In this short video I show part of the work I did to clear the front of my hut from foreign soil and build a stairway in its stead. There still is lots of hard work to do before wintertime and I want to make sure I do as much of it as possible. * * * Find all my publications on my website (Emacs, philosophy, Linux): https://protesilaos.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzQftZy9WNY

This is episode 3 of a series I am introducing where I comment on the book _Dao De Jing_ by Lao Zi. The present entry covers Chapter 3 of the book and covers topics of politics, how sages would govern, whether such arrangements are viable, how our life is one of action and not theory, how we always need to account for the scope of application, and the like. Previous episodes: 1. https://protesilaos.com/books/2023-03-06-comments-dao-1/ 2. https://protesilaos.com/books/2023-03-09-comments-dao-2/ * * * Find all my publications on my website: https://protesilaos.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwcL1mwoBG8

Here I demo a couple of scripts for handling my TODO list. Everything is part of my dotfiles: https://gitlab.com/protesilaos/dotfiles ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2apuSji1WQk

Find all my publications on my website: https://protesilaos.com. * * * Thanks to Dmitry Matveyev for the 500 EUR donation that allowed me to buy the smartphone (Samsung A53) and selfie stick that I use to record these videos in the great outdoors. * * * In this entry, I walked in the mountains and talked about developing the right attitude for dealing with matters we do not control. The main points: - A story of mine about remaining open to new experiences after misfortune strikes. - You do not control all the factors. If you assume the blame, you imply that you do control those factors. - If you think you are a god, you will always overestimate your abilities. You will then desire to achieve that which you cannot. The disconnect will make you suffer. - An explanation of non-ownership with specific examples. - Elaboration on the bad habit of dithering, delaying, and postponing. You think you control time, again overestimating yourself. - Overthinking and overanalysing is to your detriment. Fundamentally, you make the mistake of assuming that the perfect is attainable. - Thinking that the perfect is attainable means that you expect your actions to be perfect. But to act is to do so in imperfect circumstances, with incomplete knowledge. - To act is to perform a leap of faith. There is faith in acting. - More examples that tie it all together. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5xle0NYFFE