Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Guess What, my fiends!! I do you big favour and do travel guide to all 16 host cities for 2026 FIFA World cup in USA, Canada, and Mexcico/. All the best sports – Boom! All the best food -bang! All the best comedy and comedians – blop! All th best music – boom bang! All the best writing and writers…
Sometimes, despite the absurdity of life, despite the risk, despite whether you’ve made the same mistake before (but maybe it made you who you are), we just have to say fuck it, and jump in. Take a chance. Even if you know something you do will end up with you missing or lamenting one thing, if the possible gain of…
Even though life (and love) is absurd, if you live your life based on being rational, as opposed to following your heart (even if it leads to heartbreak, anguish and absolute devastation) worth it? Or should life be lived guided entirely by heart? If nothing matters in the end, and we are all on a pale blue dot for a…
I’m in California or Mexico right now (probably), so for a few weeks, this is a collection of all my favourite questions I’ve thought of in the last year and bit since I started this blog. You have the answers to everything you want to know (about the world or about yourself) inside of you, all it takes is to ask yourself the right question. And…
This is the third of a series of a Deep Dive into Passion. What is it, is it what makes us human, is it okay to have passions no matter what they are, and why do we have the ones we do… —— The Stoics avoided passion with a passion. The passions were seen as an ill that directs us away…
This is the third of a series of a Deep Dive into Passion. What is it, is it what makes us human, is it okay to have passions no matter what they are, and why do we have the ones we do… —- If you hate something, and hate it with a passion, have you ever thought about why you do? And what…
This is the second of a series of a Deep Dive into Passion. What is it, is it what makes us human, is it okay to have passions no matter what they are, and why do we have the ones we do… —- Is passion what makes us human? Oh, and… What makes your passions destructive, and what makes them constructive (to…
This is the first of a series of a Deep Dive into Passion. What is it, is it what makes us human, is it okay to have passions no matter what they are, and why do we have the ones we do… —- So, to kick it off… What are the things you’re passionate about?…
In Plato’s Theaetetus, Thedourus and Socrates debate what it is to ‘know’ or ‘perceive’ something. And Socrates being the annoying (but excellently annoying) bloke he was, badgers Theaetetus about what they believe knowledge actually is. Theodorus’ viewpoint gets stripped bare by Socrates to the point where everything he thought he knew is put into question. He starts to get pissed off…
The 80-20 principle applies to pretty much anything you can think of in your brain organ right now. Anything you give heaps of fucks about, do it, give 80% of fucks about it, but leave 20% in reserve. Understand that that thing you give a shit about, isn’t everything, and it can easily change (for better or worse). Even if…