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Love. Truth. Power. Justice. Harmony. There is a word, a concept, a primal driver inside every person. Scripture calls it the Pearl of Great Price. It’s the thing for which a person will give just about everything they have in life to have. For lack of a better term, let’s call it moral currency. JustContinue reading “Moral Currency”

In the world of numbers, irrational numbers are a realm much greater than rational numbers. The rules that govern functions apply regardless of whether a number is rational or irrational. To a large extent, much of human action is similar. Rationality is a life-preserving feature of the cerebral cortex. The brain wants to catalog reproducibleContinue reading “Rational vs Rationalizing”

Rule #5 Own your stuff, don’t let it own you What has your attention? Who has your attention? Time is the ultimate currency. For those who rule the internet, the time they have your attention is the currency they trade. The more of your time they own, the more of you they own. Even asContinue reading “Attention, please”

Rule #4: Don’t join a cult It is interesting to observe that social media seems to be an amplifying technology. Not only does it allow one to broadcast thoughts, beliefs, conscious and unconscious psychologies, the mechanism of the technologies itself returns to it what is being broadcast. As within, so without. It correctly assumes thatContinue reading “Echo Chambers”

Confidence. It implies trustworthiness in the reliability of a person, thing, belief. In science, confidence states the range that is likely to contain the true population parameter. It implies that there is a knowable, reproducible truth. The level of confidence is the demonstrated ability to reproduce something reliably. Somewhere in there is this concept ofContinue reading “Confidence”

16 October 2019 Rule #3: Don’t be an @$$hole This is a rule that requires much unpacking. In general, it speaks to intent, the idea that we have agency to decide how to interact with others. It is a call to avoid creating unnecessary drama or non-productive attention to oneself. It asks to increase harmony,Continue reading “Discord vs Harmony”

07 October 2019 What do you love? Define LOVE. Humans are collections of organic matter whose ‘choices’ are likely illusions that are created by some combination of neurotransmitter-driven pathways that do not deviate much from its own history. The euphoria that is often depicted as love is usually some outpouring of addictive proteins in theContinue reading “Love or Addictions?”

01 Oct 2019 Do what you love Be of service Don’t be an @$$hole Don’t join a cult Own your stuff, don’t let it own you There is much to unpack with these rules. “How do I know what I love?” “Service to whom? For what?” “Define @$$hole.” “What is a cult?” It’s a process.Continue reading “Mama’s Rules”