About

A culture given a powerful and accessible tool for learning and building wisdom would in time be stronger than any ruler, it would come to a different, more democratic form of government

— Martin Jesenský, taken from: Magister Ludi Diaries, 1980 - 1984

Book and News

Mirage Mir /mɪˈrɑːʒ mɪər/ means 2 things at least:

• a book you can read,
• a newsletter you can subscribe to.

The book and the news are connected.

Worldplay

Mirage Mir grows out of a certain way to remember and learn, to write a diary:

• instead of describing a real world event or environment
• you put into words the story or scene
  • it stimulates,
  • reminds of,
  • or inspires.

In time, you will accumulate a vast amphitheater of interconnected particles for the events and states you find interesting.

Particles in the form of story vectors/fragments, characters or scenes.

A paracosm.

While engaging with this imaginary world, often you will grasp or solve some real world problem, see it from another angle.

This pleasure brings professional insight and professional insight enhances pleasure. Private passion for worldplay influences professional vocation and vice versa.

Sanity engine

The more you experience and learn, the better paracosm you have — and the better paracosm you have, the more amusing and easier it is to learn and move, do something — you have intrinsic motivation to expend mental energy.

And that is the key ingredient — the key ingredient not just for important work, but in fact any work or learning.

A sincere interest in something that matters — to be able to fuck around and find out.

Intrinsic motivation is the main problem that supersedes and overrides all other problems of knowledge or important work.

Any advice on personal development is therefore only useful if one is not tired or burned out.

If youe really want to fuck around and find out, to study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible, then we have to feel alive.

To feel wonder and interest.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

For real change someone has to care.