Month: August 2025

If we are free from shame, we can freely judge what is right and wrong.

Is that she loves me. And I love her.

That’s how powerful a connection can be. That the distance makes no difference, love truly can transcend certain restraints and boundaries.

If someone goes over and pops a kid’s bubble, you can say, “What? It was going to pop anyway.”

Of course, most would never steal a four-year-old’s joy. And yet, the internet has turned us into bubble poppers. Stealing joy from others who we feel don’t deserve it.

When someone does a bucket list item of yours, what kind of response do you internally have? Worth examining.

The goal should be agency, dignity, power, responsibility, creating, experiencing, etc.

Money isn’t the key to unlocking the real goal. It helps, for sure. But plenty of millionaires spend their time hoarding wealth, fearing losing it, and having little left to experience what life has to offer.

The mind discriminates. Regardless if we want it to or not. We are filled with biases and prejudices and blind spots. But the key difference is deciding which ones we choose to act on. We can’t help what we think but we can certainly feed what we choose.

Our online presence lulls us into believing we are building something productive. While there are cases where this is true, we often use this digital sandbox to make a “presence.” Which isn’t productive at all. The belief is the trap. Distinguishing what is productive and building art and what is pretending is critical to understand. The tangible world is where life and art and connection and beauty happens. Not the intangible world. Who needs a avatar anyway?

It can be a useful skill, but it is also a lousy way to live your life.

Getting through one day can slide into a decade.

The truth is…

There isn’t any rush. There is nothing to get through. This is it.

Instead of getting through, try just staying with the day—as long as you can.

People have a bias. A point of view of how they see the world through their experiences and what they have been taught.

What we don’t realize is that our blind spots are baked into the DNA of ideas and systems. The idea virus also has a bias, built towards a specific outcome that we may not realize.

The reason why we fear aliens is that we worry they can be as violent as humans are. Our ideas can also breed and spread violence too.

One reason we feel so dissatisfied with the status quo is that deep down, we know that violence exists. We push it further down the hierarchy and, as a result, feel the moral consequences of such blindness. We buy our happiness to push away the bad feelings. Now, we are all too busy and have become complacent. The sense that “something is wrong around here” is more widespread than we realize.

Once we label something as a pest we can justify violence. We can say it is even moral when protecting our kids.

That’s the lesson.

When we label something as capital, “it’s just business,” or debt, we open this door for violence to come in.