I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.
A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.
The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.
And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.
It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.
The Sun is 400x larger than the Moon + 400x further away (same size).
Your brain has 100 trillion synapses.
If the cosmological constant was altered by 1 part in 10⁵⁰ (1 with 50 zeros) no atoms could form.
DNA copies with an error rate of 1 in a billion.
Water expands when it freezes (no other major molecule does that), if ice didn’t float, all ecosystems would die.
Electrons and protons have a perfectly balanced charge;
If they differed by even 1 in 10³⁷, matter would either explode or collapse instantly.
Maxwells equations, Euler’s identity, and the standard model (math that explains the universe) is aesthetic;
Symmetrical, elegant, and shockingly minimal (planets orbit in a perfect mathematical ellipsis).
Hemoglobin binds oxygen just enough to hold it, and just weakly enough to release it, if either was off by 0.0000007, humans would suffocate instantly.
Earths tilt is 23.5 degrees (any different and life on earth would be unsustainable).
Still, no one can explain why consciousness exists. The fact that atoms (lifeless particles) somehow generate a subjective “observer perspective” defies all known physics.
Matter woke up.
The probability of consciousness arising from pure randomness is mathematically undefined (impossible).
After reading all of this;
You get one conclusion…
The universe isn’t random;
Its engineered…
Acknowledge God today and give thanks.
Just one lifetime ago in the United States, our grandfathers could buy a home, buy a car, have 3 to 4 children, keep their wives at home, take annual vacations, and then retire… all on one middle-class salary. What happened?
Never in a million years did I think Katt Williams would be starting "USA! USA! USA!" chants at his comedy show.
A heckler told Katt that Phoenix, Arizona, was Mexican land, and Katt COOKED him for almost 4 minutes.
BEAUTIFUL 🇺🇸 🦅
Connecting the dots:
(1) You work your ass of, with no real wage growth over the past many years.
(2) The government takes more and more of your money through taxation, telling you it all goes to a good cause and you will reap the benefits.
(3) Nothing actually gets better so you start to question wether this is just a huge grift.
(4) DJT promises to take a wrecking ball to all of it. He doesn't hide his intensions and his transparency gets him elected with a landslide and without a shadow of doubt.
(5) The wrecking ball arrives via Elon and his Gang of Five and you start to learn that your money was being used to create and sustain a shadow government. Your money was being pilfered by unelected bureaucrats to prop up organizations domestically and abroad to do their bidding - Politico, NYTimes, NGOs. The list goes on and on.
The only questions left are how far the rot goes and how complete the removal of this cancer will be.
This is not a Republican or Democrat issue anymore, its common sense.
Philadelphia is somehow the most and least xenophobic place I’ve ever lived. Nobody cares what country you’re from, but if you’re from a different American city and you wear their team’s hat, you will get eaten alive.