Balance

Writing for my ideal customer: myself.

Been maintaining mental and physical fitness with explorations of research-backed supplements like creatine, protein, caffeine, and L-theanine. The latter two lately through the ceremony, or at least my minimalist version, of matcha.

It’s been interesting while listening to Musashi’s Book of the Five Rings, thinking about strategy in the large and in the small, much like software abstractions. The evolution of tea ceremonies from fancy rooms to show off to guests, to the simplicity and focus of the tea itself along with minimal decorations.

Embracing the asymmetry, the broken renewed is much like life’s creative destruction. Things don’t always go to plan, but you can make the best of it by using that wall to push against to another direction.

In constructing some derby cars with my son recently, I dove into the minimal physics elements, but saw in practice that there were lots of ways to win a race.

This view of many, if not all sides, allows us to think and feel like others. That connection may be all we have as AI advances. We may be the modern day Dr. Frankenstein creating something beyond our control. Or perhaps, like in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, we must flow like the river by learning and teaching.