One) Successful men realize that the most important decision in their life is the woman they choose, because outside of work, this is what they'll be spending most time on. The woman must understand the man's grand ambition, and support them with it. (Cf. Flow & The Intellectual Life as well). Women should be chosen on personality, not looks. Looks fade (attraction as well), personality "stays".

Two) Everyone deserves an opinion but not everyone deserves a say. Charlie Munger sums this up right: "I don't ever allow myself to have [express] an opinion about anything that I don't know the opponent side's argument better than they do." Or Marcus Aurelius, who says: "The opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." In short: Only state your opinion when you can back it up!; knowledge and experience. The same goes for judging opinion (and advice) from others.

Three) Successful people buy assets when the money is enough. Assets > Luxury. (See also: Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki). Only buy glamor and other "interests" once your assets are there to secure your financial success.

Four) Be pragmatic. Do what's practical, not what is "sexy". Notice inefficiencies and solve them. The entrepreneurial mindset.

Five) The morning sets the tone for the rest of the days. Time is subjective, waking up early doesn't matter as much as waking up later. It depends on the person. Someone who wakes up at 10am can be as successful as someone who wakes up at 6am. Instead, what defines success, is a highly effective morning routine.

Six) The less you talk, the more you listen. Talking less means less mistakes. In addition, the less you talk, the more people will listen when you do speak. It puts extra weight on your message. Listening means analysis and learning.

Seven) Pick the right opportunity at the right time. Pick the right vehicle. Do the right things in the right order! The advice "don't do what someone says, do what they do" is bullshit, as you can't do what someone is able to do after ten years of experience.

Eight) Discipline > Motivation. Motivation, like Dr. Sung says, fluctuates and is multifactorial dependent... When you are lead by motivation you will not be as productive. Don't rely on chance. Rely on what is stable.

Nine) Once a good career has been made, buy A1 assets and hold on to them to secure a financially successful future.

Ten) Just because you won, you are not a winner. Being a winner is a continuous process, it means always learning and reflecting as well as introspecting. Don't overvalue individual wins but do celebrate them when appropriate.

Eleven) Build good relationships with the banks early on. At times you need loans to fund certain ventures, when having a good relation with them, this will be significantly easier. Understand finance as early as possible. Read finance books.

Twelve) Keep the circle small. Acquintances can be many, but real close relationships should be kept small. Choose your friends wisely. "You become the average of the five people you spend most time with." Privacy is important. Only tell the most deep secrets to the Inner Circle, to avoid overcomplication.

Thirteen) Assume that everything is your fault. Responsibility. It leads to learning. It requires reflection and introspection. It leads to Dr. Benjamin Hardy's statement: "Nothing happens to you, everything happens for you."

Fourteen) Work like new money, but act like your old money. Combine the hunger of the new with the wisdom of the old.

Fifteen) Assume that you can't change the world, but slightly influence it. It prevents disappointments and gives a right mindset. Do everything (that has your ambition) with an insane drive. Aim to hit the stars. To become the best of the best.

Sixteen) Private victories lead to public victories. The solid maxim is the following: "The bigger the public victory, the more private victories went into it." Work in private. Social media doesn't need to known the struggle. Let your results talk for you. This is also why you should never compare yourself to others, but rather to your own past self.

Seventeen) After extreme experience, the most complicated task will look elegant and effortless. Unconscious competence.

Die Energiewende in Frankreich stockt. Präsident Macron ist ein Gegner weiterer Umweltrichtlinien in Europa. Gleichzeitig kündigt die französische Regierung Maßnahmen zur CO2 Reduzierung bis 2030 an, für deren Verwirklichung bei Fortsetzung der bisherigen Politik keine realistischen Chancen bestehen.

https://taz.de/Politik-fuer-Atom--und-Agrarlobby/!5934677/

https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/building-prototype-open-knowledge-network-proto

https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/

https://ogm.agor.ai/users

In Paris haben ca 100 AktivistInnen die Eingänge vor der Generalversammlung von total energies blockiert unter anderem um gegen das Pipeline Projekt in Ostafrika zu protestieren. Die Polizei ist mit Tränengas gegen die Aktion vorgegangen.

https://www.liberation.fr/economie/devant-la-salle-pleyel-une-chaine-humaine-ecolo-et-des-echauffourees-avant-lassemblee-generale-de-total-20230526_H63PCXPVHVBKHMG4IPZWAJV2U4/

https://mem.ai/

I've had this on a list for ages, but never put into my digital notes...

https://aboard.com/

In beta May 2023, via:

All right. @Aboard is in Beta. @richziade and I are to blame, and everyone else deserves true credit. Here's an animated GIF that explains the entire product. Check out https://t.co/i9RXiJLvyA, sign up, and we're waving in tons of folks every day. pic.twitter.com/7WS1OPgsHV

— Paul Ford (@ftrain) May 17, 2023

https://nostr.com/

Peter Kominski likes this generally.

https://spatialwebfoundation.org/

https://spatialwebfoundation.org/protocols/contracts/

https://docs.dxos.org/guide/platform/

https://docs.dxos.org/

https://wiki.earthmoonstars.space/

Discussed at Friends of the Lin 2023-05-10

Inspired by the Mondragon Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

and Lionsberg https://lionsberg.wiki/

https://revolutionpopuli.com/

Flancian thought this was interesting.

Thoughts on Vulcan (Philosophy and Commentary) by Harlan (developer)

Mentioned by Jerry Michalski

https://linkingmanifesto.org/

Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking

Some interesting early signers here... Brett Terpstra, Frode Alexander Hegland, Mark Bernstein (Tinderbox)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sj/AwesomeKnowledge

https://app.thebrain.com/brains/3d80058c-14d8-5361-0b61-a061f89baf87/thoughts/a738644a-787e-49e1-999a-8925cac1b7e0/notes

Friends of the Link calls in Jitsi in Jerry's Brain

Friends of the Link playlist: <br /> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCzxFRR8zIM&list=PLreQNsM8LqWCR67m7pgdF2ApHzOo_m9SC

On "real life" friendship as it is affected/complemented by relations such as 'friend' in social media.

https://tomfinley.co/friends/

https://dainty-sable-264aa3.netlify.app/project/project_plan

17 betty roGerS, wiLL roGerS 294 (1941; new ed. 1979) (quoting Rogers).

https://dainty-sable-264aa3.netlify.app/project/measuring_thinking_tools.html

Openness should be broken out into smaller subsections to highlight the importance of supporting standards as a primary item by itself. Many of these axes are easier, low-hanging fruit that developers will iterate on anyway. Focusing on the harder and more subtle features like standards is a better way to go for the audience that can really use this now.

Many of these axes are better for a commercial market.

https://cosma.graphlab.fr/<br /> https://cosma.graphlab.fr/en/

When did this come out?

Appears to be a visualization tool for knowledge work. They recommend it for use with Zettlr, but it looks like it would work with other text based tools. Point it at markdown files to create graphs apparently.

This looks like the sort of standards based tool that would allow greater flexibility when using various data stores that we talk about in Friends of the Link.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Arthur Perret </span> in And you, what are you doing? (<time class='dt-published'>08/31/2022 02:40:03</time>)</cite></small>

@flancian

https://mycorrhiza.wiki/

This shows how lovely the Harvilles and The Musgroves are, I can see them being friends for the rest of their lives. Good kind people

This line was treated poorly in the new adaptation (Persuasion 2022 Netflix) veering between calling them exes and friends. The point of this line is that they cannot be friends, they are keeping a distance from each other

Zur Erdgas-Politik der EU während des Ukraine-Kriegs.

Grafiken zur Gasabhängigkeit der EU-Staaten: https://www.liberation.fr/resizer/QGhpv0OIC5vR1zE4hxI9Hyz_Zh0=/768x0/filters:format(png):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/liberation/RPG7ARMREJAVBPNE5L4RHHR7IM.png

https://www.liberation.fr/resizer/0560nLLZ3DGQ_RrixGg7c5g4C6U=/768x0/filters:format(png):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/liberation/6Z274UBYJNFZLJ24FGREWQOJC4.png

Stellungnahme der IAE

Studie des Internationalen Währungsfonds

Expertise Bruegel-Institut, Tagliapietra

Erwähnte Gasquellen:

• Vereinigte Arabische Emirate (Qatar will laut Bloomberg 20 Jahre Vertragsdauer)
• Saudiarabien
• Israel und Ägypten
• Aserbaidschan
• USA (Deutschland hat bereits einen Vertrag uber Lieferungen 2026-46 geschlossen)
• Afrika

There's something about this name and its original purpose as a society that makes me wonder if this wouldn't have been an excellent throwback name for the "Friends of the Link"?

https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/bestand/zettelkasten/zettel/ZK_2_SW1_001_V

One may notice that Niklas Luhmann's index within his zettelkasten is fantastically sparce. By this we might look at the index entry for "system" which links to only one card. For someone who spent a large portion of his life researching systems theory, this may seem fantastically bizarre.

However, it's not as as odd as one may think given the structure of his particular zettelkasten. The single reference gives an initial foothold into his slip box where shuffling through cards beyond that idea will reveal a number of cards closely related to the topic which subsequently follow it. Regular use and work with the system would have allowed Luhmann better memory with respect to its contents and the searching through threads of thought would have potentially sparked new ideas and threads. Thus he didn't need to spend the time and effort to highly index each individual card, he just needed a starting place and could follow the links from there. This tends to minimize the indexing work he needed to do regularly, but simultaneously makes it harder for the modern person who may wish to read or consult those notes.

Some of the difference here is the idea of top-down versus bottom-up construction. While thousands of his cards may have been tagged as "systems" or "systems theory", over time and with increased scale they would have become nearly useless as a construct. Instead, one may consider increasing levels of sub-topics, but these too may be generally useless with respect to (manual) search, so the better option is to only look at the smallest level of link (and/or their titles) which is only likely to link to 3-4 other locations outside of the card just before it. This greater specificity scales better over time on the part of the individual user who is broadly familiar with the system.

Alternatively, for those in shared digital spaces who may maintain public facing (potentially shared) notes (zettelkasten), such sparse indices may not be as functional for the readers of such notes. New readers entering such material generally without context, will feel lost or befuddled that they may need to read hundreds of cards to find and explore the sorts of ideas they're actively looking for. In these cases, more extensive indices, digital search, and improved user interfaces may be required to help new readers find their way into the corpus of another's notes.

Another related idea to that of digital, public, shared notes, is shared taxonomies. What sorts of word or words would one want to search for broadly to find the appropriate places? Certainly widely used systems like the Dewey Decimal System or the Universal Decimal Classification may be helpful for broadly crosslinking across systems, but this will take an additional level of work on the individual publishers.

Is or isn't it worthwhile to do this in practice? Is this make-work? Perhaps not in analog spaces, but what about the affordances in digital spaces which are generally more easily searched as a corpus.

As an experiment, attempt to explore Luhmann's Zettelkasten via an entryway into the index. Compare and contrast this with Andy Matuschak's notes which have some clever cross linking UI at the bottoms of the notes, but which are missing simple search functionality and have no tagging/indexing at all. Similarly look at W. Ross Ashby's system (both analog and digitized) and explore the different affordances of these two which are separately designed structures---the analog by Ashby himself, but the digital one by an institution after his death.

https://context.center/

https://briansunter.com/graph/#/page/logseq-social

Brian Sunter (twitter) using Logseq as a social network platform.

What simple standards exist here? Could this more broadly and potentially be used to connect personal wikis, digital gardens, zettelkasten, etc?

Note that in this thread Dave Winer asks about how it can be tied into other standardized pieces to interconnect?

How can I hook my outlines into your net if I’m not running Logseq?

— dave.rss (@davewiner) June 13, 2022

Adler is analogizing friendship to books here.

Interesting observation. Connects to the earlier comment about vulnerability and trust but I'm really interested in how reflections change when they are addressed to someone.

Time in US - Fitting in - making friends - primary education

Murat Baldwin, M., Fawns-Ritchie, C., Altschul, D., Campbell, A., Porteous, D., & Murray, A. L. (2021, April 25). Brief Report: Predictors of Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yra6v

Vaccine FOMO Is Real. Here’s How to Deal With It. (n.d.). Wired. Retrieved 29 March 2021, from https://www.wired.com/story/vaccine-fomo-how-to-wait-tips/

Although it may seem a bit surreal, the fact that all of Isabel's friends seem that shallow and selfish, I think that this is ment to be an overexageration of what is actually going on in the minds of many of our surroundings. That is, those reactions wouldn't nessesarily be apparent not one bit, in the real word, but many people would react exactly this way internally towards the misshappening of other people. To me it seems that Mansfield is trying to give emphasis on the disturbingly strong shallowness of today's relationships, a fact that while is very strong, it is not at all that obvious.

Mayer, Y., Etgar, S., Shiffman, N., & Lurie, I. (2020). The Fear of COVID-19 Familial Infection Scale: Initial Psychometric Examination [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/edwta

Yi, C., Aihong, W., Keqin, D., Haibo, W., Jianmei, W., Hongbo, S., Sijia,W., & Guozhang, X. (2020) The epidemiological characteristics of infection in close contacts of COVID-19 in Ningbo city. Chinese Journal of Epidemiology. Vol. 41 Issue (0):0-0. http://dx.doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20200304-00251

Dr Muge Cevik on Twitter

YourMobileWorld.Com is a free chat room website where you can have live chat with single women and men, you can discuss with random strangers from all over the world, any time you can start a private conversation to meet girls and boys living nearby in your area. Free online chat rooms

How does anyone watch Fox & Friends? Someone please tell me!

Because she can only befriend fellow Christians?

I want to practice tagging... let's see.

Shakespeare employs this very short scene to build up tension in the play for the assassination of Caesar. The scene focuses on a letter written by Artemidorus, who is one of Caesar’s true supporters. This letter warns of an assassination that is being plotted against Caesar, and lists all of the conspirators involved.

There is a sense of irony in the manner in which the letter in written. Artemidorus writes with an incessant urgency in his letter, stating to “Beware of Brutus, take heed of Cassius, Come not near Casca, …” and on and on. Its irony lies in the fact that Artemidorus, a man capable of great prose, is reduced to simple words in his desperation and fear of Caesar’s life.

This letter, and how Artemidorus views Caesar, give an indication to us of the greatness of Caesar. In the letter, he states that “There is but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar”. This claim contradicts with the impressions the audience would have had of Brutus, with his supposed struggles in going ahead with the assassination.

As Constantin Stanislavski said, “There are no small parts, only small actors”. This is especially true with Artemidorus. Although he does not appear otherwise in the play, this short scene and his letter demonstrates the greatness of Caesar, and the love and admiration that many have of him. It also acts to clarify the friends and foes of Caesar, as well as discrediting their supposed struggles in going ahead with the assassination.

Incidentally, this straightforward approach is taken by Phoebe towards Chandler in the episode 5x14 titled "The One Where Everyone Finds Out" of the TV show Friends:

I'm really looking forward to you and me having sexual intercourse.

As pointed out by James Miller in his video introducing the concept common knowledge, this episode contains a nice informal demonstration of the concept.

reason we have friends; common interests, dislikes, problems, etc.