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Thoughts and Writing

Gedankenexperiment and Practical Philosophy

Dig into how I see the world and select writings from people I admire:

Horizontal Relationships and Outcomes
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Horizontal Relationships and Outcomes

I’ve found that when I want something that is relationship and organization based, it is ofter wise to do some pathfinding and expand horizontally instead of simply working with the most powerful person in the organization. Heavy Cream Recently I’ve been working at a coffee shop that a friend owns and I have been putting […]

McKinley and Tariffs from the mid 1800s

William McKinley is having a moment (which I confess is a sentence I never expected to write).  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is elevating McKinley, representative from Ohio from 1877 to 1891 and president from 1897 to 1901, to justify his plan to impose new high tariffs.  Trump’s call for tariffs is not an economic […]

Whither Tartaria?

Imagine a postapocalyptic world. Beside the ruined buildings of our own civilization – St. Peter’s Basilica, the Taj Mahal, those really great Art Deco skyscrapers – dwell savages in mud huts. The savages see the buildings every day, but they never compose legends about how they were built by the gods in a lost golden […]

Ryan Holiday’s Books to Live By

How I Stay Organized

Life Stages

Writers That Influence My Thinking

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Ryan Holiday

Writer 📈

Deep thinking, writer and stoic philosophy practitioner based on a small ranch in Texas.

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

💀 Sci-Fi Writer

Prolific writer and ecologist, author of the Dune canon and other insightful works. If you haven’t gone past Dune, I highly recommend reading all 24 Dune books.

Nikola Tesla 1885

Nikola Tesla

Engineer

Electrical Engineer and inventory at the turn of the 20th century. Contemporary of Einstein and unrecognized theoretical physicist.