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Counter-productivity

How true:

Although we might all like to imagine that we can work happily through the night, once again the data’s all against us. Lose just one night’s sleep and your cognitive capacity is roughly the same as being over the alcohol limit. Yet we regularly hail as heroes the executives who take the red eye, jump into a rental car, and zoom down the highway to the next meeting. Would we, I wonder, be so impressed if they arrived drunk?

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Sticky mind… has to go!

I realized finally after all these years the simple truth of the mind stickiness. My mind sticks and clings to everything – projects, transactions with people, relations, objects, ideas etc. It is horrible. It is also described over a zillion times in psychological and popular literature. It is equally well known in practically all teachings of the world. But, all of that is to no avail. I had to really feel it and see it to realize the truth of the situation. It does not help to know it in theory until you feel it in your bones, so to say. Now I suddenly did.

Our mind has a part to it that makes me chew on the gristle of the past life and spend time and energy on non-consequential thinking. This part makes me go back time and again and review, relive the situations and other things. My life mostly consists of exactly that. No. It consisted of mostly that. Now that I know, I am determined to stop this insane nonsense.

Here is my new quest. I have to stop this part of my conscience from wasting my time an energy on useless chewing of the past. My guess is that as a consequence I will also stop clinging to other things, material or not.… -->

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Assembly points au pair

I have a thought about those positions of the assembly point that pertain to the “norm” of the society. The common thinking is that there is one. I think it is not. I think there is a set of positions close to each other that form a sort of an “area” accepted and reinforced by the society.

When I meet someone and start an interaction, that person tries to reinforce his position of the assembly point in me, so that perhaps we have a better understanding. That is, I think, a natural mechanism. That is, natural to this particular organization of this particular society. Anyway, I can also reinforce my position of the assembly point and force it onto the other. Some positions are more easily forced than others.

What happens when two people live together is that they have to agree on a common position of the assembly point. Otherwise they would have to oscillate all the time between their own and that of the partner. Or keep their own and forget about deep bonds. Unproductive. So, they have a choice of agreeing on following either of the partner’s position or picking a totally new position for both. If they are lucky they both will feel comfortable with this common position and then they accept it and reinforce it. The position becomes solidified and it is much easier to keep it when there are two of you. Or more, counting the kids.

Any person with half a brain should come to this selection of the position of the assembly point as to the single most important decision in his life. This is the decision that will govern his life from that moment on. The position of the assembly point is the state of your consciousness, the state of your mind, and that results in the tasks, targets, restrictions that you set for yourself. With one swipe of the pen you sign a contract with yourself and your partner that will govern the rest of your life. This decision has to be taken very seriously and certainly with some critical analysis and meditation. And the partner must follow.… -->

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Randomly life…

Возникает четкое ощущение, что эксперимент по созданию личности не удался. Ну не получается развернуть в жизнь то, что мне, видимо, хотелось. По этому поводу самое лушее, что приходит в голову, – это уже просто уничтожить данное воплощение и попробовать всё с самого начала ещё раз. Это было бы, наверное, проще всего. Но это не наш путь. Ведь собственно результат здесь не важен, да и результата как такогого никакого нет. Важен как раз опыт разворачивания, воплощения сознания в этом странном мире. А посему надо как раз продолжать упорствовать в продолжении эксперимента до конца, пытаться всё-таки выровнять своё воплощение, свою личность, невзирая ни на какие препоны. Видимо, главное – это всё-таки выделить и удержать вниманием цель. А то вокруг столько помех…… -->

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Ubuntu on X201i

Finally, I got the Ubuntu graphics properly work on my Lenovo X201i. It took quite a while and the problem was the graphics card. It would give me blank screen at start-up during the installation, so I gave the kernel the “i915.modeset=0” option according to the advice found after some searching high and low. It worked.

The problem is that it doe snot really quite work… First, the graphics mode is weird, it does not use the accelerator, it seems, so you can’t have the bells and whistles of the interface. That I could live with. The other problem was more serious, the screen would not come back from blank when going to the sleep mode (close the lid).

That second problem was sort of fixed with the option “SAVE_VIDEO_PCI_STATE=true” given to the ACPI (/etc/default/acpi-support). Unfortunately, this never worked reliably and sometimes the computer would freeze on suspend or on resume. Finally, that got me fed up.… -->

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World inertia and Christmas

I noticed a very interesting thing lately… the world has inertia. It really does what you want of it but … it takes time and effort. The mind is much lighter, no, much more vivid, or, simply, faster. Although, in some ways, mind can be mind-bogglingly slow :) Anyway, I suppose I always knew it somehow but now I am acutely aware of this simple fact: the world is slow and inert.

We are now celebrating Christmas for all except the Orthodox, so my wish to you all happy Christmas-in-December-celebrating-people: let your world be a bit less inert, a little more agile and willing to follow your dreams. Let it take you a bit less effort to shape your future.

Merry Christmas, everyone!… -->

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