ROYGBYTE'S 10 COMMANDS FOR A GOOD LIFE
- Be comfortable feeling uncomfortable.
- Lead by interest not ego.
- Measure improvement incrementally.
- Admit and learn from failure.
- Make love from the inside out.
- Have really good bad days.
- Celebrate inspiring people.
- Befriend despite differences.
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About the commands
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Someone on IRC posted a link to Luxferre's phlog. I looked through it
happily, finding many interesting articles on topics of life,
minimalism, and computing. Two articles stood out among others. One
waxes about a world beyond syntax highlighting. The other lays out ten
commandments for living. Both elicited an immediate reaction of
intrigue from me. Could these things change my life for the better? I
sought to discover. First to code without color and then to understand
mine own life's commands.
Turning off syntax highlighting was straightfoward. I use emacs for
most writing and programming. A single line to my config turned my
buffers back to black and white: `(global-font-lock-mode 0)'. Finding
my commandments to live by took a path of indirection. I needed to
reflect back /and/ look forward. What internal or external directives
lead to my best days? What can I do today to make tomorrow better?
Happily, my first seven commands were ripe and ready to pick from the
edges of recent experiences. The eigth command was borrowed (though
rephrased) from a televsion show I admire. The ninth command I leave
blank but annotate to mean "fill-up on emptiness". The tenth command
doesn't exist. Indeed: I began this activity thinking I would arrive
at ten commands to live by. But I never found anything to come after
nine. Maybe there is a final command for me to /find/. Or maybe the
tenth command is to /feel/ that there's something more out there just
waiting to be discovered...
Errata
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Luxferre's phlog post: [0|2024-02-26-luxferres-ten-commandments.txt|/posts/2024-02-26-luxferres-ten-commandments.txt|hoi.st|70]
On "fill-up with emptiness": otherwise expressed as "less is more",
"silence is golden", and so on. I integrate this command into my life
with a cleaning activity beginning from the encouraging prompt "time
to make some space!"