My 54th Year
This year my focus is on creating, family, and health. Actually in the order of health, family, and creation. And on making Xcrol work.
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AI and I – Thoughts to End 2025 with
I almost never sit down and write something like this anymore without AI but I felt like writing this with AI was a little too on the nose. So this is all me. Not even an AI assist.
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The Great Time Swindle: Trading Your Prime for Pennies
We’ve allowed it to become a transaction—a predatory exchange where society systematically pressures us to trade our most vibrant, healthy, and energetic years for a paycheck, often deferring real living to a hypothetical, financially-secure future that may never come.
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A guide To Navigating China’s Digital Dystopia
This guide will help you understand this digital ecosystem, overcome common hurdles, and prepare for a smooth visit where you can focus on the experience, not the connectivity.
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The Bibliophile’s Shanghai
Beneath Shanghai’s iconic skyline of glittering towers lies a city that has long been a crucible of ideas. From the printing presses of the 1930s that fueled a literary golden age to the avant-garde bookshops of today, Shanghai’s soul is indelibly inked on paper.
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The Joy of Unplanned Travel
For those who can make it work (like me) there are some upsides that outweigh the downsides of this kind of lifestyle..
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Where the Water TAstes Like Wine
There is no security. There is no happy ending. There is no American Dream – it’s a lie.
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Baoism
We are all born with an innate knowledge of what is good for us, for our community and family, for our world. We naturally understand when something is not good for us, others, the world. Over time we learn to ignore that knowledge. We learn cultural and interpersonal rules that fly in the face of what we know. We distort our own reality field.
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A Dark Time in America
When you call someone a thief long enough, they finally realize they might as well be stealing. When you bully a kid so much that they want to die, they end up either killing themselves or killing their bully or killing a bunch of other people. That’s part of what is happening now.
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Taiwan is a Country
Taiwan is a beautiful country filled with friendly people and some astounding landscapes.
