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I never want this but I need everyone to be safe in order to have a good time. I’ll make it up to you Toronto on the 31st. I promise!
love, Rice Man 🍚 🤙
Blender - oxidation and heat (dull flavour)
Cutting - preserves cell structure (intense and sharp heat)
Mortar and pestle - crushes cells to release essential oils and utilizes the presence of biofilm for depth.
I remember this vaguely, but I read something someone shared last year that if you’re ever lucky to be blessed with motion, that wind at your back, run.
Run fast and far, for the wind is fickle and legs do tire. A moving man will meet his luck, as long as he never stops.
One of the things I hated most in my 9–5 days was that I not only had to do the work well, but I also had to talk about it. I had to be visible, be likeable, socialize, speak up, send it as a mail, toot my own horn and sometimes straight up eye service.
Lo and behold, I became an entrepreneur and thought all I had to do was make great products and push the company. Alas, it doesn’t always work that way.
Now as an entrepreneur it's founder-led marketing, tell your story, because people buy from who they like, be a thought leader, be visible for your customer … and so forth and so on.
My brothers and sisters, you cannot escape visibility. Nobody wakes up thinking about you or your products. It’s your job to interrupt their day, present yourself, and make yourself an option for your boss, your customer and other stakeholders.
Go and be visible.
One thing I've realized is that, you don't need to vent to your friends about everything that you're going through. Sometimes it's okay to just pray about it and move on. Let it be between you and God.
There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.
He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.
When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.
The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.
Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.
The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.
That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.
Your entire life will change when you realize it’s never too late. You can wake up and choose to see things differently. You can completely reinvent your life. Too late is an internal fantasy, not an external reality. Every time you think it’s too late, it’s probably still early.
Nobody tells you that some of your biggest milestones happen quietly. No party. No post. Just you, standing in your kitchen, realizing you finally feel okay.