Life in Japan
KudanshitaPicture from my balcony. I moved to Japan four days ago and I haven’t had a chance to write any updates until now. Mostly I’ve been getting setup with an apartment and cell phone, talking to a lot of people, and getting used to the subway and food options. I came here with no plans [...]
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The Mobile Lifestyle Project: Can you carry everything you need to live well?
Six months ago I was living in San Diego. I had been working at a tech company doing a programming internship in the research and development department for a project based on augmented reality. Things were going well and I was considering staying for a full-time job. Then I found out the company I was [...]
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Future Worship
Religion is usually defined by its promotion of belief in some supernatural power. But more fundamentally, we could define religion as a system of morals and beliefs that skews one’s ability to properly compute their life-quality maximization function. According to this definition, there is a subtle and insidious religion thriving in modern society that is [...]
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Life Traps
One of the main reasons I end up planning and analyzing too much is to avoid falling into traps. There are many kinds of traps that you can fall into. The common property that they have is that a trap is difficult to get out of. For example, a famous historical trap is the serfdom [...]
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The Evolution of the American Dream
Play Time Cubicles The world from a higher vantage point. Photo courtesy of Stewf In the traditions of America, there is an ideal that says “If you work hard and honestly, you will be rewarded with wealth and happiness.” This tradition is passed down through the many success stories of individuals who followed this ideal [...]
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Spicy Lifestyle Academy Values
Evil Empire Circumventing the establishment. Photo courtesy of Vermin Inc The Spicy Lifestyle Academy is the name for a community that we intend to create in order to provide a coherent incentive environment in which we can achieve the lifestyles that we desire. Such a plan is needed because without such an environment, it is [...]
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The Irrational Work Ethic
Taking it Easy Do you know how to be unproductive? Photo courtesy of ®oberto’s How many hours a day do you think a typical man worked for most of human history? According to modern estimates the answer is 3-5 hours. That is the total amount of work it required for a hunter-gatherer to hunt, gather, [...]
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