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Time changes value, and every choice carries a “compared to what?”—a lens that links the time value of money, opportunity cost, and discount rates to real decisions in life and business.
Newton’s three laws as axioms, F=ma as the grammar of change, and how energy and momentum conservation emerge—told with minimal calculus and hands-on experiments.
The Contemplative Path is now Valeon—a rebrand aligned with strength, clarity, and long-horizon, systems-level thinking. We’re opening submissions, rolling out improved author profile pages, and continuing to ship reader- and contributor-friendly improvements across the stack.
A practical lens (T5) for seeing the transactional rails beneath modern life—Asset, Price, Ledger, Protocol, Power—and for designing humane counters: thick consent, commons-first systems, and dignity-preserving friction where it matters.
A Jungian guide to the “dark night of the soul” as a mental crucible where shadow returns, projections withdraw, and the Self presses for a larger life. We trace the alchemical arc (nigredo → albedo → rubedo) and offer practical vessels—active imagination, dreamwork, somatic anchors, boundaries, and when to seek clinical help.
Memory isn’t a vault but a living economy: fragile patterns in a narrow workspace of attention become durable traces when structure matches capacity and consolidation—sleep, pruning, and schema-building—does its work.
We keep rewarding spectacle over stewardship. This essay maps the incentives and patterns that elevate counterfeit leaders—and offers practical tests and design fixes citizens can use to prefer accountability, integrity, and long-horizon governance.
Habit isn’t a productivity hack but the architecture of consciousness: repetition delegates will to reflex, shaping identity. The aim is “conscious automatism”—habits that serve understanding.
A quick tour of recent upgrades: Vercel-powered builds, end-to-end image optimization, clean print styles, a Buttondown newsletter, an OpenDyslexic reading option, saner taxonomies, an Obsidian+Git authoring flow, open-sourced Markdown posts, and a new OpenAI-TTS audio pipeline with podcast RSS.
Markets speak their own language — full of ratios, Greeks, and curious words like backwardation or contango. This guide breaks down some of the most common (and misunderstood) terms used in trading and investment circles.
