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  • 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,…

  • Good at productivity

    Whenever we pluck the fruit of creativity from the golden tree our other hand plucks the fruit of destruction. Robert A. Johnson The body is bad at productivity. But we’ll show it what to…