Ways of living I follow mostly, and slip on more than you can imagine. This is the compass this small-town boy is making up as he takes space in these big-city arcades. But we sail no matter the tides 🌊 because that's our nature.

• Build a high capacity for truth.

• Build a high capacity for confusion.

• Focus. Not everything and everyone is important.

• Build a history of good financial decisions.

• Never let someone make you feel guilty for choosing more money. 

• Look good - comfortable pants, best fabric, stand tall, tug that t-shirt in.

• Be useful - power is earned.

• Be dependable - do the thing you said.

• Keep your anger to yourself.

• Loud and funny aren't the same.

• Only speak the truth in a good spirit.

• Never kill the enthusiasm of a person, even when you know more than they do.

• Don't be the reason someone goes to bed crying.

• Don't take credit for someone else's effort.

• Don't complain all the time.

• Don't go to places you aren't invited to.

• Leave places where you don't feel respected.

• Don't eat from a table you didn't put something on.

• Don't take from those who have less than you.

• Don't talk shit about people you don't know.

• Don't act like you don't care when you really do. 

• Don't speak like you know things when you don't.

• Don't change your behaviour based on how someone looks.

• Don't say or do things to a drunk woman you wouldn't dare to do to a sober one. 

• Don't drink more alcohol than you can handle.

• If it's not a clear yes, it's a no

• Never spit in the eye of serependity. You progress linearly predictably, non-linear change is always a gamble.

• Always be gambling.

• No same mistakes twice.

• Never talk to a standing person sitting.

• Hold the door for the person behind and in front of you.

• Push the chair in. All the chairs in. 

• If you cancel a plan, it's your job to make it happen again.

• Don't shame a king in his court. Don't shame another competent person. Beat them, move forward immediately.

• You don't matter in the grand scheme of events. Evolution kills all identities gradually. Be done when it feels right.

• You can control everything if you control yourself first. More "what's another way to achieve this" inner monologue than tantrums.

• Optimism is not a bunch of people scratching each other's backs; optimism is never dismissing heart for mind. Be optimistic.

• Pursue without attachment. There are no pockets in a coffin. If you can't enjoy the sound of water crashing, the rays of the sun in a shaded corner, the cozy feeling of doing what you like under a lamp, and the adrenaline in crossing lines now and then, it doesn't matter.

• Quite is cool. Boring is cool. Healthy is cool.

• Don't be uptight. Dance when the room is about that.

• Talk to your family every day.

• Have friends. Few, but those you need no compass to be around.