Bryan Hoffman

There was a lay punk living in a village. The villager left the village to visit a master punk to inquire about enlightenment. After going to a very remote place and scaling a very tall mountain the villager found the punk house of the master punk and spoke with the...

It's been quite a while since I've published anything hasn't it? Here's a checklist I've used and iterated upon many a time when going on a trip. -Clean dishes, sink, and run disposal if present-clean laundry-take out trash-water plants Let's pause. Now by no means is...

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So, there I was, pirating textbooks on Kabbalah. Which was the greater crime? The piracy? Or that I intended to study Kabbalah so young? Meanwhile, I'm doing the tarot cards here and there, and well that's a gateway to stuff maybe? Who knows? It's all pretty random....

Spring is here. The quietest signs of growth are now stirring across the land. If you don't look for it, you could miss it. And who could blame you? Growth is subtle and gradual; the nature of growth is compounding, microscopic movement. The start of spring is...

Food is important. I want to be like the Khan academy guy. This is going to be a weird format. Should I join the Masons? Should I have not mentioned them? I have a manuscript. Gosh, that word sounds pretentious. I'd be content living in a yurt by a clean stream. I...

As a child, I took after St. Augustine, without ever knowing it. I was raised Christian and felt a sort of pressure to claim that title. I didn't. I chose Jainism. I learned early that people will talk one way, and walk another. I met people who were wicked and smart,...

Have you yet eaten from the tree of life? Do you understand yet? When you've digested a bit, you'll understand that every war has been a brother war. We are all the same family. There are hidden things, right before your eyes. All the things are set. I have doubts and...

When we left, we took with us, the stories of our youth, and though, we may have embellished them or changed a name along the way, I like to think they're the same--the same as the stories told long ago, under the same sky. 

Adopt good strategies, and build habits around them. Look for processes that scale well or exhibit decreasing marginal cost e.g. cooking healthy meals at home in bulk Sacrificing a minimal amount of resources to prevent larger, future risks e.g. working out or saving...

I will die. I write for you, whoever you are. We might be living, together, now, but as time passes, that becomes increasingly unlikely. This writing is for those of you who outlive me and those of you who inherit the earth after my generation's passing. This is a...

I hope to lay out a definition of a good strategy. In order to follow along with my thoughts, we need to be on the same page with respect to a couple terms. Resources are things like money, time, effort, raw material, and even immaterial things like mood and memories....

I'm a bit bitter. And on the topic of bitterness, let's conjure up a fable of Aesop's: The fox and the grapes From Wikipedia: The narration is concise and subsequent retellings have often been equally so. The story concerns a fox that tries to eat grapes from a vine...