One of the easiest genuine superpowers to learn: Learn to notice the tensions other people are holding in their bodies. Then temporarily mirror those tensions as you talk to them. Then slowly relax those tensions as the conversation progresses. Watch how relaxed they become.

The ultimate goal is getting paid to be yourself. To solve problems you can't help but solve. To study what you can't pull yourself away from. To eliminate any work that does not challenge you creatively.

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We can't "literally" love other people. The love we feel comes from the part of us we associate with that other person. There's no love that isn't self-love. When two people connect, they quite literally carve out a dedicated, internal space to hold each other's parts. This is

form is the fiber, emptiness is the juice. most people have mostly fiber, no sweet juice. letting go fully is pure juice, sweetness & energy all the time, no structure. most spiritual tradition’s ideal is like the orange, plenty of juice but enough structure to be interesting

One of the worst consequences of the rise of social media and porn addiction is the somatic amnesia it causes. People are rapidly starting to largely forget they even have bodies. It used to be that for our minds to socialize with other minds, our bodies also had to socialize

you can dig your own grave and cause destruction in ways your ancestors could never dream of. they were Ulysses tied to the mast by the ropes of scarcity. you are unbound and all the sirens of the world are calling. brahmastra in the hands of every peasant

Guy BOOK IS LIVE! || CHECK BIO yeah but what makes it tricky is that you have built your entire life and reality on top of that and seeing through it would mean questioning everything and being ready to let go of everything, which can also be dangerous if not done carefully x.com/captain_mrs/st…

The brain’s default neuroeconomy is basically a scam designed to perpetually postpone satisfaction. But there are ways of jailbreaking it. Normally, the reward system runs largely on dopamine, endogenous opioids and serotonin. But for each of these, you cannot hold reward at

During a tutoring call today, someone asked me what was my core motivation to do so much noting meditation. I thought for a moment and what came to mind was an episode of Animatrix; in which a sprinter runs so fast he breaks through a simulation boundary and temporarily perceives

Stuart Sims Dr John Vervaeke That’s what we’re working on - ai tools for communicating with all kinds of really unconventional beings.

Adversity is either excuse for defeatism or spur to transcendence. Beethoven could hear music despite his deafness.

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meditation is great until your body starts showing you what you've been storing in your hip flexors since 2007

Tyler Alterman at least when it happened to me for a couple months it was like the idea of melting into being itself was scary and required pushing against it all waking hours bc the pull into it post-cessation was so strong. then eventually just got tired and did it, other side wonderful

I packaged up the "autoresearch" project into a new self-contained minimal repo if people would like to play over the weekend. It's basically nanochat LLM training core stripped down to a single-GPU, one file version of ~630 lines of code, then: - the human iterates on the

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One of the functions of a good meditative practice is to clear out our Suffering Inbox. Our inner sufferings function a bit like an email inbox that doesn’t let you delete a message until it’s been fully read and understood. It’s why if we keep ignoring our suffering parts, our

I'm experimenting with 5-MeO-DMT because it may be most underrated longevity molecule no one is talking about. + Accelerated neurogenesis: a single dose more than doubled brain cell proliferation and neuronal regeneration in the hippocampus within 12 hours, alongside measurable

I'll be live streaming the 5-MeO-DMT. Am putting together the line up. Who should we have call in?