Crystal Silver

QUANTUM INTEGRATIVE RESEARCH
Strategic Intelligence & Systems Architecture
KNOWLEDGE ➔ NARRATIVE ➔ WORLDVIEW
- everything is connected

[Crystal Silver @crystalsilver]

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[Lewis Howes @LewisHowes]

Your mind is a magnet. It begins with you. 💛

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI abandons plan to transition into a for-profit company.

– The nonprofit will retain control
– The for-profit LLC becomes a Public Benefit Corp

@sama: "We made the decision for the nonprofit to stay in control after hearing from civic leaders and having discussions with the offices of the Attorneys General of California and Delaware."

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Beautiful things from the past 🧵

1. A 16th century ring that unfolds into an astronomical sphere

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

World-class performers don’t have superpowers.

The rules they’ve crafted for themselves allow the bending of reality to such an extent that it may seem that way, but they’ve learned how to do this, and so can you.

These “rules” are often uncommon habits and bigger questions.

In a surprising number of cases, the power is in the absurd. The more absurd, the more “impossible” the question, the more profound the answers.

Take, for instance, a question that Peter Thiel likes to ask himself and others:

“If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can’t you do this in 6 months?”

For purposes of illustration here, I might reword that to:

“What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?”

Now, let’s pause.

Do I expect you to take 10 seconds to ponder this and then magically accomplish 10 years’ worth of dreams in the next few months?

No, I don’t.

But I do expect that the question will productively break your mind, like a butterfly shattering a chrysalis to emerge with new capabilities.

The “normal” systems you have in place, the social rules you’ve forced upon yourself, the standard frameworks—they don’t work when answering a question like this.

You are forced to shed artificial constraints, like shedding a skin, to realize that you had the ability to renegotiate your reality all along.

It just takes practice.

[Milk Road @milkroaddaily]

1/ We're born into a broken system - crypto can fix it

By @coinbase

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“I have four very simple tenets that I operate by and four tenets that I try and operate our company by. … Love of oneself, love of what you do, love of who you do it with, and love of who you do it for.”
— Richard Taylor

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Life in the 1970s 🧵

1. San Francisco's Lombard Street, 1975

[Pierre Kory, MD MPA @PierreKory]

Zenda Avesta, c. 3000 BC.

"There are three things which build and maintain civilization throughout time: pure air, pure water, and pure food.  And as an eternal truth I say unto you, that there are three things which bring the end of civilization, even the mightiest that have ever been and shall ever be, from the beginningless beginning to the endless end of all time: impure air, impure water, and impure food."

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

@elonmusk "War Is a Racket" by Smedley Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps major general and two-time Medal of Honor recipient:

[Crystal Silver @crystalsilver]

The size of the upcoming image catalog now stands at 3,497,035. Significantly larger than a couple weeks ago.

This is because I’ve had my laptop cranking out more variations while I’ve been working with my assistant on scripting for the batch tagging, renaming, and metadata.

[Crystal Silver @crystalsilver]

Despite transitory disruptions to the fossilized status quo.

So much left to do. But it is a mission I cannot seem to pry myself away from. Must be coded into my DNA somehow.