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  • Determined

    You shouldn’t damn ’em. Don’t judge ’em. Just forgive ’em for they know not what they do. Max Cady (Cape Fear, 1991) Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. Terrence McKenna In…

  • An hour is always an hour

    I have occasionally… lived a whole life between my first alarm at 5am and my second alarm, five minutes later. Oliver Sacks You really don’t own anything. It all disappears. When you die there’s…

  • Flat tire

    Whether it’s a sunny day when you expected rain or finding a twenty dollar bill that you had forgotten about, it’s always appreciated when life feels a little lucky. But luck isn’t always easy…

  • Unadmitted thoughts

    In the 1920’s, psychoanalyst Marion Milner had everything going for her. She had graduated with a first class degree in psychology, and had a promising career ahead of her. She was in love, married and…

  • Non-intended doing

    We’ve read the success stories. A disciplined person gets more done. A disciplined person doesn’t get distracted. A disciplined person is reliable, trustworthy and over a lifetime, can achieve incredible things. Discipline is clearly…

  • A conversation about free will

    A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings. Sam Harris I was nearing the end of my bike ride when I arrived at an intersection. I needed to make a choice.…

  • Compulsion

    A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself. Cesare…

  • All purpose cheer – Touring around Taiwan by bicycle

    Although it wasn’t how I usually explore a country, riding 950km around Taiwan with 40+ strangers was a vivid experience that rekindled my love of travel. Here are a few of my observations. Time…

  • Fighting discomfort – One year of Buddha Bike

    Since January 2023 I’ve written 45 posts on topics like pain, gratitude, morality, free-will, consciousness and discipline. I’ve tagged every post with a ‘ing’ category. So far I’ve used: Writing, cycling, dreaming, eating, lifting,…