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Let's try to keep thoughtful notes and snippet ideas here.

Readings

Lao Tzu 老子
- Ch79: Debt 負債 : html-screen, pdf-print
Debt 負債論
- Sufi Nasruddin Witty Story 頓知話: html-screen, pdf-print
- Comedian Steve Wrigth Vaudeville 頓知話: html-screen, pdf-print

English Through Pictures(1945) lessons, extras

a, the: "a hand", "the thumb"
- "This is a hand. This is the thumb." html-screen, pdf-print
  - extra: Why "the thumb" is special: html-screen, pdf-print

Racket

sxml

learning-racket-sxml

Freedom Learning

Enough Pages

Local Farmers' Short Video sparks Enough: html, pdf-single-page
Enough is Enough ¹ English and Japanese excerpts: html , pdf-single-page
More 老子 Lao Tzu on Enough: Ch33 html , pdf-single-page
Avoid Collapse: Work Toward Enough: html , pdf-single-page

Knowing Enough 知足、足るを知る。

Enough is Enough¹ could be a guiding principle. What the core words, structures, and techniques that are enough to get started? Ogden's Basic English and the Language Through Pictures books (especially English Through Pictures Book 1 and Book 2) provide hints.

Enough English
- A small number of words and structures for a wide area of expression.
Enough Emacs
- A small set of core techniques that will make it interesting to do more learning. Putting together a small set of habits that work together will get people through the entrance (over the threshold) and into the house (or world, or environment) of emacs.
Enough Racket
- A few structures taken from The Little Schemer and The Schemer's Guide along with a few useful packages can work in place of Office Software.

concepts

Threshold concepts, important ideas, key thoughts to keep in mind.

McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Threshold Concepts get priority
- David Katz of Gestalt Psychology: Mental Dazzle
  - Cognitive Overload, Information Overwhelm…
Cascading for Ecological Footprint, Material Footprint: Sustainability
Recursion
D.R.Y.: Don't Repeat Yourself.
C.o.C.: Convention Over Configuration.
M.V.C.: Model View Control.
- Structure, Styling, Scripting.
- Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic
知足(ちぞく) 足るを知る

details

GNU/Linux Debian/Ubuntu
- set http_proxy in bash then use sudo -E
- sudo -E apt update
- sudo -E apt upgrade
- sudo -E apt full-upgrade, dist-upgrade ??
- sudo -E purge –autoremove
- sudo -E apt do-release-upgrade # for Ubuntu
  - And for Debian?
Racket raco packages
- sudo -E raco pkg install –scope installation –deps search-auto pict-abbrevs
- sudo -E raco pkg update –deps search-auto pollen
emacs
- Work with Japanase
  - japanese-skk edit dictionary .skk-jisyo
  - add this dictionary to ibus-skk too, in addition to system
- (global-set-key (kbd "C-h あ") 'apropos-command)
  - (global-set-key (kbd "C-x お") 'other-window)
  - (global-set-key (kbd "C-x 5 お") 'other-frame)

Footnotes:

Enough is Enough by Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill. I found the book throught Kohei Saito's 「人新世と資本論」 which is supposed to be translated as Marx and the Anthropocene.