Mike "Bagel"

"It's that essence, that essential quality life that gives us a sense of aliveness. [...] It's far beyond anything we can box up and label in any satisfactory way."

― Mukti Gray on the unknowable nature of the essential self

Humans in more or less our current modern form have walked the earth for roughly three hundred thousand years. For all but the last ten thousand or so of these many years, we lived as seminomadic hunters and gatherers. These timescales are sufficiently vast for the insistent logics of natural selection to adapt our bodies and brains toward an

In summary, the Focusing Effect can significantly impact your decision-making and can lead to suboptimal outcomes and an overly narrow perspective. It pays to take a systematic and comprehensive approach to decision-making. That means gathering and evaluating multiple pieces of information, considering different perspectives, and weighing the

Slow productivity supports legacy-building accomplishments but allows them to unfold at a more human speed.

The next time you encounter an obstacle in your path, immediately look for ways to maneuver around it, through it, under it, or over it. When the obstacle loses your focus, it loses its power.