The Tale of the Dragon Riders.
Flowing with change vs. Fighting against chaos.
Eric Brown
Student of the Way.
Medicine is a Sacred Practice.
The art, science, dance, and discipline of bringing people back to life.
Anthem
Rand’s classic dystopian future—a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence—anticipating her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
The Beauty of Everyday Things
The philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks as we know them today: anonymity, quality, simplicity, honesty, and wabi-sabi, the beauty of imperfection.
On Ideal Conditions.
A guest piece from a long-forgotten friend.
Plant Your Seeds in Spring.
Aligning with natural cycles makes habit formation 100x easier.
Ode to the Gentleman.
Reclaiming the spirit of excellence, chivalry, and human dignity.
The Zen Bible
Bodhidharma, Haiku, and the Ch'an Wrecking Crew.
// March 2025
* Living in Toronto, Canada 🍁 on a semi-sabbatical (~3 months).
* Preparing to apprentice at Kumankaya Healing Center.
* Writing Zen Medicine and
Answering Your Questions.
My thoughts on Ayn Rand, Blindspots, Bitcoin, Order x Chaos, & more.
You Deserve Better.
Fort Knox, Philosophy of Government, & the Radical Promise of Bitcoin.
Zen Medicine: Anon Q&A
An experiment with open, anonymous questions.
Aposematism in Human Social Signaling
Finding predatory warnings in evolutionary biology and human society.
Free Men Don’t Ask.
Aragorn, Leonidas, Thelema, & Zen pointing the way to fundamental freedom.
Back On the Mat
The thread weaving yoga, martial arts, and psychedelic medicine together.
Welcome to Zen Medicine.
Chasing the intersection of medicine, bitcoin, martial arts, & zen.
Blood & Ink: Heretical Ideas
overton windows / courageous questions / leading by example
Blood & Ink: What Was That?
action & words / grounded in reality / betting pools
Blood & Ink: The 3P Warrior Framework
fierce purpose / unwavering patience / absolute persistence
Blood & Ink: Practice
the purpose of practice / no hurry, no pause, no mercy
Blood & Ink: No is Life Affirming.
age of abundance / sacred space / life-affirming boundaries
The Unbelievable Impact of Waking Up Early
positive domino effect / the keystone habit / solar consciousness
Blood & Ink: Perfect First Draft
art of refinment / fear of the first / unlocking flow
Blood & Ink: Bitcoin & Everything Else.
eth foundation / decentralization / global sound money
Blood & Ink: Real Toxic Masculinity
truly toxic / honourable men / paternal pattern of structure
Blood & Ink: Train Everything.
Now is the time.
In the words of the late great Terence McKenna, from his classic Exponential Weirdness rant:
“I
Blood & Ink: Straight and Narrow
virtuous living / walking The Path / deepest trust
Blood & Ink: Reflections on Social Media…
toxic relationships / trivial addictions / cultural zeitgeist
Ranking the 26 Books I Read in 2024. 📚
The Gita, Ayn Rand, and a few hidden gems.
// January 2025.
Life
* Living in Bitcoin Jungle on a Bitcoin standard in Costa Rica with my partner Chloe and our cat, Nora.
Blood & Ink: When Things Don’t Work Out…
we'll see / realignments from God / moving homes
Blood & Ink: Murphy’s Law
quasi-intellectual nonsense / noticing absence / finding optimism