that was the first work that put BJJ on my radar as something worth checking out.
agreed with you about the sorry state of post-four-horseman atheism. Dennett is probably still cool. Bret Weinstein replaced them for me, but he's been dabbling a bit into the metaphysical lately. not enough to turn me off, he makes some interesting points.
I do think there is something to the mindfulness meditation that Harris teaches. It is more about practicing the skill of extended focus compared to the scattered thinking of watching tik tok or other super short form content like nostr.
Nothing magical or metaphysical about it, but poorly researched so far. I think the focus of lock picking, reading long form books in dedicated time chunks, or martial arts would probably bring you the same benefit.
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