My return-to-nature protocol has been:
- using a physical agenda
- same meals at same times (like I used to have at school)
- same kind of exercise ~4x/week (used to do gymnastics 4x/week)
- learning french 2x/week (puts me back in student mode)
- sleep and wake at same times
5 week birthday glow up countdown
Hair appointment booked
Botox booked
Microneedling booked
Whole foods only
Protein with every meal
Restricting dairy and sugar
Scalp serum and massage every night
Two runs a week alongside strength training sessions
No negative self talk
If you’re a maker of anything you should be living life and talking to strangers and working with your hands and seeing the world. reading and watching movies are great, but you’ve gotta fill your mind and soul with more than just content if you want to have something to say!
I wrote a pep talk recently to myself on a bar napkin: no matter which road you take, it will be both glorious and unbearable. Every road is lonely. Every road, holy. The only error is not walking forth.
You have built an entire identity around being someone who could succeed if they tried. That identity is a warm blanket. Real action is a cold shower. When you finally attempt something, you risk losing the story that has comforted you for years. What if you try and discover you are average? What if you try and find no special talent? This is not fear of failure. This is fear of ordinariness. So you stay in the planning phase forever. You buy the notebook. You watch the tutorial. You tell friends your idea. Anxiety spikes whenever someone asks for a deadline. You are not protecting your future. You are protecting a fantasy that has already expired.
make your personality a mix of theirs
- learn to build fast and think bigger than everyone else from tony stark
- learn to stay calm, speak less, and always be in control from harvey specter
- learn to read people better than they understand themselves from patrick jane
- learn to play the long game and move silently from thomas shelby
The beautiful thing is you don't even need to be exceptional at all of these. Just being above-average on 2-3 dimensions compounds like crazy:
• Work harder than average (easy)
• Work smarter than average (study the game)
• Persist longer than average (most people quit shockingly early)
• Get feedback and iterate (most people just... don't)
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
🚨 Do you understand what just happened?
A guy in Florida asked ChatGPT to sell his house. Not help him sell it. SELL IT. Pricing, Marketing, Showings, Contract.. Everything.
Sold in 5 days.
The average real estate agent takes 6% commission. On a $400K house that's $24,000. For what? Putting it on Zillow and sending you emails?
This man paid $20 a month for ChatGPT and did the whole thing from his couch.
Real estate agents spent 20 years telling you the process is too complicated for normal people. That you need a professional. That the paperwork is too risky without them.
It was gatekept.
And a chatbot just kicked the gate open..
Lawyers are next, Accountants are next, Financial advisors are next.. Every profession that made you feel stupid so you'd pay them is about to get the same treatment.
The middleman economy is dying. And it's not dying because AI is smarter than them.. It's dying because AI proved you were always smart enough to do it yourself. You just weren't allowed to..
I've been reading ancient marriage contracts for a manuscript and I think it's really fun to see that a lot of our stereotypes of the ancient world are actually not the whole story.
Patriarchal societies, sure. But no one can overcome the power of Girl Dad.
🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 12 hours?
> A CEO of a $200 billion company said on camera that 35% of new grads won't find jobs. He didn't even flinch saying it.
> Meta made $165 billion last year and is still firing 15,000 people because apparently record profit isn't profitable enough.
> Some random guy in Florida sold his entire house in 5 days using ChatGPT. No real estate agent, no commission, no experience. Just vibes and a $20 subscription.
> A man in Australia cured his dying dog's cancer with AI after every single vet told him there was nothing left to do. Built a custom vaccine from his couch.
> The guy who created Uber and left 300,000 taxi drivers broke is back. Building robots now because apparently ruining one industry wasn't enough.
> Tinder wants access to your camera roll. Your drunk photos, your 3am notes app meltdowns, your deleted selfies. They're calling it a "vibe check."
> Naval, the man who made hundreds of millions investing in software, just said software is dead. Four words and the entire industry felt it.
> And Anthropic removed the limit on how long their AI can think and then doubled everyone's usage for free. Because when the product is addictive enough you give the first taste away.
All of that happened today. Not this week, not this quarter. Today. A random Saturday in March.
This is worse than you being on meth.
I can't stop thinking about Elijah sitting underneath the juniper tree & asking God to die.
God sent an angel who says, "This journey is too much for you. Rest & eat." & Elijah does.
He wakes up still feeling hopeless, & the angel repeats himself.
It took Elijah longer than he wanted to get better.
Sometimes we want to move but we can't.
Sometimes the journey is too much.
It is not a sin to understand your limitations.
Start there, get stronger, then get up.