Arthur Schopenhauer describes the will-to-life as the inherent driving force behind all human beings to stay alive and reproduce.

Characteristics of a cult that include opposition of critical thought, self-doubt is encouraged, leaders have supreme knowledge who are not accountable to anyone, information is tightly controlled, members are isolated from former lives, zealous commitment, ostracizing members who leave, controlling what you eat or drink, exploitation (financial, sexual), and deception as a means of control.

German philosopher and pessimist, best known for ‘The World as Will and Representation’ where he describes the will-to-life as the overriding force that compels humans and leads to suffering.

Below is a list of values and principles I keep in mind when developing Noteland:

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It’s easier to work on projects intermittently when a strongly typed programming language is used like Rust.

My initial values and principles for developing Noteland helps to narrow down some guidelines for choosing a stack for the web app:

You can use CSS vars to create responsive layouts. One technique called css-media-vars (repo) is a sort of mixin for CSS selectors that have the effect of named breakpoints analogous to a media query, but with much less boilerplate.

A philosopher from the age of enlightenment, Kant is best known for writings about morality and the categorical imperative.

Immanual Kant, in his book Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, argues for a universal imperative that we should treat people as the ends rather than the means.

The media tends to focus on the amount of lying that President Trump does–you can often find headlines that quantify it to some large number.

There are four kinds of product ideation that can be thought of along two axis, organic vs inorganic and bottom-up vs top-down.

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From Hegel’s Dialectics, an object that is what it is not.

Given a corpus of language, the frequency of a word (how many times it shows up in the corpus) is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table of words.

A mission should be boiled down to a single aspirational statement that encompasses what the team actually does that’s valuable (not necessarily what leadership says they do), metrics describe the observable effects as the team succeeds in the mission.

The internet as a system contains values such as freedom and privacy that are deeply embedded in the implementation and it’s evolution.

Combating misinformation and disinformation campaigns using humor. Taiwanese hacker and Digital Minister Audrey Tang talks about how, for example, hours after a post containing misinformation is detected, Audrey’s team will publish a joke that contains the real information in it.

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Physician that lost his surgical license (due to someone dying during an operation) who went on to perform over 4,000 lobotomies.

An animated film from Studio Ghibli about Jiro Horikoshi, the engineer that designed the famous Japanese ‘Zero’ fighter plane.

Using a standing desk improves job performance, work engagement, anxiety, and quality of life.

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In Hollywood set design, you need to optimize in a way that optimizes for the most impact on screen–money spent off screen is effectively useless to the end result, the film.