Tau11 – My Journey of Lifelong Learning

This is a living archive of my thoughts, experiences, and hard-earned insights, drawn from an unusual life. Here you’ll find reflections on the food I’ve eaten, the things I’ve bought, the people I’ve encountered, the places I’ve seen, the books I’ve read, the quotes I’ve kept, and the trends I’ve spotted and capitalized on.

I write this for you, my children, those already here and those yet to come. Daddy loves you more than words can hold. I want each of you to live lives you’re proud of. This is my thinking, in my own voice, left here for you to explore. I hope one day it proves useful.

If, by some unlikely chance, I’m gone before I can guide you in person, let this stand as a poor substitute. But in the more likely case that I’m still here, let this serve as an intellectual archive, a record that I held these convictions long before you were born. May that give weight to my words, and credibility to the wisdom I hope to pass on to you.

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  • The Veiled Throne – Ken Liu

    She had not known that she was cold until she was no longer cold. Change was what made knowledge possible. A lie became the truth when enough people had reasons to pretend it was true. So much of learning, decided Théra, consisted of forgetting how much you already knew. The world is infinite, but the…

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  • The Wisdom of Crowds – Joe Abercrombie

    It was quite the shocking disappointment. Like popping some delightful sweetmeat into one’s mouth and, upon chewing, discovering it was actually a piece of shit. But that was the experience of being a monarch. One shocking mouthful of shit after another. Absolutes are never to be trustedFaith must be shaken from time to time, or…

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  • Thought on why Buddhism is Dumb

    If you think that state-change, being one with the world, and being at peace is so awesome,  you should check out the great work that the Tibetan monks have been doing over the last  1000 years or so. They are chill, really at peace, and can even lower their body temperature at will solely through…

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  • On IQ

    IQ is a particularly ugly aspect of science because the IQ literature reveals that which no one would wish to be the case. Which is that there are profound and virtually irremediable differences between people’s cognitive performances and that these differences have a very solid biological and heritable basis.  No one wants to hear that…

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  • Angel and Demons / Da Vince Code / Inferno – Dan Brown

    All questions were once spiritual. Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. Religion has always persecuted science. Having faith requires leaps of faith, cerebral acceptance of miracles-immaculate conceptions and divine interventions. And then there are the codes of conduct. The…

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