Compare yourself in a self-referential way, to your self, your lineage, you history, of your family and your country. Not to social media and those around you portraying a snap shot of themselves at their best.

Recorded June 8, 2022

What happens if you disregard the value of loving one person for the rest of your life? We discuss instagram activism, time horizons, Chesterton's fence, institutions, and marriage.

We cannot learn without pain. We create stories and act them out to test their validity. We need to be challenged (pain) to experience growth.

Recorded May 11, 2022.

You need humility and gratitude to contend with the fact that the rules are outdated and even inappropriate, but are protecting you from things you don’t understand, and lessons that you don’t want to have to re-learn.

Recorded May 4, 2022

What do you do with yourself? How do you spend your time? It’s an existential crisis. How do you classify work at work? Is just showing up to a physical space considered work? Are things outside of “work” that contribute to your “work” "work?".

Recorded April 27, 2022

In this conversation we were past the shores. We were at the first sand bar. Maybe going to the second sandbar, didn’t make it, had to retreat to the first to stand and catch some air.

Recorded April 21, 2022

Categories are a helpful tool to negotiate reality, but every category is wrong at the edges.

Recorded April 13, 2022

Everything has value, whether you measure it in currency or material goods. Dave Keisel, an engineer turned seasoned stock market trader, joins us to share his unique perspective on technology and money. In today’s episode, Matt, Michael, and Dave explore the concept of assigning value, and its moral implications.

1:25 - Introduction

6:18 - Technology and the stock market

17:07 - Average money mindsets

22:27 - Value of money

42:40 - Abundance

46:30 - Morality

56:20 - Broken system

1:07:06 - Frustrating reality

1:14:40 - Secure financial structure

1:22:33 - Defining success

1:25:48 - Unknown future

References:

Garbage Pail Kids - https://www.oldsportscards.com/garbage-pail-kids-cards/

Exter’s Pyramid - https://www.milesfranklin.com/back-to-basics-with-exters-pyramid/

The Fourth Turning - https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-American-Prophecy-Rendezvous/dp/0767900464

Recorded March 30, 2022.

We discuss how we have to compartmentalize in order to be responsible, but in complex systems, that always leads to something not being accounted for.

There seems to be something truer than the objective, and it’s wrapped up in time, felt in your very awareness of the future, and only properly discussed with metaphor.

"For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited." - C.S. Lewis

“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost” - Khalil Gibran

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.” - Arthur Schopenhauer