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Stunning View
I turned to head back to the shop, and caught sight of this beautiful mesa in the distance.
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The First Thing I Remember
The first thing I remember about the world — and I pray that it may be the last — is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of
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A Mirror
“For the mind must be interested or absorbed in something, just as a mirror must always be reflecting something” The mind has to be thinking Excerpt From: Alan Watts & Deepak Chopra. “The Wisdom of Insecurity.” Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011-11-16. Apple Books.
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He’s a Peninsula
Exit is not a benign withdrawal. It imposes costs on those left behind, and the freedom of Exiteers substantially depends on the unfree labor of others. In 1623, wracked with sickness, the poet John Donne wrote that “No man is an island entire of itself . . . any man’s death diminishes
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Propelling the Winds of Chaos
If freedom is to be found through an exit from politics, then it follows that the degradation of the political process in all its forms—the integrity of the voting system, standards in public life, trust in institutions, the peaceful transfer of power—is a worthy project. If Thiel, the
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Living in the Past
[the] future, Rossetto insisted, would be “democratic, meritocratic, decentralized, libertarian.” The political economist Albert O. Hirschman famously characterized the choice that is faced by people within declining institutions as being between “voice” and “exit.” Either you speak up to change things, or you leave and look for something better. In
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Past the point
“He bought the company, made a point of showcasing what he believed was broken and manipulated under previous management, then turns around and manipulates the platform to force engagement on all users to hear only his voice,” said a current employee. “I think we’re past the point of believing
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Things That Make You Go Hmmm
Palace intrigues flourished in the power vacuum that followed, with bizarre rumors spreading that Placidia had become romantically involved with her half-brother. (One chronicler reported: “The absence of restraint in their love for one another and their constant kissing on the mouth caused many people to entertain infamous suspicions about
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Trees in Valheim
So my first death in Valheim came at the hands of a tree. Specifically a log, that had gotten stuck in another tree, like the image above. I had cut down the first tree, and it fell into the second tree. I thought I’d save time and cut down
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Valheim
Got to take Valheim for a spin this afternoon, and it’s pretty neat. Like a grown up Minecraft. I’d like to be able to play on my phone, but the first time I tried, I couldn’t really make out the text. Now that I have a better
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Reflections on Anger
What is anger? ANGER is the deepest form of compassion, for another, for the world, for the self, for a life, for the body, for a family and for all our ideals, all vulnerable and all, possibly about to be hurt. Stripped of physical imprisonment and violent reaction, anger is
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The Empire’s in Good Hands
In Ravenna, meanwhile, the emperor was unfazed. When a courtier rushed in with news that Rome had “perished” (writes ancient chronicler Procopius), Honorius thought that one of his beloved pet roosters named Rome had died, wailing, “And yet it has just eaten from my hands!” The emperor was indifferent to