Timo

[naiive @naiivememe]

The older I get, the more I understand this man

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

The coming years are going to be insane. I say this figuratively and literally. The primary reason is because society is about to enter a phase transition.  This is what a phase transition looks like.

Water at 99°C is hot, stable, behaves like a liquid and follows the laws of hydrodynamics. At 101°C, water becomes a gas, making it chaotic, expansive, and following a different set of physical laws.

The difference between 2026 and 203X is the difference between 99°C and 101°C.

To make this tangible. Imagine you’ve become a proficient swimmer. Mastering your stroke, breathing and pacing. The water is a predictable substrate that you use to model your decisions. This is life at 99°C.

At 101°C the pool turns to steam. You stroke your arms but don’t move. You kick and don’t find resistance. Your swimming proficiency is no longer an asset, it’s a liability. Your muscle memory is a mismatch for the new environment. You have to unlearn to relearn.

This is what life planning is going to feel like going forward.

For most of history, you could make a pretty decent guess about what the future would look like. If you were a farmer in 1400, you knew your grandchild would probably be a farmer in 1450. That was even true in 2003 when I entered college. One could confidently attend college, select a career, plan a profession, and map out retirement by age 65.

We felt confident in these plans because we depended on broad trends (coarse graining) that reliably predicted the future. Things may change here and there, but not enough to give you any pause in your life-planning decision making.

That stability is now gone. For example, my son is 20 and neither he nor I have any idea how to think about his life. Should he go to college? Is college still relevant? What should he learn? Life planning shortcuts are now dead. No one knows. Before, having a five year plan was responsible. Now it’s reckless because the world is moving faster than we can model. The speed of reality exceeds the speed of the observer.

This is the source of the low level anxiety that many people feel. Humans are prediction machines. When an error emerges from what you predicted (water) to what you get (steam), the body registers it as trauma.  It leaves us in a state of chronic hyper-vigilance, scanning a horizon that refuses to sit still.

In this new reality, the move is not to have better maps, but to build better systems. This is what I’ve been building with Blueprint. An algorithmic system of health and decision making that moves as fast as technology, allowing me to evolve alongside.  The more I detach from ideas, norms and expectations, the smoother the glide. The hardest part is letting go of what we know and trust.

This is part of a series of essays that I’ve been writing for my upcoming book Warriors & Caretakers of Existence. A plan on what the human race does when giving birth to super intelligence. If we want the extraordinary existence that is on offer, we’ll need to fight for it.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Fertility rate: children per woman

1950
🇦🇷 Argentina: 3.2
🇧🇷 Brazil: 6.1
🇨🇦 Canada: 3.4
🇨🇳 China: 5.8
🇩🇪 Germany: 2.2
🇮🇳 India: 5.7
🇮🇹 Italy: 2.5
🇯🇵 Japan: 3.6
🇰🇷 South Korea: 6.1
🇹🇷 Turkey: 6.5
🇬🇧 UK: 2.2
🇺🇸 USA: 3.1

2023
🇦🇷 Argentina: 1.5
🇧🇷 Brazil: 1.6
🇨🇦 Canada: 1.3
🇨🇳 China: 1.0
🇩🇪 Germany: 1.4
🇮🇳 India: 2.0
🇮🇹 Italy: 1.2
🇯🇵 Japan: 1.2
🇰🇷 South Korea: 0.7
🇹🇷 Turkey: 1.6
🇬🇧 UK: 1.6
🇺🇸 USA: 1.6

The fertility rate, expressed as the number of children per woman, is based on age-specific fertility rates in one particular year.

Data source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯 hate crime

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Ants making a smart maneuver

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

People in Germany really need to use 𝕏 to know what’s really happening.

The legacy media is pure propaganda.

Send https://t.co/bOUOek6al6 links to friends in Europe!

[Timo @TimoSptz]

@elonmusk So we better keep hanging on 😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock 🤭

[looks like @lookslikethings]

backpack is feeling sad

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🥛 70% of adults are lactose intolerant. People who can drink milk as adults actually have a DNA mutation.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

[Niklas Steenfatt @niklassteenfatt]

"You're only one decision away from a totally different life."

You will spend much of 2024 trying to figure out HOW to solve certain challenges. But now, at the beginning of a new year, you have the great privilege to choose WHAT you want to solve in the first place.

So take this as a reminder that you truly have the freedom to choose who you want to be. You can change your job, your role (even your field of work), your partner (even your relationship model) your country (even your continent), your friends, your style, your diet, your daily routine, ...

That freedom can be overwhelming at times, but it's also pretty exciting! So choose carefully, but do choose! If you haven't formalised and written down your goals for 2024 yet, my recommendation is to spend most of the week doing just that! It might just change your life.

Happy new year to everyone reading this!!

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Website visits for the top 50 U.S. daily newspapers last an average of two-and-a-half minutes.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

“An empty browser history says more than a full one” – Abraham Lincoln

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In Michelangelo's Moses, made in 1513-1515 CE, there is a small muscle carved into forearm. Human body contracts this muscle only when little finger is lifted, otherwise it remains hidden.

© Darius

#archaeohistories

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

We're only 20% done with this century, there's lots more fun still ahead!

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

What's outside our universe? Is it possible for humans to ever know this? Can a video game character ever learn of what's outside the game?

I'm eating an apple outside 7 eleven at 4:40am, pondering this.

Who am I and why am I here?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Ship 16 & Booster 2, Starbase Highbay

[Timo @TimoSptz]

@Frank_SiriuS Das ist sehr cool!