Machiavelli wasn’t a heartless villain. He was a realist who understood that wielding power sometimes requires hard truths.

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Challenge ascetic ideals; focus on life-affirming ethics.

Affirm all aspects of your life with no regrets.

Cultural capital (e.g., how you speak, dress, behave) matters in hiring and promotions as much as competence.

IN THE PRESENT THERE IS CONSTANT CHANGE AND SO MUCH WE CANNOT CONTROL. IF YOU TRY TO MICRO- MANAGE IT ALL, YOU LOSE EVEN GREATER CONTROL IN THE LONG RUN. THE ANSWER IS TO LET GO AND MOVE WITH THE CHAOS THAT PRESENTS ITSELF TO YOU-FROM WITHIN IT, YOU WILL FIND ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES THAT ELUDE MOST PEOPLE. DON'T GIVE OTHERS THE CHANCE TO PIN YOU DOWN; KEEP MOVING AND CHANGING YOUR APPEARANCES TO FIT THE ENVIRON-MENT. IF YOU ENCOUNTER WALLS OR BOUNDARIES, SLIP AROUND THEM. DO NOT LET ANYTHING DISRUPT YOUR FLOW.

EVERY NEGATIVE SITUATION CONTAINS THE POSSIBILITY FOR SOMETHING POSITIVE, AN OPPORTUNITY. IT IS HOW YOU LOOK ATIT THAT MATTERS. YOUR LACK OF RESOURCES CAN BE AN ADVANTAGE, FORCING YOUTO BE MORE INVENTIVE WITH THE LITTLE THAT YOU HAVE. LOSING A BATTLE CAN ALLOW YOU TO FRAME YOURSELF AS THE SYMPATHETIC UNDERDOG. DO NOT LET FEARS MAKE YOU WAIT FOR A BETTER MOMENT OR BECOME CONSERVATIVE. IF THERE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES YOU CANNOT CONTROL, MAKE THE BEST OF THEM. IT IS THE ULTIMATE ALCHEMY TO TRANSFORM ALL SUCH NEGA- TIVES INTO ADVANTAGES AND POWER.

Rule over your emotions. A calm mind can handle any situation.

Boundless Constellations The Emergence of Celestial Civilization Copyright ©1994 by Nick Szabo Illustrations by Nancie Clark In tsarist Russia, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky first calculated and articulated the Extropian dream of boundless expansion through the cosmos. In free space, his "mansion-conservatories", far grander than paltry cottages like Versailles, would not collapse under their own weight. Vast fluxes of solar energy streaming through space could be tapped by gossamer-thin parabolic reflectors. Elaborations on space colony designs since Tsiolkovsky include science fiction's wide variety of imaginative but often fanciful space stations, planetary colonies, and pioneer ships, Dandridge Cole's bubbled-asteroid colonies in the 1960's, and Gerard O'Neill's sleek manufactured suburbias in the 1970's. But attempts to implement space habitats, even tiny dependent space stations, have crumbled into disarray. We've seen the continued failure of government agencies and their obsolete plans for space stations and planetary bases. Saturn rusts; the Shuttle and Energia production lines have been shut down. Out of the ashes of this failure springs a new vision, where the solar system is recognized to have potential for far more than mere re-creations of Earth, where central planning and narrow goals are replaced by a wide diversity of means and ends. Out of this vision will emerge a celestial civilization far greater than that for which any human can plan. Constellations The NASA approach, the Von Braun vision of "next logical steps" for "the space program," is exemplified by the Shuttle and Space Station "Freedom" (SSF). These projects failed to meet their targets by a wide margin. The militor and commerrial users tonk mact of In the new approach, different functions are broken down into different constellations placed in the optimal orbit for each function: thus we have the GPS/Navstar constellation in 12-hour orbits, comsats in Clarke and Molniya orbits, etc. Secondly, a task is distributed amonast several snereraft in a conctellation of insect-sized robots equipped for telepresence. Our entire solar system will be saturated by instruments: cheap, legion, and everywhere. Virtual reality will be less expensive and more effective than space suit reality. To cot armiind tima lage of carande (the

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☀️🌙 Its father is the Sun; its mother the moon.

macrocosm and microcosm reflect each other

If you’re afraid – don’t do it, – if you’re doing it – don’t be afraid!

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.

Seek purpose and meaning in life rather than opting for short-term gains or immediate pleasures.

Mastery comes from relentless practice and a deep understanding of fundamentals.

HERE YOU ARE. 🍷

The more fake you are, the more friends you’ll attract. The more real you are, the more you’ll reveal who truly deserves to stay.

This is a therapeutic trick, not a delusion. Let it come and go as needed.

🎬 Realize you’ve already won in ways your past self couldn’t dream of. 👏