Codex Vitae — Strategies, Life Hacks and Bits of Wisdom.

“Book of Life” Covering Beliefs, Strategies, Life Hacks and Bits of Wisdom. Version 1.5, updated December 2020.

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9 min readJul 17, 2016

This Codex Vitae idea comes from my friend Buster Benson, who got the idea from Robin Sloan’s book Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel.

“And this is the other treasure. Following in the Founder’s footsteps, every member of this fellowship produces his or her own codex vitae, or book of life. It is the task of the unbound. Fedorov, for example, is one of these. When he is finished, he will have poured everything he has learned, all his knowledge, into a book like these.”

This idea appeals to me — a book of wisdom that is literally your life’s work.

Following in Buster’s footsteps, having a public version of your Codex makes it easy to adopt other people’s bits of wisdom. I literally cut and paste Buster’s Codex as a starting point for mine and then deleted all the things he’s wrong about.

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