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The Anatomy of Equanimity · The Anatomy of Equanimity

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I’m writing this live and in the open, so sections may appear, disappear, move, change drastically, or be stupid. Your impressions and suggestions are welcome — ftd@metalbat.com. They tried to convince me of this in grade school, but it didn’t work. Someone recognized the power of planning and habits. They thought, “We need to make sure kids get this! We’ll empower an entire generation to reach their true potential!” (I spent a long time at war with the word potential, urgh.) So they rolled the TV into the classroom on a big cart in early-’90s fashion. On it they played some tape about how if we plan well and develop good habits then we can… eat healthy and get good grades, probably? Some message that I immediately forgot because it was irrelevant to my juvenile psyche. What they should have said was, “Every person you think is cool got that way by regularly doing things that made them a better person. Even when they didn’t feel like it in the moment. Including Geddy Lee.” But since th

The Anatomy of Equanimity · The Anatomy of Equanimity The Anatomy of Equanimity version 0.10.1 — 2024-12-23 — infrastructure for interlinking; developing the Catechism section I’m writing this live and in the open, so sections may appear, disappear, move, change drastically, or be stupid. Your impressions and suggestions are welcome — ftd@metalbat.com . Building durable systems is, I believe, the only reliable way to make progress on yourself and your life. Here’s a system of organizing a human life that works for me. This is a modular, hackable meta-system that you are encouraged to ma

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