Mind Fulfillment

Mind Fulfillment, an introduction

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The Mind Fulfillment section, what is it about? Is it mindfulness? Is it self-help? Is it productivity? What?

I would say, it’s a bit of all of the above. With a bit of acceptance and values/commitment included.

Mind Fulfillment is acceptance, commitment, and productivity wrapped together to form a tool to make your life into what you want it to be.

That’s the short, slogany version.

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Two Anti-Piracy Measures

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Two super simple, crazy smart, really business intelligent, and extremely easy to implement measures against software and digital media piracy:

Availability and Price.

(For maritime anti-piracy measures, see here.)

Let me rephrase that:

High availability. Low price.

Do I have to say more? I guess I do.

So, I’m going to enjoy NOT next weeks “Crisis on Earth-X, part 4” on Netflix.

Don’t get me wrong. They don’t even have Supergirl on Netflix so that one’s not really an issue. But they do run The Flash… but only season 1 and 2 (?!?) and the Arrow but not season 6 (?!?!?!)

Even more curious. I just found “The Good Place.” It’s produced by Netflix and they only have season 1, even though half of season 2 has already aired according to IMDB. Aired where?

What are they trying to say with this?

Of course, they are telling me to go buy the other episodes somewhere else.

It’s just so childishly blatant.

I’m sorry, but I think I’d rather stop watching the whole fucking DC-universe than fall for that one. Otherwise, I’d suffer from cognitive dissonance for decades.

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Computers and Internet, Humor

OSX 9

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“When was this updated? OSX 9?”

/Grumpy comment about an application on a discussion board

For anyone who doesn’t get the humor: “OS X” actually stands for OS 10 (as in roman number “X”). “OS 9” was the Mac operative system before OS X. However, with Sierra, it’s just called “macOS.” Some versions of OS X has also been called “Mac OS X.”

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The pain is the same, the causes differ

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I just came across this tweet when trying to figure out if the #prewriting-tag really was what some people might say it is (it kind of was. I’d say it has two meanings; before writing a novel and before writing at all. But this is a huge parenthesis!)

https://twitter.com/mrswhiteacs/status/909842875264802816

My first reaction was to laugh and think; wow, I wish those were my problems, not these existential angsty things about doing something meaningful with my life and making my economy work out, especially the one after I retire.

Then I realized that my gut reaction is likely why young people find older people stuffy and dumb.

Of course, these problems are huge for young people. A few will even consider jumping off cliffs because of them!

In fact, I think it’s fair to say that the pain is the same but the causes differ.

Something worth thinking about when you’re older and thinking about younger people’s problems.

Books, Creative Writing

“Writing Fiction for Dummies,” by Randy Ingermanson

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Timeless_Books_co2_1200px“Writing Fiction for Dummies” is written by Randy Ingermanson, a writer who has published six novels and received a number of prizes. In addition, he is a physicist.

It can be easy to be scared away because this is a “for Dummies” book. Maybe I’m a “Dummy,” but I like this book!

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