By Tae-Sik
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July 6, 2025
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~6 min read
The other day, I was chatting with some friends, middle-aged, like me, with kids and businesses to juggle. I asked them what keeps them up at night as they move forward in life. Was it their children? Their business? Their health? Their personal future, or maybe their wives? What’s the biggest worry on a daily […]
By Tae-Sik
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July 3, 2020
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~8 min read
We associate a bureaucracy with words like stodgy, slow, formal, inefficient, procedural, wasteful, and expensive. Where do we find bureaucracies? Usually in large companies and organizations. In government offices on a local, city, county, state and federal level. There may be less obtrusive bureaucracies in smaller establishments. What do bureaucrats and bureaucracies do? They have […]
By Tae-Sik
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July 6, 2025
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~6 min read
The connections we form in early life, whether with family or friends, carry a profound weight, shaped by biology, culture, and the innocence of our youth. The ties that bind us to others, through blood, friendship, or shared experience, leave an imprint that is both deep and mysterious. From the moment we enter the world, […]
By Tae-Sik
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May 29, 2022
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~11 min read
In the beginning was energy. Maybe it was matter, or something else. For simplicity, let's assume we started with energy. The universe experienced the Big Bang. Energy is converted into matter, or at least a lot of it was. Energy becomes matter. Energy is matter and matter is energy. E=MC2, So the science goes. The […]
By Tae-Sik
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May 14, 2025
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~5 min read
I'm sitting at a restaurant and notice a gentleman having lunch with his children. He's disheveled, middle aged and the kids appear to be about 8yrs old. If we were introduced, I wouldn't hesitate to address him as "sir", and use honorifics. Then it dawns on me: I could actually be older than him. It's […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 7, 2022
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~8 min read
There is a tolerance for life on Earth to proliferate, evolve, and multiply. The partiality for living things to stay alive is its primary imperitive, its number one self programmed instruction set. If there’s any single driving force for living...
By Tae-Sik
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December 25, 2023
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~5 min read
Is a major recession or an unspeakable depression akin to 1929 possible in our modern age? Central banks stand ready, modern banking systems with derivative assets locked and loaded, fiat currencies ready to print and the cost of money digitally available to be distributed to anyone and anywhere in seconds. Our modern economy is global, […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 12, 2025
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~12 min read
This is my impressionistic explanation of how the Bitcoin Wallet works and how it fits within the larger Bitcoin ecosystem. There are 3 components to the Bitcoin core. The Bitcoin core is the software or programmatic implementation of the Bitcoin software system. 1. Bitcoin Mining 2. Bitcoin Node 3. Bitcoin Wallet Bitcoin miners compete for […]
By Milan Ji
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June 23, 2026
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~7 min read
The Irreplaceable Currency and the Vanishing Light of Youth King or slave, the tax is paid. Time, in its indomitable nature, underlies all of life. It is the invisible backdrop upon which every event unfolds, the medium through which consciousness is experienced and existence becomes real. Every thought, every decision, every achievement, every regret, every […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 23, 2020
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~3 min read
We are taught to be winners. We are told that we can overcome anything. Set your mind to it, and you can do it. Losing feels tragic. The truth is that most of us are losers. We just don't want to acknowledge it. Life is hard. Life is, as they say, suffering. Losing is the […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 24, 2020
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~3 min read
You find yourself in a mysterious world. The sapiens around you are recent acquaintances. Your mission unknown. Your adventure lies ahead… Your tool is the physical capacity of your mind and body. Your mission, be the best version of yourself and complete your adventure. Imagine being dropped in a place unknown. You are given a […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 26, 2020
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~3 min read
A most mysterious phenomenon of human nature is the self-awarness of one's own consciousness. To know that one is alive. Present. Locally aware. Finite in space and time. Embodied in a physical nature. It is a most mysterious thing. To be confined within, behind the eyes, between the ears, above a torso, and within the […]
By Tae-Sik
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December 6, 2019
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~4 min read
Self Consciousness is the Highest Form of Evolution We often think of IQ and intelligence to be the highest attribute of human beings. I would argue that it's the degree to which we are "self conscious". Self Consciousness, more than anything else sets us apart from every other living animal on the planet. What is […]
By Tae-Sik
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August 4, 2023
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~5 min read
The 7 Pillars of Life Seven Pillars represent the structural foundations of a substantive and meaningful human life. A careful reflection into these seven domains which support and substantiate a mindful human existence, in harmony with our nature and knowing self awareness. This is a meditation and exploration. These seven domains are foundational to a […]
By Milan Ji
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December 1, 2025
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~2 min read
The practice of reading a book, particularly when performed aloud, retains a distinct significance in comparison to the consumption of content via audiobooks or audiovisual formats such as videos. While audiovisual learning engages multiple sensory perceptions, specifically sight and hearing, and audiobooks offer a unique sense of intimacy through direct auditory communication, the act of […]
By Milan Ji
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June 22, 2026
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~9 min read
The Emotional Compression of Knowledge and Experience There is an overlooked simplicity in how life organizes itself. Across biological, cultural, and psychological systems, complexity appears to move in a single direction: toward compression. What begins as sprawling experience, distributed information, and layered understanding gradually condenses into something smaller, more immediate, and more usable. Not simpler […]
By Tae-Sik
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January 2, 2024
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~4 min read
For a person of youth, what you see is their unlimited potential, their bright future and the boundless possibilities that life holds. There is an exaggerated estimation of their aptitudes. We tend to draw a straight line from their birth to youth, and extrapolate the same trajectory indefinitely into the future. The lens of youth […]
By Milan Ji
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December 2, 2025
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~6 min read
A young man’s value is self-evident and largely unearned. He walks into a room trailing decades of future productivity, like an invisible credit line, like a shadow ready to emerge. Society reads him the way venture capitalists read a Series A deck: high upside, tolerable risk, and, above all, a gloriously long runway. His mind […]
By Tae-Sik
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February 4, 2024
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~6 min read
Ancient explorers bravely ventured into uncharted territories with rudimentary tools and an adventurous spirit. Some were fortunate to have primitive maps inherited from previous explorers, perhaps even an indigenous guide who knew the land by heart and sight. The expedition was fraught with danger and the unknown. As the journey progressed, charts were updated, redrawn, […]
By Milan Ji
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April 23, 2026
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~7 min read
Humans tell stories of empire, power, and destiny. We frame our ambitions as a search for love, security, or the service of God and nation. Yet beneath these lofty ideals lies a more practical transaction: we are biological traders, relentlessly negotiating for our next payout of dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins. Every goal we set […]
By Tae-Sik
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May 17, 2024
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~3 min read
The passage of time is a fascinating perception of reality. The way our mind interprets the "experience" of time is truly mysterious. Our perception of time's passage is not a constant, but a flexible construct shaped by our unconscious engagement. Your brain is a recording device. When experiencing novel stimuli, like those encountered during travel, […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 23, 2023
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~12 min read
Human beings have birthrights and entitlements, unlike any other living creature. In democratic and free market nations, we have private property rights, the right to vote, the right to life, the freedom of speech, the freedom of movement, the freedom to work and pursue happiness. We have freedoms and liberties given to us by "default". […]
By Tae-Sik
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December 10, 2020
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~3 min read
We live in a virtual world today. What we need physically are provided for by machines and a few humans. All basic human needs are fairly inexpensive and easy to acquire. We spend most of our day in front of computers, glued to our phones, talking to dots & colors on computer screens and phone […]
By Milan Ji
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November 4, 2025
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~7 min read
In the theater of a single life, where the curtains rise on boundless vitality and fall on quiet acceptance, there unfolds a profound arc shaped by the interplay of energy, time, and fortune. Youth arrives as a lavish subsidy from the universe, a non-renewable gift of effortless abundance, where every sensation is amplified, every risk […]