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Daily snackable writings to spur changes in thinking.

A map for a better brain. The way we think is both our greatest tool - indeed our only tool - and very often it is also our biggest leash. We are only who we think we are. Our opportunities are also limited by who other people think we are. It stands to reason that if we’d like to change who we are, we must start with an effort to change our thinking.

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A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GO LIGHTLY

July 30th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: OUROBOROS

July 2nd, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: MIRROR MIRROR

June 18th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: KEEPER

June 11th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: MUSIC OF THE GODS

June 4th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: HOME SWEET HOME

May 28th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: PAUSE

May 21st, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ART THERAPY

May 14th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: PHANTOM LOVE

May 7th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: PURE INCENTIVE

April 30th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GALACTIC CONSPIRACY

April 23rd, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SIMULATED SOLUTION

April 16th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SYMBIOTIC CIVILIZATION

April 9th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SELF TALK, PART III

April 2nd, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SELF TALK, PART II

March 26th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SELF TALK, PART I

March 19th, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART IX

March 18th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DIGITAL CHAPERONE

March 12th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: BENEVOLENT BLUFF

March 5th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ROSE-COLORED WORLD

February 26th, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART VIII

February 24th, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART VII (REWRITE)

February 22nd, 2023


HUG THE DEMON

February 21st, 2023


MEDITATION DRAFT SESSION 12: REFLECTIVE REFLEX

February 20th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE LANGUAGE OF GOD

February 19th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ELECTRIC MUSHROOM

February 12th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE OSIRIS MODULE

February 5th, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART VII

February 4th, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART VI

February 3rd, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART V

February 2nd, 2023


MEDITATION DRAFT SESSION 11: REFLECTION OF THOUGHT

January 30th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: HIDDEN LEVERAGE

January 29th, 2023


MEDITATION DRAFT SESSION 10: THE BACKDROP

January 26th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SEIZED

January 22nd, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART IV

January 17th, 2023


MEDITATION DRAFT SESSION 9: STATE VS. TRAIT

January 16th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: TECHNO-SHUNT

January 15th, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART III (REWRITE)

January 14th, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART III

January 13th, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART II (REWRITE)

January 12th, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART II

January 11th, 2023


THE FALLEN DANCER, PART I

January 10th, 2023


MEDITATION DRAFT SESSION 8: INTEROCEPTION

January 9th, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: FUTURE MOVES

January 8th, 2023


SEEING THE FUTURE

January 7th, 2023


SPECIES OF SOLVING

January 6th, 2023


STAY ALIVE

January 5th, 2023


AGENCY IN THE ZONE

January 4th, 2023


INITIATE DERANGEMENT

January 3rd, 2023


MEDITATION DRAFT SESSION 7: THE MIND'S MOVIE

January 2nd, 2023


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: REBOOT/RENEW

January 1st, 2023


LEGITIMATE ADVENTURE

December 28th, 2022


MEDITATION DRAFT SESSION 6: FAILURE IS IDEAL

December 26th, 2022


MEDITATION DRAFT SESSION 5: RITUAL INCENTIVE

December 19th, 2022


MEDITATION DRAFT SESSION 4: A SITTING PRACTICE

December 12th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DIVINE EMERGENCE

December 11th, 2022


IDEA VS. EXECUTION

December 6th, 2022


MEDITATION DRAFT SESSION 3: MOMENTUM SCORE

December 5th, 2022


CONTEXT COLLAPSE

November 28th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: PEBBLE

November 27th, 2022


UNDERDOGGING AND DEFEAT

November 26th, 2022


RUBIK'S CUBE OF PERSONAL CHANGE

November 25th, 2022


SEARCHING WITH WORDS

November 24th, 2022


FULFILLMENT & FUN

November 23rd, 2022


HEALTHCARE

November 22nd, 2022


MEDITATION DRAFT: SESSION 2 THE BODY'S PENDULUM

November 21st, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ODDLY EVEN

November 20th, 2022


BODY AS PUZZLE

November 19th, 2022


MINIMUM VIABILITY FRACTAL

November 18th, 2022


FOG OF FRUSTRATION

November 17th, 2022


THE UTILITY FUNCTION OF PSYCHEDELICS

November 16th, 2022


UNSOLICITED ADVICE

November 15th, 2022


FORTHCOMING MEDITATION APP

November 14th, 2022


INTRODUCING MNEMECTOMY

November 13th, 2022


PERSONAL MYTHOLOGIES

November 12th, 2022


DEAD RIVER

November 11th, 2022


THE INFINITE LOOPS PODCAST + TINKERED THINKING

November 10th, 2022


THE LUCILIUS PARABLES, VOLUME II

September 27th, 2022


RESTART/REBUILD

September 17th, 2022


QUESTIONS & CONVERSATIONAL CONSTRAINTS

September 16th, 2022


THE FUN ROUTE

September 15th, 2022


SOLICITING ADVICE

September 14th, 2022


ENTERTAINING NONSENSE

September 13th, 2022


FLIP CHESS

September 12th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DREAM OF THE LUDDITES

September 11th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: LORD OF THE SIMULATION

August 28th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: INSATIABLE

August 21st, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ASYMPTOTE OF REALIZATION

August 14th, 2022


METRIC OF MOMENTUM

August 11th, 2022


AMALGUM OF AGENCY

August 10th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: UNFAIR ADVANTAGE

August 7th, 2022


A TOAST TO LUCILIUS

August 6th, 2022


SMALL NEXT STEP

August 3rd, 2022


KNOTS

August 2nd, 2022


DANCING & DICTATING

August 1st, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: INSPIRATION HACKER

July 31st, 2022


BIG EYES & BLINDERS

July 30th, 2022


BENEVOLENT IMBALENCE

July 29th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: AUTOMATED SAVE

July 17th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: BIRTH OF WAYS

May 1st, 2022


BETTER TOGETHER

April 26th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: LIVING WATER

April 24th, 2022


THE IDEAL CIRCUMSTANCE

April 23rd, 2022


NOW WHAT?

April 22nd, 2022


SMALL BETS, SMALL WINS

April 21st, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SMALL WINS

April 17th, 2022


ATTENTIONAL COIN

April 15th, 2022


A NEW TYPE OF WATER

April 14th, 2022


HYPOTHETICAL DESTINATION

April 13th, 2022


FISHERMAN RUNAWAY & IDEOLOGIES

April 12th, 2022


MEDITATIVE BREAK

April 11th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: EXPERIMENTAL KARMA

April 10th, 2022


WITHOUT ONE ANOTHER

April 9th, 2022


NO BIG WINS

April 8th, 2022


FAMILIAR FASCINATION

April 7th, 2022


THE CURRENT OPTIMIZATION

April 6th, 2022


THE FAST APPROACH OF NOW

April 5th, 2022


HERD AUTOIMMUNITY

April 4th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: A HELPING HAND

April 3rd, 2022


EVENT HORIZON

April 2nd, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DEALBREAKER

March 27th, 2022


LONELY

March 26th, 2022


WHERE IS MY MIND?

March 25th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SLOW SIPPER

March 13th, 2022


HYPOCRISY OF PROGRESS

March 12th, 2022


SLOW GOING

March 11th, 2022


HOW TO CHALLENGE A BELIEF

March 10th, 2022


ENOUEMENT

March 9th, 2022


MEMORY'S BETRAYAL

March 8th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: A DREAM REFINED

March 6th, 2022


AN UNRULY COUPLE

March 5th, 2022


TIME'S ASYMMETRY

March 4th, 2022


PRACTICING PARADISE

February 28th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: MISSING OUT

February 27th, 2022


EVOLUTION OF CONCLUSION

February 26th, 2022


OUR MODERN REACH

February 24th, 2022


SALARIED INCENTIVE

February 23rd, 2022


NEVER TRUST THE WORDS

February 22nd, 2022


ENJOY THE WAIT

February 21st, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DEATH OF DESCRIPTION

February 20th, 2022


OBJECT OF EMOTION

February 19th, 2022


PLAYGROUND FALLACY

February 18th, 2022


SLEIGHT SOLUTION

February 17th, 2022


SUBLTE SIGHT

February 16th, 2022


SARGASSO

February 15th, 2022


LEEWAY IN ART & SCIENCE

February 14th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE VICE OF ADVICE

February 13th, 2022


SCOPE OF INFLUENCE

February 12th, 2022


COHERENCE DRIVE

February 10th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GLITCH REPORT

February 6th, 2022


SHEDDING JOY

February 5th, 2022


THE WAVE OF YESTERDAY

February 4th, 2022


IMPRESS ME

February 3rd, 2022


CHEAT CODE

February 2nd, 2022


FALSE WISH

February 1st, 2022


THE THOUGHTS OF OTHERS

January 31st, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: EDIT THE GAME

January 30th, 2022


BLIND FUTURE

January 29th, 2022


CULTURAL AUTOIMMUNITY

January 28th, 2022


BOREDOM'S JUGGERNAUT

January 27th, 2022


THE SHAPESHIFTER

January 26th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: NO TIME IS NOW

January 23rd, 2022


PRAYER & SIMULATION

January 20th, 2022


THE FUTURE OF OUR FUTURE

January 19th, 2022


LOGIC BY ASSOCIATION

January 18th, 2022


THE HOSPITALITY OF CONVERSATION

January 17th, 2022


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SERIAL VISIONS

January 16th, 2022


CASUAL TARGET

January 15th, 2022


HELPING HAND

January 14th, 2022


WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT?

January 13th, 2022


WHERE HAS TINKERED THINKING BEEN?

January 12th, 2022


TINKERED THINKING ON HIATUS

July 15th, 2021


HAPPINESS & COMFORT

June 12th, 2021
Are you happy? Or are you just comfortable?


FLAVORS OF STRESS

June 11th, 2021
Are you tasting the right flavor?


BUILDING IN PUBLIC

June 10th, 2021
Are you afraid to show people what you are doing?


THE PLANNED TRAP

June 9th, 2021
Have you planned your own demise?


INVISIBLE PROBLEMS

June 8th, 2021
Have you grown blind to what holds you back?


DEBUG THE SOUP

June 7th, 2021
Can you deconstruct soup?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: MANIFEST EFFORT

June 6th, 2021
Lucilius muses about a friend's growing effort.


ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT

June 5th, 2021
What's failure for the entrepreneur?


LOW ODDS, RARE MOVES

June 4th, 2021
What do you do when the odds are against you?


THE GEOGRAPHY OF PROGRESS

June 3rd, 2021
What is the rate of creativity?


HUNTING THE DEVIL

June 2nd, 2021
What happens when you search for the devil and find him?


QUALITY OF DISTRACTION

June 1st, 2021
What's the quality of your distraction?


SPECIAL ANIMAL

May 31st, 2021
Are we special?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: COMPETITOR'S EMBRACE

May 30th, 2021
Lucilius turns a competition into a partnership.


HEAT OF HATERS

May 29th, 2021
Can you embrace an enemy?


HELPLESSLY HOPEFUL

May 28th, 2021
What's the psychological ingredient that allows us to confront the unknown?


THE ONLY METRIC

May 27th, 2021
What does it mean to get lost in your work?


ENCOURAGING COMPETITORS

May 26th, 2021
Are you strong enough to give your enemy a boost?


HOLLOW THREAT

May 25th, 2021
Can you fake a defense?


TOO BUSY TO GOSSIP

May 24th, 2021
Did you hear what happened? No? Why's that?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: OLD REMIX

May 23rd, 2021
Lucilius has a old solution to a new problem.


MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE PERSPECTIVE

May 22nd, 2021
Can you take off the blindfold?


INVOKE THE FOOL

May 21st, 2021
Are you willing to be the fool?


MASSAGE

May 20th, 2021
Is Reality a kind of knot?


SELLING THE DIP

May 19th, 2021
What is the stock market?


COMPETITION CONCEPT

May 18th, 2021
How to you handle competition?


FACTORY SETTINGS

May 17th, 2021
Do you know how to adjust your own settings?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: RECONSIDER

May 16th, 2021
Lucilius talks to a friend about a promise he once made.


MENTAL DESTINATION

May 15th, 2021
Where are you going?


BALANCE FALLACY

May 14th, 2021
Should you be trying to achieve balance?


A METAPHOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE

May 13th, 2021
What's your experience like? What's it like when that experience changes?


ENJOYING MISERY

May 12th, 2021
Can you appreciate the lows?


USEFUL FRIPPERY

May 11th, 2021
How is your overall impression formed?


MAGIC COMBO

May 10th, 2021
What combination of skills have you yet to combine?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: LITTLE LIE

May 9th, 2021
Lucilius runs on a lie.


CUSTOM EFFORT

May 8th, 2021
Would it be faster to figure it out yourself?


PROMISCUOUS SOURCE

May 7th, 2021
Who do you listen to?


SONG OF THE MIND

May 6th, 2021
Can your mind handle life's jazz?


SEABIRD

May 5th, 2021
Can you navigate the storms effortlessly?


PYSCHOLOGICAL STAND-OFF

May 4th, 2021
Can you shoot first?


DOWNSTREAM PURPOSE

May 3rd, 2021
Can you see what will happen?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: LIFETIME OF ENTERTAINMENT

May 2nd, 2021
Lucilius finds a way to make money from his passion.


BENEVOLENT SUBVERSION

May 1st, 2021
How exactly does this question unravel in your mind?


MENTAL HYGGE

April 30th, 2021
What's it like to be in your head?


INVERSION OF STRESS

April 29th, 2021
Is it more stressful just because you've waited?


OFF BEAT

April 28th, 2021
Do you have rhythym?


PERMISSION FORGIVEN

April 27th, 2021
Should you ask for permission?


STABILITY & AGILITY

April 26th, 2021
Are stability and agility mutually exclusive?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: END OF A CHAPTER

April 25th, 2021
Lucilius catches himself from the past.


LIFE'S GEARS

April 24th, 2021
The game of life is all about switching gears.


PERMISSION TO LIVE

April 23rd, 2021
What are you waiting for?


STATE CHANGE FEAR

April 22nd, 2021
Do you fear what might be better?


A BLEND OF OPTIMISM & PESSIMISM

April 21st, 2021
What's the middle ground?


THE ART OF ATTENTION

April 20th, 2021
Are you an artist?


THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE

April 19th, 2021
What will replace these words?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: NO HOPE

April 18th, 2021
Lucilius learns the good of losing hope.


THE HUMBLE & THE ARROGANT

April 17th, 2021
Does anyone start out humble?


OLD LOGIC, NEW BEHAVIOR

April 16th, 2021
Is the default equipped for the novel?


MOTHER'S COLD RESOLVE

April 15th, 2021
Is this the first time someting in nature is aware of the same old problem?


RIVALNYM: APATHY & EQUANIMITY

April 14th, 2021
What does the apathetic person and the peaceful person have in common?


AS GOOD AS THE WORD

April 13th, 2021
Do you have a grasp of your language, or is it the other way around?


THOUGHT KNOT

April 12th, 2021
What if words hinder the process?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GLOW OF THE GAZE

April 11th, 2021
Lucilius feels the warm glow of the gaze.


EDGE OF BELIEF

April 10th, 2021
Do your beliefs have rounded edges? Or are they fuzzy?


THE PROBLEM WITH FREE SPEECH

April 9th, 2021
Are you free to repeat as much as the next person?


CATCH THE BEAT

April 8th, 2021
Do you have rhythm?


PIÑATA

April 7th, 2021
Keep swinging.


LEARNING & EFFORT

April 6th, 2021
Do you know what to pay attention to?


KNOW THYSELF 101

April 5th, 2021
Do you even know the simplest things about yourself?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: AUTOCEPTION

April 4th, 2021
Lucilius has an idea about how to have ideas.


COMMUNAL HALLUCINATION

April 3rd, 2021
We are all nuts. But the condition has some utility.


THE DEAL WITH CURRENT EVENTS

April 2nd, 2021
Have you noticed that Tinkered Thinking almost never comments on current events?


DISARMING EXPECTATION

April 1st, 2021
Do we also dread the good?


DISSONANT THOUGHT

March 31st, 2021
Does thought have harmony?


RATIO OF ATTENTION

March 30th, 2021
What is the size of attention when compared to itself?


TINKERED THINKING IS FAKE

March 29th, 2021
Tinkered Thinking has made a change.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: EYE ON THE PRIZE

March 28th, 2021
Lucilius teaches a boy how to move beyond success.


LIMIT OF LANGUAGE

March 27th, 2021
Can describe what cannot be said?


SPEED OF CREATION

March 26th, 2021
How fast can you create?


MODES OF SELF

March 25th, 2021
Do you ever argue with yourself?


BUNDLING

March 24th, 2021
What is software eating?


FOR FUTURE YOU

March 23rd, 2021
What do you do for yourself?


HEDONIC PRIMNG

March 22nd, 2021
Do we ruin the gift?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: STAY THE COURSE

March 21st, 2021
Lucilius makes a better choice against every sensible thought.


TAP THE GAUGE

March 20th, 2021
Are the guages of your life tuned to the situation?


COWBOY DIRECTIONS

March 19th, 2021
When should you just cowboy it?


LATERAL MEDITATIVE HYPOTHESIS

March 18th, 2021
What might meditaiton mean for the relationship the brain has with its two halves?


WHILE AWAY

March 17th, 2021
Are you taking a break from work, or is it the other way around?


THE MUSIC IN LANGUAGE

March 16th, 2021
Does music make sense? Does language make music?


MEDITATIVE HAMMER

March 15th, 2021
What force lies within a strong meditative practice?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: TOOL

March 14th, 2021
Can a tool be useful if it fails to do it's job?


ANTICIPATING NOSTALGIA

March 13th, 2021
Will you miss what hasn't yet happened?


FORCED PHASE

March 12th, 2021
Can we force ourselves to do things without the motivation we believe is required?


SILENT MIND

March 11th, 2021
Can you sit quietly with yourself?


CORE OF COMMERCE

March 10th, 2021
What's hidden within the dice for this game we play every day?


INACCURATE GUT

March 9th, 2021
Can your gut feeling be wrong?


RIVALNYM: PASSION & ADDICTION

March 8th, 2021
Is a passion an addiction?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: WAITING FOR NOW

March 7th, 2021
Lucilius shares a moment.


ARTIST OF INCENTIVE

March 6th, 2021
What are you incentivized to do?


ANACHRONISTIC EMOTIONS

March 5th, 2021
What exactly did evolution calibrate our emotions for?


REINCARNATION

March 4th, 2021
Can you become a different person?


COOPERATION & CONFLICT

March 3rd, 2021
Are we just playing elaborate versions of the same game?


HOW TO TINKER

March 2nd, 2021
How to?


RELATIVE WORTH

March 1st, 2021
Can you get back to baseline?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SERIF'S SIGN

February 28th, 2021
Lucilius embraces the new.


IMPORTANT CONTRADICTIONS

February 27th, 2021
Do you contradict yourself?


COMMUNAL PRIORS

February 26th, 2021
Can you change our mind?


AUTO-SOLVE

February 25th, 2021
Can you work while you rest?


INCENTIVE STRATIFICATION

February 24th, 2021
Is Incentive good or bad?


HABITS OF INTONATION

February 23rd, 2021
Do you have a bad habit?


PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING

February 22nd, 2021
Can you handle the psychology of failure?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DO NOT DISTURB

February 21st, 2021
Lucilius is a little irratable about the state of things.


WISDOM DIVISION

February 20th, 2021
Is wisdom cohesive?


MEDIOCRE PLATEAUS

February 19th, 2021
Why does lame remain lame?


CONVENIENT OPINION

February 18th, 2021
Are you incentivized to believe bad things?


MAP VS. PLAN

February 17th, 2021
Can you plan out your map?


IMPLICATION OF NUANCE

February 16th, 2021
What's the opposite of Nuance?


IDENTITY INVERSE

February 15th, 2021
What is the inverse of knowledge?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: RAIN GAIN

February 14th, 2021
Lucilius interlocks several problems to solve all of them.


SOUNDS OF MEANING

February 13th, 2021
Can you hear yourself?


REPRESENTING THE FUTURE

February 12th, 2021
How do you paint tomorrow?


THE CONTEXT OF METAPHOR

February 11th, 2021
Which context should we focus on?


RITUAL INCENTIVE

February 10th, 2021
Can the habit become incentivized?


ERROR OF MYOPIA

February 9th, 2021
How far can you see?


THE WORST STORY

February 8th, 2021
Are stories good because of their content or their delivery?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: EDGE OF CONTEXT

February 7th, 2021
Lucilius tries to help someone peer over the edge of context.


LAYERS OF THE SKILL

February 6th, 2021
How is a skill like an onion?


VEILED OPPORTUNITY

February 5th, 2021
Was the opportunity obviously hidden?


SUBTLE TRENDS

February 4th, 2021
What if the most important signal is the faintest?


CONFIDENT PROBLEM

February 3rd, 2021
Is it really a problem if the problem has a built-in fix?


EXPIRATION OF BELIEF

February 2nd, 2021
Do beliefs die?


FICKLE LOCATION OF IDEAS

February 1st, 2021
Where do ideas come from?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: REPLY TO SENDER

January 31st, 2021
Lucilius gets a reply.


MODERATING MODERATION

January 30th, 2021
Do you moderate the wrong things?


IMPATIENT FUEL

January 29th, 2021
What can we do with emotions?


INCENTIVIZED RECIPROCITY

January 28th, 2021
How are you incentivized?


PROJECT NARRATIVE

January 27th, 2021
When do we remember the tools?


THE ART OF LEARNING

January 26th, 2021
Have you learned the art?


NAVIGATING MISTAKES

January 25th, 2021
Are mistakes something to find, or avoid?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: PATIENT PILGRIM

January 24th, 2021
Lucilius confronts the inconcievable.


FEED THE WRITER

January 23rd, 2021
What's an easy method to break writer's block?


ADDITIVE LEARNING

January 22nd, 2021
Can a bad grade become an identity?


REAL DIFFERENCE

January 21st, 2021
What proves different thinking?


THE VIRTUE OF INEFFICIENCY

January 20th, 2021
Our greatest asset is double-edged.


REWARD SWAP

January 19th, 2021
We chase carrots to our benefit or deteriment.


TOO VAGUE

January 18th, 2021
Be specific.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE DESTINATION

January 17th, 2021
Lucilius discovers the answer to a paradox.


THE ANTI-ROUTINE

January 16th, 2021
Can the anti-routine be stopped?


UNSOLVED WEAR

January 15th, 2021
Don't give up.


FALLING BEHIND

January 14th, 2021
Falling behind is missing out entirely.


DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHY

January 13th, 2021
Where are you when you're on the internet?


GEARS OF INCENTIVE

January 12th, 2021
What gear are you in?


INFORMATION PROMINENCE

January 11th, 2021
Is the correct information prominent?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SPLIT THE ANGLE

January 10th, 2021
Lucilius finds a new angle.


WATCHING THOUGHTS

January 9th, 2021
Another little podcast bounces into your life...


CANVAS

January 8th, 2021
What is life's art?


FORCED FASCINATION

January 7th, 2021
How is curiosity revived?


SWITCH IT UP

January 6th, 2021
Moderation in everything, including moderation.


SIMPLE SOLUTION

January 5th, 2021
The simple solution usually isn't complex.


ANGLES

January 4th, 2021
Everyone has an angle.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DEALER'S CHOICE

January 3rd, 2021
Lucilius celebates.


SUBTLE LANGUAGES OF VISION

January 2nd, 2021
Are we capable of seeing in powerful ways we don't take advantage of?


MEMORY & CHOICE

January 1st, 2021
If you remember yourself as a different person, do you become that person?


STICKY MIND

December 31st, 2020
How sticky is your mind?


DIPPING & DIVING

December 30th, 2020
Do we misapply de facto wisdom to the wrong situations?


WANDERING COLLABORATION

December 29th, 2020
This episode details a wonderful collaboration.


BANAL SYSTEMS

December 28th, 2020
How does the mundane control our outcome?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: FUNNY AIR

December 27th, 2020
Lucilius helps someone with a shortness of breath.


GRADUAL LURE

December 26th, 2020
Is progress the art of luring yourself forward?


GIFT OF YOU

December 25th, 2020
How are you recieved?


KINDS OF ATTENTION

December 24th, 2020
What kind of attention are you paying with?


PROJECT RHYTHM

December 23rd, 2020
What's the natural rhythm of progress?


BETTER BORED

December 22nd, 2020
Are we deeply delighted?


MEDITATIVE LENGTH

December 21st, 2020
How long does it take to meditate?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: PREDICTION MODEL

December 20th, 2020
Lucilius builds a dead end.


PURSUITS OF CURIOSITY

December 19th, 2020
Should we depend on the unpredictable?


SUBTLE KEYS

December 18th, 2020
Where is the missing piece?


SERIOUS FUN

December 17th, 2020
Why so serious?


SLAG

December 16th, 2020
Should we save what we get rid of?


TEACHING AS SUBJECT

December 15th, 2020
Is it possible to teach the ability to teach?


THE RETIREMENT PARADOX

December 14th, 2020
What happens when you finally get what you've never had?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SUGGESTION

December 13th, 2020
Lucilius makes a suggestion, literally.


THE ART OF SUGGESTION

December 12th, 2020
Should you make that suggestion?


THE CHEMISTRY OF PERSPECTIVE

December 11th, 2020
Does your message have the right chemistry?


VOCATIONAL REFUGEE

December 10th, 2020
What do you do when the boss doesn't call anymore?


RIVALNYM: HUMILITY

December 9th, 2020
What is the connection between humility and the experience of humiliation?


CONSCIOUS GLOSS

December 8th, 2020
Can you decide to gloss over some aspects of your experience?


FUSED-SENSE READING

December 7th, 2020
How do you read quickly without missing?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: FOILED TRY

December 6th, 2020
Lucilius wanders around in search of a solution.


SUBTLE NECESSITIES

December 5th, 2020
Are all our necessities obvious?


INITIAL CONDITIONS

December 4th, 2020
What's required to start?


DESIGN INTUITION

December 3rd, 2020
Is there a deep similarity between all people in terms of how we see the world?


NEW NORMALS

December 2nd, 2020
Is our ability to adapt a double edged sword?


REDUCING DEPENDENCIES

December 1st, 2020
Freedom is a function of reducing dependencies, but what is a dependency?


LIMBIC FRICTION

November 30th, 2020
Why is there so much internal pushbakc when we try to do something?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ONE STEP AT A TIME

November 29th, 2020
Lucilius takes a step forward.


ADAPTIVE BOREDOM

November 28th, 2020
Is it good to adapt to boredom? Does it have utility or is boredom jsut something to avoid?


HIDDEN PRACTICE

November 27th, 2020
Do we practice without knowing?


FORMATTING

November 26th, 2020
What is innovation, really?


RHYTHM & MELODY

November 25th, 2020
What's the cadence of your writing?


ORIGINAL SOLUTION

November 24th, 2020
Is the original better for part of the process?


COIN OF COMPASSION & CRUELTY

November 23rd, 2020
What is the origin of compassion?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: MURMUR

November 22nd, 2020
Lucilius might tell a fib.


UNEXPECTED EFFECT

November 21st, 2020
Do we know what the effect will be?


SUPERPOWER

November 20th, 2020
Where are the real superpowers?


A FEW WORDS ON EDITING

November 19th, 2020
What does editing look like?


ALONE WITH PHONES

November 18th, 2020
What sort of company do our phones provide?


WRITING FICTION

November 17th, 2020
How do you make up stuff?


PESSIMISTIC FILTRATION

November 16th, 2020
How is reality best filtered?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: HEADWAY

November 15th, 2020
Lucilius builds a tool.


ART & WORK

November 14th, 2020
Society values work, but what about art work?


DESIGN & THEORY

November 13th, 2020
What are the aethetics of a theory of building?


GORDIAN SOLUTION

November 12th, 2020
Which solution do you use?


INFINITE FACETS

November 11th, 2020
How many ways can we look at a subject?


HEADY ITEM

November 10th, 2020
How does one crack apart big to-do items?


THE STUDENT

November 9th, 2020
Does the teacher learn how to help the student understand?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DIGITAL PLUNGE

November 8th, 2020
Lucilius helps humanity find a way forward.


EDGE OF THE RABBITHOLE

November 7th, 2020
Which way?


EDUCATION'S PARADOX

November 6th, 2020
How do we become more capable?


IMPOSITION OF THE IMAGINED WORLD

November 5th, 2020
Does an imagined reality blind us from the real one?


COEFFICIENTS OF ADDICTION

November 4th, 2020
Does everything have an addictive quality?


NUANCE OR NOT?

November 3rd, 2020
What is the most prevelant framework used for making sense of the world?


KERNEL

November 2nd, 2020
Where do pieces of writing begin?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ON THE PAGE

November 1st, 2020
Lucilius wonders if he and a friend really are on the same page.


BAMBOO

October 31st, 2020
What does a long-term benefit look like before the benefit?


REASSESS

October 30th, 2020
When do we pivot?


FUNNELLING FRUSTRATION

October 29th, 2020
What is at the core of our ability to learn?


THE SLIPPERY EXCUSE

October 28th, 2020
What does it mean when there's an excuse for every suggestion we give?


A CHANCE FOR CHANCES

October 27th, 2020
Does chance have a recipe?


FIRST WAVE

October 26th, 2020
Do we plan for the second?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GOLDEN HERRING

October 25th, 2020
Lucilius solves a puzzle by building it.


THOUGHTFUL OUROBOROS

October 24th, 2020
How does thought treat itself in meditation?


NOSTALGIA'S EDGE

October 23rd, 2020
What does the past have to offer the future?


INCOMING, OUTGOING

October 22nd, 2020
What are the vectors of fulfillment and misery?


BUILD TILL IT BREAKS

October 21st, 2020
What does the unknown have in store?


EDGE OF ABILITY

October 20th, 2020
Where's your edge?


BLAND GEMS

October 19th, 2020
Are your own treasures camouflaged from your very own eyes?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: WRITTEN IN WATER

October 18th, 2020
Lucilius brushes off a faded memory.


HOTKEY COGNITION

October 17th, 2020
Does your mind have hotkeys that someone can use t decieve you?


METHODS OF MEANING

October 16th, 2020
What method do we have to edit our unconscious methods?


CALM MIND; RESTLESS SPIRIT

October 15th, 2020
Are our minds equipped to deal with the body's energy?


INTELLECTUAL FAITH

October 14th, 2020
How do we encorporate the counter-intuitive into our intuition?


SILENT VICTORY

October 13th, 2020
How best to celebrate?


ATTENTIONAL FORTRESS

October 12th, 2020
Is your attention well guarded?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: LITTLE DOMINO

October 11th, 2020
Lucilius suffers the consequences of his curiosity.


EFFORTFUL FULFILLMENT

October 10th, 2020
Is it fulfilling to put in the effort?


BLATANT DISHONESTY

October 9th, 2020
Are you content with the confident lies?


INTERPRETATION VS. MEANING

October 8th, 2020
Do we use language, or does it use us?


A CONFLUENCE OF HABIT

October 7th, 2020
Can we learn habits in parts?


SETTING THE TRAP

October 6th, 2020
Do you set yourself up to be trapped?


COGNITIVE FEUDALISM

October 5th, 2020
Has someone outsourced their work to soak up your cognitive ability? Is it worth it?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE DAY'S LESSON

October 4th, 2020
Lucilius learns what he already knows.


PEDDLING PLATITUDES

October 3rd, 2020
What are platitudes, and why do we keep hearing them?


SYMBOLIC BRAND

October 2nd, 2020
Does anonymity have more utility than we realize?


MENTAL MODULES

October 1st, 2020
Do the modules of our thought corrupt one another?


OPTIMAL OBSTACLE

September 30th, 2020
How do we surmount and insurmountable obstacle?


LIVING THE STORY

September 29th, 2020
What story are you living?


PERPETUAL FAILURE

September 28th, 2020
When is constant failure a sign of success?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: A LIFE TO LIVE

September 27th, 2020
Lucilius contemplates a life well lived.


ATTENTIONAL FLAME

September 26th, 2020
Can you stoke your own fire? Can you snuff it out?


WORK OF A WORD

September 25th, 2020
How do our words get lazy?


WASH

September 24th, 2020
How do we wash the moment? How do we wash the brain?


THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: AUTO-OBSTACLE

September 23rd, 2020
Think about you life a bit differently with this thought experiement.


TOGGLING PERSPECTIVE

September 22nd, 2020
Can you occupy multiple perspectives on your situation?


SUSPENDING THE PROGRAM

September 21st, 2020
Is there something better than good habits?


A LUCIILUS PARABLE: LATE TO THE PARTY

September 20th, 2020
Lucilius checks in on his fellow man.


VULNERABILITY FORK

September 19th, 2020
Is vulnerability a state of being, or is it a circumstance which requires a response?


DECEPTIVE OPTIONALITY

September 18th, 2020
Do we decieve ourselves with the seduction of having options?


THE SOCIAL IMPULSE - PART II

September 17th, 2020
What are the repercussions of socializing?


THE SOCIAL IMPULSE - PART I

September 16th, 2020
How are we moved to socialize?


DOWNGRADE TO UPGRADE

September 15th, 2020
How do we sacrifice our best tools in the name of what looks better?


PLANNING THE ITERATIVE BUILD

September 14th, 2020
How shall we build a plan to build?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: FLEETING OPPORTUNITY

September 13th, 2020
Lucilius repeats a mistake.


THE NARRATIVES OF OTHERS

September 12th, 2020
What's our most prevelent view of reality?


DUMB QUESTION

September 11th, 2020
Why are some questions dumb? I know, I know... there's no such thing as a dumb question.


FLEXBILITY FUNCTION

September 10th, 2020
How do we maintain a flexibility of perspective?


FLOW OF THOUGHT

September 9th, 2020
Is there a gas pedal for thought?


SETTING OF THE BUILD

September 8th, 2020
Can you twist circumstance at the right time?


UTILITY OF BOREDOM

September 7th, 2020
Does boredom tell us something important?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: REDIRECT

September 6th, 2020
Lucilius takes a problem and uses it to teach how to teach.


FOCAL LENGTH

September 5th, 2020
How does our field of attention change and how do different technologies force changes in our field of attention?


ON RAMP

September 4th, 2020
How do we anticipate the different parts of life?


ANTIHABIT

September 3rd, 2020
How do good habits die?


FALSE GLOW

September 2nd, 2020
Have we all been gaslighting ourselves and each other?


CROSSROADS

September 1st, 2020
Should you switch things up?


PATTERNED RANDOMNESS

August 31st, 2020
How do we interact with randomness and pattern?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: FLYWHEEL

August 30th, 2020
Lucilius chats about living.


ANTSY EXIT

August 29th, 2020
What is it about experience that you can never get away from?


MEME WOMB

August 28th, 2020
Does an idea have parents?


SLY UTILITY

August 27th, 2020
Is there a hidden utilty in artful phrasing?


CURIOSITY & HOPE

August 26th, 2020
Does hope have a darkside?


ENGINE OF THE CREATIVE LIFE

August 25th, 2020
What drives creative people?


SIMPLE OPERABLE ITERATION

August 24th, 2020
What is the philosophy of building and exploration?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ZEN SIMPLICITY

August 23rd, 2020
Lucilius in a state simple Zen.


DEMO VS. WORKING ITERATION

August 22nd, 2020
Does it work? Or is it just theatrics?


ROLLING FRUIT

August 21st, 2020
What's the low-hanging fruit that helps us get the ball rolling?


SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS & CURIOSITY

August 20th, 2020
What does being self-conscious have to do with curiosity?


THE TINKERED THINKING BOOKSTORE

August 19th, 2020
Tinkered Thinking now has an online store. Why? And how?


PRINT-ON-DEMAND

August 18th, 2020
How did Tinkered Thinking publish its first book?


THE LUCILIUS PARABLES, VOLUME I

August 17th, 2020
Tinkered Thinking has launched its first book!


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: WINNOW

August 16th, 2020
Lucilius finds someone.


THE ART OF EXPECTATION

August 15th, 2020
What should we expect?


DRY RUN

August 14th, 2020
When should we practice before we go?


CONTROLLING THE INCENTIVE

August 13th, 2020
Where is the incentive?


PLATEAU

August 12th, 2020
Are you stuck on a never-ending ledge? What do you need to sacrifice to go higher?


WHY THINK ABOUT WHY?

August 11th, 2020
What's the purpose of why?


A NOTE ON AUDIENCE

August 10th, 2020
What do you attract?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: QUESTION IN CRISIS

August 9th, 2020
Lucilius confronts new questions.


ATTENTIONAL CURATION

August 8th, 2020
How well is your attention curated? Why? And for what purpose?


UGLY OPPORTUNITY

August 7th, 2020
How do you react to a dissappointment?


TIME & ATTENTION

August 6th, 2020
How do you stay present and get things done simultaneously?


THE FIRST METAQUESTION

August 5th, 2020
How do we assess the quality of the questions we ask?


STACK THE DECK

August 4th, 2020
How do you force your own choice?


SIGN ON THE DOOR

August 3rd, 2020
Is value obvious?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: AUTOSEARCH

August 2nd, 2020
Lucilius tries to find himself but merely goes in a circle.


SYMBIOSIS OF CURIOSITY

August 1st, 2020
What is the core issue at the heart of self-help?


SYMBOLS OF BELIEF

July 31st, 2020
Who do the symbols fool?


WRITING: THE CORE IDEA

July 30th, 2020
How can a source of inspiration continually yeild new fruit? Is it something about the source of inspiration itself? Or does it have more to do with how we look at it?


ATTENTIONAL CONCESSION

July 29th, 2020
When do you give up on a problem? And why?


STUDYING THE MOMENT

July 28th, 2020
Can you pay attention to the way attention focuses?


CREATE SPACE

July 27th, 2020
Is it good to waste time on purpose?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: CHAINED ATTENTION

July 26th, 2020
Lucilius doesn't fail to remember the moment.


COUNTERING INTUITION

July 25th, 2020
How much should you trust your intuition?


PRESENTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

July 24th, 2020
What do you need to get the point across?


OUT OF REACH

July 23rd, 2020
This episode turned into a case study for The Tinkered Question app, which is a project in development by Tinkered Thinking. Checkout the previous episode for full details.


THE TINKERED QUESTION APP

July 22nd, 2020
Couldn't resist. . . Tinkered Thinking has built an app using GPT-3


WHAT IS GPT-3?

July 21st, 2020
This a layman's description of what GPT-3 is, how it was developed, how it works, and what some of the implications of this technology may be. Technical listeners may appreciate the two potential implications that are given at the end of the episode.


DETOUR TEMPTATION

July 20th, 2020
Which way will you take?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: TINKER TOOLS

July 19th, 2020
This episode was written in collaboration with GPT-3. The initial paragraph and first line of dialogue is human, the rest of it is left for you to guess what was composed by a machine and what was composed by a human. The total wordcount is 1058, and 455 of those words were composed by GPT-3. If you subtract the initial paragraph required to establish context, then the ratio of human and machine contribution to this story is about equal.


THE DEATH OF POSSIBILITY

July 18th, 2020
Do you belive in the possibilties?


MACHINE MEDITATION

July 17th, 2020
This episode has been written in collaboration with GPT-3 from OpenAI.


AI COLLABORATION

July 16th, 2020
This episode has been written in collaboration with GPT-3 from OpenAI.


COHERENCE OF IMMERSION

July 15th, 2020
Does human language really make as much sense as we think it does?


FALSE MOMENT

July 14th, 2020
Are you living in false moments that have an ideal in mind?


MAYFER'S LAW

July 13th, 2020
Mayfer's Law identifies cognitive biases that work to our benefit when combined.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: COPY & PASTE

July 12th, 2020
Lucilius unlocks a new level of productivity.


CONCEPTUAL NETWORK

July 11th, 2020
How detailed is your mental map?


WORD SALAD

July 10th, 2020
Does it actually make sense? Or does it just sound good?


NAVIGATING THE LANDSCAPE

July 9th, 2020
Do you know how to turn anger into peace, embarrassment into joy, sadness into gratitude?


USEFUL DUD

July 8th, 2020
How do we usually react when our effort fail to take off?


THIS

July 7th, 2020
Does the universe exist if there's no one to experience it?


MAD

July 6th, 2020
If someone is mad, does that mean they've gone mad?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SUBVERSIVE SERVANT

July 5th, 2020
Anger visits Lucilius with company.


INSANE DETAILS

July 4th, 2020
Can you comfortably dance on the edge of insanity?


MOMENT MECHANICS

July 3rd, 2020
Is it worth it to wait around for all the variables of circumstance to line up for something like happiness to happen?


VARIETIES OF NONSENSE

July 2nd, 2020
Does your perspective perform a perpetual sleight-of-hand in order to keep you from seeing the contradictions upon which you operate?


CLOSING SCOPE

July 1st, 2020
How how good are you at asking the right question?


EACH IN TURN

June 30th, 2020
How would you understand who you are without language?


EMBELLISHMENT

June 29th, 2020
Do you embellish your stories?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: CANCELLED

June 28th, 2020
Lucilius has a run in with the law.


THE RIGHT FEELING

June 27th, 2020
Can you distinguish between what feels good and what is right?


BRAND

June 26th, 2020
A brand has a reputation, but does a reputation have a brand?


ATTENTIONAL RECURSION

June 25th, 2020
Do you notice how attention curates itself?


DELIBERATELY INSUFFICIENT

June 24th, 2020
How is it that an ellipsis and a question are similar?


GAME YOUR BRAIN

June 23rd, 2020
Can a system game itself?


AESTHETICS & FUNCTION

June 22nd, 2020
Where do beauty and function meet?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GO FIGURE

June 21st, 2020
Lucilius learns what instructions are for.


FLATTERY

June 20th, 2020
How do you react to the way people react to your work?


PUT A BOW ON IT

June 19th, 2020
Are you done?


DECENTRALIZED IDEAS

June 18th, 2020
Are your ideas better off divorced from you as a person?


DETECTING INEQUITIES

June 17th, 2020
Can you see the issue clearly?


NEGATIVE SURPRISE

June 16th, 2020
What sort of surprise do you set yourself up for?


BIRTH OF A QUESTION

June 15th, 2020
Where do questions come from?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: OMPHALOS

June 14th, 2020
Lucilius is shown kindness.


UNBURDENED SEARCH

June 13th, 2020
Are you standing in your own way?


THRESHOLD OF CONVERSATION

June 12th, 2020
What is beyond conversation?


EMBRYO

June 11th, 2020
What does passion look like when it's born?


ONE THING

June 10th, 2020
String days together with one thing.


EXHAUSTIVE ITERATION

June 9th, 2020
Do the iterations exhaust you?


INDEPENDENCE & HOMOGENEITY

June 8th, 2020
What does it mean to think independently in a group society?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: STREAMING

June 7th, 2020
Lucilius is coming at you, five by five, full def, high res.


LOOKING FOR LUCK

June 6th, 2020
What does luck look like?


BIRTH OF BELIEF

June 5th, 2020
How does out operating system harden?


SCOPE

June 4th, 2020
What's the scope of the situation?


INTELLIGENT INTERPRETATION

June 3rd, 2020
What's the relationship between how we interpret the world, and the agency such interpretation creates?


PRIVILEGE & RESPONSIBLITY

June 2nd, 2020
How are you priveleged? And what is your responsibility?


FRUSTRATION & PATIENCE

June 1st, 2020
How do you solve frustration?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: WORK SPACE

May 31st, 2020
A friend helps Lucilius with some work.


MAIN CHARACTER

May 30th, 2020
What's your story?


MENTAL SPACE

May 29th, 2020
How do you make space?


CONTEXT & DEFINITION

May 28th, 2020
What is the theory and practice of language?


SCHOOL?

May 27th, 2020
Is school worth it? What is the best classroom in which to learn?


LOOPHOLE

May 26th, 2020
Have you found the loophole?


DANCING PERFECTION

May 25th, 2020
Does perfection hinder you?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: TENDING THE BLOOM

May 24th, 2020
Lucilius fails to give someone an answer they've already brought.


MEMORY FASTING

May 23rd, 2020
Do you ever take a break from your memory?


NETWORK OF CATEGORIES

May 22nd, 2020
What is language?


MIRROR EYES

May 21st, 2020
Where are you?


OPINIONS & INSPIRATION

May 20th, 2020
Are you living in a dungeon or do you drink from a fountain?


ENEMY ECHOES

May 19th, 2020
Are you aiding your enemy in the construction of their echo chambers?


REALMS OF PLAY

May 18th, 2020
What happened to the playground?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: LIGHT & DUST

May 17th, 2020
Lucilius ponders the way things get in their own way.


BUILDING ROADS

May 16th, 2020
Where is the friction in your life?


SPIRAL STAIRCASE

May 15th, 2020
How do you break a pattern of thinking?


PRINCIPLES

May 14th, 2020
What principles do you operate by?


SMART FOOL

May 13th, 2020
Are you smart or foolish?


TITLE

May 12th, 2020
How do you collapse a collection of knowledge?


ANTILINDY

May 11th, 2020
What persists forever without a concentrated effort?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: REUNION

May 10th, 2020
Lucilius visits the past anew.


GRASPING NOTHING

May 9th, 2020
How do you touch the present?


FROWN

May 8th, 2020
Why do we pay attention to the negative?


HOW TO USE A THESAURUS

May 7th, 2020
Do you sheepishly crack the thesaurus hoping that no one sees you?


WANDER

May 6th, 2020
Do you ever set out to wander?


IMAGINATIVE MAINTENANCE

May 5th, 2020
What's the status of your imagination?


CHANGE MY MIND

May 4th, 2020
What else changes when you change your mind?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: WELL READ

May 3rd, 2020
Lucilius reads a bit.


HATEFUL VICTIM

May 2nd, 2020
How do you feel toward harm and its source?


TASTE

May 1st, 2020
Do you have good taste? What exactly are you tasting? and why?


GENEROUS PERSPECTIVE

April 30th, 2020
How generous is your perspective? Do you have the capacity to think like someone else?


CASUAL EFFORT

April 29th, 2020
How does excellence become easy?


THE ART OF READING

April 28th, 2020
How do you approach reading?


BLANK PRESSURE

April 27th, 2020
Is there a natural end to boredom?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: PANDEMICS OF CAUTION AND WEALTH

April 26th, 2020
Lucilius witnesses a lost chance to ensure wealth for the future.


RIPPLES

April 25th, 2020
What's the water like today?


QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

April 24th, 2020
Where do questions and answers come from?


FAKE LAWS

April 23rd, 2020
Do you follow deterimental guidelines unconsciously?


THE REINS

April 22nd, 2020
Is your imagination reined in?


ACCURACY & KINDNESS

April 21st, 2020
Is it accurate to be kind?


LOSING LUSTER

April 20th, 2020
Why does the nearly complete project beging to wane with excitement?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DOUBLE SIP

April 19th, 2020
Lucilius witnesses the drunkeness of hypocrisy.


AUTHORITY & CURIOSITY

April 18th, 2020
Are authorities curious?


IATROGENIC GOAL

April 17th, 2020
Do you limit yourself by imagining achievement?


TRIANGULATE

April 16th, 2020
When do you know you understand?


SENSE-TELLING

April 15th, 2020
Does a good story make the best sense?


WALLS AND DOORS

April 14th, 2020
Does your mind have doors? or is it all walls?


BEAUTY AND ACCURACY?

April 13th, 2020
A beautiful fairy tale is a terrible blueprint for building rocket ships.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: CREME DE LA CREME

April 12th, 2020
Lucilius forgives someone on the account of someone else.


CRITICAL DETAILS

April 11th, 2020
How do you take criticism?


WRITING RUSSIAN ROULETTE

April 10th, 2020
Is Writing repetitive? Should it be?


PLACATE OR PURSUE?

April 9th, 2020
Is your curosity like a fat cat?


FINISH LINE

April 8th, 2020
Do you have an end in sight?


IDEA TRAP

April 7th, 2020
How do you catch ideas?


FUNNY FORCING FUNCTION

April 6th, 2020
How do you force your own hand in accordance to your weak wish to get something done?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GEARBOX OF TIME

April 5th, 2020
Lucilius frets over a strategy to deal with our greatest enemy and only ally.


SOCIETY OF ONE

April 4th, 2020
Does society exist on different levels?


THE ASYMMETRICAL WRITER

April 3rd, 2020
What's the upside of writing? What's the downside?


TIME DILATION

April 2nd, 2020
Is time moving quickly or slowly? How does it switch? And why?


WHO'S LOOKING?

April 1st, 2020
Do you really know who is watching and waiting to see you win?


STATUE DANCE

March 31st, 2020
Are settling like stone?


RATTLE THE CAGE

March 30th, 2020
What are you feeding?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GREEN

March 29th, 2020
Lucilius jumps the gun.


UNPRECEDENTED

March 28th, 2020
How do you prepare for something you've never seen?


DARK SIDE OF SOLITUDE

March 27th, 2020
Do you seek solitude for good reasons? Or do you retreat to solitude for some other additional reasons that are perhaps not so healthy?


SEED OF CURIOSITY

March 26th, 2020
Are you curious? Or do you have things that keep your curiosity at bay?


PLAYTIME

March 25th, 2020
How do you play? Do you even?


MEDITATION: WANDERING WAVE

March 24th, 2020
Where is peace?


RESPAWN

March 23rd, 2020
What do you do with the same circumstance given to you again?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GENTLE PERSUASION

March 22nd, 2020
The most persuasive argument doesn't sound like an argument.


PRACTICING CONTRADICTIONS

March 21st, 2020
How do you find the bridges between the contradictions in your character?


HOW TO START WRITING

March 20th, 2020
Teachers probably killed it for you before you realized it's true utility. What if you started again. How do you start writing?


EMOTIONAL REGULATION PART IV - LEARNING

March 19th, 2020
What does it feel like to learn?


DANCING WITH MISFORTUNE

March 18th, 2020
Do you know the steps?


BETTER SAFE

March 17th, 2020
Is something bad required for good outcomes?


BURN THE BOATS

March 16th, 2020
How do you force your own next step?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: A GAME OF SKIN

March 15th, 2020
Lucilius learns how to teach.


FIRST DRAFT

March 14th, 2020
How do you start?


FALSE PATH

March 13th, 2020
Are you chasing a mirage?


NEGATIVE EXTRAPOLATION

March 12th, 2020
Is there value in imagining bad things?


ALARM

March 11th, 2020
How do you respond to an alarm?


HALF A MILLION WORDS

March 10th, 2020
Tinkered Thinking celebrates Half a Million Words


AUTOSEND

March 9th, 2020
This Episode is dedicated to David Perell, creator of the Write of Passage podcast and often referred to as "The Writing Guy"


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DATABASE

March 8th, 2020
Lucilius fails to confront the expected.


THE SIZE & SHAPE OF PROBLEMS

March 7th, 2020
How do you deal with an obstacle you can't see?


BETWEEN WEAKNESS & STRENGTH

March 6th, 2020
How closely related are weakness and strength?


THE ART OF WRITING

March 5th, 2020
What does it mean to write about the art of writing?


SOUL OF THE MONSTER

March 4th, 2020
Rip out the heart of art and what do you hold?


HONORED TEACHER

March 3rd, 2020
What is a teacher's purpose? What is beyond that purpose?


LISTEN ON REPEAT

March 2nd, 2020
Would you repeat your life?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: BIRTHDAY

March 1st, 2020
Lucilius pays tribute to Groundhog Day.


KNOWING NORTH

February 29th, 2020
How do you steer your life?


DISHONEST COMPUTER

February 28th, 2020
Would you buy a dishonest computer? Why do you keep dishonesty in your relationships?


FARMING LUCK

February 27th, 2020
Do you know how to nuture luck?


FRUGALITY

February 26th, 2020
What is the point of frugality?


TASK ENORMITY

February 25th, 2020
Do you know how to eat an elephant?


TWO LENSES

February 24th, 2020
Are you looking for opportunities in the rght ways?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DREAM CODE

February 23rd, 2020
What is the code of your dreams? Lucilius seeks to solve a msytery.


UPSIDE FAIL

February 22nd, 2020
Can you win no matter what?


WHY WRITE?

February 21st, 2020
Do you know what writing is for?


MOMENTARY NAVIGATION

February 20th, 2020
Do you know how to navigate?


MEDITATION: THINKING TOO MUCH

February 19th, 2020
Do you think you think too much?


THE DESIRE HACK

February 18th, 2020
Do you know how to steer desire to your own benefit? Or is it steering you mindlessly?


THE THINKER'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE

February 17th, 2020
How certain are you about the thinking you experience?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THOUGHT SHOT

February 16th, 2020
Lucilius navigates the difficult space between a rock and a hard place.


BUG

February 15th, 2020
Does anything about reality and the world at large bug you? What does that mean?


MONSTERS OF THE MIND

February 14th, 2020
What monsters are you feeding?


IMISM'S SWORD

February 13th, 2020
Are you a pessimist or an optimist?


HEART OF LUXURY

February 12th, 2020
Why are you chasing a better life? Is it luxury you are chasing? Or is here something in the heart of luxury that is even sweeter? More valuable than anything luxury can give us?


BRANCHES & NETS

February 11th, 2020
How big it your net?


THE CONVERGENCE OF THOUGHT & EMOTION

February 10th, 2020
What is the difference between thought and emotion?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DRIFTWOOD & TALLOW

February 9th, 2020
Lucilius learns what a simple thing it is to be valuable.


SUPER SOAKER

February 8th, 2020
Do you know how to charge your productivity?


RIVALNYM CASE STUDY: INFLUENTIAL MANIPULATION

February 7th, 2020
Are you being influenced or manipulated?


MEASURING QUESTIONS

February 6th, 2020
Do you analyze the quality of your questions?


THE NEW WILDERNESS

February 5th, 2020
Where is the modern hunt?


BACKTRACK BUILDING

February 4th, 2020
How do you keep from redoing a bunch of work?


HOW'S IT LOOK?

February 3rd, 2020
How do you notice your progress?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: HOLDFAST

February 2nd, 2020
Lucilius runs into an old acquaintance, both defined in different ways by the same thing.


USER INTERFACE

February 1st, 2020
Are you updating your user interface?


RIVALNYM CASE STUDY: FANATICAL FAN

January 31st, 2020
Are you a fan or a fanatic?


CHARGED BATTERY PART II

January 30th, 2020
Should you perhaps drain that battery a little?


CHARGED BATTERY PART I

January 29th, 2020
Are you all charged up?


THE HINGE

January 28th, 2020
Where and how has your life hinged?


WHERE IS YOUR INSPIRATION?

January 27th, 2020
Do you know how to create th conditions so that your inspiration will make a visit?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: TINKERED BEAUTY

January 26th, 2020
Lucilius meets someone.


OBSESSIVE IMPULSE

January 25th, 2020
What do you obsess about?


STROLLING THROUGH INFINITY

January 24th, 2020
How do you know that something has ended?


QUESTING STATEMENTS

January 23rd, 2020
How can you supercharge your questions?


TIME WELL SPENT

January 22nd, 2020
How do you spend your time?


METATTENTION

January 21st, 2020
What pays attention to our switch in attention?


RIVALNYM CASE STUDY: ALONE

January 20th, 2020
What is the difference between lonliness and solitude?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: WELL USED

January 19th, 2020
Lucilius and a friend enjoy the afternoon.


READER RETURNS

January 18th, 2020
Why do you return to read?


ONE PLAYER CHESS

January 17th, 2020
How do you win with yourself?


EMOTIONAL REGULATION PART III - MOTIVATION

January 16th, 2020
How do you catch the slippery fish of motivation?


QUANTITATIVE HIERARCHY

January 15th, 2020
How do we best achieve quality?


ENZYMATIC EFFORT

January 14th, 2020
What's required to figure it out?


ROCK BOTTOM

January 13th, 2020
Those who seem headed for rock bottom deserve our compassion, for one simple reason: there is no rock bottom.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DIRTY MIRRORS

January 12th, 2020
A young Lucilius does his job and wonders about other worlds.


FORGOTTEN GIFTS OF CHILDHOOD

January 11th, 2020
Can you remember how it felt to be a child?


RIVALNYM CASE STUDY: CRAZYGENIUS

January 10th, 2020
Would you rather be crazy or a genius? What if they go hand in hand?


PLANNING WHO YOU'LL BE

January 9th, 2020
Who are you going to be? And how does this measure up to who you want to be?


THE REQUIREMENTS OF AN IDEA

January 8th, 2020
What is the ideal environment for creative innovation?


INSUFFERABLE PERSISTENCE

January 7th, 2020
If you are looking to have a good idea about how to make your life better, have you first fulfilled the requirements?


ADORABLE GLITCH

January 6th, 2020
Tinkered Thinking is finally on Spotify.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE MIND'S PIROUETTE

January 5th, 2020
Luclius notices his mind spin.


THE RAMIFICATIONS OF BUSINESS

January 4th, 2020
What's the real point of a business?


NTH TRY

January 3rd, 2020
How many times do you try? And what exactly are you trying?


FEEDBACK SPEED

January 2nd, 2020
Are you poking reality in the right way? Or are you knocking on a door where no one seems to be home?


DAY ONE

January 1st, 2020
What about today is so special?


FORTUNE'S PIROUETTE

December 31st, 2019
Can you enjoy the whole spin?


SIT WITH IT

December 30th, 2019
When the first step feels like it's too much, then there's an invisible step we can take.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SHADOW RUNNING

December 29th, 2019
Lucilius meets people who think they can run from their own shadows.


DESIGN THE PROBLEM

December 28th, 2019
What problems do you have the luxury of solving?


PROPORTIONAL MANIPULATION

December 27th, 2019
Are your emotions in proportion with reality?


OUR OWN PLACE

December 26th, 2019
Do you have your own place? Hw do you tend to it?


DRAFT ZERO

December 25th, 2019
Where does wrting start? And where does it take us?


RULE OF THUMB - FRESH START

December 24th, 2019
When should you call it quits for the day?


MEDITATION: COMPOUND PRACTICE

December 23rd, 2019
The milestones of meditation.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: MAD MYTH

December 22nd, 2019
Lucilius comes across some respite.


UNIFYING REALMS OF DATA

December 21st, 2019
Where are the answers to the questions that we can see? Where are the questions to the answers we can see?


RIVALNYM CASE STUDY: NATURAL SOCIETY

December 20th, 2019
Is society natural?


ANALYSIS PARALYSIS

December 19th, 2019
This episode is dedicated to Clay Nichols. You can follow him on Twitter @ClayNichols


GET BEHIND YOURSELF AND PUSH

December 18th, 2019
Sometimes you just don't feel like it.


MANY MASKS

December 17th, 2019
This episode is dedicated to Paul Graham and Deeyah Kahn.


BETWEEN FRAMES

December 16th, 2019
Can you catch the moment?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: COLD MOVE

December 15th, 2019
This episode is dedicated to David Wallace-Wells. Lucilius entertains the good side of evil.


CART HORSE CARROT

December 14th, 2019
How you organize your day is how you organize your life.


LISTENING FOR INTENT

December 13th, 2019
Do you communicate in bad faith?


VICARIOUS ADVICE

December 12th, 2019
What would you say? And why would you say it?


HALO OF IGNORANCE

December 11th, 2019
Do you know how good you are? or... aren't?


THE ONLY PROBLEM

December 10th, 2019
What's your problem?


THE ILLUSION OF HINDSIGHT

December 9th, 2019
Do we really see so clearly how things could have been?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE STUFF OF DREAMS

December 8th, 2019
Lucilius puts sleep to good use.


TOY OR TOOL?

December 7th, 2019
What do you spend your time and money on?


SIMPLE ELABORATION

December 6th, 2019

This episode is dedicated to Brandon who you can connect with on Twitter at @brandonbydesign

Do we speak and write too much or too little?



EFFORTLESS PROBLEMS

December 5th, 2019
Do you have a particularly widespread assumption undermining your hopes?


WASTING TIME

December 4th, 2019
How do you waste time?


EMOTIONAL REGULATION PART II - THE TEST

December 3rd, 2019
This episode is dedicated to Saher Cherif who you can connect with on Twitter @Saher_Cherif


ON YOUR MARK

December 2nd, 2019
How can the imaginary world rev our performance in the real one?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: AS ABOVE SO BELOW

December 1st, 2019
Lucilius is a multiplicity that is just trying to figure things out.


WANDERING LIGHTNING ROD

November 30th, 2019
Do you have the ingredients for a wandering, struck-by-lightning idea?


THEORY OR EXAMPLE?

November 29th, 2019
If you have so many examples, do you need a theory?


TIME & THE QUESTION OF PRESSURE

November 28th, 2019
How much time do you have? And how much pressure can you apply?


EMOTIONAL REGULATION - PART I: BLUNT TOOLS

November 27th, 2019
Some blunt tools for getting the emotional machine to fall in line.


THE SUBTLE ART OF SECOND GUESSING YOURSELF

November 26th, 2019
How well do you second guess yourself?


LINES & NETS

November 25th, 2019
How do you catch the attention you need to do your work?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: A NICE PLACE

November 24th, 2019
Lucilius and a friend have an adventurous staycation.


THE GULF

November 23rd, 2019
How much space exists between what you say and what you do?


SEEDING PLANS

November 22nd, 2019
How does curiosity plan?


TALL POPPIES

November 21st, 2019
How shall we reinterpret the poorly understood lessons of the past?


NEVER FINISHED

November 20th, 2019
Do you know when you are done?


COMFORT - PART II: FORTS & CAGES

November 19th, 2019
Are you comfortably entrapped by your strengths? This episode, along with the previous one, is dedicated to Dennis Michael Hynes, you can connect with him on Twitter at @HynesDm


COMFORT - PART I: THE ROOTS OF A WORD

November 18th, 2019
What does it mean to be comfortable? This episode, along with Part II, is dedicated to Dennis Michael Hynes. You can connect with him on Twitter at @HynesDm


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GRAIN OF SALT

November 17th, 2019
Lucilius shares what he can.


RESOURCEFULNESS

November 16th, 2019
Are you blind to the resources right in front of you?


LIFE IS A GIFT HORSE

November 15th, 2019
What's really going on when you bemoan your circumstance in life? What has been given to you, and what hasn't been gifted to you.


CHASING SILENCE

November 14th, 2019
Do you know how to catch it?


A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: A DAY'S WORTH

November 13th, 2019
How much do you think your day is worth?


METAQUESTIONS

November 12th, 2019
Do you know how to challenge your questions?


INDICATION OF A BAD QUESTION

November 11th, 2019
Do you find yourself asking the same question over and over?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE MOVING MIND

November 10th, 2019
Lucilius overhears a debate.


GENERATING RANDOMNESS

November 9th, 2019
What is the first step of creativity?


THE SISYPHEAN PLATEAU

November 8th, 2019
Is your idea of progress infinitely wrong?


BROKEN RECORD

November 7th, 2019
Which song are you playing?


PRODUCTIVE SKEPTICISM

November 6th, 2019
Are you skeptical of the productive possibilities of skepticism?


THE VISIBILITY OF PROBLEMS

November 5th, 2019
You can see the problem, but can you see the solution?


THE DEFAULT STATE OF LEARNING

November 4th, 2019
What does it mean to learn?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE MOMENT'S MOOD

November 3rd, 2019
Lucilius finds something to watch.


COMEDY'S POINT

November 2nd, 2019
Why do we need to laugh?


DOUBLE TIME

November 1st, 2019
A little behind-the-scenes house keeping.


THE REDUNDANCY OF THINKING WITHOUT TINKERING

October 31st, 2019
Do you just think the same things over and over?


THE END OF MONEY

October 30th, 2019
Can you imagine a world without money? If not, check out this episode.


AMENDS

October 29th, 2019
What does it mean to make amends?


PROMISE?

October 28th, 2019
Do your promises honor the nature of the future?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: LETTERS' END

October 27th, 2019
Lucilius feels like reading.


SETBACK TRAINING

October 26th, 2019
How often do you get annoyed during the day?


RIVALNYMS: A CASE STUDY

October 25th, 2019
The list of Rivalnyms expands by two.


THE FLEXIBILITY MACHINE

October 24th, 2019
How limber is your machine?


THE DAILY GRIND

October 23rd, 2019
What are we grinding in the daily grind?


THE SMITH & THE DEVIL

October 22nd, 2019
Tinkered Thinking shows how humanity's oldest story is more relevant than ever today.


A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: CUTTING QUESTIONS

October 21st, 2019
How do questions interact with your project? or your ability to learn?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: A CARVING LESSON

October 20th, 2019
Lucilius gives a gift that gives back.


10 MINUTES

October 19th, 2019
Seems like short time, but what fits into it?


FALSE ENCOURAGEMENT

October 18th, 2019
Are you lying with good intentions?


TINKER'S RAZOR

October 17th, 2019
Tinkered Thinking presents a Razor.


INFINITY CUBE: A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT

October 16th, 2019
What do you see when you look at the world?


SHIFTING SYMMETRIES

October 15th, 2019
"People do things for only two reason: it's pleasurable and/or it conveys sexiness." This observation sparked some disagreement on Twitter. This episode seeks to explore the issue in some detail.


BUFFER

October 14th, 2019
Tinkered Thinking gets back up to speed and addresses a new experiement to protect against such delays.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: DEAD CALM

October 13th, 2019
Lucilius gets help from a little friend.


FOR THE SAKE OF HABIT

October 12th, 2019
Are habits worth while even when they aren't really possible?


TWO-WAY HABIT

October 11th, 2019
How does a habit look like when it's taken apart as opposed to when it's put together?


THE NAME OF GOD

October 10th, 2019
Everyone follows something. What do you follow?


HICCUP

October 9th, 2019
A lyrical episode


WORKING QUESTIONS

October 8th, 2019
Have you worked on questions about work?


STATE THE QUESTION

October 7th, 2019
Is there a more powerful form of your question?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE END OF CONTENTMENT

October 6th, 2019
Lucilius has a girlfriend. Sort of.


THE WORD ME

October 5th, 2019
What exactly are you talking about when you say it?


YEA YEA YEA

October 4th, 2019
We've all said it. What was the last thing you said it in response to?


THE INFINITE MONEY QUESTION

October 3rd, 2019
What would you do?


CONDUCIVE

October 2nd, 2019
How conducive is your situation?


RESOLUTION PREREQUISITE

October 1st, 2019
Can you see where you are going?


THE LAST DOMINO

September 30th, 2019
Tinkered Thinking concludes an experiment.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE MATRYOSHKA DOLL OF MODERNITY

September 29th, 2019
Lucilius experiences the way people think of one another.


THE REASON BEHIND A LIE

September 28th, 2019
Is it ever reasonable to lie?


MEDITATIVE

September 27th, 2019
Do you claim to meditate while doing something that is not meditation?


RESULTS PART II: A GAME OF TENNIS

September 26th, 2019
Do you realize that reality is trying to play a game with you? Or, are you just being a sore loser?


RESULTS PART I: EXPECTATION

September 25th, 2019
Do you always expect a certain result?


LITTLE THEORIES

September 24th, 2019
What is a hypothesis?


PATTERN MANIPULATION

September 23rd, 2019
You can sense the pattern, but can you create a new one?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE MOMENT'S TASK

September 22nd, 2019
Lucilius finds peace in the mundane.


EXCELLENT ADDICTIONS

September 21st, 2019
Do good and bad behaviors use the same tools?


FRACTAL ANXIETY

September 20th, 2019
Do we deal with anxiety by piling on more anxiety?


SOURCE OF ATTENTION

September 19th, 2019
Is attention yours? Or does the source have you fooled?


THOUGHT SURFING

September 18th, 2019
Do you know how to Thought Surf?


THE MEANING OF TINKER

September 17th, 2019

This episode was inspired by @DeeperThrill on Twitter



LIGHTEN UP

September 16th, 2019
Is it rude to make fun of heavy topics?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ETERNITY OF ENTERTAINMENT

September 15th, 2019
Lucilius attempts to cure a small case of boredom.


THE GOLDEN GUARANTEE

September 14th, 2019
There is a gift to what's guaranteed.


THE END OF NOWHERE

September 13th, 2019
You're not lost if you can take the next step.


THE VIRTUE OF NEGATIVITY

September 12th, 2019
Is there anything Positive about Negativity?


FALSIFY

September 11th, 2019
How many tools do you have to update your model of the world?


THE SELF-ASSEMBLING NATURE OF SUCCESS

September 10th, 2019
Do you have the faith that you'll figure it out?


FAITH

September 9th, 2019
Do you have faith in your understanding of the word faith?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE PUPPETMASTER'S PAIN

September 8th, 2019
Lucilius tries to care for his Godchildren.


SENSIBLE NOISE

September 7th, 2019
Do you ignore the noise? Does it make you uncomfortable? Or do you understand the noise?


SO WHAT?

September 6th, 2019
You listen to Tinkered Thinking? So What?


THE NOVELTY OF NUANCE

September 5th, 2019
Do you always look for novelty? What exactly is nuance in relation to novelty?


IN QUESTION

September 4th, 2019
Are we afraid of questions?


TURN A BLIND EYE

September 3rd, 2019
Are you turning blind eyes for the right reasons?


THE ENDLESS ARBITRAGE OF LANGUAGE

September 2nd, 2019
Can something be created out of nothing?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: TRASH

September 1st, 2019
Lucilius takes out the trash.


INFINITE GAMES

August 31st, 2019
What Infinite Games are you playing?


PROBLEMS OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY

August 30th, 2019
Have you identified the problem?


COEFFICIENTS OF FRICTION

August 29th, 2019
When it's so hard to start, how to you make things easier?


THE STRATEGY OF TINKERED THINKING

August 28th, 2019
Five Hundred Episodes.


BUT WHY?

August 27th, 2019
Why are we doing all of this life thing?


ARTIFICIAL HARDSHIP

August 26th, 2019
Can you manufacture hardship for yourself in a way that is good?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: PERFUME

August 25th, 2019
Lucilius reminisces over better times when he missed out.


ORGANIZED SYSTEMS

August 24th, 2019
Recurring problems require a system that solves them automatically. You are a system. That system is comprised of habits.


LET GO

August 23rd, 2019
What parts of ourselves should we let go of? How to we maintain a grip on reality while we do it?


GRIP

August 22nd, 2019
What should you hold on to?


LETTING (YOURSELF) GO

August 21st, 2019
Which parts of ourselves constantly want to run wild? should they be set free?


PAUSE OF THE PAINTER

August 20th, 2019
What action defines the artist more than any other?


PASS THE TIME

August 19th, 2019
How do you pass the time?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: FULL STOP

August 18th, 2019
Lucilius finds reason to laugh at his efforts.


PEAK EDUCATION

August 17th, 2019
Is there a peak?


TOUCH THE SKY

August 16th, 2019
Can you see the paradox?


DISTANT LANDS

August 15th, 2019
How do you get to a place that feels good?


GASLIT LIAR

August 14th, 2019
Who is less likely to be the subject of gaslighting?


STUBBORN WINNER

August 13th, 2019
Not all winners are winners.


DETERMINED LOSER

August 12th, 2019
What's the best kind of loser?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: LOST IN TRANSLATION

August 11th, 2019
Lucilius comes across an old misunderstood friend.


COGNITIVE FABRIC

August 10th, 2019
What makes up your cognitive fabric?


CAN OF WORMS

August 9th, 2019
Are we simply solving problems that we thought were solutions? What solutions are we working on now?


CAUTION

August 8th, 2019
Are you cautious? Too cautious? Or are you even worrying about the right things?


OPEN DOOR POLICY

August 7th, 2019
Being open minded means you're not afraid to welcome in ideas that will destroy any cherished beliefs you migh have hiding in a panic room.


OUT OF THE QUESTION

August 6th, 2019
How can something be in or out of a question?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: NO WAIT

August 5th, 2019
Lucilius doesn't wait for ridiculous things.


RELEASE VALVE

August 4th, 2019
Does your head have a release valve?


AUDIO DANCE PARTNER

August 3rd, 2019
Monkey hear, monkey say, same.


COZY MIND

August 2nd, 2019
Is your mind inhospitable to good ideas?


BUCKET OF MUD

August 1st, 2019
What are you carrying around?


WHAT MEDITATION DOES

July 31st, 2019
Is it all just froo-froo?


SICK OF BEING SICK OF

July 30th, 2019
Ideas, beliefs, mental models, stories; all of these are parasitic. They cannot exit, nor flourish without their main host: the human mind. Are your beliefs working for you? Or are they hurting you? What would an immune system for the mind look like?


TO HURT A BELIEF

July 29th, 2019
Do beliefs have feelings? Can they be injured? Destroyed? What about you?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: TAILED BY GHOSTS

July 28th, 2019
Lucilius comes across a couple of haunted people.


CATCHING IDEAS

July 27th, 2019
What's your strategy? Which strategies have worked the best over the centuries?


NETWORK WEB

July 26th, 2019
What kind of net works to catch an idea?


PESSIMISTIC TIME KEEPER

July 25th, 2019
How long is it really going to take?


BORING WORKS BUT ANXIETY IS EXCITING

July 24th, 2019
Are you swapping excitements only to have them slide back?


EXHAUSTED BATTERY

July 23rd, 2019
Are you tired?


CONQUERTIZE

July 22nd, 2019
What priority dictates the way we conquer our to-do list?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SHUFFLING PRIORITIES

July 21st, 2019
Lucilius drops a priority.


COMEDY CANCELLED

July 20th, 2019
Where is the executioner in the modern age?


FOLLOWER VS JOINER

July 19th, 2019
Are you blindly following? Or are you putting the pieces togther from a variety of perspectives?


THE NET

July 18th, 2019
How is a fisherman's net like a question?


POKE THE MONSTER

July 17th, 2019
Are you sure you know what you're asking for?


NEGATIVE GRATITUDE

July 16th, 2019
How many paths lead to gratitude?


THE INEFFABLE PLAN

July 15th, 2019
What does Scientific Determinism have in common with Divine plans?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ROOM TO GROW

July 14th, 2019
Lucilius gives pause to the environment in which we all can learn.


WHY APOLOGIES DO NOT WORK

July 13th, 2019
The problem with apologies is also the key to rising above our own mistakes.


AFTER DOES NOT EXIST

July 12th, 2019
What's going on 'after'?


DOORS

July 11th, 2019
Are the doors you seek already open?


CRAFTING RIDDLES

July 10th, 2019
Are you practiced in the art of forming questions? How good are your questions?


A FRIEND FOREVER

July 9th, 2019
How well do you treat the one person who is always with you?


MONEY MOUTH

July 8th, 2019
What is the real price of our words?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: CONSISTENCY

July 7th, 2019
Lucilius is on a quiet adventure.


THE MIND'S PANIC ROOM

July 6th, 2019
Have you built one?


THE AVOIDANCE DECEPTION

July 5th, 2019
Even the phrasing of what we avoid can in itself be another form of avoidance. That is, avoiding the real issue.


BRAIN BUG

July 4th, 2019
Even worse than a horrow movie about people with bugs crawling around in their brains.


ONE SIZE FITS ALL

July 3rd, 2019
Do you fit?


MAKER OR USER?

July 2nd, 2019
Are you more likely to make something or just use things?


BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

July 1st, 2019
Ok, Tinkered Thinking was deplorably late this week.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: MANY ENDS

June 30th, 2019
Lucilius ponders how things arise and how things end.


DEADLINES VS TIME-LIMITS

June 29th, 2019
Do your deadlines have the necessary side-kick?


WHAT IS A REVIEW?

June 28th, 2019
What does it mean to honestly reflect an experience for someone who wasn't there?


BRAIN CHANGE

June 27th, 2019
Is your brain changing?


TINKERED THINKING REVIEW: TINKERED THINKING

June 26th, 2019
Tinkered Thinking reviews itself.


BROKEN KEY

June 25th, 2019
Right problem, wrong solution?


FLEXIBILITY

June 24th, 2019
Are you bent out of shape?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE STRAGGLER

June 23rd, 2019
Lucilius queries the possibilities.


SECOND WISE, YEAR FOOLISH

June 22nd, 2019
Do you know where I can purchase some more time. Perhaps last tuesday? How much does last tuesday cost?


THE PROS & CONS OF PROS & CONS

June 21st, 2019
Do the pros outweigh the cons of using a pros and cons list?


DON'T MOVE ON

June 20th, 2019
Are you repressing some helpful influences?


TASK EN PLACE

June 19th, 2019
Is putting things off making everything we do in the meantime less effective?


FIRST PRINCIPLES - PART II: LANGUAGE

June 18th, 2019
Can we divide the language we use to irreducible units? Do these units remain static through time? And if not, what do we do. This is part ii. Check out Episode 428 for part i.


FIRST PRINCIPLES - PART I: AB INITIO

June 17th, 2019
What should be our 'first principle' when we think, use and consume language? This is part I that hopes to serve as a quick introduction to first principles thinking.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: REFLECT EFFECT

June 16th, 2019
Lucilius helps someone see what they say.


THE SPECTRUM OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

June 15th, 2019
Where do we stand on the spectrum of cognitive dissonance? What is at the other spectrum?


VIRTUOUS DIFFERENCE

June 14th, 2019
What good might exist between our differences?


CONSCIOUS DIRECTIONS

June 13th, 2019
Does consciousness reach in different directions?


UPHILL PLANTING

June 12th, 2019
Is life just one big pain-in-the-ass uphill battle? Yea, maybe.


BLOAT & BUST

June 11th, 2019
Words grow, sometimes in unhealthy directions. And sometimes, they collapse. How do we protect our understanding of reality from the risks of this process?


TINKER TALK

June 10th, 2019
Another Lyrical Episode


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE

June 9th, 2019
Lucilius is struck by a strange encounter.


DYNAMISM - PART II: VICIOUS SUBTRACTION

June 8th, 2019
Continuing from Part I, Part II examines Carl Jung's quote in a larger context.


DYNAMISM - PART I: ADDING AND SUBTRACTING

June 7th, 2019
How do we fall, and keep falling? How do we keep ourselves from slipping? This is part one of two episodes that explore a quote from Carl Jung. Inspired in response to https://twitter.com/SE_Cauldron


PERFECTION PARALYSIS

June 6th, 2019
How do we imagine our dreams? Are they perfect? Or will they be perfect?


EMBRACE WEAKNESS

June 5th, 2019
We are told to do something everyday that scares us. Does this mean riding a roller coaster, or some other thrilling activity? Or do we misunderstand what scary means in this sense? Scary can mean quite a lot. We willingly go to scary movies because it's thrilling, but does this mean that we've done something that scares us? What scares people the most?


THE OPPOSITE OF FREE WILL

June 4th, 2019
[POPULAR EPISODE] This episode was inspired by reading Annaka Harris' book 'Conscious' which was released today. Visit http://tinkeredthinking.com/index.php?id=428 for a link to order your copy today. Are we aware of our drives, our influences and our will? Or lack thereof?


NOT SUCCESSFUL

June 3rd, 2019
Can we use language more successfully? Even when we aren't successful?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: CONCRETE BUTTERFLY

June 2nd, 2019
Lucilius makes up a story for someone who needs a new one. This episode is dedicated to Charles


COGNITIVE SLUMBER

June 1st, 2019
Is your mind asleep?


QUALITY OF QUANTITY

May 31st, 2019
Are you missing out on the beneifts and creating too little?


SHAVE THE DOG

May 30th, 2019
Are you reinitiating a path to misery?


VERY REAL

May 29th, 2019
Does the legitimacy of reality exist on a spectrum?


DESIRABLE FAITH

May 28th, 2019
What desires shall we desire?


NEW PEOPLE OLD WORK

May 27th, 2019
What is our avenue to better work?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: IMMORTAL COLORS

May 26th, 2019
Lucilius comforts a stranger with a story of unpoisoned memories.


PRESSURE COOKER PATIENCE

May 25th, 2019
Does your emotional enemy win simply by getting you to fight?


SUBTLE REWARD

May 24th, 2019
Are you missing out on the rewards of success that perpetuate through time?


BIG QUESTION BAD QUESTION

May 23rd, 2019
How big are the questions you ask yourself?


FIENDS FOR FEELING

May 22nd, 2019
[POPULAR EPISODE] Are you feeding a hunger for feeling?


TINKERED DRINKING

May 21st, 2019
Have you tinkered with you drinking and found yourself quite lacking with thinking?


FEEDING HUNGER

May 20th, 2019
Are you feeding the right hungers?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: RECURSIVE FRIGHT

May 19th, 2019
Lucilius witnesses how easily we can overwhelm ourselves.


GIVING UP THE MINE

May 18th, 2019
Are you digging a hole for the sake of digging?


INTERVERSE

May 17th, 2019
[POPULAR EPISODE] How do we keep the space between each other healthy?


SIGN & SIGNAL

May 16th, 2019
How do signs and signals relate?


TWO KINDS OF HURT

May 15th, 2019
Are you whining?


BLINDERS

May 14th, 2019
Are you walking around in the dark?


FRIEGHT TRAIN

May 13th, 2019
How much of your past do you have pushing you in unwanted directions?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: A DAY'S WORK - PART II

May 12th, 2019
Lucilius cuts a day's work short.


LIMITS OF EMPATHY

May 11th, 2019
How empathetic are you?


QUESTION ABOUT THE QUESTION

May 10th, 2019
Can a question perform introspection?


BASKETS OF FIRE

May 9th, 2019
Irons or Eggs?


CRACKING THE MAELSTROM

May 8th, 2019
Are you stuck in a terrible cycle? Do you know the first step to cracking it?


PLANS & PROGRESS

May 7th, 2019
Do we plan progress? Or do we discover it? Do plans get in the way of our discovery?


WHITE DIAMOND

May 6th, 2019
Which end of the diamond do you find yourself in?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: A DAY'S WORK - PART I

May 5th, 2019
Lucilius starts a day of work.


THE SHAPE OF LANGUAGE

May 4th, 2019
What kind of shapes are you building, by speaking, by thinking?


PAIN & PASSION

May 3rd, 2019
Is the passion you seek already causing you obvious pain?


ONE DAY. . .

May 2nd, 2019
Are you putting off your dreams?


SCALING EFFORTS

May 1st, 2019
Are your efforts scaling?


LIKE A CHILD

April 30th, 2019
Can you learn from the unlearned?


MENTAL SKILLS

April 29th, 2019
What is a mental skill? Can they be leveraged to benefit one another?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ACTIVATION SEQUENCE - PART II

April 28th, 2019
Lucilius reflects on getting ready. Part I is episode 371


DOMAIN SKEW

April 27th, 2019
What kind of skew do you see the world through?


SUCCESSION STAGES

April 26th, 2019
Are there stages to a better mind?


TWO-DO

April 25th, 2019
Are you working on the right to-do list?


INFINITE DEAD-END

April 24th, 2019
Are you stuck on a mental treadmill?


FRESH EYES

April 23rd, 2019
How can you swap your eyeballs out for a fresh perspective?


THE EXPANSION OF WORK

April 22nd, 2019
Are you letting a tumor of work grow beyond something you can swallow?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ACTIVATION SEQUENCE - PART I

April 21st, 2019
Lucilius gets ready.


ZEN AND THE GOLDILOCKS FALLACY

April 20th, 2019
What do you think of your conditions? Does the way you look at your circumstances impact your ability to change those circumstances?


SUMMONING THE SPELL

April 19th, 2019
Do you have access to the core of the imagination's code?


INVISIBLE VISION

April 18th, 2019
Can you see the next evolution of your perspective?


ITCH

April 17th, 2019
Do you have one?


CURIOSITY'S TRIBUTE

April 16th, 2019
Are you paying the proper tribute? Or are you missing out on the goods?


NO DAYS OFF

April 15th, 2019
What don't you ever get a day off from?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: FOUNDATION

April 14th, 2019
Lucilius guides a friend to the beginning.


THE POWER HACK

April 13th, 2019
[POPULAR EPISODE] Are you hindering your own power?


JUST START

April 12th, 2019
Are you hung up imagining exactly what it will look like?


MONKEYS & TYPEWRITERS

April 11th, 2019
Do you have your monkey-mind trained on the right distractions?


HOURGLASS

April 10th, 2019
Do you see the grains falling?


BOTTLENECK

April 9th, 2019
Where is your life getting choked, where should you choke it?


PROCESS

April 8th, 2019
What's the Process? This episode is dedicated to @thewarrenwelsh


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: STEP ONE

April 7th, 2019
Lucilius takes a step


PERSONAL PROTOCOL

April 6th, 2019
Did you choose your protocols? Or were they snidely handed to you?


NOTHING IS FUNNY

April 5th, 2019
Do you need a good laugh? Does it really need a great joke?


PLANS & ROADMAPS

April 4th, 2019
Are your plans flexible? Or are they kept rigid by your emotional attachment?


VIRTUOUS MISTAKE

April 3rd, 2019
Are you afraid of making a mistake?


ORDER OF OPERATIONS

April 2nd, 2019
Are you doing things in the right order? Did you miss a step?


TRIGGERED

April 1st, 2019
Are you easily triggered? Should you avoid the battle or bathe in it?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ENTROPY SHARPENING

March 31st, 2019
Lucilius improves a tool by taking away from it.


IN OTHER WORDS

March 30th, 2019
Do the other words help?


HARD BOUNCE

March 29th, 2019
Can you do more than bounce back? Would it be any benefit to put the pedal to the metal righ before the crash?


PREDICTING THOUGHTS

March 28th, 2019
Do you know what your third thought tomorrow will be?


WHERE'S WALDO?

March 27th, 2019
Are you focusing on the right thing? Do you have the power to redirect your attention?


SOLEMN OPTIMIST

March 26th, 2019
Is your perspective balanced or just impotent?


CHERISH THE CHALLENGE

March 25th, 2019
[POPULAR EPISODE] Everyday, when you wake up, life is taunting you. How do you meet it? Life is a challenge. Do you cherish it?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: ARBITRARY DOMAIN PREFERENCE

March 24th, 2019
Lucilius uses the same strategy in different places.


PHONING THE VOID

March 23rd, 2019
How do you communicate with the source of inspiration?


THOUGHTFUL CHANCES

March 22nd, 2019
Is the next chance as random as the last?


DISCOVERING DETAILS

March 21st, 2019
What details are you missing?


OMNISPECTIVE

March 20th, 2019
Is there a better way to get a look at who you are? How many kinds of mirrors do you have to look in? Are you relying too much on the ubiqutous default?


DELIGHT IN DIFFICULTIES

March 19th, 2019
Are you actively trying to acquire realisitic superpowers?


DETRIMENT BENEFIT

March 18th, 2019
Is it always clear what is real harm and what just hurts?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: HYDRATION

March 17th, 2019
Lucilius appreciates a small posession that only gets better with age and battle.


CLEVER LOVE

March 16th, 2019
Is general advice phrased well for specific situations?


BIPEDAL PERSPECTIVE

March 15th, 2019
Is your perspective as agile as your movements?


FRUSTRATION FOCUS

March 14th, 2019
Do you find that over the years you've become more and more frustrated by smaller and smaller issues?


POWER & ENTITLEMENT

March 13th, 2019
Is that sense of entitlement helping? Do we recognize what real power we actually have?


PRESSURE PLAY

March 12th, 2019
Is it time to import that superpower from childhood?


TOOTHBRUSH

March 11th, 2019
Are you as consistent with working on your goals as you are with burshing your teeth?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: UNUSED LUGGAGE

March 10th, 2019
Lucilius sees all the signs pointing to the promised land, but finds it somewhere else.


DAYDREAMING ABOUT THE PRESENT

March 9th, 2019
Are you busy not enjoying the most enjoyable experience?


ENDURE INURE LIFE

March 8th, 2019
Is your ability to endure inured?


OBVIOUS NOVELTY

March 7th, 2019
Is the answer staring you in the face?


FAILURES OF COOPERATION

March 6th, 2019
What exactly is money? And what does it really mean to demand it back from someone, as in: Give me my money!


NUDGE

March 5th, 2019
Are drastic results only achieved through drastic changes and drastic efforts?


CONTROL

March 4th, 2019
[POPULAR EPISODE] What is control? How exactly do we implement it?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GOT THIS

March 3rd, 2019
Lucilius experiences a friendship unencumbered.


SLEEP ON SEND

March 2nd, 2019
Are you sure you should send that message?


SHARPENING STONE

March 1st, 2019
How do you use the uncomfortable obstacle of a counter-argument?


SEARCH AND DESTROY

February 28th, 2019
Can you run this program on simple chores?


BLURRY MIRROR

February 27th, 2019
Do you need some Windex?


TRICKSTER MISSILES

February 26th, 2019
Who is the real enemy in your life?


IT'LL BE FINE

February 25th, 2019
Are you numbing yourself from important information?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: BLINDED BY SIGHT

February 24th, 2019
Can you see beyond your own eyes?


SHOULD WE DRIVE

February 23rd, 2019
If you are driven, should you think about where you are going?


TREADING WATER

February 22nd, 2019
Do you feel like you are treading water?


EARLY DAYS

February 21st, 2019
Can you barter a new system with your own brain?


FAKE FORTUNE

February 20th, 2019
Is it possible to buy a hamburger from a cow?


HANGING THREAD

February 19th, 2019
Do you end the day with a trap laid for the person you'll be tomorrow?


EVEN KEEL

February 18th, 2019
How effective is your keel? Do you even have one?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: TRUCKING ALONG

February 17th, 2019
Lucilius thinks about how things come and go, and how we might change what comes by giving to what goes.


DERAILED

February 16th, 2019
Do you long after that good track you were on?


UNIQUE

February 15th, 2019
What is unique in today's day and age?


THE TRACTION OF WATER

February 14th, 2019
Are you slipping and sliding on potential?


DANCE LESSONS

February 13th, 2019
Can you do what they taught you?


ALLEGORY

February 12th, 2019
What does any given thing mean?


THE HUNT

February 11th, 2019
Are you capable of enjoying the time spent waiting in line?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: WISDOM OF THE MASSES

February 10th, 2019
Lucilius plays Yo-Yo with his life, building bi-directional feedback loops and figuring out how to turn one into the other by cutting them.


NON-ZERO DEED

February 9th, 2019
[POPULAR EPISODE] Do you feel punished by your deeds?


THE OBVIOUS CHOICE

February 8th, 2019
[POPULAR EPISODE] Is the obvious choice actually the best choice?


GET THIS AWAY

February 7th, 2019
How do you curate your life?


NATURE IS UNNATURAL

February 6th, 2019
What is unnatural?


BATHING ON A ROLL

February 5th, 2019
Are you on a roll?


DESTINATION: NOWHERE

February 4th, 2019
Do you have a destination in mind? Should you?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: TIME-OUT GAMER

February 3rd, 2019
Lucilius plays a game.


RIVALNYM

February 2nd, 2019
Synonym. Antonym. Rivalnym?


DON'T BE EVIL

February 1st, 2019
Are you doing the good thing?


HORMESIS

January 31st, 2019
Are you biting off more than you can chew?


THE TRICK

January 30th, 2019
Is it as hard as you think or is there a trick to it?


RUBBER DUCK

January 29th, 2019
Do you need someone or something to talk to?


SETTLING

January 28th, 2019
Are you settling?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: KEY OF COURAGE

January 27th, 2019
Courage finds Lucilius, or does Lucilius find courage?


ILLUSIVE VISION

January 26th, 2019
Are you seeing clearly?


PLAN ON NO PLANS

January 25th, 2019
Are your plans getting in your way?


STICKY FINGERS

January 24th, 2019
Is there such a thing as a mental utensil?


LOSE YOURSELF

January 23rd, 2019
Is your identity ever all that necessary for the task at hand?


BATTLE ROYALE

January 22nd, 2019
Are you unknowingly coddling your own inability? This episode was inspired by Andrew Ruiz, follow him on Twitter @then_there_was


(RE)SEARCH

January 21st, 2019
Are you searching for what's already been found?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: BLACK WOLF

January 20th, 2019
Lucilius meets one person and a different one leaves.


EVERYBODY IS RIGHT

January 19th, 2019
Is it productive to try and convince other people that they are wrong?


AXIOMATIC MISTAKE

January 18th, 2019
Are you running in the right direction? Is it time to look around?


CAUTIOUS TRAITOR

January 17th, 2019
Which master does caution serve?


SLINGSHOT

January 16th, 2019
If you feel like you're moving backwards, perhaps you should turn around and run with it?


LIGHTFOOT

January 15th, 2019
How heavy are your shoes?


CONCEPTUAL IMMUNE SYSTEM

January 14th, 2019
How do we keep our ideas healthy?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: IT HAPPENS

January 13th, 2019
Lucilius points out a double-standard.


SHUCKING EMOTIONS

January 12th, 2019
Do emotions have different parts that we can pick apart?


DROPPING THE BALL

January 11th, 2019
Did someone drop the ball?


FOCUSING THE SPIN

January 10th, 2019
What's spinning in your life?


BLAZING TRACKS

January 9th, 2019
[POPULAR EPISODE] Which track are you on? Should you jump, tuck and roll and strike out on your own?


IMPOSTOR SYNDROME

January 8th, 2019
Are you an impostor? If not... should you be?


STARVE FASTER

January 7th, 2019
How hungry are you? P.S. This episode was written on the 4th day of a fast.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: PERFECT PLAN

January 6th, 2019
Lucilius has a plan.


ZEROING IN ON ZENO

January 5th, 2019
Are you overshooting your destination?


IF YOU WILL

January 4th, 2019
How generous is your ear?


YOU HAVE A POINT

January 3rd, 2019
But do you need a sharper one?


TAKE A HIKE

January 2nd, 2019
Does your treadmill have you on a leash?


RE-SOLVE

January 1st, 2019
Are you applying the same incorrect solution to the same problem over and over and over?


DISTANCE FROM NEUTRAL

December 31st, 2018
How far away are you from a sense of calm and a sense of peace? How peaceful is the present moment?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: BETWEEN QUESTIONS

December 30th, 2018
Lucilius questions the answers to his questions.


FLOWERS & FRUIT

December 29th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Are you nurturing your efforts towards a larger expression?


CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

December 28th, 2018
Are you so eager to change direction that you forget to look around?


MENTAL TEETH

December 27th, 2018
Are you limited in the sorts problems you can chew on?


ARRIVAL SYNDROME

December 26th, 2018
Are you looking to arrive somewhere?


EVERYDAY IS A HOLIDAY

December 25th, 2018
Do you remember what has happened through the years on every uncelebrated day?


R&R

December 24th, 2018
Are you getting enough R&R?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: GAME OF AWARENESS

December 23rd, 2018
Lucilius wakes up from a dream


SPOTLIGHT REFLECTION

December 22nd, 2018
Can you pay attention to the root of your attention?


LANGUAGE

December 21st, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] What exactly is this thing that you speak and think?


FOOD FOR THOUGHT

December 20th, 2018
Are you biting off more than you can think about?


MENISCUS

December 19th, 2018
Are you blasting through helpful boundaries?


ATTENTION: IT'S A STRETCH

December 18th, 2018
How flexible is your mind?


YEARNING FOR THE GIFTS OF NOW

December 17th, 2018
What would you have done with the gifts of today?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: BELIEVE TO SEE

December 16th, 2018
Lucilius teaches someone to believe in order to see


BESIEGING IGNORANCE

December 15th, 2018
Do you lean into ignorance, or do you need to be pushed into it?


ROOTS

December 14th, 2018
Do minds grow as uniformily as our bodies?


MINIMUM VIABLE SUCCESS

December 13th, 2018
Are you biting off more than you can pleasurably chew?


RESOLUTION NOW

December 12th, 2018
Are you waiting to change?


SCHEDULING FAILURE

December 11th, 2018
How comfortable are you with failure?


SLIPPERY MENTAL TERRITORY

December 10th, 2018
Have you mapped out the sinkholes in your mind?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE BOUNCE

December 9th, 2018
Lucilius gets a powerful reminder from an innocent place.


FRACTAL MISTAKE

December 8th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Are you making the same mistake on every level of existence?


BUILDING BEGINNER'S LUCK

December 7th, 2018
Do you throw your hands up in defeat after your first attempt?


GAME OF ONE

December 6th, 2018
Which game are you playing?


CHIPPING THE COMPOSITE

December 5th, 2018
Do you have your hammer and chisel handy?


LAST LAUGH

December 4th, 2018
Are you going to laugh no matter what?


BULLET BUBBLEGUM

December 3rd, 2018
Do you have a bullet you need to bite?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: LAME GAME

December 2nd, 2018
Lucilius plays a non-zero sum game with a friend


5TH THOUGHT

December 1st, 2018
Is it possible to know the last sentence of this episode before reading it or listening to it?


WHAT IS A WORD?

November 30th, 2018
Can you understand a word without a definition?


ENERGY LEVELS

November 29th, 2018
How much energy do you have?


RACING, SCULPTING

November 28th, 2018
Is sculpting a race?


SECOND SHOT

November 27th, 2018
Would you like to know what you're going to say?


THE MISTAKE OF NO REGRETS

November 26th, 2018
Do you deny your regrets?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: REITERATION SIMULATION

November 25th, 2018
Lucilius gets a glimpse of the game


THE OPPOSITE OF A CONCLUSION

November 24th, 2018
Are you trapped in your head with bad ideas?


MONKEY WORK

November 23rd, 2018
Is the work boring?


COFFEE AND GENIES

November 22nd, 2018
Wish or work?


WILL IT

November 21st, 2018
When was the last time you 'willed' something into existence? Do you just wish for stuff in the mean time?


NEVER LOST

November 20th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Are you lost?


STAR GAZING

November 19th, 2018
Can you point out that star for me again?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: OBSTACLE HUNTER

November 18th, 2018
Lucilius decides to relcaim what is lost.


TAKE IT TO THE MIN

November 17th, 2018
How low can you go?


FAUX AUTEUR PHANTOM

November 16th, 2018
Do you author your next thought before thinking it?


UNUSED GIFT

November 15th, 2018
Are you just looking to feel good right now, or are you genuinely seeking a solution?


RELAY RACING AND THE THUMBTACK

November 14th, 2018
Is the monster chasing you trying to help?


SLIDING ECHO CHAMBERS

November 13th, 2018
Can you see outside of your own echo chamber?


THE NEGATIVE SPACE OF RIDDLES

November 12th, 2018
What is a better question?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SECOND GUESSING

November 11th, 2018
Lucilius is gifted with a fresh perspective on a second guess.


STATE CHANGE

November 10th, 2018
Does your (mental) state need to change? Can our mental state change because of our phsyical state?


INTO THE VOID

November 9th, 2018
Are you afraid to push your idea out into the world?


BAD DAY

November 8th, 2018
Are you having a bad day?


MARK OF A MISTAKE

November 7th, 2018
Are you making a mistake?


MISTAKES: QUANTITY VS. DURATION

November 6th, 2018
How many mistakes are you seeking to make? Would you rather make one big mistake or a bunch of small ones? Which is more likely to get you closer to your goals?


THE TINKER TWEAKING THIEF

November 5th, 2018
Are you trying to get rid of something that doesn't exist?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: LUCILIUS.EXE HAS STOPPED WORKING, SYSTEM FAILURE

November 4th, 2018
Lucilius goes on an infinite adventure.


HEAVE-TO

November 3rd, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] What's your strategy for surviving the storms of the mind?


VISIBILITY

November 2nd, 2018
How far can you see right now?


THINK AGAIN

November 1st, 2018
Did you think in the first place?


STRESSFUL SITUATION

October 31st, 2018
Will the real shady stress please stand up?


THE DOOR AND THE DARK STAIRCASE

October 30th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] What is the similarity between opportunities in life and horror movies? When one door closes, and another opens.... what exactly is behind that door?


THAT'S STRANGE

October 29th, 2018
Should we only expect the expected? Is the unexpected even imaginable?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: PEEK-A-BOO MAGIC

October 28th, 2018
Lucilius muses on how things arise in consciousness


PEBBLE OR SEED?

October 27th, 2018
Is that idea a pebble or a seed?


HEAD IN THE CLOUDS

October 26th, 2018
Where is your head?


TRANSACTION

October 25th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] How generous is your definition of 'transaction'?


ENDLESS LOOM

October 24th, 2018
Are you letting the work dictate when it's done?


GONE FISHING

October 23rd, 2018
Do you wait for fish to flop into your hands?


THAT PROMISING DUD

October 22nd, 2018
Should we always expect the spectacle?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: THE PRECIOUS WEAK LINK

October 21st, 2018
Lucilius discovers the power of intentional weakness.


CUSTOMIZING AUTOPILOT

October 20th, 2018
What is your Autopilot set to? This episode piggybacks off of Episode 44: Autopilot.


ALL OR NOTHING, OR NOTHING TO ALL?

October 19th, 2018
How should the all-or-nothing mindset be applied?


STUPIDITY WISDOM

October 18th, 2018
Is wisdom about being smart? or is wisdom about not being stupid?


IATROGENIC GASLIGHTING: ARE YOU OK?

October 17th, 2018
How many times should we ask?


WILL POWER

October 16th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] How much power is available for your will to use?


NO CHOICE

October 15th, 2018
Do you have a choice about what you did yesterday?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: A DATE WITH BELIEF

October 14th, 2018
Lucilius demonstrates the power of belief for a friend.


STABILITY

October 13th, 2018
How stable are you?


SHORT GAME LONG GAME

October 12th, 2018
How does your short game effect your long game?


WEATHER REPORT

October 11th, 2018
What are your chances of feeling good today?


PILOT HOLE

October 10th, 2018
What is the path of least resistance for new hopes, desires and habits?


MANIFEST EXAMPLE

October 9th, 2018
In your own life, who is the best example of what it means to be human?


KEEPING TALLY

October 8th, 2018
Do you keep tally on your friends?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: NIBBLE

October 7th, 2018
Lucilius slowly notices the slow process of big, slow work.


SANDCASTLES IN THE SURF

October 6th, 2018
How many times can you have your work washed away?


WISECRACK CANARY

October 5th, 2018
Can you still hear the joke?


ALWAYS WITH YOU

October 4th, 2018
Where does happiness exist?


INSPIRATION

October 3rd, 2018
What's your creative diet look like?


THE COMFORT SIGNAL

October 2nd, 2018
Are you getting soft?


PRACTICING INSANITY

October 1st, 2018
Is it insane to practice?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: CLEAVING THE DELUSION

September 30th, 2018
Lucilius comes across a cosmically sized example of something we all do.


SEEING THE BOOTSTRAP

September 29th, 2018
Do poor emotional associations keep you from seeing escape routes?


THE MESS

September 28th, 2018
Why do kids make a mess of everything?


SET SAIL

September 27th, 2018
Are you just drifting?


MOVING THE WHIRLPOOL

September 26th, 2018
How do you grab a whirlpool?


WHAT THE FOOL BELIEVES

September 25th, 2018
Who's the fool? What do you believe?


ON THE PLATE

September 24th, 2018
How much is on your plate? Did you get enough?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: INFINITE GAME

September 23rd, 2018
Lucilius visits an ailing friend.


CROOKED CROSSHAIRS

September 22nd, 2018
Is your aim calibrated?


HAMMER AND SCREW

September 21st, 2018
Are you using the wrong tool?


SHARPENING THE SENTINEL

September 20th, 2018
How will you guard yourself from entities that know you better and faster, and don't necessarily care about your well-being?


CONQUER OR CONCUR?

September 19th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Can you say the title of this episode 5 times really fast?


BEYOND VICTORY

September 18th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] How do we keep enemies closer?


ESTEEM

September 17th, 2018
What does it mean to have good self-esteem?


PROGRESS OR PERFECTION?

September 16th, 2018
Can we have an unhealthy relationship with a word?


QUOTES LIKE JOKES

September 15th, 2018
Jokes are mostly regurgitated, but what about quotes? Do we just regurgitate them, or do we hope they'll change who we are?


YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW

September 14th, 2018
How many different times exist?


SWEEP IT UNDER THE FEED

September 13th, 2018
What's under your social media feed?


PIVOT HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER

September 12th, 2018
How fast do you bounce back? A special shoutout to username Schmazo who brought up the cheetah connection on the Tinkered Thinking subreddit.


COCONUT

September 11th, 2018
Do you have your hand in a Coconut?


MILLION DOLLAR IDEA: DIAMOND OR SEED?

September 10th, 2018
Are ideas diamonds in the rough? Or seeds in a garden?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: PRODUCTIVE DELUSION

September 9th, 2018
Lucilius plays a trick on himself.


GET INTERESTING

September 8th, 2018
Are you interesting?


WHY ARE GAMES FUN?

September 7th, 2018
Can rules be a gift?


PURPOSEFUL IMBALANCE

September 6th, 2018
Is it bad to seek balance all the time?


FACES OF FAILURE

September 5th, 2018
How shall we greet failure?


JUST SHIP IT

September 4th, 2018
When should we set an idea free into the world?


THE SUBTLE ART OF THE BREAK

September 3rd, 2018
When should we take a break?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: WEIGHT OF QUESTIONS

September 2nd, 2018
Someone seeks out Lucilius for guidance.


REGRETTING CATEGORICAL MISTAKES

September 1st, 2018
Can we forget words?


CATEGORICAL AGENCY

August 31st, 2018
What happens when we create a word?


PEDANT

August 30th, 2018
Are you furthering the conversation productively? Or are you just being a pedantic brat?


CEO OF SELF

August 29th, 2018
Who runs the show? And who makes the show work?


THE CONDUCTOR'S ORCHESTRA

August 28th, 2018
Where do emotions come from?


VERSION

August 27th, 2018
How close is the world to our version of it?


THE RIGHT TRACK

August 26th, 2018
Could it be a mistake to think we are on the right track?


MENTAL-OPTICS

August 25th, 2018
Through how many lenses do we look at the world?


I COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDER

August 24th, 2018
Why do we wane nostalgic about foregone potential?


ONWARDS AND UPWARDS

August 23rd, 2018
Is it best to focus on direction or location?


POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE IS JUST FIRST GEAR

August 22nd, 2018
Is positive mental attitude all that's needed?


QUESTION

August 21st, 2018
What is a Question? . . . what a question. . .


ENDLESS WAYS

August 20th, 2018
Why don't we pick another way of thinking about it?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: UNINTENTIONALLY EARNED

August 19th, 2018
Lucilius pokes fun at a friend


RUT

August 18th, 2018
How do you get out of a rut?


REALIZATION

August 17th, 2018
Is there more than one kind of Realization?


MENTAL MAP

August 16th, 2018
Have you updated your map lately?


ENDURE

August 15th, 2018
How can we solve hate?


ITERATE

August 14th, 2018
How can we make the days Compound?


NEXT LEVEL

August 13th, 2018
How much 'next-level' stuff is there?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: NORMAL IS THE NEW CRAZY

August 12th, 2018
Lucilius treats the different as ordinary


GROW GILLS

August 11th, 2018
What tools can the brain acquire as it evolves?


THE CLEAVER

August 10th, 2018
How do we cut out a narrow perspective?


BREAKTHROUGH THE CLOUD COVER

August 9th, 2018
What exactly 'breaks' when we have a breakthrough?


BROKEN MOLD

August 8th, 2018
Did they break the mold, or did you?


HAWK AND THE HOUND

August 7th, 2018
What sense should we use to achieve our goals?


THE TUBE

August 6th, 2018
How do we look at the world, the people around us, and ourself?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: STUBBORNNESS

August 5th, 2018
Lucilius responds to a question about stubbornness.


THE LITTLE RED BUTTON

August 4th, 2018
Do you let people and circumstances push your buttons? Or do you push your own button?


BAD PATTERN

August 3rd, 2018
Do we find a pattern too fast?


COMMUNAL DREAM

August 2nd, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Where is the Past?


CHEAP THRILLS

August 1st, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] What are we wasting time on?


THE DISTRACTING TEST

July 31st, 2018
How shall we distract ourselves?


PANDORA'S SATELLITE

July 30th, 2018
How shall we look at any given subject?


OCCASION

July 29th, 2018
Where is the Occasion we need to rise up to?


PULL-STRING

July 28th, 2018
Do you have a pull-string with canned responses?


OPINION OR POV

July 27th, 2018
Do you have an Opinion or a Point of View?


FROM ZEUS' HEAD

July 26th, 2018
What's the process of translating ideas into real things?


RESPONSIBILITY

July 25th, 2018
What exactly is responsibility?


YET: A WAY OUT OF THE BOX

July 24th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Do we put ourselves in our own prisons without a way out?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: LET GO

July 23rd, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Lucilius learns how to have influence without control.


SAFE ASSUMPTION

July 22nd, 2018
Are there any safe assumptions?


HEADWAY

July 21st, 2018
How do we move forward?


THE GREATEST TEACHER

July 20th, 2018
Which teacher never fails to give us something to work with?


WHAT IS SACRED?

July 19th, 2018
What does sacred mean?


BAD NARRATIVE

July 18th, 2018
What bad stories do we live by?


THE GENERATOR

July 17th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] When are you generous?


FOCUS

July 16th, 2018
Is focus a state or an action?


FUEL UP?

July 15th, 2018
Do our bodies need more than mere fuel?


STIRRING YOUR ICED TEA

July 14th, 2018
Does Depression have something in common with stirring iced tea?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: WHIMS OF FATE

July 13th, 2018
Lucilius loses something dear to him.


TIGHTROPE

July 12th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] What forces are we balancing during every single moment?


WHEN TO REMEMBER

July 11th, 2018
When should we remember which thoughts?


FIGHTING FIRE

July 10th, 2018
When our thoughts are on fire, what does a fire extinguisher look like?


REACH OUT

July 9th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Who have you been meaning to reach out to?


PERPETUAL NEWBIE

July 8th, 2018
What is the best perspective to have in order to continually move forward?


MEMORY MUTABLE

July 7th, 2018
What exactly are we remembering?


THE COMPLAINT

July 6th, 2018
Why is it so easy to complain?


WALK AND TALKING

July 5th, 2018
Is there a benefit to walking other talks?


COMPOUND

July 4th, 2018
Can small successes fit together like Legos?


ROTTEN CHERRIES

July 3rd, 2018
Are we careless with the context?


INFERNAL PARKING METER

July 2nd, 2018
Do we always know how long it takes before we see results?


THE PROPER WAY TO FAIL

July 1st, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Can one fail poorly? Can one fail well? What exactly is failure?


UNLIKELY MENTORS

June 30th, 2018
Who should we admire? And why?


PLAN VS. HOPE

June 29th, 2018
Is it better to plan or hope?


NO RECIPE

June 28th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] What is the recipe for the undiscovered?


PLOW AHEAD

June 27th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] What happens to an obstacle when we 'plow' through it?


PERSEVERE VS. PIVOT

June 26th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Should we persevere or pivot?


WEAKEST LINK

June 25th, 2018
Are we best represented by a single chain link?


IBRAIN

June 24th, 2018
Which apps do you have installed in your brain?


TWO EYES

June 23rd, 2018
Why do we have two eyes?


TO UNDERSCORE OR ERASE?

June 22nd, 2018
What's our process look like for editing our mental map of the world?


SLIDING UP

June 21st, 2018
Do we give up when we find ourselves halfway up a slippery endeavour?


RATE OF CHANGE: NOT IN MY LIFETIME!

June 20th, 2018
Shall we expect the unexpected?


THE BRAIN GARDEN

June 19th, 2018
How can we visualize the growth of changes in the brain?


ROOTS OR ANCHORS

June 18th, 2018
Are those nostalgic roots more like shackles?


THE ETYMOLOGY OF FEAR

June 17th, 2018
What does the word 'fear' actually mean?


BEHAVIORAL STOCKHOLM SYNDROME

June 16th, 2018
Do we fall in love with our flaws?


THE SQUEEZE

June 15th, 2018
What are the two competing forces as we search for a solution?


ARCHITECT

June 14th, 2018
Who is the architect of our situation and our experience of that situation?


FREQUENCY

June 13th, 2018
How often?


THE TURTLE AND THE CAT

June 12th, 2018
What kind of animal lives in our head?


COMPASS

June 11th, 2018
What should we look to for direcition?


BORROWED DIRECTIONS

June 10th, 2018
What must we do first, before lending help?


WATER DROPS

June 9th, 2018
What can we learn from the consistency of water?


THE WELL-OILED ZOOM

June 8th, 2018
Should our perspective expand or narrow in?


THERE IS NO TRY

June 7th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] To try or to do?


RETROSPECT OBSTACLE

June 6th, 2018
Can we anticipate the narrative of our lives?


6 HOURS

June 5th, 2018
Where is our lost time?


NOT TOO BAD

June 4th, 2018
Does 'acceptable' exist on a spectrum?


CONFUSION OR CURIOSITY

June 3rd, 2018
What is Confusion?


COOK AND CRITIC

June 2nd, 2018
What can a Critic cook up?


CHILDISH RECURSION: THE WHY-SHOVEL

June 1st, 2018
What super power do children have that we could use more of?


BUSYNESS

May 31st, 2018
What is most important before getting busy with it?


TRAVEL

May 30th, 2018
How good is it for us to Travel?


AUTOPILOT

May 29th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Are we mindlessly reacting to everything?


SUNK-COST

May 28th, 2018
How can the Sunk-Cost phenomenon be used to our advantage?


LEVEL-UP

May 27th, 2018
Are we trained to expect that a better self will just happen?


COCKY

May 26th, 2018
Is confidence cocky?


A PRISON CELL NAMED COMFORT

May 25th, 2018
Are we undermined by the very comfort we seek?


THE RESOURCES

May 24th, 2018
What do we have to work with?


CONFIDENCE 2.0

May 23rd, 2018
What is confidence?


THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE ALWAYS WRITTEN AFTERWARDS

May 22nd, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] How do we discover the instructions to something that has none?


BREAKING IT DOWN

May 21st, 2018
How exactly do we convince ourselves?


YOU ARE NOT ALL OF YOU

May 20th, 2018
Is there an aspect about our brains that requires us to try and hack ourselves?


WIGGLE

May 19th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] How do small easy moves add up?


ROSE-COLORED CUFFS

May 18th, 2018
Do loved ones unintentionally hold us back from becoming better?


REAR-VIEW

May 17th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] How often do you think about the past?


PILLS, THERAPISTS AND THE IKEA EFFECT

May 16th, 2018
Who is our most powerful mental health doctor?


THE ONLY TOOL

May 15th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] All of us wield the most powerful tool in the world.


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: CHANGE OF SCENERY

May 14th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Lucilius is thrust into a new situation.


THE SELFISH PARADOX

May 13th, 2018
How should we prioritize the needs of others against the needs of ourself?


TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT, MANY DO

May 12th, 2018
How many times must we be wrong before we give up on being right?


ME-TIME

May 11th, 2018
When exactly does Me-Time occur?


PREACHER VS. TEACHER VS. PARTY-MAKER

May 10th, 2018
What posture is best when we wish to attract change in others?


HOPE GROWS FOOLISH WITH NO DOING

May 9th, 2018
How do hopes and dreams sour?


PAUSE

May 8th, 2018
What's the first step to thinking?


DID YOU NOTICE A DIFFERENCE?

May 7th, 2018
Why do we ask for feedback when there's no feedback to give?


THE MONTAGE IS FALSE

May 6th, 2018
Social Media certainly affects us in ways we don't fully control, but what about movies?


REVERSE ENGINEERING

May 5th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] How do we figure out ourselves and how do we figure out how to change what we find?


THE RIGHT QUESTION

May 4th, 2018
Do we stick to a line of questioning because it's the best or because we simply like it?


FLUID IDENTITY

May 3rd, 2018
Do we typecast ourselves?


THE IDENTITY DANGER

May 2nd, 2018
Are the things we identify with a danger to us?


SELECTING THE SOLUTION

May 1st, 2018
Of all the solutions, which to choose?


FIREBOMB YOUR LIFE

April 30th, 2018
What should we do when things are bad?


SAMPLE ALL THE KOOL-AIDES

April 29th, 2018
What is eclectic learning?


LIGHTNING AND TREES

April 28th, 2018
Can we learn the same thing from something as mundane as a tree and something as spectacular as lightning?


NATURAL SPRING

April 27th, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] How do we see our good habits and how do we see our bad habits?


THE FAILED DANCE OF THE KNOW-IT-ALL AND THE PERIWINKLE

April 26th, 2018
Is there anything else we can learn from the Know-It-All?


PRIORITIES

April 25th, 2018
How are priorities best defined?


ALAZIA

April 24th, 2018
How can we change our fear?


TINY STEPS AND LEAPS

April 23rd, 2018
What steps do we take to make progress?


A LUCILIUS PARABLE: SOARING DREAMS

April 22nd, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Lucilius comes across someone who is determined to make their dreams come true.


WHAT'S YOUR PASSION?

April 21st, 2018
[POPULAR EPISODE] Is the hunt for one's own passion even a good idea?


INCUBATION

April 20th, 2018
Where is a realization right before it happens?


CLENCHED FISTS CLIMB NO WALLS

April 19th, 2018
How should we get a grip of ourselves when confronted with an obstacle?


DETERMINED VS. STUBBORN

April 18th, 2018
Are we determined or stubborn?


BUILT-IN LIFERAFT: THE A.N.S.

April 17th, 2018
What is the one gift we all carry around?


INTRODUCTION

April 16th, 2018
Introduction to Tinkered Thinking