Blueprint for a rewarding life

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...

Dear Friend

Friend, Please remember that to err and learn something is not an error at all. If you should ever feel inadequate, know that the grandest processes have sculpted and refined your being for billions upon billions of years. The same forces yielding canyons and...

A Dead Man’s Vision

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...

What is a good strategy?

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....

Advice (that’s mostly for myself) II

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before. Now, view the rest of your life as a bonus. The world can be improved by your actions. It’s made better everytime you: Do more with less Give away your surpluses Share good ideas Try to transform yourself for...