what i’ve seen from coaching a number of smart people, esp. those with meditation experience, is that there can be a window where someone’s general lvl of awareness* is high, but their compassion, forgiveness and love lvls are quite low this can really suck: more is seen and yet

I rotate words so my children can rotate shapes so their children can rotate hyperobjects beyond my imagination

Inner experience is the most intimate “thing” that exists, and yet I find it heavily under-discussed. The tendency is to universalize one’s own experience; to assume constancy, to outright discard alternative ways of parsing reality instead of being open to the possibility that

tobi lutke 🕷️

every morning i wake up and make the worst possible time management decisions anyone has ever made

The real implication from nano banana pro is its the first AI imagen to cross from toy/artist use to useful to all. A non-experienced user can get a good PowerPoint slide explanation, illustration for a document, or infographic with a first prompt or a round or two of feedback.

Also little known fact but the word decadent derives from decay.

You probably know the right thing to do. At all times, without exception. a thin golden thread stretching a few steps ahead from now. You can feel it or compute it, and then feel it And basically all of your difficulty in life comes from your divergence off the thread

RL optimized LLM learning new skills

Can ultrasound make you smell things that aren’t there? Turns out, yes! We reliably triggered distinct scents like a campfire burn or a garbage truck by targeting our brains with ultrasound. To our knowledge, this has never been done before, even in animals. This may be a

Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson the karma research institute is called samsara

the both convenient and inconvenient truth about the physics of consciousness is that the right type of nothing feels better than almost every and possibly literally every something

Mike Green (Michael Green) and I rarely agree on anything, but this piece he wrote is a must-read for every person in business or finance. One of those things you read and then can't unsee what you learned. yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-li…

post more, be cringe. thats exactly how i got from 879 to 875 followers.

A mistake lots of people who suffer from overthinking make is that they try to solve it by blocking out the thinking. A better approach imo is to tap into and transform the energy of the thought. We can do this by tuning in to the what the thought feels like instead of

One point I made that didn’t come across: - Scaling the current thing will keep leading to improvements. In particular, it won’t stall. - But something important will continue to be missing.

Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use

Reading books 30+ minutes a day was linked to a 20% lower mortality over 12 years The survival benefit was significantly stronger for books than newspapers/magazines (and appeared to be mediated by cognitive engagement)

I run every day for 30 minutes, if I miss a day I add 30 minutes to the next day. This has truly been a game changer, tomorrow I’m supposed to run for 3 weeks.