool is too "smart" for its own

> good and will cause you grief.



[a note about git commit

messages](http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html)



[The Law of Leaky

Abstractions](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html)



[How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters](https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPfoRGcepNCWeVL5QvazR5MvyTXzVSH8UXUYbsbWbtrbg/api_design.pdf)



## hacking



["Applied Philosophy a.k.a. 'Hacking'"](http://feross.org/applied-philosophy-a-k-a-hacking/)



[How to Become a Hacker](http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html)



## node & javascript



[Pragmatic Modularity](https://mafinto.sh/blog/pragmatic-modularity.html)



[High Level JS Style](https://gist.github.com/dominictarr/2401787)



[Node Aesthetic](https://github.com/substack/blog/blob/master/node_aesthetic.markdown)



[Art of Node](https://github.com/maxogden/art-of-node)



[Stream Handbook](https://github.com/substack/stream-handbook)



[Callback Hell](http://callbackhell.com)



## the unix way



[Unix Philosophy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy)



[The Art of UNIX Programming](http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/)



[UNIX as an IDE](https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/)



[Hints for Writing UNIX Tools](http://monkey.org/~marius/unix-tools-hints.html)



[Simplicity Matters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0)



[Many

Things](https://github.com/substack/blog/blob/master/many_things.markdown); in

particular:



> When frameworks make your decisions for you, you very often won't even realize

> that a decision has been made at all so it's much harder to identify problems

> when the assumptions grounded in that technology choice no longer apply.



## open source community



[How to Capture an Open Source Project](http://hintjens.com/blog:68)



[A Taxonomy of Help Vampires](http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2012/03/17/vampires/)



## power structures in society



[Types of Anticapitalism & Real Utopias](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/erik-olin-wright-real-utopias-anticapitalism-democracy/)



['Teaching a man to fish' parable is a

lie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPcIumnhB8I)



[The Tyranny of Structurelessness](http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm)



Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered



## technology



[Holistic and Prescriptive

Technologies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_prescriptive_technologies)



[Four Arguments for the Elimination of

Television](https://www.ratical.org/ratville/AoS/4Args4ElimTV.html)



[Telekommunisten Manifesto](http://media.telekommunisten.net/manifesto.pdf)



[Notes toward a Neo-Luddite

Manifesto](http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chellis-glendinning-notes-toward-a-neo-luddite-manifesto)



[Absence of the

Sacred](https://www.ratical.org/ratville/AoS/AbsenceOfTheSacred.txt)



[The Web We Lost](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KKMnoTTHJk)



[The Internet with a Human Face](http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm)



## productivity



> no internet makes you significantly more productive than bad internet -- @feross



## meta



see also [meta-knowledge](https://github.com/RichardLitt/meta-knowledge)