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Words of The Week

Stability

2024 - Hello, nor good morning? birthday?, kakao talk, Korean and western age system, tags. age as in year, year v.s date, Losing a birthday to Christmas, vise versa, Santa and dads, magical things, cow vs. reindeers, snow vs. rain, Culture slowly merging, less Korean and more western, fitting to the world, fitted to cultures canada, Korea, Cambodia, born to vs. born outside of, Charles Darwin, 기준, 개똥도 쓰셔면 없다, shared standards, married, instagram, social media, chats, group chats, strangers posing a friends, friends posing as strangers, having thoughts v.s having a voice, be judged and known for, church groups, getting into university, grade, having a mapped path, translating ideas and concepts, ideas must dies to live, Cambodia, poop, cutting fingers, cutting bad luck, spirit away, interview with Hayao Miyazaki about, loss of magic, cake shop, timing a conversation next to a bookshelf, using a book to extend the conversation, small space, using a picture, pictures from Europe, journey inside our minds, escapism, stepping outside of our own heard, grade 2 textbooks, How Koreans Talk, 불가리, fingers and friends, mice wanting to put the bell on a cat being here for me, kids textbook vs. Kids constant content feed, know ourselves through others, adding variance to the day,

2025 - Rhett - Whirlpools- For me, the whirlpool circles around and goes deep into the river/lake, ocean. Children aspire to be adults. Teacher aspire to be students. They both converge on “learning to be learners”. But there are water spirits that can kill you or make you stronger. And, the frog doesn’t remember being the tadpole.

Lifestyle

2024 - Good morning, weekend, three-day week, by design, meaning of 물귀신, 9 months of coffees, working holidays, 20s, graduation, 1 year in Korea, courage, timing, English, marriage, interior design, ovens, cafe tools, storing equipment at home, buy/sell/throw away/start a cafe, concept, culture, language, Thailand, 2004, Tsunami, chaos, moment to move, Korea, country town, snow (warm, fuzzy, cotton like vs. cold, hard and burning), Cambodia, travel trends, 2002 World Cup, children, vision of the future, international school, learning and losing languages, singer, Taylor Swift, MP3 Players, recording from TV or radio, IP address, firewalls, adapting to different cultures, Korea, happiness but harsh student life, double-edge swords, shared space and time, prior meeting

Vision

Keywords: 7 alarms, alarms for the alarms, snooze vs. of, never using alarm, waking other up, 10 minutes to get ready vs. stumbling around, systematically connecting the dots, bag of cookies, white bag, softer, hold with care, eating style, Rohnan’s VS. Jaymen VS. Rhett, soft and moist VS. hard and crumbly, sweet or too sweet?, husband vs. Me, slow eat vs. 2 bite, Men and boys vs. Women and girls, personality, Boyish style, girl style, being with kids in elementary school, group dynamics with large and small groups, cultural differences, class differences, money metrics, High and Low Expectations for things, Korean Criteria, SKY University vs. Local university, money metrics, cars, clothes, cookies, free will, children in their world, adults in their world, the elephant and the rider, How far will you go? Ideas for products: mom’s, dad’s, children, friends, stories and reason for buying cookie, the 100 dollar cookie, bitterness, generic products, the water demon, generational trauma, Korea changes too quickly, not fitted to the world, 십년이면도 변한다,

Conversations

Good Morning, haircut, 살날, traditional, good and bad, harmful, whale hunting, judging other countries, Korea vs. World, global citizen, princess Mononoke, nature and nurture, complex rationales of characters, interconnections, priorities, roles, 오지랖, trust, trust blindly, repeated exposures, explosion in knowledge about, truths, Tuesday classes, sense of care, care for self vs. care for roles vs. care judged by others, not yet, family interactions, older generations, parents, being called by your role as a mother, children, expectations, shifting positions with Time/place/people, problems with flexibility and adaptability, making sense of social cues, in-laws, parenting, feeding kids, taking care of kids, the nurturing mother, the *** father, maintaining order, principles, rules, Momo, singe doll vs. the infinite dolls with accessories, Read it…don’t read it, hurdles through moments, cookie, cake shop, schedule, online vs. poster on the door

Conversations

Hello, nor good morning? Birthday?, kakao talk, Korean and Western age system, tags. Age as in year, year v.s date, Losing a birthday to Christmas, vise versa, Santa and dads, magical things, cow vs. reindeers, snow vs. rain, Culture slowly merging, less Korean and more western, fitting to the world, fitted to cultures canada, Korea, Cambodia, born to vs. born outside of, Charles Darwin, 기준, 개똥도 쓰셔면 없다, shared standards, married, instagram, social media, chats, group chats, strangers posing a friends, friends posing as strangers, having thoughts v.s having a voice, be judged and known for, church groups, getting into university, grade, having a mapped path, translating ideas and concepts, ideas must dies to live, Cambodia, poop, cutting fingers, cutting bad luck, spirit away, interview with Hayao Miyazaki about, loss of magic, cake shop, timing a conversation next to a bookshelf, using a book to extend the conversation, small space, using a picture, pictures from Europe, journey inside our minds, escapism, stepping outside of our own heard, grade 2 textbooks, How Koreans Talk, 불가리, fingers and friends, mice wanting to put a bell on a cat being here for me, kids textbook vs. Kids constant content feed, know ourselves through others, adding variance to the day,

Direction

Ikigai, Japan, way of fining a good center, on paper vs. In life, The messy middle, cakes, sets, cost, clear conversations, locks, password strategies, sharing and searching for information, High uncertainty = high certainty, if you don't know what is in the box (don't open it), predictable, before marriage vs. after marriage, 1 year of marriage vs. 10 years of marriage, creature of habits, likes and dislikes, being known for, responsible, communicate or manipulate, resentment, elephants in the room and in the brain, Me and my clipboard, here, there, everywhere, Online, n jobs vs. one well, Boomer, Gen X, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, N jobs vs. One Well, a well brings water, N job brings variation of skills and people, die while climb my mountain to die on vs. lying down, digging a well or a grave, old language vs. modern language, famous, the path gets tougher, certainty of death, living in the moment, MBTI, J is for judging and P is for perceiving, the complexity of shared experiences and stories, Airbnb, Youtube, Instagram, facebook, then and now, the bar, incremental changes, 베려

Trust

Some of today’s keywords: Good morning. Boss, being the boss, instagram, thoughts about actions and directions, employees, difference, concept that kill or make stronger, steps forward, growth, defined good, "tried, tested and true", decided on the process, win/win thinking, investing in people, the known stories and truths, sharing food, Me as a dinosaur, you are as young explorer, XI, selling cookies to companies, individuals, mom, children, the market, make money, collecting data for times of the day doing the compute, "all in", this vs. that and new pathways between, operating system, working with people, copy vs. theft of knowledge and skills, code of morals, ethics as a boss, friend, employee, employer, being above or below on the perceived hierarchy, being together in ways of peace

Trust

Hello, good morning, electricity, machines and computers, concern about outages, Q/A – How was your weekend?, long pause, difficult to answer, same shit different day, 5 finger conversation, 1.this, 2. this, 3. this, 4. this, and this, and… are you interested in how I grip those ideas? You pick. Say go. Complex interactions with fuzzy ways of seeing, Whole Cake shop, location, fruit shop, cognitive mapping using landmarks, favorite cake, DQ ice-cream cake, Siam Reap Airport, Blizzards, trips for ice-cream, road in 2008 VS. now, investment, visitors, women, chatty, open to share information, Youtube followers, instagram followers, connecting the dots between insta and store signage, women and children, being known as a child’s mom, being with mom, TPO, Old Man, Time/Place/Occassion, Dad’s campfire jokes at grandma’s house, cookies, best cookie ever, can’t talk tasting, grandma’s looking into the shop, man shopping for wife’s birthday cake, lettering, design, value to the cake, A series of situations being thankful, support from husband, looking up toward opportunities

Investments

Good morning. Boss, being the boss, instagram, thoughts about actions and directions, employees, difference, concept that kill or make stronger, steps forward, growth, defined good, "tried, tested and true", decided on the process, win/win thinking, investing in people, the known stories and truths, sharing food, Me as a dinosaur, you are as young explorer, XI, selling cookies to companies, individuals, mom, children, the market, make money, collecting data for times of the day doing the compute, "all in", this vs. that and new pathways between, operating system, working with people, copy vs. theft of knowledge and skills, code of morals, ethics as a boss, friend, employee, employer, being above or below on the perceived hierarchy, being together in ways of peace

Safety

Wasn't the plan, the road lead here, actions, public VS. private, nail cutting, tooth brushing, back scrubbing, Culture A and Culture B, inventions and tools, smoking, quitting, 80, 90 and now, laws and incentives, shop owners getting caught, parents who talk, kids who study don't drink drink and smoke vs. Kids who drink and smoke and don't study, sleep, 3 days, why 3?, bullies, modern bullies, smart, protected, buffers, teachers, my teacher octopus, 10 brains, niched creature, umwelt, children, instinct, learned, nature and nurture, 우는애젖더준다, the crying baby gets the milk, the soother, the ipad, personality types, people keep people, communities keep communities, addictions keep us in place, Jobs, being locked in, free to go, information process, strengths and weakness, 수보자, apps, data, the listening phone, school subjects, the subject is/isn't relevant to the job, fitting to the work environment, employee, boss, sleep, trust about me, trust about you, trust in code for almost everything, novelty of the future, AI, photos, text, no more secrets

Safety

Good morning, smell of coffee, leaving things on the table (phone), Cambodia vs. Korea, attached to things, naming things, attitude on losing things, in the cloud, pictures, organize pictures, date and time, 부지랑하다, using search, memory, food porn, rituals of setting the table, ritual of preparing food, men vs. women's eating style, value of hierarchies, care, then vs. now, baggage, conclusion, no singular point, start and end points, orientate towards the safety way, fights, fights in France, seeing then vs. experiencing them, hit and hit back, code of conduct, escalation, ways men and women fight, getting back up or staying down, male vs. women and their willingness for physical fights, walking at night, trusting patterns and reacting to irregular patterns, rumors, shame, politics of people, complex relationships, anti-fragile, chicken in the egg, 알을개고나와라, growing and consuming, one earth, limited food, break out of our shell, faith?? adding risk, limbic system, to fight, to flee, to fawn, too safe is too risky, waiting for death, adventure.

Showing Up

Good morning, late, no alarms, mom, airport, food, old taste, stale food, salty, made by my people, coffee, coffee machine, machines for baking cake vs. bread, flour, type of flour, all purpose flor, cake shop vs. factory cakes, the tasting, keeping things in the freeze, refrigerator, not knowing my baking, call from mom, how I travel, happy news or... We'll see!, sister, mom, female dynamics, childhood, young adults, university, meeting boys, nicknames, Mr. Olive, meeting people, not needed but needed, predicted conversations, starts, if this then thi, my grandma with me vs. my sister, verbal pathways

Building It

Used an alarm or no, No alarm, 3 times, being a ceo, hiring people, complex domain, solution for complex problems, resilient and/or robust constraints, hiring more people Vs. having faith in less people, High turnover rate, quick training, temporary workers, employment services, Making money, CEO and Worker alignment, Barista, contest, certificate, self-identity, friend in the business, relationships, beach strategy, blueberry farm strategy, calendar events, permission to speak about, communication, skin in the game, Speaking about myself, sharing my reasons for being, my choices based in my interpretations of my situations, Trust in patterns, gender and cultural patterns, personality, self-identity, nihilism, addiction, scheduled work, deep work, 10 years later, permission to be, shit sandwiches, eating the whole thing vs. eating around the shit, build system vs. goal, Being the idiot, apologizing, being ok with being stupid, universal themes, my mapped path, my well or my grave, doing the work, choosing your path, learning your 1,2,3 and ABC, being cursed, CLIMB CLIMB UP UP, Going to Death Mountain,

One Thing

A couple of differences to the morning, snooping around, the balcony,dust, cleaning it up, the gym’s balcony, cleaner these days, breaking the rules, the guise of safety, Facebook vs. Instagram, sharing vs. promoting, then and now, pages and groups, “friends” and “followers”, personal, private, secret, diaries. Facebook/instagram habits vs. more secured apps like notes and photo album, selected for a voice in the world vs. personal randomness of a device, my style of being online VS. Your Stlye, act of posting, Best Practices, understand the complicated sense making, complex relationships with people, never-ending journey through interactions, my shop and your shop, blogs, coffee vs. blueberry coffee, groups, nave groups, 1 million people, social rules, envy of cats, pet loss syndrome, shelters, processes, love you for everything, system think for the coffee shop, the domino effect, judge for coffee vs. music, the artist, “being a tool”, the Bible, heaviness, working in series and parallel. Doing the compute on a single thing vs. doing the compute of the big picture of the 100 X 100 grid, kids classes, kids saying rude things, spoken language vs. meaning of language spoken, kids are 3x3 for complexity but adults can be impossible, tit for tat, cooperate, retaliate, forgive lean towards a positive interaction

Clearings

The Korean Wooden Mask, morning and night rituals, places for masks and other meaningful artifacts, the cross, jewellery, rings, make up, distractions, follow the law, sourcing all materials and resources, plastic gloves, hats, safety, conflicting feelings, virtue signaling, sued by, Covid, law after law, bed in a shop, rent, cheap rent, rent for shops, investing in the space, floor, walls, plumbing, grow into, grow out of, deterrent to stay and move, instagram, saving your stuff, use it or not, marketing, Naver search, locations, seating, original ideas, Children thoughts vs. Adults filter, well-thought out sentences, class, caste, lifestyle, type of workers, local vs. workers, Seoul, trend, foot traffic, identifying with the audience, working alone, being the boss, locked into your thoughts, feedback, working on vs. in your business, closing time, time in the city vs. Country, A retreat, a 3rd cup of coffee, Youtube Intro vs. KBS video

Plan It

a bit sick, spring, changing of the season, a broken machine, changing of a part, What's happening? A.B.C.... Why A.B.C... Why not A.E.F? Because If this then that, and, and, and. Doing the thing vs. Explaining your thoughts to someone, Telling stories via Youtube, 900+ uploads, audience, what do you show? What do you say? Why do you say and do what you do? Are we all egotistical? A first girl friend, no language, sisters (older and younger). boss and employees, husband and wife, coworker and coworkers? What is meaning today, next week, 10 years? How does the action today help you predict the future? The future is unknown, blank space, sitting down, ideal hands, eyes looking for what? being compelled to do the think. Stages of life, stages of business, relationships, trust, killing thoughts/actions/task, Giving life to thoughts /actions, plans, trauma Do I push or pull? run to or away, children, chase game, survival through play, Coded in our DNA, being a dentist, teething the job, becoming a patient, traumatized West vs. West, culture wars, Identity wars, Nations of the world, what's next?

Grow

난망 - what is it? romancing an idea/emotion/concept that isn't tied to reality, delusion or small pleasure, website, can't fix, gone forever, 6 years since the last reset, what's growing? instagram, algorithms, feed, giving more pictures of girls, being a man, don't want but clickbait, family vs. food porn vs. what's hot 4 You (etc), cake, change, cake party? cutting the cake, boxes to bottles, bags? delivery service, extra costs, bigger shop rent, in vs. out of the game, age, timing, Care/Matter, Shift in why we work, meaningful actions, stupid/perverse action for 'the audience', opportunity for growth, identifying as somewho does these action, group study, community, growing meaningful feeling sad about losing my website, looking for meaningful work, is is worth it?

Skills

Long weekend, feeling a bit off/lost, camping and farming, being home again, skills, knowing from trying, boxes vs. Bottles, reasons for doing, the ABCs are equal but D is off, easier to eat on the go, subway, did that wasn’t welcome, stares, reactions, same experience, mistake getting on the train, old man, mainstream ways of being, the foreigner stands out, learning from others, united in stories or messy communication, knowing the rules, living the rules, 작심삼일, 3 days, 3 weeks, 3 month, 3 years, patterns and realizations, brain dump 2021, instaphoto of 5 things, I do it because I do it, will, daily actions, greeting people and being better with people, a punch magnet or a great friend, flexible and adaptable thoughts, I matter, nihilism, stepping back, stepping out of, leaning in, being all in, walking to my death, a field manual, 고문관, 바보, worth, organizing ideas, documentation, words into process, process into systems, system into your natural way of being, skillfully stepping into the unknown time ahead. A few classes left, we’ll see

Interpretations

Interpretations - Emergent Thoughts: Covid, thoughts about covid, compliance, control, agenda, being fat, fit vs. fat, repeated patterns jeju-do, price of jeju, foreign price, local price, Korean price, cost of our condo, great price for value, guest houses, traveling, taking time to travel, swimming in the water, being under the water, free and focused, old jeju vs. new jeju, non comfort, coupons for free things, experiences vs. consuming, the color of the water, the mountains, same same but different ideas for life, people and business,

Grind it Up

Good morning, feel the sun, see the blue sky, hello from above, strange, Egyptian, sun god, being in this room, that room, that room over there, sun in your eyes, journal, struggle to write, notes, reason, default 1, words vs. sentences vs. paragraphs vs. essays, speaking with someone is natural, easy to do, a good place to start, Video journals, no cuts and no edits, AI editing, cut cues and clues into my ahs and awhss, hidden secrets, knowing what isn't being said, my fears, defining them, Time Ferris's presentation, I love presentations, define your fear, Face your fears, dead on or walk around, Crime stories, Obsidian, installs, making a note, linking notes, slowly curating ideas, collecting your attention, how we aim, themes, tools, copy my message, edit my message, Thailand, Cambodia, Korea, Tsunami 2024, Mother, sister, moving to Korea, grandparents, Moving to Cambodia, filling in the detail here adn there, blood in thicker than water, spilling blood, giving birth, men vs. women, babies wanting the best blood, mother's protecting themselves from the baby, octopus mother's eating themselves, Spiders dying afterwards, women before and after children, men before and after children, toggle switches, My wife and me, My mom and me, my mom gives all that she can, my wife takes and gives it to my sons, Knowns and unknowns, hormones, scorn, han, no secrets, but not all the keys, being with my family, wife, children, sisters, parents, taking notes, reminders of what was said and how it was interpreted, deeper connection, more meaningful interactions, speaking of the devil, scared, superstition, impressions of something worth, Pride comes before a fall, trauma, hurt, protective strategies, friends and defriends, sensed but not surprised, delusions, left-brain vs. right brain, certainty and uncertainty, the mapped path, the whole picture, everything goes away, picture, stories, memories, gone, curating our care, this is me, some of it documented, most of it forgotten, gotta run

Grind it Up

A bit late, a clip board and paper, my style, a song, a wedding, singing, haven't sun for years, how to learn to sing, listen, feel, then focus and pick apart, Same as my school process, suggest songs, wait for them to become known, then teach it, a friend house, pregnant, changes in the boy, reflexes with food, sensitivity, gag reflex, mothers and children at war for blood, ways to protect yourself from children, men's style, women's style, difference and similarities, conditioned by society, by society, by wars, work, money, Should we dream? Should women go to school, get a job, make money? Love for feminism, but unsure of what it is now vs. the 80s, etc, Movie, We have to talk about Keven, Mother and children, What's being told, perspectives, protection, Spartan, kill babies that perfect, let their young die if they don't pass the trials, raise children for battle, the new battle field/reality, Today'S world of religion, politics, technologies, media, music, Our Parents, convience, Addictions, Narratives, Howl's Castle, Sophia, magic, growing up so quickly, spells, soldiers in an ally, frightening, Should we dream or just live in the world, Talking to people, things I can only share with my kids because they are young, Things that are thought of but never really said when speaking to grown men/women, The power of intuition, imagination and interpretation, Writing things down, remembering, sacrifice for what is better, sacrifice what, how, why, when? Life happens deal with it, perfection? instaPerfect, a lie, not reality,

Grind it Up

a bit late, parents-in-law, train home, train system, bus system, COVID, more trains, government and private investments, tail wagging the do, 파주, baby clothes shopping, friend's baby, Inside Out 2, Movie theater, staying in car, torture, sleeping in DVD rooms, Disney+, hagwon, media time, ads, you tube premimum, ech, war, faminine, health, insurance, scams, capture, subscribing to Netflix, Disney +, HBS, TVing, etc, money, hobby, escape, relax, young people not working or studying, reality and other genres of movies, husband vs. wife, animation, dislike for marvel, most Netflix movies, not relatable, Coex, my old neighborhood, baking class, mentor/friend, 7 years your senior, paths forwards, decoupling from money, coupling to joy, both in service of making cakes, shifting markets, changing demographics, easy to make and sell products vs. higher-end decorative cake, simple vs. complicated, selling to to the masses vs. Higher-end, husband responds, predicting the future, being with joy as you work, work, work, breaking points, sickness, killing ideas, cutting shit out, suicide, ways of coping, too busy too, being naive, being mature, childish perspective vs. mature perspective, attitudes, consoling self and others, different realizations at different types with different people, My mind, betterment in the moment, day-by-day, be more honest about perspectives, multiple ways of knowing, making and breaking the way of knowing to be better fitted for our vows, actions, language in use.

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