@dthorson yep, and the system is designed to further itself
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Alex Perelman
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Alex Perelman
@thinkmorebetter
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San Francisco, CA Beigetreten Mart 2011
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@thinkmorebetter Corporate hierarchies select for sociopathic tendencies. These sorts of people rise to the top of these profit driven human systems. Seeing this clearly, for me, is an important piece of understanding our world right now. ❤️
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Who can go to war every day without introspection and feel fine about it? Two kinds of people: those with psychopathic tendencies, and the vanishingly rare person raised by profoundly wise and loving parents and community. Guess which one is more common in the C-suite — and which one is confidently steering our planetary systems past their breaking points.
Daniel Thorson@dthorson
This is absolutely the right way to operate, but you better be damn sure you know what is worth caring about, and for most people finding that confidence involves a process of clarifying the interior, aka introspection. Suffering is a feedback mechanism from reality that is telling you you aren’t in right relationship with it. Mystics have known this since the axial age. Ignoring suffering and plowing ahead is a recipe for individual and collective crisis. Being willing to tolerate massive amounts of pain (not suffering, they are different things) is absolutely necessary to ongoingly do what needs to be done.
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This is absolutely the right way to operate, but you better be damn sure you know what is worth caring about, and for most people finding that confidence involves a process of clarifying the interior, aka introspection.
Suffering is a feedback mechanism from reality that is telling you you aren’t in right relationship with it. Mystics have known this since the axial age. Ignoring suffering and plowing ahead is a recipe for individual and collective crisis. Being willing to tolerate massive amounts of pain (not suffering, they are different things) is absolutely necessary to ongoingly do what needs to be done.
David Senra@davidsenra
Elon has a great way of explaining this. He says: "My way of dealing with mental problems is to make sure you really care about what you're doing and take the pain." I think it's so funny that the most productive person on earth does zero meditation or journaling and doesn’t optimize his morning routine. He wakes up and picks up his phone and goes to war. Every day. That's his routine. He goes to war.
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@dthorson alas, also w/ impressive capacity to weave the transcendental experience to prop up the old thesis
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson
A few days ago I tried explaining these ideas but man lived experience is much richer lol Immortalism Manifesto immortalism.bryanjohnson.com
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A year ago, I was battling a mysterious illness that left me crippled with brain fog and skin rashes all over my body.
I couldn't even sit at my desk and work.
I was suffering.
But little did I know this would lead to starting a new business with @BlakeMycoskie, the founder of TOMS Shoes, and going all-in on the thing I was meant to build.
See back in November 2024, I was desperate. I felt like I was underwater every morning when I got out of bed. My brain was barely working enough to tell me it wasn’t working.
When you're trying to recover, you become obsessive about the details. Not in a neurotic way, but in a “this actually matters way".
What you eat. How you sleep. How you start your day.
I turned my kitchen into a lab. The counter looked like a CVS aisle. Pills. Powders. Protocols. The more I experimented, the better I felt.
I discovered that every single morning you wake up in a hole. Your body dumps water, minerals, electrolytes and depletes its cellular energy while you sleep.
That isn’t a defect. It’s your body repairing itself while you rest.
My energy returned. My brain fog cleared. I got my life back.
I wanted to help other people struggling with the same issues. But when I looked at that mess of jars and tubs, I thought:
There has to be a better way.
That question sent me and Blake Mycoskie on a year-long journey. We talked to doctors, biohackers, and hydration scientists. We devoured research on hydration and cellular energy.
The most shocking thing we learned?
Supplements don’t work.
People end up with drawers full of pills they forget to take.
You know what actually works?
Making the right choice the easiest choice.
A simple habit that compounds. One that’s easy to remember and enjoyable, not a chore.
That's why Blake and I aren't building a supplement company.
We're building a habit change company.
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Products don't change your life. Habits do.
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Here's the deal:
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P.S. I think you need to follow me so I can dm you.
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@vividvoid And they should be required to look like the one in the Sopranos. Familiarity = psychological safety.
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Therapist's offices should be exempt from laws banning indoor smoking. Every clinic should have a couple of rooms with leather furniture, glass tables, plenty of windows and a good HVAC system, and therapists with clients who smoke should use them as needed.
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The outside world doesn't see it of course, but a huge part of this whole Israel/Palestine discourse is diaspora and Israeli Jews having an internecine war about what it means to be Jewish.
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@thinkmorebetter Well, the ego doesn't just take credit, it also evaluates outcomes and produces rich emotional stimuli that shape what the body and nervous system decides
The ego is like the elbow, you don't work properly without it but when it's healthy you shouldn't notice it much
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One explanation for why women seem to prefer people-oriented jobs and men prefer objects & systems is that men are much more physically dangerous to women. It makes sense that women would attune to emotion and behavior from a much younger age. We think with our entire bodies.
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A bit of my lore that I haven't ever really detailed here is that I used to run a Burning Man theme camp called Black Rock Gladiators.
We built a joust platform above a giant pink airbag, where people fought their friends with foam weapons. Then the winners could challenge our gladiators to win a patch. All the while, we were running an improv comedy and combat sports show around them - with announcers and field correspondents to interview fighters in between rounds, fake commercials and skits, etc. It was a year round project with high production values that I'm still really proud of.
We took gladiator training very seriously, which led to me practicing several different martial arts and eventually, gaining 65 lbs. and training for a year with the 2017 US Sumo champion.
We built a legendary rivalry with the Thunderdome that culminated in 2019, when I was supposed to fight their champion. I had trained all year for it, and then a month before Burning Man, broke my ankle at a family volleyball game. To his great credit, my opponent came over during the festival, temporarily joined our camp, and volunteered to work my shifts as a Gladiator.
It was a hilarious and beautiful 5 years. I learned a ton about organizing, leadership, logistics, martial arts, construction and much more. Ultimately, we built the largest interactive arts organization in Portland, with over 150 members. I'm incredibly proud of that time of life.
After a good friend of mine took her life, I slowly started to drift away from the Burning Man scene itself. It was always a haven for socially wounded people and addicts, so relationships were often dramatic and difficult. And when it eventually became fully captured by progressive ideology, it became suffocating to me, and I decided not to maintain the project through the COVID lockdowns.
In a lot of ways, the retreats I'm running now are the direct spiritual successors of Black Rock Gladiators. I even use a lot of the same policies, codes of conduct and other organizing principles I developed for that project. And of course I own a new school bus now.
It feels better to me to be using my skills in the service of Dharma and education and helping people reduce their suffering, rather than for a giant hedonistic party. But I'll always be grateful to that bizarre, cult-y, neon anarchist carnival in the desert, even if I never go back. It was the education of a lifetime, and man, did we have a shitload of fun.
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@dvassallo with respect, you are not naive enough to believe that he's too dumb to know what message he was sending
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The Vercel boycott is a bit silly.
A discussion with Israel's PM about AI is not an endorsement of anything. Maybe the photo post was a bit tactless considering what's happening there, but the vicious response to Rauch seems inappropriate.
I'm still going to self-host though.
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What I would really like:
If someone could attempt to explain [1] how there is no doer, yet we can make the choice to do fetter work and observe tension vs brace against or run from it.
[1] In terms someone who has access to the witness mode could understand.
teddy 🎁@teddypresent
avoidance → tension → suffering 1. there are sensations we don't want to experience (thoughts, memories, current moment) 2. we avert our attention & tense against them (push away, suppress) 3. tension ≈ negative valence ≈ suffering will detail tomorrow how to unlearn this
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@thinkmorebetter man there should be way more glory-bathers if it worked like that😂
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too much talk about achievements and not enough about post-achievement.
what will you do once you got those Things that supposedly will make you happy?
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It takes so much for me to not accidentally install this painful program on my 4 year old son.
The challenge is how do I get him out the door on time for preschool without doing the things that install the program.
Joe Hudson@FU_joehudson
The feeling that you “don't have enough time” isn't actually correlated with how much time you have. It’s a feeling that consists of two main things: 1. Emotional overwhelm 2. Chronically worrying about the future Here’s how to overcome it (without willpower):
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Never in a million years would I have guessed how mad this would make people
Cate Hall@catehall
i don't know who needs to hear this, but it's "home in" not "hone in"
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@SenMarkKelly I used to support the idea of banning members of Congress from trading stocks, but there appears to be a flaw in it. What if their spouse is a professional investor? Are they supposed to end their career if their spouse gets elected?
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It’s pretty simple: to stop insider trading in Congress, we need to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.
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@withden_ can I use this with Rails or does it require React?
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@Chris_Smeder @TylerAlterman @tucker_peck @OortCloudAtlas @SF_Jhana_folks I’m glad you started the meetup cause I’m even earlier on the path :)
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I don’t know a polite way to ask for help from people who are further along on the meditation path?
I’m starting to go regularly to @tucker_peck’s weekly meeting and to @OortCloudAtlas’ when I can.
I started a monthly @SF_Jhana_folks meet up. A number of advanced meditators traveling through SF have come. But rarely a local person.
Should I just DM folks to grab tea/coffee? Is that rude?—as some are meditation coaches, should I just hire them to get time with them?
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I am so curious about what holds people back from this. I get so much help from my network and it is often happy to provide
🅱️ is for baby whisperer@babieswithb
If you struggle to tap into the network on here to ask for help (when you need feedback, ideas, collaborators, funding, job opportunities, etc.) what do you feel is blocking you? what would make it 10x easier to ask for help?
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