Various old republishing that I never pushed whoops

content/post/2017/12/art-of-the-corner/index.markdown

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+categories = ["life", "motorcycling"]
+date = "2017-12-01"
+title = "Art of the corner..."
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+*Art of the corner  
+Roar of the engine, a wildcat  
+Ride to feel alive*
+
+### I’ve never written a haiku before, but I had to. It was tricky! I think it almost comes close to describing the joy of riding. Almost.
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+  

content/post/2017/12/gladiator.markdown

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+---
+layout:	post
+title:	"Gladiator."
+date:	2017-12-04
+---
+
+  Gladiator. Sword. And Shield. Unstoppable force. Immovable object. Pain and strength. Pain and power.
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+  

content/post/2017/12/replace-balance-with-focus/index.markdown

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+categories = ["life", "philosophy"]
+date = "2017-12-14"
+title = "Replace balance with focus — Change the way you think about time and lose regret"
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+I wrote the other day [about 10xing](https://medium.com/@aronajones/frenetic-scribblings-6-hear-me-roar-a01589fa869). Taking a goal, or an achievement, and striking for 10x that. It sounds crazy, and its supposed to.
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+Life is too short, no matter how long it is. Because there’s just too much to experience. The volume of things is growing at an insane rate. We live in an age where there’s a million different things to watch, read, listen to…on and on. Creators are pumping out better and better content at ever increasing rates, which is itself a very positive sign of a societal shift towards creativity. Creativity being, I believe, the greatest strength of humanity.
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+But life doesn’t have to *seem* too short. While it will always remain so, we have enormous power over our perception of time. Inspired by [this article](https://medium.com/the-mission/why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-time-management-4d514a21060a), I’d encourage you to say screw it to balance. Focus. Focus on one thing completely, give it all of your attention. All of your time. Then focus on something else. Don’t try and balance your time between a million different things. I myself am guilty of this since I love to do a million different things, am very much a jack of all trades.
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+> William Penn — Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst.
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+Trying to do everything at once will confuse and overwhelm you and rapidly burn you out. Find a focus, concentrate on it to its fullest, and then find the next. That’s the key to 10xing your achievements, and to ‘stretching out’ your perception of timing. To giving you the time to achieve all that you want and more.
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+After all, once gone, it can never be got back. **The one thing there truly isn’t enough time for in this life is regret.**
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content/post/2017/12/we-are-not-special/index.markdown

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+categories = ["life"]
+date = "2017-12-05"
+title = "We are not special"
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+We as in humanity.
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+An individual human is special. Every goddamn one of us. And the systematic and historic failure to recognise this is a crime. But that is beside the point of this particular piece.
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+Humanity is not special.
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+It is almost certain we are not alone in the universe. The laws of probability dictate we are not the ‘only’, nor the ‘first’, nor the ‘last’. Humanity is most likely one in a million. In the sense that we are one out of a million other species. Not special, in the sense that we are not alone, not unique in our spark of life.
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+Of course, there’s no proof either way yet. But chance suggests it is only a matter of time until we know we aren’t alone.
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+Some say that humanity is special. That humanity was created by an omnipotent power and that we are the top of a hierarchy. Alone in our sentience. From an — admittedly outsider — perspective, this appears *a supreme exercise in arrogance.*
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+Who are we to say that we are supreme in the mortal realm? Who are we to say that we were created in the image of something infinite supreme?
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+A human is everything. Every one different in a thousand tiny and not so tiny ways.
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+Humanity is nothing. Just another species. On just another planet in this vast universe that **must** be teeming with life.
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+Or perhaps not. Perhaps we truly are alone. In that case, the value of a single human life goes up thousandfold. Infinity plus one.
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content/post/2020/04/response-double-plus-good.md

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+categories = ["responses"]
+tags = ["medium", "WAF"]
+date = "2020-04-30"
+title = "Response to 'Double-Plus Good'"
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+In Response To: https://whereangelsfeartotread.medium.com/double-plus-good-f393af713b95
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+{{< hackcss-card header="Where Angels Fear" text="Just ask Arona -- he'll tell you: it's not *music*, it's an *experience*" />}}
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+{{< hackcss-card header="Arona Jones">}}
+This I didn’t get a notification for, for some reason, but damn fuckn’ straight!
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+Still riding the high from moshing to 5FDP.
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+What do you have against lazers though? Love me some lazooors.
+{{< /hackcss-card >}}
+
+{{< hackcss-card header="Where Angels Fear" text="Medium is shit … it regularly randomly fails to notify." />}}
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+{{< hackcss-card header="Arona Jones">}}
+Remind me why we and Gutbloom haven’t built an alternative yet?
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+Apart from it being impossible to monetise, a huge amount of effort and expensive to host, I mean…"
+{{< /hackcss-card >}}
+
+{{< hackcss-card header="Where Angels Fear">}}
+That.
+Well, that and the fact we’re lazy 😉
+{{< /hackcss-card >}}
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