• Getting back into things after the holiday hiatus.
  • Tough day at work, but got through it and got some things done. Ended up on a positive note.
  • Did [[yoga 15]], still solid, actually closer to [[14 minutes]] long.
  • Looked for [[yoga 13]] but didn’t find it, now noded.
• #push [[auerbach]]
  • [[erich auerbach]]
• #push [[do]]
  • LATER #meta I really need to implement [[autopush]], now that speed is back to normal in the Agora :)

2022-04-27

• We had a go with the [[telescope]] for the first time yesterday! It was a lot of fun. It turns out that distant stars are still tiny pricks of light even through a telescope, go figure, but you can see a whole lot more of them. We looked at Vega, Arcturus, the Beehive Cluster, the Double Cluster, and we think we saw a UFO - to be confirmed.

• [[Apple Self Service Repair]] finally arrived: https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair

• Read: [[Apple’s Self-Repair Vision Is Here, and It’s Got a Catch]]

• If the plane is going down, landing it softly is better than crashing.
  • A fully decaying [[Empire]] can play for time by shaping it’s competitors [[growth]], [[fighting]] more with less [[energy]], and keeping an eye on the [[long-term]]. So the wise decaying Empire would stretch toward ability for springing back [[resilience]] and holding up what is already there [[sustainability]]. To do this, the Empire must keep up with begetting a few new things [[innovation]] to help it move (in part by copying the best of what it’s enemies use), encourage enemies to ignore it, and play enemies against each other.
  • An [[expeditionary]] [[enemy]] [[force]] is allowed to over [[reach]] into their [[territory]], until they can be separated from their [[base]] and finished off.
  • The [[aim]] is not to win [[battles]], but to [[win]] the [[war]] for [[life]].
  • "Conventional [[soldiers]] think of the [[jungle]] as being full of [[lurking]] enemies. Under our system, we will do the lurking."
• [[Competitive]] [[advantage]] is [[context]] dependent.