My 2025 Principles

A list in progress of principles I aim to live:

• What I need isn’t the same as what you need.
• Practice makes hard things easy. The hard part is practice.
• Tight control can cost fault tolerance.
• Skin care, weight lifting, and cardio are for everyone.
• Embodied experience is your unassailable privilege.
• There’s no cure to aging, so give space for grace.
• It’s often easy to see aberrations in others’ perspective, but not in yourself. Get feedback.
• It’s often easy to find ungrounded fault in yourself. Get feedback.
• If you’re feeling defensive to feedback, take the time to process and return to it.
• It’s not a contradiction for someone to be both good-intentioned and not care about you.
• People want to connect, to interface.
• Clear communication seems to solve most problems, but you’re probably doing it wrong.
• Similarly, listening well isn’t trivial.
• Figure out how to truly relax, and then let me know the secret.
• Given space and attention, consumption can be the stuff of creativity.