“Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.” — Ben Okri

The storyline keeps changing. Terrorism, climate, COVID, now AI risk. But somehow the proposed solution remains the same: total centralization of control by a single global government.

This is some next level shit 🤯 A team of researchers from Japan claim to have recreated images shown to subjects using MRI scans and Stable Diffusion (an AI imaging model). AI can now literally see what's going inside our minds.

New Video: Face Your Dark Side, Transform Your Life – Carl Jung and the Shadow youtube.com/watch?v=8S__1h…

I don’t journal to “be productive.” I don’t do it to find great ideas, or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. Morning pages are, as author Julia Cameron puts it, “spiritual windshield wipers.” It’s the most cost-effective therapy

“For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why are you here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals.” Nietzsche - Unpublished note from 1873

You may be surprised to know that ChatGPT’s beliefs about communism and dictators are frankly, dangerous. Are we ok with the next generation of kids learning that communism is a “good thing” and despite a failed and oppressive past it still deserves a “fair” chance? Our kids are

How the twitter timeline feels recently

Josh Waitzkin was a chess prodigy. He won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship at age 11. He became an International Master at age 16. And his life was made into a movie (“Searching for Bobby Fischer”) at 17. But then, around the age of 18, Waitzkin quit playing chess because…

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“AI identifies 3 new Nasca Lines hidden in Peruvian desert” We will discover 100s more. Some that are substantially older. interestingengineering.com/science/ai-ide…

I once asked my mom how she decided when to have her first child, little ol’ me. The answer was simple: “It was something we wanted, and we decided there was no point in putting it off. The timing is never right to have a baby.” And so it is. For all of the most important

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu

🟡 Honey is 80% sugars and 20% water. 🟡 To make one pound of honey, the bees in the colony must visit 2 million flowers, fly over 55,000 miles and will be the lifetime work of approximately 768 bees. 🟡 A single honeybee will only produce approximately

“Like our stomachs, our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger.” — Petrarch

Do you agree?

Here is a 14th explanation for the teen mental health crisis which does not work: parents are increasingly abusive since 2010 (they are not). Nobody has yet proposed an explanation for the crisis that works--especially internationally-- other than the rapid teen transition from

Gym owners on the first week of January

𓅟𓃦𓍝𓆙𓃭𓅓 Episode 18 is now live! 𓅓𓃭𓆙𓍝𓃦𓁟 In this episode, we travel to the Nile Valley, and tell the 3,000-year story of one of the most iconic cultures ever produced by humankind: Ancient Egypt. YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=2cuh1o… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5pvGYF…