Dondon Developments

2026 Week 43 Summary

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  • I want to start having a weekly gathering/meeting/hangout session
    • I feel like this is something that I have heard about Benjamin Franklin doing where it’s sort of like a club or something
    • People show up and present topics of interest or essays or inventions or art or whatever
    • Essentially, you just show up and either participate as an audience member or a presenter
    • drinks + snacks
    • Present something – anything – to the rest of the group
  • Buy a new monitor
  • Panantukan!
    • I want to train all of the time now
    • I might start going to Master Leks down the street
    • Also maybe talk to A about 1-on-1 sessions
  • Refine panantukan lesson for this Sunday
  • I FUCKING LOVE INDEX CARDS!
    • Transient pieces of writing are amazing and I wish I would have started doing that sooner
    • I am so happy I started writing
    • I thought it might take away from my long-form writing but I think it has actually been helping me to just write even more
  • The current state of the world is really bumming me the fuck out
    • Like a lot
    • I do not think it will be good after the midterms
    • But I am very looking forward to the midterms being over because fuck this
  • youtube makes more money when you are sad and angry
    • expect it to make you sad and angry
    • use your rss feed as a filter, add subscriptions, and STOP going to the actual site
    • addiction, in all of it’s shitty forms, sucks
  • Quiet time in the morning is awesome
  • Acrobatics!
    • I got a new exercise course
    • I do not anticipate being a full-fledged acrobat
    • I DO think it is gonna be some good mobility work though
    • I want bigger shoulders!
    • I want to be able to move around like the Night Fox in Oceans 12
      • It kind of bums me out that I used Oceans 12 as a reference point
      • I like heist movies even if they suck
      • Loud and proud
  • Write in more places for more reasons
    • write anywhere, anytime
  • stop pursuing being in control
    • you never are anyway
    • this is a huge emotional trigger for you
    • learn to get over this and a lot of the anger will go away
  • your emotional control gets weaker every time you let things annoy you to the point that you act like an asshole
    • be like Derek in Shrinking
    • it is so much more important to be nice than to be in control
    • let shit happen the wrong way
    • the world will not explode – at least not because of any of your shit

“If they fire together, they wire together” - some brain doctor

  • I need to find a way to train martial arts to some degree that is not dependent on anyone else
    • go back to Ronin or go to Master Lek
    • I think that is really the only option
    • who else is gonna do it?
    • or just leave your house and go hang out with your frenz, you dolt