The All-Night Pavilion · the arcana
Those That Belong to the Emperor
26 scrolls filed under this arcanum
2026
- Introducing my new scientifically accurate authoritative list of age brackets. 0-20: Child 21-40: Young 41-60: Middle aged 61-80: Old 81+: Elderly Thank you for you attention to this matter.
- It’s been on my “todo” list now for at least a couple of months, but today I finally pulled out the old 3.25" floppy drive and dongle chain to recover these photos. Taken variously across Alaska and …
- Presented with the following choice: My dream home and working for “the man” forever. A trailer park and working for myself at my dream job. I pick option #2.
- A Brief History of my Readwise Enrichment Pipeline
- 2025 Year in Review
2025
2024
- 2024 App Defaults
- Introducing HealthOS
- The society I happen to have been born into is based on consumption. It tells me that my worth is measured in my economic contributions. That I will be judged by the clothes I wear, the car I drive, …
- A few months ago I looked back at my first 30 days of tracking 100% of my time. Now I have about a quarter’s worth of data, and some patterns have emerged. Looking at the data by project: …
- Establishing a baseline for reviewing things can be difficult. Culturally, it seems like most Americans operate on a rating system that reflects the way that American schools grade. Start with a …
- I’m not “traditionally” goal motivated. What do I mean by that? I mean if I tried to set a goal for a year from now that looked something like this: “in one year I want to have written a book,” that …
- I’ve spent the last several weeks using Toggl to track 100% of my time, and the results have been interesting. Reasoning On a flight to who knows where I read Use Strategic Thinking to Create the Life …
- As part of the Year of Scales and Arpeggios I find myself needing to keep track of new things in new ways. The problem is that tracking things, like naming them, is hard. Maybe it’s less hard for …
2023
- It’s the last day of the Year of Time, and I think of it broadly as a success. I’ve cut my commitments to the bare minimum, and for the first time in forever have been making solid progress on self …
- I quietly set the goal of spending no money for a week and almost managed to do it. There’s nearly enough food in the house that if I’m clever I don’t need to supplement much to make a week’s worth of …
- 2024W50 Week in Review
- Getting ready for next weekend’s retreat by printing off every blog post even tangentially related to the problems I’m hoping to solve so that I have resources I can read and reference without being …