Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490)
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490)
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#2That reads more like a bucket list than a todo list.
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#3> You can just feel Da Vinci’s voracious curiosity and intellectual restlessness. Note how many of the entries are about getting an expert to teach him something
Nowadays that seems less common, with the incredibly amount of information available and readily accessible. However, I think learning from someone, even from just a short conversation, is highly valuable.
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#5That reads more like a bucket list than a todo list.
Wonder how our lives would be if we did more to work on our bucket lists than our todo lists.
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#6> You can just feel Da Vinci’s voracious curiosity and intellectual restlessness. Note how many of the entries are about getting an expert to teach him something Nowadays that seems less common, with the incredibly amount of information available and readily accessible. However, I think learning from someone, even from just a short conversation, is highly valuable.
Yeah I never understood why people aren't more curious. I'm always looking for articles about how things are made, the history of given locations, and whatever just seems interesting. I never see anyone else with a marginally equivalent level of curiosity especially for my age (mid-30s). Seems like people get swallowed whole by their social lives and careers.
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#7It reminds of Gov Schwarzenegger recently saying he doesn't exist in a vacuum, and that mentors are key.
A large part of these are not "do X"; they are in "get Y person to show me how they do X".
We can be thankful of the Messer Fazio, Brera Friar, Giannino, Benedetto Potinari, Maestro Antonio, Mastro Giannetto, Maestro Giovanni and Vitolone who gave us Leonardo.
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#8>[Talk to] Giannino, the Bombardier, re. the means by which the tower of Ferrara is walled without loopholes (no one really knows what Da Vinci meant by this)
I thought "loopholes" generally referred to a narrow upright window with wide angles in the interior but little room at the outside. It's designed so that you can shoot arrows out of it with a wide degree of freedom, but hard to get an arrow into.
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#9> You can just feel Da Vinci’s voracious curiosity and intellectual restlessness. Note how many of the entries are about getting an expert to teach him something Nowadays that seems less common, with the incredibly amount of information available and readily accessible. However, I think learning from someone, even from just a short conversation, is highly valuable.
Yeah I never understood why people aren't more curious. I'm always looking for articles about how things are made, the history of given locations, and whatever just seems interesting. I never see anyone else with a marginally equivalent level of curiosity especially for my age (mid-30s). Seems like people get swallowed whole by their social lives and careers.
I completely agree — for me it was always the attraction of of hypertext, of the internet. Every term, concept or media, explorable. Practically infinitely-so.
What went wrong?
(well, aside from the internet becoming largely one-way and unmodifiable by the masses.. but there's no real solution for 'that' (whatever that is) yet).
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#10It reminds of Gov Schwarzenegger recently saying he doesn't exist in a vacuum, and that mentors are key. A large part of these are not "do X"; they are in "get Y person to show me how they do X". We can be thankful of the Messer Fazio, Brera Friar, Giannino, Benedetto Potinari, Maestro Antonio, Mastro Giannetto, Maestro Giovanni and Vitolone who gave us Leonardo.
JFYI, there is a typo in the linked to text, Benedetto Portinari, it's the same Florentine family of Beatrice Portinari, he was the nephew of the more famous Tommaso Portinari:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Portinari
The "graphical rendition" on the original site has it correct:
http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/11/18/142467882/le...
BTW - still to be picky - the linked article is 2014, whilst the original article by NPR's Robert Krulwich is 2011.
The whole Leonardo's Notebooks are available here (in a different edition/translation by Jean Paul Richter):
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Leonardo_Da_...
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Leonardo_Da_...