Sometimes online, I stumble upon posts of people born before music streaming was a thing and they explain how listening to new music back then was an experience. They would go to the shop, buy a CD…

Make Happiness the object of pursuit and it leads to a wild goose chase. – Nathaniel Hawthorne Finding bliss is centers around not looking for it. Pursuing feelings is a road to nowhere.…

When you sense hatred and negativity in people and the world, that's exactly when you need to double down on[...]

Keeping a system useful can erase evidence of its earlier states as maintenance replaces obsolete arrangements.

There’s an old tool most people have forgotten we own. It doesn’t need a lawyer. It doesn’t need a vote. It doesn’t need a badge or a judge or a single dollar. It’s called the shun. Persistently…

I was reading Elder Gong’s talk from conference. He mentioned the importance of being consistent in good habits and it put me in mind of something that a firearms instructor told me a couple of…

My friend David, who is an outstanding writer, once sent me this text message regarding notes on my latest manuscript: “You’re the best person to receive a note because no […]

When most folks hear the words “quality of life,” they think about money. They think about the price of eggs. The gas pump. The doctor bill sitting on the counter. Whether the check stretches to the…

Wer sich nicht entschieden hat, hat sich entschieden.

🪷 Finding True Peace: A Reflection on “You Are the Happiness You Seek” 🔗 We’ve all been there: chasing the next promotion, waiting for the perfect relationship, or buying that one…

The concept of You, Inc. is a direct application of the idea of self-motivation instead of externally-imposed motivation, self-discipline in place of outside discipline, self-reinforcement in the…

I ask tons of questions. The most frequent one is probably this: — What am I doing? The answer this time: Working on doing everything consciously, hold myself accountable for the energetic welfare of…

This daily blog is not a journal, and yet it kind of is. It’s not a journal in the traditional sense because if I wrote down my thoughts stream-of-consciousness style, the result would be a jumbled…

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THE STRUCTURE OF COMPULSION Lived experience is characterized by a non-optional dependence, contingency, and relationality—conditions that precede and exceed one’s individual control, conditions that…

In a market full of talkers, the builder has an unfair advantage.

I’m painfully aware that I’m a bit of a nostalgia poster. Most things I post about on here are basically baked in millennial nostalgia. When I post about current events or recent trends, it’s usually…

This is a crosspost of my recent blog post on the specific version of EA I like the most and am excited to defend and promote . I’m working on a much longer post articulating the reasons and…

“Every fruitful minister in the history of the world has routinely been in over his head. Trust God and go . . . And when you have done all, and you stand before your Maker—cut, bleeding, grimy,…

God knows, the finish line of human is not the stars.

You CAN bargain with Death, but their schedule is immutable.

A reprint of a column from May of 2003. Please note this was written in my Atheist days, so nothing but secular reasoning is here. I have been asked what the vice might be in a man and woman, both…

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“Courage in work does not usually mean fighting wolves. This is unfortunate but survivable. It means asking the question when everyone else is pretending to understand. It means saying the plan is…

Fucking fall is here. Or so I would’ve thought in earlier years. These days I’m not so sure. I haw learned to appreciate the seasons for what they are. At least a little more.Our…

In my career, first as a mathematician and then as a math writer, I’ve read a lot of books that were written by mathematicians “for the general public.” And yet I have found very…

Somedays you wake up and your head lifts from the pillow like a brick tied to a noose. A heavy lead ball, disaffected and disjointed, you cradle one hand against the disappointment of your face, and…

Tesla shows off a Roadster that can lift itself into the air, and somewhere an aspiring entrepreneur thinks “I need to invent something even more spectacular to be successful”. I admire the ambition…

Love has an extraordinary power: it can disarm another person and deprive their evil impulse of its energy. At the same time, it disarms the evil within us as well. Why, then, is it so difficult for…

P.J. Vogt, host of the Search Engine podcast, interviews writer Meghan O’Gieblyn, “who started lying to herself about her relationship to alcohol and God. And afterwards wondered: when…

I've written before about story. What I did not write was how there are stories which resist telling.These special stories play out only when the characters choose to pick up and continue their…

I find two concepts deeply mysterious and puzzling. One of them is the nature of consciousness, and the other is the nature of time. Both have been investigated by philosophers (particularly by sages…

An effect is the sum consequence of your actions, the actions of those around you, your environment, your stories, and the systems you participate in. There are causes to an effect. When you change…

Men need a dragon to slay. That’s how we’re built. Give a man something real to fight for, like his family, his work, a problem nobody else can solve, or someone who needs protecting, and…

Calendars, evidence, and the difference between done and stuck I expected my pear wine to spend two to three weeks in primary fermentation. It spent nineteen days. The yeast went in on September 23,…

TO TELL YOU THE ANSWER TO THE LAST THING I LEFT OPEN: WE WILL JUST STAY WITH OURSELVES, BECAUSE WHAT IF SOMETHING WERE GREATER THAN THIS? IT WOULD OVERRULE US, AND BESIDES, THERE ALREADY IS THE…

“We are transitioning from an era of proof scarcity to proof abundance. For thousands of years proofs were hard and… it required understanding and expertise and a bit of luck and talking…

A confidant who treats first guesses as permanent admissions eventually hears only finished thoughts.

Anchoring (also called focalism) is a cognitive bias in which we become inordinately influenced by initial information (considered to be the “anchor”). Once we accept the anchor, all future…

Why crawl back when shit happens? Why blame others for the things that didn’t work out? Some things are just hard to understand — too complex to comprehend. Relationships are complex.…

There's a huge bias towards talking about people who were very notable or "successful" when young. So here are some interesting people who came through a little late.Kevin KellyI always admired Kevin…

Not understanding ourselves, the perspective of where someone is at: emotionally literally or otherwise causes fundamental issues such as misunderstanding and assumptions about where the other person…

This blog post is only incidentally about AI.

Being welcomed into a community is one thing. Feeling free to be yourself within it is another. What happens when acceptance comes with unspoken expectations, and how can we build communities where…

.post .post-content { margin-top: 0px; } .post hr { margin: 10px; } I always liked building things. I built mazes (from decommissioned punched tape). Then LEGOs, and robots made of LEGOs. Then I…

A few days ago, I was watching an interview of a cook with a farmer that grows pigs to produce meat. Now I must confess that I once did eat meat, but I've been a vegetarian for the better part of my…

Attention pulls to the edges. Park in the middle long enough and even your prime steak starts to look and feel like an expensive Big Mac.

That feeling of aliveness, of knowing that this body exists in this world at this unique moment where the sun shines upon the land, the earth rotates on its axis and also in a moving dance of planets…

"Family" is on everyone's list. The word is where the agreement ends.

These days it is relatively easy to learn about different religions and spiritual systems to admittedly widely variable levels of accuracy without getting into alarming trouble. In other words, now…