4-10 hours for me. If I’m working in good fun code and pop 1 Ritalin and 12 hours fly by of which 10 were very productive but usually most days aren’t that engaging and some can be a slog. That’s why task organization is really the hero in productivity.
Yes but Rome was huge to apply one scenario to all the empire is kinda silly.
Passacaglia by Bear McCreary from Battlestar Galactica is the first thing that pops to my head.
https://youtu.be/Y9CqU1aMqyg
The rest of the BSG soundtrack is incredible in this regard as well.
World of Warcraft has some of the best instrumental music out there in general though im not sure if it counts as instrumental as choir is often used. This recent orchestra rendition of Wrath of the Litch King expansion is incredible: https://youtu.be/DoRkjNKOe20
Nope, the separator structures just didn’t survive so we don’t know how “communal bathrooms” looked they could have had wooden walls around them but you know wood doesn’t last very long.
Key skill is to be able to communicate your problem and requirements which turns out to be really hard.
Nah both Gnome and KDE are incredible and I say that as someone whos been using Linux since early 00s
You’re not far off - it was put together by dudes who just wanted to socialize and talk philosophy and metaphysic on a porch which is called Stoa thus literally Stoics.
CBT is actually heavily inspired by Stoicism and the author openly credits Stoicism and especially Epictetus :)
Ngl that’s a really unsatisfying position imo. There are and have been people who had nothing but suffered in their entire existence with zero meaning like slave babies born with extreme deformities. This thought exercise completely dispels any idea of a present god in my point of view.
That’s a common misunderstanding and Stoicism is not about detachment. The quote you’re referring is mostly a thought exercise to illustrate that dwelling on past is unproductive even in extreme circumstances.
Though contemporary Stoicism acknowledges importance of ritual and grief but it still has to be within reasonable context of dichotomy of control as in you can’t change the outcome no matter how hard you grief and you’re just losing finite minutes of your life but you can spend this time to fairly honor the event and memories.
Temperance is a key virtue here and its heavily inspired by Aristotel’s Golden Mean which says that extremes are really inefficient and should be avoided at all times.
As for strong feelings - Stoicism has nothing against them either. Justice is one of the virtues and its really impossible to get to a just conclusion without strong feelings like sympathy. Though, just like Buddhism, Stoics practice mindfulness and have to choose to go to strong feelings not obey. This is again due to dichotomy of control where thoughts and feelings just appear and we can’t do anything here to stop that but we can choose how we react once we process them!
Stoicism is a very powerful framework cause it doesn’t really tell you what to do exactly just gives you a logical framework based on human nature. It doesn’t mean you becoming a robot - quite the opposite - you should become more human not being hijacked by unfair processes.
If the true meaning of life is to move to the tallest mountain and isolated yourself from everyone and everything then I don’t really want to know it thanks gramps
You might be underselling entertainment to yourself here. Experiencing creation and your own interpretation of these creations is pretty fucking magical when you think about it.
Yeah “grand purpose” is almost exclusively for losers. Why is my current purpose not good enough? It reeks of snake oil upsell
Not to bully your belief here but how would you justify this with the fact that God allows many really bad people to live? Just curious of understanding this mindset and I hope this doesn’t offend you.
Ive been lucky to have discovered Stoicism early in life and that what has been driving me for decades now!
To put it shortly Stoicism focuses on self growth with things like identifying natural human virtues (need for knowledge, justice, temperance, courage) and focusing life around improving those. This is expressed through a princicle called dichotomy of control which says that there are things that are out of our control like death that we shouldn’t focus on and things that are like natural virtues that are something we can do to improve upon.
It also deconstructed and included all of the cool contemporary ideas like mindfulness and being cosmopolitan two millenia ago so its a really great suite of natural philosophies that survived the test of time.
Stoicism is also low key Idealist as in your natural perception of your own virtues and state is the only real thing that matters which is what makes this ideology so much more freeing. You don’t judge yourself against some mystical ideal but to your own perception of purpose and growth.
It’s an easy, frictionless and a highly rewarding way to live :)
Yeah but OP clearly implies that rapidly changing world is a bad thing when it doesn’t seem to be in most measurable metrics.
Sure the same way I yearn for Middle Earth then.
If you take at least half of a reasonable utilitarian position then 70s don’t stand a chance no matter how you look at it. Everything is literally better now except nostalgic bullshit like “housing was cheaper if I was white american” and “I couldn’t doomscroll” sort of nonsense. Absolute drivel.
Vscode always breaks something so I do it as rarely as possible. Still can’t remember a single new update or feature adding anything for me other than github copilot.
Very cool idea!
Tho I think people from 70s would very much still choose 2025 living over 70s. People really underestimate how much better we have now.
Especially if you take a look at the whole world outside of US bubble. You think people in Asia and Africa yearn for 70s? You think people in Easrten Europe has any fondness of Soviet occupation? Future shock is shockingly great in their eyes.
I think the more apt issue here is simply the fact that US empire is falling as this shock does not replicate everywhere so clearly it’s not universal. Most places benefited greatly from information flow and imo it’s a very clear net gain.
Disagree, ain’t nobody got time for that potatoe tumble