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The Stoics give us a marvelous concept: the Inner Citadel. It is this fortress, they believed, that protects our soul. Though we might be physically vulnerable, though we might be at the mercy of fate in many ways, our inner domain is impenetrable. As Marcus Aurelius put it (repeatedly, in fact), “stuff cannot touch the…

“Your independent will alone cannot effectively discipline you against your center”. – Habit 3: “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” I am (again) re-reading key sections of the book. I always get something new. This gets a longer explanation in the book, but paraphrasing it means if your core (your values, principles, etc.) is…

I just did some reading up on the “Kraken” sea monster, probably most famous for its appearance in the “Clash of the Titans” movie and was quite surprised to learn that it was NOT a Greek myth at all but a Norse one. In the original Greek myth, Perseus rescues the princess from a sea…

The history of cornbread is quite a maize…you might even say it is a-maizing. Corn was first cultivated in Mexico thousands of years ago and soon spread north to native american tribes in what would one day become the United States. When European settlers arrived they quickly adopted corn as a staple crop and with…

So Pluto is actually smaller than our moon…actually, it’s smaller than several moons in the solar system (Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Europa) and several of those moons are arguably more interesting than Pluto (Titan has a dense atmosphere and liquid methane lakes, Europa has a subsurface ocean beneath its ice sheet). Some scientists think Pluto…

 This is a good poem by Rosebud Ben-Oni You should read it.

 When I was a kid, one of my former elementary school teachers published a book of poems, “Through a Glass Darkly”. We owned a copy and I read through it several times, so fascinated that someone we actually knew had a book published. It was like we knew a celebrity. I loved the title of…

Bad values: Pleasure Being right (winning!) Popularity Material success Staying positive Bad values are (per the book), …”superstitious, non reality-based, not immediate or controllable.”  I am re-reading ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***” by Mark Manson. That and ‘7 Habits…’ are always good to re-certify on every so often, IMHO.  I think it’s…

Dead Internet Theory in a nutshell (via Wikipedia) The dead Internet theory has two main components: that organic human activity on the web has been displaced by bots and algorithmically curated search results, and that state actors are doing this in a coordinated effort to manipulate the human population.[3][14][15] The first part of this theory, that…