your life’s work begins now and you must realize this before you begin your ascent. every wonderful act of creation creates a stone upon which you can step. a brick for every artifact of tender care. a cinder block for every imaginative invention. however, this climb is never

rejoice evermore!

when science becomes merely utilitarian, it can only advance narrowly, and incrementally, if at all.

not even the worst of anxieties, self-imposed pressures, or distractions can overcome the cold breeze that brushes against you from an elevated perch, where one watches the world below.

a 24 year old John Adams once wrote: “But, above all, I long to be a man of honor and principle, and I am determined to conform my behavior to that character. Let love, and vanity, and ambition, and avarice, and all their kindred passions sleep. Let me be ambitious of nothing

we live in a shallow world, filled with those who merely play at the edge of the shore. they will do everything in their power to keep you from going deeper. they say, “you will drown if you go out there.” in reality, they will attempt to drown you in the shallows before they

gravitational wave research greatly excites me

before and after. still much to do. HDX

last month I attended Edge Esmeralda to write a report on the cutting edge of consciousness research topics included everything from meditation and enlightenment to epistemology, vasocomputation, active inference, AI, and moral realism. the article i wrote integrates findings

indeed science is under siege, and as with all other examples of reformation throughout history, we must not waste such an opportunity by merely adopting the same ‘ways’ of the former incumbents. much of science has undergone methodological contamination, and simply

it is the most wonderful thing to push all of your chips toward the center of the table. to pursue something with the fullness of your being. to lay your reputation on the line, to gamble your lifeforce on something wholly uncertain. the reward is not fortune or fame, nor other

𝕽𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖙𝖚𝖘 𝖆𝖉 𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖆𝖒!

if there is one thing you are to do today, it is to reclaim your sense of duty in this life. adjacent to this is surrounding yourself with others who are similarly compelled by such notions. the lack of duty is what leads brilliant men and women into wealth-masked obscurity. it

LONG: Science + AI + Traditional Academe ———————————————————- SHORT: Peer Review + Modern Academe That’s the trade, in my opinion.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94? Happy Birthday Roger.

Good gracious just be real dude holy smokes why is it always posturing and memetics YOU ARE ENSOULED. THE IMAGO DEI LIVES WITHIN YOU. BECOME WHO YOU ARE. WAKE UP. WAKE UP. STOP TALKING ABOUT PARAMETER COUNTS. STOP WEARING CARHARTT. YOU WERE MEANT FOR MORE THAN THIS.