# eclipse equinox (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover eclipse equinox. Page: Feed: --- ## [Can We Hillclimb To Heaven?](https://onemonkey.org/can-we-hillclimb-to-heaven/) _2026-07-13 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ Standing on a precarious ridge I have the misfortune to be an optimist. It has led to some terrible investments and a few excellent life choices. In the present state of the world I cannot tell you whether the optimists or the pessimists are ahead on points. Here is how ## [Hope you're well](https://onemonkey.org/hope-you-re-well/) _2026-07-04 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ A meditation story from 2014. My first compassion meditation — I'm not sure I did it entirely right. The basic idea is to follow the mantra "may X be well, may X be happy, may X be free from suffering", where X is a variable. At ## [The Millennium Guarantee](https://onemonkey.org/the-millennium-guarantee/) _2026-07-02 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ A confabulation I. Maya's knife came in a wooden box lined with moss. No packing foam, no leaflet in twelve languages. Just the blade, and a single card of handmade paper, and on the card, in letters that had been pressed into it rather than printed on: Æ ## [How Not to Think of an Elephant](https://onemonkey.org/how-not-to-think-of-an-elepha/) _2026-06-07 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ Have you ever been asked not to think of an elephant? How did it go? Maybe you tried, failed, and — being competitive — are now googling "how not to think of an elephant." Welcome. You are already thinking about one. But we can fix that. The phrase ## [Earth-clock upgrade — Earth, Air, Wind and Fire](https://onemonkey.org/earth-clock-upgrade-earth-air-wind-and-fire/) _2026-05-27 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ A while back I wrote about  Eclipses, equinoxes, and everyday awe — telling the time on Spaceship Earth . That post argued  why  a real-time planet visualization should exist as something you leave running: a clock told by the planet's orientation in space, a daily ## [Oliver Cromwell, the WW1 Trenches and the ER: An Unlikely Path to Non-Violent Communication With Your AI Agent.](https://onemonkey.org/oliver-cromwell-the-ww1-trenches-and-the-er-an-unlikely-path-to-non-violent-communication-with-your-ai-agent/) _2026-03-28 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ In 1650, Oliver Cromwell wrote to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." I now say this to my AI assistant roughly twice a week. Just "cromwell." One word. It ## [Ta-Da! I Built a Life Tracker That Won’t Guilt Trip Me.. Or You.](https://onemonkey.org/ta-da-i-built-a-life-tracker-that-wont-guilt-trip-me-or-you/) _2026-02-25 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ How 4,528 days of meditation led me to build a kinder more joyful life logger. I like weird goals. On my 39th birthday, I decided to stop drinking for a whole year. The main reason was novelty, which is my main reason for doing many things. The health benefits ## [Eclipses, equinoxes and everyday awe: Telling the time on Spaceship Earth.](https://onemonkey.org/eclipses-equinoxes-and-everyday-awe-telling-the-time-on-spaceship-earth/) _2026-01-22 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ Monday, 8 April 2024 — Durango, Mexico 12:12:12 CST 24°01'21.1"N 104°40'17.9"W All morning Plaza IV Centenario in Durango has been filled as if for a festival. Earlier, a shockingly youthful shaman led a salute ## [The Best Will in the World? 📜🪶☠️🏆](https://onemonkey.org/the-best-will-in-the-world/) _2025-10-30 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ Testaments as love notes, pranks, institutions — and the occasional drawing‑room mystery. ⚠️ Fair warning - post is ~40% AI slop ⚠️ I wrote my own will recently and afterwards I felt oddly buoyant... more alive, you might even say. It turns out a will isn’ ## [The Haunting of My Second Brain: A field guide to Obsidian's AI ghosts and how to coexist peacefully with them.](https://onemonkey.org/the-haunting-of-my-second-brain-a-field-guide-to-obsidians-ai-ghosts-and-how-to-coexist-peacefully-with-them/) _2025-10-26 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ My Obsidian vault is haunted. For years, it was a quiet, orderly place—a digital library of my thoughts, projects, and learnings. It wasn't exactly tidy but it was familiar. Over the last year, a new presence has taken up residence, and it is unsettling. My Obsidian ## [Stocks ranked by what execs say (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Lt4N2Mdj7UYw) _2025-10-26 · **Sponsored**_ Evidence-backed watchlists from earnings calls and filings, cited to real transcripts—not guesses. ## [To Boldly Grow: How to Get from Here to Star Trek — Thanks to Electrotech](https://onemonkey.org/to-boldly-grow-how-to-get-from-here-to-star-trek-thanks-to-electrotech/) _2025-10-03 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ Not phasers or warp drive, just a world where life is free. When energy is too cheap to meter and the basics of life run as modern commons money will quietly stop gatekeeping dignity. A new electrotech report shows how fast free power is arriving. Let map out the  ## [Scientists Find Calm in Sacred Chants From Seven Global Traditions — Hear the Playlist](https://onemonkey.org/scientists-find-calm-in-sacred-chants-from-seven-global-traditions-hear-the-playlist/) _2025-09-21 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ A new study in PNAS by V. Canessa-Pollard and colleagues (2025) shows that chants from seven different spiritual traditions share a universal sound signature of calm. Researchers analysed over 200 recordings from around the world and found the same ingredients repeating across cultures + mostly flat, slowly changing pitch + continuous ## [David Foster Wallace's infinite seriousness](https://onemonkey.org/david-foster-wallace-s-infinite-seriousness/) _2025-09-10 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ Did you know that David Foster Wallace wrote a book about actual infinity? Like many people, I was aware of David Foster Wallace because of Infinite Jest . His very long and difficult novel/memoir that is widely admired and rarely read. I had tried and failed myself. Wikipedia classifies it ## [What 18,000 Files Taught Me About the Future of Digital Knowledge (And Why I Sent Robots to Spy on…](https://onemonkey.org/what-18-000-files-taught-me-about-the-future-of-digital-knowledge-and-why-i-sent-robots-to-spy-on/) _2025-08-29 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ By: Caspar Addyman Published: August 29, 2025 ## [The Pixar Book of the Dead - Bardo Thodol](https://onemonkey.org/the-pixar-book-of-the-dead-bardo-thodol/) _2024-11-06 · Caspar Addyman · one monkey + one keyboard_ I was listening to the Tibetan book of the dead as an audiobook. There's some vivid and scary imagery, so I asked ChatGPT to walk me through it. So that I didn't have nightmares, I asked to draw it, as if it were a Pixar movie.