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- • Ren Ryba (they/them)
- • I live and work on the unceded land of the Kaurna people
- • “Ryba” means “fish” in Slovak, Polish and probably a bunch of other languages, and it rhymes with “belieber” (no relation)
- • I like soccer
My work
- • My animal advocacy research (Animal Ask website)
- • My academic publications (Google Scholar)
- • Additional research and other resources/hot takes (Effective Altruism Forum)
Blog
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- Taking a beating
- Workflow for taking notes from scientific papers
- Some poems by Buddhist nuns of Late Imperial China
- Some bangers from Essentialism
- Are most statements wrong?
- Hesitate, but make it snappy
- Nobody has any idea whether wild-caught fishing is good or bad
- Do everything in plain text
- Measuring human history
- Some data on respiratory infections in Australia
- 39 books: my reading list for 2024-25
- Some quotes on suffering-focused ethics
- On welfare vs abolitionism in animal advocacy
- A modest view of doing good
- Convert open-source classical texts to plaintext audiobooks
- Double dividends
- Books I have read (August 2023 -> April 2024)
- Abundance and scarcity
- Some notes on face masks
- Random ways to improve focus
- Is the United States likely to collapse? Should social justice advocates respond?
- Seclusion and public servce
- Focus (my productivity system)
- Some thoughts on AI
- You know what you need to do!
- Japanese death poems
- Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton
- Some types of monastic life that I find exciting
- Some poems
- Some photos of eukaryotes
- Some bangers from Bashō
- Some bangers from Bodhidharma
- Religion as counterculture
- Forming a lotus bud
- Some excerpts from poems by Buddhist masters
- The four levels of accepting others
- Three ingredients for sustaining an impactful career
- The best and worst things people have said about me
- Nerds with laptops
- Integrating practice and work
- Some definitions on personal development and transcendence
- Resources: Trans and queer soccer
- Holding space
- Every book I’ve read in the past five years
- Resources: Slow productivity
- Practicing when your world is torn apart
- I know nothing
- Why pigeons are the greatest
- Underappreciated classic: The Caigentan by Hong Zicheng (1590)
- The four layers of reality
- The four ingredients of a thought or feeling
- Resources: Trans and queer spirituality
- Resources: Political history of the Czech Republic
- Are they called shrimp or prawns?
- Resources: Psychology of self-actualisation
- Some quotes on Jesus from some contemporary New Testament scholars
- Some quotes on the mystical nature of the Divine
- Passages on renunciation
- Resources: The modern hermit life
- Some thoughts on lineage in Buddhism
- Even great masters have bad days
- Be compassionate, but not a pushover