Most people think they control their behavior through willpower.
Psychology suggests something far more uncomfortable:
Your environment is controlling you far more than you realize.
The room you sit in.
The people around you.
The standards you tolerate.
They quietly shape your future.
Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.
@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)
I watched as Windows 95 took away the life energy of so many.
In so many offices. In so many lives. The things, when we look back today did not matter much.
The deadline loomed and the days late allowed the human lives around you to slip away.
That hill was the emptiness.
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
Life pro tip. Not enough people talk about this. The secret to having a "fulfilling" life is doing new things. Radically doing new things. Consistently. Every day. New activities, people, goals, even something as simple as trying new foods. Life feels longer when you're a kid because every day is packed with almost infinite amount of new learning. As you get older, you've already acclimated to your environment, the new inputs stop, so your perception of time speeds up drastically. You fall into routine, which is a time accelerant. If you want to feel like you have a long infinite lifespan, like you did as a child, you MUST be having new experiences, which slows time down.
🧬 This matters more than most people realize. The five nucleic acid bases, adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil, are the exact alphabet used to encode every living thing on Earth.
Finding all five on asteroid Ryugu means the raw chemical ingredients for DNA and RNA form naturally in space, without any biological process. They survive interstellar travel and planetary impact.
The implication: Earth may not have originated these molecules. They may have arrived here the same way they arrived on Ryugu delivered from space over billions of years through a process called panspermia.
Life on Earth may have had a cosmic address before it had a planetary one.
📌 Nature Communications Uracil in the Ryugu Samples and the Extraterrestrial Origin of Nucleobases
There is a specific kind of intelligence that is almost never celebrated but is consistently effective: the intelligence that recognizes when the game being played is not the game worth playing.
dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic.
and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic.
humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.