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Tag: life

  • 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…

  • Primal Foundations

    Tl:DR: Devotion > Drive > Courage > Discipline > Intellect. And all of these are downstream from a healthy body. I grew up believing that intelligence, and its active application, was the central keystone to a life well lived. As I stepped into the world and encountered its friction, I realized that was only a…

  • 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…

  • Codex Vitae 2024 – Befriend the Minor Notes

    I’ve been working on myself. I’ve been working, but working on myself. – Orry I’m gonna have to science the shit out of this. – Mark Watney Oh nothing, we just shot the shit. He’s, he’s just a really nice guy, we’re gonna get brunch next week. We uh, we actually have a lot in…

  • Life, The Universe, & Everything

    TL;DR: Paradoxes, Spirals, & Distortions. That is what Life, the Universe, & Everything is. Read On I recently turned 42 and like any true DNA reader, suddenly Life, The Universe, & Everything became all crystal clear to me. Here are some things I’ve learned & become increasingly convinced of: Paradoxes: Paradoxes are self-contradicting statements or…