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Justin Harnish

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Justin Harnish is a writer, engineer, and non-profit founder. He is the author of the books “Meaning in the Multiverse: A Skeptic's Guide to a Loving Cosmos” & “Dance to Spawn A Galaxy: Poems of Purpose.”  

Justin is a free-range thinker, a futurist, mindfulness practitioner, and a speculative Natural Philosopher. 

He studied engineering and philosophy at Montana State University. For the last 21 years has tried to live an examined life: as a semiconductor engineer and technology strategist; as a practitioner of mindfulness; and in service to his community. 

Utilizing the life optimizing strategies outlined in Meaning in the Multiverse, Justin helps people detail their passions and align their life and professions to achieve their greater purp
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Justin Harnish Writing, of course. There are so many things that can take you away from the act of writing and writing is such a solitary, mentally focused task that…moreWriting, of course. There are so many things that can take you away from the act of writing and writing is such a solitary, mentally focused task that it can be difficult to really engage with it as much as possible, even in the most diligent of writers. But when it is flowing and you are getting out exactly the landscape of thought and language that you hoped to convey in your mind's-eye, there is little in the way of an examined life that compares.(less)
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The Age of Exponential Growth in Knowledge

Finding yourself and your success in the all encompassing present

If you were born anywhere in any station except exultant royalty in any year in the first millennia A.D., your life and knowledge of the workings of the most basic of physical systems would be the same as someone born hundreds of years BOTH before and after you.

However, in just two generations’ time from my grandfather to me, we have

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“Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the cage is a white rabbit with a pink nose and pink-rimmed eyes. [...] On its back, clearly marked in blue ink, is the numeral 8. [...] The most interesting thing here isn't even the carrot-munching rabbit in the cage, but the number on its back. Not a six, not a four, not nineteen-point-five. It's an eight. This is what we're looking at, and we all see it. I didn't tell you. You didn't ask me. I never opened my mouth and you never opened yours. We're not even in the same year together, let alone the same room... except we are together. We are close. We're having a meeting of the minds. [...] We've engaged in an act of telepathy. No mythy-mountain shit; real telepathy.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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