The Guard →

Published October 15, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 15

The Old Guard does not tell the story of when no one talked to each other for a week because of a disagreement over architecture. They don’t talk about those long 72 hours where if funding didn’t show up, they were done. They don’t tell these stories because they hurt to tell, they are shitty awful stories, but they are as important as the myths because they resulted in the construction of trust within the team. If we can get through that; we can get through anything.

~ Rands from, The Guard – Rands in Repose

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Day 74/100 – pour etre utile →

Published October 14, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 14  ·  

This entry is part 77 of 104 in the series 100 Days of Training (2017)

helped (ie watched) my cousin shuffle wine among several carboys (tasting each batch of course) then moved some wood pellets. Zach might have made steak fajitas for lunch using various peppers our wives grew in the gardens… yeah, life’s rough.

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Day 73/100 – qm →

Published October 13, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 13  ·  

This entry is part 76 of 104 in the series 100 Days of Training (2017)

After two years of concerted work, I can now do this. Next, two years of posterior-chain flexibility work to be able to upright my pelvis so I can straighten my spine and sit up like a proper human.

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Freedom is the capacity to pause; Your list of three people →

Published October 13, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 13

Freedom is the capacity to pause in the face of stimuli from many directions at once and, in this pause, to throw one’s weight toward this response rather than that one.

The pause is especially important for the freedom of being, what I have called essential freedom. For it is in the pause that we experience the context out of which freedom comes. In the pause we wonder, reflect, sense awe, and conceive of eternity. The pause is when we open ourselves for the moment to the concepts of both freedom and destiny.

~ Rollo May from, “Freedom and Destiny”

Check out Maria Popova’s, “Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom and the Significance of the Pause”
Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom and the Significance of the Pause – The Marginalian

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…and my favorite season is here! I love the cool evenings, and how the knowledge that Daylight Savings is about to kick in makes me pay extra attention to my time outdoors in the evening. One thing I love doing is walking while listening to podcasts where I often find inspiring gems.

Here’s an example from The Tim Ferris Show Episode
General Stan McChrystal on Eating One Meal Per Day, Special Ops, and Mental Toughness (#86) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

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Around 1 hour 20 miutes in, Chris Fussell says:

I had a great mentor of mine, early on in my carrer, say, you should have a running list of three people — you can but you don’t need to share it with them or the world — that you’re always watching: Someone senior to you that you want to emulate; A peer who you think is better at the job than you, and you respect; And someone subordinate who is doing the job that you did a year or two or three years ago better than you did it. If you just have those three individuals that you’re constantly measuring yourself off of, and who you’re constantly learning from, you’re going to be exponentially better.

~ Chris Fussell

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Aside: DST should be abolished. It no longer saves us energy (it’s original purpose), but it does cause a statistically significant rise in traffic accidents:

Daylight Savings Time and Traffic Accidents | New England Journal of Medicine
(that’s the actual New England Journal of Medicine mind you.)

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Day 72/100 – oops →

Published October 12, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 12  ·  

This entry is part 75 of 104 in the series 100 Days of Training (2017)

Walked 4 miles, forgot to take a photo. Here have a screenshot of a great podcast I listened to. :P

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Day 71/100 – rain →

Published October 11, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 11  ·  

This entry is part 74 of 104 in the series 100 Days of Training (2017)

straight-up running in the rain today. meh.

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Day 70/100 – yes please →

Published October 10, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 10  ·  

This entry is part 73 of 104 in the series 100 Days of Training (2017)

Walking. This almost feels like Autumn!

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A dozing ox →

Published October 10, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 10  ·  

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

~ Lao Tzu

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Day 69/100 – rain →

Published October 9, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 9  ·  

This entry is part 72 of 104 in the series 100 Days of Training (2017)

Haven’t been out in the rain in a while. Drizzling, dreary and humid. 30 days to go on this challenge (and I’m experimenting with a dietary change for these last 30 days. Big post at the end. :)

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Day 68/100 – regular class →

Published October 9, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 9  ·  

This entry is part 71 of 104 in the series 100 Days of Training (2017)

Thanks @shanley.joe for a wee quirky challenge. Super-chill class on a muggy— wait, wat month is it? Why is it still summer?

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