Mikey Hayes
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Mikey Hayes
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if there’s some odd way that you particularly enjoy doing things, then you should probably prioritize that over any system that anybody else advises you to do.
Visakan Veerasamy • on scaffolding
Allocating Capacity
Regardless of how we feel, capacity is not something to be solved or optimized, it’s a resource to be measured and allocated.
What's more, unless we have a lot of fidelity to significantly change our lives, our capacity will likely stay the same. Therefore, our ability to increase our sum is more or less a moot point.
Growing our
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Open Notes [No. 08] - May 15, 2025
Watching Doesn’t Count
Content styles like vlogs, reactions, and reviews are extremely popular and it seems like we’ve become satisfied with consuming, as opposed to experiencing both the novel and mundane. In practice, we are content with trading the ability to experience a new restaurant, purchase a good, or visit a landmark for the ability to
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Open Notes [No. 10] - May 29, 2025
Throughout his life Steinbeck signed his letters with his personal “Pigasus” logo, symbolizing himself “a lumbering soul but trying to fly.”
The Latin motto Ad Astra Per Alia Porci translates “To the stars on the wings of a pig.”
In Constant Motion
We inhabit a universe that is in constant motion, which means our surroundings are constantly changing. Every second of every day is different from the one that came before and the one that will follow. Change is inevitable, even if our senses can’t detect what’s different.
While we may act as if constant change only applies to
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Open Notes shares small thoughts about the big picture and is a production from Middle Ground Made.
Open Notes [No. 09] - May 22, 2025