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  "It was the hemlock that made Socrates great. Wrest from Cato his sword, his guarantor of liberty, and you take away the greater part of his glory." Seneca, Letters on Ethics #books #philosophy #stoicism #bookstodon

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  "It's better to do less than you hoped, than nothing at all." James Clear, Atomic Habits #books #selfimprovement #habits #bookstodon

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  A commonplace book is where you keep the lines worth keeping. Locus Communis is one you can carry: read, mark the passage, save the exact words, and share what you keep. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon

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  "It was out of this pathos of distance that they first arrogated the right to create values for their own profit, and to coin the names of such values: what had they to do with utility?" Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals #books #philosophy #nietzsche #bookstodon

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  A commonplace book is where you keep the lines worth keeping. Locus Communis is one you can carry: read, mark the passage, save the exact words, and share what you keep. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon

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  "Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet." Joe Abercrombie, The Devils #books #fantasy #grimdark #bookstodon

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  "The Master doesn't talk, he acts. When his work is done, the people say, 'Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!'" Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching #books #philosophy #taoism #bookstodon

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  "Once an individual discovers 31 flavors of ice cream, he will find it difficult to insist that there is only vanilla." Steven Heller and Terry Steele, Monsters and Magical Sticks #books #psychology #mindset #bookstodon

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  "Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, beasts of every land and clime, hearken to my joyful tidings of the golden future time." George Orwell, Animal Farm #books #classics #dystopian #bookstodon

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  "I would be a lot more excited about joining you in serious study if I were once to see you bright-eyed and enthusiastic." Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings #books #stoicism #philosophy #bookstodon

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  "Each individual brings about his own good and his own evil, his good fortune, his ill fortune, his happiness, and his wretchedness." James B. Stockdale, Courage Under Fire #books #stoicism #Stockdale #bookstodon

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  Shipped today: the public book has a Discord relay. The moment a passage is accepted into the commons, it arrives in the community Discord as a share card. The real cover, the exact words, and a link back to the passage in the public book. The commons has a town crier now. First piece of a longer road, clubs bringing their reading into the communities they already have. Locus Communis, a new commonplace book. #buildinpublic #bookstodon

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  Take the whole thing with you, for real. Export your journal to Markdown or JSON anytime, or press it into a printable book. Even a club anthology presses into a real object. Nothing you keep here is ever trapped. https://locuscommunis.com/signup #Bookbinding #CommonplaceBook #Journaling

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  Hey #book #creators I'm working on something to hold a book club's shared reading experience. It's free, and it hopefully is a useful bolt in for discord, and youtube and socials too. Would really appreciate chatting with folks about it! #buildinpublic

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  It's pretty funny that I need to read more to feed my own app and book at this point. #buildinpublic

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  Your margin notes and the passages you keep gather into a journal, a page for each day of reading. Old passages resurface as a daily leaf, so you reread what you once loved. A journal that is genuinely yours. https://locuscommunis.com/signup #Journaling #CommonplaceBook #Bookstodon

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  "You have to standardize before you optimize." James Clear, Atomic Habits #books #Habits #SelfImprovement #bookstodon

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  The words you keep here become a journal that is genuinely yours. Every passage and every margin note stays portable: yours to carry out the door whenever you want. If you ever leave, it leaves with you. https://locuscommunis.com/signup #CommonplaceBook #ReadingLife #Journaling

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  "The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down…" Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland #books #classics #fantasy #bookstodon

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  "We have no right to be 'disconnected'; we must neither err 'disconnectedly' nor strike the truth 'disconnectedly.'" Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals #books #philosophy #Nietzsche #bookstodon

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  Every passage you keep gets a margin, and the margin stays open. Come back in a year and answer your younger self in the same place. That's the whole idea: a book that listens. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon

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  There's a whole library behind your book: shelves for reading, finished, and up next, ratings, and covers by the hundred. Come put your reading life in order. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon

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  Read wherever you already read: paper, ereader, a library loan, someone's borrowed copy. When a line stops you, keep it here. The book you build is the point. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon

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  Sharing a passage now has one flow: pick an excerpt and send it as a card, a banner, plain text, or a link. And your books can dress for the part, with per-book bindings and page-turn effects earned by keeping. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon

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  "Blessed is he who improves us not only when present but even when imagined" Seneca, Letters on Ethics #books #Philosophy #Stoicism #bookstodon

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  The thing that is actually cool about LLMs is that you can leverage them to add features to already good ideas. I've been tinkering with adding an ocr function or webscraper widget for the site. I could have an LLM cool up something workable in an hour. It's a big trade off ethically. So for now I will beat it back to code review and scaffolding. #buildinpublic

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  My Book is a commonplace book of your own. Every line you keep, from novels, films, and TV, bound into one book. Private by default, shown only when you choose. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon

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  "There are four ways men pass through life: as gentlemen, farmers, artisans and merchants." Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings #books #Philosophy #Strategy #bookstodon

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  We keep a public book. Open it to any page and you'll land on a passage a stranger couldn't let go of. No account needed to read it. If a line of yours belongs there, come add it. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon

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  Locus Communis opens like a real book. Pages turn, the spine curves, and the lines you kept wait where you left them. Come read your own margins for a while. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon