Samyak's Blog

Tag: agency

  • For Frodo… & For Gondor – The Ranger, The Steward, & The King

    TL;DR: Learning to resist the urge to jump to solve a problem is one of the highest value, yet among the costliest & most difficult-to-imbibe disciplines one can cultivate (personally, professionally, & epistemically). Easter eggs at the end. Frodo needed Strider’s (and many others’) protection from the ring wraiths in his journey. Gondor needed its…

  • Unbracing

    Codex Vitae 2025 I enjoy writing the Codex every year. It sets things in motion for me without requiring my conscious agency. I write it down and the Universe then starts working on those things for me. My own personal agent, with full 40+ years of context window and situational awareness. Writing last year’s Codex…

  • Rig the Universe

    Primary Proposition – The optimal way of living is to Behave as if the Universe is Rigged in Our Favor. Not because it is a form of high thinking & living. But because it is consistent with first order thinking, with the principles of sound behavior. (We will talk about the principles of sound behavior…