Law 13 · Build Before You Are Ready
The man who paid for his own risk.
Tom Hardy put $2.5 million into Taboo knowing half the room would hate it. On why permission never arrives, and why he stopped waiting for it.
Tom Hardy · Actor
Law 18 · Become Dangerous, Then Govern It
The challenges on the mat are bigger than on set.
The director has a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He says the mat is harder than any film set, because nobody can help you there.
Guy Ritchie · Director, jiu-jitsu black belt
Law 13 · Build Before You Are Ready
Doing things rather than dreaming about them.
DJ, actor, kickboxer, and now director. Elba on a father who died at seventy-two and the urgency that followed.
Idris Elba · Actor
The first cup is the quiet one.
A washed Colombian for the hour before the day gets its hands on you.
Red apple, panela, a long clean finish. Roasted in the UK to order and posted through the letterbox, so it is on the counter when you come down. Grind it while the kettle runs. Drink it before the phone.
Inside every bag there is a card. One of the twenty-two laws, printed on thick stock, yours to keep or pass on. The coffee is the point. The card is the gift.
250 g · Huila, Colombia · Washed · Whole bean or ground
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The 22 Laws
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Twenty-two patterns, found in the lives of people who had to earn their ground. Read them slowly. Come back to one.
A man does not rise in one heroic moment. He rises by returning to the work after comfort, failure, resentment, fear, and distraction have all invited him to stop.
One slow, painful brick at a time.
In life, everything meaningful is earned.
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RSNG Coffee · No. 01
The Foundation
Washed Colombian. Red apple, panela, a long clean finish.
The first coffee in the range. A clean washed lot from Huila, roasted light to medium for clarity rather than weight, so it is as good black at six in the morning as it is with milk at ten. Roasted in the UK the week it ships, posted flat through the letterbox.
- Origin
- Huila, Colombia
- Process
- Washed
- Roast
- Light-medium
- Weight
- 250g
- Roasted
- UK · to order
- Inside
- One law card
The first roast is on its way.
Inside every bag
A card in every bag
Thick uncoated card, one colour, one of the twenty-two laws on the front and the whole of it on the back. It comes stapled to the back of the bag and tears off clean. Keep it on the fridge. Give it to someone who needs it.
Stop wishing it was. Start building.
rsng.com/laws/1
Later · the tool
Pocket will hold you
to the code.
It reaches you only when it needs you.
An agent on your phone that carries the 22 Laws as its operating code and runs one practice a day in the law's voice. It is not ready. The coffee, the laws and the proof are. Leave your email and you will hear when it is.
No blue. No streaks you did not earn. The accent appears only when something needs you.
Today
Become Hard To Threaten
You named your salary yesterday. If it stopped on Friday, what is the first thing you would do on Monday?
Practice
Do the work.
Short, plain exercises. Each one serves a law. Most take minutes a day. Pick one and start tonight.
Laurent Frat · Wingsuit BASE jumper
Happy to be mediocre, so he can keep flying for years.
Paramedic, wildland firefighter and jiu-jitsu competitor, then a wingsuit off a cliff. Laurent Frat on training, judgment and the days he walks back down.
Asked when he thinks he will stop:
The thing with a sport like this and any mountain adventure sport is that pushing the limits becomes routine. The more you push, the less sort of intensity and crazy sensations you receive from them, almost. So, you need to keep pushing, and keep pushing and keep pushing to get these similar sensations. [...] What I have found over time is that I want to be comfortable with being mediocre and never being the best wingsuit BASE jumper out there, because by not always seeking the most intense sensations, that I can stay within my margin and have a longer career. [...] The pressure to not mess it up is much higher than anything else. Every jump is the most important jump of my life and I will always consider it as such. If I feel like that pressure that day is too high or if I feel like there is a chance that I could mess it up, I am going to walk down.
Asked about the biggest challenges of flying the suit:
With wingsuit BASE jumping, you don’t rise to the occasion, it’s more like you dip to the level of your training. There’s not so much of a thought process going on, it’s more a flow state, so we are really relying more on our previous training that we have put in.
Asked how crazy you have to be to fly a wingsuit:
Well, certainly I think in order for it to be a sustainable sport, I think that the participant or somebody who practices Wingsuit BASE jumping has got to have the balance of being a little bit crazy – and when I say ‘crazy’ I mean someone who is willing to explore boundaries outside of normal life and maybe somebody who is a bit more driven by passion, than someone on the street. [...] This person also must have a very strong, logic-based decision-making process which allows them to personally assess danger and keep them safe. I don’t think that the word ‘crazy’ fits the profile of Wingsuit BASE jumpers – the crazy guys end up crashing.