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“Colin’s mind is like ChatGPT for deep thoughts”


Hey nerds, I’m Colin. Sometimes I’m oblivious. Sometimes I’m lost. Actually… most the time I’m lost. I spent the better part of 2 decades feeling like a lost puppy.

People tell you to check the box, to do the thing. You’re supposed to follow the herd and get the job. And I did. I wasn’t really sure what choice there was.

But somewhere along the way I started to wonder if… if this was really it. There was no purpose. No meaning. You go to school, go to work, collect a paycheck and go home. What’s the point?

What do we do with our lives?

I spent the last couple years trying to figure out who the hell I was and what the hell we’re supposed to do here. Even if you retired early… then what?

I studied business, read books, studied philosophy, visited Italy, learned Spanish in Panama, biked Iowa, back-packed Europe, and worked on a farm in Estonia. Let’s just say the soul needed searching.

I’m still pretty clueless most of the time, but I figured a couple things out.

I’m a hell of a lot happier with my direction in life and I think, as a society, could do a hell of a lot better job leading happier more fulfilled lives. Humans have been thinking about this life shit for 1000s of years, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. Our exact problems have already been solved by someone somewhere.

So I’ve designed this website to consolidate the most useful information I’ve come across over the years – Relationships, Fulfillment, Happiness, Purpose, Stress, Anxiety, Relationships with Ourselves.

I refuse to live a life of regret.
I hope some of it’s useful.

“I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me”

Elders’ Most Common Regret

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”

Nelson Mandela


:: The Mission ::

universal Knowledge: How to live

a purposeful, FULFILLing,

peaceful AND REGRET-FREE LIFE


“Life is just a constant process of identifying and solving our most glaring problem. That’s evolution.

Problem is most of us don’t know where to start”

japanese philosophy of ikigai

The Einsteins. The Mozarts. The Chouinards, Thoreaus, and Marcus Aurelius’ pushed humanity forward.

Collectively, we need to solve basic problems if we want to do the same.

And maybe the most useful of all: How to find purpose in this inanity.

Isaac Newton, 1675


I’m here to consolidate the most useful information from the most useful, diverse, outlying sources from the corners of the internet to share them with you. Even if you’re in denial, each of us is incredibly skilled in something that this world desperately needs.

Someone else already solved every single problem we’re struggling with.

Proof

Plan

Promise


3 Hours You Can’t Live Without

  1. (4 min)The 5 Regrets of the Dying by Australian nurse Bronnie Ware
  2. (13 min)The Harvard Happy Study TedTalk by Robert Waldinger
  3. (15 min)How to Make Wealth by CEO Paul Graham
  4. (3 min) What If Money Was No Object by Alan Watts
  5. (35 & 8 min) Suggested: BlueZones Netflix Doc or Vice Documentary)
  6. (14 min)The High Price We Pay for Pursuing the Wrong Things in Life
  7. (20 min)How to Find Your Purpose Robert Greene & Dr. Andrew Huberman

“Man’s flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge
Austin Miller



My North Star.

Alan Watts – What if Money Was No Object?

Me getting sucked into a 9-5

“In the Age of Abundance, the only scarcity is attention”
GOAL: Provide the greatest value in the least amount of time

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

Hunter S. Thompson

Far too many graveyards a filled with dreams deferred. Generations past have gifted us a Modern World that allows us to work jobs we actually enjoy.

We no longer have to spend 8 hours sewing clothes for the local village. We now live in a world where we’re able to utilize the talents we already have.

Dream on.

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