Your Microprinciples Wrapped
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There were 45 issues of this Microprinciples newsletter in 2025. You might vaguely remember one about a glove, or an experiment in reverse advice (which didn’t land), on an earnest use of the term “poppycock” (which did). What a year.
Not one to miss out on a bandwagon, I employed similar methods to the Swedish-Luxembourgish Algo-Factory (i.e., hand-waving, guesswork, lies), and compiled this list: your 2025 Microprinciples Wrapped.
Let’s do this.
Top tracks
The principles that gave you life this year:
You grow toward the light you can find. Soil can twist you into improbable shapes.
Everything is drugs. The old trombones used to say “Just say no to drugs.”
Avoid the need to check boxes. Some things are just information.
Truly, madly, obviously
The principles that made you go, “no doy”:
Sometimes the answer is water. You are water. A sac of liquid with a passport.
You gotta do something. Making and doing is fundamentally pointless in cosmic terms.
Experience and words are not the same. Go buy this helmet, and never speak to me again.
Inscrutable percentage
You’re in the top 0.0000000001% of people who read these:
The experiment works on you too. You’re about to eat an oyster for the first time.
All sight is hindsight. The future, meanwhile, is behind you.
Power is a dance, not a throne. Like a hug or a handshake. There’s no one-sided version.
Thank you, next
The principles (I assume) you stopped reading halfway through:
You’re not invited. Dreams are nebulous. Vision concretizes.
Beauty is better made. What you call “ugly” is everything you resist.
Know when to fold ‘em. Your favorite donut shop changed the recipe.
Your Microprinciples age
No one knows what this means or how it is calculated, but it’s true:
You’re 37
Your new go-to insult
“Trade-in your bovine existence of endlessly chewing algorithmic cud.”
–Boredom is the amuse bouche
Hey, I said that
Principles based on an actual conversation you had with V:
Make a mess, keep it tidy. Go watch a mammalian birth.
Think slow to move fast. The faster you move, the less you can see.
Your handle doesn’t matter. Action matters more than aspiration.
Other side of the tracks
The principles you refuse to accept and maybe for good reason:
Know your eternal questions. Your playground is another person’s taboo.
You must learn to discern. Wisdom isn’t a collection, it’s a chemical reaction.
No growth without demolition. Babies don’t struggle with walking because they’re stupid.
Mom, I’m on the phone!
The principles that made you think of your origins:
You must find the bridge. An offer of a French fry to a seagull.
Stop calling people smart. “Smart” is something you have or you don’t.
Make your boundaries known. But you do this too!
Your Microprinciples club
Which club do you belong to? Cosmic Creator Club, obviously. These principles are especially for you, dear knowledge worker:
Keep your first drafts. Wading into failure is prickly curriculum.
Change the plane of conception. The reason was God’s will.
Never reveal the magic. You’re better off explaining the shape of a sneeze.
You can’t all be the main character. Too many chefs, spoil the plot.
Yuck, yum, whatever. A tree can handle an axe blow; Seedlings need extra care.
True ballads
The principles that hit too close to home:
Let fear ride shotgun. Where “hic sunt dracones.”
Add probably, feel better. There’s a lot that can kill you.
Want what sets you free. The rails you mistake for shackles
Thanks you for reading. Microprinciples now enters hiatus while V figures out what he wants to do with his life. (Because integration requires less.) Much appreciation to the readers who reached out to help with my long-form project. I appreciate you!
Onward.
–V. Sri
Good luck with what comes next. Thank you for Microprinciples!
Macro life!