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Seek ye first the kingdom of God.

Ponder how to do that in your life.

The key constraint is obvious once you say it out loud. The bottleneck isn’t code production, it is judgment.

https://robertgreiner.com/believe-the-checkbook/

He is speaking of OpenAI’s acquisition of Bun.

OpenAI bought the brains that wrote open source software, when the software was available for free.

Iterate.

Speed of iteration is more important than quality of iteration. (John Boyd, probably. I haven’t checked).

This is true for spiritual stuff, too. Reading is necessary, but not sufficient. Doing, testing—these are essential to finding what works. Contact with reality is what helps sort the bullshit from the jellybeans. Only with testing, observation, and correction do you get data points needed to see what works and what doesn’t.

I’m seeing this right now as I read Transurfing. Prior experience and iteration through so much literature and so much life experience has me on the precipice of deleting the book. So many notes of “Yeah but . . . ” or “yeah and . . . ” or “actually . . . “ in paragraph after paragraph.

How much of that is from translation? from poorly thought out or expressed ideas? Perhaps the author has evolved his thinking since writing the book. Let’s hope so—a sincere person must necessarily refine and evolve over time. It’s inescapable.

Giving the charitable take here. I have to confess that my first take was that Transurfing is largely intentional obfuscation along the lines of Gurdjieff but even with Gurdjieff there are diamonds scattered everywhere, waiting to be picked up. Why not here.

Anyway the original point stands. I stayed on course, testing everything with the fire of reality. That’s what I was taught originally by men who wanted nothing from me: take what you want and leave the rest. “Try what we do. Whatever you have going on doesn’t seem to be working.” That was said with a sardonic yet infinitely caring smile.

Pick up, discard. Pick up, discard. Always discard discard discard. What you seek is simple. Easy to remember.

Make yourself at home . . . but remember you are a house guest.

A good way to make your way through life. You’re just visiting this world.

Good thought from Transurfing.

(Must remember to consistently pay homage. Thanks for showing me this, Twitter hustlebros. It’s an important lesson.)

Truth is what survives testing.

I say this in the midst of reading Reality Transurfing. So far, there is much to discard, unfortunately.

I manufacture it. Events reveal it.

(Thinking about a task I procrastinated on).

There is no secret. You just decide to do it, and then you figure out what needs to happen. And you accept that sometimes it’s hard.

Eric

He posted that in a private forum (Commoncog). But he also has a blog post on his personal site about the topic:

Once or twice a year, somebody posts to the biking list I follow asking how one learns to do long climbs such as Page Mill Road, the 2,000 foot vertical climb up to Skyline Blvd. And they are always disappointed to hear the answer is “You just do it.” There isn’t a secret or a special training method; you just keep turning the pedals until you get to the top.

However, I’ve come to realize that I do have a secret that enables me to do that climb…and that secret is the knowledge that I can do it.

The blog post is called “The Doubt Tax.”

And that phrase is useful, too. As soon as you know something is possible (someone else did it—or you did it before) something magical happens.

I have run the same 5 km loop by my house hundreds of times. My brain still sometimes tells me to walk.

I have run the same uphill stretch hundreds of times keeps me going. Tired, hot, in the rain, it doesn’t matter. I’ve done it before and I know can do it again. So I keep running.

All defeat other than death is psychological.

Jocko

Back. On a cheap webhost. Time to see things for what they are, not what I wish them to be.

Today? Delta SkyClub before dawn. Flight in an hour. When I arrive later today? Run 5k, maybe more. Hit 10,000 steps. Those two things—a daily 5k and getting the counter in the Pedometer++ app to 10,000—create momentum.

Locked In.

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.