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doing whatever

[gomi @xoxogomi]

the people who end up somewhere completely different in life usually aren’t smarter or luckier. they just keep taking small chances on things that could pay off way bigger than they cost, keep building things that can keep working even when they’re not actively working on them, stay around people who are already moving forward, and collect enough real results that eventually people have a reason to believe in them. do that for long enough and your life can look completely different before you even realize how far you’ve moved.

[Hades @0xHvdes]

you realizing you've been playing life on hard mode for no reason

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Nicotine can feel like a LIFE-CHANGING drug. But it’s not and here’s why:

Nicotine enters your brain quickly and binds to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

This can increase the release of several neurotransmitters, including dopamine and norepinephrine.

And you can actually feel the effects.

More alertness. Better attention. Less fatigue.

A temporary boost in motivation and mood.

It can even reduce appetite and slightly increase metabolic rate.

So no, the effects aren’t completely imaginary.

The problem is what happens when you keep doing it.

Your brain is constantly trying to maintain balance.

When you repeatedly flood its reward system with nicotine, it starts adapting.

Receptors change.

Tolerance develops.

The same dose doesn’t feel as powerful anymore, so you start wanting more.

And eventually nicotine can stop being something that makes you feel better…

and become something you need to feel normal.

Without it, you might experience irritability, anxiety, restlessness, difficulty concentrating, low mood and strong cravings.

That’s dependence.

And this is where it gets ugly.

If you keep increasing the dose, nicotine can cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness, sweating and dangerous increases in heart rate and blood pressure.

In severe poisoning, it can cause abnormal heart rhythms, seizures and breathing failure.

So nicotine isn’t simply “good” or “bad” for your brain.

It can produce some genuinely useful short-term effects.

But your brain adapts to those effects.

And the same chemistry that makes nicotine feel so good is part of what makes it so difficult to stop.

The short-term boost is real.

The long-term cost is real too.

And that’s the part people usually leave out.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

@liebert_2026 Your younger self would be proud.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Nicotine can feel like a LIFE-CHANGING drug. But it’s not and here’s why:

Nicotine enters your brain quickly and binds to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

This can increase the release of several neurotransmitters, including dopamine and norepinephrine.

And you can actually feel the effects.

More alertness. Better attention. Less fatigue.

A temporary boost in motivation and mood.

It can even reduce appetite and slightly increase metabolic rate.

So no, the effects aren’t completely imaginary.

The problem is what happens when you keep doing it.

Your brain is constantly trying to maintain balance.

When you repeatedly flood its reward system with nicotine, it starts adapting.

Receptors change.

Tolerance develops.

The same dose doesn’t feel as powerful anymore, so you start wanting more.

And eventually nicotine can stop being something that makes you feel better…

and become something you need to feel normal.

Without it, you might experience irritability, anxiety, restlessness, difficulty concentrating, low mood and strong cravings.

That’s dependence.

And this is where it gets ugly.

If you keep increasing the dose, nicotine can cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness, sweating and dangerous increases in heart rate and blood pressure.

In severe poisoning, it can cause abnormal heart rhythms, seizures and breathing failure.

So nicotine isn’t simply “good” or “bad” for your brain.

It can produce some genuinely useful short-term effects.

But your brain adapts to those effects.

And the same chemistry that makes nicotine feel so good is part of what makes it so difficult to stop.

The short-term boost is real.

The long-term cost is real too.

And that’s the part people usually leave out.

[Michael Morelli @morellifit]

The most commonly rated “life-changing” interventions:

- Doing math
- More sleep
- Weightlifting
- α-Klotho
- Oxytocin
- Dihexa
- Modafinil
- Nicotine
- Caffeine

Personally, I’d add bromantane and semax to the upper-right quadrant too.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Going to give this a proper try for the next week and see how it goes.

[Forge Physique @ForgePhysique]

📷📷Brutal Core Workout

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Elon Musk thinks two of the biggest problems in our lives could have surprisingly simple solutions.

The first one is traffic.

His idea is to stop thinking of transportation as a 2D system.

Buildings already go up. So why shouldn’t roads?

Musk argues that if you build a 3D network of tunnels underneath cities, you could keep adding layers of transportation and handle “any arbitrary level of traffic.”

That’s exactly why he created The Boring Company.

But then he moved to something even more interesting:

Medicine.

Musk thinks medicine could eventually become something you program.

For most of human history, discovering medicine has been almost like guessing.

“We find drugs kind of by accident most of the time.”

He compares it to finding a stick in the forest and realizing it might be a useful club.

But now we can construct synthetic RNA.

And if we can figure out what to program into those RNA strands, medicine could become digital.

Instead of discovering treatments by trial and error, we could potentially design them.

Musk’s prediction?

“You can basically, I think, cure almost anything.”

From tunnels that could eliminate traffic to medicine that could be programmed.

That’s the kind of future Musk is thinking about.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Elon Musk thinks two of the biggest problems in our lives could have surprisingly simple solutions.

The first one is traffic.

His idea is to stop thinking of transportation as a 2D system.

Buildings already go up. So why shouldn’t roads?

Musk argues that if you build a 3D network of tunnels underneath cities, you could keep adding layers of transportation and handle “any arbitrary level of traffic.”

That’s exactly why he created The Boring Company.

But then he moved to something even more interesting:

Medicine.

Musk thinks medicine could eventually become something you program.

For most of human history, discovering medicine has been almost like guessing.

“We find drugs kind of by accident most of the time.”

He compares it to finding a stick in the forest and realizing it might be a useful club.

But now we can construct synthetic RNA.

And if we can figure out what to program into those RNA strands, medicine could become digital.

Instead of discovering treatments by trial and error, we could potentially design them.

Musk’s prediction?

“You can basically, I think, cure almost anything.”

From tunnels that could eliminate traffic to medicine that could be programmed.

That’s the kind of future Musk is thinking about.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Is overpopulation really the risk everyone thinks it is?

We’ve spent decades hearing that the world has too many people.

But what if we’ve been looking at the problem from the wrong direction?

Here’s what actually stopped me: the planet could support many times the number of people already on it.

The real risk might be the opposite one not enough new kids being born to replace the people already here.

As Elon breaks it down in an interview: take how many babies were born last year, multiply that by life expectancy, and you get a rough idea of where the population could end up if the trend doesn’t change.

Japan is a good example.

There are already far more older people than young people, and if the current birth rate continues, its population could shrink dramatically over time.

And that’s the part I found interesting.

A population doesn’t just need people.

It needs enough young people to replace the generations before them.

If that balance keeps breaking, you eventually end up with a society where there are fewer and fewer people working, building, creating families and carrying everything forward.

So maybe the question isn’t:

“Are there too many people?”

Maybe it’s:

“What happens when there aren’t enough?”

[gomi @xoxogomi]

NICK SHIRLEY: Nobody actually thanks Elon Musk for what he’s done.

Between Starlink, between Tesla, between X, between the tunnels. PayPal too.

Do people actually realize how much impact this man has had on society?

And everyone just wants to demonize Elon Musk.”

Shirley says Musk has done more than build companies.

He’s also “motivated an entire new generation of innovators.”

A generation of people who are now building and innovating things inspired by Musk’s missions, including his vision of going to Mars.

“And just like the drive to still be doing this. Like, he doesn’t need to be.”

“He’s not money driven.”

And when people still criticize Musk for having money.

“That’s just what happens when you provide such value to the world.”

[gomi @xoxogomi]

NICK SHIRLEY: Nobody actually thanks Elon Musk for what he’s done.

Between Starlink, between Tesla, between X, between the tunnels. PayPal too.

Do people actually realize how much impact this man has had on society?

And everyone just wants to demonize Elon Musk.”

Shirley says Musk has done more than build companies.

He’s also “motivated an entire new generation of innovators.”

A generation of people who are now building and innovating things inspired by Musk’s missions, including his vision of going to Mars.

“And just like the drive to still be doing this. Like, he doesn’t need to be.”

“He’s not money driven.”

And when people still criticize Musk for having money.

“That’s just what happens when you provide such value to the world.”

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Elon Musk explained what he actually wanted to accomplish with his life.

“I wanted to be part of things that would change the world in a significant way.”

He didn’t originally want to work on AI.

He wanted to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy:

Electric cars, solar, batteries.

Then he turned toward something even more ambitious.

Brain-machine interfaces.

Musk believes they could give humans “cybernetic superpowers” while helping people with brain and spinal injuries.

People who haven’t spoken for years could speak again.

People who lost their eyesight could potentially see again.

People who can’t walk could potentially walk again.

And Musk described the goal perfectly:

“When technologies are hitting like Jesus-level miracles, you’re like, that’s pretty good.”

That’s the kind of impact he says he wanted his life to have.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Elon just predicted that within five years, digital intelligence will eclipse the combined intelligence of every human being on Earth.

Not “someday.”

He named the year: 2031.

“Digital intelligence will exceed the sum of all human intelligence.”

And that’s just the beginning.

He also predicts there could be at least 100 million humanoid robots could exist within that same five-year window.

Maybe even a billion.

Then he predicts the economy could be roughly twice its current size within 5–7 years.

His explanation?

“We’re going to hit a doubling period.”

Three massive predictions.

All within the next five to seven years.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Jordan Peterson on why lying might be ruining the adventure of your life without you even realizing it.

When a lie of yours actually works on yourself or on someone else the person succeeding isn’t really you. and if it’s not you succeeding, then you’re not really living your own life.

Peterson puts it this way:

“If you’re not telling the truth, it’s not you. If it’s not you, then you’re definitely not having the adventure of your life.”

So ask the harder question: if that wasn’t you succeeding, what was? sit with that for a while and it gets uncomfortable fast. Uncomfortable enough to straighten a person out.

The fix is almost insultingly simple:

Start telling the truth, even if you’re terrible at it. You’ll get hammered for it but metal that’s hammered carefully enough becomes something beautiful.

the adventure that justifies your entire life might literally be telling the truth. Most people avoid it for one of two reasons to manipulate others, or to dodge the consequences. Either way, you’re slowly giving up the only real adventure you were ever going to get.

So pick one: are you a rabbit, or an adventurer on open water? because backing away from that adventure might really be backing away from the one thing standing between you and dying bitter.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Joe Rogan hears Ben O’Brien describe the moment he unknowingly got within seconds of having his face ripped off by a 700-pound grizzly bear.

Ben was walking down a dirt road toward a drainage when he saw one of the biggest bears he had ever seen.

He estimated it at 6½ to 7 feet.

Later, they found the track.

It weighed around 700 pounds.

But Ben wasn’t scared.

He was actually watching it the way a hunter watches an elk.

He was even calling out to it.

Because at first, he was still trying to figure out whether it was a black bear or a grizzly.

Then he realized.

It was a grizzly.

And looking back, Ben says he was completely unaware of how dangerous the situation actually was.

Ben: “That bear was about two seconds away from ripping my face off.”

That’s when Joe starts losing his mind.

Because a 700-pound grizzly isn’t just a big animal.

It’s a predator capable of doing unbelievable damage.

Joe points out that he’s interviewed people who had their faces ripped off and suffered horrific injuries from grizzly attacks.

And Ben had a pistol, medical supplies and a tourniquet in his pack.

But none of that would have mattered if the bear had decided to come toward him.

Luckily, the bear kept walking up the drainage.

Ben knew exactly where it was going.

There was an elk carcass nearby.

The grizzly headed toward it, disappeared into the timber, and left them alone.

The craziest part?

Ben wasn’t running.

He wasn’t panicking.

He was just standing there watching it.

He only realized afterward how close he had actually been to one of the most terrifying animals in North America.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Joe Rogan explains why grizzly bears are terrifying and why polar bears are an entirely different kind of nightmare.

Grizzlies are already among the most dangerous predators in North America.

They’re enormous, incredibly powerful, and can run far faster than you’d expect.

But Rogan says there’s an important difference between a grizzly and a polar bear.

A grizzly might attack because it feels threatened, is protecting its cubs, or is defending food.

A polar bear can look at you and see something completely different.

Food.

Rogan: “He smells meat and he’s trying to get in there and eat that dude.”

Polar bears live in an environment where there’s almost nothing to eat except other animals.

Rogan: “They don’t have any vegetables. There’s no grass. All they eat is seals or anything else that’s there.”

Then he tells a terrifying story.

A group of explorers stranded on an ice raft spotted a polar bear.

It kept diving into the water and appearing closer and closer until it reached them.

The bear grabbed one of the men, dragged him into the water, and began eating him on another ice raft.

Rogan’s point is terrifyingly simple:

“Polar bears will come for you.”

At that point, there’s nowhere to run.

Only ice, freezing water, and a predator that sees you as food.

With a grizzly, you might be dealing with an animal defending itself.

With a polar bear, you might simply be the thing it came looking for.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Joe Rogan explains why grizzly bears are terrifying and why polar bears are an entirely different kind of nightmare.

Grizzlies are already among the most dangerous predators in North America.

They’re enormous, incredibly powerful, and can run far faster than you’d expect.

But Rogan says there’s an important difference between a grizzly and a polar bear.

A grizzly might attack because it feels threatened, is protecting its cubs, or is defending food.

A polar bear can look at you and see something completely different.

Food.

Rogan: “He smells meat and he’s trying to get in there and eat that dude.”

Polar bears live in an environment where there’s almost nothing to eat except other animals.

Rogan: “They don’t have any vegetables. There’s no grass. All they eat is seals or anything else that’s there.”

Then he tells a terrifying story.

A group of explorers stranded on an ice raft spotted a polar bear.

It kept diving into the water and appearing closer and closer until it reached them.

The bear grabbed one of the men, dragged him into the water, and began eating him on another ice raft.

Rogan’s point is terrifyingly simple:

“Polar bears will come for you.”

At that point, there’s nowhere to run.

Only ice, freezing water, and a predator that sees you as food.

With a grizzly, you might be dealing with an animal defending itself.

With a polar bear, you might simply be the thing it came looking for.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Joe Rogan and Marques Brownlee expose the strange way Apple can make a better product worse.

Apple has always been obsessed with making its products thinner, quieter, and more beautiful.

But sometimes that obsession comes with a price.

The 2013 Mac Pro looked incredible. Sleek. Tiny. Futuristic.

Then reality hit.

Rogan: “It only had one fan for a six, seven thousand dollar workstation.”

The machine could overheat and throttle under heavy workloads.

Then Apple did something similar with the MacBook Pro.

They put a powerful Core i9 inside an extremely thin laptop.

But the cooling couldn’t keep up.

Marques: “They made the laptop so thin and kept the fan speed so low because it had to be quiet.”

So the processor had to slow itself down to control the heat.

A more powerful chip.

Inside a thinner machine.

That could actually perform worse than the previous model.

Rogan: “Which was to make it look good.”

That’s the strange trap of great design:

You can optimize a product so much for how it looks that you start compromising what it’s supposed to do.

Apple didn’t have a design problem.

It had a problem when design became more important than function.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Joe Rogan explains why bears are the scariest animals on the planet.

most people are scared of sharks, lions or snakes.
joe says bears are in a league of their own.

here’s why:

grizzlies are so powerful they can chase down a full-grown moose and break its back with a single swipe.

joe: “everyone should have a fear of grizzly bears.”

they’re massive, incredibly fast, can climb, swim, and overpower almost anything they come across.

one of his friends watched a grizzly chase down a full-grown moose and break its back with a single slap.

most people think all bears are basically the same.

they’re not.

joe says polar bears are on a completely different level. because unlike other bears, they don’t have berries, grass or plants to eat.

they only eat meat.

which means if a polar bear is coming toward you…

it’s probably not being curious.

joe: “if a polar bear is trying to get into your shelter, it’s because it smells meat. it wants to eat you.”

most bears would rather avoid people.

but polar bears actively see humans as food.

joe tells the story of a group of explorers stranded on an ice raft after their boat started sinking.

they spotted a polar bear on a nearby sheet of ice.

it jumped into the freezing water

swam from one ice sheet to the next

until it reached theirs.

it grabbed one of the men, dragged him into the water, and started eating him in front of everyone else

joe: “they eat you alive. they don’t bother killing you first.”

according to joe, most bears don’t actually want to kill people.

but if a grizzly decides to attack or a polar bear decides you’re food there’s very little you can do about it.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Joe Rogan explains why Anderson Silva was doing things inside the cage that nobody had ever seen before.

Silva wasn’t just beating fighters. He was inventing techniques in real time.

Rogan: “He’s just doing things that nobody had ever thought of at that time.”

One of the craziest examples was his reverse elbow against Tony Fryklund.

His coach told him to stop practicing it because he would never use it.

So Silva went home and made his wife hold a pillow while he kept practicing the technique.

Then he used it in a real fight.

One shot. Knockout.

Rogan: “He’s the one that’s coming up with this.”

That was what made Silva different in his prime.

He wasn’t just studying what other fighters were doing.

He was creating things that other fighters would eventually have to learn how to defend.

[gomi @xoxogomi]

Joe Rogan explains why Anderson Silva was doing things inside the cage that nobody had ever seen before.

Silva wasn’t just beating fighters. He was inventing techniques in real time.

Rogan: “He’s just doing things that nobody had ever thought of at that time.”

One of the craziest examples was his reverse elbow against Tony Fryklund.

His coach told him to stop practicing it because he would never use it.

So Silva went home and made his wife hold a pillow while he kept practicing the technique.

Then he used it in a real fight.

One shot. Knockout.

Rogan: “He’s the one that’s coming up with this.”

That was what made Silva different in his prime.

He wasn’t just studying what other fighters were doing.

He was creating things that other fighters would eventually have to learn how to defend.