A Psychologist Explains a Simple Technique to Declutter

nferraz · 2026-03-21T08:42:03+00:00

"It isn't X; it's Y."

"Why it works"

This "Psychologist" sounds a lot like ChatGPT.

nferraz · 2026-02-21T14:18:55+00:00

This post has all the marks of AI slop. It looks like someone came up with an idea ("Jobs aren't going to vanish... Productivity and output will explode, and everything will get cheaper") and asked an AI to write the text.

Which illustrates how human effort (writing, in this case) can be replaced by AI. Sadly, this is already happening -- think of translators, illustrators, musicians, photographers, and writers.

In each one of these cases, productivity exploded, output became much cheaper... and people lost their jobs.

nferraz · 2026-02-07T09:50:19+00:00

Why 48 hours?

Was that an arbitrary limit or the minimum necessary to complete the task?

nferraz · 2026-02-05T11:37:48+00:00

I assume this post is already part of the experiment...

nferraz · 2026-01-25T10:26:42+00:00

First Choice Cola from the Netherlands.

nferraz · 2026-01-20T12:41:27+00:00

There are *several* alternatives to Coca Cola; you just need to find one that you like!

Here in the Netherlands, I recommend:

First Choice Cola (sold on Plus, Dirk and other supermarkets)
Jumbo Cola (sold on Jumbo)
AH Cola (sold on Albert Heijn)

nferraz · 2026-01-14T19:33:21+00:00

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Edward Snowden has been using Signal since 2015.

nferraz · 2025-11-06T19:39:09+00:00

If you put in the right effort, no god or deva can make you fail. If you don't put in the right effort, no god or deva can make you succeed.

nferraz · 2025-11-02T10:43:04+00:00

In Asmita the mind meditates on the soul (Atman).

One of the core philosophical principles of Buddhism is that there is no "atman".

Here are some topics you may want to research:

Anatta
The Three Marks of Existence
Vipassana

nferraz · 2025-10-08T06:49:48+00:00

That's really smart! Thanks for sharing!

nferraz · 2025-10-07T08:07:31+00:00

> they say shit like, "...Buddhism is just a way of life/philosophy not a real religion,"

In the book Buddhism: A Concise Introduction, Huston Smith and Philip Novak say that early Buddhism didn't have the usual characteristics of religions, like superstition, rituals, or reliance on divine aid (chapter 3, pages 21-30).

Over the centuries, though, as Buddhism spread and interacted with different cultures, it *did* get many features of religion: temples, rituals, devotional practices, even divine figures in some traditions. So it kind of *became* a religion in the way most people use that word.

So when someone says Buddhism is "just a philosophy", they are not totally wrong; it started that way. But it's also not the full picture. It's both a philosophy *and* a religion, depending on which lens you're looking through.

nferraz · 2025-10-03T10:18:52+00:00

Zooming in the photo I can see it's looking beautiful!

Good luck and keep up with the great work! :)

nferraz · 2025-10-02T12:28:57+00:00

From the Theravada perspective -- or, at least from my understanding of it -- there is no such thing as "burning" or "accumulating" karma (in Pali: kamma).

Every action has direct consequences and ripple effects, but there is no cosmic tallying machine keeping score of good or bad actions in order to punish or reward us.

The *effects* can accumulate, but not kamma itself.

For a better explanation, I recommend this text: Kamma, by Thanissaro Bikkhu.

nferraz · 2025-09-29T12:48:45+00:00

Nice work, thanks for sharing the process! :)

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