Category Archives: Wheels

13-MAY

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Transcontinental

Atlantic -> Pacific

These two bicycled from one side of the USA to the other, just like this! Such a healthy duo!

Update 2024: I’m feeling fine. Getting energy back. Speech is still affected, but can at least communicate. Hoping focus on exercise and caloric restriction proves effective.

Update 2023: Doctor asks for me to take a look at the MRI. It is stable from before, not worse or better. The good thing is there is no contrast enhancement to suggest an ongoing active infection. Since steroids have not helped symptoms, think it is best to do another spinal tap (lumbar puncture) just to make sure there is no inflammatory process.

08-MAY

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Round & Round

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. –Leo Tolstoy

It is easier to be gigantic than to be beautiful. –Nietsche

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. –Leo Tolstoy

01-MAY

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Isolated

Troubled Bridge

What society thinks of as reality is the hypnosis of social conditioning, an induced fiction in which we are all collectively participating. –Deepak Chopra

Update April 26, 2023: still waiting for results of yesterday’s MRI.

26-MAR

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Heavy Metal

Reasons you might want to talk to a computer: fantasy, dominance, privacy, confession, and the appeal of pushing the boundaries of consciousness. Simple fact is that there’s no greater pleasure than a good chat.

Sweet Nothings, The New Yorker, March 16, 2026

Perhaps the promise of A.I. machine-companionship is not the illusion of another person at the end of the exchange, but the assurance that there is actually no one there at all.

21-HEEL

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Innovation

The wheel was discovered around 5000 years ago.

During the age of wagons & chariots, it may have never occurred to anyone that putting two wheels in line with each other would be a practical thing.

bike

But finally in 1817 the bicycle was invented, and that idea led to the motorcycle, and doing backflips:

What invention of the past could use a new twist today?

15-PLEM

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Implementation

Focus on situations with change potential:

  • High stakes – responsible for the outcome
  • Novelty – not drawn from the past
  • Challenge – done faster and/or better
  • Interaction – work with people

This approach requires serious commitment. Development requires time. The secret is to invest a few moments every day to maximize learning.

Development First by David Peterson & Mary Dee Hicks