Author: Mark Musil
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Recursive Kingdoms (poem)
Blank slate shatteredThe Cosmic Eye closes to oblivionPain of the world begs for patienceAnd they say you don’t existRecursive kingdomsA shared and single sinBroke the fold, pierced the unityRoots remainThe song the angels don’t singThe whisper – Not that one, more intimateA lover not a guideLift your voice not your eyesBoth lost, Both fracturedTime is…
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Look Up (poem)
Oh my soul, Why can’t you comfort yourself?Why do you wish to burden others?Don’t you know to Love is to give?Find strength in silenceSeek peace with your ghostsSoon you will help othersHelp them face their ghostsHow can the physician be timid?How can the helper be weak?Independence is a giftStrength is owed to the weak
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Waiting for marriage
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight Proverbs 3:5-6 I am almost thirty and have spent the past decade navigating my dating life guided by my own moral compass. I can firmly declare…
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The future of engineering
Every engineer has had to grapple with their identity since the rise of generative AI. Like most people, I was worried when I first learned about just how well chatbots can generate coherent and simple functions. At this point, generative AI by itself is unable to build large software systems that span domains. For example,…
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How to treat customers well
Before I was born my parents started a small skilled trades business fixing restaurant equipment which ended up being very lucrative. My mother managed book work and compliance and my father handled all the repairs. I have always sought to replicate their success in my own career. When I asked my father what advice he…
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Independence is a gift
I have always known theoretically that independence was a prerequisite of starting and maintaining a relationship with a strong woman. It has, however, only been recently that I have begun to effectively build this pillar of inner strength – and not without effort. By independence, I mean the ability to stand on one’s own emotionally,…
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Changing yourself to find love
There is a paradox in dating that you may have observed. To be confident enough to introduce yourself to a woman you must believe that you are worthy of affection and romance. At the same time to grow as a man you must accept that you aren’t yet at your best state. To be a…
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Becoming a better man
What should be the goal of a man’s life? For the simplest and most correct answer we can look to Ecclesiastes 12:13 “Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man” While that is true and worth committing to your memory it lacks some specifics and is burdened by our…
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