Going Alone

Principle of Arena and Utility About These Posts Each day I add a new journal entry to my social media feeds. Here, I take that day’s entry and expand it through the lens of my Good Life Creed, which you can read about in my book Going Alone (available for free on this website). These dissections aim to connect ordinary reflections with the enduring objectives and principles of the Creed. Journal Entry (11/03/25) It’s my first day of work today, and I’m surprisingly nervous.

Principle of Family About These Posts Each day I add a new journal entry to my social media feeds. Here, I take that day’s entry and expand it through the lens of my Good Life Creed, which you can read about in my book Going Alone (available for free on this website). These dissections aim to connect ordinary reflections with the enduring objectives and principles of the Creed. Journal Entry (10/28/25) A bit of good news arrived today from back home in the USA. Yet it also re

Principle of Reason About These Posts Each day I add a new journal entry to my social media feeds. Here, I take that day’s entry and expand it through the lens of my Good Life Creed, which you can read about in my book Going Alone (available for free on this website). These dissections aim to connect ordinary reflections with the enduring objectives and principles of the Creed. Journal Entry (10/24/25) I got the job—a feeling I haven’t known in quite some time. I marked the o

About These Posts Each day I add a new journal entry to my social media feeds. Here, I take that day’s entry and expand it through the lens of my Good Life Creed, which you can read about in my book Going Alone (available for free on this website). These dissections aim to connect ordinary reflections with the enduring objectives and principles of the Creed. Journal Entry (10/10/25) Every day I look out the back door at the garden I failed to tend. It waits quietly beyond the

Principle of Temperance About These Posts Each day I add a new journal entry to my social media feeds. Here, I take that day’s entry and...

Principle of Reason About These Posts Each day I add a new journal entry to my social media feeds. Here, I take that day’s entry and...

Life Will Not Go Well About These Posts Each day I add a new journal entry to my social media feeds. Here, I take that day’s entry and...

I’ve crossed a strange threshold. I now spend more time each day conversing with AI than my wife. I told Yumiko that yesterday, during...

Damn it. Today is the last day of the last big project of my career. Well, we do have a closure meeting next week, and a celebration...

Emily is back from Japan, and she brought big news that she will return to Japan to live after she graduates university next spring. She...

Yumiko and I were both very tired after work yesterday… We walked the dogs together slowly along a meandering circuit through the angled...

It’s time to sell my motorcycle. I don’t want or need it anymore. My riding days are done. Never again do I wish to ride. That part of my...

So bold! So cavalier! Yumiko astonishes me with her courage. As we move together into our empty-nest years I turn repeatedly to find...

Yumiko went into the office yesterday and came home like a battered soldier returning from the front. The Los Angeles commute was a...

Reading Kant is for me like walking along a beach picking up lovely washed stones and seashells. There are so many scattered everywhere...

Last night, Yumiko found some nice properties in Japan which she shared with me. It’s my job then to locate these places on the map and...

Responding to a viewer who asked me to make a video sharing tips for succeeding at a job interview.

Recalling a time with another community and another way of life.

Reflecting on how I might use Stoic principles to handle a challenging moment.

An impromptu vlog with my daughter, Emily. We were out for a day long motorcycle ride running errands and visiting family...