People have been asking about how I went from hardcore atheist to Christian so I wrote up my "testimony". If you're been on the edge of religion, but don't see how you could ever really believe. I was right there, it seemed impossible to me to suspend disbelief, but it turns out
What I like about the wifejack meme is it's almost never used in a derogatory way, she just says stuff wives say without comment if the thing is good or bad, just is.
That's what's confusing the women.
Do men realize the psychic damage they've unleashed. Every woman on Twitter is over-analyzing these, trying to figure out if they pattern match this woman, stressing over whether that's good or bad
Saw the new Airbnb ad where a family is taking photos of themselves doing ordinary things in a nice house...the whole thing just seems gross. Like the American ideal is to rent a house above your social class for a weekend for the sole purpose of flexing on social media.
I love telling people I'm chewing nicotine gum, but never smoked cigarettes. You can see the wheels turn in their mind, then they'll always ask what nictone does and I'll explain it helps you focus at the cost of an addiction and they look at me like a complete degenerate.
I don’t understand how this guy is popular. Every time I try to listen I’m astounded at his midwit takes. Then I check his bio and it says AI researcher at MIT.
Something doesn’t add up.
The people who sounded the alarm on Twitter and continue to lead the charge (that I noticed) were the Complexity Science folks. Let’s not forget and just say it was “weird guys on Twitter”.
Why is it, that when the task is manual labor: something you can complete with your whole body like digging a hole, it's so easy to not procrastinate.?
But when it's working through a problem in a spreadsheet or writing a document the mind reels.
An asymmetry there.
I’m going to write about my friend who built this brewery in his barn. He’s my sort of person. Has his own little value system he lives by. He also built something really amazing. Not just the system, but the network of people who run it.
crazy how society today is set up to stop male friendship.
this must be unprecedented.
it strikes me how rare it is for men my age to have any close friends. Let alone ones they would trust their lives to or be 100% unconditionally honest too.
My hillbilly grandma made sure I knew Jesus loved me and the founding fathers were great.
My old money, Irish grandmother made sure I knew faeries were real and lived in her garden.
Reading Jung’s Aion. He talks about the spiritual void that will happen when people are disconnected from spirituality. That it will make people insane, causing many mass psychosis events. Society will the “treat” this illness through totalitarianism.
welp.
I bought a $10 bag of garlic locally, not because it’s cheaper. But because I can afford it and I want to fund the guy who grows it.
This guy is always tinkering and creating things: saw mills, rc lawnmowers, brewing beer, etc.
You can’t boil that down to a single transaction.
Naive hypothesis:
A lot of the Gen Z negativity around work arises from the increased load of 'emotional labor' required by a lot of service jobs - smiling, being patient, handling rude customers, tolerating shoplifting, etc.
Back in 1983, Arlie Hochschild published her classic
When I first meet a boomer neighbor, 9/10 times their eyes light up when I say I own a software company. They like it out here in the midwest, it makes them feel like they’re part of a scene. You can see them add it to their mental boomer clout index.
In the last two years
@PaulSkallas
has probably contributed more to the understanding of our society and culture than entire departments of universities.
Not hyperbole.
Feels like the whole “let’s start a town” thing is a top down solution that’s doomed to fail.
I have a more achievable means to the same end.
Just make friends with people in your town. They’re just as cool as people on Twitter, I promise.
The impact of 4chan trolls is so amazing. From the 2016 meme wars to Q/capitol riots to the recent wall street bets stuff. It’s all the same people/energy.
Is there a historical analog or can it only exist as such a huge destabilizing force in our new ultra networked world?
I keep hearing more and more guys are being prescribed CPAP machines.
All of the sudden everyone needs a machine so they don’t die in their sleep?
That doesn’t seem right.
I dunno guys, this TL is pretty great.
We’ve got:
- Real life humans infected by memetic internet viruses
- Internet taken over by propagandist dystopian elite ruling class.
- Alternate encrypted comm networks
- Internet crypto money
- Govt drugs
Tell me Gen X didn’t deliver.
i’m growing increasingly convinced that the key to explaining any concept is a great analogy.
if you had one hour to prepare, that time would be better spent thinking of an analogy than putting your complex idea on a PowerPoint.
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So for, the people that want what is on the right like it because it is 'neat' and reminds them of gore or a horror movie.
Optimizing for novelty is a dead end.
The power of Christ to transform my life is another thing that’s been surprising to me as a new Christian. I haven’t experienced anything like it before, both in life experiences in hindsight, presence in every moment and hope for the future.
A surreal moment for me: Back in the mid-2000's I noticed Cormac McCarthy's wikipedia page was fairly light, so I spent some time adding to it. A couple years later he was on Oprah for his first interview and I heard the stuff I wrote come out of Oprah's mouth. 🤯
What does $2.3m get you in Michigan? A beautiful 10k sq ft castle on 6 acres with a mote,drawbridge, and custom stone and woodworking throughout, apparently. Pretty wild.
There's a nerdy teenage boy in my very small neighborhood who is going to have a beautiful spring. There's only one other teenage girl in the neighborhood, so he's the only option. They keep showing up on the trailcam going for walks on my property every morning. My man.
I came downstairs at like 3PM today in between meetings and my wife tries to talk to me.
She asked if I was mad at her. Because I seemed really upset.
I had to explain this is how I am like 90% of the time at work.
That earned me raised eyebrows in return.
4HL energy
My friends and I organize four large parties a year and so can you!
We make memories for our whole community. Here’s what we’ve learned and how we do it. 🧵
Linear thinking at work. You don’t have to overthink working out. It’s not a complicated computation around calories and rest.
You just workout and you are healthier, that’s it.
It takes time to increase energy so if you work out 30min a day, plus 30 min recovery, your energy level in the remaining 17 waking hours needs to go up by at least 100*(18/17 - 1) = 5.88% to make it worthwhile. It’s a scam. Most patterns of working out don’t pay off 🤬
Home sick today, watched “All Quiet on the Western Front”.
Lots of cool hand to hand fighting, obviously big budget. Good cinematography. 7/10.
But it’s your typical WW1 was a “pointless horror” message like the book.
Still waiting for a based Storm of Steel movie.
“One hundred idiots make idiotic plans and carry them out. All but one justly fail. The hundredth idiot, whose plan succeeded through pure luck, is immediately convinced he’s a genius.” -Iain M. Banks
I'm still very early in my Christian journey so I don't share much, but one thing I can say with 100% certainty is that when I invited God to work in my life, he has. I can feel and see it and people close to me have noticed it.
You should know it's that simple.
As people weigh new years resolutions, a consistent exercise routine will pay higher dividends for mental health than anything else you could do, including dropping substance habits for most people. If you’re male and you don’t lift weights, you’re limiting yourself.
I read zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance at age 20 on a backpacking trip to the Canadian Rockies.
I deeply wanted to get something out of it, but I confess I didn’t feel anything at all.
the worst part about school isn’t that the kids can’t read or do math. it’s that they can’t name the birds in the sky, the fish in the water or the trees in the forest.
nephilim are the coolest esoteric Christian thing I had no idea about.
angels come down, mate with women.
babies are giants.
teach men warfare, technology, magic, etc.
God floods the earth cuz it just went sideways.
cool story.
You take Adderall because:
- you have a terrible job
- your natural vibe is so annoying to everybody around you that they made up a disease that describes your personality.
- you think it’s fun to take a little speed every day.
It’s cool.
I’ve got nothing but ❤️ for my people.
Eclipse Reminder - Earth is the only planet that we know of that has a perfect solar eclipse, since our moon happens to be about the exact same size as our sun when seen from the surface.
As far as we know this is a coincidence, and about a one in a trillion bit of luck.
"Do one small good thing; then do another small good thing; then do another good thing."
-Christopher Alexander on how to fix lifeless processes/structures/organizations:
“All doing is knowing, and all knowing is doing.”
It’s rly wormed its way into my head.
v relevant for those of us who tend to get stuck in analysis paralysis. you can read a book, discuss a concept. Until you do it it doesn’t matter.
h/t
@normonics
for a the book rcmd.
Our gold is not your gold.
Threw a rager and a banger of a halloween party at my home this weekend with the help of my friends. Haunted hayride for the kids, 25 ft tall LED neon skeleton, 6 taps, 70 neighbors, friends and good vibes. Here are some reflections on the experience.
Local kid just finished programming boot camp and asked me to mentor him to help him break into the industry. I've probably personally hired 40 engineers in my career and am not afraid to take chances on people, here's the advice I gave this young guy:
De diversis artibus written in 1100, is the only book to describe in detail every major craft of the middle ages. It’s amazing, written for craftsmen it gives a glimpse into how to bootstrap building a blacksmith shop to making stained glass. Check out the TOC for book 3. 🧵
9/10 talking to a professor at a party is brutal. met a guy recently that took the cake though. He bragged about his MBA from Princeton, that he travels worldwide, has an “asian wife” and that he owns 5 teslas in the first TWO minutes of conversation, no exaggeration.
Finally ran into my neighbor who farms the adjacent land. Nice guy, wants to let me know I can buy beef from him. Interesting guy with a nice philosophy, quit his job as an engineer to farm.
Swapping information, if we need favors of each other,hyper local news.
feels great.
I still think the pandemic is massively underrated in it’s impact on American culture.
The massive well of psychic pain and other cultural changes will be seen as history on the scale of WWII I’d bet.
something hilarious about watching a carpenter from maine bait hundreds of adults into arguing with him that video games and sci-fi aren't for children.
this website is amazing.
your periodic reminder that space isn’t just a bunch of empty stuff interrupted by rocks rotating around stars, but that we’re in a weird shrimp shaped egg created by the sun called the heliosphere, coursing through the interstellar medium of our solar system. going to and fro.
your periodic reminder that if a computer can become a super intelligent conscious agent, so can a sufficiently large series of pipes and valves.
reject doomerism and materialism.