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Fall In Love With Failure
The difference between the quitters and winners is being conditioned for the unexpected. When things are handed to us on a silver platter, too much, too soon, our confidence goes up un-anchored to our actual ability. Getting your ass handed to you early and often is a great embodied lesson that things may not manifest…
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The Voice That Never Speaks
All these why’s are incomplete. Whenever you ask a great sounding question it’s easy to forget that the answer is still bullshit. Even the truest seeming stories are at best inspiring delusions coughed up by someone you believe you ought to respect. People often accuse me of being cold or callous, but that isn’t even…
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Plain Sight
Apparently over 90% of Americans are estimated to be deficient in potassium. Why hasn’t anyone done anything about it? The cultural narrative is that salt is bad and that most modern people should eat way less. The counter-cultural idea is that salt is great and you should eat a lot. Which is actually true? A…
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Manhattan Projects
How might your life be different if you could consult the brightest minds in the domain of whatever problem you’re trying to solve? I often like to joke that Manhattan projects fell out of favor after the last party built the deadliest bomb the world had ever seen. In some strange way, the fear that…
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Divorce Pleasure, Marry Joy
Pleasure is not a lower version of joy- it’s like a cotton swap compared to a nourishing meal. Instead of providing lasting peace and fulfillment it bloats you like a balloon, leaving you more hungry soon after. We all look for substitutes and conveniences to tie us over. I’m absolutely no different but I try…
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How To Live & Not Just Work
Life is not something to be left for after you’re satisfied with your success. If you’re anything like me, ditching recreation and “low value activities” to eek out more achievement might sound familiar. I’ve talked a lot about how to recover better, work less and do more and optimize for happiness and fulfillment, but what…
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The Self-Improvement Trap
Sometimes the voice in our head telling us we need to get better is actually our greatest enemy. When I was a younger man, perfectionism and imposter syndrome in full stride, I spent inordinate amounts of time trying to better myself. I consumed all the quality self-improvement content I could get my hands on. Whether…
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The Myth Of Discipline Revisited
Misappropriated discipline is the enemy of creativity. If we accept that success is being consistently good over a long period of time, how we produce quality consistently is the pressing question. Discipline is but one part of the toolkit for creating a life well lived, but like the old hammer and nail story it gets…
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Automating Success & Rethinking Luck
Everything important should be decision-less. At first this concept might seem psycho or confused, but it’s the most important key to success. A lot of us assume that our decision making energy should be spent in full on things we deem important, or vital to a life well lived, but very few of us ever…
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Holy Shit I’m Back!
What’s up everyone? Hope y’all are doin’ well. I have finally returned from the void that was the past year. For those that are curious, no I didn’t die I’ve mostly been working on another website over at animeexplicated.org, a very different sort of content than what I post here. Besides that I’ve been on…
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