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  • 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…

  • The trouble with over-control

    “To win a dog sled race is great; to lose, that’s all right too.” Old eskimo saying, Joseph Campbell – This Business of the Gods Any big endurance race like Iron Man, is a…

  • Running wild

    Ever since I read Born to Run by Christopher McDougall I’ve been thinking about it. I’ve also been running. Most of the time, I’ve run along the river near my home, but also around…

  • A Meaning Vacuum

    A selection of thoughts from the last 7 days. Going Infinite properly introduced me to Sam Bankman-Fried. It’s a well written account of a shit-show that only humans in the year 2022 could pull…

  • Discipline is Destiny – Book review

    The Stoics, like the Buddhists, liked making lists of stuff, and virtue, what they considered “the highest good”, is actually four different things. Wisdom, courage, temperance and justice. Ryan Holiday has decided to write…

  • Toughing it out

    Laziness is contagious. We’re supposed to just nod along like it’s normal that everyone’s just surrendered to a banal existence? Nyad (2023) “I get tired of sitting on cushions. Cushions in my car, cushions…

  • Partly cloudy

    It’s just one of those days where you don’t want to wake upEverything is fucked, everybody sucks Break stuff – Limp Bizkit When I’m clutched by a bad mood, a simple question like should…

  • Nowhere to hide

    Sensing types are not up in the clouds. Their feet are planted firmly on the ground. They like to get their hands dirty. Talk shop. Sensing types are found in a rugby scrum, behind…

  • Unleashed

    This time I’ma let it all come out / This time I’ma stand up and shout My way – Limp Bizkit Imagine you’re walking down a street and you come across a little black,…