Note, these are never stagnant.

values

Core:

  • health
  • kindness
  • optimism
  • ambition (clean)

Key:

  • self-expression
  • joy
  • adaptability
  • connection
  • curiosity
  • agency
  • empathy
  • drive
  • grit

Tenets:

  1. Love the people, family, and friends in my life.
  2. Prioritize the health of your mind, body, and soul.
  3. Step toward my best self and disregard outside noise.
  4. Take risks and push past the comfort zone.
  5. Keep the naive optimism, morality, and ethics.
  6. Live in the present and pour myself into the dot I’m on.
  7. Live an interesting, authentic story.
  8. Always be curious.
  9. Live life like a scene; often make unexpected choices in character, make the choice right, listen well, adapt, and find the funny.

Quotes:

  • “All the world’s a stage.” - shakespeare
  • “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” - thoreau
  • “You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that’s where you’ll find the things more important than what you want.” - hxh
  • “May God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you really can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.” - mr.edwards
  • “The worst part about trying to be someone else is that you will always be a second-rate them. and it will prevent you from being a first-rate you.” - valerie kondos field
  • “It either works out or you die, so as long as you’re alive it always works out” - tatiana

Things I think about:

  • Oda drawing his characters who lose their drive, give up on their dreams, or let malice and cruelty corrupt their spirit as ugly

Role models:

  • Conan O’Brien
  • Rob Pattinson
  • Tyler the creator
  • Luffy

Goals in Life:

  • redacted

Workview:

The dictionary definition of work, according to Merriam-Webster, is the “physical or mental effort directed toward making, doing, or achieving something.”

I will spend most of my life working. Therefore, it is something I will grow through, and that helps me become the person I want to be. It is not solely labor. My work determines who I become, who I surround myself with, what I spend my time on, and the end I am working towards (problem).

I work to learn about the world, develop myself, produce outputs that can positively impact the world, or put myself in a position to more effectively enact positive change, given my skill/ability set, experiences, and position. This may look like, for instance, making something impactful or gaining a better understanding of how the world works. I hope this impact takes the form of understanding people, bringing them joy, improving their lives, or uplifting them in some way I feel connected to.

Through my work, I hope to have fun and play. I want it to be authentic, energizing, fulfilling, and engaging. Through it, I want to live out my values more fully and experience an interesting story. Work is not good or worthwhile if it actively harms the world or conflicts with my morals and values (is low in integrity, unkind, pessimistic about the world, stagnant in nature, or would necessarily impede my health).

I also work to provide the life I desire for myself and the people around me: living in a larger city, being able to send my children to the best education of their choosing, and giving them optionality and opportunities.

Lifeview:

I believe we are here on this earth to experience the full range of human experience: to love, to connect with and learn from each other, to be kind to one another, to learn about what is here and how we got here and how we can leave it a better place than how we found it, to grow into the full, most complete versions of ourselves, to do meaningful things in pursuit of our Personal Legends, and, in doing so, leave an impact in whichever way we believe is most important and aligns with what we are most capable of doing.

We have found ourselves in a probabilistic near-impossibility evolved over generations. We owe it to ourselves, those who came before us, and each other to experience and explore it (to live). We ought to try to leave it better than how we found it in condition, material, or spirit for the world and the immediate people around us (family, friends, community).

I live largely in line with a virtue-ethics philosophy, although I’m very aware of my moral luck. I do not regard virtue ethics as a good rule for character judgment but rather more as a personal philosophy. To be good in life is to live with integrity, to find and live in alignment with one’s own values, and–as we learn and grow–to continuously course correct those values with the good while staying authentic. For the sake of brevity, I believe that to be morally evil is to intentionally move through life without regard or account for the consequences of your actions or the perspectives of those around you.

Concretely, some things that are important: ensuring everyone can create meaning in their lives, creating a more dignified world, and minimizing structural violence.

I am not religious, but I do have many spiritual beliefs about the world perhaps best encompassed by a mix of secular humanism, spiritual naturalism, and touches of naturalistic pantheism and Daoism. I am, however and likely contradictorily, also fairly superstitious.

Things I want to tackle in life

  • Labor and steering a post-economic world.
  • Public and affordable transportation.
  • Helping more people live a good life.
  • Women’s health.