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flying cars, consumer robotics, jet engines, energy abundance faust.ooo, july.rocks flyingperfect.substack.com
i speak english, japanese, some dutch since an early age, i took german and spanish in middle school, i took french in high school, i learned mandarin mostly on my own, levantine arabic, italian because its close enough to spanish and french because latin and now cantonese
i don't really have a strategy except:
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Duolingo is like hiring a stripper and having sex with them I.e. you’re paying for a dopamine hit
nothing wrong with a dopamine hit, it won’t help you grow as a person though
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I’ve started learning Cantonese recently and it’s the most fun I’ve had learning something new in a while
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“I never doubted that the readers for whom I effectively wrote would grasp the principal significance of the portrayal straight away. It is time that the impassioned dispute between classicists and romantics should finally be reconciled. The principal thing is that we should properly cultivate ourselves; the source fro...
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I like the idea of my next blog post as: 'Anyway, Godspeed'
I've been thinking about this idea, this concept of being able to wish a wish for the world, for your community, for others, for yourself. In the form of a desire, a wish, something that is ultimately out of your control.
As a wish, to say, even in the face...
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