Most advice sounds good because it is designed to be easy, make you feel better, or believe in something just to have something to believe in. Most advice is not designed to be true. The Codex will not always be right either, but at least it will not intentionally lie to you.
This is a collection of questions with imperfect solutions, ideas meant to be deciphered and outgrown, beliefs meant to be broken and rebuilt. You will not find easy answers here. But if you are the kind of person who prefers clarity over comfort, you might find something better.
Life is not a fixed equation but a dynamic interplay of contradictions and conflicting desires, requiring continuous adaptation, deliberate choice, and the integration of opposing forces to create meaning, purpose, and fulfillment without rigid absolutes.
Life's tensions—freedom vs. belonging, control vs. vulnerability—aren't problems to solve. Truth lives in the friction yet agency between opposites. You don't choose sides, you learn to integrate within paradox. Strength and vulnerability, ambition and rest, the art is holding both without breaking.
Meaning is not discovered but created and revised through engagement with the world. It is neither purely individual nor entirely collective, it exists in the tension between belonging and purpose. Faith (in any form; religious, philosophical, or personal) shapes perception, but it must remain flexible to avoid rigidity.
Perfect objectivity is impossible, but structured subjectivity (grounded in reason, expertise, and shared principles) is necessary for societal function. Hierarchy (of knowledge, skill, ethics) is functional, not oppressive, when it remains open to revision. Truth is not absolute, but some truths are more useful than others. Truth is not relative, but some truths are more up to interpretation than others.
Radical ownership of your choices is essential, but hyper-agency (denying external forces) is delusional. The self is not a fixed entity but a constant work in progress, shaped by action and adaptation. You are responsible for your response, even when you are not responsible for your circumstances.
Life demands bending without breaking. Rigidity leads to stagnation. True resilience is not armor, but the courage to stay flexible, and to fall, recalibrate, and move forward. Discomfort is not your enemy, it is the forge. Flexibility over certainty; principles guide, but absolutes imprison. Be brave, be wise, be humble, but do not lose the will to fight.
Adaptivism is not about finding rigid answers. It is about constantly refining the questions you carry.
Content written and website developed by Kyle King. Just to have this written down somewhere.