To Do

^z 26th September 2023 at 6:35am

To Be:

  • an Adventurer
  • a Gardener
  • a Sharer
    • for Mindfulness + Nonattachment + Oneness ...
      • develop artifacts to assist in awakening
      • do an Awareness Book of Hours
    • for Causality + Chance + Conflict ...
      • develop languages to help map mental models
      • build a Thinking Book of Hours

Make a tiny fast-loading TiddlyWiki with just pages of Insight Dice words, poems, links, and random-click ... likewise OM Cards ...


Make 182 pages of short musings with all the possible combinations of Toki Pona words in The Matrix?

sona sonasona lukinsona nasin ... pali pali


Other non-goal goals for "retirement":

  • work a few hours/week IF ASKED with good colleagues on IMPORTANT FUN PROJECTS
  • think about how to help the World think better
    • systems thinking "artifacts"? – cards, dice, circular slide rules, flutes, ...?
    • graphical "languages" – like LOOPY diagrams, maybe with extensions for game-theoretic and probabilistic factors
    • clean up and organize 24 years of online journals at http://zhurnaly.com
  • up the weekly mileage a bit and try to get the 5k PR for this decade under 30 minutes (stretch goal! – had 30:46 some months ago but not recently, alas)
  • take Goethe's advice: "One ought, every day, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."


  • be
    • mindful/aware/here/now
    • nonattached/accepting/open/soft
    • one/loving/kind/positive
  • journals
    • learn TiddlyWiki
    • convert main zhurnaly.com pages to remove wiki links
    • convert zhurnalyWiki Oddmuse pages to TiddlyWiki format
    • export zhurnalyWiki Oddmuse pages to static format
    • link static zhurnalyWiki snapshot to main zhurnaly.com pages
  • mindfulness
    • draft Book of Mindful Hours aka "Awareness Instruction Manual"
    • draft Open Mind OM Cards instructions