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I am doing something that is similar. But in my case, I maintain the position for 10 seconds. When bending backwards, I try to maintain my head in the same 'vertical position' (if …

I remember the documentary 'The Century of the Self' where Adam Curtis talked about the origins of personal development and self-help.

One issue that can develop over time is cervicogenic headache. This issue strains your muscles that span over your head. This origins from bad posture, typically from a screen-base…

A commonly held opinion among the reactions to the social media censorship, is the following "Facebook and Twitter are private companies, they do want they want." An interesting qu…

I got another perspective. I was/am someone who is labelled as an underperformer by my boss. I work at a electronics production firm, where I did some programming work. During feed…

The author of Existential Comics offers some advice: https://existentialcomics.com/blog/1/How_to_study_philosophy... I like courses or philosophical works, which focus on a common …

I am sorry. I meant Autism Spectrum Disorder. ASS is the acronym in my native language, I mixed it up.

I was a month ago diagnosed with bipolar type 2, together with ASS. I experience sleep problems. Some feelings in this article are familiar. To me, it was the feeling of being excl…

I wonder how prize winners feel about such huge sums of money. Especially that very succesful people who win such prizes tend to win multiple prizes.

Some days ago I saw a video that suggested that subjective time seems to be slower when we are younger because our neurons are firing more actively. As we grow older, they tend to …

I'm also learning some algebraic geometry at the moment: Some resources I have used are: * video lectures by Richard Borcherds * Lecture notes by Andreas Gathmann ( https://www.mat…

I'm not an expert and I don't do value judgments, but I think he's talking about something called 'smart contracts'. Haskell would make it easier to verify smart contracts. I thoug…

The Mont-Pelerin society was established in 1947 by Hayek to promote more liberty with the world elites. There are pictures of him on the first conference with Mises. I'm genuinely…

I can confirm. Reading Lucifer was one of the highlights in high school of my Dutch class.

My analogue design engineer colleague still uses this approach. One rationale I have heard him say is that he prefers to do things with transistors instead of logic ICs because of …

I've been following the developments of these ventilators pretty closely, particularly of these using a ventilator for multiple patients. The hard part is not the ventilation mecha…

This is another article seems to be written by someone who has deep knowledge about this topic. https://emcrit.org/pulmcrit/split-ventilators/ Continuous mandatory ventilation (CMV…

That last sentence is exactly what I like about Duolingo. 716 day streak here. Without Duolingo, I would not have commited to at least some minutes spending with a foreign language…

I'm curious what those toxic attitudes are. Surely the "we already invented it and you're reinventing it" can't be the only case. I'm also curious if it's in an academia or in indu…

I am interested in knowing which philosophers and which texts you found most helpful.

I use bitbucket repositories for every topic I'm interested in. There I keep track of the all the writing that I do, in markdown-files.