Omer Pelman

I'm going to go out on a limb here by saying that Humanity has hit on THE optimal model of education. To define this precisely... must remain in the realm of the contraversial, given the newness of this model (which Humanity as a whole has not recently experienced - if ever). But without prejudice to the ultimate definition, it is nevertheless clear that we are approaching lift-off, if not in the final seconds of the countdown. The way to take this is not about a statement on artificial intelligence. That's a Singularity in its own right. But Human Intelligence is not, conventionally, considered to be on the cusp of a breakthrough - though it certainly is. We will in the near future, and perhaps even on this platform, reach a mathematical characterisation of Educational Paradigms. And, when we've well begun that list, the very paradigm that we're living-through will certainly take top-billing.

@sciencegirl This is brilliantly illustrated 💪❤️

This is how Morse Code works

I used to have a drink or two before a dinner party to "loosen up." Now I take 15 micrograms of LSD instead. Same openness & same ease... Without the hangover and liver damage. And, most of the time, no saying something stupid at 11 PM that I regret at 7 AM. I've always been an introvert. I’d show up to a work event, immediately feel the pressure to perform, and reach for something to take the edge off. And that was the problem. Not the drinking, but what the drinking was covering up. When I started microdosing in 2015, I had two intentions: spend more time in creative flow so I could build a business, and reduce my reliance on alcohol in social situations. The first got me results within weeks. The second one took time, but still affects my life. What microdosing did that alcohol never could was make me aware of the source of the anxiety, not just the symptoms. Instead of numbing the discomfort, it stripped away the pretense causing it. I realized my introversion wasn't a defect to medicate. It was a trait I could leverage. The science backs this up. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials found that a single dose of LSD was associated with decreased alcohol misuse across multiple treatment programs. The mechanism isn't mysterious: psychedelics create neural plasticity and dendritic growth that interrupt rigid behavioral patterns. Alcohol reinforces those patterns. Psychedelics dissolve them. I noticed a deeper shift, one that I can best call psychospiritual. Microdosing helped me confront something I'd been avoiding for years: the fear that if people saw the real me, they wouldn't want to stick around. That's the root of most social anxiety (and no amount of IPA was ever going to resolve it). I still enjoy a glass of wine now and then. But the surrounding compulsion is gone. Alcohol is a $1.5 trillion global industry built on the promise of social lubrication. A tab of LSD costs $10 and does it better, with none of the toxicity. One is taxed and advertised during the Super Bowl. The other is Schedule I. Make it make sense. Has microdosing helped you drink less alcohol? If so, drop your story in the comments below 👇

• be Torakusu Yamaha • the son of a low-ranking samurai astronomer in 19th-century Japan • obsessed with Western machines, you make a living repairing watches and medical equipment • 1887: a local elementary school has a broken American reed organ. Nobody in the small town knows how to fix it. • you take it apart, realize it’s just two broken springs, and easily repair it • but instead of just handing it back, you realize: "If I can fix this, I can build it." • you draw a blueprint of the inside of the organ and build the very first Japanese-made reed organ from scratch • you show it off. People tell you it sounds terrible. • most people would quit. You sling the heavy wooden organ over your shoulder on a bamboo carrying pole. • you physically carry it 160 miles (250 km) on foot, trekking over the brutal Hakone mountains just to reach the Tokyo Music Institute to get real feedback from experts • the professors play it. They tell you the mechanics are brilliant, but the tuning is completely wrong. • you don't get defensive. You stay in Tokyo for a month, sitting in on university music theory lectures, holding a single tuning fork to your ear until you completely master the mathematics of sound frequencies • you walk 160 miles back home • you build a second organ. The professors test it and declare it "as good as those from abroad." • you found Nippon Gakki Co. (which later becomes Yamaha Corporation) • you decide to make your company logo three interlocking tuning forks to remember the pain and discipline of learning music theory from scratch • decades later, your company uses its piano woodworking expertise to build wooden airplane propellers in WWII • after the war, the company uses its new metallurgical expertise from the airplane engines to build motorcycles • you accidentally create a timeline where repairing a broken elementary school organ directly leads to the creation of the Yamaha YZF-R1 superbike • absolute, relentless horizontal integration based purely on figuring out how things work The ultimate testament to reverse-engineering reality.

@MaxNordau He's a genius. Not sure of what... but a genius, for sure.

WATCH: "Professor Jiang" explains that we could fix poverty by printing infinite money but we don't because we want people to be poor. I am not joking.

The @rorysutherland effect

@Walking_cloud9 In Croatia ❤️

@KnowTopologies On an island 🇭🇷

If you truly followed your hard-on, where would you be living right now? Drop a flag below 🇲🇨

This is not a zionist exercise. Just the government saying you can't run from euclid.

@thehealthb0t @iluminatibot Pro tip, in 2016 they discovered that formaldehyde deactivates the transport molecule of the tetanus toxin but not the toxic side chain. They they ran clinical trials to rule out a sub clinical toxicity from the side chain. Not.

The shocking truth about tetanus shots.

This dog performs the most convincing “play dead” you’ll ever see.

That's his training 😂

@TheCinesthetic Val Kilmer :)

Anyone dismissing comedy should take a look at Top Secret! (1984), where an entire sequence was performed backwards and then reversed in post, creating one of the most inventive gags ever put on screen.

He gets it 😎

A legend was born that day🫡

Most of your problems come from people, and cutting them off will solve them all. The truth is simple, not poetic. People bring drama, manipulation, wasted time, and unnecessary stress. They drain your focus, slow your progress, and create obstacles that do not exist until they step in. If you remove them, the noise disappears, the distractions vanish, and the path clears. You do not need to negotiate, you do not need to explain, you do not need to feel guilty. You cut, you move forward, you win.