thomas

If this works it's AGI

Daily showers are purely ‘performative’ and have no real health benefit, experts insist

Anyone remember this famous battleground?

first time drinking this, genuinely so yummy wtf

Not sure what changed but the baseline moderate level of anxiety I usually experience and have been experiencing for years is just gone? And I can breathe properly?

You can grind your way to the top 10% of most fields. The top 0.1% works differently: it's reserved for people who've found the work so absorbing they've stopped noticing the grind at all. Edison's assistants said he genuinely couldn't understand why his employees got tired. He'd hammer at a problem for thirty hours, look up confused that everyone else had gone home, and assume they were ill. Tesla regularly forgot to eat. Marie Curie, working in a freezing shed with radioactive material, wrote that "work made the Earth a paradise for me". This is misread constantly. People assume these figures had superhuman willpower. They did not. They had a totally different relationship with effort; the effort in itself was the reward. Forcing yourself to work hard is exhausting. Not being able to stop is something else entirely. The market doesn't reward people who push themselves the hardest. It rewards the people who don't experience it as pushing at all.