Markus said...

The Anula tribe of Northern Australia associate the dollar-bird with rain, and call it the rain-bird. A man who has the bird for his totem can make rain at a certain pool. He catches a snake, puts it alive into the pool, and after holding it under water for a time takes it out, kills it, and lays it down by the side of the creek. Then he makes an arched bundle of grass stalks in imitation of a rainbow, and sets it up over the snake. After that all he does is to sing over the snake and the mimic rainbow; sooner or later the rain will fall. Frazer, The Golden Bough That last sentence (emphasis mine) is probably my favorite in the entire written literature.

Thou shalt not write boring blog posts

Read before your next brainstorming session: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPBmbgYZpsGqkiz2R/problem-solving-with-mazes-and-crayon And if your problems look nothing like a maze, start by making a map – they will.

I bet the tech world is what it is today because too many teenagers in the 90ies made a wish to spend their nights ****ing with models.

If you're using books to feed a fire, it doesn't matter what the books say.