He's right, but he approaches it from the boring physical materialist perspective. Wrong level of analysis.
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Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
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Re: Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
#12Reminds me of The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han. It's difficult to succinctly state the premise of the book, but in a way, I think its about structuring time and attention vertically on top of itself instead of horizontally across moments and subjects
Re: Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
#13Reminds me of The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han. It's difficult to succinctly state the premise of the book, but in a way, I think its about structuring time and attention vertically on top of itself instead of horizontally across moments and subjects
Off-topic: have you enjoyed "The Disappearance of Rituals"?
I went on a binge of Byung-Chul Han last year, reading "The Crisis of Narration", "In The Swarm", "Psychopolitics", and "The Burnout Society". Really enjoyed all of them, and given how dense it can be I set myself to read them at least twice which I'm just finishing, was on the lookout for what else to read from him and was thinking about "The Disappearance of Rituals" as the next one.
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#14Man choosing `.xyz` as a TLD in a world with corporate firewalls is such an unforced error.
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#15Man choosing `.xyz` as a TLD in a world with corporate firewalls is such an unforced error.
Pull out your phone, silly
Re: Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
#16Reminds me of The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han. It's difficult to succinctly state the premise of the book, but in a way, I think its about structuring time and attention vertically on top of itself instead of horizontally across moments and subjects
What serendipity! The latest episode of "Philosophize This!" is titled "The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han".[0] I'd never heard of him before. Apparently his book "The Burnout Society" is recommended reading.
[0]https://open.spotify.com/episode/3jdvGsEdrpEEjMBJG5oRaH?si=g...
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You may not like his content, but I can assure you that Henrik Karlsson has read more than half a wikipedia article.
Writing a dismissive comment like this goes against the HN spirit of curiosity and also comes comes across as a bit mean-spirited.
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#18... "and bloom" is a key missing part of the title. I find that 90% of the time the more you pay attention to something, the more interesting it gets.
Reminds me of the Feynman quote “everything is interesting when you go into it deep enough” (or similar to that). Which I think is related to what you’re saying. Looking more closely at something and paying more attention can both unveil what’s “beneath the surface”.
One thing that helped me have a better attitude at work and maybe life in general, was reframing how I thought about people with stupid ideas or stupid questions
Instead of dismissing them or getting super annoyed (which still does happen, not going to lie), I ask myself the question “what do they know or not know that is making them say that? Why are they thinking about it this way?”
The answers aren’t always satisfying and a lot of the time they really are just stupid/annoying questions or ideas, but approaching it with curiosity means that finding out at least satisfies that curiosity and is its own mini reward
The real benefit though is that it’s simply made me a better listener and in turn a better communicator
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#19Sounds like concentration meditation. (The Buddhists call it "samatha")
Concentration causes your perception to penetrate things. What you observe dissolves, its former appearance a mere veil, parted, to reveal another appearance. And then that veil is parted. And so on.
The process could be described as a penetrating, blooming or revealing.
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You may not like his content, but I can assure you that Henrik Karlsson has read more than half a wikipedia article. Writing a dismissive comment like this goes against the HN spirit of curiosity and also comes comes across as a bit mean-spirited.
Kind of ironic when you think about it - drawing such a strong conclusion about someone after reading what amounts to half a wikipedia article (if that) about them