The Power of Alone
Brooks Kubik is an intelligent contributor to the Iron Game. He offers a daily email newsletter that covers what’s going on with him as well as his thoughts on training.
Great Quotes
Take my spirit in better shape then when you gave it…
Letter to a friend: ***, There’s nothing I have experienced that’s anything like being on a stormy ocean on a small boat, out of reach of all mankind, reliant totally upon self and the fickleness of the sea gods. Not all the nations in the world with all their resources can do anything to affect the …
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A toast…
To stormy nights, cold mountains, the wine-dark sea, and smoky campfires. We are a different breed.
“Come on in, no one ever comes here”
This from a former client of Lee’s: A fellow pilot and friend Robert Gannon just finished a 10-year exploration of the world in his Cessna 182, crossing major oceans. What he says is true: “The one thing I have observed [about flying a private airplane around the world twice over a 10 year period] is that if …
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Great read, love this quote: A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as “state” and “society” and “government” have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame… as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human …
shadow divers quote
****, excellent recommendation. Just read these lines from Chatterton’s experience as a medic walking point in Vietnam. They ring true with my own limited experience. Dig it. ‑If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. ‑If you follow in another’s footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. ‑Excellence is born of …
more of the same
“7. You’re pretty hard on the activists, aren’t you? Well, I’m tired of people projecting their fantasies onto me. If you want to be wise and benevolent, that’s fine, providing that you do it for real and not as an exercise in self-delusion. Go make the world a better place in your immediate vicinity, with …
Rules are largely a distraction
“The other thing that bugs me about the welfare groups is that they think that keeping livestock can be reduced to geometry. They like to write rules that hens need a certain amount of perch space, some number of square feet of floor space, and so on. (It reminds me of the incredibly lame propaganda …
reading Sir Albert Howard
Gents, Sir Albert Howard is the father of the organic gardening movement. The Soil and Health is worth the read if you ever get into gardening. Simple and in-depth, this is a man who delved deeply into many subjects to understand the unified concept of growth and life on earth. Awesome. “The main characteristic of …
an educated man
Dude, I could have sworn I sent this to you already, but I can’t find it in any of my “sent” emails, so.. “Whom then, do I call educated, since I exclude the arts and sciences and specialties? First, those who manage well the circumstances which they encounter day by day, and who possess a …