In Two Lives the idea that God also develops stunned me. That the "today's" God is not the same as the "yesterday's" one. That is, the Father is in constant Labor.
It also surprised me that in "Paradise" people don't idle around, don't sing little songs to each other on lutes, but work a lot and joyfully.
If you throw away all the metaphysics and philosophy and take a practical look at your own life from this angle, you can draw 2 conclusions:
I used AWS for many years, but I always knew it couldn't be trusted, that we were strangers to them, that sooner or later we would have to move.
That's why as soon as I learned about docker, I immediately moved my servers and database into containers, because switching hosts becomes radically simpler if the project lives in docker containers.
And now I'm choosing a domestic cloud infrastructure provider.
It turned out the choice exists and it's quite decent.
I settled on three candidates: YandexCloud, Selectel and SberCloud.
The three main technological pillars of LaborGit are Pomodoro, budgeting and main events.
A person experiences up to 20 thousand micro-events a day.
The ability to consciously pick out 2-3 main events of the day gives a sense of control, focus and fullness of life.
From the main events of the day, a portrait of the week, the year and the whole Life is composed.
Only you must not sink into constant reflection. Chewing over, holding on, pining over what has been gathered.
It should be light and with a sense of flight. Gathered - threw it away.
The strongest pleasure from a bathhouse comes not from the steam room, but from the cold water bath right after it.
Contrast is the simple secret behind most human joys. Travel, sleep, hunger, work, music, flight—everything is rooted in contrast.
Contrast brings relief. Contrast removes the dullness of satiety. Contrast lets you feel, balance, Live.
It doesn't matter how a person lived — what matters is what they leave behind.
What they leave behind is everything they worked on: what they came up with, what they wrote, what they composed, what they built.
A person is born to labor. We are simply a function of labor, no matter how much we resist it inside.
No matter how much it seems that a person is so much more than just labor. Most women, for instance, will immediately object in indignation. But I'm talking about beauty, not labor. I have the right to be happy.
I remember my father sometimes saying at the end of his vacation: "Another wasted summer. Didn’t get anything done."
And my father, mind you, back in the days of chronic late-Soviet shortages, managed to build a two-story brick house with his own hands, plus a separate solid garage.
I recall him scraping the bark off long round pine logs on sawhorses — making rafters for the roof. That’s not like running to Leroy Merlin today. Back then you couldn’t buy a single straight board, nor a nail, nor any metal.
Why does anthropology stir us so deeply?
Especially the sites of ancient people. Kostenki, for example.
This is us.
We lived there, hunted mammoths. Used their skulls to fence in our dwellings. Walked dozens of miles a day, hungry. Huddled by the fire, pressed close to each other, afraid of the dark.
And all around, the same Nature. The same rivers, the grass in spring, the Sun!
I. Labor. Man is born to labor.
II. Time. The necessary and sufficient criterion for evaluating Labor is the Time a person consciously spends on it.
III. Memory. Man has the right to leave a memory of his Labor on Earth.
IV. Freedom. Man is free to decide for himself the degree of publicity of his Labor.
V. Honesty. Every Life is unique. You cannot live another's life. At the very least, do not lie to yourself. Write honestly.
2022-05-11
Laziness seems to be simply inertia. That is, the body prefers to continue the work it is doing at the present moment. If it was moving, it wants to keep moving. If it was sleeping, it wants to keep sleeping.
That’s why it’s so hard to start something. Inertia, or "static friction," gets in the way. Well begun is half done!
Of course, for humans, an emotional component is added to this laziness: expectations, fears, "I can’t do it," "what’s the point," and so on.
The main rule for fighting laziness: do the first Pomodoro right away.
The desktop version of LaborGit includes a fully-featured module for time budget planning.
Suppose the goal of Your Entire Life includes "Flying to near-Earth orbit."
Create a separate Budget Item and set a time expenditure plan, for example, 10,000 hours.
Add tasks to this item (read Carl Sagan's book "Cosmos," buy Elon Musk's business, etc.).
Now, any time spent on these tasks will be aggregated at the Budget Item level.
You can see the dynamics by month or quarter.
