I'm probably too old for this to be maximally effective, but I've decided to start using Obsidian to try the Zettelkasten method with my philosophy readings.
If it works, it should supercharge my retention -- and output.
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Today I am thinking about the Raven Paradox, a counterintuitive logical setup wherein seemingly unrelated data points actually provide evidence of universal claims.
Apropos of nothing, I read Epicurus's Letter to Menoeceus today.
It parrots many of the attitudes toward virtue, philosophy, and death that Socrates encourages in various Plato dialogues, but far more concisely. It's a short read, but a worthwhile one.
Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality.
So I heard you like infinite sequences...
Here's a fun dialogue by the author of Alice in Wonderland that elaborates on a well-known Zeno paradox. Enjoy!