Category: Life and Times
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Following in the footsteps of Ralph Waldo Emerson, I have begun to create My Own Bible of words that speak to me. It’s going to be a large project, and far too unwieldy for a running weblog post. So I will be making it a PDF, available to view and download at the link below,…
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This is the introduction to my Collected Works entitled “The Unmasking of a Phoenix.” A physical book was scheduled for a May 2027 release, but I instead decided to publish it primarily as paid content on my New Vibrations Substack. “It’s butterfly season, I’m finding my wingsA good time for leaving behind the old meHeaded…
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It turns out trying to “keep up” with everything in the information age is like trying to drink from a firehose while riding a rollercoaster that’s already on fire. We’ve been told for years that we should “stay informed,” but what they really mean is “drown in a sea of irrelevant nonsense.” Through great cost…
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Had a bizarre question in mind to start the day: which Star Trek ship is most beautiful? And it isn’t necessarily the original Enterprise. But that sort of deep dive isn’t really in my purview today. There’s content out there on that subject already but I have my own ideas how to aesthetically judge spacecraft…
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This is from September 2025, but I’m intentionally posting it now because it’s relevant. Criticism is useful, yes. The discussion is helpful. But when the product is so bad that trying to critique it makes my brain hurt, you have to go to a different level of analysis. I’m not even going to go into…
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Woke up thinking about better frameworks for an intellectually honest life. I think the number one thing is handwriting as much as possible. I think typing is okay, too, if you just allow yourself to flow without distractions. While I don’t see myself going to a Neil Gaiman level absolute devotion to the idea of…
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I’m up at 3:30 AM on Saturday, November the First, year 2025. No longer are these notes preceded by any identifier other than the date in year, month, and day format. I don’t believe anything else is necessary, since these are but brain dumps to organize ideas and brainstorm concepts for serious writing work going…
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My problem with writing has never been composition. It’s organization, logical progression of thoughts within a structure that makes sense to your average reader. My brain might be incredibly logical functionally but that’s not what often gets related in my writing. Sometimes the flow is near perfect, but rarely. And when I funnel too much,…
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I need to write some happier things; by that I don’t mean a fluffy fairy tale with a protagonist-gets-the-girl ending. I mean something a lot more hopeful… Realistically, I’m in the best position I’ve ever been, and yet, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually I’m a wreck. All I’m good for at the moment is tearing into…
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The founder of the Sublime app announced some integration with ChatGPT and Claude where you can share collections… honestly, I find it interesting and I’m curious to try that out later. I’ve continued to save things all though I need to add a lot more to it. After all, the idea behind sublime is to…