Lucius

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[positivity moon @arrtnem]

Because the first time you do it, you feel it in your body. You walk toward the venue and your hands feel slightly empty. You keep checking your phone even though nobody’s coming. You stand in line and suddenly you’re hyper aware of where to put your eyes. You’re scanning faces like you’re looking for someone to rescue you from looking like a person with no friends.

The brain does this stupid thing where it equates being alone with being unwanted.

Even when you chose it.

Even when you have people.

Even when the truth is just: your schedules don’t match, nobody answered in time, you don’t want to beg someone to live your life with you.

Still, the body feels it as exposure.

That’s why so many people would rather stay home.

They don’t want to miss the movie. They want to avoid the feeling of being visibly alone in public. They want to avoid that tiny sting when you sit down and there’s an empty seat next to you and you can feel other people’s laughter and you wonder if you look sad.

It’s pride. It’s fear. It’s that childhood wiring that says the herd equals safety.

Then you stay home and you scroll a feed of other people living.

You see couples at concerts. Friends clinking glasses. Someone posting museum photos. Someone at a cafe with a book and a cute pastry. You tell yourself they’re having a better life than you.

But half the time they’re just doing what you could have done, if you weren’t waiting for permission from someone else’s calendar.

Waiting is the quiet killer.

Not because friends are bad. Friends are great. Love is great. Shared memories are real.

The problem is when your entire life becomes contingent on other people’s availability.

You turn into this person who is always “down” but never actually doing. Always “we should.” Always “soon.” Always “when everyone is free.” You start stockpiling intentions like they’re experiences.

A year goes by that way so fast it makes you nauseous.

A lot of people don’t realize how much they’ve outsourced their living until they hit a wall.

They break up. Their best friend moves. Everyone gets busy. Someone has kids. Someone gets depressed. Someone becomes a work zombie. Suddenly the social engine that carried you stops. And you’re left standing there like a person who forgot how to walk without holding someone’s hand.

That’s when “go alone” stops sounding like empowerment and starts sounding like survival.

There’s a specific sadness in realizing you’ve been sitting in your apartment waiting for other people to press play on your life.

Like you’re paused until someone else is ready.

learn to go alone.

Not because it makes you edgy.

Because it keeps you from turning your life into a waiting room.

Going alone teaches you something your nervous system needs to learn: solitude is not rejection.

You walk into the coffee shop alone and nobody cares. The barista does not care. The couple at the corner table does not care. The guy on his laptop does not care. Most people are so wrapped up in themselves that your aloneness is invisible.

That’s the first relief.

The second relief is quieter: you start noticing what you actually like.

When you go with friends, you’re in group mode. Compromise mode. Conversation mode. Social performance mode.

Alone, you’re in attention mode.

You notice the light in the museum hitting the floor. You notice you want to stay five minutes longer in front of one painting. You notice which songs hit harder when you’re not trying to look cool about it. You notice you like sitting by the window. You notice you prefer earlier showtimes. You notice you like walking slowly after the movie instead of immediately debriefing it.

You start developing taste that isn’t filtered through anyone else.

That’s a form of adulthood people skip.

Also, going alone is a kind of quiet rebellion against shame.

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

The last 25 days I wasted my time/energy on a project for some stupid Indian client who wanted everything done for cheap. They didn’t even know what the f they wanted. Once the design was ready, they said okay, and then when it was about to finish, suddenly they weren’t satisfied

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

I’m glad his cars aren’t selling well in India. Indian Gen Z who desperately wanted “disruption”, here is your chance, burn down all his tesla stores.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤔

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

Alan Turing literally laid the groundwork for the digital and AI era we’re living in, and still barely anyone remembers him outside of a niche academic circle (and it hasn’t even been like 100 years yet). 1000 years is kinda very unrealistic.

[‎Wojak Codes @wojakcodes]

do you think humanity will remember Elon Musk after a 1000 years?

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

Wishing a very happy birthday to Prime Minister Narendra Modi! 🇮🇳 @narendramodi

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

The only time my Abacus skills actually came in clutch was when a real estate agent tried to play smart with some fake land dimensions. I did the mini seizure hand thing, calculated the correct numbers, and called him out on his bluff.

[SriSathya @sathyashrii]

Do you regret not learning Abacus ?? --- YES/NO

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

If a student struggles with a subject, most of the time it’s either because they weren’t disciplined with their studies, or they just had poor guidance.

[Baxate @Baxate]

“i’m not good at math”

no, you’re lazy and undisciplined. years of not applying yourself to understand what is arguably the most important subject compounded to the point where you are functionally mathematically illiterate.

now, you use this as an excuse to make yourself feel better, that some people just have the math gene, and you don’t. They were lucky, you were not.

nobody is born knowing calculus, and yes very few people are savants. The rest of us didn’t understand it just like you, but actually put in the work to make the unknown to us, known.

put in the effort to learn math, it’s worth it.

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

This is an interesting article I came across on Hacker News about how air pollution is directly linked to increased dementia risks. Give it a read.

https://t.co/6YAELsfaoW

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

couple of days ago india topped the astronomy & astrophysics olympiad with 5 golds and a silver… but yeah, 77 IQ right?

[Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil]

India is not a uniquely dysfunctional country. Rather, it is a slightly below average country in terms of intelligence and also country performance, sitting at 77 IQ in this dataset (our latest) and right on the regression line in terms of performance.

[jack @jack]

app store: https://t.co/uzB0uqRJGy
play store: https://t.co/DEeGbx0D1v

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

though they aren’t hiring for tech roles right now, it’s still great to see them expanding here.

Very good opportunity for young talent to connect with big AI companies within the country.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

OpenAI has started hiring in India as it looks to expand its presence in the fast-growing South Asian tech market. https://t.co/xkCwXrFwVt

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

Nifty IT spiked 933 points today!!

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

There is a lot to learn from this...

[Dylan Field @zoink]

tell me again about how locked in you are

[caiden @parsedpatterns]

they're unhinged. normies live their lives trying to not get noticed and follow the rules, so they get a normie outcome. the guys who are really winning are a little bit insane. they'll walk into a meeting and say what everyone else is thinking but is too scared to say. they'll make a deal that no one else would have the balls to make. they're not constrained by the fear of looking like an idiot. normies will fold first, every time, because their greatest fear is social disapproval. successful people understand that social disapproval is a tax on success.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

I am once again asking you to start and never stop. What the fuck else are you going to do? You AREN'T going to reach your potential? You're just going to sit in front of your little screen all day? You're just going to keep making life hard instead of doing something hard?

[miaysha @miaysha]

Unfortunately, diet, exercise, and waking up at the crack of dawn DOES dramatically improve the quality of your life.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Our open models are here.
Both of them.

https://t.co/9tFxefOXcg

[Lucius @LuciusCastus128]

Back in college, apart from the usual academic curriculum, we had these skill oriented courses where they literally taught us this stuff... lol

Stay out of office politics,
Look busy even if you’re not,
Keep your personal life to yourself, and so on... lol

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

80%+ of all modern office work is performative busywork.