An homage to doing: http://kbrecordzz.com/2026/04/an-homage-to-doing/
Doing is what stops all the problems and gives you all the solutions. It's also the only thing you can ever spend your time on during your life, so choose your actions wisely. Choosing them wisely often means just doing something random to see what happens, and after enough times of doing that you'll be wise.
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Want to study efficiently? #1. Studying isn't about getting a good grade, it's about learning. #2. Studying efficiently isn't about studying as much as possible, it's about learning in a way where everything sticks to existing knowledge, and taking one subject at a time to not be overwhelmed (because learning and then forgetting has no meaning). Learn less things, so you have energy to keep the spirit up every day.
Neocities is such a nice place. But I feel like I have an obligation to be less here and more at annoying sites where annoying people are (Reddit? Hacker News?), to weigh up the balance at those places. We can't just complain at the misinformation and bad vibes on those sites, we also have to do our part to fix it.
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juntogawa
3 weeks ago
Sites like Reddit are where disoriented people ask for help, but the answers they get are from other disoriented people, because they are the only ones who want to be there at all. That's where we who know something should be to give better answers to the disoriented people (without getting caught up in the culture and becoming as disoriented as the rest over there).
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I don't want plans, goals, ambitions, visions, etc. I want to wait for opportunities and ideas that feel right and just hop onto them. I want to be better at filtering out the right moments from the wrong ones, so I can more easily find the right ones. If these moments were trains, then in this metaphor I'd want to live near the trainstation (preferable a connection point where many trains meet, like in Hamburg)
juntogawa
3 weeks ago
To maybe explain the metaphor better: Normally people would like to get a faster train, or a better train. Or rush to the train to get on it. Or buy tickets in advance so you don't miss your schedule. But I just want to live near the train station and catch a train when the opportunity strikes.
To be able to do anything easily: Find what you intrinsically enjoy or naturally care about. What comes naturally to you, what do you automatically do between the musts and shoulds and chores? What will you do regardless of money, fame and acceptance? Practice and become even less attached to the results. Then, don't think too much before taking the first step (you know nothing yet), just take it and learn from it.
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juntogawa
3 weeks ago
With the right intrinsic motivation, the next steps will come naturally and you'll eventually gain enough experience to be able to make realistic plans, judge your own work objectively, filter out your wrong preconceived notions and common societal myths (because you know the truth from practical experience), and gain skills in your domain, so that you can improve and get further.
juntogawa
3 weeks ago
Not doing it for results (money, fame, acceptance, success, whatever), also makes it easy to remove ego. Without ego you'll see people's criticism of you, as well as your own self-criticism, for what it is and not let the emotions arising from them control you and make you give up or cater to anyone.
juntogawa
3 weeks ago
The thing is, I can write this how much I want, but information won't change you. Change comes from your own emotions. Maybe that's why you should do the right thing and hope people feel inspired instead of telling people to do the right thing.
I wanted great results, and the best method to reach that was to focus on the process over the results. And by doing that the results are slowly slowly fading away in importance, until they in the end don't mean anything at all... In the end I'll be working on my game in my apartment and you'll never see it. It started with goals and ambitions but ends with none at all.
It's incredible how much easier it is to find the common problems in the world, than it is to come up with the solutions. Then, putting in the action is even harder. And getting others to do it, is almost impossible.
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When reading a book, absorb the information in it like it's 100% true. After you've finished the book, start criticizing it.
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this is really well articulated, i love how you talked about doing things naturally...i think i feel the same way. some things i dont need to "make an effort", i just do bc it feels natural. love your writeup