save money, take risks, find hobbies, make things, make friends, make babies, make art. Realize the world is very small. Live life as a perpetual regeneration of your inexhaustible fruitfulness as you act upon the world around you.
Make things. Make things! I'm not kidding. Nothing is really yours but what you make.

Stop worrying so much. Fate pulls even the weakest out of themselves. You'll figure it out. Not everything has to make sense. Accept this.
Just don't fall in line with the masses of people who wish to doom themselves to everlasting unreality. "Keep it real" is under-studied advice. Go hungry. Savor the first meal ever, over and over. Go naked. Be cold. Remember that you are an animal.
I saw an amazing thing in late March. I should have taken a picture. Last year I moved dirt to make new patio, I unintentionally moved some crocus bulbs. I went to move that pile of dirt and in the middle of it were these bulbs with full purple flowers completely inside the dirt.
Those feeble flowers in the middle of a pile of dirt. You should have faith like that. You should believe instinctually. Like the plants believe in the sun.
I tab back to work now and who of all people but 7zip himself gives me a sign Image
hah. If you want to feel old just read old texts. 3000 years is not a long time. I'm 32. I only have phone camera pics but these are all more recent than my profile so more representative. I am completely blind to how I look so idk what age I appear

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18 May
The most important technologies that no one is working on are optimism and beautiful visions of the future. A belief in technological progress must include giving people places and futures worth believing in. It doesn't come for free.
Which of these has more joyful people? Which has more dancing and singing?
If you want belief in progress, the folk future is what you must show, not the cyber highway or the economic version of vital statistics. If the future is to be conceived, I hope it is one that is far happier, messier, and greener than the futures we enjoy depicting.
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14 May
I think the things that I find compelling about my life are not the things that other people find compelling.

I suspect what most people want is to get married and care about their home life more than adventures or other excitements. ImageImageImageImage
Most of my life is very mundane. I have moved only a few miles from where I was born.

I think anyone can make their life look interesting if they care about photography. I think anyone can *make* their life interesting if they focus on making things and throw away their TV. ImageImageImageImage
looking through all of my old photos is always surprising. Memories jump out, and make all their sounds.

Most of my life felt like waiting. Much of it unnecessarily. ImageImageImageImage
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10 May
I enjoy traveling but I think "travel"-loving culture has done a disservice to us. Romanticism turned consumptive. In elevating wandering it diminishes belonging.
Belonging, creating beauty where you are, is under-appreciated. You must make something worth wandering towards.

And counter intuitively, you will oft do the best wandering where you are most familiar. Travel is a good pastime, but it's something you should try at home, first.
I think this is part of the reason its hard, culturally, to find communitarian places. One is always looking elsewhere.

Creating beauty and places of belonging are acts beyond just the self. I think its worth it to try and create those things, even if only for your own family.
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7 May
Modern rich societies do not properly respect children in large part because they have engineered them to be useless.

I think this was mostly unintentional. It is probably reversible.
if I have some time this weekend I will write

Yes there is age where you can intuit how the world works, yet are prevented from acting upon it in meaningful way.

Instead of an adolescence full of rites of passage, where you attempt to master and accept responsibility, we made it full of... waiting.

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6 May
Ah totally, that explains why its so different in Norw—
You can't coherently make claims like "we need universal childcare [etc] to boost the fertility rate" if the fertility rate in countries with [manic pixie dream policy] are *also* rock bottom.

Think about the problem for more than 5 seconds I am begging all of you.
I don't think I can succinctly but: IMO the reasons people decide to have children are more spiritual or aesthetic* decisions than financial ones, and that alone should be very clear when comparing birthrates over time (booms, busts) and around the world.

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28 Apr
It is magic to see the bear. He moves so quietly about, like a lumbering blanket.
I didn't get a good photo this time. Here is 2018: Image
The black bear is mostly a wimp and just wants to eat acorns but sometimes they rip the door off of chicken coops so I hope he behaves
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