The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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In order to live a life in chronic back pain, I have had to adapt various methods to alleviate the strain on my low back. One way I have done this is when I am at work in front of a screen, I alternate between sitting in a chair,...
We must die to the world in order to find eternal life. Give up the chase of the material world, give up the sin, give up the purposelessness, the pointless pursuits which most are completely focused on. Be the one that gives up the...
I used to write in massive paragraphs, where I would lose the sentences that I was writing, and it was not a fun time to edit - to say the least. Adopting this new method was easy and is as follows: When you are writing: Write a...
I invite you to try one of the most life-altering experiments I have taken up in the past year. It is simple, yet life changing in so many ways: In all of your human interactions, look into the eyes of the other person, and begin to see...
The Preface to my Book, Mountain: A Field Guide to Summiting Life is available for everyone to download! You can shoot me an email directly to josh@joshblais.com and I will send you a copy. I am working on a subscription form that will...
Setup of basic Debian server# I generally use Debian for the servers I run projects on. These servers are configured to only allow traffic in the door from my Bastion Host that we configured in the last post. Setup a Debian box on Vultr...
A guide to install gitea on Debian 11# Here is a quick guide to Install Gitea with Postgresql on Debian 11 Start with a quick system update: sudo apt-get update -ysudo apt-get upgrade -y Setup postgresql# sudo sh -c 'echo "deb...
Burnout is not real. What is real is you lack passion in what you are doing. If you were doing the things you were meant to be doing there would never be any sort of “burnout” in your life. If you were gaining energy from the activities,...
If you live to ~80 years old (about the average in the modernised world): You’ll have 29,166 days… 700,000 hours… 42,000,000 minutes. What are you doing with each and ever single one of those minutes? Each minute on the clock ticking...
For the first 30 minutes of your day, everyday, I implore you to attempt the following: No screens whatsoever Get water in with salts Get a sweat on I love Sun salutations as my opening exercise, opening up my hips and lower back, I...
With various new social media channels coming online where you can waste more of your ever-shortening life, let me recommend a way that you can break free from the strangle hold that these apps are designed to have on you: Set a timer...
As a professional vagabond - I travel tremendously light. Last year, we spent nearly a month between Europe and Toronto for a friend’s wedding. Both Rebecca and I each took a single carry on and a backpack for the whole trip where we...
The only piece of advice I would give someone who is not where they want to be in life would be: Create more What do I mean by this? Simple. Most of us consume more than we create. In the game of plus/minus, most of humanity is in the...
You are only ever going to have the current moment to change your life and ways. There is no opportunity outside of the here and now to do so. When you look at your life, it is simply a culmination of the choices up until this moment...
I have been going down the vaporwave/synthwave rabbit hole and found that it truly is the pinnacle of focusing music. A little vaporwave to begin Some more futuristic dystopian music Some InitialD to round us out Where would I be without...