Andrew Boardman

James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake has (music) notes on the sides and bottom of its pages.

1- Goals are guesses. No one knows exactly what they’re going to be doing 17.5 years from now. No sense in laboring over a false sense of precision. Just guess.

Welcome, brave duke. Thy friendship makes us fresh.

“In life, we cannot always control the first arrow; however, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional.”

We call it a belief system because it's more than a collection of values. It's how we see the world and what is missing.

1. Make stuff you use every day —it makes for a better life.


2. Make it better —do less if you need to.


3. Nothing is finished —everything can be rethought.


4. Think small —make one small part of the world as it should be.


5. Slow down —put in

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The things that endure — personal essays, strange little games, raw photography, handmade software — tend to feel like the opposite of brand work. They feel like someone trying, and risking.

Every day of our life, as we meditate, we engage in the exercise of inhabiting the house of God—of Yud-heh-vuv-heh, of being in the present tense, of absolute becoming, past, present, and future—until we have saturated the present moment of our life with consciousness. Then cosi revaiyah, this consciousness spills over from the act of meditation it

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Expectation: AI will reduce our workload, giving us more leisure time

Reality: AI expands what's possible—raising standards, and creating more work