Being
and wellbeing..
a big long mess so far. to sort, merge from and shift to bits of organisation, health and comms
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
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_physiology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_anatomical_regions
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_anatomical_terms
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_landmarks
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_motion
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_location
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_nervous_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_nervous_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_nervous_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_nervous_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasympathetic_nervous_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startle_response
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienting_response
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_reflex
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_revolution
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcognitivism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_psychology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_psychology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_neuroscience
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_neuroscience
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_biology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_model
- https://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
Reasoning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases [2]
- https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
- http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_people/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
- https://wikimindmap.com/viewmap.php?wiki=en.wikipedia.org&topic=Outline+of+critical+theory&Submit=Search
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction
- https://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
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagrammatic_reasoning - reasoning by means of visual representations
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(knowledge_representation)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(linguistics)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
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
- http://theliterarylink.com/metaphors.html
- http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2370/2158
- 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
Phenomenology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(psychology)
Existentialism
Human condition: "These limitations are neither subjective nor objective, or rather there is both a subjective and an objective aspect of them. Objective, because we meet with them everywhere and they are everywhere recognisable: and subjective because they are lived and are nothing if man does not live them – if, that is to say, he does not freely determine himself and his existence in relation to them. And, diverse though man’s purpose may be, at least none of them is wholly foreign to me, since every human purpose presents itself as an attempt either to surpass these limitations, or to widen them, or else to deny or to accommodate oneself to them." ... "In this sense we may say that there is a human universality, but it is not something given; it is being perpetually made. I make this universality in choosing myself; I also make it by understanding the purpose of any other man, of whatever epoch. This absoluteness of the act of choice does not alter the relativity of each epoch."
"There is this in common between art and morality, that in both we have to do with creation and invention."
- Camus vs. Sartre (Rare BBC Documentary) - video
- http://philosophyforchange.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/camus-authenticity-and-revolt/
- http://www.camus-society.com/albert-camus-existentialism.html
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
Self
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapience
Wellbeing
to sort
See also Organisation#Communication
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-being
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_life
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_human_needs
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_psychology
- Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders. These include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities.
- Psychotherapy is a general term referring to therapeutic interaction or treatment contracted between a trained professional and a client, patient, family, couple, or group.
- http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/rubber-duck-problem-solving.html - vocalising issues helps resolve them
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673
- http://www.masswerk.at/eliza/
- http://www.lifeinneon.com/games/Player2.html
- http://web.media.mit.edu/~mehoque/MACH.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_therapy
- http://castle.eiu.edu/~psych/spencer/Existential.html
"Every transition involves to some extent the killing off of the old self"
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(psychology)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_closure
- Raw Nerve - Aaron Swartz
- Optimism Reg Braithwaite - raganwald
- Rejection
- Everything is my fault
- http://robertheaton.com/2013/03/11/coding-with-gumption/
- http://www.goodtherapy.org/what-is-good-therapy.html
- http://www.goodtherapy.org/types-of-therapy.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(biology)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(psychological)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response
Modern forms of CBT include a number of diverse but related techniques such as exposure therapy, stress inoculation training, cognitive processing therapy, cognitive therapy, relaxation training, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-disclosure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_care
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-compassion
finding voice
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_(metaphysics)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flourishing
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_well
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy
- Transforming Negative Self-Talk: Some advice that worked
- http://worldobserveronline.com/2012/04/25/15-things-you-should-give-up-to-be-happy/
- Fitting the Facts to the Narrative - "Be right all the time" is a worthy goal but impossible; "Try to be right all the time, but when wrong, get right as soon as you can" is the correct mindset.
- The Worst - "The basic premise of the worst is that both ideas and material possessions should be tools that serve us, rather than things we live in service to. When that relationship with material possessions is inverted, such that we end up living in service to them, the result is consumerism. When that relationship with ideas is inverted, the result is ideology or religion."
- HN: I am depressed and I need someone to talk to
- http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/14xjma/how_about_a_real_confession/ - see comments
- Bipolar - It’s not a bug it’s a feature. - Nov 23 2012
- Effective Web Experimentation as a Homo Narrans - "Humans are at once flawed and remarkable animals. Much as we might imagine ourselves to be rational actors, we aren't. But we can erect frameworks in which we can compel ourselves to behave rationally."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language - "a structured method of describing good design practices within a field of expertise"
- Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers
- placepatterns.org - "the objective here is to build an online knowledge resource and community for building and development: to store, showcase, and refine recipes/tools/patterns/examples of successful building and development."
- TED: James Geary, metaphorically speaking - "Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary http://brendansterne.com/2013/07/11/do-the-right-thing-wait-to-get-fired/waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language: the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make, Geary says."
- Metafilter/HN What one book could give me a new, useful superpower?
- http://geb.stenius.org/ - Gödel, Escher, Bach
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWZ2Bz0tS-s
- http://www.reddit.com/r/GEB/
- Perlmonks: The path to mastery - "When you see the code of master Perl programmers you may be amazed at how few strokes of the keyboard they require to solve a problem completely. Many in error think that they should therefore constantly try to cram as much into as little room as possible. This is a misguided path. Instead strive to understand fully and completely the tool at hand. Explore exactly how it works and what it can do. In addition constantly learn how to build on what you and others have done before. Aim for clarity and comprehension, and mastery shall surely follow. This is a true path."
- https://www.superbetter.com/ - gamification, see organisation
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
- I’m trying to be less hyperbolic.
- How to be less boring - 22 Nov 2012
- http://weeklysift.com/2012/09/10/the-distress-of-the-privileged/
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5192348
- Ask HN: How do you deal with Rabbit Hole Syndrome?
- Put your thoughts on paper, don’t hold it all in!
- It’s okay to say “I Don’t Know”
- http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/
- http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/14-habits-highly-miserable-people?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark
- http://words.steveklabnik.com/deleuze-for-developers-assemblages
- http://words.steveklabnik.com/deleuze-for-developers-will-smooth-spaceopen-source-suffice-to-save-us
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaison_psychiatry
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosomatic_medicine
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_medicine
Action
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_switching_(psychology)
- http://www.independentdeveloper.com/archive/2009/03/17/programming-is-like-a-dream
- Human Task Switches Considered Harmful for certain kinds of flow
- http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/09/mental-context-switches-are-evil/
- http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/
- http://www.businessinsider.com/why-programmers-work-at-night-2013-1
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
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/
- http://bryce.vc/post/64889707700/most-people-wont
- 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)
- http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/creativity_is_rejected_teachers_and_bosses_don_t_value_out_of_the_box_thinking.html [8]
Science
Analytical
Systems
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_science
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_philosophy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_ecology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_systems
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_adaptive_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissipative_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_order_theories
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interconnectivity
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interconnectedness
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_equivalence
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_origination
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_theory
Buddhism
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
Feminism
Articles
- http://groupthink.jezebel.com/joss-whedon-is-actually-completely-wrong-1461554268 - about not liking the term
Love
Social
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_studies
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenological_sociology
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_analysis
Groups
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_group
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_group
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_group_(sociology)
- http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
- http://jasonsaltzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/short-lessons-in-community-management.html
Networks
- http://www.salon.com/2004/02/21/echo_chamber/
- http://www.wordyard.com/2008/11/05/echo-chamber/
- http://www.metafilter.com/101233/Why-the-Web-isnt-an-Echo-Chamber
- http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/17/facebook-study-reveals-facebook-is-not-an-echo-chamber-for-some-values-of-echo-chamber/
- http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/1/online-stubbornness
- http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2013/01/14/web-breaks-echo-chambers-or-echo-chamber-is-just-a-derogatory-term-for-community/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_consciousness
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis_software
- http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Social_network_analysis
Organisations
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisational_theory
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_theory
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_architecture
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_structure
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_development
Transparency
- http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/why_radical_transparency_is_good_business.html
- http://www.businessinsider.com/radical-transparency-in-small-business-2013-1
Culture
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialization
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enculturation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acculturation
- http://www.seattleweekly.com/content/printVersion/1927649/ - on punk [9]
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/opinion/sunday/relax-youll-be-more-productive.html?_r=0
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_anthropology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anthropology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_anthropology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_anthropology
- 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
Technology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_technology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_studies
Magick
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_magic
- http://www.philhine.org.uk/writings/index_essays.html
- http://www.philhine.org.uk/writings/pdfs/egmgrp.pdf
- http://www.scribd.com/doc/24506/Pop-Magic-by-Grant-Morrison#document_metadata
- http://www.chaosmatrix.org/
- http://sourceryforge.org/index.php/Main_Page
Family
Parenting
misc links for now
- http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1c5cex/lpt_parents_babysitter_daycare_worker_save_your/
Computing
Creativity
Generations
Other
From old wiki:
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
Trans
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"