Zeitgeist

@samsiss
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51 Following
68 Posts
PhilosophyMiddle-path, Humanism, Empirical
PoliticsLibertarian
MusicHindustani/Sufi
IrreligionAtheism
JAYSUS, what a story. Itching to turn it into a novel. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/world/asia/the-jungle-prince-of-delhi.html

Not having money makes one overestimate what it can resolve.

Having sufficient money makes one underestimate what it can resolve.

Having lot of money makes one unable to estimate anything.šŸ˜…

#musings

Patience is not about how long you can wait, but how well you behave while you’re waiting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=lEzqQNh70KY

Jodi prithibita shopner desh hoy
Tobe kemon hoto tumi boloto

if the earth becomes a place of dreams
how would that be, my dear?

Ei Poth Jodi Na Sesh Hoye (Bangla Song)

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It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.ā€
#stevejobs #biography
ā€œOur consciousness was raised by Zen, and also by LSD.ā€ Even later in life he would credit psychedelic drugs for making him more enlightened.
ā€œTaking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it.
#stevejobs #biography

New India, where?

must we be dragged to
where we don't want to be?

must the subsidy to scholarship
be matched with largesse of the lathi?

must students pay through blood
for they don't have your currency?

#jnuprotest

https://youtu.be/dOzyXJcEXOQ

"iis nagari ke kuchh logo ne
dard ka naam dawa rakkha hai"

Jagjit Singh - Is Nagari Mein

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Windows to stories:

The evening dark
presents through my window,
distant lighted windows.
Can I turn them
into a keyboard
of windows,
and play a-story-a-key?

#musings #empathy

Fifty years later the fence(his father built) still surrounds the back and side yards of the house in Mountain View.
As Jobs showed it off to me, he caressed the stockade panels and recalled a lesson that his father implanted deeply in him.
It was important, his father said, to craft the backs of cabinets and fences properly, even though they were hidden.
ā€œHe loved doing things right. He even cared about the look of the parts you couldn’t see.ā€

#stevejobs biography by WalterIsaacson