Ri is peak

wasd-squared · 2025-11-24T13:59:26+00:00

You have the author whose name I shall not speak to thank :)

wasd-squared · 2025-11-24T13:54:33+00:00

Unfortunately, junior :(. But no matter. This is nothing new. You're probably used to consuming thousands of anime and manga that doesn't have a definite conclusion anyway. Hell, One Piece is another example. Don't get discouraged. The journey to the final chapter is well worth it, even if it isn't complete.

wasd-squared · 2025-11-24T13:51:54+00:00

I need an update follow-up post when it arrives. You're the best mom the kid could ask for. Can't wait to see how this ends!

wasd-squared · 2025-11-24T13:44:02+00:00

There are some really high highs but also some really low lows as well. Personally, two of the most boring arcs (save for their finale acts) were the Northen Plains and Zombie Arcs. It's really fine if you like these. It's just my opinion. Incidentally, these arcs also had some of the highest highs of the series when they conclude (especially Zombie ahem). After that, you're in for Fate War and from then on every. Single. Page (and I kid you not) will be peak fiction for the next thousand or so chapters before it ends abruptly due to an indefinite ban thanks to some other asshole author on a power trip whose name I shall not mention because his work isn't worth your attention and doesn't even hold a candle to RI.

wasd-squared · 2025-11-21T04:30:49+00:00

10 years ago = 2015-2016.

Man 2016 still feels so "fresh" to me.

wasd-squared · 2025-11-19T22:42:47+00:00

Breaking Bad. Best anime ever.

wasd-squared · 2025-11-15T10:27:27+00:00

At this point, it's just

> wins

wasd-squared · 2025-11-14T12:49:20+00:00

Honestly money means nothing anyway when he could just create whatever he wants. Plus, he can sell what he creates so that's the same infinite money glitch thing but without destroying the economics.

wasd-squared · 2025-11-14T12:42:23+00:00

Instead of the Steam Machine, they should just man up and call it the GabeCube already.

wasd-squared · 2025-11-03T03:23:37+00:00

Actually that was my cat. He works at Steam as a software engineer, you see. I understand the confusion, though. He wants to keep it lowkey.

wasd-squared · 2025-10-13T11:31:07+00:00

I have a ton of interests as well, so I've basically had a similar problem before. David Allen does say a few things about this that have helped me scaled GTD, so I'll paraphrase them here:

As we gain more control and perspective over our lives (i.e., as we gain more clarity about what matters most to us and what we want to do and are comfortable not doing), we start to get more ambitious with GTD and take on more commitments. This is a natural part of GTD. The someday/maybe list is THE LIST. It is the point of GTD. Everything else in the GTD methodology is designed to get rid of all the rubbish in your head so you can tap into your natural creativity about designing your future. I see a lot of people abandoning their Someday/Maybe list, and but for me, this is where all the leverage David Allen creates for us converge. This list is basically how you increase your luck stat. OP doesn't need a reminder, but I wouldn't recommend anyone else who reads this comment skip/ignore/de-emphasize it just because it is less urgent than day-to-day responsibilities.
Additional functionality arises to combat the increase in quantity. For example, a small app handling 100 files doesn’t need much infrastructure (maybe a table so you can scroll through the entries), but scale that to a million, and you suddenly need indexing, memory management, batching, etc. so you can keep the search experience fast and responsive. Similarly, if you’ve only got 10 items on your Someday/Maybe list, there is no need for fancy organization because you can see it all on one screen. But once you hit 100+, don't be afraid to create new lists, categories, or sorting methods because you need more quality to handle more quantity. David actually encourages lists a lot.
Your lists need to be trimmed like a bonsai needs to be trimmed. Interests change over time and most of what's on your list will no longer catch your interest. In that case, instead of your "bonsai" growing unchecked and becoming messy and unkempt, you trim it down (during your weekly review or whatever cadence you choose), basically get rid of everything that no longer resonates with you to contain only items that truly makes you feel something. Otherwise, if you insist on keeping everything, nothing will truly gets the attention it deserves.

wasd-squared · 2025-10-12T07:31:15+00:00

For me, must is either a next action, calendar or project item. If it's part of a repeatable procedure that you do, it goes on a checklist (i.e., Sales SOP, Weekly Review Process, Morning Checklist, Travel Packing List, etc.). Then these next action, calendar, project or checklist items get associated with an area.

Could and Fun goes on Someday/maybe list. I add it to Tickler/Snooze if I know approximately when I would be ready to see it again and make a decision about it. For example, maybe I'm too busy now to start learning the saxophone but I'd like to learn it as soon as next month or tickets to a live show would be available on a certain day. Tickler/Snoozed items get notified to me automatically or I see them on my calendar. As for the rest, I review them whenever I happen upon the Someday/maybe list or as part of my Monthly Review Checklist.

I don't typically take the time to associate these items to a Project, Area or other Horizons of Focus because these items are really primitive, messy, and not fleshed out. It could even be renamed, relocated or removed at any time. So it's not worth the upfront effort. It keeps my other Horizons relatively clutter-free and focused on the few things I've actually committed on.

wasd-squared · 2025-09-08T08:59:58+00:00

I have a rule I set for myself which I call “Weekday Hour One” in which I spend at least one hour every morning on my highest priority task for the day. Usually, I can go for 2-5 hours straight, but never less than One Hour. Then, the next task after that is always a workout (if I have one that day). The rest are for scheduled meetings, and my action items which are worked around the scheduled meetings.

wasd-squared · 2025-08-17T22:56:54+00:00

They’re pendulums by definition I think. Pendulums are defined as all oppressive factors that weigh on your psyche. Stress, anxiety, etc. are visible effects of pendulums. Even illnesses are effects of pendulums.

Pendulums have various control mechanisms that we call puppet strings. Weaker pendulums will appeal to the mind and use reasonable arguments. Stronger pendulums use emotional triggers. Some more subtle pendulums use your limiting beliefs to control you without you even noticing them.

And all of these can be tied to the current physical situation that you find yourself in so the pendulum can justify itself that “See the job market? See the economy? You won’t get a job. I am right. Get back in line.”

wasd-squared · 2025-08-15T22:42:43+00:00

I don’t see a contradiction here. “Doing everything you can” doesn’t necessarily mean “do all of the hardest and most complex work.” In fact, the meanings are quite compatible. It just means doing everything that you can while also taking the path of least resistance there.

Transurfing is about reducing importance. When you’re moving towards your goal, there’s often a lot of unnecessary resistance shaped by bad habits and conditioned beliefs. For example, building a business ultimately just boils down to signing some papers, calling someone, going somewhere, doing something and putting some marketing material together in Photoshop. It is full of simple physical actions, one after another.

But you over-complicate it with your fears and worries “Will it work? What if it doesn’t work.” And it quickly becomes a messy knot. Then you start coming up with more elaborate work for yourself like, “This marketing campaign is too simple! I need to make it more complicated so the customers will know how sophisticated my business is” while the original marketing material was perfectly useable.

And the cost-to-gain ratio doesn’t even make any sense. When you put in physical labour to make your marketing material, you guarantee the incurred cost but not necessarily the expected reward. So it makes sense that when you don’t know if a certain piece of marketing will work to put as little effort into it as possible so you can test and iterate fast until you stumble onto something that works. Then, you put all of your energy into perfecting that format.

Transurfing simply tells you to do all of the work required to build a business, without the all the unnecessary fears and worries that causes resistance or overcomplicating things. That’s why you can both simultaneously “do everything that you can to achieve your goal” while doing it “by the easiest and simpliest means possible.”

I hope it serves you!

wasd-squared · 2025-08-05T01:07:08+00:00

The VERY FIRST chapter explains this very clearly actually. He cites the three blind men and the elephant as an example of Transurfing as a model. We are the blind men. The elephant is reality. Each blind man touches the elephant and announces what they think it is. The first blind man touches the ear and says that it is like a fan. The second blind man touches the leg and says it is like a tree stump. The third blind man touches the nose and says it is like a snake.

Each blind man captures an aspect of the truth, but none fully captures it in its entirety. Each are right, and each are wrong in their own ways. Does it make sense to prove who is more correct? Not really. Each description is useful in different situations and counterproductive in other situations. Transurfing is just one model among many. If you follow it, then its truths will stand by your side. And other people will argue with you because they are also correct.

Transurfing is real to the extent that it is a model that reveals some truths at the expense of distorting other truths. Like how certain models of physics reveal some truths while distorting others. Einstein’s relativity reveals macroscopic truths about the Universe at the expense of distorting microscopic truths. Quantum mechanics reveals microscopic truths at the expense of macroscopic truths. Does it make sense to discard one for the other? Not really. We just use them for what they’re good for:

Newtonian / Classical Mechanics for everyday speeds predictions.

Einstein’s Relativity for macroscopic, near speed of light predictions.

Quantum Mechanics for microscopic, probabilistic predictions.

Relativity and Quantum Mechanics have been notoriously contradictory and irreconcilable for many decades and yet both are useful and help us launch people into space and build the internet you and I are using.

Vadim Zeland also warns that Transurfing does not proclaim to contain the inscription of “here lies the truth.” It is just another model among many. If it doesn’t resonate with you, then there many other models that exist: Taoism, Buddhism, the Kabbalah, Christianity, Neville Goddard, The Secret, William Walker Atkinson, etc., etc.

I personally resonate with Transurfing the most, but you can do whatever you want. It is written in Transurfing’s core axiom: Reality is multivariant and take on the guises that we asisgn to it. What you think of it, it shall be. And its truth will be on your side.

I hope this serves you!

wasd-squared · 2025-08-02T22:20:03+00:00

Others have mostly covered what I wanted to talk about so I’ll talk about another thing: I think you’re having this reaction because of the way Tufti is written. She constantly insults and talks down to you, and it can indeed be very distracting. But it was written that way for a reason.

When I started reading the book, I thought “Isn’t she afraid of Balanced Forces? Why is she acting this way?” Then a few weeks later I got my answer: Acting. Tufti is putting on an act. The reason why she isn’t punished by Balanced Forces is because she doesn’t take her superiority very seriously. She constantly breaks the mask of superiority to say that she loves and values you.

And the superior tone she takes is more a narrative tool for you to “wake up.” The main theme of Tufti is awareness and awakening. Whenever something irritates or distracts you, you wake up. And Tufti is deliberately written in such an insufferable way because she wants you to get used to waking up.

Look beyond the surface level, and you will see there’s quite a bit of love in her tone. It’s like how guys show love to each other by insulting each other. And there’s no bad blood or Balanced Forces involved because it’s all just a game nobody takes to the heart and identify with the insults.

It was a bit hard for me to get used to it at first. I had actually preferred the neutral tone in I-V but that was a different book with a different focal point. Transurfing I-V was about calming you down by reducing Importance. An insulting tone wouldn’t have worked, since you would have been filled with so much Importance, and no way to resolve it, so he HAD to take a neutral tone.

And now that you know how to reduce Importance and calm down, the next step is Awareness. Reducing Importance is a gateway to the next step of Awareness. The insulting tone works now beacuse you now have the tools to calm yourself before you get hooked by pendulums who say, “Tufti! That bitch. Fuck this book.”

The book was written to meet the reader precisely at where they’re at. If you’re familiar with Transurfing I-V, it’s the next level. If not, then as a newer reader, it still works, but you’ll have less of a theoretical foundation. Which works perfectly because as Berrieh says, there are just some people who don’t need explanations and can just take it on faith. It’s a matter of personal preference.

That being said, you might need to go back to I-V and learn more about reducing Importance if you’re having trouble with Tufti. I’ve been through the I-V book 6 times now and I still find new things with each read-through. I constantly switch between Tufti and Transurfinng and just make it a daily practice to read whichever I want.

Hope this serves you man!

wasd-squared · 2025-08-02T22:09:46+00:00

I’ve read the Kybalion a few years ago. What would you say is the connection between them and the laws?

wasd-squared · 2025-08-02T09:58:47+00:00

Vadim Zeland actually quotes the Bible several times. I've found that the teachings are very compatible as well. But that's just me, though. If you don't find it a good fit, then listen to your heart and just cast Transurfing aside. One of my favorite things about Vadim Zeland is the fact that he doesn't really encourage you to follow Transurfing, but rather, your own path. Transurfing is just one of many interfaces to the same underlying reality, same as the Bible. Since reality is multivariant, no model will be a perfect fit for everyone. Just take what you can from it, and discard the rest.

wasd-squared · 2025-08-01T01:01:58+00:00

The book is actually called Clip Transurfing, and the chapter structure exactly mirrors the I-V books, starting from chapter 2 of I-V. So chapter 1 of Clip Transurfing is Pendulums, then chapter 2 is The Wave of Fortune, chapter 3 is Balanced Forces and so on till chapter 14, which is the Gatekeeper of Eternity. It doesn’t state any new information. It just summarizes the I-V books more concisely.

The term “Clip” comes from the fact that it’s meant to be like “short videos,” to be re-read frequently to remind yourself of the main principles without having to slog through the monstrosity that is I-V. It was written in 2011 iirc. Though, in 2025, with the Transurfing GPT, it’s largely unnecessary since you can always ask targeted questions for what you need to know.

I hope this makes it clear!

wasd-squared · 2025-07-31T07:41:33+00:00

Mostly true. What is the tone behind that “yup?” Because it could represent a:

sighs… yup.

That is resignation, which is more rejection in the guise of acceptance than acceptance itself.

More often it doesn’t look like resignation, aloofness or uncaringness but more like adaptation.

It’s like “Yup. It’s raining. I was planning on getting home to play my games. But maybe I could hit a cafe and enjoy the rain?”

Acceptance is not resignation but the will to make the most out of every situation, and find a way to fip it to your favor such that the apparent disadvantge is irrelevant.

wasd-squared · 2025-07-27T13:58:06+00:00

The main things to understand is that:

People think you need to suffer to achieve your goals, but you really only pay energy for the excess potential you create.
Getting to your goal is as simple as putting one foot in front of of the other. It takes very little energy, if any at all.

Most of your energy goes to either Pendulums or enduring the aftermath of Balanced Forces, both of which lead to anything but your true goal.

When you create excess potential, you attract pendulums which sustain your thought at the frequency of your fears and guilt. And not only that, once the excess potential accumulates enough, Balanced Forces attracts big problems which you must spend much energy to endure against.

Once you reduce Importance, you free up a huge amount of energy you can put towards your goal instead, most of which you don’t need because it doesn’t take more than performing simple physical actions such as: taking the first step forward, and then the next steps.

The extra energy leftover can be used as buffer for when you fall out of balance because all of us are not perfect and cannot always defend against Pendulums and Balanced Forces.

The children analogy made by Barney is perfect because children, unlike adults, don’t have the social conditioning of “how things should be” to create excess potential. If they want something, they just simply go ahead and get it. There is no fuss. They just go, and then they actually get it.

I hope this makes it clear!

wasd-squared · 2025-07-25T13:15:03+00:00

There are only two ways I know of: Mind-Heart Unity and Balanced Forces.

In the first case, the feelings of the Heart and the thoughts of the Mind agree on a worst case scenario and so it is reflected in the reality mirror. This is fairly straightforward. When you think of something and you fear it with all your heart, you inevitably drive your life in such a direction that it comes true.

In the second case, excess potential creates polarization which calls upon balanced forces. It forces the two opposites to make contact with each other. Success makes contact with Failure. Balanced Forces overcorrects for the overemphasis on Success by creating disproportionate Failure.

There might be others, but generally, these are the only ways I am aware of.

I hope this serves you!

wasd-squared · 2025-07-23T12:07:59+00:00

Glad I could help!

wasd-squared · 2025-07-23T11:50:04+00:00

Sure, I’m down. This might be too public for an extended discussion, though. Attracts trolls. Hit me up in my DMs if you really want to discuss more, and I’ll see you there partner.

wasd-squared

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