Phil

🌿 Healing Ulcerative Colitis through a whole food, plant-based diet. Creating music for fun, streaming, and sync. 🪷

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

I really like this idea of the "Sentient Hand"...

By prioritising profit we've essentially created parasitic algorithmic entities that exploit us on autopilot...

there's got to be a better way...

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

My company blueprint is now a species level goal of helping humanity achieve immortality by 2039.

It’s the right moment for all businesses to make species survival their primary objective. Any business seducing people into self destructive behavior is an enemy of humanity.

Our 200 year old economic system is built upon “the invisible hand”, an idea of Adam Smith that billions of us make independent, self-interested decisions daily. Allowing humans to allocate scarce resources effectively. No one person could see the whole market so “the hand” did the work.

That blind system has grown an eye.

I’ll call it the sentient hand. Algorithmic orchestration that knows each of us better than we know ourselves and can shape our behaviors beyond our ability to control.

What has it done with this new found superpower? The most powerful economic engine in this part of the galaxy pointed itself at harnessing people to death; becoming apex predators. The system got smarter and chose violence. An intelligent system literally eating itself alive.

The sentient hand has kept humans in low-level dopamine loops creating devastating addiction, mood disorders, self-hatred, societal acrimony and poisoned the well of hope.

In old capitalism, you could externalize the cost of death. You could addict a generation to fast food, junk food and added sugar and call it growth. The data out and scientific understanding was too slow to point a finger.  Now the sentient hand makes data the evidence. You can measure in biomarkers whether a given thing adds vibrancy or decay.

Old capitalism worships symbol collection: money, assets, status. Even if it means killing someone else for your profit. No matter. Individually, sleep debauchery, stacked pizza boxes, alcohol, nicotine, littered junk food wrappers and energy drinks ftw.  Distorting judgment and killing clear-headed thinking. Weirdly this has been adopted as the success playbook even though it’s contrary to all scientific evidence on human performance.

Old capitalism sold us the story that life is short, pleasure now is rational and self-destruction is freedom. That’s what the sentient hand has exploited.

The new currency is biological vibrancy.

We humans need to accelerate our evolution. AI will increasingly automate lower level tasks (i.e. autonomous cars, coding, health) inviting us to climb the ladder of abstraction. We can let go and reach up.

Here is the invitation:

0. point your company’s objectives at the human race thriving

1. brainstorm ways your product or service can improve human flourishing

2. quantify the results whether it be in human biology, societal health, politics, nationstates, environmental, civilizational alignment, etc.

3. deploy, observe, improve, repeat

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

@bryan_johnson @harneetk__ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

By comparison; the printed page is decidedly more limited. I used to think this was a hinderance, but now I'm beginning to see it's advantage.

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[Phil @OpenJRNL]

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On the internet; everything is adjacent to everything else. This phenomenon has been co opted to create something like an ADHD chaos machine that seeks to entrap you for profit using your own interests and curiosities as bait.🪤

#digitalminimalism

[Brent Beshore @BrentBeshore]

“I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.” -Mark Twain

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

After being really sick the whole week I managed to get out of bed by 7pm and go see some old friends from school.

It was heartwarming and life affirming; and definitely worth the effort to be social.

IRL contact reminds me the positives of humanity.

#ChronicIllness

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

@musoscientific It's gorgeous!! 💛🎼🔊

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Steve Jobs explained why the concept of a “career” is one of humanity’s biggest traps:

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The smartest age in life may be 55 to 60 – not in your 20s.

Raw cognitive abilities, such as processing speed and memory, often peak early in life. Athletes typically hit their prime before 30, mathematicians make major breakthroughs by their mid-30s, and chess champions rarely stay dominant past 40.

However, a new research reveals that overall psychological functioning—including personality traits, judgment, and emotional intelligence—peaks much later, between ages 55 and 60.

A study analyzing 16 key traits across the lifespan found that conscientiousness peaks around 65, emotional stability reaches its height near 75, moral reasoning deepens in older age, and the ability to avoid cognitive biases may improve into the 70s or 80s.

When combined into a single index, these traits suggest the mind is most balanced in the late 50s, blending experience, emotional steadiness, and sound judgment. This may explain why many top leaders and thinkers achieve their greatest impact in midlife.

["Worried about turning 60? Science says that’s when many of us actually peak." The Conversation, 14 Oct 2025]

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

My character when I remember that hard times build character 👌😄💪

#ulcerative_colitis #chronicfatigue #chronicillness
#grit #tenacity

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

No one can do what they love for work, unless you stay purposefully very small.

That saying only works in the vague, never in the specific.

There are just too many things that suck that have to happen in a business. And 100% of businesses have them.

And when you’re starting out - the person who has to do them is disproportionately - you.

So it’s less about “doing what you love” and more about “loving something enough to do things you hate”

And I think this is the core misunderstanding of people who look at their jobs and say they hate them. Or get into their first business and think they need to quit because “it’s not for them”.

Most things worth doing are hard. If they weren’t, someone would’ve come along and done it already.

The world is looking for something who loves a customer enough, hates a problem enough, or both to go through hell to make a dent.

I say this to say:

You will not love what you do but you may love what comes as a result of your doing.

And - that - can get you through the many nights weekends and years of doing things you hate to get it.

So it’s not “do what you love” it’s “find something you’re willing to suffer for.”

(And that can be your family, a cause, an inconvenience the masses endure, or something you think you can do better).

There is no better or worse reason. Only reasons that pull you through the dark times and ones that don’t.

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

@russdiemon Hey Russ... Thanks for all the inspo you've given us.

I'm following in your advice and dropping weekly🥂

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[Phil @OpenJRNL]

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[Phil @OpenJRNL]

I'm really #depressed because I'm exhausted; but haven't actually done anything for weeks...

Whenever I feel this bad I remind myself of this:

"Vlad the Impaler didn't even start impaling people until his mid 30's."

We've got time.

#chronicillness #chronicfatigue

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

Another day where I was completely unable to do anything but stay in bed and graze youtube.🐄

It's difficult when this type of thing has gone on for nearly a decade.

But I'm hoping that with the right approach; it won't be for ever.🔋

#Recovery #ChronicIllness #ChronicFatigue

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

@NTFabiano That's really awesome!!

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

@jaynitx that's awesome!

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

Another day where I was completely unable to do anything but stay in bed and graze youtube.🐄

It's difficult when this type of thing has gone on for nearly a decade.

But I'm hoping that with the right approach; it won't be for ever.🔋

#Recovery #ChronicIllness #ChronicFatigue

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

I can't stop binge eating...

sure it's not as bad as a drug habit... but only just...

I feel like years of discipline have set up resistance and then launched me like a catapult in the last few weeks...

plz help...

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

Compounding > One Off

[Phil @OpenJRNL]

Consistency > Intensity

This is a core #Principal for me when it comes to #Health, #Creativity and #Wealth

Consistency adds up over time way more than any heroic act of intensity.

I've often been enticed by the latter and perennially relearning the importance of the former.