Halving progress 11%. #Bitcoin

When you begin meditating, you essentially wait for the realisation that beneath all the surrounding noise lies a profound and absolute silence.

#meditation

Thanks, I'll have a look but I think following specific topics and hashtags of interest has proven more fruitful, for me personally.

There's a significant amount of people wanting topic-based follows clients like forums /Reddit rather than microblogging/ following npubs.

this feels so relatable.

i'm trying to bring different content here, but there's no real audience here for it yet.

i'm basically speaking into the wind, which is okay i guess but disheartening at times.

everyone here seems friendly but it's difficult to find *steady* content besides nostr and bitcoin.

there are some gems out there, but you really have to dig.

My current health plan is:

-Eat real nutrient dense foods.

-Intermittent fast for 12–16 hours per day. Vibes based. And sometimes go multi-day.

-Go for long walks or bike rides in the sun daily. Touch grass and do stuff. Often you can combine this with business meetings.

-Sprint a couple times per week.

-Do cold plunges a couple times per week. Seriously, this seems easy to skip and it’s hard. But if you want to triple dopamine levels for the working day without later downsides, putting yourself in freezing water is the thing.

-Do some squats and pushups. And then deadlift your own body weight for several reps.

-Even then you’ll potentially fail. This isn’t one of those meme posts. I used to be utterly ripped in my competitive martial arts days in my late teens until my mid twenties. But then I got distracted, mainly due to a broken leg and lack of direction. Over the past several Covid years, I’ve weakened, and had trouble hiking mountains. I still have visible abs but they feel fake now. But I focus on a couple things amid my crazy work, which I have ingrained now. The first is intermittent fasting. It literally fixes all my other errors as a baseline. I can fuck up for a year and not gain weight because I only eat in 6 or 8 hour windows. Or even 10 hours. The rest of the time trains the body to burn fat. Next is I do a reasonable baseline of pushups, squats, and sprints per week. Nobody can make me choose to. It’s just my baseline. Last is I do a lot of squats and bicycling to keep my leg muscles interested, which have been mediocre. So if a new martial arts leader has a plan, I’m happy to listen.

Please don’t judge, but for years I’ve wanted to ‘gossip’ or meme or whatever about your perpetually, incessantly “hidden ear”.

I never did because it felt wrong, and careless, and I respect the hell out of you.

I’m just posting this now to communicate, as someone you know nothing about, that I actually really appreciate right now that you’ve shared your ear Lyn.

Thank you. I don’t say that often.

K. Now back to the collapse of everything we’ve ever known…

The idea of going grayscale has crossed my radar before but for some reason I haven’t taken the time to implement it. Probably should though. You find it effective?

I couldn’t agree more with everything else you said. I have my assistant trained similarly now that I’m essentially not to be bothered when I’m out unless the proverbial shit is hitting the fan, blood, death, flames, etc.

Learning to be offline, to subtract as much as possible, to resist the algorithms and the quick dopamine hits, the mindless scrolling, the infinity of ads…it’s a survival skill at this point.

This is the way, I think. I try to do the same with apps on my phone. Basically I’m trying to use my phone as little as possible and make it as unappealing as possible. More specifically I’m trying to stop filling every interstitial period of a day with my phone. Embracing quiet, boredom even. Allowing my brain to wander in a checkout line. That sort of thing. I think it’s really a numbers game. Like if you carpet bomb your brain with inputs and stimuli all day you’re not going to give your brain any space to be creative, make deeper connections, wander, observe, and generate unscripted/unprompted thoughts.

#nostr has done such a good job of breaking my addiction to X and social media algorithms that not only have j not been on Twitter for a month, I accidentally haven’t even checked Nostr for a week and a half.

It’s crazy how much space exists in a day when you just reduce the deluge of inputs you’re accustomed to, when you don’t check your phone every time you have a free second or couple of minutes. When you consciously say I want fewer inputs, and I don’t want the firehose of other people’s thoughts. Your brain starts wandering around, stretching out, breathing again.

Highly recommend.

The plot and script are both excellent. Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack are all phenomenal… giving memorable performances.

No spoilers, but one of my favorite parts about this movie is when the credits roll and George Clooney sits in the back of the cab in New York City, driving aimlessly for however far $50 (in 1997) will take him. We sit with Clooney for a full 2 minutes of no dialogue, staring at his face as he lets his character digest and reflect on everything that’s happened. What an amazing decision from Tom Gilroy, on his directorial feature debut!

Maybe it’s because I work with spreadsheets and boring finance stuff all day, but in terms of fiction I often gravitate toward more fantastical things, like fantasy and sci fi.

I figure if I’m going to read or watch fiction, instead of seeing people navigate boring real life problems, I might as well go all the way and see them try to take down a magical dark lord or something.

But in terms of boring real life movies, there are some amazing ones that hit me anyway despite those preferences. Like Michael Clayton was sooo good even though legal thrillers aren’t my thing. Hard to believe it’s approaching two decades old.

Maybe it’s because I work with spreadsheets and boring finance stuff all day, but in terms of fiction I often gravitate toward more fantastical things, like fantasy and sci fi.

I figure if I’m going to read or watch fiction, instead of seeing people navigate boring real life problems, I might as well go all the way and see them try to take down a magical dark lord or something.

But in terms of boring real life movies, there are some amazing ones that hit me anyway despite those preferences. Like Michael Clayton was sooo good even though legal thrillers aren’t my thing. Hard to believe it’s approaching two decades old.

Realize how few things in life you actually control

Do those things well

And find peace

The crazy thing is that this is actually kind of a common dream variant. I've seen others describe it too. It's something that can come up in our common pysche.

I have it to, for like two different classes. It's not that vivid, but literally 15 years after graduating college I still occasionally have a "fuck, did I not realize I had an class this whole semester?" dream.