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://theycallmeswift.com/2013/06/11/principle-philosophy-for-developers-entrepreneurs-and-artists/
- http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/ - podcast
Philosophy of mind
- 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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychology
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_neuroscience
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_biology
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionism
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_model
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_architecture
- 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
Habit
- 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://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
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)
- http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/
- http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/13/arguments-from-my-opponent-believes-something/
"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_of_thought
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language
everything is X all of the Y
- 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
Metaphysics
Ontology
See also Language
- 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://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
- http://www.academia.edu/897757/The_complex_dynamics_of_collaborative_tagging
Existentialism
- 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
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
"(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.)"
- What’s a mathematician to do?
- "You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before."
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)
Science
Analytical
Systems
- 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/Interconnectivity
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interconnectedness
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_origination
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_theory
Buddhism
http://www.slideshare.net/Nutchawin/existentialism-vs-buddhism-4239069
Third/middle path/way differs from certain existential values. to reread and rethink.
Tao
Ethics
- 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
- http://archive.org/stream/uclalibrarianv13to14univ/uclalibrarianv13to14univ_djvu.txt - new golden rule
Love
Social
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenological_sociology
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_analysis
Culture
- 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
- http://matt.might.net/articles/work-life-balance/
- http://franzisk.us/2013/02/18/boost-your-productivity-kill-some-variables-in-your-life/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction - the 'secret'
- http://tonyadam.com/blog/1091-put-your-thoughts-on-paper/
- http://careercarrot.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/its-okay-to-say-i-dont-know/
See also Mythology
Feminism
Articles
Humanism
Edinburgh
- Facebook: Edinburgh Humanists
- Meetup: The Edinburgh Humanist Society of Scotland
- University of Edinburgh Humanist Society
- The Not-Quite-So-Friendly Humanist
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
Social sites
Education
Spiritual
Audio
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
"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"