halal substitute for white wine in cooking

1. Minerals ( pelbagai )

2. Tartaric acid ( from grapes )

3. Flower, fruit, and leaves

4. Yeast, and other microorganisms 

Shortcut? Use a water kefir or kombucha made from grapes or white fruit juices

engagement protocols for prospectors

Q : why would party A engage with party B, if party A has already decided that party B is not efficient to engage?

A1 : party A may continuously engage with party B as a matter of information gathering. 

A2 : party A may also discover how to transfer inefficiency costs to party B, and allow party B to opt out of the engagement, if those methods are not tolerable to party B

How I answered a friend this morning, by illustrating my general approach to society, as I don't find any other individual to be 100% interesting, whereas I constantly engage with less than fully interesting folks, while asserting pressure that may or may not make them more interesting. 

dumbfuck detective

Sometimes I forget that people I'm talking to are dumb and will simply parrot phrases I am using. But they are getting angrier, so I need to go on an adventure to figure out when+why they are angry. 

Often enough, the main reason is an inability to process text without emotional effect. Dumbfuck trait 1

This may be compounded by inability to become disturbed without broadcasting a change in state. This may be due to being verbally unaware of the change. DFT 2

This may be further due to inability to analyse emotional and cognitive states in detail. DFT 3

Usually once I have alerted myself to DFTs 1-3, I can start strategising remedial action. Preventive action is possible if I am more conservative in the first place. Actively avoiding conservativeness is often a lazy strategy to detect dumbfucks. However, there are of ways to work harder in the detection of dumbfucks, if one cares to avoid hurting them in the process of discovery. 

mereness

the measure of success :

- the encashed and happy, will say it is cash

- the smart and happy, will say it is smarts

- the loved and happy, will say it is love

the merely happy, will say it is mereness

hard tack project

alright, the time has come to start baking. the role this has in my career is primarily personal ops, value-maxing on food prep. sabbatical requires me to minimise cash and time expenditure, while maximising cognitive and hypertrophic output

the base case is : rice, oil, and protein powder, require too much hydration, and thus could potentially be substituted with some sort of hard tack

the napkin strategy after a few minutes of Googling is :

1. flour + water + bake : figure out how thick it can be, without becoming too difficult to eat

2. flour + oil + bake : ditto

3. repeat 1 and 2, with baking powder / commercial yeast / natural yeast

4. repeat 1, 2, 3, substituting flour with : soy protein isolate / whey protein isolate / eggs / other supplements like creatine, beta alanine, citrulline, HMB ... with consideration for denaturing of the ingredients ( I really don't know if this is feasible without lab work : I don't have a lab )

oh well, off we go ... this should take a few weeks ...

what do you train for?

cold taken : your daughters should be trained to survive sex trafficking. bar too high? can they survive street assault? how about cat calls? i've had this variety of conversation with ladies since the 90s. it's a matter of being prepared for the weather, orthogonal to demanding the world (men) be less shitty : these are not mutually exclusive activities

identification of business sectors

On vaca, I visited some hospitality businesses. I was reminded that most of the well-known ones exist to entertain the middle- and upper-classes. Folks with entertainment budgets of less than 300 $/year ( about a daily soda ) are rarely seen here. A piece of bread can set you back 2.5 $, in these parts.

I reflected upon my own position in business : I was raised on a low budget for entertainment, and generally identified as poor person despite being over-educated on non-financial matters. I've generally not been interested in the entertainment sector, as I don't personally value its products and services, though I study and purchase them judiciously for others.

I still tend to think about essential and growth-functional services, for the time being. Perhaps at some point in my life I will change. We shall see! 

rage-related boundary conditions

A useful boundary condition for removing counterparties ... folks who can get angry from textual interaction. I think, that is a good illness to exclude. I will apply it more ... 

perkauman dan uang

Padahal banyak orang tidak berpendirian bahawa kaum adalah sesuatu yang penting. Tapi kenegaraan kita merasmikan perkauman sebagai ciri perundangan dan seterusnya ekonomi negara. Jadi, terbiarla kepada politikus klo nak hangatkan atau bekuan isu2 yg berkaitan

Org gerak kpd duit

crying

Crying. Infants cry as a matter of instinct, and adults respond as a matter of instinct. But these behaviours often carry into culture.

For some adults, crying is a legitimate method of calling for help, and responding to crying is expected. For others this is only relevant to children. 

Generally society maintains this instinct of emerrgency call and response. What is debated is whether the calls are about more-:or less-valued things, and whether the response is appropriate in proportion. 

this is my friend card

I think I need to print business cards, defining the use of the word "friends" to mean folks who enjoy communicating with each other.

It also has to deny that any party owes the other any specific obligation, not even a quality of behaviour, unless mutually contracted. 

There are too many people running around with their heads full of ideas about what to presume from other people.

Of course, this is just about cultural preferences between high-context and low-context.

Clean up business! Family is a type of business. Lovers and friends also. 

dating self-sufficient people

1. you're emotionally self-sufficient 

2. you're financially self-sufficient

3. you're not dating to lose such self-sufficiencies

Maybe better copy for my ads

mission : severing the heart of the world

Over the past 20 years I've had all sorts of people come up to me with talk about hearts. I'm not sure if some are more tickled or horrified when they figure out that one of my primary missions is to remove the dependence of human culture on the concepts of empathy and passion. I seek to sever the heart of the world. 

Definition : a mission is a goal, with an incompletely defined set of subgoals. A vision is an end-goal. A vision can parent multiple missions.

culture and force projection

Everyone bets on culture. Some people bet on cultures that are more or less dependent on certain presumptions, such as "people are nice", "people should be nice", "people should assume that others are nice" etc. 

So you have to figure out whose culture is similar to yours, and also how to cooperate with people who have different cultures. Much of THAT figuring out is a lot of work. That is why startups, and dating, and cold sales, are all somewhat complicated subjects. Some more than others. 

THAT may or may not involve causing others a lot of pain, depending on your culture. Some cultures will shove other parties in the preferred direction, and lacking force, they will poke them. 

I think on average, my appetite for risk on earth has been to piss off approximately half the audience, and to win support from an equal amount. I will tend to calibrate my risk levels based on the feedback I get, to reach that operating threshold.