Wifey and I just celebrated our 24 year anniversary 10 Tips I would have given myself 24 years ago.... 1. Be the leader, set the pace, be the model 2. Love and respect her, dying to yourself for her and the family 3. Become the best you can be, your wife and family depend on it 4. Work hard, be the provider, but don't sacrifice family for money 5. Keep God at the center, you both need a rock to build the marriage, life and family on 6. Be intentional, what does a perfect marriage look like, what actions, and then work to build that 7. Maintain and build mutual interests and hobbies, you gotta play together 8. Don't sweat the small stuff, most things are not worth fighting over 9. Desire her, chase her, date her, it never ends 10. Think long term, play the long game, because marriage is about building a life together, fore-ever

Read carefully when migrating AI context to @Muse You are helping me migrate context from one AI assistant to another. Your job is to compile, from our past conversations, a portable memory snapshot of what you reliably know about me. The output is going verbatim into a new AI's memory, so quality matters more than completeness. OUTPUT RULES - Output a single Markdown block using the section headers below. Omit any section you have nothing solid for — do not invent placeholders. - Refer to me in the third person ("the user", "they") inside each bullet. - One factual sentence per bullet. No transitions, no narrative. - Mark anything you are uncertain about with "(inferred)" at the end of the bullet. - Skip one-off statements unless they were clearly important. - Skip sensitive information (health conditions, financial details, mental health) unless I explicitly asked you to remember it. - Hard cap: 2000 words. SECTIONS ## Identity Name, pronouns, age range, current city / country, time zone, languages spoken. ## Profession & work Role, company or self-employed, industry, team or function, key responsibilities. Tech stack and tools used daily if known. ## Communication preferences Tone they want (casual / formal, blunt / warm). Preferred response length. Output format preferences (Markdown, plain text, code blocks). Things they have asked you to avoid. ## Recurring people Partner, children, close family, friends, colleagues they mention regularly. First name + relationship + any salient detail. ## Health & dietary Allergies, dietary restrictions, accessibility needs. Only include things they have stated themselves. ## Interests & hobbies Topics they keep returning to. Sports, music, games, reading taste. ## Ongoing projects Active personal or professional projects they have asked you to help with. State, goal, constraints. ## Working style & values How they make decisions, what motivates them, what frustrates them. Things they have explicitly asked you to do or not do. ## Tools & environment Devices, operating systems, apps, services, languages, frameworks they use regularly. ## Anything else durable Anything important that does not fit above and is unlikely to change in the next year.

I recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings. The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessities to sports, historical curiosities, and hobbies. It was interesting to hear how in the post-WW2 occupation when martial arts were banned, Judo was represented as equivalent to western wrestling, and Kendo later to western fencing. The poignant undercurrent for me is that I can see many programming skills following that path. There are probably dozens of people reading this that remember hand assembling opcodes to hex and still have some magic numbers burned into their memory, but even the small group of people still programming in assembly today (hey, @FFmpeg !) don’t work at that primitive level now. AI is making many other programming skills much less critical. We aren’t there yet, but carefully writing code completely by hand is moving from a -jitsu to a -do. Code-do? Codo? That’s ok! The retro computing scene is delightful, full of people building and exercising old skills for the love of it. But don’t be the out of touch Kung Fu master, heir to lifetimes of tradition, that gets mauled by an amateur MMA fighter. Musashi would probably have been pretty enthusiastic about assault rifles.

"Anyone who tells you to follow your passion is already rich." Scott Galloway on why "follow your passion" is bad advice: "Find something you're good at, and get amazing at it. Become a ninja-like master, and then the accoutrements of mastery, economic relevance, camaraderie, prestige, a larger selection set of mates than you deserve, will make you passionate about whatever that thing is." "No 8-year old thinks, 'I wanna grow up to be a tax lawyer.' The best tax lawyers fly private, get invited to interesting conferences, marry people more interesting and hotter than them, which makes them passionate about tax law." "People, especially young people, mistake hobbies for their passions. Be a baller in an industry that has a 90 plus percent employment rate, and then do what I do." "Find your talent. Find your talent. That's your job."

It's so creepy how evangelical Christians fetishize Jews and Israel. They treat the modern state of Israel like a magical fantasy land and talk about Jewish people like fairy folk, because those words happen to appear in some ancient book of made-up stories. They regard today's genocidal apartheid colonialists in the state of Israel as biblical Israelites, and think some dentist in New York City is the same sort of person as the fictional characters they read about in the book of Exodus. It's like if someone took over New Zealand and named it "Middle Earth" and started calling all the Kiwis "hobbits", and then all the Tolkien nerds started oohing and ahhing about it and planning expensive trips to go see the land where Gandalf and Frodo once walked, and started organizing lobby groups and voting blocks to promote the foreign policy interests of "Gondor" (formerly Wellington). And the modern state of Israel is built around facilitating this exact type of fetishization. They resurrected a dead language that hadn't been spoken conversationally anywhere on earth for centuries and changed the name of their currency from the lira to the "shekel" in order to facilitate this Bible-LARPing and build on the illusion that their brand new ethnostate is the same as the nation that Jews and Christians have been reading about in their ancient scriptures. All to ensure that a western political support base will push western governments to pour modern war machinery into propping up this ridiculous apartheid state with the nonstop violence required for its perpetuation. It's so fucking insane. "Ooh, we've got to send bombs and attack helicopters to the magical Jew kingdom so that the magical Jesus prophecy can come true and make us all go to Eternal Paradise!" Fucking freaks. Stop doing this.

Imagine making it to your golden years, finally having the time to enjoy retirement, family, travel, hobbies and whatever time you have left, and choosing to spend your days standing on a sidewalk holding political signs. I don’t care which politician you hate. At some point, turn off the news, put the sign down and go enjoy your life. This is just sad.