Re: Quit Shopping For Fun

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> writes:

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!

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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.

That's pretty tricky as might be quite aware.  I think Stefan Ram is
precisely talking about True Learning.  Intellectual acquisition, I'm
afraid, is no different from other kinds of acquisition.  All is
grasping for the wind!