Life and Living

A collection of 73 posts

Birthday

30 years old

I remember sitting in the car on the way to drop my brother to preschool. Being 9 years old and telling my mum how excited I was to turn ten. Double digits! I feel the same way about 29 to 30. I hardly even got used to saying I’m

Poems

Those days when nothing gets done

A lie.

Poems

The same feeling

Starting something new. A business, a relationship, an adventure, a creation. Hell, it doesn’t even have to be new. Or even the start. Still, the feelings creep in. Am I going to make it? Does she like me? What does he think? Goodness what if I go broke? Valid

AI

AI Anxiety

A walk into the unknown.

People

Silent idols

Showing without telling.

Lifestyle

Operation zero commute

I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero. As much as possible from home. Work from home, gym from home, practice farming from home, community from home. Everything walking or riding distance, the rest delivered. I don’t even live in one of the

People

My favourite kind of people: those with joie de vivre

Here’s to the excited ones.

Life and Living

Survivability and Scalability

Have fun and let it become fruitful.

Poems

Listening or dancing?

Swimming or floating? Walking or standing still? Pissed off or laughing? Opposites give each other meaning. The listener’s ear hairs swing to the beat. And the dancer moves to the sound. Going through life floating down the stream. Or swimming along with events. My Mum used to teach swimming

Stories

Table 14

Out it is.

Life and Living

Out of the blue

A woman I went to primary school with had her life support turned off this morning. Yesterday she fainted and it turned out to be some kind of brain aneurysm. In the ambulance she was put into an induced coma. By the time she got to the hospital they found

Decision Making

Betting on yourself

Would you take a bet you could never lose?

Decision Making

Shedding old skin

A snake slithers out of its old skin without effort. A caterpillar decides it’s time to become a butterfly, encases itself in a cocoon, rests, and emerges with colourful wings. All of nature happens this way. No effort. Like air entering and leaving your lungs, happening by itself. Want

Life and Living

All I want to be is present

What's it all about?

Life and Living

No competition

Set the system up so you always win.

Life and Living

Alive but already dead

What are you scared of? She asked. Nothing. Really? Yes. Not even death? No, I paused, kept going. Well, I’m scared of dying not of death, so I guess there is one thing. Explain. To me, when death comes it’ll be like the time before you were alive.

Decision Making

The Buttons for the User Interface of Reality

Become an author of your reality by stacking your talents, affirming yourself, sparking curiosity, injecting novelty, painting contrast and keeping it simple simple simple.

Birthday

I turn 27 today, here's ~27 micro-essays on life

A year is now officially 6-months. Luckmaxing. You were born to adapt. The "It is done" mindset. And the power of the follow-up.

Work

[Interview] Work-life balance with Balance the Grind

A fun series of questions on how I approach work-life balance, how I spend (and view) my time, books I love and apps I can't live without.

Life and Living

Getting back to nature: competition and the mistake

Nature has created everything you see around you using two tools, competition and the mistake. Despite this, it is common practice to want to try and remove these tools from your life. But you know how it goes when any system works against nature. It doesn’t last long and

Life and Living

A guest of it all

We’re all on tour here. All guests of life. It goes fast but it’s the longest thing you’ll do. The ones who make the most of it have fun being themselves. You can tell who they are. They’re the ones who walk into a room and

Life and Living

Time spent doing nothing is rarely wasted

One of the curses of modernity is always having to be doing something. It’s never been easier to stay connected, to consume information, to offer up our attention. However, paying attention to something is not the same as experiencing it. A filled calendar can give the illusion of productivity.

Life and Living

What if you did the exact opposite? (like the rogue bees do)

Bees have a dance to indicate to others where food is. It’s called the waggle dance. Great name. But a significant portion of bees in a hive completely ignore the waggle dance and venture off on their own accord. Scientists studied this and were perplexed as to why. It

Creating

Who’s going to take responsibility?

With opportunity comes responsibility. You can’t have the benefits of opportunity without the efforts of responsibility. The internet has given you the opportunity to create things at little to no costs. Writing is basically free. But it’s your responsibility to sit down and get the words out. A

Life and Living

Over too soon

You never know when it’s going to happen. Justin told me about his parents going for a walk down the street. They’d done the walk hundreds, thousands of times over the years. It was their nightly ritual. A short stroll down through the village before bed. Except this