100 something essays later… My aim with this blog: to “know myself” and “help people suffer less”. I feel good about the first part – the journey to “know myself” is now quite alive, and will carry on as long as I do. As for “help people suffer less”, I never really knew what to…
“[Life] sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert.” Albert Camus What does it mean to embody freedom? An interview with no self, for the sake of no self. Dear self, you are hard to pin. When I think I’ve found you,…
In the novel Infinite Jest, a film makes its way around that, upon watching, is so damn good, it kills the viewer. They literally sit there … stupefied, soiling themselves, failing to eat or hydrate or move, until their body surrenders to death. Anyone attempting to save the person will invariably catch a glance of…
I keep a list of coincidences in my phone. A few times per year I toss things in. I keep the bar high – there should be a real, “no f’ing way” aspect to whatever lives there. Otherwise, it doesn’t belong. One just happened. I’ll share. November 3, 2022 A housekeeper visits my place monthly.…
Your life is a work of art that is already beautiful and complete. Each moment, a new opportunity to paint, but never for a moment lacking in completeness. When it ends, it ends, but at no point were you missing anything. It was beautiful all along. Part II. Art, literally, is expression on canvas. But…
“When I choose to see the good side of things, I’m not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It’s how I’ve learned to survive through everything.”– Waymond Wang What is life? Any attempt to distill it will fall short. Here goes one, anyway: Life is grappling with the idea of infinite potential realities for…
I can’t shake the feeling that writing on medium (or the internet broadly) is like believing I am crafting a meal that optimizes nutrition, but then trying to sell it in a store where most people love junk food. Short click-baiting titles, high doses of opinion, unclear ties to objective facts, and optimizing the capture…
“What I want is what I’ve not got But what I need is all around me Reaching searching never stop” – Jimi Thing A fundamental human condition: we are burdened with desire for something we don’t have. We may not know exactly what we need – but what feels most certain is that we don’t…
When You’re Ugly I fucking love everything about these humans and this video. It’s one thing to watch this and be entertained by all the absurdity. The penis heads. The deadpan faces. The napoleon dynamite moves. The rage against two mailboxes and a keyboard. The incredible compositional and creative talent. But beyond entertainment – what…
Contents: Plato’s Cave; Default vs. Meta Reality In 380 BC, Plato described prisoners held captive in a cave since birth. The cave allowed some light in – prisoners watched shadows cast upon the wall as people and animals walked by. The shadows were the only representation of the world they knew. One day a prisoner…
2023 is a year of important paralysis. Urges to express are defeated by a question: “why?”. Having no good answer, I decline. Between 2020 and 2023, my “why” was unraveling the yarn of my life. Looking to dissect myself, only to finally realize there was nobody there. From this position, what more is there to…
“Wisdom is one of the grandest and oddest words out there, so lofty it doesn’t sound like something one could ever consciously strive to be. Nevertheless, it deserves to be an aspiration.” Alain de Botton “Wisdom is one of those qualities that is difficult to define—because it encompasses so much—but which people generally recognize when…
“A crisis of wisdom as the defining crisis of our time? This diagnosis, and from a scientist and scholar at that, is unusual. Science, psychology and even the multitude of modern and postmodern therapies and social practices, have not been able to fill the vacuum.” Thomas Steininger “Who wants to be wise anymore? People want…
“There’s a deep continuity between the way biological life self-organizes and the way cognition self-organizes, which means there is a deep interconnection and interdependence between the functioning of your brain and the functioning of your body.” John Vervaeke Does the world need another fitness essay or influencer? Nah. I will merely share as evidence -…
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