Acknowledgements
- Yuhong for her love and helping me think of the lily pads
- Forrest and Ryan for sitting there staring at the lake and listening to me go on and on about the book, and helping with coming up with namings
- Wren for showing me the simplicity of being here and now
- Gil Fronsdal, Diana Clark, Kodo Conlin, Ajahn Brahm, Tan Nisabho, Ajahn Kovilo, all the teachers who were cited in the book
- All those who believed in the book before it existed: Art Lapinsch, Jakub Chalupa, Ekaterina Govorkova, Andrea J Sigler, Chris Wong, Michelle A Priest, Buster Benson, Anthony Polanco, Daniel Vassallo, Louie Bacaj, Ahmet Ege Karman, Fei-Ling Tseng, Gaik Ping Ooi, DJ Carey, Susan Lee, Nine, Julie Alexander, R Hattori, Ash Frazier, Mullakna
- Maymie Chan and Chris Wong especially for early and ample feedback
- Sunday Crew (Fei-Ling, Lyssa, Maymie Chan, Melissa) for providing kind feedback on the first drafts
- Visakan Veerasamy for showing me how to meet my threshold guardian
- Anthony Polanco for being my spiritual brother
- Corey Wilks and Karaminder Ghuman for helping me with intentional life design
- Sashin for endless fun dhamma discussions
- David Perell, Will Mannon, Michael Dean, Rebecca Olsen, and the Write of Passage community
- Daniel Vassallo and the Small Bets community
- Working Out Loud Group (Ayush, Julian, Roscoe, Chris Wong) for accountability and keeping me going
- Simone Silverstein for teaching me to write snappily
- Salman Ansari for showing me the importance of fables
- Journal Zendo friends: Ken Rice, Laila Faisal, Christine Gray, Leo Ariel, Janine Leona Schleicher, Sashin Ranasingle, Bud L, Vicki Tan, Ivy, Alex Salinsky, Andy Hsu, Ethan Reeder, Sandra, Matthew Villwock, Vishal, Jamie Blackrose, Soma Mandal, Michael Dean
- Huge gratitude to Jon Bell for endless motivation and providing me a timely invite to Midjourney
- Rickshaw crew for being there from the beginning
- Joojo Ocran for showing me the importance of storytelling
- Christine Kwong for catalyzing this whole path
- Chris Seeger for providing a fantastic interfaith perspective
- Louis Alley for endless conversations about nothing and everything, and Adobe products
- All those who gave feedback on the landing page copy—I am working on incorporating them and attributing you
- So many others! Any omissions were unintended