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 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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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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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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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 […]