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Month: July 2026

You Know What I Want More Of?

Published on July 6, 2026

…It’s not horse power, or square footage, or trophies.

…It’s not more pixels, or processing speed, or more accurate LLMs.

…And it’s not more roles, or responsibilities, or subscriptions.

What I want more of… is time to hang out.

After all, what are we doing everything else for if not to get to a point where we can… you know… hang out more?

We work hard so we can cover the basic expenses for our survival… so we can then hang out and just be—with friends, family, lovers—isn’t it?

Sure there’s purpose and fulfillment that’s associated with doing work that’s meaningful to you and/or impactful on others… but isn’t it also equally about aligning with people who you like hanging out with to get done said work?

And if nothing else, shouldn’t we be aligning with work and a schedule that allows us to hang out with a better / the best version of ourself?

We are drowning in messages telling us we need to work more, harder, faster, so that we can afford more horse power, square footage, pixels, processing speed, subscriptions, etc… but what if what we really needed was simply: more time to hang out?

…And what if that was much easier to achieve then we’ve been made to believe?

Invitations Are Gifts

Published on July 5, 2026

Early last week, I got a call from a student of mine who’s like a little sister.

She asked if I was going to a martial arts tournament that she was competing in that weekend—and I told her I wasn’t planning on it.

She essentially put on her “puppy dog” voice and asked if I would go anyway.

…And so I did.

I booked a flight the next day, got a rental car, figured out my room and stay situation, and told myself I’d figure out the rest as I went.

…And I’m so glad I did.

Had that student not called me, I never would have gone. And I would’ve missed out on so many experiences, memories, and moments worth cherishing.

Sometimes we don’t call people to ask if they’ll go with us because we don’t want to “inconvenience them.” Or because we’re afraid they’ll say no or reject us in some way. Or because we figure if they wanted to go, they would’ve taken the initiative to make the plans themselves.

But here’s the thing: invitations are gifts.

…It’s how I genuinely feel about the invitation I was given by that student.

And by not extending invitations to people you would genuinely want to join you on a trip or to an experience or to be a part of shared moment… you’re withholding gifts to those very people.

Gifts that could very well give them something worth cherishing.

Leave Everything Behind

Published on July 3, 2026

One day, everything I’ve ever written will no longer be read.

…Everything I’ve ever recorded will no longer be watched.

…Everything I’ve ever said and done will be forgotten.

…Everyone I’ve ever loved and cared for will be gone.

And yet.

I still choose to keep on writing.

…To keep on recording and sharing things.

…To keep on saying and doing things.

…To keep on loving and caring and building and creating.

Because the point isn’t to leave something behind that people will always remember me by after I’m gone.

The point is to leave everything behind. To exhaust this temporary experience with every ounce of life force I have. To hold on to nothing and give all that’s inside to the collective in some small way or form.

Living for some legacy we won’t be there to feel?

…Or living to feel?

…And letting legacy do what it will as we leave our experience naked and empty-handed, yet content and full.

Energy Is Neither Created Nor Destroyed

Published on July 2, 2026

…It’s only transferred/shared.

This is why when you’re sitting at home by yourself, contemplating whether you should do that thing you know you should do or not, it can be so damn hard to find the energy to do it.

…Because there’s no energy being shared/gifted to you.

You’re just trying to create energy out of thin air.

This is also why when you show up to do that thing you know you should do, and there are a bunch of other people doing the thing already, it suddenly becomes easier…

It’s almost as though the energy… well… appears out of thin air.

…It’s because it kind of does.

The thin air is the medium through which energy is transferred/shared. And when you get a handful of people in a room who are givers of energy—everybody leaves feeling boosted. The opposite is also true as well. Get a bunch of energy vampires in a room and you’ll probably have been better off staying in that original room by yourself.

Those who understand this fundamental principle of physics understand a key strategy for getting hard things done easier in life.

…Which is at the cornerstone of all proper inner work matters.