The soul does not evolve through endless consumption of spiritual content. It evolves through silence, honesty, and the courage to change.
It does not awaken by collecting new labels or identities, but by releasing them, one by one, until only pure awareness remains.
The deepest transformation begins not when you learn something new, but when you become willing to let go of everything that is not truly you.
I keep on revisiting this. You might not realize the depth of what he said. In urdu poetry, there is a concept where poets view God as a lonely being, so lonely that He created free willed humans for company. Loneliness is a Godly trait & whoever enters its realm meets God there
My favorite line from Atomic Habits has been living in my head rent-free:
“It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”
I was wrong
I've been saying for months that open source AI models are 6 months behind frontier
They caught up. GLM 5.2 is as good as Opus 4.8
This changes everything. If you run GLM 5.2 locally no government can take it away. You become sovereign
And even if you run through APIs, its a fraction of the cost
The battlefield is different now. If open source is as good as frontier, and people have cheaper alternatives, governments can't be as quick to regulate. It will destroy the frontier AI labs
All of this is such a massive win for the people
If you are not paying attention to local models yet, you are making a tremendous mistake
Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.
I just finished East of Eden this morning. I'm not religious at all but Steinbeck looked me in the eye and said: you are not destined to be your worst self; you are not condemned by your past; you get to choose, every single day, you get to choose. This book doesn't need you to believe in God (I judged it too harshly and quickly). It only needs you to believe in people...the terrifying, beautiful fact that we are capable of both darkness and light, and that the choice between them is always, stubbornly, ours. Honestly, one of the most devastating things I've ever read.
The next stage of evolution for humanity is not void of light Artificial Intelligence.
It is Angelic Intelligence. A reality where light and love are the foundation and essence of everything that is created.
A world aligned with the energies of Source, where civilization leads with the heart, all for the greater good.
Joseph Campbell spent five years in a rented shack with no job, reading nine hours a day. no income, no plan, no publication deal. his sister brought him groceries. he later called it "the most fertile period of my life." the hero's journey was written by a man who spent five years doing nothing the world would call productive. I find this fact more useful than most business books combined.
i have improved my life a lot by training myself to complain as little as possible and focus my attention on things i like and enjoy instead. i believe im in the 99th percentile of this skill. however, i failed to consider that this is a very alienating and bizarre way to live
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. But a great artist—a master—can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is…and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be…and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart…no matter what the merciless hours have done to her.
Look at her.”
~From Robert Heinlein’s ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’
let the world do what the world does. I’m focused on what I can control: my hands. my hours. my standard. my effort. my consistency. these are mine. and when I maximize what’s mine the world tends to respond. not always on my schedule, but it responds. and the response has been reliable enough over enough years that Ive stopped chasing the things I can’t control and started trusting the thing I can.
Avoiding confrontation is single behavior that will ruin your life
You must CONFRONT. Confront your problems, confront your avoidances, confront those behaving improperly
The only way out is through. And to blast through requires confrontation