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diff --git a/Content/20230712131112-blogging.org b/Content/20230712131112-blogging.org
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ medium : https://rajp152k.medium.com/
 poetry : [[id:21008bf7-42c5-496b-a7a4-43e8df15e242][Poetry]]
 
 * Comment stream
+** 0x2232
+ - what makes a good writing pattern, template?
+ - what really intrigues readers and how to manage their attention and interest over the course of the read?
+ - different ways to capture and retain attention
+ - what does it take to really impress and inspire someone with the written word?
+ - what different kinds of audience that read my work and with what intentions?
+ - ones that are just out there to know random logs rare
 ** 0x2223
  - blogged about my 0x2222th day yesterday
  - the writing style was quite casual and turned out to be refreshingly unique

diff --git a/Content/20230827153308-the_definitive_guide_to_books.org b/Content/20230827153308-the_definitive_guide_to_books.org
@@ -1,17 +1,93 @@
 :PROPERTIES:
 :ID:       20230827T153308.339339
 :END:
-#+title: The Definitive Guide to Books
+#+title: A Pragmatist's Guide to [[id:20240421T173425.305252][Literature]]
 #+filetags: :book:
 
+* Readings
+** Articles
+ - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Literature%3F][What Is Literature? - Wikipedia]]
+ - https://oer.pressbooks.pub/theworryfreewriter/chapter/introduction-to-literature/
+** Books
 * Planning stream
-** 0x216A
+** 0x2233
+ - This is going to be the definitive guide to books
+ - I'll be starting with a base assumption as to what are books
+ - Assuming you're an alien and need a complete introduction as to how books work.
+ - This in turn should help me understand and breakdown all the relevant concepts about content creation
+ - I'd already been reading and writing about writing in general and would like to actually speed up the whole process of writing a book.
+ - will be publishing this as free of cost (might just do it for all the books that I write in the initial phase of my career)
+ - plan on learning the nuances that need to be taken care of when it comes to understanding a domain and writing a book about it.
+ - starting from scratch: archiving out all the old content into the archivals.
+ - checkout [[id:20240421T173425.305252][Literature]]
+* Content Stream
+** 0x2233
+ - Jean Paul Sartre in his Essays talks about Prose and Poetry and their differences : [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Literature%3F][What Is Literature? - Wikipedia]]
+* Archivals
+** Structure and Content
+*** Introduction
+**** Why am I writing this book?
+***** Personal reading journey
+Began at 19 with a technical inclination and hardly ready a book other than something that my curriculum demanded. Over 3 years, read 13 , 41 and 54 books respectively ranging from ....
+- My background with reading books -> initial philosophical blog
+- University was the first time I had time to spare for pursuing hobbies in a balanced manner with independence.
+- I only used to read technically
+**** Who is this book for?
+***** reading experience
+- ones who wish to start reading
+- monolithic readers
+- voracious readers who wish to pump their egos
+*** Abstract
+**** Associated blogs
+**** Why Read
+***** An intricate and comparatively (to photos, videos, etc) potent index into your past :- your time now, in hindsight, will seem denser.
+- depending on what phase of life you read a book in, revisiting your reviews later on will help you recall smaller details that no other media can compare to...
+- stack that into a stream of timestamped reviews and you have a backdoor to your memories so powerful that you can recite the evolution of your intellectual state over that period of time.
+***** Cognitive Benefits
+- can formulate yourself effectively and conversations won't fizzle out because you will be relevant.
+***** Emotional and Intellectual Maturity
+***** Social Benefits 
+- Access to eccentric and interesting communities
+- sustaining a conversation : you may rightfully begin hating small talk
+*** Pragmatics
+**** Associated blogs
+- [ ] Being a sneaky reader
+- [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/hunt-feast-repeat/
+- [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/writing-setup/
+- [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/picc/
+**** what should you read : the joy of reading diversely
+- On idea hunts and ideation feasts
+**** Choosing your next book
+**** Making reading a part of your life
+**** Making the habit stick
+**** Fixating on techniques and tools
+**** Consolidating what you read : reviews, blogs, videos.
+**** That One Book...
+- The one that hits all the right sweet spots right.
+  - you find it at the right phase of your life just when you needed to get into that particular thing and needed inspiration for that one particular thing
+- Leonardo Da Vinci's Biography for Walter Isaacson did it for me
+**** Overcoming Reading Slumps
+*** Writing Books
+**** Associated blogs
+- [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/my-creation-and-publishing-pipeline/
+- [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/most-important-book/                 
+- [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/better-writer/
+- [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/dense-guide-prompt-engineering/
+**** Stepping stones
+**** Choosing your topic
+**** Why write?
+*** Conclusion
+- books are not the way to explore the universe
+- they're definitely a ticket to the insights that'll help you do so
+
+** Archived Planning Stream
+*** 0x216A
 indexing a blog entry into the book's content: https://rajpatil.dev/post/most-important-book/
- - goes in the latter half of the book (on writing books)
-** 0x2146
- - started my morning with 20 mins of mental warm up, listening to a relevant podcast, while juggling and some pushups and squats sprinkled in ...
-   - am definitely awake without my daily caffeine cognitive kick-starter; yet to see how my workouts will be given this is the first day of going caffeine free.
-** 0x2141
+- goes in the latter half of the book (on writing books)
+*** 0x2146
+- started my morning with 20 mins of mental warm up, listening to a relevant podcast, while juggling and some pushups and squats sprinkled in ...
+  - am definitely awake without my daily caffeine cognitive kick-starter; yet to see how my workouts will be given this is the first day of going caffeine free.
+*** 0x2141
 - was thinking of a blog post on how to go about choosing your next book but this is a great opportunity to write a book on everything that is to figure out about books. Given that my best reading spree resulted in consuming 100+ diverse books over a span of two years. I can elaborate pretty well upon how reading can change your life for the better forever change the way you operate.
 - Planning for this to be "the" guide for humans that want to read diversely -> From Dante's Divine Comedy to Da-vinci's codices ..
 - some basic tissue paper math, for the number of hours I need to invest..
@@ -38,59 +114,3 @@ indexing a blog entry into the book's content: https://rajpatil.dev/post/most-im
 
 - will be writing it in the brain dump in different notes 
 
-* Structure and Content
-** Introduction
-*** Why am I writing this book?
-**** Personal reading journey
-Began at 19 with a technical inclination and hardly ready a book other than something that my curriculum demanded. Over 3 years, read 13 , 41 and 54 books respectively ranging from ....
- - My background with reading books -> initial philosophical blog
- - University was the first time I had time to spare for pursuing hobbies in a balanced manner with independence.
- - I only used to read technically
-*** Who is this book for?
-**** reading experience
-- ones who wish to start reading
-- monolithic readers
-- voracious readers who wish to pump their egos
-** Abstract
-*** Associated blogs
-*** Why Read
-**** An intricate and comparatively (to photos, videos, etc) potent index into your past :- your time now, in hindsight, will seem denser.
-- depending on what phase of life you read a book in, revisiting your reviews later on will help you recall smaller details that no other media can compare to...
-- stack that into a stream of timestamped reviews and you have a backdoor to your memories so powerful that you can recite the evolution of your intellectual state over that period of time.
-**** Cognitive Benefits
-- can formulate yourself effectively and conversations won't fizzle out because you will be relevant.
-**** Emotional and Intellectual Maturity
-**** Social Benefits 
-- Access to eccentric and interesting communities
-- sustaining a conversation : you may rightfully begin hating small talk
-** Pragmatics
-*** Associated blogs
- - [ ] Being a sneaky reader
- - [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/hunt-feast-repeat/
- - [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/writing-setup/
- - [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/picc/
-*** what should you read : the joy of reading diversely
- - On idea hunts and ideation feasts
-*** Choosing your next book
-*** Making reading a part of your life
-*** Making the habit stick
-*** Fixating on techniques and tools
-*** Consolidating what you read : reviews, blogs, videos.
-*** That One Book...
- - The one that hits all the right sweet spots right.
-   - you find it at the right phase of your life just when you needed to get into that particular thing and needed inspiration for that one particular thing
- - Leonardo Da Vinci's Biography for Walter Isaacson did it for me
-*** Overcoming Reading Slumps
-** Writing Books
-*** Associated blogs
- - [ ] words as weapons 
- - [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/my-creation-and-publishing-pipeline/
- - [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/most-important-book/                 
- - [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/better-writer/
- - [X] https://rajpatil.dev/post/dense-guide-prompt-engineering/
-*** Stepping stones
-*** Choosing your topic
-*** Why write?
-** Conclusion
- - books are not the way to explore the universe
- - they're definitely a ticket to the insights that'll help you do so
diff --git a/Content/20231212084350-reading.org b/Content/20231212084350-reading.org
@@ -13,3 +13,7 @@ Prefer E-books, for they allow me to efficiently carry around my currently activ
 
 * Prominent Nodes
  - [[id:e8c0b214-fa70-4462-8d44-ae0282d14981][The List]]
+ - [[id:20240420T190107.545784][The Reader]]
+ - [[id:20240420T190123.489781][The Writer]]
+
+
diff --git a/Content/20240114203847-agent.org b/Content/20240114203847-agent.org
@@ -4,4 +4,8 @@
 #+title: Agent
 #+filetags: :meta:
 
-An [[id:20240114T203601.390070][Entity]] with the ability to perform an Action
+An [[id:20240114T203601.390070][Entity]] with the ability (at-least) to perform an Action.
+
+Complex versions there-of might delve into the ability to think, comprehend, formulate, make decisions over the basic requirement of being capable of acting.
+
+An Agent that only thinks and doesn't act (or isn't capable of consequences) isn't an entity of significant consequence.
diff --git a/Content/20240420190107-the_reader.org b/Content/20240420190107-the_reader.org
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+:PROPERTIES:
+:ID:       20240420T190107.545784
+:END:
+#+title: The Reader
+#+filetags: :archetype:meta:
+
+This is an [[id:20240420T192711.041969][Archetype]].
+
+I plan on being an accomplished [[id:20240420T190123.489781][writer]]. Understanding the incentives of my readers is going to be paramount for me to create [[id:20240420T192504.510029][content]] that achieves its purpose.
+
+Moreover, being able to adapt varying incentives in an aware fashion when you're reading particular works might be helpful towards consuming the content in front of you more meaningfully.
+
+* Dimensions of Readers' Incentives
+ - Fact Orientation
+ - Intellectual Malleability
+ - Intensity of Attention
+
+* Practical Instances of Readers and their incentives
+ - Researcher
+   - to know
+   - to understand
+   - to build further research 
+ - Student
+   - to know
+   - to understand
+   - to apply
+ - News Consumer
+   - to be informed
+   - base decisions on current affairs
+ - The Philosopher
+   - to understand how others think
+   - to think better
+   - grasp the eternal affairs better
+ - The Pragmatic
+   - towards a definitive purpose
+   - efficient with his choices
diff --git a/Content/20240420190123-the_writer.org b/Content/20240420190123-the_writer.org
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+:PROPERTIES:
+:ID:       20240420T190123.489781
+:END:
+#+title: The Writer
+#+filetags: :archetype:meta:
+
diff --git a/Content/20240420192504-content.org b/Content/20240420192504-content.org
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+:PROPERTIES:
+:ID:       20240420T192504.510029
+:END:
+#+title: Content
+#+filetags: :meta:
+
+From a lexical perspective:
+
+[[id:20240420T190107.545784][The Reader]] consumes the content that the [[id:20240420T190123.489781][The Writer]] produces.
+
+Understanding the nuances of both and the intermediary (this node) should help me better my abilities as both.
diff --git a/Content/20240420192711-archetype.org b/Content/20240420192711-archetype.org
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+:PROPERTIES:
+:ID:       20240420T192711.041969
+:END:
+#+title: Archetype
+#+filetags: :archetype:meta:
+
+Inheriting from the base type that an [[id:20240114T203847.960609][Agent]] is.
+
+Being able to take on different archetypes on demand is a valuable skill. It helps you with:
+ - comprehending a domain from multiple perspectives, managing blind spots and biases that one archetype might exhibit.
+ - multiple degrees of freedom when it comes to dealing with a particular action, that is, better structuring and understanding your own incentives.
+
diff --git a/Content/20240421173425-literature.org b/Content/20240421173425-literature.org
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+:PROPERTIES:
+:ID:       20240421T173425.305252
+:END:
+#+title: Literature
+#+filetags: :meta:
+
+Defining literature neatly is a challenging task. Do checkout [[id:20240421T174402.732098][Authors]], for separating a creator from his creation is another intriguing undertaking as well.
+
+* Readings
+** Books
+ - Qu'est-ce que La Literature (What is Literature?) by Jean Paul Sartre
+** Articles
+ - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/
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+:PROPERTIES:
+:ID:       20240421T174402.732098
+:END:
+#+title: Authors
+#+filetags: :author:meta:
+
+* Abstract
+Separating creators from their creations, understanding their distilled essence of a corpora of works over their lifetimes is an interesting exercise. I consider reading an author rather than segregating the works as they chose to present it.
+
+With this node I intend to map out the transference, consolidation, rejection, evolution and creation of ideas across authors. This is an eternal work in progress and I wish to understand what the author really wants to convey rather than just what is presented in their works. I intend to read up on their works in the close future. This list is (of course) non exhaustive and will grow in scope as and when my interests expand.
+
+One major intent to read influential authors is that several abstract and tangible phenomena are eponyms.
+
+I'll be reading across cultures to extract generic patterns, with the overall intention being understanding the evolution of their thought more than criticising their works based on the current intellectual state of the art.
+
+I'll be restricting myself to authors that talk more about eternal affairs than being limited to a specific era. Consequently, the list will be alphabetically ordered.
+
+* Authors
+** [[id:20240421T190838.435845][Adi Shankaracharya]]
+** [[id:20240421T191456.119428][Albert Einstein]]
+** [[id:20240421T191601.247161][Amartya Sen]]
+** [[id:20240421T184157.603182][Aristocles(Plato)]]
+** [[id:20240421T184259.228938][Aristotle Stagiritis]]
+** [[id:20240421T190355.002106][Arthur Schopenhauer]]
+** [[id:20240421T184902.080883][Aryabhata]]
+** [[id:20240421T190119.376585][Baruch Spinoza]]
+** [[id:20240421T191132.805459][Bertrand Russel]]
+** [[id:20240421T185958.167936][Blaise Pascal]]
+** [[id:20240421T185336.284452][Carl Jung]]
+** [[id:20240421T184613.903136][Chanakya]]
+** [[id:20240421T184841.184625][Charaka]]
+** [[id:20240421T185527.317244][Charles Darwin]]
+** [[id:20240421T191710.591979][Clive Stapes Lewis]]
+** [[id:20240421T190307.993234][Edmunde Burke]]
+** [[id:20240421T185925.439433][Epictetus]]
+** [[id:20240421T185558.541625][Epicurus]]
+** [[id:20240421T183725.957184][Freidrich Nietzsche]]
+** [[id:20240421T191635.336279][George Edward Moore]]
+** [[id:20240421T183816.206670][George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]
+** [[id:20240421T190137.528820][Gottfreid Liebniz]]
+** [[id:20240421T191358.646855][Henri Poincaré]]
+** [[id:20240421T185420.084746][Heraclitus]]
+** [[id:20240421T183846.119756][Immanuel Kant]]
+** [[id:20240421T190152.504795][Isaac Newton]]
+** [[id:20240421T190246.369385][Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]
+** [[id:20240421T183853.959887][Jean Paul Sartre]]
+** [[id:20240421T190443.858304][Karl Max]]
+** [[id:20240421T191413.950896][Karl Popper]]
+** [[id:20240421T191210.582176][Kurt Gödel]]
+** [[id:20240421T191026.524926][Laozi]]
+** [[id:20240421T185843.919025][Lucius Annaeus Seneca]]
+** [[id:20240421T185901.983388][Marcus Aurelius]]
+** [[id:20240421T183837.719216][Martin Heidegger]]
+** [[id:20240421T190430.241889][Max Stirner]]
+** [[id:20240421T191101.021271][Miyamoto Musashi]]
+** [[id:20240421T185121.994381][Nicollo Machiavelli]]
+** [[id:20240421T185451.844492][Parmenides]]
+** [[id:20240421T184811.624243][Patanjali]]
+** [[id:20240421T191824.563587][Paulo Freire]]
+** [[id:20240421T191745.392461][Paul Ramsey]]
+** [[id:20240421T190415.137895][Ralph Waldo Emerson]]
+** [[id:20240421T184513.038076][Ravana(Ramayana)]]
+** [[id:20240421T185222.955087][René Descartes]]
+** [[id:20240421T183750.557449][Sigmund Freud]]
+** [[id:20240421T184007.177211][Sōkrátēs ho Aischínēs]]
+** [[id:20240421T191539.151135][Steven Pinker]]
+** [[id:20240421T191034.789017][Sun Tzu]]
+** [[id:20240421T184650.879243][Swami Vivekananda]]
+** [[id:20240421T190656.467051][Ved Vyasa]]
+** [[id:20240421T190322.889599][Voltaire]]
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+#+filetags: :author:
+
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+:PROPERTIES:
+:ID:       20240421T183750.557449
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+#+title: Sigmund Freud
+#+filetags: :author:
+
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+:PROPERTIES:
+:ID:       20240421T183816.206670
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+#+title: George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
+#+filetags: :author:
+
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+:PROPERTIES:
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+#+title: Martin Heidegger
+#+filetags: :author:
+
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+#+title: Immanuel Kant
+#+filetags: :author:
+
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+#+title: Jean Paul Sartre
+#+filetags: :author:
+
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