“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
The last few days have certainly flown by at fairly astonishing speed. The days are getting shorter, and as the fateful Day of Indecision draws near in the USA, crazier as well. This is unavoidable to a certain extent. Politics in general makes people go nuts, and...
The name of Samart Payakaroon is not well known outside of martial arts circles, but within them, his is a name that inspires hushed awe and deepest respect. That is because he is considered to be perhaps the greatest nak muay – practitioner of the Art of...
Our good friend Dawn Pine sent over, via Cappy, an unintentionally hilarious article dating back to 2013 about a woman who tried to create a feminist programming language. See if you can read through this alphabet soup and comprehend the first thing that the soulless...
Did you ever read Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi masterpiece, Dune? I consider it to be the greatest science fiction novel ever written, and with very good reason. There are so many brilliant ideas to talk about in that book. But for today, I’m going to focus...
Mondays suck bad, no matter where or how you have to go through them. They suck far harder when you have to deal with colossal amounts of stupidity. And nothing has made people stupider, faster, than the Kung Flu. It’s simply astonishing to watch how the world...
This week’s podcast is all about evolution and the (huge) problems with the current Neo-Darwinian Synthesis and provides some basic mathematical analysis to give the hapless evolutions something to shoot for: There is an awful lot to unpack in this episode, and...
27 “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd that...
Over the past week, I have written posts that directly address a number of the problems with motivation, focus, and discipline that many readers have reported to me. In yesterday’s podcast I gave some fairly concrete advice about creating focused habits that...
Another week has passed us by, and it has evidently been both an eventful and productive one. His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion...
Longtime Reader and FotB Kapios had a couple of interesting and thoughtful questions for me a couple of days ago with respect to GETTIN’ SHIT DONE!: Lately, my mind has been preoccupied by thoughts on boredom. I had my head in a cloud for years about the lie...
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