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One of the biggest learnings I've had after coaching for 10+ yrs is that most people don't actually want to stop suffering - more often than not they want to do everything they can to keep suffering so long as it justifies not having to face the other thing they're more afraid of
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Universities are funny. Hey what if we took a medieval institution for training priests and aristocrats and combined it w a hedge fund, sports franchise and resort for teenagers
Oh and it'll be the backbone for fundamental research for our entire civilization
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The emergence of midwit as an insult is a function of how high the bar has gotten for parsing the complexity of our current world
Functionally 95+% of the population has lost any capacity to make sense of what is going on
This isn't a good thing
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Pretty sure you can be in the top 10% of just about any professional field by actually caring about it for non-status reasons
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Is there any greater art than the sweeping aside of an entire tedious discourse with a single well-made meme?
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I've found one of the biggest challenges to me picking up new skills is that I really hate the feeling of being bad at things
Any of you found a successful way around that?
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When your partner is sharing their problems with you, it's important to get clear whether they just want you to listen or if they want you to actually raise an army to avenge their fallen line and help them reclaim their throne
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We destroy nearly all gifted children by rewarding them for party tricks (precocious demonstrations) rather than deep learning (pushing oneself to the edge where you discover your limits, and engaging from there)
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@gbrl_dick
My wife, on arriving in the US: "Wait, yellow school buses and walmart are REAL?"
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I'd like to create an ineffective altruism movement. Giving skateboards to dogs. Building a statue of Mel Brooks in every city in Canada. Buying mosquito nets for Iceland. Who's in?
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I've really enjoyed stumbling onto TPOT. There really does seem to be some emergent developmental cohort that exists internationally and that finding each other is a big part of creating the more beautiful future each of us has been incubating a piece of in our hearts
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As a married person reading the constant stream of takes on current dating dynamics feels a bit like reading news about faraway wars - some combination of abstract horror, curiosity and gratitude
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I like how letting my garden go to shit has led to everything flowering and lots of happy bees and butterflies everywhere
Getting to see my laziness become a gift.
Guessing this probably applies to some organizational contexts
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If you feel a vague sense of dread, at least consider that part of it is that your main contact with the rest of the world is the internet, and the main people who produce content on the internet are miserable
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Pretty sure nearly all human dysfunction can be reduced to context mismatch. The stuff that was adaptive then* (*evolutionary history, childhood, at your old toxic company, etc.) ain't working now. But our bodies and psyches are deeply programmed NOT to forget those lessons.
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I'm a free and independent thinker. That's why I start every morning by blasting my eyeballs with a running list of the takes that have been most liked by other people
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You know how chatgpt gives you better results if you give it lots of context, a specific goal and ask it to roleplay the type of character you want?
It works with people too
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@benedictevans
There's some sort of meta joke here with all the people in the comments missing your point
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I used to find orthodox Judaism unbearably silly, but for the people who really live it, things like rules about which pant leg you put on first force every prosaic action into a form of relationship with the divine
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I don't think I personally know a single high quality thinker who associates with a political party anymore
Hard to say what mix of good and bad signs that represents
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One of the most profound shifts possible in human life is moving from "we're all going to die 😰" to "we're all going to die 😊"
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I'm really enjoying twitter since
@RichDecibels
framed it to me as "friend dating." At the same time, noticing falling back into the same constant phone checking dopamine loop that had me leave fb. Have any of you degens figured out a healthy relationship to this place?
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Just throwing it out there, but it would be amazing if Microsoft named their integration of gpt into the Office suite "Clippy"
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“I’m yearning to be closer to nature” what are you talking about? Your face is crawling with mites. There’s probably plants or animals breaking down in your guts right now. There’s pollen and volcanic dust swirling through the air you breathe. There’s probably mold in your walls
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The defining feature of competence is a willingness to face incompetence over and over again
If you suffer from imposter syndrome, the first question you should ask yourself is, "Am I an imposter?"
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Just watched a lecture by Thomas Hubl on the dynamics of ancestral trauma and want to share the parts that stuck w me
A 🧵
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@visakanv
@Jeanvaljean689
One of the most reliable insights in my coaching work is that people mistake what they work hardest at w what they’re best at. The latter is almost invisible
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You can be helpful and deeply unsettling to people just by consistently taking their ambitions seriously
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I want to cultivate a more distinct aesthetic, particularly in my writing
Those of you who have honed this intentionally, what did you do?
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@samswoora
Bulge theory in history is pretty well supported. Basically any society that has a bunch of unemployed unmarried young men is a hotbed for violence
One of the reasons for the crusades was getting all those dudes out of Europe
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What if suffering was just a ploy by big dharma to sell more meditation
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The Las Vegas sphere has unironically convinced me that we are still capable of greatness
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@RichDecibels
When she's upset and you don't know what to do give her a hug
If that doesn't work make her a snack
If that doesn't work I dunno go on twitter
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Trying an experiment for more thoughtful engagement on here
I've been a high lvl exec coach for the past 7 years, working w 200+ sr execs and have seen a lot on how humans and businesses actually work behind the scenes
AMA
(within the bounds of client confidentiality)
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@Tjdriii
You probably should have used any other place than Dallas to make this a fair discussion
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Your opinions on geopolitics don't matter
They affect nothing
There is only your relationship to compassion and power in yourself
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@growing_daniel
It's weird how Americans seem committed to unipolar bad solutions. In Amsterdam there are basically no homeless ppl bc they have a ton of shelter space + mental health services AND it's illegal to sleep on the streets.
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@tautologer
Comes back to my core belief that Bay Area zoning laws are the root of 90% of the problems in the world
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Sometimes I feel heart broken when I think about the sheer number of people - parents and children, wives and husbands, friends, coworkers - who want loving, kind and open relationships with each other, and just can't figure out how to get there
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Two beliefs that seem opposed but are not:
Self care is the speed limit on most people's potential
Doing anything truly exceptional will probably destroy you
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I hope I don't end up regretting this take but the whole abundance / supply-side liberalism thing I see brewing seems like the first viable not stupid political movement I've seen in a while (ever?)
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Are there examples beyond the US revolution where a group of nerds manifested a long brewing paradigm shift into an empire?
Feels like a relevant present moment question
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Twitter is so weird. I try to use it to distill down hard- earned wisdom and reflections from seeing first hand the most intimate struggles of some of the world's best founders and my first viral tweet is a silly mid joke about universities
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My biggest criticism of EA is that they're actively working against my plan to get billionaires to fund a reshoot of game of thrones from season 5 on
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@0xhanvalen
Def. Not sure how much any individual can make sense of at the end of the day as we're not really wired to do this alone. But I've got some tools for navigating uncertainty that do help at least, not least of which includes having a sense of who else to turn to for what.
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Sincere enthusiasm is orders of magnitude rarer than money. If you're truly, unabashedly possessed by something, people will open doors for you just to get a little taste of that glow
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You can grow insanely fast when you just choose the unknown scary fork over and over again
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I thought Gene Wolfe was potentially over hyped after shadow and claw, but now I'm coming up on the end of Urth of the New Sun and wondering what else I'll ever be able to read again
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@miladypresident
I mean endocrine disruptors in everything would be the most direct lead equivalent
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Reconnecting this week w lots of single friends as well as exec clients, and struck by how all of them are yearning for more authentic connection and real talk yet feel like they can't escape the games
There's so much possible on the other side of the courage to take the plunge
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In theory seems like total available computation should be a massive civilization level determinant, right after energy access
But the exponential growth in compute access over the past 50 years doesn't seem to have manifested in equivalent explosions in prosperity?
What's up?
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@david_perell
All the reply guys thirsting for this role will never get it
The people who do have to be convinced to take it bc usually they're already doing something awesome on their own
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Maybe this is more about me and the circles I'm a part of, but it seems like nearly everyone I know (myself included) is feeling pretty lonely
It's weird, we're all looking for each other yet never quite meeting
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Living in Switzerland often feels akin to meeting a non-neurotic, securely attached person with good family relationships and being like wait what? That's one of the options?
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The religious impulse without religious outlets is doing a lot of weird things to people these days
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The gap between people who use AI to augment their thinking and people who use AI to replace their thinking is going to be massive
The latter group won't realize the price they've paid until it's too late to do anything about it
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The primary job of a visionary founder is living in a future that does not yet exist. There is no way to de-risk it. There's no way to stay sane. Your only choice is to stay mad until the world outside you mirrors the world within and it looks like prescience
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@quotidiania
Genuine care is vulnerable. That is beautiful in the same way nakedness is beautiful, and similarly awkward at an office party
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Different people process different feelings in different ways. Some of this clusters by gender but not always.
Pathologizing typical feminine processes was awful. Now we pathologize typical masculine processes. Also awful.
Grow up. Learn nuance. Honor difference. Do what works
I wish I could explain how important it is to me, as a man, to have some bros in my life who will sometimes say 'damn that's crazy, do you want anything else on the pizza tho'
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If you could go anywhere in the world w a good remote income, and wanted to prioritize easily plugging into community that makes you better, with particular interest in the intersection of human potential, depth and entrepreneurship, where would you go? Dark horse candidates a +
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For those of you spiritually inclined, now is a time of testing
What are the limits of your love? Can you see past the calls of othering our bodies crave?
And can you, in exercise of that love, be in contact with a reality that demands the exercise of power for true peace?
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Worrying about if you're good is a surefire way to ignore the real question of if you're getting better
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Personal growth is the process of consistently finding new things in which to be incompetent
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One of the biggest challenges being my own boss is how to handle it when labor wants to go on strike
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Getting laid off sucks
But at a macro level, I'm pretty psyched about the possibilities of a bunch of technically savvy people all simultaneously having to ask what they want to do with their short precious lives, many for the first time
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Because whole areas of presence and parts (in an IFS) sense are walled off behind these frozen layers, resolving individual and collective traumas is a fundamental part of innovation - thawing what is frozen and integrating the vastness locked behind the ice
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Wild to me how many of us have the experience of being totally, provably wrong in our predictions, and then go on to hold our current views with the exact same level of confidence
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@growing_daniel
Same story w Portugal and drug decriminalization - it's not a free for all, the cops will still pick you up for public drug use, the point is that you just have the choice between jail or social services. Support + accountability - it's the most basic thing, we can do this guyz
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Having now lived in Europe for a while I'm starting to get the uncomfortable sense that a lot of what is uniquely amazing about the US is inextricably tied to a lot of what makes it suck
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It's weird how people think they're sticking it to their employers by checking out, when 98% of the damage is to their own lives
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Rereading William James and struck by his idea that a key difference between religious and philosophical insight is one of mood: Stoics may come to accept the mysteries of the universe and its brutalities, but a religious awakening allows one to *love* it
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Collective past traumas show up as frozen layers in the geology of the human psyche and manifest in collective blindspots in the present
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As a dude whose sense of self arises most naturally in the content of the mind, it's taken me a while to learn that words are only a small part of what constitutes a relationship
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@rachelclif
I'm pretty sure that's how my wife feels about me but I do so many awesome things it's hard to really know
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Snow is the most surreal type of weather completely transformative and wacky I give it a 10/10
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@meekaale
I try to Chesterton's fence most things but I'm getting more confident everyday that academia as we know it just needs to end
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My dog can apparently discern between when I'm doing focused work (curls up by my feet) and when I'm faffin around on the internet (barks and paws at me). He's perfect ❤️❤️❤️
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Identity is like training wheels for the human soul
Helps a lot of folks gain confidence when they're starting out
Totally destroys any chance at real learning when relied on beyond that point
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@LindseyBoylan
Right? That's why during the pandemic when so many people were at home with more time on their hands the quality of dot-connecting shot up across society at large
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I think
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Am I missing something in finding nonfiction books to just be a bad format? If it's practical it should be a summary and practice materials, if it's academic it should be a paper and data set. What is the point of 500 pages of nitpicky contextualizing and / or endless anecdotes?
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You sure it's a mental health crisis? Cause it's looking a lot more like a spiritual health crisis to me
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I know many people who think we're headed toward some kind of systemic collapse. I used to feel similarly and have since moved away it, in part having seen how consistently apocalyptic thinking seems to crop up historically especially in periods of high change
What do you think?
I often wonder if “the meta-crisis” is more a description of the collapse of one’s own hyper-modern objective worldview, rather than the collapse of the actual objective world itself.
To what degree are people conflating Ego with Eco?
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Why hasn't there yet been any successful disruption of higher Ed? It seems like both the teaching and research aspects are deeply dysfunctional and the market is huge. Is it a regulatory thing?
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Midlife crises are inherently optimistic because they start from the premise that you still have half your life ahead of you
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I'm not sure what to do with the part of me that wakes up grumpy and goes on twitter specifically looking for takes that annoy me
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Human cooperation at scale is a fragile, beautiful thing
It rests on a foundation of institutional legitimacy
The breakdown of legitimacy - media for sense making, universities for knowledge creation, democracy to distribute power, of markets to meet needs, is horrifying
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There's something about business thought leader aesthetics that automatically triggers my bullshit response, even when the content is good
There's gotta be a way to communicate frameworks memorably that's also elegant and direct and doesn't give off that smell
Any ideas?
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@birchlse
It's fun finding remnants of these in the wild. Psychological metaphors like "buildup of internal pressures" "blowing one's top" etc. that come from the early industrial steam age
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The formula for a golden age is simple but hard to pull off
It's just access to energy surplus + cultural belief that it's possible for the future to be better than the past + individual belief that personal agency can help achieve it
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