Category: zen
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wake
You wake up in the middle of your life. Thirty tabs open. A hundred thousand dollars in debt. Three-day shipping and nothing left to want. You’re not free. You’re on a payment plan for a life you don’t even remember signing up for. The voice in your head? That’s not your voice. That’s the ad…
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dragon rules
May you live dragon-free
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the gravity of Truth
“I’m sick” is the lie we tell so we don’t have to deal with the gravity of, “I’m dying faster than normal”.
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happy birthday
My birthday starts in ten minutes. I grew up in the cold war ten miles from a SAC base, so we didn’t bother with duck and cover or fallout shelters — we were dead if the nukes flew. So not knowing if we’d make it another year isn’t a new feeling. But it has been…
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the hubris of idiots
Fun fact: both idiot and hubris are from Ancient Greek and they still mean today pretty much what they meant in 500 BC. Idiot had some benign meanings that it has lost, but the idea of someone who is ignorant, uneducated, or not in the know is very much there. Hubris still has the original…
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Some bad intentions…
Bad Intentions The green bus passes through melike vibrating waves varying shades of ink Color It’s a pleasant enough sensationBut since I am paralyzed If the green bus continuesTo pass through me I will be left here foreverAs if betrayedBy some bad intentions of space and time Jim Carroll
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humanity is not important
Atoms in the human body: 7 x 1027Atoms in the human race: 5 x 1037 Atoms in the universe: 6 x 1079 Atoms in the human body / atoms in the universe: 1 x 10-52Atoms in the human race / atoms in the universe: 1 x 10-42 Zero percent of the atoms in the universe…
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Be excellent
Excellence is about raising the floor up so that the difference between our best and our worst is reduced, as opposed to just raising the ceiling so we can rise higher and higher to the occasion. What you do in the mundane says more about you than what you do in the epic.
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Strategic versus Tactical
With increasing frequency I’m encountering misunderstandings about the difference between strategic and tactical. This is bothersome, tiresome, and frustrating. In many ways those are all my problem, since it is unfair to expect civilians to understand military concepts, but the corporate world is filled with military-isms that just evoke an awful lot of face palm…
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What I Believe…
What I believe, part I (government): What I believe, part II (capitalism): What I believe, part III (natural science): What I believe, part IV (philosophy & theology):