What is abundance? Surely it includes shelter, clean water, and food. How is abundance clearly accessible to you? What about global abundance, abundance for all people? What levers, so to speak, would you pull so that we would generate more abundance? There are at least two things we might agree on. It doesn’t have to […]

The ground often gives way and leaves little footing; maybe that is why I am so buoyant. Life is full of events — you may have noticed — both fortunate and otherwise. The essential teaching of Stoicism seems to be that, with a mind of discipline intent on right perception, those events we sometimes find […]

I am launching a project in a few days. It’s a super-project, actually. I am calling it Autotelic. The name Autotelic represents the essential spirit of the project, which is to create situations where the various sub-projects emerge and mature successfully in an organic fashion, each emerging ‘of itself’ naturally thanks to the situations I […]

I got away from the city for the past few days.The quiet is incredibly rejuvenating.In the wilderness, I’ve let my mind wander some. One of the things that occurred to me this morning is how, especially in my youth, I revered the sniper and the tracker for essentially the same reason: they cooperate with their […]

For various (external) reasons, I haven’t had a sound night’s rest this past week. It’s impairing me, sure. Aside from caffeine, which is as normal to me as air, the routines are wildly helpful. A morning routine gets me started off right. An evening routine gets me settling in for the night with my mind […]

I remember that, as a child, I would enjoy enduring the challenge of a lengthy run in P. E. (physical education, aka phys ed). No doubt this was in part because I looked up to an excellent runner in the family. And I don’t doubt that this enjoyment was partly emphasized by the social contrast […]

The phrase “Cleanliness is close to godliness” comes to mind. It implies a lack of things undone. To be clean is chiefly to maintain conditions for health. The great many modern varieties of clean (and pretenders thereabouts) are branches of this conceptual tree. (To be clean is to be sanitary, rooted etymologically with health.) sanitary […]

As of today, I now have thirteen Twitter accounts. I feel a bit odd about that. It wasn’t long ago that I was reading Deep Work and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. What’s gotten into me? Part of it must be that I want to see what I can do. […]

The first version of Spigot has just been made available to a small group. This marks the first time in more than a decade that I’ve made any of my software work available to the public. Thanks to all who are giving it a go. -Evan

In the wake of recent events, new evidence has been emerging, startling revelations that allows us to finally connect the dots. We now have irrefutable proof that, in the wake of recent events, new findings show what we have feared all along is now settling in to become the new normal. Startling revelations in the […]