Socrates (from Plato's Apology)

The unexamined life is not worth living.

With such noise and bustle around us, one cannot help but build a hermitage[1] in one's mind for contemplation and peace.

This digital garden contains some contemplations and musings from my retreats there.

Unsurprisingly, thoughts here are, like every thought, ever-changing.

If you have any questions or opinions, please feel free to contact me at connect@utsob.me or see the Discussion section for other options.

Maturity Levels

The maturity level for each note is represented by plant icons of various growth.

Seedling

Seedlings (Maturity Level: 1|14) are thoughts barely started. Maybe Jotted down in haste or simply showed only a brief amount of what I thought about it by far.

Sapling

Saplings (Maturity Level: 2|14) have a substantial amount of content, but much work to be done. Coherence and patterns are just emerging in it.

Tree

Trees (Maturity Level: 3|14) are grown-up coherent pieces of thought/essay/expression that should not change much except for some editorial enhancements.

Withered

Withered (Maturity Level: withered|14) are the notes expressing outdated views (totally or partially) but kept for the historicity of our thoughts. For partially outdated notes, warnings will be placed wherever appropriate.

Stone

Stones (Maturity Level: stone|14) are notes exported/extracted from other mediums (e.g. Reading highlights and notes). Growth is irrelevant for these notes.

Signpost

Signposts (Maturity Level: signpost|14) are notes that allow us to navigate easily (e.g. Collection of books or writings).

Warning

Maturity Levels are subjective. It might only mean that I'm a very immature person.

Read Lately

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coverimg|100 The Water Dancer Notes: - #bestreads #african #america
coverimg|100 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Notes: Notes from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn #book #Science #history
coverimg|100 The Riddler: Year One Notes: - #book #Supervillains
coverimg|100 On Photography Notes: On Photography by Susan Sontag #book #Photography #art

On Top of My mind…

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Art is Freedom: African-Americans Oct 01, 2024 12:42 am Sept 07, 2024 01:11 am #music #negroid #culture #african #american
Pascal's Wager Sept 29, 2024 12:56 pm Sept 29, 2024 11:08 am #religion #War
How AI-generated Contents May Affect Marketing? Sept 24, 2024 09:21 am Mar 24, 2023 11:03 am #AI #Marketing
The Tower of Babel Sept 16, 2024 12:24 am Sept 05, 2024 10:14 am #society #myth #etiology
Annihilation of Self in Religions Sept 15, 2024 09:37 am Sept 03, 2024 01:56 pm #religion #spirituality
KOReader to Obsidian: Export Notes and Highlights Sept 08, 2024 03:18 pm Sept 10, 2023 02:38 pm #koreader #obsidian #how-to #notes-export
On Career Sept 03, 2024 11:51 pm Aug 22, 2022 06:25 pm #life #work #programming
About Programming Sept 03, 2024 11:46 pm Oct 04, 2018 07:41 am #passion #philosophy #programming
Fanā Sept 03, 2024 06:53 pm Feb 20, 2024 02:40 pm #concept #concept/theology #concept/sufism
How to integrate Saleor JWT in Nuxt 3 Jun 24, 2024 03:42 pm Apr 29, 2024 10:26 am #technical #how-to #nuxt3 #nuxt #apollo #graphql #saleor #jwt #django
আশ্বিনের রাত May 27, 2024 01:21 am Aug 13, 2020 08:04 pm
অমর সিং চমকিলা: একটি আয়নার গল্প May 17, 2024 04:41 pm May 10, 2024 11:04 pm #movie-review #amar-singh-chamkila #imtiaz-ali #art #music #biopic

Discussion

Digital gardens are not about marketing/expressing opinion/prophesize etc. It is about nurturing our thoughts publicly and collectively. To discuss with me, there are two ways.

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Comments

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Policy

I don't seek publicity. If you find anything praiseworthy (I doubt you will), tell me privately. For commenting, these are the basic rules I believe not too much to abide by:

  1. Constructive Criticism.
  2. Adhere to the rules of arguments. To name a few:
    1. No personal attack (it's a fallacy)
    2. Other logical fallacies
    3. Avoid irrelevance.
  3. Be civil, please.

  1. Here, I'm using the word hermitage as a loose translation of the word Tapovan. ↩︎