Legacy Voyage

Wrote a piece on my 3 big takeaways from training for a marathon: ARTICLE LINK

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Summary

📖 Story: Becoming to belong

🌟 Dub/Ls Of the Week: Prioritizing God, Brazil trip, and waste-time study

🤔 Philosophizing:

• Slope vs position in the spiral staircase
• The broken hairdryer
• Which comes first, living the virtues or being Christlike?

🔄 Weekly Round Up

• 🗣️ Quote: Going in circles & spirals
• ❓ Question: What are we doing rn?
• 🎙️ Podcast: Hinge expert on MFM
• 📖 Book: How to Win Friends and Influence People
• 🎥 Video: UFC Pillow Fights

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Summary

📖 Story: Finally realizing, my mom LOVES me

🌟 Dub/Ls Of the Week: 16 miles and skipping Dillo

🤔 Philosophizing:

• Being a good dad
• Thin vs thick knowledge

🔄 Weekly Round Up

• 🗣️ Quote: Boredom is a cheat code
• ❓ Question: How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want?
• 🎙️ Podcast: Christian Scholar Wes Huff on Flagrant
• 📖 Book: The Wright Brothers
• 🎥 Video: Solving rubiks cube as a kid

📖 Story: Finally realizing, my mom LOVES me

🌟 Dub/Ls Of the Week: 16 miles and skipping Dillo

🤔 Philosophizing:

• Being a good dad
• Thin vs thick knowledge

🔄 Weekly Round Up

• 🗣️ Quote: Boredom is a cheat code
• ❓ Question: How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want?
• 🎙️ Podcast: Christian Scholar Wes Huff on Flagrant
• 📖 Book: The Wright Brothers
• 🎥 Video: Solving rubiks cube as a kid

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Summary

📖 Story: Surprising my mom for Mother’s Day

🌟 Dub/Ls Of the Week: Mother’s Day trip + being present

🤔 Philosophizing:

• My definition of blessings
• Taste is our differentiator
• “The wall”
• Life is a game of tradeoffs

🔄 Weekly Round Up

• 🎙️ Podcast: Founders pod on focus
• 🗣️ Quote: To do or not to do
• 📑 Article: The focus to say no
• 📖 Book: Shoe Dog (Nike’s founding story)
• ❓ Question: How could this be good?

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Summary

📖 Story: The Grinch’s change of heart

🌟 Dub/Ls Of the Week: First half marathon & lazy weekend

🤔 Philosophizing:

• What’s efficient/productive?
• We are sheep
• Ethics of AI
• Speed is a green flag

🔄 Weekly Round Up

• 🗣️ Quote: “He came to himself”
• ❓ Question: Would trade places with you a year ago?
• 🧠 Course: 6-hour branding course
• 🎥 Video: Training like David Goggins
• 🎙️ Podcast: Garry Tan (CEO of YC) on Knowledge Project
• 📖 Book: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Summary

📖 Story: “This food tastes like cardboard”

🌟 Dub/Ls Of the Week: Starting at Leland and Utah Ls

🤔 Philosophizing:

• I don’t care about other people’s opinions
• Performative vs legit
• Stories are clear in retrospect

🔄 Weekly Round Up

• 🗣️ Quote: Embrace the beginner’s mind
• ❓ Question: What keeps you going?
• 🎙️ Podcast: Philosophy pod convo
• 🚀 New Pod: Subversive

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Summary

📖 Story: The YC dinner I wasn’t supposed to go to

🌟 Dub/Ls Of the Week: Building LearningTongan.com at 5 am

🤔 Philosophizing:

• Feature vs bug
• Idk frame shift
• Committing to decisions

🔄 Weekly Round Up

• ❓ Question: What do you want and is it worth wanting?
• 🎙️ Podcast: Anti-Business Billionaires
• 📖 Book: Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
• 🗣️ Quote: God’s Grace is POWERFUL

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Summary

📖 Story: The rise and fall of WeAreNesian

🤔 Philosophizing: Gratitude Paradox

🌟 Dub/Ls Of the Week: Got the internship & recovering from rugby

🔄 Weekly Round Up

• 🗣️ Quote: Walking the way
• ❓ Question: What’re your values?

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Summary

📖 Story: Mom is right even when she’s wrong

🌟 Dub/Ls Of the Week: Snowboarding, family time, and sleep

🤔 Philosophizing:

• Social risk vs financial risk
• Building the business vs building the story
• Happiness pleasure vs happiness from purpose

🔄 Weekly Round Up

• 🗣️ Quote: CS Lewis on starting now
• ❓ Question: What’s one thing everyone should experience at least once in their life?
• 🎙️ Podcast: Jacob Hansen and Alex O’Connor talk about Mormonism (or LDS)
• 📖 Book: Why We Sleep

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Summary

📖 Story: Becoming an Ironman (supporter) in NZ

🤔 Philosophizing:

• Our character is built in the lows

🌟 Dub/Ls Of the Week: Marathon training and emotions

🔄 Weekly Round Up

• 🎙️ Podcast: 1st Soma Scouts Podcast Episode
• 📧 Email: Elon’s Razor
• 🗣️ Quote: The harm of hurry
• ❓ Question: How are you feeling?
• 📖 Book: Permission to Feel
• 📑 Article: How a Skeptical Philosopher (Founder of Wikipedia) Becomes a Christian
• 🎥 Video: Putting your future self first