Hey @Support - my account @nattynatman has been suspended for 2 years.
X sent me restoration emails on April 15 and April 28, confirming no violation was found and the account was restored - but it's still suspended.
I've submitted appeals. Can someone look at this manually?
@BonesawMD I’ve noticed if I say out loud to someone that I am going to do something specific, the likelihood of me doing that thing goes down
But if you say more vague things like “today is gonna be a good day” out loud enough, they become true
i don’t think people realize how early we still are in the ai cycle even though the major companies are now becoming public.
the models are getting way better but still have gaps. most of the products are still primitive in so many ways. the interfaces are mostly bad. the workflows are barely rebuilt. the hardware layer has barely started. robotics is just the at the very precipice. consumer behavior has not even begun to rewire yet.
there is a long long way to go. what a crazy time to be alive.
One of the best ways to step off the default path: become a protege first.
If you want to be a YouTuber, work for a YouTuber.
If you want to be an entrepreneur, work for an entrepreneur.
If you want to be a ghostwriter, work for a ghostwriting agency.
This is how you compress years of trial and error into months.
infuse novelty within the mundanity of your routines.
routines aren't bad.
they provide enough stability and repetition to enable actions (the right ones) to take compounding effect.
but, every once in a while - do something actually novel.
use judgement, live your life.
Your brain basically stopped recording your life around age 25. Everything since then is a blur for a reason.
Neuroscientists measured this so many times they named it: the reminiscence bump. Ask anyone over 60 to recall their strongest memories and almost every answer clusters between ages 15 and 25. The decade where everything was new. First job, first apartment, first real relationship. Your brain encoded each day because nothing had a template yet.
After that window closes, most people enter a repetition loop. Same commute, same office, same weekend rhythm. The brain stops recording repeated experiences as distinct events. A year with 300 novel days leaves 300 memory anchors. A year with 10 leaves 10. Both took 365 days to live. Only one of them will exist when you look back.
This is why people at 50 say "where did the time go." The time went into routine that felt like living but left almost nothing behind.
Your remaining years are fixed. How many your brain bothers to remember is entirely up to you.
If winning was guaranteed &certain, you'd go 10x harder at it.
Paradoxically, if you went 10x harder, the win would almost be a guarantee, on a long enough time horizon, for any goal.
It's easy to mentally recognize this, but it ideally should be felt in the body as a fact.
“Wah i need to grind for 6 years for a 6 fig job”
Have you just considered looking sexy & asking for it with only qualifications being “i’m that bitch” & “vibes?”
My brain has been completely fried lately.
The nonstop dopamine machine of infinite AI vibe coding sessions, endless scrolling timelines on every social media app, switching information streams from Netflix to Disney+ to YouTube to Instagram to video games to ripping TCG packs and pulling gacha machines and trading meme coins and looking for the next hit
It’s destroying my memory, my ability to focus, to concentrate, to stay excited by one project or task for more than a few days let alone a few weeks
Talking to friends and other terminally online people I feel like I am not alone and lots of people are going through similar things lately
I took a break day on Monday to basically reset my brain and it was extremely comforting. Almost no tech devices. Read a physical book, did a physical puzzle, went for a walk, wrote with pen and paper.
I think I (and probably lots of us) need to be so mindful of the dangers of infinite dopamine being shoved down our throats and try and escape and heal from it whenever we can
It feels like I’m steamrolling to early dementia otherwise 🙃
The biggest threat to your success is getting distracted by people who do less but seem no worse off.
You will meet people who eat pop tarts, slam booze, and play League of Legends during work with outcomes seemingly no different than your own. They will have you questioning why you're working so hard, if your health matters, and why you're in bed at 9.
These people are Sirens. You must not follow them into the water.
Habits compound, both good and bad. If you don't brush your teeth for a day, you're fine. A week? Fine. A month? Still probably fine. But if you don't brush your teeth for a year? You're absolutely cooked.
What you're doing is worth it, even if it doesn't feel that way today. Stay the course.
People who think they are extremely self-aware are often doing nothing more than turning themselves into a permanent psychological project. Every reaction is analyzed, every emotion is interpreted, every insecurity is examined, every childhood event is revisited.
They call it awareness, but most of the time it is simply self-preoccupation with intellectual decoration around it. The ego has not disappeared, it has become the observer, the analyst, the therapist, and the patient all at once. Years can pass this way. The prison remains exactly where it was. Only the description of the prison becomes more sophisticated.
the feeling of being behind in life and not operating at your full potential never goes away. it should be one of your goals to learn to give 110% each day without expecting anything. when you do that long enough, one morning you will wake up with everything you ever wanted