
systemlayers
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systemlayers
@systemlayers
Participant in the human experiment awaiting results. Interests: armchair economics/psychology/climate/etc, music Bad at trading. I hope everyone finds peace.


TONIGHT: Tucker Carlson and Joe Kent on the America First solution that Trump can use to move forward on Iran. Watch LIVE at 6 PM ET only on TuckerCarlson.com.


The worlds 20 biggest cities 2010-2100. Work by Visual Capitalist.


Which would you choose?


What changed with dating apps?


Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.

Joe Rogan gets visibly frustrated at Bryan Callen after Bryan calls him "Mr. Scientist" during their vaccine debate.

Uber Founder,Travis Kalanick: when everything is fully automated in the world , that “plumbers become LeBron”. Listen to this, he’s actually right.


Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.




& it’s not just llm’s telling you. you are in a reinforcement loop when you’re on the internet & you don’t even realize it.


I think the only "too late" thing you should be worried about, other than children, is making friends. You need a solid decade of shared experiences to have a deep bond with someone you aren't going to see much once you have a family.


@paularambles yup





The cost of community is inconvenience. This is perhaps the single-most important advice to people in their 20s and 30s.

Bryan Johnson explains why cheat meal is the WORST idea in history “Food is the most complicated. Food is where we go to soothe ourselves, to do a kind of self therapy. Try to start by having a bit more of the good things for you and a few less of the bad things. Slowly work your way into it, because radical change is hard for a lot of people” “Have in the back of your mind a rule that you will never eat fast food ever again. None is better than some. The idea of a cheat meal is the worst idea in history. Don’t do cheat days, don’t do cheat meals, don’t do cheat weeks. Don’t cheat on anything”




We are overstimulated and we don't even notice. Netflix while eating. Reels in the bathroom. Music while cooking. Podcasts on walks. We consume by default, not by intention. You keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. Boredom and silence are the real growth drivers. They give you space to think and create. That's when solutions show up for problems that have been stuck for months. Leave some room.