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Is that the best you can do?
The Show up or Shut up Manifesto Aug 22, 2024 It’s hard not to be cynical these days. The world is unraveling in front of our eyes yet the vast majority of folks carry on as usual. We face a rise of authoritarian populism (aka fascism), a return to diplomacy by brute force (complete with…
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Where are you investing your time?
Daily Reflections 2025-07-02 Jul 02, 2025 The other day, I told a friend that I’m no good at money. She’s concerned that this represents a self-limiting belief about money that’s holding me back. It bugged me for a few days until I finally realized that she heard that as some sort of self-confession, but I…
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Blessing or curse?
Oct 13, 2018 There is a classic Buddhist story about a farmer and a horse. The moral of the story: you never know whether something is a blessing or a curse. With time and perspective, curses look like blessings and blessings look like curses. Most people, myself included, have direct personal experience with the concept. We’ve…
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When we stop pretending – Part I
Disillusionment is a threshold Jan 20, 2026 When the ground starts to slip Something old is ending. Not suddenly. Not cleanly. And not in a way that makes for a satisfying headline. It’s ending the way things usually do in real life: slowly, unevenly, with long stretches of denial punctuated by moments where the floor…
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The Wetiko Habitus
Are you willing to give up privilege for connection? Sep 17, 2024 No one wants what I’m selling, which I completely understand. What people want is a delicious tasting candy that is guaranteed to help you lose 35 pounds in three weeks without diet or exercise or your money back — get your free bottle…
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Bullies, Stooges, Lackeys and the Rest of Us
Everything you need to know about global politics you learned in elementary school Nov 12, 2024 A lot of people are scratching their heads about what the hell just happened. Talking heads are acting like the descent into authoritarianism is mysterious and unfathomable. “How could it happen here?!?” It’s actually not that hard to understand…
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The Great Withholding: it’s a feature, not a bug.
The economy doesn’t malfunction — it performs exactly as designed. A small number of people sit on the resources everyone else needs, and in exchange for not letting us starve, they extract our labour. Colonial capitalism is feudalism in a three-piece suit. But something else is taking root in the cracks.
