The Some Things

January 30th, 2026

If someone goes to work, they are in pursuit of a goal. They have been educated, trained, and delegated tasks by those higher up. Getting work done facilitates profit—or a lack thereof. In an unstable climate, profit equals support, making the goal feel more crucial than ever.

But the worker sees some things and misses others. As society shifts, they might need to reallocate their pursuit to more important tasks, yet that is not a guarantee. It is easy to be lulled by a happy mountain path—the rosy view that because everything looks bright and sunny, everything is bright and sunny.

We operate on a concept of “A see A.” It is a shorthand of mutual respect between experts, friends, and corporations. We stay in our own wheelhouses to avoid being naysayers or stepping on toes. We have our own daily problems to solve, so we grant others a default of perfection. We negate our progress by perpetuating less interaction, relying on a “requirement to trust” rather than a requirement to comprehend.

The problem is the “non-ideal silence.” You might see a critical flaw I miss, yet stay silent to avoid wasting my time. When “A see A” takes precedent over real-world problem solving, we move toward the edge together.

I might want to solve a problem. I might not see that if I stay on my particular path, an axe will drop on the support of others. There are many in boats; I do not see what they see. There are many on the streets; I do not see what they see.

I try to solve problems from “I see some things.” Yet I must remind myself: seeing some things is not seeing all things. This has been a pain point of my life, and likely the lives of others. We want better days, but we risk losing them by choosing the comfort of our own lanes. True support is not just staying out of the way; it is the willingness to break the silence before the axe falls.

January 28th, 2026

January 28th, 2026

Thoughts on Leadership

You think you can leverage me is something I should reinforce?

Said in the mind of a leader not out loud thinking about a follower asking for something.

Said in the mind of a follower not out loud thinking about a leader asking for something.

Thoughts of power in reliance, lack there of, and how it is not always a good thing.  Strong arm might not ideal trust, might not ideal future ability to rely.  Strong arming does not always account for all stressors at play.

Price of One Less Bomb Dropped, January 28th, 2026

January 28th, 2026

Price of One Less Bomb Dropped

Thinking about the value in less war and greater peace.

One less bomb dropped likely saves lives, assuming the target had people inside it.  The value in human life is priceless.

One less bomb dropped means someone that worked hard building a house, a building, or infrastructure that makes society better doesn’t lose their hard earned time, money, and resources.  A lot more investment than a sand castle, a lot more cost savings than preventing someone from kicking your sand castle over.

Peace a day earlier might mean one less bomb dropped.  One less bomb dropped could be worth millions or billions.

One less bomb dropped might equal sanctioned entities have less data on how their bombs worked, what to fix, what to change and not to change.  One less bomb dropped might equal more money spent on butter and less money spent on guns.

One less bomb dropped might equal less capacity to use propaganda to demonize the enemy, and each other.  One less bomb dropped might equal peace, peace that reduces the potential for friendly fire.

One less bomb dropped might equal that builder has more time to spend building shelter for the homeless.  One less bomb dropped might equal that engineer might be enabled to solve climate change instead of building weapons of destruction that are a liability to future generations.

One less bomb dropped might equal more money to spend on the engineers and technicians that fix and design airplanes and jets.  Wins that might lead to less crashes.

One less bomb dropped might equal fathers and mothers that will be around instead of lost under a pile of rubble.  One less bomb dropped might resonate words that are available to help and guide that otherwise would have been lost.  One less bomb dropped might equal I need to have less of the right words from less than ideally enabled.

One less bomb dropped might equal a bridge, a bridge that takes you to the market, or to Church, or to vote in the next election.  One less bomb dropped is consequential, worth a lot of money, and is worthy of turning up.

Money for Silence

Thoughts if you were given a ton of money just to stay silent what would the implications be?

You have some incredible new tech, you see others working on a new project – yet because you have agreed to silence you cannot invest.

Money is a variable resource – more useful one day than another. Prices of commodities change and fluctuate, same with services.

Silence bought has a price for both the buyer and the seller. In a world full of cameras and bugs it is also a false bandaid.

There is a price, a cost for less silence as well. Paying for tools like computers and cloud computing is a part of the cost. Seen as the only cost seems unwise as well.

Increased communication channels, making friends of people who might have good reasons to have biases and distrust you in advance? No cost to that

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Human Rights, January 28th, 2026

Forcing people to believe in Christianity is not a human right. Forcing people to believe in The Golden Rule, treat others as they wish to be treated is not a human right.

Governments set to will ideally protect human Rights seems unwise, offloaded onto people who do not all agree on what a human right is seems probable. Thus people that don’t all agree on The Golden Rule as useful will be in charge of human rights which is unlikely to be all human rights protected.

The combination is not pretty. Is likely to set precedent of what one can do and what one can’t do A fee-d.

Shelter is a human right or not a human right? Freedom is a human right or not a human right?

In a disaster setting hurricane, drought, or flood one might venture to say God is not all protection of human rights then why should I have to? God kicks people out of Eden, do people really deserve bathrooms or should I kick them out to go outside like dogs?

If I am a bartender I can serve drinks and then I can deny access to bathrooms because it is not a human right, true or false? Knowledge is power. Society turns up restaurants, alcohol, a party scene claimed as will ideally protect human rights and dignity when the going gets tough?

If future generations know what can be feed without being questioned they might try it – distribution of resources seems unfair at times, desire for redistribution seems probable at times. I want all protected including future generations and older generations. Precedent for stifle the support, because support isn’t a human right?

People not required to follow The Golden Rule will likely lead to legalism, what can we get away with

A good user experience on tech? Not a human right

Human Rights seen as just a legal obstacle, water that will find the shortest path around the obstacle? It leads to profit, profit is not always good.

Better Research Ethics should be a human right, not sure it will always be respected as such

Peace should be a human right, peace not respected will lead to ideal research ethics?

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January 25th, 2026

I spent the night in a frozen tent. Condensation has collected in a way that froze during the winter storm. It drips, sometimes more when snow and sleet hit it. My sleeping bag is good but seems to either absorb some of the water or is repelling it adding to things in the tent being more wet that melt when moved and refreeze.

It would be nice to have towels. Tried to use some microfiber blankets yet once water is absorbed hard to get dry and then reuse. Likely a lot of people have had more experience with this.

When it is really cold fidgeting and waiting for a battery pack to recharge before you can use hand warmers is annoying, the chemical ones without batteries have nice qualities. I like the powered ones, would be better if precharged in warm areas, non throw away make feeling of have to watch out for them like if you put them in a sock – sock to more expensive might equal not used that way. Hard to know how much to spend per day vs improved quality like extra heat – a couple days with more bags of hand warmers might be a better trade than trying to cut pennies.

My boots were frigid so I put on some work loafers. Faster yet traction is terrible in snow thus I am slipping.

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