It is important to understand that he who strikes first is at a terrible disadvantage. His plans are shown, his strategies revealed, his weakness possibly exposed and the receiver stands a mystery and overly equipped to strategize. This is one way of looking . . .

I have a friend named Lars who’s handwriting is immaculate. Lars is a large and masculine man but finely acute to detail and poised truthfully, instead of postured aggressively. It is out of the gender norm for men to have nice handwriting. He was mildly heckled and teased for having such “nice” penmanship growing up. One of the reasons Lars did not give into this is . . .

People hold such high regard to their values and behaviors when confronted with them from an outside source yet have no recognition of their own faults in those fields when totally present. Its good for a person to be around those they have low regard or distaste for in that it makes them see more concretely and completely that which they prefer not in finer detail and exhibition. When left alone or in proper and chosen setting the fallen...

People rush to do something productive instead of examining what is productive. We autopilot our way to a step some ladder we have been convinced is productive and our culture is convinced this version of productive is essential to existing and anything otherwise is negligent, vile. Its fucking not. The space to do nothing and the doing of nothing as a point, not as a recess or break or rest for the next days work is a beautiful thing. It...

Memory is vastly characterized by how important things are deemed. If something is unimportant but noticed it can go forgotten and if things are occurring but not on the level one is even paying attention to then they might have well never happened; like the way the bottom of your foot feels right now. The most successful student I have ever met are those who have never studied for tests because they don’t need to. Each lecture,...