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I made a house of houselessness,
A garden of your going:
And seven trees of seven wounds
You gave me, all unknowing:
I made a feast of golden grief
That you so lordly left me,
I made a bed of all the smiles
Whereof your lip bereft me:
I made a sun of your delay,
Your daily loss, his setting:
I made a wall of all your words
And a lock of your forgetting.

— Rose O’Neill

via Colleen Doran: https://colleendoran.tumblr.com/post/726289653606514688

#Poetry #mjbPoetry

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#poetry, #mjbpoetry

How many mystery writers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Two! One to change the bulb, and the other to give it an unexpected twist at the end!

@dianeduane shares more here:
https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/726256976764567552

#Writing #WordPlay

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#writing, #wordplay

I came to understand that long before I read it.
— James Stockdale

#Stoicism #mjbQuotes #CourageUnderFire #JamesStockdale #Reading

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#stoicism, #mjbQuotes, #CourageUnderFire, #JamesStockdale, #reading

Nine sources of advantage:

Raw talent/intelligence - Some people are just naturally better and smarter.
Hard work - Some people work harder.
Differentiation - Seeing the world differently. Doing something different. Reading different books. Interpreting the same information differently.
Process / Discipline - Creating a process and following it. Working out every day is a great example.
Talent Collector - The ability to hire the best people and get the most out of them.
Patience - A lack of patience changes the outcome.
Ability to take pain - Are you willing to look like an idiot to get better? How much risk are you willing to take, AND, importantly, can you handle the losses?
Temperament - Keeping your head when everyone else is losing theirs.
Luck

Most of these are within your control.

— Shane Parrish
https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-20-2023/

#MentalModels #ShaneParrish #FarnamStreet

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#mentalmodels, #ShaneParrish, #FarnamStreet

#TIL: Emphasise any text you select, in #OrgMode using the keyboard

Use Ctrl-c Ctrl-x Ctrl-f and it’ll let you choose your markup.

From #irreal’s latest #Emacs blog post
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11572

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#til, #orgmode, #Irreal, #emacs

Tried configuring a network connected printer on two #Linux machines this past week. One unnamed and the other @linuxmint.

The unnamed machine took nearly a day to configure, with looking up packages and ports and HCL lists and driver packages and what not.

#LinuxMint on the other hand went, “Hello there, you have a printer on the network! Want to print to it? Also that thing’s got a scanner too, want to be able to use it? Done and done!”

Took all of 5 seconds.

Thank you @linuxmint

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#linux, #linuxmint