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New York wants to ban AI that outscores doctors on medical exams. Over 900,000 New Yorkers have no insurance. 92% of low-income legal problems go unaddressed. Anti-AI NY bill S7263 isn't consumer protection. It's cartel protection. gli.st/ypknnhdn

I am so bullish on the real world. Group events. Cookouts. Sports. Parties. Animals. Music festivals. Phoneless dinners. Co-living centers. Healing centers. Retreat centers. Beautiful views. Group adventures. These things light me up. Tech, ai, and materialism continue to disguest me more every day. The pendulum has swung too far. A small group of soulless nerds will continue to obsess over ai, automation, effiency, and the intellect. But those of us connected to our hearts and spirits are becoming disgusted by it. We want real, and we want human. Expect a huge countersurge of irl businesses and events in the next few years.

@buckmasonusa When are you bringing back the V neck? Yours was the best t shirt I've ever owned

On Scott Adams. A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of life. Scott Adams was not such a man. He was a live player, ever curious, intent on figuring out this simulation that he found himself in. From first principles, Scott unraveled, understood, and ultimately controlled his own reality. He hacked himself with affirmations, others with persuasion, the world with simultaneous sips. He explained people as moist robots, two movies happening on one screen, his world as Gods’ debris. He carved a personal mission to “be useful,” and made us all better writers, public speakers, and persuaders. He preached the footwear theory of motivation, the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters, the skill stack, systems over goals, and of course, the Dilbert Principle. Besides cartooning, philosophizing, and teaching, Scott rose to the occasion and displayed, “the one virtue that cannot be faked” - courage. Scott had the courage to speak honestly as he saw it - about Trump, about his nation, and about his time, even though it cost him friends, audience, money, and his ticket to polite society. Scott had true courage, the kind that makes you unpopular, the kind that is always and everywhere in short supply, At the end, as any hacker of reality, Scott covered all of his bases - he left as a Buddhist, a Christian, and a player in the Simulation. Scott, we didn’t get enough time with you, but you were a mentor and a marvel. You were useful and you were courageous. You were incompressible and indivisible. One of a kind, and generous with your drawing, writing, and speaking. Unlike your squealing critics in the chattering class, you will be read generations from now. On this earth there are many long-lived hells but no lasting heaven. Each heaven must be created and nurtured, ex-nihilo, from mind and from mud. Scott, you created a small heaven for us all, and to a larger heaven you go. A man finds, to his astonishment, that he no longer exists. He asks why, what it was for, and how will the new reality work? When the rest of us get there, we’ll find Scott, ever useful, ready to explain, having figured it all out. Notes: • First line paraphrasing Schopenhauer. • Courage quote via Taleb.

Get morning daylight in your eyes. I wish I’d called it daylight and not sunlight b/c any time there’s clouds people say “there’s no sun here”. Compare how bright it is on an overcast morning w/at night. There’s lots of daylight! Do this every day, especially on overcast days.

Some startling statistics about American healthcare: 1. Johns Hopkins estimated US Medical error accounts for 250,000 deaths per year, making it the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. Medication errors alone harm 1.5 million people each year. (1/10)

@SahilBloom ☯️

A hill I’m willing to die on: Listening to audiobooks on 2.5x speed so that you can flex on reading 100 books per year is foolish. It's much more impressive to read one book and be changed by it than to read 100 books and not feel a thing.

@AbudBakri Absolutely

Early hot take but bookmark this tweet for a few years: The best peptides are going to be: - animal derived/inspired 🧠 - orally bioavailable Sure, it’s cool to be able to take certain injectable peptides.. but unless you’re some bodybuilder/biohacker or treating an specific issue.. injecting yourself daily with compounds still doesn’t sit right with me You mean you need to take 3 shots in the am just to have “energy” and another few shots to sleep/recover? Now animal derived peptides are historically consistent with human biology and deprived from modern intake… makes you think

This is brilliant

The secret to investing is to invest in unstoppable people building inevitable things.

If you cook a lot of ground beef, let me bless you 1. Turn your pan all the way up and flatten your beef like a big burger 2. Let it sear like a steak 3. Break up as normal This creates a Malliard reaction which gives a 10x improved taste I crave this daily

It’s crazy that doing nothing or just being without stimulation is so rare Somehow I was wise enough in the early days of smartphones to not use headphones and I still don’t 10/10 would recommend non doing

@YIMBYLAND Great post

You got to hand it to the SF NIMBYs. Best to ever do it.

@SahilBloom Bulgarians are actually the most correct answer

What’s the most hated exercise everyone should be doing? I’ll start: Bulgarian Split Squats.

about 10%

By the year 1910 - what percentage of USA households were electrified? don't look, answer below

Great wisdom

seeking happiness is making you miserable. either one of three things happens 1) you get what you want. you feel temporarily at peace, but then you continue desiring something else. 2) you don't get what you want and you're miserable 3) you continue chasing it, and are miserable while seeking life works in reverse. stop chasing happiness. realize that happiness and peace are right here right now. start doing things FROM happiness instead of for it. watch your life change.

I’ve never regretted cooking more onions and garlic

this is great