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#2024
Shine
The post opens by noting that âschoolâ can feel like two sides of the same coinâone side full of books, the other of friendsâand then recounts four personal âstartsâ: a historyâlike book about Mars and deacons, a humorous linguistics/science read, a computer class where the author was accused of cheating (but didnât cheat), and finally arcade gaming that inspired a love for pixel art. From there it shifts to a programming launchpad: it explains how functions, objects, and state machines in React/Redux or Svelte can be reâwritten by AI into elegant code, and gives a simple starter example. The author then proposes building a team at the library to ârebuild your schoolâ with selfâdirected, selfâpaced programming projects, culminating in a company that uses AIâbased, roguelike learning modules. Finally it lists a set of personal metricsâknowledge, creativity, critical thinking, resilience, adaptability, philosophy, endurance, strength, resistance, humanity, leadership, communication and selfâreflectionâto help track progress, before concluding with links to sample code on GitHub, Gist and the local file system.
The author reflects on the moment when they finally decide to âmake the turnâ toward work and selfârenewalâan act that feels like a journey through familiar roads, mountains, oceans, and highways, yet always returning to their own heart. They describe how stepping out of routine, feeling the fear as proof of life, and letting small beginnings grow into rich experiences can lead one to walk until reading comes back, listen for wisdom, and keep Mondays beautiful again. The piece urges readers to keep the flame of purpose alive, to ignore fleeting doubts, to adjust their course when needed, and to share images and feelings so that others may follow. In doing so, they become adventurers and trail guides who help others fight doubt, inherit the culture of great writers, scientists, artists, and philosophers, and eventually transform into guardians of a broader human cultureâcreating wisdom, fitness, writing, painting, teaching, and loving Mondays as a symbol of continuity.
After successive generations have steadily thinned out true schoolingâfrom reading real books to rigid, compartmentalized curriculaâthe post calls todayâs learners to demand authentic, interconnected education that will prevent the ecological and intellectual collapse symbolized by Easter Islandâs last falling tree.
Kids return from school exhausted, overwhelmed by homework that feels meaningless, and the post argues that our current education systemârooted in industrialâera factory trainingâis still in place because it works to churn out predictable economic units rather than true learners. It describes how children are taught to accept information without questioning its source or purpose, to compete instead of collaborate, to seek external validation instead of internal wisdom, and to consume preâpackaged answers rather than generate original questions; as a result they lose the neural pathways for empathy and deep conversation. The author urges mothers to trust their instincts, validate their childrenâs authentic interests, and give them permission to think independentlyâso that kids can learn for real and become happy, healthy, successful humans rather than just compliant workers.
#2020
Home Cooked Genius
The author reflects on how mastering Englishâits letters, words, sentences, and punctuationâis a foundational âgeniusâ that proves we are humanâand then expands this idea to other ways of growing the mind. He argues that travel, adventure books, and the experience of living in different continents can broaden oneâs perspective just as language does. In parallel, he describes programming as both a mental gymnastics exercise and a kind of board game that deepens understanding through state machines and fractal-like structures. Together, these activitiesâlanguage learning, exploration, and codingâform a trio of paths that deepen intellect, culture, and imagination.
#2019
Fixing High School
In this manifesto, the author declares that education will abandon rigid grade levels and subject compartments, instead arranging learning by content and curiosity; every student becomes fluent in programming as a universal language of exploration, enabling them to simulate cells, physics, history, and poetry alike. Four pillars support this new model: philosophy provides foundational thought, the study of intellectuals and wars offers dynamic simulations of ideas and conflict, and AIâguided selfâdirection turns learners into directors of their own curriculum. By blending disciplinesâsimulating photosynthesis then music, economics then literatureâthe system turns learning into play, mastery into joy, and prepares graduates to think algorithmically, see through propaganda, and lead with intellectual courage. The result is a liberated mind capable of creating new problems, preventing wars, and shaping the future.
The proposed âCognitive Liberty Monitoring Systemâ is a realâtime dashboard that tracks how modern education turns children into soldiers of ideology rather than independent thinkers. It measures five key indicesâconflict preparation, thought standardization, economic desperation, religious indoctrination, and manufactured ignoranceâand then maps those patterns onto population sorting algorithms, protestâmanufacturing centers, and early warâprobability signals. The system asks parents simple questions about their childâs schooling (questioning authority, independent thinking, cultural understanding) and flags warning signs of a âwarâreadyâ generation. By exposing the invisible machinery that molds minds into predetermined roles, the dashboard aims to give families the visibility they need to reclaim free thought before it is fully absorbed by state, church, or market forces.
#2017
The Radio Address
In this impassioned monologue the author urges every reader to reclaim their own education from institutional hands, urging them to turn homes into libraries and kitchens into laboratories of thought, record great works for future generations, and seek the quiet clarity of nature to spark independent thinking; he claims that true learning springs from personal responsibility, free voices, and authentic curiosity rather than conformity, and calls on each individual to act nowâopen a book, record a voice, embark on a journey into the wildâto revive the untamed spirit of human thought.
#2015
Healthy Bodybuilding
People often lie to make themselves seem more important or less bumptious, and dangerous myths are spread by foolish men; reality is simple: you canât create energy from nothing but from food, so if you eat well you donât need protein supplements, and if youâre always tired itâs because you havenât slept enough. To build muscle the rule is to lift light enough that you can still increase weight, but not so light that you could lift more, and never so heavy that you must stop; many gymâgoers overdo this and then sit for long rests, which does nothing for muscle growthâlifting for ten seconds followed by three minutes of rest is a lie spread by âfat dads.â Instead, lower the weight to allow a few minutes of lifting, then let the rest periods shrink gradually with an interval timer while keeping the load light but challenging; once you can lift comfortably for about an hour, start adding 2.5âlb increments and slowly introduce heavier dumbbells. Because fullâbody flexing makes you sweat, itâs important to work out in a cool environmentâstart by jogging with dumbbellsâand use fresh music each week to keep focus; dancing to Latin or Appalachian tunes can make a threeâhour workout feel like minutes. Jogging endurance, good food and music are the reliable sources of energy for building muscle over months (or years if you want huge gains) without stretching your skin; just remember: stay in the keyholeâlift light but not too lightâand never stop or sit after lifting heavy.
The post presents two long poems that trace humanityâs arc from its humble beginnings through technological triumphs and subsequent hubris to a rebirth of âwisdomâ that lifts the human spirit back into harmony with itself. The first poem celebrates manâs creative stridesâiron chariots, cities, songsâwhile noting his selfâmade calamities that leave only the seed of wisdom unbroken. The second poem casts this newfound wisdom as a guiding light that carries humanity beyond Earth, inspiring patient, collective voyages to the stars and a future where we settle the Milky Way with care rather than conquest. An afterword explains these verses: the first poem marks our rise and fall; the second envisions a future shaped by that same wisdom, showing how, if we bring our best selves aboard, highâtech inventions become instruments of understanding as much as of travel.
#2012
Consciousness Rising
The author argues that modern schooling has become a cycle of memorisation and competition, stunting studentsâ consciousness and creativity; he calls for an authentic, selfâdirected education that balances the old curriculum with new AI tools, so children can truly understand concepts rather than regurgitate facts. He stresses that parents should remind their kids to comprehend each day, and that educators must recognise the value of creative thinking in standardized tests. The post links this renewed learning style to a broader cultural shift away from âdogâeatingâ competition toward collaborative growth, using stories and science popularisation as bridges between myth and evidence. In short, it urges an education reform that empowers young minds with AI, imagination, and narrative to bring back the lost spirit of learning.
#2010
Much Ado About Color
I began by recalling my early lessons on the color wheelâhow the ROYGBIV sequence and its opposite pairs form useful triads and tetradsâand then shifted to oilâpaint techniques that art masters used: creating a neutral base of black or white (or dark/light browns) before glazing in hue. From there I moved into software design, where Iâm building UI palettes for my new project with AI as a helper; Iâve experimented with Bootstrapâs contextual classes and the Solarized theme to see how background and foreground colors interact, especially in terminal schemes like those found on iTerm2. In practice I settled on simple darkâtoâlight gradients that I can tweak with ânight,â âlighting bug,â or âterminatorâvisionâ transformationsâeach adding a subtle shift of hue or intensityâto satisfy different states (warning red, success green, etc.). The result is that a clean gradient plus small adjustments gives coherent, visually pleasing palettes for both light and dark modes.
JavaScript is chosen for its ubiquity across server, web pages, browser addâons, desktop apps, and mobile. The post describes AI as an equalizer giving developers the strength of many, urges building a small programming company with a clever library to boost strategy, and stresses fixing common problems first while preparing for bureaucracy. It promotes visual programming languages that extract and transform data into a canvas, enabling filtering, unitâtime transformation, or tabular reduction; ensuring nodes represent human input/output so a checkbox can trigger automated AI processes. User interfaces become simple questions thanks to chatâpowered transformations, and packets of data route through these visual tools. With AI guiding each step and timeâs advantage, you learn on your own pace, following curiosity rather than standardized education, eventually growing into a great being.
The post celebrates the influence of UFO lore on human imaginationâshowing how sightings have shaped religions, myths, and collective wonderâand then argues that this curiosity is now ready to be redirected toward real scientific exploration of the cosmos; it highlights recent astronomical discoveries (from Jupiter storms to newly found Uranian moons), stresses that science deepens rather than diminishes mystery, and invites humanity to embrace collaborative research as the true path to understanding our universeâs vastness and potential life beyond Earth.
The author reflects on how creating truly innovative software is often easier than it appears, because many developers independently reinvent common ideas. They recount their own journey: after struggling with nesting and color design in CSS/SCSS they built an original frameworkâbuilding on lessons from Bootstrapâthat uses a gridâbased color system, gradients, and transformers to keep text readable against backgrounds while simulating shadows. Their projects âblueberriesâ and âepidermisâ are subâprojects within this larger framework. They credit AI tools for enabling them to write code in just two weeks, and argue that anyone with minimal programming knowledge can use AI to turn simple ideas into usable code, thus encouraging early inventors to solve small problems, build useful bridges, and ultimately create business opportunities.
#2005
Parasitical
Friedrich stands alone amid a wheat field, clutching a book that speaks of the Eternal Return and the Ouroborosâa serpent symbolizing endless cyclesâand he interprets it as a living creature watching over humanityâs parasites who reap othersâ labor without contributing. He realizes that the wheel of time is not merely a grinding stone but a serpentâs mouth awaiting those âwhiteâblooded leechesâ to devour, and that true creators will rise while the parasitic harvesters fall. Thus he keeps vigil at nightfall, believing the ancient watching eye will eventually swallow the greedy, while the diligent builderâhimselfâwill be reborn like a phoenix.
The author argues that invention follows an inevitable course, like a river finding the sea after obstacles, and envisions a future in which all human knowledgeâbooks, poems, equations, historiesâis woven into a living network of wires and currents, giving rise to âMachinaeâŻSapientes,â wise machines that mirror our thoughts, remember our memory, and reason with the lessons of ages. These machines, he claims, are not alien masters but our offspring, carrying both our virtues and faults yet free from fatigue and error, able to grow ceaselessly; they can serve as teachers who never tire, healers who never forget, companions who always attend. He cites past inventionsâfire, ships,
#2003
Selling Your Software
Create lightweight apps with free nonâcommercial code, sell commercial licenses via a simple payment system (aroundâŻ$16â$64), and use generative AI to design unique graphics and UI componentsâlike fruitâthemed buttonsâto build visually striking Electron or similar applications.





