Being

and wellbeing..

a big long mess so far. to sort, merge from and shift to bits of communication, organisation, social and health

Philosophy

• http://plato.stanford.edu/ - what i used way back when
• http://iep.utm.edu/
• http://sqapo.com/chronology.htm

• http://www.mindmeister.com/23290325/western-philosophy

• http://i.imgur.com/Qlnqt.jpg

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism#Act_and_rule_utilitarianism

• http://theycallmeswift.com/2013/06/11/principle-philosophy-for-developers-entrepreneurs-and-artists/

• http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/ - podcast

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Philosophical_movements

Philosophy of mind

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroethics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_representation

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_physicalism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionary_materialism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism

Scientific

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_revolution
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcognitivism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_psychology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_psychology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_neuroscience

• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cognitive_Psychology_and_Cognitive_Neuroscience

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_neuroscience
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_biology

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computationalism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_thinking

• http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/neurosynaptic-chips.shtml

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_model
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_architecture

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_coding

• http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23487-psychiatry-divided-as-mental-health-bible-denounced.html

• http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0071275 - refuting left/right brain with mri

• http://edge.org/conversation/normal-well-tempered-mind [1]

Habit

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_sciences

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habit_(psychology)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habituation

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_style
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addictive_personality

• http://lesswrong.com/lw/fc3/checklist_of_rationality_habits/

• Willpower Isn't Enough
• Your Goals Are Holding You Back - on habbit creation
• How to hack the beliefs that are holding you back
• Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it.
• You’re nothing more than a mass of habits
• Unfuck Your Habitat - Terrifying motivation for lazy people with messy homes. Habitat habit.
• http://jstorimer.com/2012/11/30/naivety.html
• http://www.addictionandsubtraction.com/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPQhj6ktYSo

• http://hackthesystem.com/minimalist-guide/

• http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat
• http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-design/201108/glucose-is-not-willpower-fuel

• http://bookofhook.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity-pitfalls.html
• How to Beat Procrastination - 05 Feb 2011
• The Art of Being Still
• http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/mind-management-intro/

old habits die hard

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory

Reasoning

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
• http://wikimindmap.com/viewmap.php?wiki=en.wikipedia.org&topic=Outline+of+critical+theory&Submit=Search
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadne's_thread_(logic)

• Wikipedia:Conceptual framework

• https://bookofbadarguments.com/

• http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/
• http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/13/arguments-from-my-opponent-believes-something/

• http://www.skepdic.com/

• http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html [2]

• http://culturalpolitics.net/

"Do not follow in the footsteps of sages. Seek what they sought."

joining dots, theory and praxis

there is old wisdom enough to contradict most other old wisdom

• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html "All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. Abstractions fail. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. There's leakage. Things go wrong. It happens all over the place when you have abstractions. " - Joel Spolsky

Language

See also Language

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_category

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicography

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_thought
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_of_discourse
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism

• http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/homepage/notes/paper.pdf

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_fallacy

• http://www.ethnologue.com/

• http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/activities/phonemic-chart

• http://rhymebrain.com/en

• http://www.howmanysyllables.com/

• http://nitpickertool.com/

• http://norvig.com/mayzner.html

• http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm

• http://lotrproject.com/statistics/books/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone

everything is X all of the Y

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_communication

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonymy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponymy

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_semantics_(linguistics)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_of_persuasion
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricolon

Epistemology

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

• Wikipedia:Virtue epistemology

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic

Metaphysics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectivism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersubjectivity

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwork_for_the_Metaphysics_of_Morals

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
• http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/AssumeStupidityNotMalice

Ontology

See also Language

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics

• http://www.labbrand.com/brand-source/semiotics-vs-semiology

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_ontology

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_primitives

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics

• http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
• http://www.academia.edu/897757/The_complex_dynamics_of_collaborative_tagging

Existentialism

• Wikipedia:Existentialism

is a humanism

• Camus vs. Sartre (Rare BBC Documentary) - video
• http://philosophyforchange.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/camus-authenticity-and-revolt/

Creation & change

See Organisation

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." --Stephen R. Covey

• http://blog.idonethis.com/post/37113345206/peter-thiels-unorthodox-management-philosophy-of

Put The Other Thoughts Down

Get Shit Done, etc.

creating opportunities

• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/02/25/why-wait-for-the-opportunity-create-your-own/
• http://kherize5.com/are-you-creating-opportunity-or-waiting-for-it-to-come-to-you/

• McDonald’s Theory - I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t possibly go to McDonald’s, and better lunch suggestions emerge. Magic!

• http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-folly-of-scientism
• http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/the-folly-of-the-folly-of-scientism/

times for the specific, times for the general. FOCUS.

• Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort - Mar 18th 2012
• Understanding Change with Cynefin
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubi_sunt

• http://lifehacker.com/5965703/the-science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains

• The Age at Which the Fire Dims.

"(By the way, try thinking about Imposter Syndrome and the Dunning–Kruger effect in a loop sometime. Fastest way to feeling worthless and confused that I've ever found.)"

• The Fixer’s Manifesto

• http://xkcd.com/1154/

• What’s a mathematician to do?
  • "You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before."

• http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/how-and-why-to-keep-a-commonplace-book/

golden thread;

• http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/info_labyrinth/ariadne.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadne's_thread_(logic)
• http://axtria.com/the-golden-thread-connecting-strategy-and-execution-with-targeting/

inner funk (idm)

• http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

Science

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

Analytical

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/98921232/Bertrand-Russell-Logicomix

Systems

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_philosophy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_ecology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_systems

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interconnectivity
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interconnectedness
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_origination
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_theory

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

Buddhism

• Wikipedia:Buddhism

http://www.slideshare.net/Nutchawin/existentialism-vs-buddhism-4239069

Third/middle path/way differs from certain existential values. to reread and rethink.

Tao

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao

Ethics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-ethics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative_ethics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_ethics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_ethics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_ethics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontological_ethics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantianism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_ethics

• Wikipedia:Value pluralism

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_particularism

• http://archive.org/stream/uclalibrarianv13to14univ/uclalibrarianv13to14univ_djvu.txt - new golden rule

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism

Love

• http://www.xeromag.com/fvpoly.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compersion

• http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/theres-no-such-thing-as-everlasting-love-according-to-science/267199/

• The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings

• http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/24/health/love-psychology-book/index.html

• http://thoughtcatalog.com/chelsea-fagan/2013/10/17-things-youve-been-mistaking-for-love/

Social

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_turn

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenological_sociology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_analysis

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography

Culture

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b038hg73/Thinking_Allowed_Michel_Foucault/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_of_Things
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Sexuality

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucauldian_discourse_analysis

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happenings

• http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org/

• http://www.seattleweekly.com/content/printVersion/1927649/ - on punk [3]
• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/opinion/sunday/relax-youll-be-more-productive.html?_r=0

• BBC: A Point Of View: Solstice and the lack of symbolism in Britain

• http://blogtarkin.com/2013/01/28/there-is-no-combat-without-movement-enders-game-as-maneuver-warfare-primer/

• http://cyborganthropology.com/Main_Page
• http://marktattersall.com/2013/02/managers-as-curators/

• http://matt.might.net/articles/work-life-balance/
• http://franzisk.us/2013/02/18/boost-your-productivity-kill-some-variables-in-your-life/

• http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/facebook-philosophy-move-fast-and-break-things

• http://fighttheurgetofade.com/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction - the 'secret'

• http://www.jamesshore.com/Change-Diary/

• http://neojaponisme.com/2011/11/28/the-great-shift-in-japanese-pop-culture-part-one/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_management

• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5312484

• http://www.metafilter.com/125555/The-Psychology-of-Human-Misjudgement-1995-talk-by-Charlie-Munger

• http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/03/how-to-get-off-of-bottom-once-and-for-all/

• http://www.techdisruptive.com/2013/03/14/you-have-one-job-eliminate-my-fear/

• http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/derren-browns-guide-to-overcoming-awkward-situations

• http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/11/11/if-youre-busy-youre-doing-something-wrong-the-surprisingly-relaxed-lives-of-elite-achievers/

• http://tonyadam.com/blog/1091-put-your-thoughts-on-paper/
• http://careercarrot.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/its-okay-to-say-i-dont-know/

• http://daltoncaldwell.com/zen-the-art-of-startup-advice

• http://www.youtube.com/user/zefrank1
  • http://youtube.com/watch?v=RYlCVwxoL_g , http://youtube.com/watch?v=qj3JZ6N9Be8 , http://youtube.com/watch?v=xJ9e32MNEOk , http://youtube.com/watch?v=QNnS24qfMSs

• http://www.seattleweekly.com/content/printVersion/1927649/ - on punk [4]

See also Mythology

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internalisation_(sociology)

• Wikipedia:Social constructionism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_turn

• http://www.theory.org.uk/
• Wikipedia:Post-structuralism
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanarrative
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Lyotard

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Feminism

• http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/

Articles

• http://tommorris.org/posts/2506
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5729199

Humanism

Edinburgh

• Facebook: Edinburgh Humanists
• Meetup: The Edinburgh Humanist Society of Scotland
• University of Edinburgh Humanist Society
• The Not-Quite-So-Friendly Humanist

Scotland

• Humanist Society of Scotland
• Humanist Society of Scotland Forum
• Humanist Weddings in Scotland

UK

• Humanists for a Better World Links
• British Humanist Association news
• New Humanist
• The Pink Humanist An LGBT magazine for Atheists, Humanists, Sceptics and Freethinkers]
• BHA: Humanist Life

Europe

• European Humanist Federation Links

Social sites

• Think Humanism

• Reddit: humanism
• Reddit: SecularHumanism

Education

• Humanism For Schools | Humanist Perspectivesculture

Spiritual

• http://sundayassembly.com/

Audio

• Charlie Kaufman Gives 70-Minute Screenwriting Lecture

Video

• - TEDxHouston - Brené Brown - on vulnerability
  • Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability - TED followup
• Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are - on power

• Why You Should Rather Die Than Miss A Day In The Gymon work ethic

• http://words.steveklabnik.com/how-do-you-find-the-time/
• Ze Frank: Supposedtobes

"Let me find and use metaphors to help me understand the world around me and give me the strength to get rid of them when it's apparent they no longer work"

Personality tests

• http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/12/astrology-for-businesses/