I had to cut my trip one day shorter, so I am back home.
First, I want to wish you all a Happy New Year, may everything I wrote and shared the past year help you on some level or another, and I wish you a very prosperous 2023.
As I promised myself, I wouldn’t ruin the good vibes of my readers with any sort of article, writing, or my own ramblings, and I will stick by it. Did you set your goals for 2023 ? Both short-term and long-term goals, because this is an important step towards achieving any objective you had in mind.
Start going after your goals as soon as tomorrow comes. As an end-of-year message to all of you, I will use this meme.
If I dare to advise you to set one specific goal, it would be focusing on part of your short-term goals (first quarter) on learning more and going in-depth on the field of Cognitive Warfare. I have been hinting at this for months now, and while I will publish primers and longer pieces on it in January and on, one should not rely on solely one person to learn something.
You should also learn by yourself. Effectively, the last 4 months were driven by different faces, and forms of Cognitive Warfare, and to my estimation, close to 95% of the content and network effects were driven by it.
Now to the last bit of adventure.
I decided to do one more hike, and attempted to find a region that is not exactly “public”.
Upon exploring I found the following. My mom’s favorite limes, and yes, those are limes, not oranges. A literal jackpot, there were a couple hundred at least, but this was deep into the forest and I am not greedy so I got 20 and went my way.
Following downhill from this point and to the left, an unmarked trail led me to a patch of the forests they are clearing.
Substack won’t let me upload the video of this particular section of the trail, so I will use my Twitter thread. Also spoiler alert.
To clarify, I prefer hiking as I used to work, using (mostly) military gear, meaning most of the fabric used on said clothing pieces is often piercing, and abrasion-resistant, both of which saved my sorry self from further injury here.
The clothing is still looking like new, but what took the brunt of this rolling downhill was the backpack, and it looks exactly like it started this trip, so congratulations to the manufacturer, that is one hell of a good Cordura fabric.
To understand the impact, here is my now dead HydroFlask (still holds water, insulation dead). RIP after 10 years of hard service.
I won’t write any sort of “bad news/bad vibes” tomorrow, January 1st, 2023, but from January 2 onwards, I go back to the usual, so enjoy this last peaceful, purely good vibes substack.
I do wish all of you an amazing 2023, make 2023 your year in any way you can.
Happy New Year to all of you.
I am deeply grateful for all support I received in 2022, hope you stick to this Substack in 2023, we have exciting things in store.
I'm determined to remain in good spirits during 2023 no matter what. I hope you have a good one too and that your knee gets better very quickly. Your posts are essential reading. Thank you and here's to an emotionally resilient 2023.
Did you get help with 🚨 🚁 ... love the pictures. Happy new year!! 🎆