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50,000 art hoes will save San Francisco: The vision for jumpstarting joie de vivre and re-enchanting hollowed out tech bros DMs are open for venture-related inquiries only

@RogerSeheult smart queen!!!

My wife discovered this years ago.

@nopranablem attention copilot rocks and low key changed my relationship to my work in a butterfly effect way that I can trace back to my first session with pranab, can’t speak highly enough of what he does!

When I launched Attention Copilot, I mostly thought of it as a way to help people get unstuck in one session: Bring a task that feels ugh, reconnect with why it matters, and do it while a coach tracks your attention and inner state. When resistance shows up, we work with it in the moment instead of just talking about it or white-knuckling through it. That still feels core! But after watching people work with us over weeks and months, one pattern stands out: important work is where this stuff shows up. The work that matters asks for more clarity, courage, patience, or focus than your default habits make easy. So when you practice working with resistance while actually doing it, your relationship to work starts to change. For some people, especially at high-growth startups, this looks very practical. Everything wants your attention, and sessions protect time to get clear on what matters, do deep work, and move it forward. For others, AC feels like finally bringing meditation and inner work into the work itself, right when the reactive patterns show up. Either way, the training rep is the same: stay with what matters, work with what comes up, move the thing forward, and get better at doing that outside the session too. A few of the people we’ve worked with for a while put it better than I can!

@mossing_pdf also an incredible executive decision to make one of these lists in the month of may

IN: 5-MeO-DMT Free mimosas Tote bags Building your own email list Mossing The gamification of taking supplements Gathering around shared aesthetics Cycling to therapy Shaking your ass AEDP Parasocial relationships* (*up to a point) Loving your naïvety Starting emails with "hi there" Microdosing before vacuuming your friend's whole house Saying "my weekend was interpersonally complex" in the work check-in Laughing Hyperbole Saying "I'm not giving that a reaction" not bc it makes you feel superior just bc it was the right move Crafting a Hinge prompt that will touch the heart and provoke the mind of everyone who reads it OUT: Talking about the jhanas Going meta when you get scared Rushing the construction of a skin care routine Substack Making Sagittarius placements the villain Reducing mossing to a meme so much that you forget what mossing is Self help explainer essays Gathering around shared explicit goals Disappearing IFS Getting nervous about stupid shit to distract yourself from getting nervous about real shit Getting hacked Paranoia Escapism Overcorrecting Pretending it's not true that you can get pregnant from having sex Saving up all your asks for one moment Premature conclusions Claude (unfortunately and it gives me no pleasure to say)

@mossing_pdf shaking your ass! laughing! naivety! here for it

@rianphin feels good man the doco

can anyone tell me good film post-2020 about / including - meme culture - online culture - influencers - vapid people in la nyc paris berlin - partying / nightlife i love LA / the idol / euphoria vibe culturally but film you think / someone thought was good / not horrible

anyone around in london/edinburgh/greater UK from mid-july? would love to hang out yay

can you people let the art hoes thing die already lmaoooooo

@minnowpark @noampomsky awww ava you look beautiful in these, great shots!

i had the pleasure of photographing @noampomsky a few weeks ago when I visited SF. she's a writer in the way I aspire to be one: having your pieces be ambassadors of empathy and connection my readers. i enjoyed chatting with her as much as taking photos for her, because we were able to talk from the depth of her writing. thank you @christineist for connecting us!

@somewheresy @Brad08414464 ya plz let it die guys

@Brad08414464 Please no more I dont want to have this discourse twice in one year

if you want to save SF, hire art hoes to run all the new philanthropic foundations. this is probably the best way to import art hoes into SF in the near term. art hoes know how to build community and culture. SF could be on par with NYC within a decade x.com/taotechic/stat…

@sluvity_____ anxiety trapped in body

Women who intentionally created slower, softer lives. What did you remove first?

@Travispaints stunning

Pickle ball. My acrylic painting.

@hrstylearchive @elladorn_ my god, just gorgeous

New York City Ballet set models for “Jewels,” by Peter Harvey, 1983

@stableshaman wet market of diogenes adjacent freaks is a glittering image

This is a big problem with the new X The monetary incentives have killed the schizo poster There is too much opportunity here. It used to be a crowded, wet market of Diogenes' adjacent freaks, mutually masturbating. Now it is full of climbers and false prophets spouting words they barely believe to people who hardly care!

@QiaochuYuan hell yeah

@taotechic me and gpt-5.5 are gonna crack the case wide open

i've had this nagging feeling in the back of my mind for years that i "should" meditate more or be more western-buddhist and i think i am really just not temperamentally western-buddhist actually. there are plenty of people who i like and respect who have gone down this path and it seems to have been good for them but i've never been able to stay motivated with a meditation practice, i don't care about awakening as a goal at all, burbea or whoever has never moved my heart in any real way i think the nagging feeling for me comes from this implicit sales pitch that is like "if you meditate enough you will uncover the true structure of how minds work in a way that would be incomprehensible to you otherwise" i.e. western buddhism as a true completion of the rationalist project. and as an ex-rationalist i am tempted by this sales pitch! like i really do wanna know if i'm missing anything incredibly important about minds work, that is relevant to my interests. and it's epistemically horrifying to think that if i don't meditate enough i might die fundamentally confused about the nature of things but. western buddhism as a structure, overall, seems incredibly individualist to me in a way i don't like personally and that i also don't think is the right direction for solving the meaning crisis or whatever. in practice its entire discourse is focused on individual experience. i have always felt like the "for the benefit of all beings" meme is a cop-out that deprioritizes the specific beings you are already entangled in a web of mutual debt and duty and obligation with. there is this huge weird religious shadow i don't understand about ways in which western buddhism was created in competition with christianity while also being wishy-washy about whether it's a real religion or not to maintain a certain kind of respectability that i don't care about the most concrete thing is that western buddhism, compared to christianity, does not seem to prioritize creating structures to raise families in. i visited a few churches a few years back and this was by far my biggest takeaway; that a church is a place where you bring your whole family, you bring the kids and you bring grandma and grandpa. there was a church i visited in seattle where after the service there was a sort of afterparty (sorry i'm sure this has a real name), families relaxing, eating snacks, hanging out, catching up, gossiping, kids running around, then a pastor (?) did a lesson for the kids. incredibly wholesome, amazingly wholesome, left a big impression on me. nothing i've seen in the hippie / authentic relating / buddhist / meditation / psychedelic spaces has ever compared, really, and i doubt that's going to change because again, all of these spaces are situated in a discourse that prioritizes individual experience over everything else i have further doubts about the specific strain of rational-techno-buddhism that appears to quietly have gotten popular in parts of silicon valley and its function as a political tool but that is even more half-baked and i gotta chew on it more first

@nickcammarata @QiaochuYuan ooo damn chonky text! thanks for rec, I’ll def check out when am in a more heady headspace, for whatever reason body has taken over this year it’s just been TRE and walking

@taotechic @QiaochuYuan i recommend getting really into The Mind Illuminated. I lost a year to it, longest I’ve heard is three, but I believe you can get ten. taxonimize each breath, the more categories the better. if you start to get curious about experience, stop and taxonimize that too

@nickcammarata @QiaochuYuan I’d opt for the former seems more fun haha we all merge back together anyway what’s the rush in reading the wikipedia spoilers

@taotechic @QiaochuYuan But maybe some people will purposefully cause the contractive knot labyrinth and try to unknot it manually, like how some people enjoy climbing giant mountains for fun or to look cool. But most just drive

@nickcammarata @QiaochuYuan I just mean wouldn’t it render it meaningless if it were so easy? I don’t optimize for enlightenment, but it would remove a lot of my inherent intrigue if I could make something brilliant on command

I mean there shouldn’t have to be a point in the first place. enlightenment is just realizing clearly what we are, but it was better for evolutionary fitness to install specific illusions that trick us and unfortunately take thousands of hours of annoying practices that are unrelated to enlightenment itself (eg concentration) to see through and undo. ideally the contractive illusions and our default sensory numbness wouldn’t have been there in the first place, I don’t think it’s likely our grandchildren have them except for fun to try it out and understand human history better

@Personhavingfun beautiful

@nickcammarata @QiaochuYuan is this not fundamentally antithetical to the whole point

@QiaochuYuan imo neurotech is about to speed up so much that people shouldn’t stress too much about meditating. the big changes tend to take thousands of hrs of practice, most people who do want the fruit don’t love practice enough to do it, and likely there will be much faster paths soon