Date: 2025-07-11
AO: delphi
Q: Nano
PAX: Atlas, Roddick, Pop Fly, Peanuts, Flapjack, Todd Cole (Norm), NOAA, Part-Time, Crop Duster, Rocket FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: SSH, Willy Mayes Haze, arm circles, Cherry pickers, WGS
THE THANG:
Round 1: Starting at the basketball court the PAX warmed up their legs is a round of monkey humper/calf raises 11’s.
Round 2: The PAX moseyed over to the tennis courts for a round of 11’s: Tyson Merkins and burpees!
Round 3: Plank Up The Hill, Ricky-Bobby with the last man running to the front and doing a plank.
MARY: big boy sit-ups, Sharron Stones, Flutter Kicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: June 1st convergence! June 7-9 Dad’s Camp, June 17th Farewell to our Departing Military Leaders.
COT: I came across the maxim: “Reality is undefeated,” and thought it was a very profound statement. It means that no belief, ideology, hope, or denial has ever altered the course of what actually happens. You can ignore gravity, but you will still fall. You can reject evidence, but the consequences will still unfold. Every failed theory, collapsed system, or broken plan is not a failure of reality—it’s a failure to model it accurately. Reality doesn’t yield to consensus or emotion; it doesn’t care about fairness, intention, or ambition. It simply persists, absolute and unbroken. In every contest between what is imagined and what actually is, reality wins—not because it fights, but because it is. To live effectively is not to resist reality but to recognize its terms and operate within them. You can deny it, argue with it, or try to outsmart it—but in the end, reality remains undefeated.
To pursue a vision when its feasibility is uncertain, the key is to try to treat reality as an adversary worth respecting but not fearing. The process requires iteration between vision and verification, with the understanding that reality is undefeated but not uncooperative. Here’s how to make it happen:
– Anchor the Vision, Loosen the Path
• Keep your vision fixed—what you’re aiming for—but stay flexible about how to get there. • Treat failure not as a verdict, but as feedback from reality’s filter.
– Probe Reality, Don’t Presume It
• Break the vision into falsifiable hypotheses and test them.
• Look for hard constraints (what is physically or economically impossible) vs. soft constraints (what is currently unproven, expensive, or unpopular).
– Accept that Ambiguity Is Normal
• If your vision is truly novel, uncertainty is the default state.
• The absence of proof is not proof of impossibility—but it is a demand for experimentation.
– Adopt Evolutionary Progress
• Try many versions, kill weak ones, and scale what survives.
• Treat the world like a fitness landscape: local failures help you find higher ground.
– Use Reality as a Collaborator, Not an Enemy
• Each constraint reveals the shape of the world. Use that shape to refine your tools. • Don’t fight reality—exploit it. Find leverage points others overlook.
– Refuse Delusion, Retain Drive
• Don’t confuse perseverance with denial.
• Stay committed, but adjust your model of the world as feedback accumulates.
– Remember: Vision is hypothesis, not law
• Just because you want something doesn’t mean it’s possible.
• But everything that exists now once lived in the zone of “not clearly possible.”
Tags: delphi, Atlas, Roddick, Pop Fly, Peanuts, Flapjack, Todd Cole (Norm), NOAA, Part-Time, Crop Duster, Rocket
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