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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.

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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

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Claude Code, phantom fluency, gut instinct, block universes, and the noble path of building things for each other.

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Velocity and attention becomes a war, habits hinge on the single stick, life insisting on 1x speed and thriving through experiments instead of failures.

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Defining the problem, curiosity tours, intellectual rigidity, choosing boredom over optimization and valuing time more than money.

When It Falls Over

Resilience isn't built by avoiding failure.