The fact of the matter is [a list]
The fact of the matter is that if you sit down to do the work, the work will get done. motivation follows action inaction breeds confusion, action brings clarity systems beat willpower busyness is avo
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Crossfit vs HYROX
CrossFit is a deck of cards where the house deals burpees, handstand walks, and heavy snatches just to see if you survive. HYROX is a relentless, 8-kilometer tollbooth where you pay in sled pushes, bu
Movies 2026
Knives out: wake up dead man Dhurandhar Superman The girl with the dragon tattoo Homebound Avatar: Fire and ash The holiday Rocket singh The client Everything everywhere Inspector Zende Die hard 2 Die
Three Rules for This Week
Phone stays home. At each intersection, take the street with the better shadow or the stranger character, not the shortest one. Somewhere in the middle: sit down, order an espresso, no screen, just wa
Closed Loop vs. Open Drift
Walk toward a destination and the brain runs closed-loop — vision narrows to a tunnel, people become obstacles to route around. Drop the destination and peripheral vision opens up, beta waves ease int
La Dérive
Guy Debord's word for it: the drift. No map — you follow the city's currents instead. A left turn because an archway looks inviting. A stop because a bakery is releasing the smell of roasted almonds.
The Flâneur
Nineteenth-century Paris invented a figure Baudelaire loved: the flâneur, someone who walked strictly without an objective — not to burn calories, not to reach a café, just to be bathed in the city. W
This Is Not Walking
Watched someone "take a walk" today: smartwatch strapped on, noise-canceling buds in, a podcast running at 1.75x. Eyes on the pavement, counting steps until the wrist buzzes — quota achieved. That's n
Find a Film From 1952
The world is shouting through every screen it can reach, for your clicks, your outrage, your attention. This week: start with Ozu's Tokyo Story or Bresson's A Man Escaped. Lights down, phone off. Let
The Key in the Lock
In A Man Escaped, Bresson holds on a prisoner's face while a key turns in an iron lock seventy feet down a stone corridor, off-screen. No foley crash needed — the quiet click becomes louder than thund
Silence Is a Presence
Bresson: "Le silence est une présence, non une absence." Modern culture is terrified of quiet, the way an unfaithful partner is terrified of an empty room — in the silence, the truth becomes audible.
Sat through 47 minutes of a $300M superhero movie last Frida
Sat through 47 minutes of a $300M superhero movie last Friday. 862 cuts, four explosions I couldn't parse, and not one still frame long enough to watch an actor's face do anything. Walked out into the
The more you know about something, the less you enjoy it. But...
Intro Expert wine drinkers know that most of the wine in this world is shit, so there’s mathematically speaking “less wine” in the world that they can enjoy. But casual drinkers, who won’t know the di
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I'm thinking of using this as my life log. Updates in un-real time. A memoir in real time. Yayy
Marginalia is the Dialogue Across Centuries
In my study sits an unvarnished copy of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations printed in Edinburgh in 1898. In the margins of Book IV, in faint, violet fountain pen ink, a previous owner—one A. Campbell, 1914
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I don’t know what year this was, maybe 2005? My parents were out for a walk. My sister and I were at home. We had a power cut. My sister and I lit a candle, it was common and didn’t feel like
Dad took us to a party
We wouldn’t be more than 9 and 10, me and my sister. Our dad got a call on our landline about a party. He told us to get ready, we’re going to eat out tonight. We put on our semi-fancy clothes. The pl
20 mins workouts
Gaggi workouts AMRAP 20 mins Workout PR Notes Sohni 10 rows, 10 overhead press, 100 skip rope Angry Sohni 10 RDL+Row, 10 Thrusters, 100 double unders Sahiba 10 bicep curls, 20 skull crushers, 30 ru
Francesco Cirillo never built an app. Every digital Pomodoro gets this wrong.
The technique that spawned hundreds of apps, dozens of SaaS products, and a cottage industry of productivity software was designed using a tomato-shaped kitchen timer. That was not an accident. The o
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