Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Heroes.
Ray Dalio's Principles passage casts the hero's journey as serial trial and brutal cost—many who win still get torn down afterward—asking why anyone would sign up and acknowledging the type wired to stay on that path anyway.
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End Game Analysis: The Performance Spectrum
Part of the end-game series, this essay sketches a ten-level “deep work” ladder from distracted office baseline through increasingly intense focus, journaling, scheduling precision, and habit—arguing that grasping the full spectrum is how one judges what “maximal” performance could mean.
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The End Game
In an emailed essay, the author names critical engagement with hard problems as life's center, quotes Kasparov on optimization versus creating the new, ties concentration practice to Newport's Deep Work, and frames a personal performance spectrum as the path toward unrealized intellectual potential.
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Illegitimate Suffering
Reflecting on painful relationships shaped by ADHD, BPD, and NPD, the post names how platitudes meant to hurry grief can invalidate suffering, courage to lament matters, and unexamined “move on” pressure risks turning wounded inaction into self-inflicted harm.
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Fallacy of the Objective
Juxtaposing David Simon's warning that any institutional score soon gets gamed with praise for “aimless” creative wandering, the post contrasts enforced objectives with open-ended exploration that lets interesting stepping stones appear.
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> 10bn
Kai Staats notes billions of rocky, potentially habitable worlds in our galaxy alone—making another living Earth statistically plausible—and argues that confirming life elsewhere would reshape humanity's cosmic self-image.