Is there anything cool happening anywhere else?
It made me think of your inner asshole from slide one. By all means, try to do it. try this: http://1000awesomethings.com/ Try anything.
It feels like this text was incompatible with the audience I choose for it multiplied by my (in)competence. Either I was too confusing on writing, or else there is a general dislike of using specific examples here both because of this one example generalization and because of other optimizing.
In any case, just not to leave in blank, what I intended to do was making people notice that their own doubts fall into one of the three categories, and, upon that reflection if they thought "Oh, now this seems worth trying" they would try one of those things.
Seeing your link made me think though that a danger of the whole... (read 1102 more words →)
Fixed.
I suspect anyone here is less different from Tim Ferriss than they'd like to be able to justifiably claim (see here, here, here, here).
I don't mean Tim the Result. Results are clouded by what has been brought to attention in one of the 2009/2010 rationality quotes here
... (read 588 more words →)Were it possible to trace the succession of ideas in the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, during the time that he made his greatest discoveries, I make no doubt but our amazement at the extent of his genius would a little subside. But if, when a man publishes his discoveries, he either through
I suspect, about the bissexuality hack, that just going there and kissing a non bearded guy works faster, and only if that doesn't do the trick one should start using slowmotion behaviorism.
I suspect working with someone only works when the someone you work with is goal driven by a goal that matters at least a little bit to you. I have no one who shares my goals enough to both 1) want to work alongside me 2) be among those whom I'd have working alongside, if given a chance.
BTW my goals can 90% be achieved alone in the sense of without a partner, but not in the sense of without a motivational human driving force.
I suspect it is possible to be blissfully improductive forever, and that thought alone can dominate my attention for weeks.
Society, by survival, in the survival of the fittest sense, stimulates people to be of service, be interesting, useful, effective, and even altruistic.
I suspect, and would like to know your opinion, that we are, for that social and traditional reason biased against a life of personal hedonic exploration, even if for some particular kinds of minds, that means, literally, reading internet comics, downloading movies and multiplayer games for free, exercising near your home, having a minimal amount of friends and relationships, masturbating frequently, and eating unhealthy for as long as the cash lasts.
So two questions, do you think we are biased against these things, and do you think doing this is a problem?