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  • 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…

  • 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…