Significant
This was a three hour dirt-ride into the Inyo National Forest off of Death Valley Road east of Big Pine.
There was a moment when I felt there was no return.
14-JUN
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23-MAY
Intention
Half of those who die in combat enter Valhalla, while the other half are chosen to reside in Fólkvangr.
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.
Aristotle
15-MAY
Much deplored, that a place you devote your natural life to should be sadly destitute of cosy inhabitiveness.
Rather, think of a warm cabin with soft blankets, gentle lighting, and personal touches like books or family photos.
02-APR
Regional Preserve
One hour drive freeway north; winding backroad south home.
10-TOP!
Peak Effort
- Question every requirement; have the name of the person who made it.
- Delete any part or process you can do without. Restore 10% back later if necessary.
- Simplify & optimize the remaining parts/processes.
- Accelerate the cycle time.
- Automate only after doing all the above, and the bugs have been shaken out.
Elon Musk’s Business Development Algorithm (essentially unquestioned)
29-FIRM
Overlooking
Constellation Orion, partly encircled by Barnard’s Loop, appears upside down (on the left) when seen from the southern hemisphere.
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky.
On the far right, near the top, are the two Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.
12-HIDD
Prehistoric
There’s a sacred place at Almaden Quicksilver Park that few people know about. A hike there is refreshing to the soul, yet could be exhausting to the body.
It’s a fair trade.
09-SHOR
Pathway
Cells in embryos make their way across a steep “developmental landscape” to their eventual fate.
Embryonic cells continuously monitor their changing surroundings and make small corrective adjustments, optimizing as development proceeds, locking in on their planned identity relatively late.
Processing positional information makes genes variously switch on and off throughout the embryo, giving cells distinct identities based on their location. (Some cells unfortunately take the wrong paths and are unable to get back on track.)
All the information is there in the landscape and processing that information effectively may be the phenomenon that makes a bunch of loosely stuck-together atoms behave like the thing we call life.
Had I been like a man living in a wood from which he knows there is no exit, I could have lived; but I was like one lost in a wood who, horrified at having lost his way, rushes about wishing to find the road.”
-Leo Tolstoy