Agency 🧠

Avoid What Feeds You Without Nourishing You

Beware of Black Butterflies

Do the Right Things Quietly

Everything is Undergoing Constant Reassembly (Evolution)

Excessive Criticism is a Sign of Internal Conflict (Projecting)

Fiction is a Reality Accelerator

Fire and Advance

Grow Inherently, Not Apparently

Honor Your Ancestors and Your Giants

If You’re a Parent…

Increase Your Optionality

Iron Never Lies

It’s Good to Quiver Under the Bar

Know What You Really Truly Like

Leave the Bucket

Life Evaporates When Taken Too Seriously

Listen More Than You Speak

Painfully Correct Clichés

Pay In and Be Grateful to Do So (Grit)

See the Hands That Shaped the Clay of Hardened Beings (Empathy)

Seek Unwelcome Truths to Widen Your Base of Understanding

Speak to Yourself in Full Sentences

Start at Zero

Station Your Canaries (Leading Indicators and System Interrupts)

The Midst of a Great Big Thing

The People You Love Most…

The Richest Aspects of Life Are Often Those Spent In Service of Others

The Struggle Alone Is Enough to Fill Your Heart

Walk the Shoreline of Your Ignorance

We Change Memories When We Remember Them

Work Swells to Fill the Time Allotted for It (Parkinson’s Law)

Write for Exposure (But Not That Kind)

Write to Escape Your Default Setting

Write to Improve Your Career

Write to Pool Your Shifting Selves

Your Unfair Advantage (Modesty)