things are knowable
(2024dec24) surprise, I already had an uncategorized post titled “Knowable”! I want to use it to list out other posts that fit this category. ✱ (original thread) since i was kid i always wondered why things weren’t better. i’ve probably spent thousands of hours thinking and reading and talking about this. my current assessment is […]
do whatever makes your heart sing
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman A very common question I get from my friends in all sorts of contexts is “What should I do? What should I write? What should […]
pave the desire paths
(2025jul28) I’m pleased to revisit and update this post. It’s still a long way from what I’d like it to be, but I see the vision manifesting, I see the desire paths beginning to reveal themselves. (2024nov24) I’m in the process of once again trying to… organize my blog. It occurs to me that the […]
word magic
— 1 — (2025mar22) I’m revisiting this document with the thought that people are typically more interested in problems than in general descriptions of things. What’s the problem that got me into ‘word magic’? If I had to guess, it all began with confusions and misunderstandings. Skimming the rest of this post, I note talk […]
dominoes
I reference and revisit and reuse this tweet a lot so I figured I might as well do a blogpost about it. It’s been surprising to me how popular it is with people. I could say that “it’s because it communicates a vision as a series of progressive steps”, which is technically true, but doesn’t […]