Fixed. Now on the dark side View quoted note →

Anybody used Fable yet?

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Messi: 39 Mbappe: 27 Kane: 32 Vini Jr: 25 Messi has been suprising me since I was a teenager. 39 y/o is crazy and favourite for the golden boot 😫😂 View quoted note →

TIL about lookmarks @mike👀 https://lookmarks.dergigi.com/p/npub1aqakd28d95muqlg6h6nwrvqq5925n354prayckr424k49vzjds4s0c237n

"You can't stack time and attention" View quoted note →

956454 -- Turn Have To Into Get To A long To-Do list seems intimidating and burdensome--all these things we have to do in the course of a day or a week. But a Get To Do list sounds like a privilege--all the things we're excited about the opportunity to experience. This isn't just semantic playing. It is a central facet of the philosopher's world view. Today, don't try to impose your will on the world. Instead see yourself as fortunate to receive and respond to the will in the world. Stuck in traffic? A few wonderful minutes to relax and sit. Your car broke down after idling for so long? Ah, what a nice nudge to take a long walk the rest of the way. A swerving car nearly hit you as you were walking and soaked head to toe with rain? What a reminder about how precarious our existence is and how silly it is to get upset about something as trivial as being late or having trouble with your commute! Kidding aside, it might not seem like it makes a difference to see life as something you have to do versus get to do, but there is. A huge, magnificent difference. "The task of a philosopher: we should bring our will into harmony and whatever happens, so that nothing happens against our will and nothing that we wish for fails to happen." -- Epictetus, Discourses, 2.14.7 #p200tds

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@Jumble '24 hour pulse' is the best Nostr feature I've used. (Other than zaps of course.) cc: @Cody

GM ☕ 956322 -- On Duty & Circumstance Will this make me rich? Will people be impressed? How hard do I need to try? How long will this take? What's in it for me? Should I do this other thing instead? These are the questions we ask ourselves amid the day's opportunities and obligations. Marcus Aurelius had many responsibilities, as those who held executive power do. He judged cases, heard appeals, sent troops into battle, appointed administrators, approved budgets. A lot rode on his choices and actions. Should he do this or that? What about this concern or that concern? When would he get to enjoy himself? The simple reminder from today's quote below was a way to cut through the Gordian knot of incentives, complaints, fears, and competing interests. It's what we must use to decide what to do in each and every phase of life. Morality can be complicated--but the right thing is usually clear and intuitive enough to feel in our gut. Our duty is rarely easy, but it is important. It's also usually the harder choice. But we must do it. "Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands. Even dying is one of the important assignments of life and, in this as in all else, make the most of your resources to do well and duty at hand." -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.2