iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Previnder @previnder.com · 10/09/2026

Big dictionary energy right here.

Previnder @previnder.com · 01/07/2026

Apple did not invent the personal computer. There were operating systems before Windows. There were search engines before Google. There were social networks before Facebook. And there were car companies before Toyota.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 28/06/2026

One persistent problem with designers is that they all work with 5k displays with high pixel density and perfect color calibration and they forget that the majority of people use worse displays everyday (sometimes far worse). A significant portion of the accessibility issues comes from this alone.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 24/06/2026

Either humanity would become one—and all the distinctions of country, race, and religion would fade away—or one day we'd go extinct by our own doing. This multi-polar nuclear standoff cannot continue indefinitely into the future.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 23/06/2026

Nietzsche hits the mark once again.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 23/06/2026

To be truly authentic and always true to oneself is the most radical way to live. Incidentally, it’s one of the things that people near death apparently regret the most: not having lived their life on their own terms.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 22/06/2026

Recently came across this site that you can use to find out which textbooks are the most used in universities around the world. It lets you sort by field, country, institution, etc. Extremely useful for finding good textbooks to read, especially if you’ve only just started studying a subject.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 19/06/2026

There are some who need to hear that, by being too considerate of the feelings of others, they might be in danger of unconsciously assuming that their own feelings are not legitimate.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 18/06/2026

Alexander von Humboldt in his library in his Berlin apartment in 1856, three years before his death at age 89. Not a bad way to spend ones final years, or indeed any years, if you ask me.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 15/06/2026

Decisions are what we make when we don't know what to do.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 14/06/2026

TIL that there’s such a thing as Yen Buddhism in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld universe. Honestly, the majority of the Buddhist monks here in Sri Lanka would feel right at home in it.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 22/04/2026

Reddit user making the case that it’s easier to lobby politicians than most people imagine, and that it’s an underrated method of effecting political change.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 21/04/2026

If you’re not sure what to do right now, set a timer for two minutes, enumerate all the options at your disposable, and pick one of them to do. Among these options, include also the option to extend the amount of time to think about what to do next. Repeat until you know what to do.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 20/04/2026

Never let a moralist, of whatever flavor, be in charge of a creative enterprise. Art has but one purpose: to produce beautiful things. Everything else must be subservient to this ultimate end.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 18/04/2026

Unfortunately, the truest and the most logical arguments are rarely the most persuasive. Rhetoric and reason are therefore always in tension.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 21/02/2026

This was a fun read, though the subject matter might be a little gloomy. There’s a bit of schadenfreude to be enjoyed here at the expense of the abomination of a company that is (or was) Cluely.

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Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

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Previnder @previnder.com · 21/02/2026

Self-preservation at all costs—the man for whom nothing is more valuable than his own life—is the lowest of all creatures. In all of human psychology, nor in the behavior of animals, there’s no baser instinct than this.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 21/02/2026

Whatever your opinion of Greta Thunberg, what she says here sounds unquestionably true. Real conviction of a worthy goal, however distant, can make the world come alive by imbuing one’s life with great meaning and purpose.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 19/02/2026

What if you were completely without fear? Who would you then be? If you tell me you won’t be any different, either you’re one person in a billion or you’re lying, perhaps to yourself as much as to anyone.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 19/02/2026

This is where you’re supposed to be everyday as any kind of creative person.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 05/01/2026

Education proper is the constant and never-ending refining of our model of the world.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 04/01/2026

There is an underrated danger to too much information consumption; which is that in the noise, one tends to forget the basics, the fundamentals, which are the most important to keep in mind.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 23/12/2025

Michael Lynch (@mtlynch.io) has compiled here a wonderful list of essays about software that influenced him. The ones I’ve read (and I’ve read a few before) have all been very good.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 15/12/2025

Take everything and nothing seriously, at the same time. Contrary to how this sounds, this is not paradoxical.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 14/12/2025

If you’re not Steve Jobs, however, it’s probably for the best if you disregard the advice implied here.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 13/12/2025

Standing in front of the entire human race, looking at the faces in the crowd, and them looking back at you. How do you relate to them? What words do you have for them? Do you feel naked in front of them?

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Previnder @previnder.com · 13/12/2025

When you plan for the future, try not to be a tyrant over your future self.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 12/12/2025

Complete disengagement from time to time, from whatever it is that you’re doing, even sometimes from your whole daily routine and way of life, is critical for maintaining perspective.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 12/12/2025

Not to sound all grandiose, but recently, there has been this nagging feeling that I was put on this Earth for a purpose and that I’m not fulfilling that purpose. It’s probably time for a reinvention of the self.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 17/11/2025

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time." — Leonard Bernstein

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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 15/11/2025

Are we still doing starter packs? Put this one together because I love seeing things that lovely folks write on the internet, and I'm sure there are more people to meet and add to this list. go.bsky.app/AnM2t7r

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Previnder @previnder.com · 11/11/2025

If people can predict you, they'll take you for granted.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 11/11/2025

If you can think of yourself not merely as this self limited by this body, but as part of the human race, as part of life, then your own inevitable death wouldn’t appear so tragic.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 08/11/2025

When I really think about it, at bottom, there's very little I want for myself.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 08/11/2025

Everything that needs to be said is not already said.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 04/11/2025

Reading too many books, watching too many videos, reading too many articles, etc. Some amount of information consumption is absolutely critical, but taken too far this is time that could rather be spent doing and practicing and creating and contemplating.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 04/11/2025

Pretend that you have more than enough time—after all, you might.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 24/10/2025

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” — Heraclitus

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Previnder @previnder.com · 24/10/2025

Motivation provided by alluring images of possible distant futures is great at the beginning of a pursuit, but it's not nearly enough to sustain that pursuit once it’s begun.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 23/10/2025

Yesterday’s tasks remain for today.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 23/10/2025

Nothing baffles me more than the fact that people just seem to go about their lives everyday with no apparent consciousness of the sheer incomprehensible mystery that is existence.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 20/10/2025

Listen to the silence in between the notes and you’ll hear the music better.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 19/10/2025

In the place that anxiety now occupies in the atmosphere of your mind, you could have curiosity instead—curiosity, specifically, about what might happen.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 17/10/2025

Derek Parfit on the effect that understanding the fact that there’s no unique and unchanging self—the lack of a sort of serial number to us that remains fixed in time—had on his outlook on life in general (quote from his book “Reasons and Persons”).

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Previnder @previnder.com · 17/10/2025

The slower I start the day the better it seems to go.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 14/10/2025

Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific writers in history. Most people know him from the Foundation series, I Robot, and other works of science fiction, but he wrote more than 500 books in his lifetime. Here’s how he, in his own words, was able to be so prolific.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 14/10/2025

Nihilism and addiction go hand in hand, because if nothing really matters, hedonism becomes very attractive. Conversely, acquiring a sense of meaning is necessary for overcoming addiction.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 12/10/2025

How free I feel when I remember that I am my own person. In solitude I prosper. But to be in solitude amidst the crowd, there is perhaps nothing greater a person can aspire to than this.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 05/10/2025

People overestimate what can be done in a day and underestimate what can be done in a decade.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 05/10/2025

The goal is not the most money, not the most power, not the most fame, not the most pleasure, and not even the most love. Of course, to be penniless, powerless, friendless, unknown, and unloved are all terrible things, no matter what some enlightened guru would have you believe.

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