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Jacob Ruiz
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3 hours ago
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Today’s Greek Lesson. Pronouns plural accusative.
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4 hours ago
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Yesterday
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Today’s Ancient Greek lesson: plural pronouns accusative (us, and you plural)
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Yesterday
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To do: - only show most recent updates in recent activity feed - add an “Omni-create” button to top of feed
Tue Oct 21
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Today’s Ancient Greek lesson. More exercises for accusative pronouns singular.
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Tue Oct 21
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This video on "mini-essays" has so much that reminds me of what I'm building here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi8meiPUt84
Tue Oct 21
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Legs
Tue Oct 21
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Early sketch for OpenSelf. I like the tiles at the top. Gives overall shape without pushing recent activity below the fold.
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Mon Oct 20
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One reason I built this site: I want to write more as I read. I feel like I’m a passive observer just spectating other thinkers. I want to interact with the books I read through writing. Current split is about 99% reading, 1% writing. Target is 80/20, eventually maybe 50/50.
Mon Oct 20
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Today’s Ancient Greek lesson: More accusatives: pronoun singular (Chapter 4)
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Sun Oct 19
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Monday morning work session. Sunny day, a bit windy. Strong espresso.
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Sat Oct 18
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Writing topics so far for the Iliad: Bravery Fate vs free will
Sat Oct 18
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Nice bike ride this morning. Spring is here.
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Sat Oct 18
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Write as if no one is reading - what I love about having no likes or comments or followers here. It’s public, but I have no idea if what I’m writing is being read. That changes how I write. There’s no stage fright. No expectations from the audience to stay in a particular character.
Sat Oct 18
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I could write a love letter to these stubby little divider lines. Do they have a name? They can do so much. A colorful accent. An anchor for the eye - I swear it invites you to look at it directly and read both title and subtitle simultaneously. It helps competing text coexist in a space that would either look too cluttered or too boring. Just a line.
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Fri Oct 17
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Watched Autumn Sonata last night. Great movie. My takeaway: as with life generally, nobody makes it out of childhood unscathed. The only path out is forgiveness.
Fri Oct 17
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Today’s Ancient Greek Lesson: More exercises for contract verbs.
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Fri Oct 17
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“The human task is not to be happy. It is to become someone who can bear reality without needing illusion.”
Thu Oct 16
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It’s funny how random memories float to the surface during meditation. Today: I went on a tour of Hollywood as a kid, and the tour guide told us they used Corn Flakes as fake snow.
Thu Oct 16
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I should add day separators to the Thoughts feed. Large or xl text, semibold, secondary color. Will look sweet.
Thu Oct 16
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I’d like to add a GitHub-style calendar heat map here to show frequency of workouts. It needs some visual interest.
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Thu Oct 16
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Home view should show an AI generated summary of my day. “Today Jacob went to the gym, thought about the paradox of capitalism, and brainstormed feature ideas”. How do you feel about your day when it’s read back to you?
Oct 16
Jacob Ruiz added a book
The Odyssey
by Homer
Oct 16
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The Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
Oct 16
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I should add "Deep Work" sessions within Work. Like tracking a workout but for work sessions.
Oct 16
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Beautiful song
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Oct 16
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Bookmarking Novel for a Notion-style WYSIWYG text editor https://novel.sh/docs/introduction
Oct 16
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"Live beautifully" Possible slogan for Open Self? "Live beautifully in public"?
Oct 16
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The medium is the message - this project is an operating system for the soul. The shape of the software, over time, will shape the person who uses it. This is as much a philosophy project as it is a software project. This is my Nicomachean Ethics.
Oct 16
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I love the non sequitur quality of the Thoughts feed. It feels like looking back on the day’s thoughts under a strobe light.
Oct 16
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Is profit an inefficiency?
Oct 16
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Testing linking Thoughts to Books! This post should show up under The Iliad in my book collection.
Oct 16
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Learn Ancient Greek
by Peter Jones
Oct 16
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Today’s Ancient Greek Lesson. Chapter 4: More contractions
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Oct 15
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The paradox of capitalism - it gives power-hungry people a game to play that is defanged compared to politics. A game bound by markets rather than armies. But as the players gain power, society grows fearful and turns to the state to contain them. But the extent to which the state contains them is the extent to which they see a new path to power. The ambitious spirits no longer seek the boardroom. They seek the throne.
Oct 15
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The Gay Science
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Oct 15
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The Oresteia
by Aeschylus
Oct 15
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The Iliad
by Homer
Oct 15
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The ability to link Thoughts together would be helpful too: - Replying - Paste a link to "quote" it (Let's see if these line breaks hold)
Oct 15
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Also need to add links. Would love to be able to share songs. Let's see how this looks: https://music.apple.com/us/album/symphony-no-5-in-e-minor-op-64-iii-valse-allegro-moderato/1830501402?i=1830501988
Oct 15
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I need to add drag & drop for images in the Thought composer.
Oct 15
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More UI inspiration for the Book detail page. Nice fat header with buttons, search, and a tidy list.
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Oct 15
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Finished my Ancient Greek lesson for today. Typed up my Chapter 3 notes in Notion. Hoping to move that over to this site soon.
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Oct 15
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The book detail page should look like this. Book image at the top with title and description. Then below is a list of "notes" files, maybe with nesting to allow for flexible book notes. For example The Iliad > Summary > Book 1 or The Iliad > Writing > What does Homer say about free will?
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Oct 14
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Will this image make it? Let's find out.
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Oct 14
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Let's see if images work.
Oct 14
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Oh shit this works.
Oct 14
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My first thought.