Who knew staying foolish and unaware would be one of the most intelligent privileges of the modern world?

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Are we having fun yet?

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“We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our self-improvement.” –Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Mel Gibson calls this "Hugging the cactus." Jungians call it shadow work. it's all the same thing. and to be clear: this isn't about giving up your desire to improve; it's about being able to radically accept yourself as you are at the exact same time.

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The days are long, but the years are short

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the flower does not fail by wilting it succeeds by blooming again we only call it failure when we freeze the story at the moment of loss

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Different IRL experiences unlock different prompts

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Crazy that we rotate around the sun every year. We’re moving in space constantly Reminds me of this meme:

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This has also naturally coincided with the most fun that I've had writing and thinking about embedded software and operating systems, genuinely in a long while. I've often had an interest in these areas, but again, the sheer volume that you had to tackle and understand, know, and be able to keep in your brain is really a lot. It was unfathomable to even take a stab at some of these things if you had never encountered it before, and now It's just ... it's insane what you can do in a short period of time

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I've been thinking a lot about Zig lately, and I don't know where it's coming from. I've been having some ideas about lower-level infrastructure development. I think we're in a day and an era where it's increasingly easy to reverse engineer lower protocols like RS-232 or be able to buy old medical equipment and figure out how to reverse engineer them. Now you can speak their serial protocol, like they have what magic packets they require to bootloader things like this. And I think that in a world where traditionally people have built infrastructure (by infrastructure I really mean abstractions) to simplify configurations so that it is easier previously for developers to utilize these tools, they are not becoming obsolete. It is becoming clear that there is this new area of possibility that you can tackle in doing things that were previously just very time-consuming and not worth doing. I think these things are becoming increasingly easier.

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When I got sober in my early 20’s I focused too much on growing up and forgot to have fun My late 20’s and early 30’s I focused too much on having fun and forgot to grow up Now that I’m in my mid 30’s I think I finally understand the balance Life’s a pendulum

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On Boundary conditions: I think of plans in terms of creating boundary conditions. I used to think that coming up with a plan was about sequentially mapping out every sort of linear step and sequentially what needed to happen in order to reach the next step. This is obviously not working, and my feeling to do this or desire to do this has diffused over time. It’s almost like I have a plan, and I come up with a plan. Here’s the general direction that I want to go in, and I don’t know why it works. Every now and then I come into situations where I come up with a plan, and then I start the journey. On my way on the journey, somewhere along the path, I get lost in side quests or get confused. I think to myself, “All right, you know what, screw the plan for a moment. Let’s just do the thing that I just want to do.” I start doing things. Ironically, I find myself doing the exact next thing that I needed to do in the plan. Almost like declaring that I’ve discovered this new land when, in fact, I had already mapped out the land. I hadn’t been there yet, but I already mapped it out, and here I am going and executing it. This sort of repeatedly happens in some form or another over some period of time, and it’s a little bit eerie and somewhat of a new feeling for me in a way that I can’t quite describe. Of course, there are unknown unknowns and unforeseeable futures that change paths, or the air smells different when you get to certain plateaus. It’s a little bit harder to climb that mountain than you thought, and if things take longer than they seem, and there are, of course, down moments in the plan itself. I think if you’ve done something similar before, something akin to, if you’ve done the John Muir Trail before and then you do the Continental Divide Trail, there’s sort of the sense of having a sense of knowing what it takes. Maybe it’s just called experience, but the experience allows for a certain kind of trust that things will fall where they may, or the boundaries and parameters of events that need to take place. Maybe it’s a settling, almost like sediment. It’s really about having done something that creates the experience and sort of intuitive understanding of where the boundary and limitations of certain systems are. How much you can push them, how much you need to pull, what’s most at risk, what’s not at risk. These things become, I think, clearer when you’ve done those before and you have better error bars on them in the process of doing them. I like this idea of boundary conditions, or also called boundary value problem. Because part of it becomes about how well you set the initial conditions and almost the prerequisites and requirements and the system and the thing that you’re working within. You’re sort of naturally discovering the process within what you need to discover. The boundary conditions create the constraints for you to allow yourself to express creativity in. It’s a very different way to approach planning itself, or maybe it’s just a different way that I have approached planning in the past. Boundary conditions work a lot better for me because, sort of generally, where I need to go is clear, and where we currently are today is clear. If we set the constraints around the boundary conditions at the moment, the path illuminates itself naturally from the constraints that find themselves there. How to figure out where to go to begin with before setting the boundary conditions or figuring out where the boundary conditions are is an exercise that’s left up to the reader and is trivial.

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I’ve been fortunate to not only have smart parents but a smart friend group around me basically my whole life It’s been easy for me to value and hide behind their words over my own, its comfortable I think it just crystalized within me how expensive that comfort really is

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https://x.com/romanhelmetguy/status/2033230126071079231

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The most authentic version of yourself is the one you’ll eventually learn to guard closely, because in time you’ll discover that only God is worthy to behold it.

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Just so you know this is a real cast Yes the rock is doing well Yes it’s next to the odd white stick I found at the beach this summer which had the same spiritual affect on me Yes I come and go out of highly emotional states every now and again No I’m not finished my coffee yet which may be directly tied to my love of all things

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