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#Productivity

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Orchun Kolcu

There is a Windows app called ToDoList from AbstractSpoon software that I've been using for a while now. I use a single, combined list of everything and the usual web based suspects are too simple for my needs or have other warts.

This one is fully local, free, under active development, feature-rich yet has a simple UI (once you retrain your instincts to double click on everything). Highly recommended.

abstractspoon.com

#productivity
Wessel Vermeulen

📢 #Internship opportunity at the #OECD Trento Centre - Spatial Productivity lab

Start date: September-October 2025
Length: at least 3 months

Apply if you have advanced quantitative skills, like to code in #R #rstats and/or #Stata and are interested to do quantitative work for policy focused projects and research on #regional #productivity, and regional economic transformations. #economy

🚨 Deadline for applications is 20 July 2025

More details: linkedin.com/posts/wessel-verm

www.linkedin.com📢 Internship opportunity at the #OECD Trento Centre - Spatial Productivity lab | Wessel Vermeulen📢 Internship opportunity at the #OECD Trento Centre - Spatial Productivity lab Start date: September-October 2025 Length: at least 3 months Apply if you have advanced quantitative skills, like to code in #R and/or #Stata and are interested to do quantitative work for policy focused projects and research on #regional #productivity, and regional economic transformations. Most of our previous interns were doing a PhD in (applied) economics, but we're open for people with similar skills doing their Master or in an a different field, e.g. data science, sociology, or public policy. The internship comes with a monetary support for living expenses, independent of whether the work takes places full-time or part-time at our Trento Centre. See the attached document for details, eligibility requirements and application process. 🚨 Deadline for applications is 20 July 2025 cc. Carlo Menon, Zuzana Zavarska, Alessandra Proto, Katerina Ciampi Stancova, PhD, Cem Özgüzel, Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp, Lars Ludolph, Alexander Lembcke,
Aneesh Sathe

The Plato Plateau

This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone: 

The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.

Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.
  1. Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.  
  2. Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
  3. Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
  4. Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
  5. When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
  6. Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral. 
  7. GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
  8. When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
  9. Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
  10. Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual. 
  11. Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
  12. Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
    1. Survival – laws and tactics oriented
    2. Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette 
    3. Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
    4. Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness 
    5. Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
  13. Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises. 
  14. Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
  15. Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.
#action#anxiety#Business
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nightdream

Wanted: navigation accountability tool.

How it works: when i start a new task on laptop or cell phone, i tell it what i'm trying to achieve and i let it know when i get to my destination. if too much time elapses, it checks in with me to remind me of what i'm trying to do so i don't get sidetracked by *the show*.

Reasonably private and secure / non-tracking, obv.

Girl can dream.

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