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> why do we say “brutally” simple and not, say, “elegantly” simple? We do say "elegantly simple". According to Google search result counts, "elegantly simple" is used about 15 times more often than "brutally simple".
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=elegantly+simp... is much more accurate.
> why do we say “brutally” simple and not, say, “elegantly” simple? We do say "elegantly simple". According to Google search result counts, "elegantly simple" is used about 15 times more often than "brutally simple".
You are right, but Google search is a terrible way to make the comparison. They are returning all websites that are vaguely related to the phase, not doing a word search. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=elegantly+simp... is much more accurate.
Very useful and beautiful, thanks for sharing! This also gave me the idea to use web tech to build the timer I always wanted, which is the reverse of this one: a bong when the timer expires, but also ticks every minute (or 5) while the timer is running. Edit: you also have a very beautiful website... and extremely nice drawings!
I suffer from extreme time blindness and one apparent solution to this is to have a regular metronome like pulse - I would love an app for say a smart watch or something that did this with vibrations!
I've discovered a helpful tool: the BlipBlip app on my Android device. This app allows for customizable settings such as selecting a ticking interval—in my case, a 15-minute reminder—and choosing from various ticking sounds, with my preference set to Casio.
Notably, it also enables the configuration of periods without ticking, particularly useful for nights or weekends.
The are plenty of other options but these are the ones I care about the most.
Very useful and beautiful, thanks for sharing! This also gave me the idea to use web tech to build the timer I always wanted, which is the reverse of this one: a bong when the timer expires, but also ticks every minute (or 5) while the timer is running. Edit: you also have a very beautiful website... and extremely nice drawings!
Hehe, I'm also working on a "metronome for my attention": https://untested.sonnet.io/Things+to+support+my+own+well-bei... hit me up via hello @ or my newsletter on untested.sonnet.io and I'll message you when I have it.
Looking for something
else, but you got this haiku.
Now, was it brutal?Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know about you but I have way too many ideas. Some are good, most of them are terrible, and some of them are downright evil. It often takes a quiet mind to see which is which and not talk myself into indulging bad ideas.
For me it's not even that I have bad ideas that I find problematic about my thinking (though I do of course), sometimes they just hurt. Kinda like how you might walk around and stub your toe and now you're like, ouch, this is frustrating, and an unreasonably intense pain for such a minor and commonplace injury. In the same way, sometimes I'm minding my business and a painful thought pops into my head and it's like, n…
Oh, man, that's a good one. Thank you for this insightful nugget to start my morning.
> why do we say “brutally” simple and not, say, “elegantly” simple? We do say "elegantly simple". According to Google search result counts, "elegantly simple" is used about 15 times more often than "brutally simple".
Is this some sort of challenge on how far you can make it into the article before throwing up? I have not read something this pretentious and self absorbed, yet painfully lacking in self-awareness in a long long time. It is beyond me how this fart huffing pseudo spiritualism becomes intertwined with engineering culture. I mean, I respect the hustle, turning lifestyle advice and a general sense of being better than yo…
Not that anyone asked: I've long given up on meditation timers. I go to a room without any digital technology except for a Casio F91W. I have gotten good at gauging how long I've been concentrating for and if I have aversion to continued sitting I just peek at the watch to know how long it's been. This is a solved problem that costs $0 and I don't have to worry about receiving personalised ads because I'm into 'mindf…
Good-quality incense burns pretty consistently -- when I sit, I sit the time it takes one stick to burn down. There's even incense-burners that will ring a little bell when the stick burns down, but I just stay aware of it.