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Continue reading →: Perception Is a RumorLook at a rainbow. ROYGBIV — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Notice what’s missing? Purple isn’t there. Your brain makes it up—invents a color to bridge a gap in the spectrum that physics can’t close. Most of what you experience works the same way. Your perception isn’t a…
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Continue reading →: Desire PathsWhen Michigan State ran out of money to pave its walkways, they waited—and let students wear the paths themselves. Urban planners have a name for those worn lines: desire paths, the routes nobody designs and everybody chooses. Some people see their path before they take a step. Most of us…
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Continue reading →: Play It AgainLast month, over beers after a round of pitch ‘n’ putt, my buddies and I landed on a familiar subject: Adam Carolla. None of us listened to him anymore, and it wasn’t because of what had changed — it was because of what hadn’t. But that raised a bigger question.…
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Continue reading →: Imagine That“Man, what happened to Russ?” For a few years there, you couldn’t walk into a Seattle sports bar without hearing it. The spins stopped working. The cringe piled up. And because of that, losing him hurt a little less than it should have. But before any of that—before the Super…
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Continue reading →: What I’ve Learned from Tom Petty“Mary Jane’s Last Dance” won Best Male Video at the 1994 VMAs. Then, at forty-four, Tom Petty released Wildflowers—and hot damn, I became a real fan. The more I learned, the more relatable he got. The kid who didn’t know what publishing was. The guy who fought his label twice…
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Continue reading →: Magic Pills, Volume Three: BreathworkBreathwork is the closest thing we have to a manual override for the nervous system. Five minutes can change your state—measurably. This isn’t mysticism. It’s a toolkit: box breathing for acute stress, 4-7-8 for sleep, Buteyko for long-term resilience, Wim Hof for energy and immune modulation. Each protocol has a…
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Continue reading →: The Plus: Part 5, Centaurs Are Among UsThe series has shown you what to watch out for. The atrophy. The cosplay. The kid pushing the train. The discipline of doing your half of the work. This is Part 5—the closing post—and it’s about what happens when it works. You’ll meet Bacon, our robot lawnmower and the small…
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Continue reading →: The Plus: Part 4, The HandoffYour job is to keep diverging. The robots’ job is to converge. The handoff between those two—the place where divergent input meets convergent execution—that’s the prompt. This is Part 4 of The Plus, and it’s the practical one. I’ll walk you through how I actually build prompts—not the color-coded template…
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