Jacob Ruiz's Thoughts

Today’s Greek Lesson. Pronouns plural accusative.

Today’s Ancient Greek lesson: plural pronouns accusative (us, and you plural)

To do: - only show most recent updates in recent activity feed - add an “Omni-create” button to top of feed

Today’s Ancient Greek lesson. More exercises for accusative pronouns singular.

This video on "mini-essays" has so much that reminds me of what I'm building here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi8meiPUt84

Early sketch for OpenSelf. I like the tiles at the top. Gives overall shape without pushing recent activity below the fold.

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.

Today’s Ancient Greek lesson: More accusatives: pronoun singular (Chapter 4)

Monday morning work session. Sunny day, a bit windy. Strong espresso.

Writing topics so far for the Iliad: Bravery Fate vs free will

Nice bike ride this morning. Spring is here.

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.

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.

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.

Today’s Ancient Greek Lesson: More exercises for contract verbs.

“The human task is not to be happy. It is to become someone who can bear reality without needing illusion.”

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.

I should add day separators to the Thoughts feed. Large or xl text, semibold, secondary color. Will look sweet.

I’d like to add a GitHub-style calendar heat map here to show frequency of workouts. It needs some visual interest.

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?

I should add "Deep Work" sessions within Work. Like tracking a workout but for work sessions.

Beautiful song

Bookmarking Novel for a Notion-style WYSIWYG text editor https://novel.sh/docs/introduction

"Live beautifully" Possible slogan for Open Self? "Live beautifully in public"?

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.

I love the non sequitur quality of the Thoughts feed. It feels like looking back on the day’s thoughts under a strobe light.

Is profit an inefficiency?

Testing linking Thoughts to Books! This post should show up under The Iliad in my book collection.

Today’s Ancient Greek Lesson. Chapter 4: More contractions

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.

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)

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

I need to add drag & drop for images in the Thought composer.

More UI inspiration for the Book detail page. Nice fat header with buttons, search, and a tidy list.

Finished my Ancient Greek lesson for today. Typed up my Chapter 3 notes in Notion. Hoping to move that over to this site soon.

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?

Will this image make it? Let's find out.

Let's see if images work.

Oh shit this works.

My first thought.