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#3 Building Habits From the Ground Up

Satisfying the Basic Needs of Maslow’s Hierarchy though habit building. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Substack. Collect this episode on PODS. Welcome back to Recalibrating! In the last entry, I discussed the framework of Maslow’s hierarchy as a structure to help guide people towards

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Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits Atomic Habits is one of the first self-improvement books I read, forming what became an obsession with bettering myself in every way possible. I will continue to update this page as I read the book, expanding on the points I think are most

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Costa Rica: Guanacaste Region

Take a deep, long breath and enjoy the flowing movement of clouds over volcanoes in the Guanacaste Region of Costa Rica. This timelapse compilation spans two full days, going from sunset to night to sunrise each day. This region has three volcanoes within view from

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My Equipment and Tech

Photography Camera Sony A7iii One of the top rated cameras of all time, the Sony a7iii was a massive upgrade to my camera equipment. I could not believe the difference it made in my astro, lunar, and wildlife photography. The A7iii is a full-frame camera

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#2 The Path of Self-Actualization

Burnout recovery from the ground up Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Substack. Collect this Episode on PODS. One month ago I gave my resignation. Yesterday was my last day 😌 I resigned from the intellectual property law firm I have worked at since 2016.

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#1 What Recalibrating Means To Me

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Substack. Collect this Episode on PODS. I have done what I “should” do for most of my life. I worked hard to get into a good university for mechanical engineering, finishing second in my class, got into law school,

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Adobe Firefly: Generative AI Art

What is Adobe Firefly? Adobe Firefly is Adobe’s generative AI software. Generative AI operates on diffusion models to enable text-to-image creation. I recently received access to Adobe Firefly (currently in beta) and created this video to help people get started. You may request access to

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Finding Hope

Hope is something that I try to inspire in people with every interaction. Hope has a practicality to it that many people do not consider that makes it much more than wishful thinking. Let me explain: When all hope is lost, we are left with

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Confronting Injustice

Injustice, especially on a structural/systemic scale, can make us feel that our actions are too small to change anything. Whether that is true or not, this way of thinking misses the point of living well. The scope of misery in the world can be debilitating

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Filling the Void

Have you ever felt that were achieving the goals you had set for yourself, but their completion did not bring about the satisfaction you hoped for? It may help to consider telic projects and atelic processes. A telic activity is one that is completable, such

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