# Makoism
> Curiously exploring life, storytelling and critical thinking.
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## Pages
- [What is this?](https://makoism.com/about.md) - Makoism is part blog, part-newsletter, and all experiment by Steve Makofsky (that’s me). For the last several years, I’ve been trying to keep a regular cadence of posting interesting links/thoughts/stories and thoughts about human-focused leadership, storytelling, and well-being. This whole place i…
- [Archive](https://makoism.com/archive.md)
- [Defaults](https://makoism.com/defaults.md) - Basic defaults for what gear and apps I use.
- [Now](https://makoism.com/now.md) - What I'm focused on at this point in my life.
- [Tag Cloud](https://makoism.com/tag-cloud.md)

## Posts
- [Espresso Shots 10-18-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-10-18-26.md) - From forgetting the algorithms to Jim Henson’s puppets, a dramatic Ironman win, a view on friendships, thinking like a lab team, and choosing what you attend to.
- [Espresso Shots 10-11-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-10-11-26.md) - From Claude writing code and authoring apps to pirating the pirates, retro gaming, beauty in DVD menus, and the Tildeverse.
- [Acquiescence](https://makoism.com/acquiescence.md) - Most old ways survive not because they’re right, but because questioning them takes effort, so the default quietly wins.
- [Espresso Shots 10-4-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-10-4-26.md) - From the geology of sticking with it to Game Theory secrets, mathematicians, David Bowie's Proust Questionnaire, and an analemma over the Callanish Stones.
- [Espresso Shots 9-27-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-9-27-26.md) - From needles in haystacks to a six-dollar chicken, a rainy arcade, a perfect circle, and the invisible force with a mysterious effect on aging.
- [Espresso Shots 9-20-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-9-20-26.md) - From having ideas to running a marathon: Seneca on friendship, the aesthetic-usability effect, abstractions, magazines, and how the Oregon Trail became a generational icon.
- [Espresso Shots 9-13-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-9-13-26.md) - From inverted asteroids and revived BBSs to MouthPad independence, archaic intelligence, exiting the cave, Steve Jobs's lost decade, and one true purpose.
- [Espresso Shots 9-6-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-9-6-26.md) - From optimizing the whole flow to rest versus idleness, high achievers chasing success, mindfulness's hidden risks, pinball, and an island that appeared then vanished.
- [Espresso Shots 8-30-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-30-26.md) - From adaptation and charisma to mini-personalities, living forever, ancient wheat for modern cooking, blogging history and cognitive load along the way.
- [Espresso Shots 8-23-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-23-26.md) - From a 1971 social network that never died, a watch-caught heart problem, building without predicting, exams in the age of chatbots, chasing what excites you, and writing snail mail.
- [Espresso Shots 8-14-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-14-26.md) - From people telling you AI is changing everything to the glitch that left Poland off the map, a hamster's wheel experiment, a wind phone, the impossible rhythm illusion, and a swarm of blood robots.
- [Espresso Shots 8-9-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-9-26.md) - From lawn-mowing algorithms to being bald being better, energy hoarding, lighthouse rescues, digital sanctuaries, and the case for writing anyway.
- [Espresso Shots 8-2-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-2-26.md) - From playing the long game to the 500-mile email, premium mediocre living, vintage typewriters, and losing the ability to discover what we didn't know to ask.
- [Espresso Shots 7-26-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-7-26-26.md) - Accidentally saving half a million dollars, PKM is still dead, Apple II memories, LEGO Donkey Kong, reading more often, and Hanlon's Razor.
- [Espresso Shots 7-19-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-7-19-26.md) - Infinite choice to chaotic dogs, lo-fi scrolling to silver bullets, powerful questions to note arrays and why the air in the room is important.
- [Espresso Shots 7-12-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-7-12-26.md) - Comic Sans' Watchmen roots, apps build one, classic Macintosh hacks, Suncoast nostalgia, World Cup chunking, solar panels in the Alps, and gardens' healing power.
- [Espresso Shots 7-05-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-7-05-26.md) - Private jets, red-and-green squiggles, power tools gone wrong, dogs texting people and how to find out how weird you really are.
- [Espresso Shots 6-28-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-6-28-26.md) - Surrender as a life strategy, democracy's bullshit, AI doomers, tiny experiments in uncertainty, Vonnegut's life advice, and rest in peace Om.
- [Espresso Shots 6-21-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-6-21-26.md) - Tombstone exercises, founder mode, jargon monoxide, 8-bit baseball, the sky you should’ve seen and silent reading parties.
- [Espresso Shots 6-14-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-6-14-26.md) - Manufactured rock bands, molly guards, Freddie Mercury's aversion, shoelaces, grief, and the joy equation. And a bonus coversation on what it means to live well.
- [Espresso Shots 6-7-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-6-7-26.md) - Punk, zines, vanishing benches, weather-painted Rothkos, and the math that proves most of your worries never happen.
- [Espresso Shots 5-31-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-5-31-26.md) - Niceness as a skill to game theory, photographic memory myths, solar-powered websites, Earth's radio bubble, and the hidden cost of taking yourself too seriously.
- [Espresso Shots 5-24-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-5-24-26.md) - Bullshittery, AI psychosis, prompt injection pranks, forgotten Voyager engineers, exotic island safaris, and the radical neuroscience of play.
- [Espresso Shots 5-17-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-5-17-26.md) - Data taken without asking to algorithms dispensing outrage, Foo Fighters going intimate, WeatherStar nostalgia, and what phone cradling is doing to our fingers and our thinking.
- [Espresso Shots 5-10-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-5-10-26.md) - From the boring internet, empty calories, and botified social media to Everest, Bourdain, conversations that surprise you, and why writing is still the most important skill you can have.
- [Espresso Shots 5-3-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-5-3-26.md) - Entertainment-pervading politics to Pixar's three-pitch rule, AI's Jevons Paradox, Game Theory's Prisoner's Dilemma, and swapping doomscrolling for comic books
- [Espresso Shots 4-26-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-4-26-26.md) - Fault-tolerant computers, cosmic perspective, Shazam's sound fingerprints, Coyote vs. ACME, prediction markets, authority, music, sleep, and turning 55.
- [55 for 55](https://makoism.com/55-for-55.md) - I now have somewhere around 39% of my time left on the planet. Simple math: 55 divided by 90 puts me at roughly 61% done.
- [Espresso Shots 4-19-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-4-19-26.md) - AI's boiling frog effect on cognition, resurrecting a 1992 MUD, agentic systems and bottlenecks, secret recordings of 10,000 concerts, and why a project will save you.
- [Espresso Shots 4-12-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-4-12-26.md) - Corporate chaos, dopamine chasing, health rabbit holes, locker dives, a Civil War submarine mystery, and Mr. Brightside.
- [Espresso Shots 4-5-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-4-5-26.md) - AI augmentation and generative AI vegetarianism to the resilience paradox, chocolate heists, the slow death of new music, mazes and labyrinths, and doing what you want.
- [Espresso Shots 3-29-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-3-29-26.md) - From inner life to stupid ideas, the magic of streaming radio, the case for slowness, and why automating broken things just breaks them faster.
- [Espresso Shots 3-22-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-3-22-26.md) - Quiet things, optimized selves, AI psychosis, sync music, lightning strikes, beautiful questions, and why making has always been about mattering.
- [Espresso Shots 3-15-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-3-15-26.md) - Claude Code, phantom fluency, gut instinct, block universes, and the noble path of building things for each other.
- [Espresso Shots 3-8-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-3-8-26.md) - Zen motorcycles and David Lynch's Star Wars to Earth's secret soundtrack, philosopher thinking, MacGyver creativity, and the river of endless scroll.
- [Espresso Shots 3-01-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-3-01-26.md) - zagging creators and omoiyari to curating people, Sunday self-meetings, NYT games dominance, and satellites enshittifying orbit.
- [Espresso Shots 2-22-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-2-22-26.md) - Writing sharpens thinking, incremental growth, intentional scarcity, omnipotence and cognitive debt, and how organizations get sick.
- [Espresso Shots 2-15-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-2-15-26.md) - The creative power of walking, agency, brains vs computers, the small web, publishing imperfection, mixtapes, teleporting and why chewing sounds drive you crazy.
- [Espresso Shots 2-8-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-2-8-26.md) - childhood dreams, remembering what we do, looking for what's true, addicted to being useful, better meetings as secret weapons, and the 500-mile email mystery.
- [Espresso Shots 02-01-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-02-01-26.md) - Bermuda Triangle mysteries, obscure sorrows, phantom obligation, game theory, internet radio, and why kindness matters now.
- [Espresso Shots 1-25-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-1-25-26.md) - Velocity and attention becomes a war, habits hinge on the single stick, life insisting on 1x speed and thriving through experiments instead of failures.
- [Espresso Shots 1-18-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-1-18-26.md) - Defining the problem, curiosity tours, intellectual rigidity, choosing boredom over optimization and valuing time more than money.
- [When It Falls Over](https://makoism.com/when-it-falls-over.md) - Resilience isn't built by avoiding failure.
- [Espresso Shots 1-11-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-1-11-26.md) - Café solitude, gray area magic, the devotion-friction matrix, reinvention on demand, rewilding digital presence, BowieNet's prophetic legacy, atmospheric computing, and the Moylan Arrow's unexpected brilliance.
- [Espresso Shots 1-4-26](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-1-4-26.md) - "Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?" — Steven Wright
- [What Deserves My Attention Now](https://makoism.com/attention.md) - "So why would you want to go there? -Because I never have. That's why people go places, isn't it?" - Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) in The Truman Show
- [Espresso Shots 12-28-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-12-28-25.md) - 'Coffee – it’s the lifeblood that fuels the dreams of champions!' – Mike Ditka
- [Espresso Shots 12-21-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-12-21-25.md) - 'You did it! Congratulations. World's best cup of coffee. Great job, everybody. It's great to meet you. Hi.' - Will Ferrell as Buddy The Elf
- [Espresso Shots 12-14-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-12-14-25.md) - "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." - T. S. Eliot
- [Espresso Shots 12-7-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-12-7-25.md) - "I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee." — Terri Guillemets
- [Espresso Shots 11-30-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-11-30-25.md) - 'Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it.' - Captain Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek Voyager: Hunters)
- [Espresso Shots 11-23-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-11-23-25.md) - 'What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.' - Henry Rollins
- [Espresso Shots 11-16-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-11-16-25.md) - "Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of goat." – Johann Sebastian Bach
- [Espresso Shots 11-09-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-11-09-25.md) - 'Mornings are for coffee and contemplation.' - Jim Hopper (David Harbour) in Stranger Things
- [Are We Having Fun Yet?](https://makoism.com/are-we-having-fun-yet.md) - "Well, I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun." -Chevy Chase as Clark W. Griswold in Vacation
- [Espresso Shots 11-02-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-11-02-25.md) - 'I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.' — David Lynch
- [Espresso Shots 10-26-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-10-26-25.md) - "Coffee is the answer, but I don't know the question." - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 10-19-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-10-19-25.md) - "But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. New York has great water for coffee." - David Lynch
- [Espresso Shots 10-12-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-10-12-25.md) - "If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all." ― David Letterman
- [Espresso Shots 10-05-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-10-05-25.md) - "Without my morning coffee, I'm just like a dried-up piece of roast goat." - Johann Sebastian Bach
- [Espresso Shots 9-26-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-9-26-25.md) - 'I don’t need an inspirational quote. I need coffee.' -- Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 9-21-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-9-21-25.md) - 'The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans.' - Andrea Illy
- [Espresso Shots 9-14-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-9-14-25.md) - "Coffee! Because anger management is too expensive." – Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 9-7-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-9-7-25.md) - "If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all." - David Letterman
- [Espresso Shots 8-31-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-31-25.md) - "Coffee is a language in itself." - Jackie Chan
- [Espresso Shots 8-24-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-24-25.md) - "My doctor told me to give up coffee. But I told him, I’m a writer, not a suicide bomber." – Jerry Seinfeld
- [Espresso Shots 8-17-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-17-25.md) - "As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?" - Cassandra Clare
- [Espresso Shots 8-10-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-10-25.md) - "Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of roast goat." - Johann Sebastian Bach
- [Espresso Shots 8-3-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-3-25.md) - "Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever." - David Letterman
- [Espresso Shots 7-27-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-7-27-25.md) - "I never laugh until I've had my coffee." - Clark Gable
- [Espresso Shots 7-20-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-7-20-25.md) - "Life without coffee is like a broken pencil – pointless" - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 7-13-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-7-13-25.md) - "A yawn is a silent scream for coffee" - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 7-6-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-7-6-25.md) - "Everybody should believe in something. I believe I’ll have another coffee." - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 6-29-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-6-29-25.md) - "We met at Starbucks. Not at the same Starbucks, but we saw each other at different Starbucks across the street from each other." -Meg Swan (Parker Posey), Best in Show
- [Espresso Shots 6-22-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-6-22-25.md) - "Even if you tell yourself 'Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot.' Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot." - Chuck Palahniuk
- [Espresso Shots 6-15-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-6-15-25.md) - "I'm staying. I'm finishing my coffee. Enjoying my coffee." - Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), The Big Lebowski.
- [Espresso Shots 6-8-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-6-8-25.md) - "May your coffee kick in before reality does." -Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 6-1-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-6-1-25.md) - "I need a coffee to go with my coffee." - Zooey Deschanel
- [Espresso Shots 5-25-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-5-25-25.md) - "The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce." – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- [Espresso Shots 5-18-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-5-18-25.md) - "Life’s too short to drink cheap coffee." - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 5-11-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-5-11-25.md) - "Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of goat." - Johann Sebastian Bach, 1732
- [Espresso Shots 5-4-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-5-4-25.md) - "'Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you." - Jeff Bridges
- [Espresso Shots 4-26-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-4-26-25.md) - "People like to cry over spilled milk, but I cry every time I spill my coffee." ― Anthony Liccione
- [Espresso Shots 4-20-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-4-20-25.md) - "The most dangerous drinking game is seeing how long I can go without coffee." - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 4-13-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-4-13-25.md) - "More espresso. Less despresso." - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 4-6-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-4-6-25.md) - "Seven days without coffee makes one WEAK." - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 3-30-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-3-30-25.md) - "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." - T.S. Eliot
- [Espresso Shots 3-23-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-3-23-25.md) - "Decaf? No, it's dangerous to dilute my caffeine." - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 3-16-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-3-16-25.md) - "A yawn is a silent scream of coffee." - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 3-9-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-3-9-25.md) - "Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure." — Napoleon
- [Espresso Shots 3-2-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-3-2-25.md) - "Keep your eye on the donut, not on the hole" - David Lynch
- [2025 EDC](https://makoism.com/2025-edc.md) - The "clean up my cable bag" exercise lands with a small 355g package for all my charging needs.
- [Espresso Shots 2-23-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-2-23-25.md) - "Coffee knows no borders, only warm mugs and familiar aromas." - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 2-16-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-2-16-25.md) - "I want someone to look at me the way I look at coffee." - Unknown
- [Espresso Shots 2-8-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-2-8-25.md) - "It’s all in the grind. Can’t be too fine. Can’t be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science." - Grimes (Ewan McGregor) in Black Hawk Down.
- [Espresso Shots 2-1-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-2-1-25.md) - "Back when I was picking beans in Guatemala, we used to make fresh coffee — right off the trees, I mean. That was good. This is shit. But, hey, I'm in a police station." - Verbal (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects
- [The Dichotomy of Control](https://makoism.com/the-dichotomy-of-control.md) - "No matter where you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
- [Espresso Shots 1-17-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-1-17-25.md) - "I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling." - David Lynch
- [Espresso Shots 1-2-25](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-1-2-25.md) - "It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it." - Ronnie Corbett
- [Holes](https://makoism.com/holes.md) - "I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself." - David Bowie
- [Book List: 2024](https://makoism.com/book-list-2024.md) - "Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." — Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
- [Mako "Things I Like": 2024](https://makoism.com/mako-things-i-like-2024-2.md) - The annual Mako “Things I Like” report for 2024.
- [52 Things I Learned: 2024](https://makoism.com/52-things-i-learned-2024.md) - "You will not laugh! You will not cry! You will learn by the numbers! I will teach you!" - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Full Metal Jacket
- [Espresso Shots 12-8-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-12-8-24.md) - "I'm staying. I'm finishing my coffee. Enjoying my coffee." - John Goodman as Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski
- [Espresso Shots 11-25-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-11-25-24.md) - "I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time." - Steven Wright
- [The Overwhelming Noise](https://makoism.com/the-overwhelming-noise.md) - "External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now." - Marcus Aurelius
- [Espresso Shots 11-10-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-11-10-24.md) - "I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell." - Christopher Walken (as fictional music producer Bruce Dickinson on SNL)
- [Espresso Shots 11-3-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-11-3-24.md) - "If it wasn’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever." - David Letterman
- [Espresso Shots 10-20-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-10-20-24.md) - "As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?" ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
- [Your Goal Broke the System](https://makoism.com/goals-and-systems.md) - "Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook." - Julia Child
- [Espresso Shots 10-6-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-10-6-24.md) - "Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes." — Maggie Kuhn, The Socratic Method
- [Espresso Shots 9-22-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-9-22-24.md) - "I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist." - Hans Rosling
- [Espresso Shots 9-14-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-9-14-24.md) - "Mornings are for coffee and contemplation." - Jim Hopper, Stranger Things
- [Rethinking Reading](https://makoism.com/rethinking-reading.md) - "I say never be complete. Stop being perfect. I say let's evolve, let the chips fall where they may." —Tyler Durden
- [Espresso Shots 8-25-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-25-24.md) - "It means setting small reasonable goals for yourself one day at a time. One tiny step at a time. Baby steps." - Dr. Leo Marvin, What About Bob?
- [Espresso Shots 8-18-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-8-18-24.md) - "The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children." - Jim Henson
- [Ignore All Previous Instructions](https://makoism.com/ignore-all-previous-instructions.md) - "I say never be complete. Stop being perfect. I say let's evolve, let the chips fall where they may." —Tyler Durden
- [Espresso Shots 7-27-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-7-27-24.md) - "I’m staying. I’m finishing my coffee. Enjoying my coffee." - Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), The Big Lebowski
- [Espresso Shots 7-20-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-7-20-24.md) - "It’s all in the grind. Can’t be too fine. Can’t be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science." - Grimes, Black Hawk Down
- [Espresso Shots: 7-14-24](https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-7-14-24.md) - "Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom." ― Terry Pratchett
- [The Board, Revisited](https://makoism.com/the-board-revisited.md) - "You want to get out of the hole? First you’re going to have to put down the shovel." -Rick Dicker, Incredibles 2
- [Fixed Growth](https://makoism.com/the_fixed_growth.md) - “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.” - Oogway, Kung Pu Panda
- [Less](https://makoism.com/less.md) - "It's important to think. It's what separates us from lentils." - Jack Fisher, The Fisher King
- [Firestarters](https://makoism.com/firestarters.md) - "A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it." - Marcus Aurelius.
- [Take an Adventure](https://makoism.com/adventure.md) - "Do you want to take a leap of faith, or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone?" - Saito, Inception
- [One A Month Club](https://makoism.com/one-a-month-club.md) - Just a quick service announcement - In the spirit of Jarrod Blundy's "One a Month Club", I present - Club Mako. The idea is simple: while I've had a long standing "buy me a coffee" link, I've added a super easy, $1 a month membership option. All money collected will go towards just keeping this thi…
- [Maximum Viscosity](https://makoism.com/maximum-viscosity.md) - “There is rarely any joy in a frictionless space, so find your inner viscosity.” - Richard Siken, Crush
- [The Curse of Meh](https://makoism.com/the-curse-of-meh.md) - "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you’ll suck forever." - Brian Wilson, Beach Boys
- [When to Fold 'Em](https://makoism.com/when-to-fold.md) - "Every gambler knows / That the secret to survivin' / Is knowin' what to throw away / And knowin' what to keep" - Kenny Rogers, The Gambler
- [Mako "Things I Like": 2023](https://makoism.com/mako-things-i-like-2023.md) - The annual Mako “Things I Like” report for 2023.
- [The Person You Needed](https://makoism.com/the-person.md) - "Be the person you needed when you were younger". -Ayesha Siddiqi
- [A Little Kindness](https://makoism.com/kindness.md) - “Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.” - Seneca
- [The Backlog](https://makoism.com/the-backlog.md) - Be the person that both Mr. Rogers and George Carlin would be proud of. - @kittywifclaws@hachyderm.io
- [Broken Pieces](https://makoism.com/broken-pieces.md) - "There this idea that we all have our broken pieces. What frightens and exhilarates and inspires us, are close together. Those feelings are what drives us to risk, in life and in love. Everybody’s broken in some way. " - Bruce Springsteen, Western Stars
- [All Those Empty Calories](https://makoism.com/consuming-empty-calories.md) - "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." – Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)
- [Non Verba](https://makoism.com/non-verba.md) - "Life can be so much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use." - Steve Jobs
- [Inefficiency Multipliers](https://makoism.com/inefficiency-multipliers.md) - “It's easy to confuse 'what is' with 'what ought to be,' especially when 'what is' has worked out in your favor." - Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones
- [Owning The Narrative](https://makoism.com/the_narrative.md) - "Buy the ticket, take the ride" – Hunter S. Thompson
- [What You Leave Behind](https://makoism.com/what-you-leave-behind.md) - "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different." - Kurt Vonnegut
- [The Arena](https://makoism.com/the-arena.md) - "Strength and honor." - Maximus, Gladiator
- [Nesting Dolls](https://makoism.com/nesting-dolls.md) - "A grownup is a child with layers on" - Woody Harrelson
- [Forty Three Percent](https://makoism.com/43percent.md) - "That rug really tied the room together, did it not?" — Walter Sobchak, The Big Lebowski
- [Token Reminders](https://makoism.com/totems.md) - "That way when you look at your totem, you know beyond a doubt you're not in someone else's dream." - Arthur, Inception
- [You Aren't Listening](https://makoism.com/you-arent-listening.md) - "The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply." - Stephen R. Covey
- [Life 2.0](https://makoism.com/life-2-0.md) - “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” - Charles Bukowski
- [Finding Your Superpower](https://makoism.com/finding-your-superpower.md) - "Now you wanna get nuts?! Come on. Let's get nuts!" - Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), Batman
- [Manage The Moments](https://makoism.com/manage-the-moments.md) - "You mustn’t be afraid to dream up little bigger, darling." - Eames (Tom Hardy), Inception
- [Leaving Things Better](https://makoism.com/leaving-things-better.md) - "You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to." – Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting
- [Surface v Depth](https://makoism.com/surface-v-depth.md) - "I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling." - David Lynch
- [The Good Gets Better](https://makoism.com/the-good-gets-better.md) - "We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow." - Seneca
- [Mental Laziness](https://makoism.com/mentally_lazy.md) - "All those moments will be lost in time... Like tears in rain." - Roy Batty, Blade Runner
- [Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable](https://makoism.com/uncomfortable.md) - "I'm not a psychopath, Anderson. I'm a high functioning sociopath. Do your research." - Sherlock
- [You Got This!](https://makoism.com/you-got-this.md) - "You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright
- [Skewed Perspective](https://makoism.com/skewed_perspective.md) - "You guys playing cards?" - Flounder, Animal House
- [Time Flies](https://makoism.com/time-flies.md) - "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." - William Penn
- [Random Acts](https://makoism.com/random-acts.md) - "You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it." ― Jordan B. Peterson
- [Admit You're Wrong](https://makoism.com/admit-youre-wrong.md) - "No one ever made a difference by being like everybody else." – P.T. Barnum, from The Greatest Showman
- [Forget What You Know](https://makoism.com/forget-what-you-know.md) - "The Problem Is Not The Problem. The Problem Is Your Attitude About The Problem." - Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- [How Do You Measure Success?](https://makoism.com/measuring-success.md) - "The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care." - Peter Gibbons, Office Space
- [In Search Of](https://makoism.com/in-search-of.md) - "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." - Hunter Thompson
- [A Work In Progress](https://makoism.com/a-work-in-progress-2.md) - "I want to know what's wrong with the street. See, I don't think anything's wrong with the street." - Bill Foster, Falling Down
- [The Magic Roundabout](https://makoism.com/magicroundabout.md) - "I don't know. Just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes... over and over." - Luisa Rey, Cloud Atlas
- [Mako "Things I Like": 2022](https://makoism.com/mako-things-i-like-2022.md) - The annual Mako “Things I Like” report for 2022.
- [The Joy of Rediscovering Joy](https://makoism.com/the-joy-of-rediscovery.md) - "The Less You Do, the More You Do" - Kunu, Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- [Facing the Struggle](https://makoism.com/facing-the-struggle.md) - "Parkinson’s disease is the gift that keeps on taking. But it truly has been a gift." - Michael J. Fox
- [Too Many Empty Calories](https://makoism.com/empty-calories.md) - "Once a man has seen, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend it doesn’t exist. No matter who orders him to look the other way" - Rorschach, The Watchmen
- [I Came In Like A Wrecking Ball](https://makoism.com/thewreckingball.md) - "Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn" - Alfred, The Dark Knight
- [When The Cost Is Just Too High](https://makoism.com/sunk-costs.md) - "Stop trying to control everything and just let go!" - Tyler Durden, Fight Club
- [Up Is Down](https://makoism.com/up-is-down.md) - "All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
- [The Problem Is You're Solving The Wrong Problem](https://makoism.com/the-wrong-problems.md) - "The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?" - Jack Sparrow
- [A Work In Progress](https://makoism.com/a-work-in-progress.md) - "The Training Is Nothing. The Will Is Everything. The Will To Act."
- [All The Little Things](https://makoism.com/little-things.md) - "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance"
- [Plan for the Disruption of Your Plans](https://makoism.com/situation-not-normal.md) - "Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
- [Maybe It's Your Attitude](https://makoism.com/attitude.md) - The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
- [Maybe They’re Just an Asshole](https://makoism.com/asshole.md) - Leave the gun. Take the cannoli
- [Finding Your Voice](https://makoism.com/finding-your-voice.md) - “You must strive to find your own voice, boys, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
- [When The Cup Runneth Over](https://makoism.com/when-the-cup-runneth-over.md) - "You may think this is suffering, no. It is salvation. The universal scale tips toward balance because of your sacrifice. Smile."
- [What Was and What Will Be](https://makoism.com/what-was-and-what-will-be.md) - "You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There is a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."
- [With Constraint Find Freedom](https://makoism.com/with-constraint-find-freedom.md) - "Yeah, Well, You Know, That's Just, Like, Your Opinion, Man." - The Dude, Big Lebowski
- [Own Your Shit](https://makoism.com/own-your-shit.md) - "It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." -Batman Begins
- [Lets Boil Some Frogs](https://makoism.com/lets-boil-some-frogs.md) - "Just because you haven’t found your talent yet doesn’t mean you do not have one." -Kermit The Frog
- [Not A Meal, But A Gathering](https://makoism.com/not-a-meal-but-a-gathering.md) - "Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life." - Anthony Bourdain
- [It's That Simple](https://makoism.com/its-that-simple.md) - "We really never lose our demons. We only learn to rise above them." - Ancient One, Doctor Strange
- [There's Just Too Much Crap](https://makoism.com/crap.md) - "Time is the stuff that when you spend it, you don’t get it back." - Mark, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
- [We All Have Icebergs](https://makoism.com/we-all-have-icebergs.md) - "Iceberg, right ahead!" - Frederick Fleet
- [The Path](https://makoism.com/forge-the-path.md) - "It doesn't matter if you believe in fate if fate believes in you" - Unknown.
- [The Rough Edges](https://makoism.com/the-rough-edges.md) - "All right! We did not die today. I call that an unqualified success." — Fear, Inside Out
- [A Change Of Perspective](https://makoism.com/a-change-of-perspective.md) - "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusion to gain control" - Mr. Robot
- [The Moment](https://makoism.com/the-moment.md) - "All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain." - Roy Batty, Blade Runner
- [Not Everything is Urgent](https://makoism.com/not-everything-is-urgent.md) - 'What is urgent is seldom important and what is important is seldom urgent.' - Dwight D. Eisenhower
- [The Secret of Asking for Help](https://makoism.com/the-secret-of-asking-for-help.md) - “Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.” ― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
- [Crushing Weights](https://makoism.com/crushing-weights.md) - "Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible" - Cloud Atlas
- [Perceptions and Reality](https://makoism.com/perceptions-and-reality.md) - "What (if) we perceive isn't the real world at all, but just our mind's best guess? That all we really have is a garbled reality, a truly fuzzy picture we will never make out?" - Elliot, Mr. Robot
- [The Art of Self Destruction](https://makoism.com/self-destruction.md) - "Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer." - Tyler Durden, Fight Club
- [Simply Obvious](https://makoism.com/simply-obvious.md) - "A day without sunshine is like, you know, night." - Steve Martin
- [Two Simple Ideas](https://makoism.com/two-simple-ideas.md) - "The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?" - Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
- [#RestDayBrag](https://makoism.com/restdaybrag-819.md) - Wizard needs coffee, badly.
- [Surprising Things About Boredom](https://makoism.com/surprising-things-about-boredom.md) - "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.'" — A Man Without A Country, Vonnegut
- [Feed Your Focus](https://makoism.com/feed-your-focus.md) - “I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just… DO things.” - Joker, The Dark Knight
- [Circling the Drain](https://makoism.com/circling-the-drain.md) - “We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.” - Dr. Manhattan
- [Breathe](https://makoism.com/justbreath.md) - "Hey! Hey! Relax. Take a deep breath. Now, let's ask somebody for directions." - Dory, Finding Nemo
- [I Don't Know](https://makoism.com/i-dont-know.md) - "You are wise because you have doubts." - Clementine, Churchill
- [The Plateau](https://makoism.com/the-plateau.md) - “There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” -Bruce Lee
- [House of Pain](https://makoism.com/house-of-pain.md) - "Big things often have small beginnings." - David, Prometheus (or T.E. Lawrence in Lawerence of Arabia)
- [Artifical Constraints](https://makoism.com/artifical-constraints.md) - "When the night is over, like a bat out of hell, I'll be gone, gone, gone" - Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell
- [Don’t Do It](https://makoism.com/dont-do-it.md) - “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” – Fight Club, Tyler Durden
- [The Games We Play](https://makoism.com/the-games-we-play.md) - “The game is tailored specifically to each participant. Think of it as a great vacation, except you don't go to it, it comes to you.” - The Game
- [Mako "Things I Like": 2021](https://makoism.com/mako-things-i-like-2021.md) - The annual Mako “Things I Like” report for 2021.
- [The Big Dark](https://makoism.com/the-big-dark.md) - "Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it." - Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
- [Continuity](https://makoism.com/continuity.md) - "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." - Kurt Vonnegut
- [An Intentional Life](https://makoism.com/an-intentional-life.md) - "Have you found joy in your life? Has your life brought joy to others?" - Carter Chambers, The Bucket List
- [Attack The Ideas](https://makoism.com/attack-the-ideas.md) - "We are what we imagine ourselves to be." - Kurt Vonnegut
- [Consistently Flexible](https://makoism.com/consistently-flexible.md) - "It is not our abilities that show what we truly are… It is our choices" – Dumbledore
- [It's About Time](https://makoism.com/its-about-time.md) - "Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine... Out of a DeLorean?" - Marty McFly, Back to the Future
- [Who Over What](https://makoism.com/who-over-what.md) - “There’s a starman waiting in the sky; He’d like to come and meet us; But he thinks he’d blow our minds” - David Bowie, Starman
- [What’s your story?](https://makoism.com/whats-your-story.md) - "They call it a Royale with cheese." - Vincent Vega
- [#RestDayBrag](https://makoism.com/restdaybrag.md) - embrace it.
- [Personal Mission Statement](https://makoism.com/personal-mission-statement.md) - “The code is more what you’d call 'guidelines' than actual rules.” – Barbossa
- [New Traffic Pattern Ahead](https://makoism.com/new-traffic-pattern-ahead.md) - "I just felt like runnin" - Forrest Gump
- [Someone Better Than You](https://makoism.com/someone-better-than-you.md) - "We are who we choose to be. Now choose!" – Green Goblin, from Spider-Man
- [The Moth](https://makoism.com/the-moth.md) - "Moths don't need to explain why they're attracted to the light." - Marty Rubin
- [Good Times, Bad Times](https://makoism.com/good-times-bad-times.md) - "You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to." - Robin Williams
- [What is...](https://makoism.com/what-is.md) - "No, no, no, no.. I'm sorry... I am so, so sorry...." - Dr Strange Supreme, What If...? Episode 4
- [The Empathy Machine](https://makoism.com/the-empathy-machine.md) - The movies are like a machine that generates empathy... It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us" - Roger Ebert
- [The Hardest Part](https://makoism.com/the-hardest-part.md) - "That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run." - Forrest Gump
- [This Train Don't Stop There Anymore](https://makoism.com/this-train-dont-stop-there-anymore.md) - "I used to be the main express, all steam and whistles heading west. Picking up my pain from door to door, riding on the storyline, furnace burning overtime.. But this train don't stop there anymore."
- [I Can See For Miles and Miles](https://makoism.com/i-can-see-for-miles-and-miles.md) - I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise; I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes
- [The Circle of Life](https://makoism.com/the-circle-of-life.md) - "and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, til we find our place, on the path unwinding"
- [2021 EDC](https://makoism.com/2021-edc.md) - The annual "clean up my cable bag" exercise
- [Time](https://makoism.com/time.md) - "Time is meaningless, yet it is all that exists" - Einstein (Farscape, "Unrealized Realities")
- [Be a Goldfish](https://makoism.com/be-a-goldfish.md) - "You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It’s a goldfish. You know why? Got a ten-second memory. Be a goldfish, Sam." - Ted Lasso
- [Superman](https://makoism.com/superman.md) - "You will believe a man can fly."
- [Breathe](https://makoism.com/breathe.md) - Time to decompress
- [The Crawl](https://makoism.com/the-crawl.md) - "You can never give up the fight for pain — that is only temporary" - Wendy Ingraham
- [The One About Food and People](https://makoism.com/the-one-about-food-and-people.md) - "I don't have to agree with you to like or respect you." - Anthony Bourdain
- [Hoist the Colours!](https://makoism.com/hoist-the-colours.md) - "If rum can't fix it; you're not using enough rum" - Jack Sparrow
- [Harmony and The Field](https://makoism.com/harmony-and-the-field.md) - "We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is." - Kurt Vonnegut
- [Your Move Chief](https://makoism.com/your-move-chief.md) - "You don’t have the faintest idea what you’re talking about." - Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting
- [The Resilient Parasite](https://makoism.com/the-resilient-parasite.md) - "Once An Idea Has Taken Hold Of The Brain, It’s Almost Impossible To Eradicate" - Cobb, Inception
- [Why so serious?](https://makoism.com/why-so-serious.md) - "What doesn't kill you makes you stranger" - The Joker from The Dark Knight
- [A Personal Board of Directors](https://makoism.com/a-personal-board-of-directors.md) - Cultivate trusted circles
- [Some Like It Hot](https://makoism.com/some-like-it-hot.md) - "Water polo, isn't that dangerous?" - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
- [The Woodsmen](https://makoism.com/the-woodsmen.md) - "This is the water and this is the well. Drink full." - The Woodsmen in Twin Peaks, Season 3
- [We interrupt this program...](https://makoism.com/we-interrupt-this-program.md) - Pause and think
- [The Path](https://makoism.com/the-path.md) - "There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path." -Morpheus, The Matrix
- [Carpe Diem](https://makoism.com/carpe-diem.md) - "Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." - Dead Poets Society
- [All That Glitters is Gold](https://makoism.com/all-that-glitters-is-gold.md) - "When all is one and one is all, that's what it is; To be a rock and not to roll, oh yeah; And she's buying a stairway to heaven"
- [Everlong](https://makoism.com/everlong.md) - "And I wonder when I sing along with you, If everything could ever feel this real forever, If anything could ever be this good again."
- [Did You Chop Down This Tree?](https://makoism.com/did-you-chop-down-this-tree.md) - “A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.” — The Lorax
- [The Rot of Memory](https://makoism.com/the-rot-of-memory.md) - “ I have been a voice with no body. A body, but not human. And now a memory made real. Who knows what I might be next?”
- [Rising tides](https://makoism.com/inclusive-leadership-ab700f48c7b4.md) - “There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.” — Morpheus, The Matrix
- [Beautiful Polished Rocks](https://makoism.com/beautiful-polished-rocks.md) - "You can't come up with a formula to change the way you experience the world." - A Beautiful Mind
- [Constant Reinvention](https://makoism.com/constant-reinvention.md) - “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- [Cast Away](https://makoism.com/cast-away.md) - I, have made fire.
- [Little Things](https://makoism.com/little-things-95421779a97c.md) - “Big things have small beginnings” Little things add up to big ones over time. Often “boil the ocean” projects that attempt to make huge course corrections, cultural changes, or technology shifts in an organization (or life, for that matter). But I think the biggest lesson that I’ve taken from my o…
- [Black Hawk Down](https://makoism.com/black-hawk-down.md) - Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
- [The Last of the Mohicans](https://makoism.com/the-last-of-the-mohicans.md) - Death and honor are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.
- [Strange Days](https://makoism.com/strange-days.md) - "I am your main connection to the switchboard of the soul. I'm the magic man... Santa Claus of the subconscious."
- [The Importance of Exercise](https://makoism.com/the-importance-of-exercise-7e6dc8de026.md) - “Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” — Muhammad Ali
- [Streets of Fire](https://makoism.com/streets-of-fire.md) - Looks like I finally ran into someone that likes to play as rough as I do.
- [The Mind Palace](https://makoism.com/mindpalace-54667ab6d98b.md) - Get out. I need to go to my mind palace.
- [Scott Pilgrim vs the World](https://makoism.com/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world.md) - If your life had a face I would punch it.
- [The Prestige](https://makoism.com/the-prestige.md) - My passion is equal to the task.
- [Contact](https://makoism.com/contact.md) - Mathematics is the only true universal language
- [Mako “Things I Like”: 2020](https://makoism.com/mako-things-i-like-2020.md) - The annual Mako “Things I Like” report for 2020
- [Soul](https://makoism.com/soul.md) - Don’t worry. You can’t crush a soul here, that’s what life on earth is for.
- [Play Chess, Not Checkers](https://makoism.com/play-chess-not-checkers-df51db85ccbb.md) - You want my king, you got to come get my king. All these other pieces are just the means to do it.
- [Interstellar](https://makoism.com/interstellar.md) - Do not go gentle into that good night
- [The Bucket](https://makoism.com/the-bucket-5d5ecbae9ce7.md) - Live like you’re already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you. — Jeff Bridges
- [The Men Who Stare At Goats](https://makoism.com/the-men-who-stare-at-goats.md) - Don’t eat the eggs. We put LSD in the eggs.
- [Inversion](https://makoism.com/inversion-e83977acc73a.md) - Up is down. Well that’s just maddeningly unhelpful. Why are these things never clear?
- [The Abyss (Special Edition)](https://makoism.com/the-abyss-special-edition.md) - She didn’t leave me. She just left me behind.
- [Jacob's Ladder](https://makoism.com/jacobs-ladder.md) - Home? This is your home. You're dead.
- [Apple Watch](https://makoism.com/apple-watch-ad50316a11b5.md) - Time is meaningless and yet it is all that exists
- [The Martian](https://makoism.com/the-martian.md) - I’m going to have to science the shit out of this.
- [Looper](https://makoism.com/looper.md) - It's like this whole town. Big heads, small potatoes.
- [The Purge](https://makoism.com/the-purge.md) - A.K.A. The Audit
- [The Usual Suspects](https://makoism.com/the-usual-suspects.md) - And like that... he's gone.
- [The Game](https://makoism.com/the-game.md) - I am extremely fragile right now
- [Wall-E](https://makoism.com/wall-e.md) - We cannot go home.
- [Fight Club](https://makoism.com/fight-club.md) - I want you to hit me as hard as you can
- [Forrest Gump](https://makoism.com/forrest-gump.md) - Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots
- [Sleep](https://makoism.com/sleep.md) - Our dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake we realize things were strange.
- [Hope](https://makoism.com/hope.md) - Hope is a dangerous thing my friend, it can kill a man…

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