July 2nd, 2022 The path of Monastic Code Machine By Jeffrey M. Barber

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Ever since I was in sixth grade, I’ve been drawn to the machine like a moth to the flame. Last year, I turned 40 and am trying to stay retired from big tech. There are things that I miss like helping engineers blow past their limits, and there is the intoxication of massive scale. There are plenty things that I don’t miss which is why I recently completed six rounds of ketamine infusions which has been a fantastic introduction of psychedelics.

I am still processing the experiences. From being launched into outer space, meeting Darth Vader, seeing the entire multiverse as mathematical relationships, experiencing death while feeling truly loved, and a massive planar field of folding numbers in an intergalactic game of Sudoku. I have much to process and ponder, but I would say that I had a spiritual experience which shakes the mechanics of my mind. Life is a gift not be squandered via nihilism nor cynicism.

Purpose is the antidote to many of the challenges we face, and I have much to write about the revelations as I sort them out as I process things. However, it feels like purpose is hard in this construct of a world. We all know that things feel dire, but they have also never been better. There are, of course, setbacks and injustices that happen. The hard question then is how to personalize and find one’s purpose? What is your purpose?

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