Epicness, not for this: It’s basic to think that doing some epic shit is a great way to grab attention and increase standing in your social hierarchy. This true. Doing epic shit can give you the fame and admiration your weak little soul may yearn. And with one step in this direction, you’ll have started…
Read moreLife Lessons
Socialites
More wisdom from Sun Tzu. 13. The Use Of Spies
Read moreHow to Write
1. Write. Write jibberish. Write stupidity. Write your feelings. Then, write why your feelings are dumb. Write why you love someone. Then, write all the things you hate about someone. Write why liberals are stupid. Then, write why conservatives are dumb. Write about racism, prejudice, and social justice. Then, write why you can’t stand certain…
Read more90-year old’s regrets
What are some things you’ll regret? You’re 90 years old. What are you happy you did? What would you have done if you could have a retry at life?
Read moreWants, and other questions
What don’t you want? This is equally, if not more important, than what you want. But be careful not to not-want things that are good for you. For example, suffering. And what about those you love? What do they (think they) want? In what domains and categories are you willing to help others achieve their…
Read moreIdeas: Small? Big? Massive?
Are your ideas small? Why aren’t they massive? Your ideas, what’s the endgame?
Read moreNew day. New life.
Every morning is an opportunity for a new life. This gets forgotten, often, especially when the night ends in drink and smoke. This is karma. Waking up in debt for decisions of yesterday. Not careful; this can replicate in weeks, months, and years, setting you so far back that no time available to you is…
Read moreThe Descent of a Soul: A Journey Through Temptation and Reflection
In many ways, bad ways, I have devolved. Weaknesses have run amok. Coasting. Eating away the good fortune created yesterday.Stealing goodwill from tomorrow. Where is my soul? Like being trapped by a black hole. Being pulled. I see the disasters, and rather than change trajectory, rather than fly back the opposite way, I flow like the river into…
Read moreBe a white blood cell
If you had an option, to be a healthy white blood cell or cancer, you would pick healthy. The same goes for healthy vs dying or decaying. The answer is clear. The behaviour is simple: focus on serving, fixing, and building. That’s what healthy cells do. Doesn’t matter how you feel or what you think,…
Read moreWhat ruins a community
Having qualms about a member of your community, sharing your qualms with others, but not having the guts to talk to the person directly. This plants seeds of resentment in your own heart, and seeds of doubt and dislike in the hearts of the listener. Some of those doubts and disenchantment are of the person…
Read moreSurrender
Allow this moment to be as it is. Allow = surrender. To what? God. The Universe Perfection.
Read moreA few notes from Subtle Art of Not Giving a F
What is the value that you hold so dear? What is the (made up) metric that you measure the progress towards that value? Problems may be inevitable, but their meanings don’t need to be. Our values determine the metrics by which we measure others and ourselves. If you want to change how you see your…
Read moreLetting go of people
There is a lack of talent. This is great news for us. Email to myself: Dec 25, 2021, 9:13 AM Why? Whatever the challenge, if it’s market, social, industry, or whatever challenge that other orgs and people face as well, not isolated to PD or a PD member… This is great news. Why?
Read moreWe’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus!
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” – Charles Bukowski
Read moreThe fear of death…
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
Read moreTwo types of knowledge
When reading and studying, consider, there are two types of knowledge. OS Upgrades App Downloads Sure, sometimes you need to download an app in your brain. Some new technique, skill, or process. But to see real massive strides forward, go for books and knowledge that upgrade your OS. Just like in real life, most Apps…
Read moreGetting out of a funk in 2021 Q4
Notes taken whilst listening to a Queen. Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 10:21 PM I want to feel understood and understood. Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 10:23 PM I don’t need other people to understand me, of I’m willing to understand myself. Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 10:25 PM To ___: 1. I’m so glad I talked with…
Read moreProtected: Getting out of a Funk
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Read moreChildren = Increase in Love Meter
Before children Pain Pleasure After children PAIN PLEASURE
Read moreHappenings
9:31 am // A few questions participants should ask. How do you define attack? How do you define defence? What is the relationship between claiming what is and asking what is? How do you stop the spread of suffering? What behaviours amplify and spread suffering? What is Truth if two or more parties witnessing an…
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Read moreStop
Essentialism Stop trying to help everyone. Help only ten that will help ten. Too many projects on the go. We can only close so many projects at the same time. Initiatives: Beachhead Firing too many cannons in too many directions. I don’t want to be like N____l S_____y. Spread too thin. Behaving erratically. I must…
Read moreIntense few weeks
Below are my unfiltered thoughts to myself. Thought I’d share. I’m either a commander, a captain, a ruler, or a commando. When I am a commando, everything seems to be too slow, an obstacle to overcome, an enemy to slice. Nothing is good enough. Things are not good enough. People are not good enough. I…
Read moreNoise before the defeat
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before the defeat” – Sun Tzu
Read moreWarriors
It’s easier to find a warrior and train him to be a gentleman, than finding a coward and training him to be a warrior.
Read moreNo more templates, only frameworks
No more templates, only frameworks!
Read moreArtist >< Accountant ?
Great creative minds think like artists and work like accountants. ( Ignore inspiration. Do the work. )
Read moreDon’t be an “HNR”
Q: What is an HNR? A: Human Network Router Q: What does that mean? A: It means you’re literally moving information from one place to another. You cease to be creative. You are reactionary. Your time is mostly spent in emails, instant messaging apps, and social media. Don’t. Be a person. Live life.
Read moreOpinions
Let’s have less of them. Fewer, but better in quality. Q: What is a quality opinion? A: One that has been thought through, and as close as possible to fact and far as possible from bias.
Read moreConfidence & Competence
Confidence > Competence (massive failure) Confidence < Competence (massive underachievement) Confidence = Competence (Accurate progress) Confidence seesaw. Meek vs arrogant.
Read moreGoddess Fortune
Fortune is a picky and fickle Goddess She gives love to men who are prone to act. Don’t get too comfortable with her praise and love. She is known to switch lovers with no warning, leaving men naked and empty, worse off than when they started.
Read moreWeak-kneed Governments
Our governments are weak-kneed when it comes to the rich, and bullies when dealing with the poor. Look at any courtroom and see how the rich are treated, and those that cannot afford expensive representation. Look around and see how policies are influenced, and by which groups. See how harsh punishments are to the poor….
Read moreFast, reckless, slow, careful
Move fast, move recklessly. Move careful, move slow. Can you move fast and careful (with precision)? Many cannot. Yes, you can. Also know, how you move will communicate. Sometimes the truth, sometimes fiction. Move fast and with precision. Let it be magical, and fiction.
Read moreGenerational wealth. All or nothing.
Basically all or nothing. If not this generation, tough luck, the next generation can try. And repeat.
Read moreOf course I love video games.
Of course, I love video games. As well as other forms of getting drunk, high, and out of this world. But some forms of pleasure are much more dangerous than others. For example, take working-out in comparison to playing video games. One opens the lungs, blood vessels, and the mind. The other takes us into…
Read moreI don’t need permission
To be the best leader I can be. Neither do you. I used to think I needed permission to be my best. I’m reminded of the following: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness That most…
Read moreHitchens, and becoming a drunk
Was well respected, but clearly a drunk. Do I need to drink to be my best? He died young. Perhaps he maximized his value through alcohol. Perhaps he short-lived his potential. Remember Bill Gates. This trip has brought out, created a drunk in me. Remember: you can achieve such nights of euphoria through meditation, exercise,…
Read moreEverybody has a story
Everybody has a magical fantastic story. Everybody. No exception. For some, it’s a sad story. For others, a story of triumph. Regardless of theme, everyone has an unbelievable interesting story worth hearing. Organizations are no different. They have a beginning, a middle, an end. And even a resurrection. We fall in love with these stories….
Read moreHappiness is in short supply and high demand.
Be happy. Spread happiness.
Read moreTrain now to navigate later
Navigating the world and yourself is incredibly difficult and so you better start training immediately.
Read moreImitation
Imitate Why do what someone else is doing or being, when we are all One, anyway. You are him and he is you. Now be you, uniquely You. Open yourself to the UniVerse. Let it move you freely, ungrudgingly. MESSAGE TO J_____: A message to myself. Perhaps relevant in your life when you admire others…
Read moreLose your identity
Lose your identity. This is the way. This is the opening to all things possible.
Read moreOnly one
There is one mission. No other missions. Raise I+C high enough to reach Escape Velocity. There is one war. Fight against those that intentionally or unintentionally decrease I+C. There is one war. All other conflicts are battles. Some matter. Most do not. Winning can be measured. Individuals. Families. Communities. The world. Strategies not accounting for…
Read moreMarry someone
Marry someone that can thrive with the rich and the poor. He has homes in all places.
Read moreYou seek a lose/lose scenario
If your insults and condemnations regarding my nature and character are true, then our father’s investment in me was in vain. And such a thing brings dishonour and shame to his house. If your comments are untrue, your behaviour is one of a Liar. Such actions bring dishonour and shame to his house. Only a…
Read moreJoys unimaginable
Within reach Family – Toronto, probably stoned.
Read moreThe 15 second workout
Ridiculous, but effective! Let’s create an infomercial-style call-to-arms for those who don’t work out. What are we selling? The 15-second Workout! Super easy to do! Only takes 15 seconds! We dare you to NOT do more!
Read moreInteracting with people comes with a risk, another song maybe?
Every time you speak to another person, you are at risk. Risk of what? Oh so many things. Risk of talking too much talking too little interpreting incorrectly interpreting correctly, and wishing you didn’t acting like a fool saying things you regret miscommunicating creating a new frienemy creating a new enemy sowing doubt, anger, hostility…
Read moreDesire to live through your children
Okay. Good. So what? When is this not healthy? Probably when your interests and desires outweigh or contradict your child’s. – I love my children so fuck’n much. I could never have imagined joy and love like this. THROUGH my children. Through my children I live on. Through my children I learn to be a…
Read moreSperm boy! You won the race agains trillions. What’s next?
This life. It’s only a reenactment of the life of a sperm. Will we evolve? How can we even imagine such a thing? Imagine telling a little bitty sperm what an apple tastes like. Or the pleasure of taking a deep breath in a cool spring morning. It’s impossible. And so is explaining enlightenment to…
Read moreThe case for organizational health
Homo Dues page 132 …lacks flexibility. Bees cooperate in very sophisticated ways, but they cannot reinvent their social system overnight. If a hive faces a new threat or a new opportunity, the bees cannot, for example, guillotine the queen and establish a republic. Social mammals such as elephants and chimpanzees cooperate far more flexible than…
Read morePSME – Happiness
PS is where happiness is. Through S can you become fulfilled. There is an opposite correlation between financial wealth and happiness. Homo Deus. Page 33. The Order P: Physical S: Spiritual M: Mental E: Emotional
Read moreWeak and faulty. That’s what I am.
We, and especially I, am weak and faulty. My performance is heavily influenced by my environment and conditions. I need strict structure. Without it, I will never realize my potential.
Read moreThe Courage To Be Disliked, a song
I’d like to create a song. Sorta like a children’s sing-along song. One on the importance of not giving a fuck, and being okay to be disliked. Something fun, cheeky, but also critical. Cast of people the song can refer to include Jesus, Galileo, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Perhaps even a few non-people like…
Read moreComplicated
Sex, life, death, marriage, kids, community, duty. The whole thing is so complicated. Perhaps this is why we need direction, purpose. – Vietnam, unedited
Read moreMen, and the West
The West is pushing hard for men to be more feminine. Cool. But other countries (our enemies) that look to devour us, are not feminine. They are not fair, equitable, beautiful, and complicated. They are masculine. Fierce. Dominating. Looking to devour its prey. Let’s not forget. For centuries, men were the protectors of women and…
Read moreCoincidences (and droogs)
My life is filled with coincidences. Time slowing down. This is what I need. Chronos. Katana Zero. Slow down time. This is. Is it? I see to be awake. How can I test myself? 12:21 am No. I can’t be rational. My risk level is off the charts. I seem, and feel like in control….
Read moreThe more I consume
A break is needed. The more I consume, the emptier I feel. Food. Drugs. Alcohol. Women. Eat, eat, eat. Emptiness. Refrain is needed. I’m hollowing out. – Vietnam
Read moreTrading, for what?
We’re always trading. Trading time, friends, experience, and so on. But for what? How often are our trades making us richer? Not often. North American culture of consumerism, individualism, and atheism is what is being sold. Sold to us in trade for what? In trade for minimalism, essentialism, and wealth? Individualism at the exchange of…
Read moreThe greatest gift…
The greatest gift you can give to the world, is that be a great father. Don’t overthink this. – Vietnam
Read moreThe multiplication of marriage
We are individuals. As a team, we can do more and further. Barack and Michelle Jay-Z and Beyoncé Kanye and Kim Will and Jada Victoria and David Bill and Hillary Khalid and Lannie
Read moreThe Cult Elephant in the Room
Are we becoming cult-like? Yes and no. We must be careful. We must be inclusive of different people and ideas, while maintaining and adhering to our core values. We must know the difference between cult and not. Cults require blind Faith. Healthy organizations consist of curious people who question and engage in healthy conflict. From…
Read moreShut up and listen
Too many kids, “la bla bla”. Bot enough people listening, reading, learning.
Read moreGreat power
Uncle Ben said, “Peter, with great power comes great responsibility.” True. But you know is truer? With great responsibilities, come great power. Choose to take on more. Choose to be responsible for more. Choose to be a leader, a motivator, a champion of goodness. The greater your responsibilities, the more power the universe will give…
Read moreBe okay with getting shed, and shedding friends
We will grow apart. This is a non-negotiable reality. If you’re working hard, studying, learning, and growing – there’s a very high likelihood that you have friends that are not keeping up with you. This is normal, especially when you’re young. Or perhaps, you have a friend or two that’s really pushing themselves, and you…
Read moreTo say we want diversity is a half truth
We want diversity only if it is profitable. Profitable being defined as something that is good for us. What use is diversity if it negatively impacts ones culture, one’s organism? We call that a virus, which can lead to an eventual mutation of the organism. Diverse thoughts and thoughts that lead to a degradation of…
Read moreNot about me
It’s not about me. It’s about the mission. Whenever you’re nervous, anxious, fearful – it is because you forgotten that it is not about you. It never was. It will never be.
Read moreMoney is not a goal, but a result
This needs to permeate through our organization, and our clients’. How do we build and create excellence in our clients’ branding, marketing, operations, process, culture?
Read moreFail fast
How can we learn fast, if we are not failing fast enough? We cannot, based on the understanding of nature. By avoiding micro failures, we position ourselves for the black swan failure…
Read moreReading to Inoculate
Read. It protects you. You don’t know what’s coming for you. You cannot foresee the future. You have no idea what piece of knowledge or wisdom you will need to equip you to tackle the future Dragon awaiting you. You think life is easy? Do you think life will cut you a break? — “In…
Read moreObsessed with Death
Yeah, I’m obsessed with death. By consciously being obsessed with death, I free my subconscious self from being obsessed with death. Do you not think your soul, your cells, your whole body knows it is in the process of decay, and that death awaits us all? It is the first thing your body is aware…
Read morePursue the pain
Pain. Go where pain exists. That is where growth exist. Pursue the pain. Follow it. Chase it. Continue to conquer each little pain demon, one at a time. But do not wait idle, lax, thinking that demons and dragons don’t exist. Just because you don’t see them now, doesn’t mean they’re not waiting for you…
Read moreConquer her dragon
On the subject of woman: I conquered. What does that mean? Did I conquer her? No. Her dragon. Did I save her? No. I joined the party and saved her some time. Princesses become Queens that can conquer their own dragons. Sure. Just like a Lady can open her own door. A Gentleman takes pride…
Read moreThe loving wife – A story from Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
From the book: Hagakure – The Book of the Samurai Written by Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659-1719), translated by William Scott Wilson Shambhala Publishing Inc 1979, 2002 Hagakure was a great read. A time machine back to an era of Japan where honour and dignity meant life and death, and cutting heads and committing suicide was somewhat…
Read moreRegarding Lannie and Marriage
The first person that’s gonna scold me after reading this is most likely my wife Lan. She’s advised me time after time, not boast, especially about my marriage. And you know, she’s right. For the most part, I’ve stopped. That said, this is my first time writing about my marriage. Sorry. Point being – this…
Read moreAdmitting to my complacency
True or false: we resemble tiny insects with roles and hierarchies, fate is almost certain, with little to no actual ability to maneuver our positions and change our directions in life, let alone do grand things that we’ll be remembered and be immortalized for. Those who have are celebrated, and become celebrities, and for good…
Read moreYou are being attacked
There is an attack on us. Don’t be fooled. It’s everywhere, and at the same time, nowhere. It’s prevalent in our lives, quietly hidden under our beds, in our knapsacks, and in the shows we watch and the sites we visit. The attack is on your brain. Their weapon: Distraction. The booty, the bounty, the…
Read moreWhen should I get a mentor?
Part 01: When? Now. – End of Part 02: Why? What? Where? Who? Why should you get a mentor now? Simply, because a mentor will drastically increase the speed of your development and growth. You shouldn’t wait until you have a crisis before you seek out mentorship. Your crisis will most likely kill you before…
Read morePrioritizing your dreams
In our youth, we are filled with dreams and aspirations. As we age, dreams we once held sacred and critical to our identity slowly begin to dematerialize. There are many reasons for this, none that really matter. What matters is, that as the possibilities of obtaining our dreams begin to fade, so do our childhood…
Read moreYou have an email-open problem. Stop opening them.
You’re not ready to open It amazes me how often people will open my emails, and not actually take an action step like respond. Ever since I installed an email-open tracker, I’m seeing the detriment of emails from a completely new perspective; from the perspective of the sender. This has also enabled me to take…
Read moreIt’s your responsibility to grow
It’s a privilege that your employer creates time in your workweek for you to study and learn new things. However, don’t get this confused with the responsibility you have for your own growth and prosperity. For far too many, this new-age-hippie tech industry has created this false idea that it’s the employer’s responsibility for you…
Read moreDoing the uncomfortable
Change is the only constant I love the uncomfortableness of change. It’s such a beautiful feeling. I fucking love diving into a cold lake knowing very well the ice-hell that awaits. I love public speaking knowing I’m about to lose my shit right before going up – and possibly throughout. I love being amongst those…
Read moreWhat The Matrix got wrong about our future
What is reality? The question what is reality has been studied and discussed for millennia. Despite of our attempts to understand reality through meditation, prayer, philosophy or science, there is still no clear answer. One thing’s for sure: We’re living in a Matrix of sorts. We take in over 400 billion bits of information per…
Read moreMy 40-Day Journey into Meditation with Muse (the brain-sensing headband)
What started out to be an exercise in improving myself quickly became a passion I lost myself in. Documenting my meditation sessions, then chatting with friends, one thing led to another, and at one point I found myself with a 7,000 word article. Alas, I’m super excited to share with you my journey into meditation…
Read moreRituals that make my day awesome
“Rituals are a form of structure that makes life flow more easily. They’re mindless — you do them without thinking. Perhaps most important of all, they orient you as to where you are and what you should be doing.” – W. Doyle Gentry, Happiness For Dummies[01] I choose to have an intense life My life…
Read moreWe are all crazy. Let’s deal with it.
We’re not crazy. We’re batshit crazy. There’s no doubt about it. The best among us know it and have quietly acknowledged their craziness, while the rest live in denial. Personally, I’ve acknowledged this – and that there’s a finite time before my craziness gets out of hand. Broken brains How fucked up would it be…
Read moreI’ve fallen back in love again
Young love At the beginning, there was a lustful obsession; an intense infatuation. A desire to impress and a willingness to be impressed upon. The relationship was new, and like all new relationships, I was blindly optimistic, romantically hopeful, and expected nothing but eternal bliss – forever. Like all relationships – the honeymoon stage ended…
Read morePaint your project: Avoid the black-hole
Problem: Creative’s Black Hole Often times Creatives (artists, designers, writers, speakers, and entrepreneurs) get stuck in what I’d like to call The Creative’s Black Hole. Similar to a blackhole, the Creative’s attention and focus is trapped in one small area of a project. So much that the rest of the project’s completion is threatened. I’ve…
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