Ricochet is one of those words, created by describing the sound it makes.

Stress causes you to choose isolation, because people are hard to deal with. Once you have been separated from the crowd, they can do whatever they want to you, without enraging the population. Now imagine that happening at scale, to everyone.

Conservatives treat power as inherently illegitimate, while Leftists treat power as the mechanism by which reality is made. And we wonder why one side never wins while the other seemingly cannot lose.

Assumption is the root of disappointment. Allowing for any outcome, and maximizing your reaction to whatever may come, allows for calm and peaceful success.

The "quiet quitting" movement is about to be quickly followed by the "you can have this shit" generation.

You are captured by ideology and controlled by designed outrage and fear. Step back and see the WHOLE battlefield for our minds.

Performative activism is a childish meltdown temper tantrum against anyone who says "NO" to anything they have been propagandized into believing.

People are corruptable. Institutions seek control. AI, being created by people within institutions, will be totally safe... and not seek to program us into slavery. We have already deluded ourselves into that nightmare, before we dreamed up these new silicon overlords.

Old way of thinking..."Whose side are you on?" Correct, current thinking..."I don't care which side, what is the truth?"

Truth is treason in an empire of lies ~ George Orwell

Fulfillment in life comes from achieving meaningful challenging goals and staying aligned with your designed purpose.

There is a narrative you need to repeat to yourself all day, every day, to be successful or fulfilled. Be patient This is worthy of my time In the end, we will win Humility is a best practice Keep your head down Maintain peace I am losing faith in these words

A man's incorrectness is absolute and independent of observation by a woman. Therefore there is no solace within the stillness of being alone in the forest, you are still wrong.

The "talent in population" level is almost non existant. We have talent now, but it is a noticably vanishing commodity, maybe 2 to 3 percent of those you interact with. I remember when the cashier at the record store was a wizard level sage.

So, our group had 6 employees. One quit because the volume (in the low season) was overwhelming. Now there are 5 of us going into busy season, and we are all carrying between 4 and 8 weeks vacation, depending on seniority. Oh yeah, our highly effective long term boss is retiring.

It seems the vast majority of people invest quite a bit of their life creating a false caricature of what they hope to be perceived as... instead of exploring, and being who they are.

Serious question Is China more or less likely to invade... Now that Chuck Norris has died?

It is so sad that polite grateful conversations are so out of the norm now as to be an aberration.

I almost feel compelled to offer hyperlinks to multisyllabic words when I speak.

Assume victory and calmly act as if it has already transpired.