How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
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How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
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Re: How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
#2Philosophy and Technology mixed together.
Re: How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
#3good read along similar lines -
On War: Carl von Clausewitz
Re: How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
#4I can't bring myself to more than skim anything written by Tim Ferriss these days, but it's an interesting analogy in the title.
This seems to be a key quote, though:
> "[Seneca's philosophy is] really for me, the base foundation of an operating system for decision making, and I’ll explain what I mean by that. I don’t view philosophy as an idle form of intellectual masturbation. I really view good philosophy as a set of rules that allows you to make better decisions. What Stoicism helps you to develop is a value system that allows you to take calculated risks, which I think is very effective for entrepreneurs."
Title should therefore read "How to use Stoicism As A Personal Operating System," which is a much more modest notion.
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#5>Marcus Aurelius and his book Meditations, which was effectively a war campaign journal.
I don't think he understands what the book is about.
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#6I can't believe he used "Operating System" as "Decision Making Framework".
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#7If you want to know where the metaphor of philosophy as an operating system comes from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c8an2XZ3MU
(The video is called Culture Is Your Operating System, but what he's talking about is the philosophical assumptions that are completely invisible unless you find a way to step outside your culture.)
Re: How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
#8If you want to know where the metaphor of philosophy as an operating system comes from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c8an2XZ3MU (The video is called Culture Is Your Operating System, but what he's talking about is the philosophical assumptions that are completely invisible unless you find a way to step outside your culture.)
Awesome mate!
Re: How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
#9If your philosophy starts in Seneca you've got a problem: missing the real thing (Plato & Aristoteles to boot but many others as well).
Re: How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
#10>Marcus Aurelius and his book Meditations, which was effectively a war campaign journal. I don't think he understands what the book is about.
Of course he doesn't. This is Tim Ferris. He didn't spend more than 4 hours on this crap.