Shores Of Ignorance

Matt loses his job. We discuss the darkness (and lie) of failure, how our creative consciousness has the ability to switch perspectives, for better or worse. Matt on Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattmccloskey Michael on Twitter - https://twitter.com/michaelvaclav Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav References: Hunter Gatherers Guide to the...

To the extent that we do not tell our own story, or decline to say what we really think, or remain silent in shame or fear or anger, we deprive the world from knowing itself, and delay heaven by increments. To know ourselves, those who carry the story with us must speak the parts they know. Tell us your story, that I may know myself. Matt on Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattmccloskey Michael on T...

Your desires are in service of something, even if you don’t know what that is. You can discover what it is and even ask yourself if you want that. Which means that there’s a higher order value than you can imagine. Matt on Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattmccloskey Michael on Twitter - https://twitter.com/michaelvaclav Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey Michael’s Links - https://solo.to...

Growth is a zig zag, not linear (Markets, companies, practice, learning skills). You plateau, then pull back, and then advance.

We explore the ways in which the utopia is a suggested alternative to violence, and the destruction of categories is the inevitable response to the failure of the utopia to function.

Pick something that you could do that you would do; that’s how we started this podcast. We made a decision that this was important to us, and then we made it our reality. In this episode, we talk about… 0:35 - Michael’s toilet 3:02 - Dripping faucets 8:29 - Practice 12:10 - Identifying interests 15:43 - Cycles 20:45 - Future accomplishments 24:55 - Truth and desire 29:38 - Hoarders 37:40 - Death a...

Conversation helps you figure out what you think about things. Often you don’t know what you think about things until you attempt to articulate them. When we talk, It isn’t as though we have a set of knowledge that we’re simply passing back and forth, the whole process of discourse is revelatory.

Practice. It’s a deeply profound act. We do it because we want to improve at something, and yet, the act of practice is always a journey into insufficiency, degradation, decomposition, deterioration, and the voluntary illumination of failure. Show Notes: 1:20 - Intro 4:22 - Skills 6:11 - Practice 7:32 - Flow State 11:30 - Intention 14:25 - Family 17:43 - Yoga 20:19 - Mornings 22:01 - Rules 25:12 -...

In a social environment in which what one *should* think is considered obvious, most people don’t know what they *actually* think because the cost of knowing what you think becomes ostracization or silence. Show Notes: 1:08 - ChatGPT 7:20 - Technological impact 11:45 - Information bubbles 14:39 - Shaping A.I. 17:45 - First-hand perception 20:39 - Social contract 23:47 - Twitter files 27:14 - Infor...

With gratitude, you have to intentionally make yourself pay attention to what you’re grateful for. Things are good but you’re not seeing it, so you have to tell yourself, no we’re going to go look, we’re gonna pay attention. Maybe a possible definition for Heaven is, at some point things are good and we see it, we understand it. Show Notes: 3:01 - Thanksgiving 5:57 - Attention 8:03 - Gratitude 11:...

There is a gap between the severity of world events and our general reactions in the West. Why is this? We believe an erosion of truth takes place from those we’ve trusted to deliver it to us, and this has led to a growing distrust in the media and political and public health classes. 0:50 - Winter 2:41 - Mirrored reality 6:51 - Media reliability 13:31 - Eroded truth 19:47 - Distraction by lies 23...

First-hand experience results in a level of respect that information alone can’t achieve. The irony is that while access to all the information in the world lies at our fingertips, there is no shortcut to experience. It makes us wonder whether or not real truth actually exists without it. 2:42 - Focus 5:59 - Stay the course 8:45 - Break even 11:51 - Communication 13:52 - Redemption 17:01 - Necessa...

If you are uncomfortable, you tend to be creative. If you are comfortable, you tend to be destructive.

You have to discover your values. It isn’t as though you create them. You don’t define them out of pure will and thin air. You discover them. And if you remove people’s ability to search then you remove their ability to discover and create. Show Notes: 3:00 - Intro 5:48 - Convergence 9:49 - Manifestation 13:45 - Belief 16:50 - Monetary velocity 20:00 - Value 27:38 - Discovery 29:11 - Elections 34:...

Forgiveness, like love, is both a feeling and a choice, and neither the feeling or the choice must come first. The feeling emerges from the choice or a choice can be inspired by a feeling. Show notes: 1:30 - Intro 2:38 - Forgiveness 6:25 - Love 9:12 - Trust 12:15 - Actions 16:22 - Emotional abuse 19:30 - Self-love 22:05 - Existence 26:05 - Creation 31:25 - New relationships 36:18 - 80/20 rule 39:0...

The truth is something like every plan played out to conclusion. And in the end, Love wins, and all is redeemed. Show Notes: 1:42 - Control 3:45 - Poker 10:39 - Self-love 17:20 - Life story 25:56 - Truth 36:33 - Course changes 39:20 - Sacrifice 42:22 - Ultimate truth 49:45 - Objective truth 57:00 - Evolutionary experience 1:01:36 - Relational truth 1:08:02 - Legacy Links to resources: Lex Fridman...

We are living through a turbulent time of crisis, there's much to fearful of, and yet more to be hopeful for. Show Notes: 1:15 - Intro 4:12 - The Fourth Turning 10:40 - Nord Stream Pipeline 12:41 - Qualitative tightening 16:44 - Inflation 19:08 - The housing market 22:20 - Russia and Ukraine 26:00 - Energy crisis 29:05 - James Madison’s flute 33:40 - 2024 Election 37:30 - Compounding decisions 44:...

Every person and business has a brand, whether that brand is being articulated or not. Who we want to appear to be, the story we want behind our faces, this is our brand. Show Notes: 0:07 - Intro 1:20 - Selling stories 3:35 - Red Bull 6:05 - Transcendent ideas 10:40 - Why people buy 12:30 - Drawing attention 14:20 - Spokespeople 23:20 - Public identification 26:32 - Embodiment 31:58 - Self-creatio...

The art of storytelling can explain something so much more deeply than what we might consider facts, and that becomes a religious endeavor. Show Notes: In this episode, we talk about… 0:36 - Intro 1:24 - Spirituality 4:15 - Dogma 13:46 - Psychology 17:48 - Creativity 20:18 - Religious purpose 23:55 - Significant stories 26:13 - Enslavement 31:52 - Consciousness 36:45 - God over generations 42:28 -...

In order to grow, we must die to who we were yesterday. Who we are today is not who we will be tomorrow, the next day, next year, or ten years from now. What does it mean to die to ourselves? How do we do it? Today, we discuss how dying to ourselves aids in our personal growth and the growth of those around us.

Our divine gift, and responsibility, is to make decisions, and to suffer them. In every decision there is a mourning for what you had to slay. Show Notes: 1:57 - Clarity 5:21 - Distinction 8:33 - Partners 11:33 - Marriage in religion 15:05 - Limitations 19:29 - Sexual revolution 23:53 - Civilization’s future 28:20 - A self-extinguishing game 33:47 - Consequences 40:05 - Time preference 42:47 - Wis...

It’s not uncommon that we use a word accurately, yet struggle to provide a concise definition when asked. Tonight, we talk about the word respect, and try to work out a precise definition. Along the way we explore responsibility, growing up, raising children, and running a business. Show Notes: 1:37 - Non-linear time 5:03 - Children 12:30 - Responsibility 20:32 - The Presidency 22:40 - Positions a...

What is the difference between a worldview and an ideology? How do you decide the difference between good and evil? - Your frame of reference changes everything. Show Notes: 0:40 - World views 6:40 - Ideals of the West 10:45 - Frame of reference 14:10 - Good vs. bad 18:00 - Human propagation 22:10 - Leaky faucets 26:41 - Ideologies 31:02 - Building worldviews 36:31 - Memes and genes 45:02 - Changi...

Speaking truth amounts to nothing if that truth does not lead to action. In a time when the world is filled with an overwhelming variety of different ‘truths,’ it’s difficult to know who to believe, and even more obscure is knowing what action to take. Today, Matt and Michael discuss the power of speech to shape the world, for better or worse. 2:12 - Introduction 4:00 - Speaking and truth 12:04 -...

Let your light shine. If you have something good to say, tell people about it. But that’s hard, and that’s why it has to be encoded in a parable (don't light a lamp and then hide it under a bowl). We discuss entrepreneurship, mentorship, wisdom, and tradeoffs.