Reality Laughs

Why does this site exist? I used to use it for brain dumps. It doesn’t serve that purpose now.

I think I had a secret belief that people would find this site somehow and weep in gratitude at my wisdom. Ego. As much as I said I was doing it for me, not for the glory, that’s a lie. I could write in Apple Notes for me.

I liked the domain name. Still do. That was a primary reason to start: I have this cool domain name—what can I do with it?

Journaling has never been a thing with me. Don’t need a website for that.

I’m not going to change the world. Don’t want to. Don’t need a website for that.

I paid for a year of hosting. Sunk cost.

No real to keep going.

Kill it.

Having a secret website where you write — is a good thing.

Vilfredo Pareto told me to turn this website off.

I’m playing a word game.

You can receive knowledge from books or teachers.

But you only learn by action. Action (you), reaction (the world). Now you have learned something on your own, that you—uniquely—possess. And I mean you possess it in a way no one can steal.

Can anyone steal your ability to spell, to multiply numbers? To walk?

Faith without works is dead, says the New Testament. It’s like that in all facets of life. Learning is an iterative acquire/test/refine loop.

Learn by doing.

Freedom.to is now running back-to-back 24 hour sessions.

Haven’t seen X in quite a while. And I’m a happier person.

So you can’t find me on the X on the account for this domain anymore.

Causation or correlation? Don’t care. Life is better.

The hosting renewed for another year. I won’t renew next year.

And then these posts will be dust in the wind. As, eventually. I will be, too. And then all memory of me when everyone who knows me dies.

Meanwhile, Marcus says:

Discard your thirst for books, so that you won’t die in bitterness, but in cheerfulness and truth, grateful to the gods from the bottom of your heart.

“Discard your thirst for books.”

Wat mean, fren?

A positive attitude is the best thing you can do for yourself and others. Pursuing things you enjoy is not selfish…it will benefit all of those around you.

Start today on a path that brings you happiness and share it with those you love…after espresso.

-@dagosupremacy on x.com

Pareto x Pareto x Pareto

100% x 0.8 x 0.8 x 0.8 = 51%.

100% x 0.2 x 0.2 x 0.2 = 1%.

Rounded.

One percent of your efforts produce 51% of your results.

. . . because you might not want to pay the price.

And the true price is always hidden from you until you get what you ask for.

If you want something and you see nothing but the benefits, stop. Search carefully for the associated costs.

The easiest way to do this is to watch people who already have what you want. Especially watch quietly for those small sighs of tiny exasperation.

But there is always a price.

The church bells announce the beginning of a new day.

A bit of Emmet Fox with coffee focuses my thoughts—the Kingdom of God is within. Remember.

What you focus on, grows. Gentle focus, patient focus. Daily tasks yield to persistent attention and care, foundations are laid and astonishing towers are erected.

How did those circumstances come to be? The comfortable companionship of that wife of decades, those charming and pleasant children—now fully grown?

Chop wood, carry water—this would be the Buddhist answer, perhaps. For me, it is Emmet Fox speaking of the Sermon on the Mount. It is the Serenity Prayer, elegantly summarizing Marcus Aurelius. It is doing the next indicated thing, one day at a time. Sometimes willingly, sometimes grumpily and after much procrastination.

It is this: Be still, and know that I am God.