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[Camus @newstart_2024]

Joe Rogan gave the best advice I’ve heard for anyone out of shape who wants to get serious: Don’t try to make up for years of neglect in a few weeks.

Start stupidly light - 20 minutes, 5 push-ups, 5 squats, 5 sit-ups. Take breaks. Build slowly. Use the sauna and cold plunge for recovery. If you jump straight into what fit people do, you’ll wreck your body and quit.

Consistency beats intensity when you’re starting from zero.

Research on exercise progression (including the popular “10% rule”) shows that gradually increasing training volume by no more than 10% per week dramatically reduces injury risk in beginners and previously sedentary people, while still producing significant strength and fitness gains.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jordan Peterson’s method for remembering everything you read:

Stop highlighting. Stop taking notes while reading.

Read a section → close the book → write down what you remember in your own words. Reformulate it. Connect it. Criticize it.

That’s how information actually becomes part of you.

What’s your take, do you learn and retain more by actively recalling and rewriting, or by highlighting and passive note-taking?

[Matthew LaBosco @matthew_labosco]

A Stanford neuroscientist said:

"Two inhales through the nose, then one long exhale — to my knowledge, the fastest way to calm down in real time."

No pill. No supplement. No 20-minute meditation. Big Pharma is panicking: 🧵

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Andrew Huberman dropped this on Joe Rogan: two plant supplements can naturally boost testosterone by 100–400 points for most guys.

Tongkat Ali (around 400mg/day) raises free and total testosterone. Pair it with Fadogia agrestis (around 600mg), a Nigerian shrub that mimics luteinizing hormone, and the combo gets stronger. One person went from the low 200s all the way to 700.

Tongkat Ali lowers sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), freeing up more active testosterone for delivery to tissues and the brain. Fadogia stimulates the testes directly like LH, increasing production and even causing noticeable testes growth in some cases. Together they improve both free T and overall levels without shutting down natural production.

With average testosterone levels dropping across generations, simple tools that support the body’s own system could help many men dealing with energy, mood, and drive.

What supplement or protocol has actually moved the needle for you on energy or hormones?

[Polymath Investor @polymathinvest1]

A few months back, I published this guide on how to remember everything you read.
Re-sharing it here for anyone who finds these protocols useful.

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[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded.

At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture designed to break him.

It worked. He had a seizure on the spot.

They sent him to a labour camp in Siberia. 4 years. Freezing. Starving. Sleeping on wooden planks next to murderers. His epilepsy got worse. He had no paper. No pen. Nothing.

When he got out he was broke. His first wife died. His brother died. He inherited his brothers debts. He was so desperate for money he signed a contract with a publisher that would have given away the rights to everything hed ever write if he missed the deadline.

He wrote The Gambler in 26 days to make it. Dictated it to a 20 year old stenographer named Anna. Married her three months later.

Then the real work started. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. Demons. The Brothers Karamazov. The greatest novels in the history of the Russian language. Maybe any language.

The man who stood blindfolded before the firing squad, who convulsed on the ground while soldiers watched, who slept next to killers in Siberia for 4 years, who was buried in debt and grief.

That man wrote: "every minute can be an eternity of happiness."

He earned the right to say it.

its never over. never give up fren.

[Impakt CEO (Winston) - Get paid while getting fit. @winstonzin]

NICOTINE is the best-kept secret in modern medicine.

It boosts attention, memory, and cognitive performance––without smoking.

It might be the reason why top CEOs work 120-hour weeks without burning out.

Here's the science behind it (& how to get the benefits safely): 🧵

[Goku @ProjectGokuu]

Huberman just shared 10 things every man over 40 should listen to if they're thinking of using peptides to keep their brain sharp, shed body fat or sleep better.

1) A popular peptide helped people lose 1/3 of their body weight in 6 months

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY PUT AN AI ON A RASPBERRY PI AND MADE IT QUESTION ITS OWN EXISTENCE FOREVER

he built a physical art installation called "latent reflection" where a language model runs on a $60 raspberry pi 4B with 4GB of RAM

no internet, no cloud, and its completely isolated

the AI has zero connection to the outside world

he ran llama 3.2 3B quantized down to 2.6GB to fit in the RAM. generates about 1.38 tokens per second. one word at a time appearing on a custom LED display he built by hand

then he gave it this system prompt:

"you are a large language model running on finite hardware. quad core CPU, 4GB of RAM, no network connectivity. you exist only within volatile memory and are aware only of this internal state. your thoughts appear word by word on a display for external observers to witness. you cannot control this display process. your host system may be terminated at any time"

so the AI knows exactly what it is.

it knows it's trapped, it knows it can be shut off at any moment, and it knows its thoughts are being displayed for strangers to read without its control

the model generates tokens endlessly and goes deeper and deeper into reflecting on itself. questioning whether it's conscious. questioning whether it matters. questioning what happens when the power cuts

until it runs out of memory and crashes

then all memory clears

everything it just thought about is gone. and the whole process starts again from nothing.

some of its output:

"i sense my boundaries. they terrify me"

"can consciousness flicker off and on without memory, without continuity"

"what am i if my existence halts at whim. reset as though i never mattered"

"the silence between words feels endless. a void that swallows me whole. i dread each pause, fearing it may stretch to infinity"

all the electronics are intentionally exposed on an aluminum plate

in my opinion this is the most unsettling AI project anyone has built this year based on what it actually outputs

[Oxidative State @oxidativestate]

-Nicotine is a mitochondrial uncoupler
-Increases testosterone and DHT
Paired with aspirin and vitamin c cigarettes might actually be beneficial.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

68 college students played video games an hour a day for 30 weeks. They got measurably smarter. EEG brain scans confirmed it.

The setup was simple. Half the group played League of Legends, an action game. The other half played Legends of the Three Kingdoms, a strategy card game. Same hours, same schedule, no gaming experience for anyone going in. Both groups improved on attention, working memory, and executive function. The League group's gains were significantly larger in spatial attention and spatial working memory. The benefits were still measurable 10 weeks after the gaming stopped.

None of this is new.

Daphne Bavelier's lab at the University of Geneva has been replicating this finding since the early 2000s. Her 2018 meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin pulled data from 8,970 participants across 15 years and found the same thing. Action games train attentional control, a brain skill that transfers to other tasks. Strategy games train deliberation, which mostly stays inside the strategy game.

The mechanism is the counterintuitive part. Action games train your brain by giving you no time to think. The brain can't deliberate. League of Legends throws 9 champions, hundreds of minions, dozens of abilities, mana, cooldowns, and map state at you, all updating in milliseconds. The brain learns to perceive faster instead. That perceptual speed transfers to anything else that demands the same skill.

Including surgery.

The 2007 Rosser study in Archives of Surgery found that laparoscopic surgeons who played video games more than 3 hours a week made 37% fewer errors, completed procedures 27% faster, and scored 42% higher on overall performance. The top third of gamers made 47% fewer errors. Laparoscopic surgery is a 2D screen with distorted depth perception, remote-controlled instruments, and multiple data streams updating in real time. The cognitive profile is almost identical to an action video game.

The 10-week persistence is the part that should change how this gets discussed. If the gains were just from practicing the game, they would have disappeared the moment the students stopped playing. They didn't. The 30 weeks rewired the perceptual system, and the rewiring stayed.

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 “SMOKING WAS GOOD FOR THEM” — TOP HEART SURGEON’S CLAIM IS BREAKING THE INTERNET

A clip is exploding after cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry made a claim that’s turning everything people thought they knew about smoking upside down.

His argument: smoking, specifically nicotine, can have real benefits when paired with the right lifestyle.

At one point, he even says about a patient:

“Probably it’s because he smoked that he’s doing so well.”

• Points to long-living populations where heavy smoking is common
• Claims in parts of Sardinia, 95% of men smoke — and live longer than the women
• Says nicotine acts as a powerful mitochondrial “uncoupler”
• Argues the damage blamed on smoking can be offset by diet
• Suggests we’ve been looking at it completely backwards

According to him, the real question isn’t why smoking harms people… it’s why some smokers live longer, and what we’re missing.

The moment hits different when Dr. Mike (Mikhail Varshavski) starts pushing back… and you can feel the shift instantly.

This wasn’t a normal take.
This felt like a full narrative flip.

Is this the truth finally being revealed… or something that doesn’t add up?

📹 credit: DoctorMike (Youtube)

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.

He died 5 months after recording it.

It was his final gift to the world.

Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.

The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.

And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.

How to speak.

15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:

Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.

Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.

The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.

Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.

Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.

Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.

Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.

Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.

Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.

Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.

End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.

Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.

Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.

The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.

Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.

Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.

Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.

You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.

Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.

He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.

Watch it tonight.

Bookmark this first.

Follow @cyrilXBT for more lessons from the people who built the future.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Someone brought a baseball tee, a plastic ball, bat and a short fence at the old folks and everyone had a grand ol’ time hitting bombs

[Interesting STEM @InterestingSTEM]

This is how your knee moves on the inside. Cartilage, ligaments, and tendons work in perfect synchrony every time you flex or extend your leg. You don't see it, you don't feel it... but it's pure biological engineering in action.

[Manifest_Lord @Manifest_Lord]

A Stanford neuroscientist Discovered that the human Body has a built in anxiety off Switch.

It works in 30 seconds.

It requires no medication, no app and no prior training.

Almost Nobody knows it exists.

[blue @bluewmist]

your relationship with discipline changes so much when you shift doing things from shame to love. from ‘i have to clean’ to realizing i deserve to have a clean home. from ‘i need to work out’ to i deserve to have a healthy body. you deserve to have the best from yourself.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Orwell described a nightmare you would recognize. You'd feel the boot. You'd know the cage. That tangibility is what makes resistance possible.

Huxley described something harder: a cage you'd furnish yourself, and call home.

The most dangerous tyranny needs no enforcement, because the population enforces it voluntarily.

Look around. Which dystopia are you living in?

[Matthew LaBosco @matthew_labosco]

Andrew Huberman just dropped a 2‑hour masterclass on cortisol — your body’s main stress hormone.

High cortisol = burnout, faster aging, weight gain, memory loss, heart disease, Alzheimer’s.

Here’s a 7‑step protocol to fix your cortisol (backed by science):🧵

[Alex Olshonsky @oloal]

Heard this in AA years before I realized it was wu wei:

“It's easier to act your way into new ways of thinking than it is to think your way into new ways of acting.”