Re: Quit Shopping For Fun

On 2024-05-18, Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote or quoted:

Quit Shopping For Fun
Learn A Language
Learn To Program

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  The acquisition of possessions is but vanity.
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  The study of tongues doth also prove vain in the end.
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  Even the mastery of the languages by which we instruct
  machines bringeth only a vapor that swiftly dissipates.
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  All is vanity and grasping for the wind!

Use it or lose it.  True learning is fun and playful and improves
quality of life while we still have it.  If it were mere aquisition
of mental possessions, i would quickly become bored with it.

He comprehended that the effort to mold the incoherent and
vertiginous matter dreams are made of was the most arduous task
[one] could undertake...  much more arduous than weaving a rope
of sand or coining the faceless wind...
--Jorge Luis Borges