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I'm not complaining (I haven't bought a house yet).

At the risk of being "that other guy", psychedelic experiences come in many different categories of experience: ranging from mere distortions of our normal, subjective state of per…

This tale of this siege encapsulates the unwavering determination of Alexander to overcome and conquer. Anyone interested should read the accounts in Arrian and Quintus Curtius Ruf…

Given that everything we experience in this life is through our consciousness, equating depression to a shift in consciousness isn't heavy lifting. This is an association where I w…

I'm not retired, but I am shift worker in Healthcare, which means I have 3-4 days off per week. A question I often get from people when they hear that is "Wow! What do you do with …

Psychedelics have the ability to bring, through subjective experience, evidence of the mystery that has been passed down through the worlds spiritual traditions; mankinds' relation…

I started seeing the association between caffeine, jitters and anxiety now that I am in my early thirties. Like you, I enjoyed many years of symptom free caffeine "indulgence". I'v…

I also live with family. There are many cultures where living with your family is the norm until, or even after marriage. Maybe I’m an outlier, or just got lucky, but the first wom…

I believe innovation would be encouraged by the incentive to capture a market for a specific use case with an innovation in either process, material, or diminished environmental im…

Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see a good reason why government can't introduce legislation to enforce standardized packaging across product "classes" to streamline reuse and recycli…

I recommend Plutarch's Lives, I own the Oxford World's Classics translations of 'Roman Lives' and 'Greek lives' and the stories told between the two alone allow to you build a ment…

I'm just starting to get a handle on this now that I hit 30. We look to successful people to see how they manage their time, thinking that by copying their routines and habits as i…

Lex’s podcast is my new favorite. I’m not a Computer Scientist, so I thoroughly enjoy hearing him ask Philosophical questions to these great minds and having them answer with the h…

I would start meditating, it will help you on being able to identify and intervene on repetitive, negative thought patterns (rumination). Give yourself 10 minutes everyday to train…

What is the difference between luminiferous aether and the electro-magnetic field? Edit: Context

Who's to say that waking consciousness isn't just a hallucination or dream that can't be integrated into their actual, transcendent, spiritual life?

I don't recall that being mentioned in Bernal Diaz del Castillo's "The Conquest of New Spain". I've also read "The Broken Spears", an Aztec account of the conquest which was record…

IME, this.. however, not everyone who experiments with psychedelics is fortunate enough to experience them. I know it's cliché, but integration is key. Our work is here, so you hav…

Joe is popular because he is essentially fearless. He brought Podcasting and the longform interview to the mainstream and is a modern day renaissance man. He has friends and acquai…

From Tim Ferris' Tao of Seneca: “Epicurus,” you reply, “uttered these words; what are you doing with another’s property?” Any truth, I maintain, is my own property. And I shall con…

For some context on the ancient greek definition of the "Gorgon Stare", read: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/fear/dread-gorgon

You could call it hostility to Asian capital, but it shouldn't be confused with hostility to Asian people. Some Western governments have done a pretty poor job of preventing their …

I like to think of this view as jailbreaking your biological operating system. We are an aggregate of trillions of cells with one fundamental purpose, to propagate our DNA and ensu…

The book is great, I've been working through HTDP and it's generous amount of programming exercises casually over the past year as a self learner. I had been dabbling in programmin…