Coincidentally I was wondering a similar thing this morning. To get as much text as possible on paper for holiday reading I managed to get the text down 30% while by stripping out any vowel but the first in a word, replacing 'the' with '#', 'and' with '&' and of' with '%'. I also used the smallest Tahoma font and multiple columns.
This increases reading complexity just as Sans Forgetica, but perhaps also increases reading speed somewhat- because words get stripped down to their 'essence' (perhaps similar to chinese or japanese script) and your eyes move less with multiple columns.
In that 'word essence'sence this technique has similarities to Bionic Reading. Combining the two would be tricky, as what letters would be bolded with the devowel method and can you get closer to a word essense?
The combination with Beeline and Bionic Reading or devoweling could have more potential. It's nice that Beeline has gray scale support.
sed 's/ and / \& /g' -e 's/ of /\ % /g' -e 's/ is / \= /g' -e 's/ th / \# /g' -e 's/\B[aeiouAEIOU]//g' -e 's/\(.\)\1/\1/g' -e "s/'//g" sacred-world.txt > sw.txt
I recently did a round of interviews with a few companies, and I came up with a list of fun questions for the interviewer, mostly based on my own gripes with my then-employer or things other companies were doing that I didn't like. I caught everyone I asked these to off-guard.
> "Every company gets criticized. What's a piece of criticism your company has received that you felt wasn't really accurate? What about the opposite- any criticism that you agreed with?"
> "Does your company have any policy that enforces a specific minimum number of people let go per time period? IE: Stack ranking, 'Unregretted rate of attrition (URA)', etc"
> "What are the company's non-compete rules? If I wanted to make and sell an app in my spare time, is that allowed? What isn't allowed?"
> "How does promotion and career growth work? If hired, what steps would I need to take to get my next promotion? What holds people back in those situations?"
I got great answers though. I learned a lot about the companies because I asked these to a number of people at each company. Those answers lead me to pick a company that was offering less money, but was a better place for me to be.
Generative art (Processing, p5.js, etc.) has been a hobby of mine for 15 years or so. During that time, a handful of people were truly able to make a living out of it -- or even get paid for doing it. I ran workshops, taught people to code, helped students learn, etc. and it was all for fun, as a hobby, to get people interested in computer-based art and to learn a bit about programming. (Incidentally, p5.js is excellent for teaching programming to kids b/c of the immediate visual feedback.) Making a living or even getting paid to do this type of work was extremely difficult prior to the emergence of NFTs.
There's now an accessible marketplace for me to sell that work, thanks to NFTs. I do it as a hobby, not relying on the income, through Hic et Nunc, which runs on the Tezos blockchain. I do it for two reasons: it feels really good to sell my work, even if it's just for a few dollars. My entire family, including kids, get really excited when I sell something for just $3 or whatever.
The second reason is that it has vastly accelerated my ability to connect with communities of similar artists. For most of them, this has been a hobby for many years. Through them, I've joined some of the most positive, fun, and creative communities I've ever found on the Internet. Most discussion is not NFT related, but just about techniques, helping each other, fun and friendly weekly coding challenges, etc.
Say what you will about NFTs. I'm not blind to the issues they bring along with them. For a lot of digital artists, however, the accessible marketplaces and creative communities are truly groundbreaking. Honestly, the past 6 months of participating in these communities have been some of the best times of my life, full of new friendships and the occasional small financial reward. I'm very thankful for NFTs providing this because I know that, even if the marketplaces go away, the new creative communities will persist.
We have to somehow hack ourselves and make our brains love winning/succeeding.
I think we mostly don't love winning or succeeding per se, even when that happens it's not the joy of winning and succeeding as much as it is the relief of not having crashed and burned.
The whole mental process is dominated by loss aversion, not by victory enthusiasm.
This is a exaggeration of course, but I've been struck by just how many sticky problems have an emotional component.
I have a tendency to ignore emotions in favor of (what seems to me like) the main content, but I limit myself when I do this.
Enthusiasm, despair, excitement, fear - these are too powerful to ignore. But naming them and uncovering the deeper values they reveal helps me make better decisions.
For example, I value minimalism and getting rid of junk but routinely put off doing any decluttering.
I realized that what I call "decluttering" is really better termed "making difficult decisions about my identity."
To get rid of <hobby supplies> that I never use involves confronting the fact that I'm not a <hobby> person. It's painful to realize that I'm not who I wish I was.
Getting rid of something I spent a lot of money on reveals that I wasted the money. I'm not as wise and frugal as I wish I was.
I put off minimalism because I don't have to feel those bad feelings if I don't force myself to evaluate and make the decisions.
And this scenario plays out in a lot of different areas of my life.
I don't take action toward a goal because I don't want to get excited and then fail and have to face the disappointment. Easier to coast along content with the status quo.
My mom was a florist, and I had to spend a lot of my time helping her when I was a kid growing up. I naturally learned a lot about plants/flowers because of this. I also learned a lot of things that are just nice little tidbits to use later in life (now).
For the guys, always have a vase on hand at home. It doesn't matter much the quality/price. Whenever inviting a friend over, throw some flowers in it. Even if its a bundle from the grocery store. The impression it makes is well worth it. If you really don't like having the flower, give them away at the end of your get together. 2nd good impression from the same source.
As someone else pointed out, the type of flower and the color of the flowers have meanings that you might be unaware. FYI
Some flowers are more fragrant than others, and some have longer "shelf" life. Roses tend to wilt quickly, and aren't the most fragant (to fill a room). Lillies (stargazers, etc) will last a lot longer, and their fragrance can fill a room. ProTip: Once the lilly blooms, pinch off the stamen which is covered in pollen. They will drop off naturally even if you don't, but when the do the pollen dust gets on everything.
Keeping flowers cool prevents them from opening, so if you are buying something in advance you can clear out space in the fridge to help prolong them.
If you need flowers to bloom faster because you forgot and bought last second, you can try using a hair dryer to encourage them to bloom. There's a method to this, so you can read up on it. Bright light is your friend as well. A sunny window is perfect. Avoid the cold.
If the flowers came with a bag of powder as flower food, use only half of it or less. Use more when you change out the water. You should change the water out every couple of days at the longest if not daily for best results.
