The Fourth Turning is ramping up quite nicely.
1. Social breakdown
2. Civic mistrust
3. World on fire
4. Career crisis
5. Meaning crisis
6. Debt crisis
Oh yeah and AI is about to nuke the entire playing board. 🤪
It's gonna get real intense here soon.
Last year, as I was talking about how things are going to get worse before it gets better... Yeah this is what I meant. And it's gonna get a lot worse from here.
My perfect health and fitness hotel:
Sleep:
- strong functional AC for sleep
- black out curtains that actually fully black out the room
- Eight Sleep type matress for cooling
- no annoying LED lights everywhere in room (common)
Fitness:
- entire floor dedicated gym with everything you can think of: barbells, plates, kettlebells, running track, machines, etc
- sauna and steam bath
- hot and cold pools (like Japanese/Korean onsens)
Food and drinks:
- healthy clean food, meat, vegetables and fruit
- high protein food, smoothies
- CBD drinks and mocktails (no alcohol anywhere)
Activities:
- private or group fitness, yoga, Muay Thai, BJJ and running sessions
Extras:
- let people do their blood work there, nice excuse to travel somewhere cause getting blood work done is still very difficult in most of the world esp Europe!
There are roughly three kinds of people in the world:
1) those who focus on the past
2) those who focus on the present
3) those who focus on the future
Most people get stuck in (1) and live life largely as a bystander. They become life’s hall monitors as others wiz by them.
Some people are amazing at dealing with what’s in front of them (2) but are not able to think about what’s around the corner. They still do well and generally have a great life. They are wonderful people to hire after 0 to 1 and are optimistic contributors.
The last group of people (3) are extremely well rewarded for being right but the cost is high. They break the social norms, say the heterodox thing and generally are gruff and disagreeable to most others.
There is no right path, but if you don’t know which one you are, you are destined for a very unfulfilling existence because you will be unprepared to deal with other people and them living out their roles.
Think about it.
Learning shit fast made simple:
1) Do it 100 times
2) Look at top 10% outcomes
3) Compare differences between top 10% and bottom 90%
4) Incorporate those changes for next 100 repetitions
5) Repeat 1-4 until people call you a "natural"
We all give up on our dreams because we have 1000 lifetimes of dreams inside us but only one life to live them.
We can dream faster than we can make them real.
So there’s nothing wrong with giving up on 1000 dreams, because it’s the one you keep that counts.
I was feeling 'unfocused' when I woke up this morning. Whenever that happens I do a simple 6 minute protocol that sharpens my attention to start deep work.
1. Google Sri Yantra, get an image from google
2. Stare at the middle point without blinking for 2 minutes straight
3. Rest for 15 seconds and repeat 2 times more
Try it one time, the next time you feel all over the place, and you'll notice the difference.
What I hate the most about posting on X is I still get a lot of brain rot on my feed. I know when I come to post I'll get distracted for at least 10 minutes.
The problem? Consuming content doesn't help me help other people.
How have you managed this?
If you don't build wealth before AI displaces your job, you will be dependent on government transfers for subsistence. If you think making it right now is hard, you don't want to hang around and see when most of the wealth is generated by the AI-industrialists.
AI was built to replace your knowledge work job. Will you replace yourself, or wait for AI to do it? Quit before you're fired. Build before you're replaced.
People fail because they want:
…a dream girl without going on 100 bad dates
…a dream customer without a 100 bad leads.
…a dream body without 100 hard workouts.
If necessity is the mother of invention, repetition is the father of results.
When will there be an AI agent that can one-shot taking a micro-sass idea -> market research -> get first customers -> code it -> iterate on feedback -> distribute/sell?
Tryna put some fire up my/your butty.