Deep Green Crystals
Martin Tobias red pill pusher
This place is no longer about the first mountain of the ego. I am heading up the second mountain, and this is where I keep my meditations — reminders of the important things on the journey. I write them for myself. If you find them useful, you are welcome.
2023
2022
2021
2020
- A Nerd in a Football School
- Karma is real
- Reframing a guiding principle today.
- Finding out about ROAM
- My Angel Investment funnel
- My Meta Investment Themes
- Remember Martin: There is nothing to believe
- How I decide on Angel Investments
- How much money should I raise?
- Glossary: Assume
- Remember Martin: The problem is often not the problem.
- Values trump goals
- Remember Martin: Fight for understanding not the win.
- I can't find my keys
- Glossary: Consolidation
- Remember Martin: Be the Red thread
- New Research project: Send me your problem statements
- DO THIS: Practice resets the default mode
- Glossary: Idiopathic
- TEDFAV: Play through life
- Send me your problem worksheets
- Turning Disaster into Adventure
- Glossary: Philosophy
- Think.👍 <> Worry.👎
- TEDFAV: Steve Jobs commencement address
- DO THIS: Next Right Action worksheet.
- Journey + Disaster = Adventure
- Take the Red Pill
- DO THIS: The upside of Regret
- The day the Tooth Fairy (almost) died
- Remember Martin: Regret isn't a good look on you
- DO THIS: Don't be a "Meditator"
- Remember Martin: Science is an Analogy.
- Glossary: Hypomnemata
- Remember Martin: Least Recently Used Rule for buffer overflow
- Seed Crystal: what is it?
- BP Flourishing Scale
- Measure and understand you Eudaimonic Well Being
- Remember this Martin: the conclusion of Walden is Stoic
2019
- Remember Martin: love the suck
- Remember Martin: Ask open-ended questions
- Remember Martin: Be wary of spectacle
- DO THIS: Upgrade your brain function
- DO THIS: read “A calendar of daily wisdom” from Tolstoy
- DO THIS: Best public speaking advice I have received
- DO THIS: Test your health age (I am 37 vs 55 biological)
- As this about any investment you are considering making...
- DO THIS: Use failure as a "reset" time
- DO THIS: Apply First Principles Thinking to your Health and Fitness
- The Path to true Happiness, through stuff
- DO THIS: Check your vulnerability to primacy effect
- Martin on Zestology podcast!
- Martin on Mindset Podcast
- TED FAV: exercise and the brain
- New head shots !
- DO THIS: Pay attention to the Stories
- DO THIS: One and One
2018
- My character strengths
- The Stoics understood Quantum Physics and the Universal Field
- Answer the moral machine honestly
- DO THIS: understand your metabolic state
- Martin talks to David on Data Driven Health Radio
- DO THIS: Watch this video
- Martin talks to TA McCann about how to live to 200
- Martin talks to BBC about Labs and longevity
- DO THIS: Stoic tasks to fill the time
- DO THIS: Remember purpose
- DO THIS: Remember the impermanence of even MASSIVE investments
- TEDFAV: Teach girls bravery not perfection...
- DO THIS: Rules for Sons...
- DO THIS: Increase your NAD levels
- REVIEW: Feel Good, the CBT bible from Dr. David Burns
- Archive: From Bits to Barrels, my transition from tech to renewable energy way back in 2005
- DO THIS: 12 themes to prompt your journaling
- DO THIS: Return from the body to the mind as soon as possible...
- Do This: Turn words into works
2017
- DO THIS: Replace “but” with “and...so”.
- DO THIS: Contemplate your choices
- DO THIS: Transcend you "emotional ledger"
- DO THIS: Remember success is up to individual not the class
- DO THIS: don't have that drink to "sleep".
- DO This: The Coin and Pen challenge (for your kids)
- Do This: Find your Bulletproof Baseline (six new assessments)
- BP Labs Happiness Assessment
- BP Labs Brief Resilience Scale
- BP Labs Subjective Vitality Scale
- BP Labs Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale
- BP Labs Emotional Intelligence Questionaire
- DO This: set a timer.
- Do This: be a philosopher and discover real life solutions
- TedFav: The Pope's TED talk last week
- Do This: clear up chronic sinusitis by dealing with the root cause: inflammation
- Do This: ask these questions of your attachments (things you think are "you" or you can't live without)
- Do this: don't hand over control of your mind, protect it like your body
- TEDFAV: Are we really in charge of our decisions?
- TED FAV: This is Water by David Foster Wallace
- TED FAV: It starts with WHY?
- DO THIS: Morning Pages Hacks
- What do Stoics and Addicts have in common?
- DO THIS: Journal Prompts (Exercise)
- Wake up
- DO THIS: Plan your intentions for major decisions each day (Exercise)
- DO THIS: How to make Decisions
- Glossary: Prohairesis, rational choice
- DO THIS: Question everything you are carrying through life (exercise)
- Do This: Do Not stay on top of everything
- DO THIS: Be tolerant of others and strict with yourself.
- DO THIS: Be kind to your older self (exercise)
- DO THIS: Contemplate the impermanence of things (exercise).
- What is this place?
- TEDFAV: Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
- DO THIS: 30 days of Thank You
2016
- REVIEW: Not Fade Away, Peter Barton
- DO THIS: Build your Agency skills
- Glossary: Agency
- Glossary: Cognitive Reframing
- TEDFAV: How positive psychology has reversed how we "get" happiness, now you actually can
- TEDFAV: Matthieu Ricard on Happieness
- TEDFAV: Andy from Headspace on mindfulness
- TEDFAV: Eckart Tolle on meditation
- TEDFAV: Talk to your kids about food
- TEDFAV: Everything you think about addiction is wrong
- Pilosophy is for everyone, every day.
- Attachments are the enemy...
- Martin speaks at Seattle Start Up Week
- DO This: Examine a minor fear with data and contemplation
- DO This: Rid your vocabulary of Weasel Words
- DO THIS: Stop Multitasking (Pro Tip: there is no such thing)
- DO This: 15 Minutes of Honesty re: goals/action alignment
- REVIEW: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition
- Review: The Valkyries: Paulo Coelho
- DO This: Morning Pages
- Review: The Alchemist, Paulo Coehlo
- Review: The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
- DO This: 10 minutes of REAL conversation
- DGC Glossary: Gainfully Unemployed
- Glossary: Non-energetic joy
- DO this: Trade your expectations for appreciation.
- DO This: Your Character Strengths Revealed!
- DO This: 5 step Life Purpose Statement Generator!
- Review: Tribe, by Sebastian Junger
- Glossary: Why I have a Glossary
- Further Future PTSD
- Review: Life on Purpose, Victor Strecher
- DO This: Recover your Grit
- The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Watson et al., 1988)
- Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS)
- Why Upgraded Self Assessment Questionnaires are important
- DO This: My favorite quotes on living well
- Measure and Understand Your Resilience
- Disclosure: No warranty
- Glossary: Purpose
- DO This: How I prepare for conflict situations
- DO this: Breath exercises + Cold shower = improved immune response and more GRIT
- Why I am developing/testing self assessment and analysis tools
- Get my favorite Life Hacks delivered in email
- A step along the path of life: The new car on your 16th birthday
- Measure and Understand Your Grit
- DO This: Practice beating fear and facing the flinch.
- Some thoughts on "enough".