The only thing differentiating the extraordinary from the ordinary is frequency, quantity and volume. If you were a Sherpa climbing Mt. Everest every day, helping tourists get their one minute at the pinnacle. What would the value of summiting Everest be to you? I remember reading Bernard Moitessier's "The Long Way", where he describes being … Continue reading The Extraordinary Intruding on the Ordinary
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Apocalypse is the Suburb of Utopia
The land of the possible has many paths, and we can know only one. Everything's stochastic and impermanent. Our lives are packed with luggage, the vast majority of which would be best left at the side of the road. Utopia is a place with kind and reasonable people using coalition-building, science and determination to solve … Continue reading Apocalypse is the Suburb of Utopia
