4 rules for staying alive (field-tested on the road, over many years):

1. Shape your environment.
2. Keep rules minimal and repeatable.
3. Protect sovereignty.
4. Ship something real. (Tangible + emotionally true.)

#Top3 #Asana #ShippingList #TravelAsNonMethod #RaveAsMethod

The day before Kathmandu, I made a decent #shippinglist (two weeks in Thailand!).

Conferences/talks:
– #AAR (online this year, my autumn is brutal),
– #REA (religious education, never been – also online),
– #EASR in Bucharest in Sept (great city + timing),
– #RaveAsMethod talk with Euan for #Ozora.

Btw, I love Atomic Habits. My #Top3 / #shippinglist stuff, even #VMOSA, grew out of the period when I was reading James Clear. Conceptually basic but clean—and it works. In the end, only simple things work, as Pelevin keeps reminding us.

Related to the #AI thread I’ve been running, this is why I insist on #Top-3, the #shippinglist, #Asana, my whole writing system.
Beyond the basic think/do split, you get attention leaks and ego games. The people AI seems to damage most are those with shaky emotional regulation + very sensitive egos.