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Don't consider yourself 'intelligent'. Nothing good can come of it. Rather than motivate yourself, you will encounter far more moments of personal disappointment.Don't even ‘aim to be intelligent'. That is the same thing as intelligence being part of your self-image. Your mind is not powerful enough to make the distinction between the two; you will end up fooling yourself. Leave others to decide…
What is the point of winning if you change everything about yourself to win? If your identity is so 'open' and 'fluid', is it even an identity? Is the goal of individuals, societies and civilizations to 'stand out' or to 'fit in'? Are there any sacred limits to change? Relative universality vs Absolutist identitarianism. That is the philosophical debate underpinning the inter-generation conflict…
Canada has a housing supply problem. What causes it? Regulation, economics and network effects; working in tandem. Government, as a captured entity, enacts all sorts of rules that blocks private property owners in a ‘free country’ from doing what they want on their own property (Zoning, Approvals, etc), while the invisible hand of ‘free market’ economics responds to this by inflating the prices.…
Recently, I’ve started to set aside 30 minute chunks of time and do nothing. I sit or lay down and do absolutely nothing. Most days; I fail. Yes, I generally sit still, but I often catch myself fidgeting, scratching or stretching. Which means I didn’t actually do nothing. That’s okay, it’s not a test. It’s not all or nothing.
You ‘download’ the priorities and goals of the people and groups around you. Their problems become yours. Their ways of thinking become yours. You may think this is not happening, but if, for example, you take a role at a fast food restaurant, eventually you may have nightmares of overcooked fries. You may claim not to really care about this job, but it is hammered into you every shift not to make…
I wake, I'm there. I walk, I'm there. I sit down to learn something new, I'm there. I just can't shake myself, I'm there. I'm not taking about the the me that's me. I'm talking about the me that isn't me. The me that takes my discarded dreams, ideas and regrets.
While not groundbreaking philosophically, Don't Die by Bryan Johnson, the tech entrepreneur turned life extension practitioner; provides an entertaining debate between the various ways to be human in the context of our currently finite lifespan. Before I get into my comments on the book itself, I'd like to note that I casually follow Bryan's antics on social media and find it thoroughly…
A river can be a metaphor for life. Its watery rapids representing the directions, tribulations and opportunities you come across. You, floating in the metaphorical river, can either fight the stream or accept its dominance and let it carry you with it.
Weather I am inside or outside, I love when it rains in cities. I call it 'thinking weather'; but it is a lot more than that. Ouside, the rain strips away the meanderers, frollikers and just-having-fun-ers. Which are of course by no means negative elements of the city. But leaving behind only the 'people with a reason to be out', provides a type of locale clarity. People with un-skippable social…
Why are some people with much ‘going for them’ so meek and unsure, while others frolic proudly through life with no real accolades? I have always been baffled by this. Personally, I have had a hard time developing self-confidence without something I could point to as justification for it. If someone was confident, there needed to be something allowing them to have it: rare skills, wealth, good…
