I just want to give a big shout out to the word ‘blend.’ Coffee is a blend. I just made a blend when i took beans from two different bags and tossed it all into my grinder. That is a blend! The word blend is powerful. It is a marketing word. Imagine if you were paying for a ‘coffee mix’ - I would not pay top dollar for that. Blend though, now blend sounds good. ...

Love this line so much from “not always so” by Shunryu Suzuki. And the line he says a bit earlier: “if you go to the rest room, there is a chance for enlightenment.” But when you go to the restroom and seek shelter inside your phone, there is no chance for enlightenment. Of course there is, still, because the person who is looking in their phone is also enlightened but he does not know it to be so. ...

spec: ADD ideas: have a chat like this

https://sundogcowboy.com/ - Jess Hererra who designed Cody Cook-Parrott’s website which seems awesome

I wrote this at Sept 28 at 4:04am I don’t know how else to put it. Today, this morning (Sept 28), just now, at 4:04am, I cut my journaling into my little notebook with my little pencil short - I cut it short so I could get on and write into my big computer with my big keyboard the big idea I had about the word blend. But when I got onto the computer, this vegas strip with its bright lights and flashing distractions all hand crafted and premium made for me truly, exactly as I left it last night, I forgot all about blend. ...

When thinking about mastery, for myself, there seem to be two frames: How do I define what it means to strive for learning, for mastery? How well am I following that rubric / framework for any given essay? I think I need to figure out #1 first, or at least have some sense of it, in order to give it a whirl. But I also need to not be too prescriptive. Who knows what’ll happen when I write. ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about it, this idea, forgiveness. That might be all I have on it right now, which raises a meta question for the blog - is that enough to publish? To which I’d ask myself - what’s the point of the blog? Is it mostly for others? Or mostly for me? And then I’d of course realize, as I am, that the same question can be asked about forgiveness itself. ...

Reading more of her this morning and I don’t want to stop. There is a joy in her words, an aliveness, that is contagious. I feel as though she does not want to stop writing, and thus, perhaps, I don’t want to stop reading. The topics vary wildly from why armed forces wear uniforms to the paucity of ‘growth’ as the prevailing metaphor for our entire way of being and doing. No matter the details though, I want to keep reading. ...

I’m reading her book right now, No Time To Spare, and am filled with this familiar feeling of how it feels when you’re reading someone and just feel…seen. Understood, yes, but more than that, like your own way of understanding itself is being reflected back to you. Or, in other words, she’s just smart and I like how her brain moves ideas around, how it thinks and how she shares that thinking with the world. ...

just ask claude Here’s what’s actually changing: you think you can’t solve this stuff. And you probably can. And if you can’t, Claude can help. Or someone on the internet can help. The information is out there. The capability is out there. I’m not saying it’ll be easy. Some people have a stronger technical awareness. A depth to it. But that’s also where people like me can help. Because one of the traps of “just ask Claude” is that it’ll lead you in bad directions. ...