January 2026

19 posts

Book Reviews • • 13 min read

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McRaven

I listen to Admiral McRaven's commencement speech every week. Not every day. Not randomly. Every week. The book expands on that famous University of Texas address, but the speech is what hooks you. Ten lessons from Navy SEAL training distilled into something almost too simple to be wisdom: start your day by making your bed, and you have already won. That simplicity is precisely why it works.

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Free Writing • • 5 min read

The Line Continues: Motion, Witness, and the Craft of Space

From Goonies wisdom to cosmic motion, a stream-of-consciousness journey through the craft of writing. On being witness and scribe, the sacred line, motion in space, unscheduled symphonies, and the practice of staying focused while the universe moves forward. Wrestling with penmanship, meaning-making, and the role of recording consciousness.

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Books • • 18 min read

Bellatrix: Decan 33 - Will & Strategy

The photons entering your eyes right now left Bellatrix in 1775, from the year George Washington took command of a ragtag militia facing the world's greatest empire, when strategic will proved more powerful than brute force, when outnumbered colonists won through intelligence rather than firepower. 250 years that photon traveled, carrying a question across the void: What impossible goal requires strategy rather than strength?

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Book Reviews • • 9 min read

The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet: Eastern Wisdom Through the Hundred Acre Wood

Benjamin Hoff uses Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet to explain Taoism in a way that actually sticks. The Tao of Pooh introduces wu wei (effortless action) and pu (the uncarved block), while The Te of Piglet explores inner virtue and the power of the small. Together in one volume, these books offer an accessible, charming introduction to Eastern philosophy that has stayed with me for years.

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Book Reviews • • 11 min read

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

I've been reading this book off and on for months now. Not because it's bad; it's fascinating. But it's dense with ideas that require digestion. Genius Makers chronicles the people building AI, the competition between labs, and the race toward AGI. It's the kind of book where you read a chapter, put it down to think, and pick it up weeks later when you're ready for the next dose of "holy shit, this is actually happening."

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Books • • 25 min read

Rigel: Decan 32 - Manifestation & Mastery

The photons entering your eyes right now left Rigel in 1165—from the year Notre-Dame de Paris rose stone by stone, when guild masters codified the path from apprentice to craftsman to master, when Chrétien de Troyes wrote the first Arthurian romances of chivalric excellence. 860 years that photon traveled, carrying a question across the void: What have you mastered that proves your readiness for what comes next?

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Books • • 32 min read

Betelgeuse: Decan 31 - Power & Creation

The photons entering your eyes right now left Betelgeuse in 1477—from the year the printing press arrived in England, when Leonardo da Vinci began his career, when the Renaissance exploded across Europe. 548 years that photon traveled, witnessing humanity's creative revolution, arriving tonight to ask: What are you creating that will seed what comes after?

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