Most unfortunate photo of today. So in addition to thinking that people are cockroaches government also thinks that people are terrorists that deserves bullet in their head. Unbelievable times.
The only advice i would give a son is the world hates you until you become useful. then it pretends it never hated you, and you must remember that it did, or you will start believing the love is real. and that is how they tame you
never quit.
the universe will test you with silence. answer with more work.
be delusionally optimistic. show up so many times that turning you away becomes exhausting. not inspiring or admirable. exhausting. the kind of presence that wears down resistance the way water wears down stone. not by force. but by refusing to stop.
quitting requires a belief that the effort has a stopping point. that there is a threshold of failed attempts beyond which walking away becomes the intelligent choice. the delusional obsessed man in you should not have this belief.
the universe does give a f*ck about talent. it eventually surrenders to volume. show up enough times and universe has no choice but to rearrange itself around your refusal to leave.
give the universe no choice. and never quit.
Kind of scams which are happening these days. Someone using my number to register for crop insurance and likely gonna claim that amount. Hope folks at @pmfby can take a note of this. This is not a genuine registration, my number doesn't belong to this person.
Shout out the Buddha and everyone before and after him who has taught on this.
Do not build monuments to your suffering. Do not seek out gratuitous suffering.
It’s a small, boring way to live. There is nothing special about it. Find something better to do with yourself.
My favorite quote from Atomic Habits by James Clear:
"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."
Im going to leave you with this tonight.
Underrated life skill: asking for exactly what you want. Most people hint, hope, and wait for others to read their mind. Instead, state your request directly, explain why it matters to you, propose how it benefits them too, and give them an easy out. You'll be shocked how often the answer is yes. The worst they can say is no, which is exactly where you started. People actually respect clarity. Fortune favors the bold, but it adores the specific.
It's one of the most elegant psychological traps humans build for themselves.
The genius of this defense mechanism is that it lets you maintain two contradictory beliefs simultaneously: "I could be great if I tried" & "I'm not trying, so I can't fail"
It's Schrödinger's self-image. You're both talented and safe from discovering you're not. The waveform never collapses.
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
Beware the trap of being really smart yet spending most of that bandwidth on things you have little control over.
High intelligence with little agency is the pipeline to unexplainable anxiety