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Withered (Maturity Level: withered|14) are the notes expressing outdated views (totally or partially) but kept for the historicity of our thoughts. For partially outdated notes, warnings will be placed wherever appropriate.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

Chest

A Chest (Maturity Level: chest|14) get changes in its content. However, they don't grow. Chests are how-to's and tools I have made.

Warning

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

Read Lately

Cover Title Notes Tags
coverimg|100 V for Vendetta Notes: - #bestreads
coverimg|100 The Setting Sun Notes: The Setting Sun
coverimg|100 A People's History of the United States Notes: Notes from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn #america #history #politics #colonialism #vietnam
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

On Top of My mind…

Cover Title Updated Created Tags
KOReader to Obsidian: Export Notes and Highlights Nov 03, 2024 08:31 PM Sep 10, 2023 02:38 PM #koreader #obsidian #how-to #notes-export
Reading E-Books for dummies অথবা কীভাবে ইবুক পড়তে হয়... Nov 03, 2024 08:30 PM Oct 17, 2023 02:41 PM #how-to #reading
Boox to Obsidian: Highlights and Annotations Nov 03, 2024 08:28 PM Aug 01, 2023 01:46 PM #obsidian #boox #neoreader #how-to
নিস্তার Oct 30, 2024 08:57 PM Oct 27, 2024 11:15 PM #poetry #কবিতা
আশ্বিনের রাত Oct 29, 2024 12:14 AM Aug 13, 2020 08:04 PM
Art is Freedom: African-Americans Oct 01, 2024 12:42 AM Sep 07, 2024 01:11 AM #music #negroid #culture #african #american
Pascal's Wager Sep 29, 2024 12:56 PM Sep 29, 2024 11:08 AM #religion #War
How AI-generated Contents May Affect Marketing? Sep 24, 2024 09:21 AM Mar 24, 2023 11:03 AM #AI #Marketing
The Tower of Babel Sep 16, 2024 12:24 AM Sep 05, 2024 10:14 AM #society #myth #etiology
Annihilation of Self in Religions Sep 15, 2024 09:37 AM Sep 03, 2024 01:56 PM #religion #spirituality
On Career Sep 03, 2024 11:51 PM Aug 22, 2022 06:25 PM #life #work #programming
About Programming Sep 03, 2024 11:46 PM Oct 04, 2018 07:41 AM #passion #philosophy #programming

From the Forge

Being a programmer, I often tinker and build things primarily for personal use. Here are some you might find useful.

Cover Title Description Links Tags
Boox Text Note Converter A converter for Boox text notes.
#tool #boox #converter
CyberEnsō Ensō on screen.
#generative-art #tool
EpubPress on the Web An webapp to create EPUB from webpages using EpubPress API
#tool #epub #book #ebook

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.

Emails

From any note's page, click the email button on the bottom right to start an email thread. This is private.

Comments

Every note has a comment section powered by Disqus. Feel free to use that if you don't mind public discussions.

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. ↩︎