Category: TMMW

Pupils with the highest marks receive status and credentials. We teach every young person the same subjects in mostly the same ways, irrespective of individual talents and preferences. Students who don’t learn best by sitting still at a desk are made to feel somehow inferior, while students who excel in conventional measures like tests and… Continue reading TMMW 6: Peter Thiel and the Right Monopoly

What is Active Self Care and How Can I Get Some? You know this, but I’ll say it anyway: The default setting on the machine of western civilization is “neurotic.” We’re over-medicated (thanks in part to medical studies funded by drug companies), overworked (thanks to our cultural fabric being steeped in some weird post-industrial quasi-puritan… Continue reading TMMW 5: Self-Care Is Not Optional

tl;dr — zero stays zero forever, but even a fractional amount can grow. A lot of people got rich from the early days of Bitcoin and Ethereum.The good news: despite how high the prices have become, we are still in the early days of cryptocurrency. Many years ago, I bought some BTC and ETH. In… Continue reading TMMW 4: Never Bring your Crypto Balances to Zero

If you have ever cleared away clutter, you know what a pick-me-up it can be. The things we own can either help us or drag us down. These days, we face the strange predicament that it is easier to accrue things than get rid of them. Clutter clearing is the practice of basically getting rid… Continue reading TMMW 2: Clutter Clearing / Reading What Triggers You