Joshua Balarie

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

When I was younger, I did not realize that I was going to have to fight a war of attrition to get what I wanted. I had an abstract notion of this but I did not have the life experience to know it . I did not know that the only way I was ever going to win against Hannibal was by wearing him down. By digging deep and continually showing up until even... See more

I felt like I became fully conscious for the first time, and that included a realization about how, like stress, most limitations are self-imposed.

Why stop at competency? Why not be brilliant? Why stop at satisfaction? Why not be ecstatic? Why stop at gratitude? Why not be pleased? Just wear the dress and buy the shoes and burn the candle, do it... See more

Chance I is completely impersonal; you can’t influence it.

Chance II favors those who have a persistent curiosity about many things coupled with an energetic willingness to experiment and explore.

Chance III favors those who have a sufficient background of sound knowledge plus special abilities in observing, remembering, recalling, and quickly

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Long-story short: stick to 1-2 mL of 0.005% to 0.02% topical finasteride solutions. This equates to roughly 0.1-0.2mg of daily finasteride exposure to the scalp. Any more than that, and there’s risk of significant systemic leakage, which defeats the purpose of using topical finasteride altogether.

Put another way: Herzog mapped the actual landscape and found the shortest path to his specific goals. (And his goals were very specific. He never wanted to be “a filmmaker,” he wanted to make this film and then that film .) Working in a goal-directed way, he gathered the information he needed; he found people who could help him; and he learned the... See more