I’m playing a word game.
You can receive knowledge from books or teachers.
But you only learn by action. Action (you), reaction (the world). Now you have learned something on your own, that you—uniquely—possess. And I mean you possess it in a way no one can steal.
Can anyone steal your ability to spell, to multiply numbers? To walk?
Faith without works is dead, says the New Testament. It’s like that in all facets of life. Learning is an iterative acquire/test/refine loop.
Learn by doing.
Freedom.to is now running back-to-back 24 hour sessions.
Haven’t seen X in quite a while. And I’m a happier person.
So you can’t find me on the X on the account for this domain anymore.
Causation or correlation? Don’t care. Life is better.
The hosting renewed for another year. I won’t renew next year.
And then these posts will be dust in the wind. As, eventually. I will be, too. And then all memory of me when everyone who knows me dies.
Meanwhile, Marcus says:
Discard your thirst for books, so that you won’t die in bitterness, but in cheerfulness and truth, grateful to the gods from the bottom of your heart.
“Discard your thirst for books.”
Wat mean, fren?