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See life at a different resolution. Experiments in time, energy & mastery. The objective is fidelity to reality.

Images carry thoughts farther

I art-direct what I publish. The photograph stops the scroll. The idea shifts the category.

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#3Energy Physics, not psychology, directs human behavior. Why persuasion is energy allocation, and how to translate your objective into someone else’s value hierarchy.

Carina holding a wooden staff outdoors

#2Settling I left the school two days in because of the data. What the experiment revealed about reality, energy allocation, and the intrinsic cost of settling.

Carina in a kneeling lunge with a longsword

#1Shaolin Six hours a day of Shaolin training in rural China while building an investment bank. An experiment in constraint, energy allocation and mastery.

My LinkedIn post: I have something to break your mind — 18K impressions556 reactions235 comments

My LinkedIn post: You are being RUDE without realizing it. — 73K impressions691 reactions586 comments

My LinkedIn post holding a can of Liquid Death — 197K impressions619 reactions227 comments

My LinkedIn post: I have a mantra l live by: — 16K impressions314 reactions153 comments

My LinkedIn post: The Stoics already got it right 2000 years ago and you? — 37K impressions631 reactions232 comments

My LinkedIn post: I engineered my life so people DON'T speak to me. — 63K impressions651 reactions329 comments

My LinkedIn post: Do you want to learn how to persuade people? — 23K impressions267 reactions111 comments

My LinkedIn post: The other day someone asked me what I do at night — 72K impressions553 reactions227 comments

My LinkedIn post: I train like an athlete. — 44K impressions474 reactions216 comments

My LinkedIn post: I am 6'3" and tower over men — 104K impressions596 reactions356 comments

My LinkedIn post: For the next couple of months I am learning to be a Viking — 67K impressions668 reactions252 comments

My LinkedIn post: When I turned 30 l decided I would reverse age — 41K impressions422 reactions253 comments

My LinkedIn post: How to lose my respect on LinkedIn in less than 10 seconds — 76K impressions405 reactions445 comments

My LinkedIn post: I have been running psychological experiments on you — 28K impressions719 reactions256 comments

My LinkedIn post: Jedis are wet blankets — 11.9K impressions453 reactions188 comments

My LinkedIn post: If natural selection was still in play, — 13K impressions292 reactions220 comments

My LinkedIn post: I just declined an all-expenses-paid trip to a yacht in Greece. — 51K impressions618 reactions263 comments

My LinkedIn post: This is the day. — 19K impressions282 reactions188 comments

My LinkedIn post: LinkedinI need your help! — 8.2K impressions385 reactions155 comments

My LinkedIn post: As you read this, I'm on my way to live with warrior monks in rural China. — 11K impressions415 reactions154 comments

My LinkedIn post: I'm Brazilian and I want Norway to win the World Cup — 25K impressions486 reactions241 comments

My LinkedIn post: I am 35. Single. Focused on building my Empire. — 45K impressions445 reactions305 comments

My LinkedIn post: For 2.5 years I have been homeless — 63K impressions394 reactions393 comments

My LinkedIn post: lam a man Or apparently that is what I am being told. — 12K impressions618 reactions246 comments

My LinkedIn post: At 12, I taught myself how to code and was selling websites to US businesses from my grand — 21K impressions285 reactions174 comments

My LinkedIn post: lam a woman And I don't believe in investing in female founders — 51K impressions596 reactions262 comments

My LinkedIn post: By age 4,I had already survived medical experiments. — 56K impressions449 reactions164 comments

My LinkedIn post: TRIGGER WARNING. At 16 I tried to k!ll myself. — 76K impressions1090 reactions511 comments

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