To know who you want to be at the end of your life, and be on the path of becoming that man.

Every time I buy a new tool or product for work I start by looking at the most expensive options and look at the differences all the way down. Usually the premium brand is around 2-4x the cheapest Amazon option but it's almost always worth it in longevity/durability/functionality.

The scraps i think he is referring to is "whatever the person wants to throw out to the internet." Whether it's good or bad, it's virtually always inauthentic or incomplete.

Hold on to that as long as you can. It's a beautiful thing to speak openly about the topics that touch your soul.

Long ago when I was in my late teens, I would have these conversations with my close friends. We enjoyed the intellectual exploration of all kinds of topics with absolutely no filters. That all changed when they went to university and I did not. Despite the fact that I would still read the same or similar books, had the same interest in metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, theology and whatever else, they stopped engaging in conversations with me on these things. To the point where my one friend (best man at my wedding), told me he didn't want to talk to me about these topics. He spent 8 years in college on history and philosophy degrees and he attributed doing so to our conversations and my encouragement. I'm convinced that his time in school simultaneously crushed his curiosity and filled him with a feeling of superiority that make him feel like he was above whatever I might have to say or think about a topic that I am well read on but "uneducated" in. I greatly miss those conversations.

He comes for us when we are ready, not he.

Welcome back to the gulch. Just remember when you're out there feeding that system that it is destined to fail, and that your efforts are only helping prolong the inevitable.

Bryan Adams has said on stage many times, as an innuendo before playing the song that playing the song in front of his parents makes him uncomfortable. He was also only 10 years old in 1969.

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