AI and the Golden Era of Instant Gratification
AI eliminates cognitive friction that built our skills. Explore what happens when delayed gratification disappears and instant results become the norm.
Movie Review: Squid Games, Seasons 2 and 3
Squid Game Seasons 2 and 3 complete the saga with Gi-hun's sacrifice. A compelling end that asks harder questions than the original.
Don’t Trust, Verify
The crypto mantra "don't trust, verify" now applies to all digital life. Practical filters for surviving deepfakes, bots, and AI-generated content.
Networking 101 for Location Independent People
How to build and maintain social connections when you live a location independent life. Real strategies from 10+ years as a digital nomad to combat isolation.
AI Is the New Marijuana (And We’re All About To Get High)
AI creates plausible realities as addictive as drugs. Someone who lived under communism and capitalism sees a new ideological split emerging from this shift.
AI Will Never Be Able To Spot True Excellence
AI is trained on past patterns and can't recognize disruptive excellence. Like critics who booed Fight Club at Cannes, it will always miss what truly matters.
There Are 2 Wolves Inside of You
Personality tests and metaphors like the two wolves can become traps. Learn why symbols limit your growth—and how to reclaim your messy, real self.
Can You Stay Relevant After 50, In The Age of AI?
After 50, you hold three assets AI can't automate: experience, ethics, and mindset. They compound with time. That's not a disadvantage—it's your edge.
Your Story Follows Your State
Emotional states shape narratives. Happy creates optimistic stories, depressed creates tragic ones. Same facts, different states, completely different meanings
People Seldom Think, They Mostly Label
Thinking requires effort. Labeling is automatic. Most people substitute categorization for comprehension—faster but wrong
Does the Law Of Attraction Really Work?
Law of attraction works through focus directing action, not magical thinking. Attention shapes behavior which creates outcomes—psychology, not metaphysics
How To Fight The Enemy That Lives Between Your Own Two Ears
Fighting negativity with assess decide do: capture thoughts without judgment, decide what deserves attention, execute despite mental noise. A practical framework.
10 Things Confident People Do Differently
Confident people accept imperfection, take risks, listen more, admit mistakes, set boundaries, act despite fear, celebrate others, learn constantly, own decisions, practice self-care
The Power Of Intention
Intention focuses energy, clarifies direction, filters options. Power comes from commitment to purpose before knowing path
The Beautifully Sad Result Of Assumptions
Assumptions create beautiful stories disconnected from reality. The sadness—when truth contradicts narrative you believed. Beautiful lies hurt beautifully
The Toxic Potential Of Expectations – Just Another April Fools
Expectations poison present reality by demanding the future match your fantasy. The gap between expectation and reality generates most human suffering
Auto-Pilot Answers And How They Can Eat Your Life Up
Automatic responses kill conscious living. Auto-pilot answers prevent authentic engagement—unexamined habits consume awareness
Being A Life Director
Direct your life like directing film. Life direction requires vision, intention, action—passivity guarantees mediocre plot
A Crash Course In The Long-Lost Art Of Adaptation
Adaptation skills atrophy through disuse. Crash course revives flexibility—rigid plans break, adaptable approaches bend
Flames
Flames consume and purify simultaneously. Fire metaphor reveals transformation's destructive necessity—creation requires destruction