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“I've started spending less and it feels like freedom.”
Financial restraint is one of the most concrete ways to live within bounds. When you spend less than you earn, you build room, for choices, for calm, for resilience. That feeling of freedom is the bounds working for you.
Your Practice
Track the gap between what you earn and what you spend this month, even roughly. Then identify one recurring expense you cut and name what you gained from cutting it. Use that to guide the next decision.
The Architects
“Suffering is a perfectly natural part of getting a neural network to work well, but it can be mitigated by being thorough, defensive, paranoid, and obsessed with visualizations of basically every possible thing.”
Andrej Karpathy, "A Recipe for Training Neural Networks", karpathy.github.io blog, April 25, 2019