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Yes, go learn how to play a scale on your instrument. Major scale to be exact. So I've been struggling to understand how the artists of the songs I like write instrument parts/riffs like that. Then I learned one riff of this one song I love a while ago, still don't understand how it's made. Fast forward to a couple days ago, I've learned and practiced how to play major scales on guitar (just learn…
Boredom is true motivation # Vietnamese has this old saying of "boredom breads problems", or "ranh roi sinh nong noi", but I don't think that's true anymore in this mordern world. In today's world, we are more busy than ever. I even think that we don't ever get bored anymore. It's the norm in the recent years to just take in more information. Every. Second. Of. The. Day. We start our day by…
Beyond The Trivial # We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment no matter what. - George Santayana, “The Philosophy of Travel” I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential…
Don't hold back your smile. When you see, hear, or think of something that makes you feel happy, allow yourself to smile it out. Your smilling face will then makes you feel even happier, and might remind people around you of their own happiness aswell. Too much of our happiness are kept down because it's not "appropriate" to smile or giggle in certain spots. I say when we notice that we're feeling…
It hits different when you're being so happy in your young age, then realising that all these will eventually become just memories, that you cannot go back and relive all these days again.
Distractions are the enemy # A computer's primary purpose is to ease the creation, storage, and transmission of information. Any other functionalities are distractions from this core purpose. Applications like video games, media playback, and social networking have emerged as distractions that divert attention away from a computer’s intended purpose. I do believe that there is a place for…
You are the only one who knows how each of your body part works. Your body parts sometimes work alone, sometimes they work with other body parts. Eyes, mouth, and hands behave without my brain most of the time. I think this mechanism exist to save brain's energy. Eyes, hands and mouth behave habitually when not controlled mindfully with the brain. Through your environment and circumstances, your…
Life doesn't have any definite meaning. A meaning is what you create for yourself. Your reasons to live is completely yours, and no one can have it exactly like yours, because no one had experienced the same things as you did. But there is one thing that is applicable to most people, that is the joy one can extract from focusing on the present. Being on the present means that you can feel what's…
Having ideas developed in your mind but not having the ability to transfer that idea out for other people is painful. This is a problem that I have always have, but hasn't taken the time to really sit down and think of a solution for it. Although thoughout the decades of speaking and writing, I just did it with my instinc and not really distill a way of conveying ideas out of my head. This makes…
If your name has ever become famous, it is not you that has became famous. It is the thoughts and the ideas that went through and out of you that has gotten famous. It is these thoughts that has resonated with and elevated people's view of the world, and found the way into their memory as well. Position yourself to receive these ideas. These ideas come out of nowhere, and at random times, through…
You give yourself meaning to the subject that you're wondering about vs Watch online content telling you how to think about that subject. For the majority of my life, the values that I adopted for myself were taught to me by the outside world. My parents taught me how to behave, what's right and wrong. Then when the age came, school started teaching me those things as well. That was my only way to…
How to know what to do with life: Life have no meaning, that is the base for everything in life, and the one thing you need to remember in every decision in life. Because life has no meaning, you can do whatever the fuck you please, no guilt. If doing charity, that is, giving your time, intelligence, talent, or money to others provides you a large amount of pleasure to your life, do it, but know…
Either all in or nothing. Either full abstence or full indulgence. There is no such thing as moderation, because the thing you're trying to "balance" or "moderate" is the things that you've already know you're not supposed to do. They are things that are against your value. By doing only just a little of the things against your values is the same as treating your values lightly. This is…
Objective # This document is to separate digital tech usage, with the aim to pursue digital minimalism. What is digital minimalism? # I love the minimalist lifestyle, and I'm currently living it. The lifestyle make sense, we only need to posses the things that we actually use, duh. We probably won't use the things in our storage that hasn't seen any daylight for a long time. That's minimalism,…
One things seems so right when you really squeeze out every inch of rationality to explain it. But such thing is also true when you try and ration about the opposite ideas. This is especially the case when we discuss about the meaning of life. "What should we do with our lives" have always been the debate since the dawn of the human intellect. The debate doesn't have an ending, because all of the…
I would say go to uni or travel the world with your laptop and try and build little startups, by learning free code camp or whatever. And meet a lot of people, talk to a lot different people. Be open. And it's normal to feel nervous. It's normal to be socially awkward. It's normal to be scared of everything. But have a lot of different experiences. And I'm still trying to do that. But man, it gets…
This sums up the advantages of limiting your spendings: Cash means controlling your own destiny. This is as important in your personal finances as it is in business. With enough cash, you can decide for yourself what you want to do and when you want to do it. I call it buying my time, but in reality, you are buying your freedom to choose. For both people and businesses, it is about getting to the…
What's stopping us from living like Pieter Levels when he was reseting his life ? I was already living minimalist but it still took me about 4 months to exit my life in Amsterdam, getting rid of my apartment, the interior and all the rest of my stuff and prepare my escape from Europe. I had 2 boxes of memories and nostalgia at my parents. I broke down my super fast workstation PC and sold the…
Tutorials flood # Today's advanced technologies are very generous to us, and we are living in perhaps the most comfortable period in our history. I am aware that there are still many places in the world that are not as easy as others, but for most of the world, we are doing decent when compared to the people in our past. People are having longer life expectancy, food is becoming more available…
Don't ever blame anything for not able to find work to do. There are always work to be done, alot of work to be done. We believe that since human wants and needs are infinite, economic demand is infinite, and job growth can continue forever. -- Marc Andreessen
Should be calling themselves "Entrepreneurons".
Day by day, when I turn the Internet off , sound is the first thing that vanishes in an instant, and I don't become at peace with that event easily. Flickering instruments from music, people's voices and ideas from podcasts or videos, altogether stop scouring into my head in just a split of a second. Calmness rushes through, shoulders drop. Consumed with the shock from the sudden silence, I stood…
I have been cutting off the internet from my home. This is a conscious decision, not for financial reasons - because I'm a student, and my student apartment comes with free internet access. I did this because I noticed that I could not get anything done when I had the Net at home. Even when I didn't have any actual work to do, I still did nothing besides turning my brain off completely by surfing…
Why asking this question in the first place? # The question came up when I think about the things I want to do with my time. I have already established, at least up to this point, that I want to use my time to create things that people will use. Furthermore, I have decided that I will use my interests as the fuel for my work. Right now the the things I’m interested in creating the most are things…