I can understand abstaining from alcohol if someone struggles with alcoholism, is trying to lose weight, has a religious dietary fast, has a sober straightedge job (air traffic controller) & some other reasons.
But the biohackers & the secular puritans (killjoy was here) are really annoying, as they attempt to turn their personal peccadillos into status norms. Go be an ersatz 'monk' if you like, but I have no interest in your lame attempts to fill the god-shaped hole in your life with spreadsheet-brain sperging. You will die someday, just like every other bastard born.
Life is about quality & intensity of experience, not quantity of time.
Just saw Drake working the Apple table at Best Buy. Blue polo and all. Said he didn’t need the money, just wanted to help out over the holidays. I said man, aren’t you worried about what people will think? He said nah. It’s not about what people think, it’s about what they feel.
the only consistently proven path to success is being completely delusional about your own abilities and refusing to let reality update your priors until the universe eventually gives up and lets you win. every founder who made it was told they were crazy. every artist who broke through was "unrealistic." every person who built something from nothing had friends and family genuinely concerned about their mental state. the "rational" people who "knew their limits" and "had realistic expectations" are all working for the delusional ones now. you literally cannot achieve anything extraordinary while maintaining an accurate assessment of your odds. the math never works. the market is always saturated. someone more qualified is always already doing it. if you actually internalized the statistics you would never start anything. success selection bias means we only hear from the delusion that worked out. but here's the thing - the cautious realistic people didn't make it either. they just failed quietly at things they didn't care about instead of loudly at things they loved. fake it till you make it isn't a hack. it's the whole game. you act like the person you want to become until your skills catch up to your confidence. there is no other way. the gap between who you are and who you're pretending to be is called growth. stay delusional.
Girl I invited over: I saw this video that said Bourdain broke how a generation of men eat 😂 Factsssss lol
Me: (texting Vietnamese guy i hired to surprise her with a traditional pho dinner) Stay In The Cave