Joel - Write Awareness

Today I sent out the first email in my Substack newsletter! Its purpose is to study past Christian writers and share their wisdom with a new audience. If that sounds like something you want to read, feel free to subscribe at the link below or in my bio!

A few years ago, I got into an Uber. The driver and I ended up having a deep conversation. He traced his relationship patterns to how love was withheld from him as a kid. Before I got out, he told me he'd just asked God for a sign to change his life. I recommended a book and wished him well. A week later, I ordered another Uber. It turns out... It was the same driver. And this time, he was reading the book that I recommended to him a week earlier. He told me his life had transformed in that week. That's a Divine Moment. I've shared a lot of my Divine Moments over the past few years online. But I've never actually taught the process for how to experience them yourself. So I'm launching a 2-week course so you can experience more Divine Moments. Over 14 days, we'll use guided meditation and hypnosis to invite more synchronicity, joy, and magic into your daily life. Here's what's included: • 14 live Zooms at 12pm CST (Monday, March 23 to Sunday, April 5) • Full replay access if you can't make it to a live session • Lifetime access to the recordings • 100% money back guarantee • Investment: $44 Join the group here: dannymiranda.com/divine-moments

@heydannymiranda Sounds great! I’m in.

@awilkinson Thomas Edison was exactly like that. Can we just accept that there are all kinds of people in this world? There is room for both Edison and Dostoevsky to change the world.

Most insanely successful people I've met are not even remotely introspective. To me this always seemed more indicative of a personality disorder than a strategy for living a happy life. Extremes create great work outcomes, but not longterm personal or familial happiness.

@TaylinSimmonds Noted. I'll remember this post tomorrow.

Every hour you spend scrolling is an hour that won't exist in your memory tomorrow. It could have been a game of Uno with your mom. An insight from an aged book. The feeling of accomplishment from writing something that just poured out of you. The question isn't whether you know this. It's whether you'll act like you do.

@DionysianAgent Okay I’ll stop

most people are so fucking stupid it's not even funny, i had dose myself daily with heavy marijuana usage just to sink my cognitive elo far enough to play with them but now that i'm sober i see everything clearly and it's just kinda sad how stupid they are... i wish everyone (on this website especially) would stop larping as intelligent please, it's okay to be dumb.. it's a gift to be stupid, ignorance is bliss for you raw intelligence is quite a burden if you actually have it so no need to keep pretending you understand things that you don't understand, it's very obvious to people who actually understand, the only people you're fooling are the ones who are as dumb as you are, and it's insufferable to be witness to all the pretend intelligence going on here all the time

@iamjustincscott Reminds me of this book I read today. Highly recommended.

Some are blessed with great talent. Others with great purpose. But none are more fortunate than those blessed with great love.

@DionysianAgent Wait, you're telling me that an early investor in Coinbase, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Solana, and OpenAI might have some skeletons in his closet? No way.

to maybe speak on this a final time it’s very obvious to me what Marc actually means by introspection here is a mix of guilt and shame he clearly has some skeletons in his closet, a muddied and unfavorable conscience that he wishes to avoid it’s a more complex coping mechanism, he attacks introspection and deeper thought, he tries to position it as something for losers and unsuccessful men but what he’s actually saying here subconsciously is very revealing Marc avoids introspection with himself, he has something inside him that he feels deeply guilty or ashamed of thus he copes by attacking introspection itself perhaps he feels guilty and ashamed for funding a bunch of gambling apps that bankrupt teenagers and young adults perhaps he feels guilty for being part of the transhumanist cohort that seeks to devalue humanity and the meaning of being human who knows maybe it’s even more sinister maybe he was involved in some of those blackmail rings and did some bad bad stuff hard to say clearly there’s is something dark inside that he’ll do anything to avoid however, even go as far to attack the concept of introspection itself

@Dannyjokes Soon all world leaders will just stay home and release AI videos of them doing things.

Everyone treating new Netanyahu videos like the Zapruder film is my favorite new genre on here

@sweatystartup Ear plugs + eye mask. They’re on their own.

A guy on here said he sleeps better with earplugs in. What a joke. It is your duty as a man to hear what is going on in your home and protect your family at all costs. If your sleep suffers it’s because you don’t know how to sleep. Terrible habits.

Change your story. Change your actions. Change your life. In that order.

@creation247 Funny how Tolkien named the modern military industrial complex, with companies like Palantir and Anduril.

I thought we'd get movies like this forever How spoiled we were and I had no idea

@inversebrah His whole career is a scam and a grift. That's a fact, provable, not an opinion. So I really don't care for his opinions.

hes softening the crowd

@justalexoki Dostoevsky. Dumas. Reading fiction grows your soul. And it makes you a better writer.

ok so I just need to read "good fiction". what's "good fiction"?

@DanielvsBabylon Just testing myself, for the 1,000,000th time. I failed.

Jesus save me from myself.

If there is no inner self, then explain the continuous thread of consciousness that continues throughout my entire life.

@Cernovich I read Notes From Underground this weekend, and it was a stark example of the misery that results from overthinking. I've been the underground man at times. It's a great read for anyone who wants to know how NOT to think. Also hilarious and entertaining throughout.

Only way out is through.

@DaveRob48526990 All fair points. No, I can't write better than AI. But my writing is human and flows from my mind. AI writing is simply a remix of its training data, so AI can't come up with new ideas. It's not just about writing quality; it's the person behind the writing that matters.

You do not get to choose what opinions you have, though you can choose which of them you write and speak about. You can make efforts to improve your writing, but most people will never be capable of writing better than AI. And it will only get more difficult to do that day by day. Compare yourself to Dostoevsky. Do you come close? Are you sure that in a blind test, AI does not come closer than you?

Have opinions that AI is not allowed to have. Write better than AI can possibly write. I’m not worried that AI was equal to some NYT slop writer. Compare it to Dostoevsky and see who wins.

@SteveOnSpeed Didn't you hear the news? Exercise is bad for you now. Because it "spikes cortisol". You still have time to sell it before word spreads, though.

“You paid $5,000 for that machine?” No, I invested $5,000 in my health. Big difference.

@ItIsHoeMath I just finished Notes From Underground, and it's the best literary example of this phenomenon.

Everything will keep getting harder to understand and everyone will get more confused The people who fall into Insanity the hardest will be the ones who believe in their thoughts the most

@EdLatimore Just wait until they legalize prostitution and the new psyop becomes ‘how getting paid for sex is empowering’. We’re pretty much there already.

This whole account is...fill in some degenerate adjective that is probably insufficient.