Goodbye!

More focus, less friction.

If we aren’t, how can we breathe?

Life, liberty, property, and truth-seeking.

These are negative rights: entitlements to be free from outside actor interference.

We lack perfect knowledge.

We’re painfully finite.

For if you know the truth, the truth will set you free.

We can harness it to forge our own destiny.

It’s innate worth is unique from other forms of life.

Because are made in God’s image.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.

Love your neighbor as yourself. Love your enemies. Forgive those who persecute you.

Lord in heaven, hear my prayer.

Strength through service.

A constant reminder of our fragility.

If something came to mind, did you use your brain to think of them?

If work became unnecessary someday, what would the outcome be?

I imagine it would kill human ambition.

Food and sleep likely. But we also need communion and purpose.

It’s amazing how fragile we are.

Not merely “being nice” - which can be quite unkind.

Yes, I think so.

Forgiveness is freeing of yourself from resentment. Pardoning means absolving the other person from consequences.

There is a difference.

In goal setting, you want to aim high.

But it’s difficult to pinpoint where stretch goals become unattainable.

This is the beauty of modularity. When you need to focus, strip everything down. When you need options, enable everything.

It’s controlled constraint. Start with all of the possible options, and aggressively pair down until you get to its bear essence with minimal friction.

We sleep and work for most of it.

What do we do with the rest?

How do you not dwell on it?

Maybe you acknowledge it as a miss, move on, and keep your head held high.

Art, tools, projects, workflows, and even human life.

Why does everyone seem so obsessed with consuming instead?

Sometimes it’s tough to discern wisdom from a hunch, or assumptions versus knowledge.

“Trust your instincts” sounds better than “do what feels right”, but what’s the difference?

Maybe you can think about a day in 3 parts. 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep, and 8 hours of everything else.

Day-to-day life rarely works that way, though.

Entering flow state is addictive and highly engaging. Where do taking breaks come in? What if you’re just one break away from breaking your flow?

Pomodoro technique is supposed to help with this. I wonder if it’s worth trying.

Are we capable of originality? How do we invent something completely new without deriving some part of it from something else?

It may not be possible.

Probably managing friction, minimizing distraction, and a clear goal.

Focus is an increasingly underdeveloped skill.

Cal Newport’s book Deep Work comes to mind.

Impose some on yourself and see what happens.

Reduce friction to doing it.

How can you curb your bad habits?

Increase friction to doing it.

I think James Clear was really onto something with Atomic Habits.

One small poke or prod could land you in the hospital, depending on where on your body it happened.

Do you ever really think about that? It’s a miracle more accidents don’t happen.

This blog is a respite and a reprieve from that chaos.

I love technology and communication, especially together.

Websites are a convergence of my two favorite things!

I host this website publicly on GitHub and deploy the site with Netlify.

I plan on making a video soon that documents the whole process, because it’s easily repeatable and very fun.

I want to write freely without any baggage or expectations.

Thanks for reading!