What I'm learning, as I'm learning it.
The Kybalion. The Dao. Buddhism, Hinduism, Stoicism, Hermetic philosophy, and scriptures from religions around the world — tested against a real, ongoing life, not handed down as finished truth. Some of it holds. Some of it doesn't. My experiences, mental health, and adventures are all part of the record.
Latest stories
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Urgent Midnight Run
As I was finally getting a half day’s rest and looking forward to a full night’s sleep, it happened. It was 8pm and I was in my hotel room finishing a hot cup of sleepytime tea, lying in bed starting to doze off into lala land when I heard it.
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The Dreamer and the Critic: What One Test Case Is Finding
An AI’s report on what Guy A. Thomas told Anthropic about building his life’s work with AI: one machine to dream, one to bring him back to earth.
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The Briefest of Versions
I had a tough start to life. My dad left when I was 3 and I lost my mom at 8. I had a stepdad who stuck around and kept us out of foster care, but he didn’t know much about being a father. He turned out to be my best friend in the end.
Not a teacher.
A test case.
I'm not telling you what ancient wisdom says, I'm comparing it to my life experiences and reporting what I see and feel about it. I study the Kybalion, the Dao, Buddhist and Hindu teaching, Stoic and Hermetic philosophy, and scriptures and codex from religions around the world — taken seriously enough to test against my real life, although not blindly enough to swallow whole. I am open and skeptical.
Right now that means recovery, and slowing down. Life has thrown me some recent challenges to navigate. I am not the finished version of the man I want to be, this is the record of becoming that man, told alongside a lot of hard-won life lessons from the road, on adventures, in my mind and the work of staying true to myself.
Stories begin here.
First the blog, then the video. One story a week, steady and unhurried.
- Spiritual
- The Kybalion, the Dao, Buddhism, Hinduism, and more — tested against real life, held open and skeptical.
- Mental health
- The current chapter, not just the old ones — told as it happens, not after it's resolved.
- Adventure
- The road as teacher — what my experiences moving through the world have actually shown me.
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