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- How I Screwed Myself By Ignoring Red FlagsI’ve recently come to discover that psychological self-defense is an area that a lot of people could benefit from learning more about. Learning to recognize red flags is a key bulwark against manipulative tactics and one I wished I’d learned much sooner in life. One of the most vivid examples was when I formed a… Read more: How I Screwed Myself By Ignoring Red Flags
- The Power of Holy Anger
We might be tempted to condemn hatred as a bad thing. At least I always was. I thought I should just try to love everybody and be nice. But I simply could not suppress something inside of me that wanted to correct injustice by using a sledgehammer. So I thought, what if the key is… Read more: The Power of Holy Anger - Courage and Rites of PassageAs I discovered in my sales jobs previously, the notion of courage was used as a selling point to convince me that I should ignore my instincts and ignore social decency. The one who just pushes through will get many things. But I think it may be like the songbird inside the egg. Brute force… Read more: Courage and Rites of Passage
- How Not To Be Full Of Shit As A Marketing AgencyI mean, really. There are SO many marketing agencies out there and a high percentage of them are full of shit. What do I mean when I say “full of shit”? I think in terms of several criteria that don’t necessarily involve lying or explicitly breaking contracts (but often can). In the essay “On Bullshit”,… Read more: How Not To Be Full Of Shit As A Marketing Agency
- The Future of Church and ReligionI used to have a blog dedicated to the subject of religion, and alas, I made the mistake of starting a free WordPress blog that was eventually deleted from cyberspace. So lately I’ve thought about how to slowly reconstruct some of the material I had created. I have new thoughts on the subject as my… Read more: The Future of Church and Religion
Hi, I’m Dave.
My mission in life is creating intentional communites. This blog isn’t “about” anything in particular, but it potentially is about everything. I created this space to write without boundaries or pre-defined categories. Just writing to see where it goes.
Dave’s Idea Box
Here are a few topics you might find me writing about (no promises). Mainly, I’m listing them here as a way of organizing potential ideas. If I were to put together a list of major idea categories, this is my initial gut reaction. All of this is of course subject to change.
Self-Accountability
I’ve found that relying on other people to “hold us accountable” usually doesn’t work long-term.
Teachability
I hope to do my part to break our barbaric habit of hoarding knowledge to maintain control.
Spreadsheet Applications
Excel can be used for pretty much anything, including motivation and mental health.
Cult-Proofing
A core component of my mission is neutralizing manipulative tactics commonly employed by cult leaders and thieves.
Political Depolarization
The two-party system is one example of how leaders pit people against each other to prevent rebellion. Notice the similarity to fan groups of rival teams.
Transmutation of Evil
Rather than trying to abolish or outlaw bad behavior, my theory is based on using emotional alchemy to restore people and groups to their authentic forms.
Random Stuff To Fill This Page
The WordPress template had some boxes of text and I wasn’t sure what to put in them. So here we are.
Portuguese Coast
I took this photo on the coast of Portugal near Lisbon. Photos don’t really do it justice. I was there for work, between 2005 and 2007.
“Chaos”
I drew this circa 1997, during a period when I was working third shift and would sometimes have time to kill while waiting for automated machines to run.
“Seek, above all, for a game worth playing. Such is the advice of the oracle to modern man. Having found the game, play it with intensity; play as if your life and sanity depended on it. (They do depend on it.)”
Robert DeRopp
Author, The Master Game
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