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--- imported_by: wikihub-q7gz scraped_at: 2026-01-30 source_gdoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WL_sPn8rcMigt6ula7_mxmrgjO91u7PPPMO_dW-c8EY source_url: http://Commentaries.jacobcole.net title: Commentaries visibility: public --- ([under](http://jacob.dashbrd.site/) [construction](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WL_sPn8rcMigt6ula7_mxmrgjO91u7PPPMO_dW-c8EY/edit)) Ideaflow - [Ideaflow.io](http://ideaflow.io) • [iOS](http://apps.apple.com/us/app/ideaflow-notes/id6463830566)\ • [Hiring! Full stack, iOS engineers, & more](http://ideaflowhiring.jacobcole.net) Featured Projects - [NVCtranslator.com](http://nvctranslator.com) <!-- --> - [About](https://typefully.com/jacobCole4000/nvctranslator-iXTBdgc) <!-- --> - [InstaDefine](http://easydefine.com/instadefine/) (instant dictionary) - [incepto.house](http://incepto.house) Wellness - [qigong.garden](http://qigong.garden/) - [[chronicpain]] <!-- --> - [rsiwiki.jacobcole.net](http://rsiwiki.jacobcole.net) Public Benefit - [[admitsphere]] (College Application Advice Wiki \>400k users) - [jcombinator.network](http://jcombinator.network/) Collaborative Resource Documents - [[systematicawesome]] – being helpful, at scale <!-- --> - [[thoughtfulweb]] - [[foodslist]] - [manifestos.world](http://manifestos.world/) - [issuetracker.world](http://issuetracker.world/) <!-- --> - [Progressbars.world](http://progressbars.world) (WIP) <!-- --> - [ideabank.global](http://ideabank.global/) <!-- --> - [[startupideas]] <!-- --> - [[chronicpain]] <!-- --> - [RsiWiki.jacobcole.net](http://rsiwiki.jacobcole.net/) <!-- --> - - [Connectr.site](http://connectr.site) <!-- --> - [WorldQuestGuild.connectr.site](http://worldquestguild.connectr.site/) - [ThingsYouDidntKnowExisted.connectr.site](http://thingsyoudidntknowexisted.connectr.site) <!-- --> - Selected Pages: [[index]] [edit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WL_sPn8rcMigt6ula7_mxmrgjO91u7PPPMO_dW-c8EY/edit) Blog - [medium.com/@jacobcole4000](https://medium.com/@jacobcole4000) - Talks <!-- --> - [A Global Idea Bank: The Age of Massive-Scale Coordination Systems; Stanford ASES Summit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70HL0yrsRQU) <!-- --> - [typefully.com/jacobCole4000](https://typefully.com/jacobCole4000) <!-- --> - [Twitter @jacobCole4000](https://twitter.com/jacobCole4000) <!-- --> - [JacobBlog](https://jacobblog.tpclubs.com/) (Temp. down) <!-- --> - [Favorite Quotes](https://www.jacobblog.tpclubs.com/good-quotes/) (old) - [ideacast.jacobcole.net](http://ideacast.jacobcole.net) <!-- --> - [Quotes.jacobcole.net](http://quotes.jacobcole.net/) - [Books.jacobcole.net](http://books.jacobcole.net/) - Recipes.jacobcole.net More Projects - More [Ideaflow.io](http://ideaflow.io) <!-- --> - [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ideaflow) - -- (old) -- - About.ideapad.io <!-- --> - [Idea Development Environment (IDE) Discussion](http://ideaflowplan.jacobcole.net) <!-- --> - tutorial.ideapad.io - [Idea Matching Algorithm Paper](https://docs.google.com/document/d/113OoenkdNGJPW6XwOZdfYnhWtS1UoXx2XnrSM_GViag/edit) - [Globalideabank.connectr.site](http://globalideabank.connectr.site) <!-- --> - [[hackathonprojects]] <!-- --> - [St. Catherine’s College Oxford Ideas](http://jcr.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/ideas/) (\* link dead) <!-- --> - [Mitsuggestionbox.tk](http://mitsuggestionbox.tk/) (\* link dead) <!-- --> - [Collaborative Ideation Discussion: ideaflow.jacobcole.net](http://ideaflow.jacobcole.net) <!-- --> - [InstaDefine](http://easydefine.com/instadefine/) (instant dictionary) - [[admitsphere]] (\>400k users) - [Jcombinator.network](http://jcombinator.network/) - [WhyIsItAwesome](http://whyisitawesome.jacobcole.net/) – Wiki of why all the things that are awesome are awesome - [Minimalist Homepages](http://minimalisthomepages.jacobcole.net/) – How to make a minimalist homepage - [LEGO Mindstorms Robot Gallery](http://lego.jacobcole.net) - [[thingsyoudidntknowexisted]] – Local wikis for MIT, SF, NYC, and more <!-- --> - [JacobsStuff Labs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kah-lfY9sj_c1JjdiIM-YmPUqNrsuKdac4NHfrwbzF4/edit) - [JacobsStuff.com](https://tpclubs.com/jacobsstuff/)\* (\* link dead) - Past: [Politify.us](https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/23/would-you-be-richer-if-obama-or-romney-won-politify-shows-you/) (\> 4 million hits; founding team member – \* link dead) - [MITDoc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bT_ncm0h-zrZZsAmmaNrieVM9LrhNQbBX5TZnGDPMBg/edit) Repos - [github.com/tmad4000](http://github.com/tmad4000) Writing - [Favorite Writings](https://www.jacobblog.tpclubs.com/category/favorites/) (temp down) - [A Buddhist/Vedantic Reading of the Brothers Karamazov](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCLF7QFruvWlg9LD40dBUhyu094517IsN3OCliNyiR0/edit?usp=sharing) Poetry - [Everlasting](https://www.jacobblog.tpclubs.com/2010/01/programming-poetry/) (temp down) - [Reading/Audiomanip of Blake’s Tyger (see mix)](http://tpclubs.com/jacobsstuff/other/tyger/) (temp down) Art/Photoshop - [Photoshop Musings](http://tpclubs.com/photoshopgallery/index.php?album=jacobcolephotoshop) (\* link dead) Articles - [[ifiran|What I would do if I ran various companies]] - [Untapped](http://allafrica.com/stories/201308190100.html) [Internet Potential & the Tanzania-MIT Telehackathon](http://allafrica.com/stories/201308190100.html) – Tanzanian Standard ([Full Article](https://www.jacobblog.tpclubs.com/2013/08/hackercasting-tested/#more-450)) - [Why Pusheen the Cat is Significant](https://www.jacobblog.tpclubs.com/2013/08/why-pusheen-is-significant/) (temp down) Tutorials/Teaching - [How to Teach Yourself Web Development](https://sites.google.com/view/whyisitawesome/how-to-get-into-web-development?authuser=0) - [Rubik's Cubing/Twisty Puzzle Tutorials & Info](http://tpclubs.com/jacobsstuff/files/cubing/) - [How to make your own minimalist homepage](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16mZC7AqnNdBosLwYaHSyZSqQEKuoggT3mIfVIoaqvOA/pub) - [Meditation, Yoga, Tai Chi](https://sites.google.com/view/whyisitawesome/meditation-yoga-tai-chi-qigong) <!-- --> - New: [[meditation]] <!-- --> - MIT ESP <!-- --> - [Learn to Program By Writing AI For Battling Tank Robots](http://robocode.jacobcole.net/) - Beginner and Intermediate yoyo-ing - “The Mystery of Consciousness” (which explores the relation between systems neuroscience, meditation, computer science, and literature)" [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fy61aODg4EeUe4rxaHuCz3M7d2ADaLHzzAt1u5asOXc/edit#slide=id.i105) - Literary analysis of pop culture works - How to get into hacking stuff with arduinos - Build a capacitive sensor <!-- --> - Good Posts (Reddit, Quora, etc.) Freelance Web Design - [shaolinkempoarts.com](http://shaolinkempoarts.com/) - [michellecole.com](http://michellecole.com/) Other - [MIT Surf Club](http://web.mit.edu/mitoc/www/#jointrip/mailinglist.html) <surfers@mit.edu> Music Suggestions Box for Me - [Jacob Suggestion Box](http://ideapad.io/jacob-suggestion-box-3) Ideas - [[hackathonprojects]] <!-- --> - [Graph](https://ideapad.io/hackathon-ideas/graph?snapshot=emdr-and-eye-tracking-cool-graph) <!-- --> - [Globalideabank.connectr.site](http://globalideabank.connectr.site) - [[startupideas]] Commentaries - [whyisitawesome.jacobcole.net](http://whyisitawesome.jacobcole.net/) - [A Buddhist/Vedantic Reading of the Brothers Karamazov](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCLF7QFruvWlg9LD40dBUhyu094517IsN3OCliNyiR0/edit?usp=sharing) - Music: Bach vs Beethoven – “Einstein preferred Bach over Beethoven because Beethoven was ‘too personal’ (vs. being in touch with cosmic harmonies)” - Art: "On a Mountain Path in Spring" – connection and harmony with nature - Taoism \#tt - Sun Tzu \#tt Dreams - Have group of people around me just as excited about building stuff as I am to go realize ideas with. Nerdherd! Have one person I spend time programming with on a weekly or greater basis. - furor poeticus (the maker’s frenzy)/ “the quickened, multiplied consciousness” ~Pater - Goal: achieve balanced, wholesome luxury lifestyle in the here and now for myself and others (not in the sense of opulence, but fulfillment and softness – smoothing the sharp corners of the world). - Challenge to all: can you make it through a [super basic qigong/tai chi](https://sites.google.com/view/whyisitawesome/meditation-yoga-tai-chi-qigong?authuser=0) exercise set that 70 year/old ladies pull off with ease? I think if everybody did qigong every morning for 20min, most of the world’s problems would go away. - Become educated and civilized (though not stiffly) and create technologies to enable others to do the same - “I am the dance step of the paintbrush singing I am the sculpture of the song the flame breath of words giving new life to paper yes, I am the creativity that never dies I am the creativity keeping my people alive.” ~Alexis DeVeaux - Twizzle Factory Idea Lab - many more... My Deepest Nature (which I aspire to embody): - Coherent. Curious, innocent, kind, authentic. My Schools / Teachers - Shaolin Kempo Arts — Play - Iyengar Yoga - Patricia Walden. Jarvis Chen. Elise Miller. Judith Lasater. Roger Cole. Peggy Cole. Dave Cole - Yoganananda. Viniyoga: TKV Desikachar - Aro Buddhism - Wearing the Body of Visions By Ngakpa Chögyam Lama Yeshe Vajrayana Buddhism. Gelug - how to see self as you really are. Ossian. - Qigong. Zhineng. Vajrayana - Sun, Raymond, Tiffany. Tai Chi - Cheng Man Ching. William C C Chen. Stanford tai chi. Joe Deishar. Steve Zellman . Dima Grinberg. Alexander Krakolinig. - Engaging the Movement of Life. Non-Violent Communication. Conscious Leadership Group. Patrick Ewers. - Naval - Sri Aurobindo - Shadi. Rafael. - Torrey Pines. MIT. Harvard. Oxford. Del Mar Hills. ID Tech Camp. LEGO Mindstorms. EWMS Surf Team. The Ocean. Mokey. Karate kids. Chase. Jack. Others’ Blogs/Sites - [holdenlee.github.io/blog](https://holdenlee.github.io/blog/) <!-- --> - [holdenlee.wordpress.com/about/](https://holdenlee.wordpress.com/about/) <!-- --> - [Aurellem.org](http://aurellem.org/) – AI, Brain Preservation, [Ideas](http://aurellem.org/thoughts/html/good-ideas.html) - [Alexkchen.substack.com](http://alexkchen.substack.com/) - [Will Zeng](http://willzeng.com/) – Quantum Computing, Category Theory, and Philosophy - [Thomas Braun](https://www.facebook.com/n0logik) – Physics, Self-Realization, and Mind - Meta: [[thoughtfulweb]] Projects from (my continued) [Childhood](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FP2oFG7ZnGo2I2G3VSLxRmNFLwpcodnL/view?usp=sharing) - [Twizzle Cards Trading Card Game](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yW26VNKDHtniTO2S6DEUJ3mFs_JhGx1R/view?usp=sharing), [Story](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ByD6N0YntfP07pm3KgXWdQmzc4TOHe2o/edit) - [Lego.jacobcole.net](http://lego.jacobcole.net/) - [[kidactivities]] More URLs (workshop) - [[buoyantfitness]] - \#meta [projectdb.jacobcole.net](http://projectdb.jacobcole.net) <!-- --> - [worldquestguild.connectordocs.com](http://worldquestguild.connectordocs.com/) - [[globalideabank]] <!-- --> - [minimalisthomepages.com](http://minimalisthomepages.com/) - [Adsa.jacobcole.net](http://adsa.jacobcole.net) - [mit14team.jacobcole.net](http://mit14team.jacobcole.net/) From MIT Tim Talks \#connectorDoc - -- .tk’s largely are expired -- - [HegelTerms.tk](http://hegelterms.tk) ([d](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IMCMviIMGi108LtRAsnZeBbAa2cxuUhf6qQOD6vguA8/edit#)) - [2111AID.TK](http://2111aid.tk/) - [6034BONUS.TK](http://6034bonus.tk/) - [6470PROJECTS.TK](http://6470projects.tk/) - [ADMITSPHERE.TK](http://admitsphere.tk/) - [ARDUINOHSSP.TK](http://arduinohssp.tk/) - [CODERSATOXFORD.TK](http://codersatoxford.tk/) - [CODERSATOXFORDIDEAS.TK](http://codersatoxfordideas.tk/) - [CURIOSITYTHREAD.TK](http://curiositythread.tk/) - [ECSSDOCS.TK](http://ecssdocs.tk/) - [ECSSGOALS.TK](http://ecssgoals.tk/) - 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[TPULTIMATE.TK](http://tpultimate.tk/) - [TZMITHACKATHON.TK](http://tzmithackathon.tk/) - [UNDERGROUNDCURRICULUM.TK](http://undergroundcurriculum.tk/) - [WHATSHOULDIDO.TK](http://whatshouldido.tk/) - [WHYISITAWESOME.TK](http://whyisitawesome.tk/) - [WIKINETSPLAN.TK](http://wikinetsplan.tk/) - [WORLDBUILDINGIDEAS.TK](http://worldbuildingideas.tk/) <jcole@mit.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Click here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16mZC7AqnNdBosLwYaHSyZSqQEKuoggT3mIfVIoaqvOA/pub) to make your own minimalist homepage in 5 minutes [jacobcole.net](http://jacobcole.net) #MinimalistHomepage --- *Source: <http://Commentaries.jacobcole.net>* *Google Doc: <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WL_sPn8rcMigt6ula7_mxmrgjO91u7PPPMO_dW-c8EY>* *Scraped: 2026-01-30*