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
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 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 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
Life and Living All advice adds to 0 For every person telling you to go left, there’ll be an equal amount telling you to go right. Thinking about this, you might start to believe the best way to give advice to someone is to say, “I don’t know.” That’s one option. It’s the easy
Life and Living Your own best company Emotions get amplified with others. People act differently in groups than on their own. Some people can’t exist without being around people. I flip back and forth. I go from needing to be around someone to wanting nothing else but to sit here and write down my thoughts. You’
Life and Living Have you got scars? Life is all about risk taking. All about the outliers. All about having skin in the game. People relate to other people having scars. Superman requires Clark Kent to make him relatable. If he continued being invincible, no one would be able to relate. That’s what you need to
Life and Living You’re weird A previous girlfriend of mine once said to me, “what you’re doing is weird.” She was talking about my absence from social media, no Facebook, no Instagram etc. I’d tapped out of them all. I realised the facade I was putting on. All the things I’d share
Life and Living Long gamma I learned a new phrase today. Long gamma. It’s from the book Antifragile (you should read it). It was used in the quote, “Life is long gamma.” In non-jargon terms, “long” means “benefits from” and “gamma” means nonlinearity. In other words, “long gamma” means “benefits from volatility and variability”
Life and Living There’s no need for genius envy I read through Twitter, watch videos on YouTube, read the headlines. See what others are up to. See their achievements. And I get jealous. All these geniuses! Why aren’t I like that? Why aren’t I earning the respect of others? Why aren’t I that smart? Why why
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