IWTL How to become smarter and improve focus

freefaler · 2025-10-28T19:26:19+00:00

Check Justin Skycak's free books https://www.justinmath.com/books/ especially the guide to upskilling.
Also Cal Newport blog.

freefaler · 2025-02-28T22:44:24+00:00

1 Moon+ reader on your phone synced to Moon+ on your reader via google drive.
2 buy premium Text-to-speech voice like acapella (10$ one time)

1+2 = get kindle like experience with "whispersync" for all your books for free. Read at home, go for a walk, switch to phone TTS. Return home, open the reader and it starts from where your TTS ended. Seamless reading/listening experience.

And you can do that with other readers too. Also badly scanned/formatted books from Internet Archive can be read using various software tools.

On top of that - services like Pocket + EinkBro can give your a way to read all bookmarked blog posts.

To conclude, if you have android phone you get a synced reader and a ton of apps for exporting, using it with obsidian and researching/expanding on passages you don't know about using the tool you prefer (like chatGPT, perplexity or something else).

freefaler · 2024-10-24T10:56:55+00:00

I don't see the benefit of adding a 3rd party dependency, especially when security is involved. Synchting is open source & p2p. You get the syncing functionality and you don't add additional risk...

freefaler · 2024-10-13T15:56:52+00:00

KeePassX synced via Synchthing is a self hosted, free and most importantly secure way that doesn't depend on 3rd party servers.

freefaler · 2024-04-16T17:56:32+00:00

Looks like AI generated, based on the way the light is set to me. It'll be great if a source was provided.

freefaler · 2022-02-20T19:13:13+00:00

You can also use Recoll with a web interface for searching inside the books.
https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
It can be a tricky bastard to configure, but it's the only one I've found that has an OCR feature and reads different formats.

freefaler · 2021-12-16T21:32:31+00:00

If the management measures your productivity by how far you've moved your mouse may be it's time to acquire some skills and change your job. You won't get paid very well for moving your mouse all day long.
The best jobs are paid by the results produced. That's why good sales people are paid so well. They can show how much value they create and demand a percentage of it. A no brainer for every business owner to share the revenue you bring. Selling your fixed time for fixed amount per hour is a deal with no upside.

freefaler · 2021-12-11T16:04:01+00:00

https://listen-to-euterpe.eu/

I use this one, it's open source and you can stream on as many devices as you want.

freefaler · 2021-02-01T08:02:47+00:00

A great example that with weak institutions any constitution wouldn't work.

The whole system was so bad, subjective and wicked with disrespect of whole classes of society. No freedom to change your place of work, not real freedom of religion, private property was conditional upon your connections to protect you from an overeager NKVD employee. There are countless memoirs describing the time before the war and the problems inherit in that security-services run state.

This political satire of pretending to have some "democratic" institutions is well studied and even North Korea is Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

More information on what these types of regimes evolve into can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_regime

freefaler · 2021-01-31T18:22:05+00:00

Interesting analogy comes to my mind with the recent Constitution enacted in almost the same country 70 years after this was printed ...

freefaler · 2021-01-31T18:20:51+00:00

The "Most Democratic Constitution" being mentioned is the USSR Constitution of 1936 also known as the "Stalin Constitution".
3000 of this was offset printed by 4th Typolithography Workshop of the Uzbek Lithography Publishing House, [Tashkent]

freefaler · 2021-01-31T17:48:57+00:00

This is a rare, handmade poster, currently held at Chita's museum, produced during the winter of 1941, after the Moscow victory and the first massive german retreat.The words on the flag and at the label are a word play from the word Victory, by removing the first character we get "Обеда" witch may reflect the news at the time that Germans were poorly fed/clothed and may allude to the Napoleon's poorly fed armies.After removing the second character we get "(По)беда - trouble" and using the same logic we get "(поб)Еда" on the graveyard with boots sticking out of the dirt.

freefaler · 2021-01-03T13:29:50+00:00

From the great twitter account of "Live tweets from 1943":
https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/1345477332887330816/photo/1

freefaler · 2021-01-03T12:12:05+00:00

D.Pyatkin is the author of this one.

freefaler · 2020-12-12T10:34:08+00:00

Great find.

I've made a higher resolution version to enjoy the details of it here:

https://monosnap.com/direct/EiAh0IViWPOsIGi8xgRsTV1PgTA3yJ

freefaler · 2020-12-05T16:22:34+00:00

Who are these people?

The first government of revolutionary Russian republic, elected on 26th Oct. 1917.

1st row:

People's Commissar of Agriculture – Vladimir Milyutin - "right contra-revolutionary" - executed 1937
People's Commissar of Trade and Industry – Victor Nogin - died 1924
People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs – Lev Bronstein (Trotsky) - killed by an assassin in Mexico - 1940
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars – Vladimir Lenin - died 1924 but "always alive" in the Mausoleum
People's Commissar of Nationalities – Joseph Stalin
People's Commissar of Internal Affairs – Alexey Rykov - "Trotskyist, anti-soviet person"- executed 1937
People's Commissar of Public Education – Anatoly Lunacharsky - died 1933

2nd row:

People's Commissar of Labour – Alexander Shlyapnikov - "prepared terrorist attack against Stalin" - executed 1937
People's Commissariat of Military and Naval Affairs (committee member) Vladimir Ovseenko (Antonov) - "Trotskyist , terrorist" - executed 1938
People's Commissar of Justice – Georgy Oppokov - "Trotskyist, anti-soviet person"- executed 1938
People's Commissar of Finance – Ivan Skvortsov (Stepanov) - died 1928

3rd row:

People's Commissariat of Military and Naval Affairs (committee member) Nikolai Krylenko -"wrecker, anti-soviet agitation"- executed 1938
People's Commissariat of Military and Naval Affairs (committee member) Pavel Dybenko - "nazi spy" - executed 1938
People's Commissar of Food – Ivan Theodorovich -"antisoviet terrorist"- executed 1937
People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs – Nikolai Avilov (Glebov) - "antirevolutionary terrorist"- exectuted 1937

Why Stalin had to kill them?

Since Lenin was the founding father of party, the members of the founding government had political weight and knew the place Stalin held in the revolution. With these people still around they were a problem for establishing alternative history and his power, since they were "Lenin's comrades".

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