Better Than Before (Gretchen Rubin) 2026-01-24 books reading self Este é outro livro recomendado em Wired to Eat e outro livro sobre mudança de hábito. É bonitinho, parece bem autoral e escrito por mulher. Devo largá-lo pela subjetividade que não me agrada, mas em alguns poucos momentos pode-se perceber um potencial bom livro escrito por alguém bem metódico.
Never Let Go: A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning (John, Dan) 2025-12-10 reading books > Make yourself a slave to good habits. > Listen, it’s easier to just eat the damn cookie. I know, I’ve been there. Hi, I’m Dan and I’m the guy who knows carbs are bad for me, but I eat them anyway so leave me alone in my corner to sob.
Framework Design Guidelines (Krzysztof Cwalina;Jeremy Barton;Brad Abrams) 2025-10-17 reading computer digest > Make the API to your library as boring as possible. You want the functionality to be interesting, not the API.
Solar Biology 2025-08-30 books reading esoteric > Paul affirmed this in its broadest sense when he said, "By the Logos (the Word, or effectual utterance) the worlds were made." > Thus he stood as the one living; Word or expression of God, as recorded in Genesis i. 26. Thus he became the visible Logos, the one from out of which, we are told, in symbolical language, went four rivers, which form of speech was always used in ancient metaphysics to symbolize the generation of people;
Yes It Can: On the Functional Abilities of the Human Unconscious (Ran R. Hassin, 2013) 2025-07-02 self reading reading > The author presents considerations of evolutionary pressures and of the availability of mental resources that render YIC a reasonable hypothesis. Evidence is then reviewed from various subfields of the cognitive sciences, which shows that functions that were traditionally thought of as requiring consciousness can occur nonconsciously.
A sabedoria dos psicopatas (Kevin Dutton) 2025-07-02 self books reading > Embora a pulsação de todos os desarmadores tenha permanecido estável, algo quase inacreditável ocorreu com os que haviam sido condecorados. Sua pulsação na verdade baixou. Assim que entraram na zona de perigo (ou “zona de lançamento”, como disse um cara com quem conversei), eles assumiram um estado de foco frio e meditativo: um elevado estado de consciência no qual eles e o mecanismo em que estavam trabalhando se tornaram um só.
Cabala: A Energia da Transformação (Roshveder, Eliel) 2025-06-21 self books reading > Meditar na natureza é tocar o divino. > O Criador então criou a humanidade no cosmos, não só aqui, mas em vários mundos, para os humanos ajudarem os anjos a combater o caos e a criar a Ordem rumo ao vaso restaurado, a montagem do quebra cabeça.
Holistic Tarot (Benebell Wen) 2025-06-21 self tarot books reading esoteric > Tarot is about the spectrum of human archetypal conditions and personalities, which can be used by the modern day practitioner for psychological projective evaluation. Irrespective of one’s faith, yoga helps with personal fitness and tarot helps with decision-making.
A Origem das Espécies (Darwin, Charles) 2025-06-21 books reading > “Quanto ao mundo material, podemos pelo menos ir até à conclusão de que os fatos não se produzem em consequência da intervenção isolada do poder divino, manifestando-se em cada caso particular, mas antes pela ação das leis gerais.”
The Willpower Instinct (Kelly McGonigal, 2013) 2025-04-29 self books reading Lendo este livro, mas bem lentamente. Seguem recortes. > I believe that the best way to improve your self-control is to see how and why you lose control. (...) Self-knowledge—especially of how we find ourselves in willpower trouble—is the foundation of self-control. (...) You can—and should—make yourself the subject of your own real-world study.
In Search of the Miraculous (P.D. Ouspensky, 1949) 2025-04-29 self books reading > There was another type of school, with which I was unable to make contact and of which I only heard. These schools promised very much but they also demanded very much. They demanded everything at once. It would have been necessary to stay in India and give up thoughts of returning to Europe, to renounce all my own ideas, aims, and plans, and proceed along a road of which I could know nothing beforehand.
Prometheus Rising (Robert Anton Wilson, 1983) 2025-02-01 books reading > Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves. Este é um livro que transforma vidas. Ele não é apenas para ser lido, mas vivido. Sua sabedoria está em construção e você pode fazer parte dessa jornada de descoberta humana sobre do que somos feitos e como podemos ser outra coisa. Um esotérico e maravilhoso livro sobre nossa consciência e dos infinitos mapas mentais.
Sal, gordura, ácido, calor (Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat) (Nosrat, Samin) 2024-03-30 books cooking reading ## Salt > Though all salt crystals are produced by evaporating water from saltwater brine, the pace of evaporation will determine the shape those crystals take. > Our taste buds can discern whether or not salt is present, and in what amount. But salt also unlocks many aromatic compounds in foods, making them more readily available as we eat. The simplest way to experience this is to taste an unsalted soup or broth.