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Which is why you can't have someone like this at the top. The rot spreads from the top down.

@Cred 100% I just found out I'm autistic af about 4 months ago. No formal diagnosis but I dove into it and fit the mould almost perfectly. I plugged in my tendencies, preferences, actions, etc into multiple AIs and had them estimate likelihood this person is ND, and they all said 95%. There are some VERY big, and what many here would consider devastating implications for finding out about this. If they really wanted to fuck their ego, they'd pull on this thread. I wept pretty hard upon processing it all, but it was a relief. Finally, a strong explanation.

No, you can't be ready to offer websites to clients in one week. Not even 3 months. You need deep submersion for a minimum of 9 months, I'd say, and that's probably too optimistic. You have to survey the entire landscape and know what all the things are, and it's a big fucking landscape. The secret to making it on Upwork is: - Provide high quality work - Over-deliver - Maintain a 5-star profile with a 100% job success score - Communicate well - Be responsive - Start out cheap and only focus on getting 5-star reviews - don't even worry about money. It's against their TOS but I told clients when I was starting out I could do their work for next to nothing in return for a high quality review. There will be some cheap clients who will take that bargain, so use them to build your profile. Also, Upwork is saturated with web developers - it's a race to the bottom - so you need a niche. I was successful on Upwork by building HTML emails and landing pages for marketers in their automation platforms like Pardot, Marketo, Hubspot, etc. I no longer have to rely on Upwork because I found a few agencies who keep me busy. Ideally, you'd find and stick to a handful of clients who can keep you busy so you're not always switching context and having to learn new client processes all the time. But in the beginning, you gotta take anything and everything and over-deliver it all. You gotta grind hard for like a year or two.

I should have been more explicit. I meant "metacognitive space", not simply thoughts about thoughts. I meant the space the realization those thoughts about thoughts occur in. I suppose the term might just be "awareness", but I feel that's a loaded term with too much baggage. Experientially, "metacognitive space" makes more sense to me.

Interesting perspective.

My default mode is observer operating within metacognitive space. When I dissolve the observer, I have direct experience of the metacognitive space itself. It's just one step away and it doesn't seem like anything magical or mystical because I'm already in that space, just with narration and content, which can be dropped if I want, but I don't see the point because it just makes it empty and neutral.

It seems spiritual experiences are state shifts marked by metacognitive realizations. But this is not usually groundbreaking or earth-shattering for those who are naturally highly metacognitive. Someone who naturally operates with high metacognition hears stories of "awakening experiences" and thinks "wait, you mean you didn't already notice that you were having thoughts? You couldn't already observe your emotional reactions as they arose? You never thought to question the stories you were telling yourself about who you are?" When someone has lived 30 years identified with their ego suddenly realizes, "If I can see the thought, I cannot be the thought." and thinks that is a breakthrough, a highly metacognitive person feels like they're getting excited about discovering their own thumbs. lol. What if the spiritual seeker's "profound realization" is just the introverted intuitive kid's everyday life? How can we know? What if the metacognitive space is the substrate of spirituality and "spirituality" is simply a matter of exploring, reconfiguring, adding and/or subtracting in that space?

Haha, good point. Spirituality is supposed to produce well-being, not destabilize it. I wonder if your spiritual work is causing you chronic stress, then you’re simply not doing it right? It was causing me stress, so I stopped. One idea of spirituality is to be at peace, not with all, but with myself. I can see this would take dedication and work, which would compete with other priorities. Having competing priorities was a stressor for me. I decided that I’ll work towards it after I’m done playing my survival game, when I can devote my resources to it - hopefully, in the next 10-20 years I’ll start back on my tattiwigwanda. Lol. I intuit the bulk of the work is not “understanding”, but “letting go”.

When Leo dropped his 5meo video, I was like “holy shit I gotta try that”. I was super excited but I couldn’t easily acquire it, so it remained a desire for like 3 years. Within that time, much came to light. I realized that 5meo would be like any other psychedelic - you have a profound experience and then come back to reality. I saw the clinging, the obsession, the delusion, and the separation. It started to seem unwise.

A good disclaimer for your book list. I scoffed at my dimwit ex girlfriend for telling me “books are stupid”. But looking back, she did have a point.

Lol, thanks! Yeah, the dim and small font is intentional - for my eyes only, so fuck contrast ratios! I ain't gonna make it screen-reader compliant either. 😂 I showed you the zoomed in versions too, lol.

Been working on a new app to help manage my freelance gig. This is the aesthetic I'm currently into for UI. Basically Tailwind zinc theme and high contrast colors. Love dark mode. Probably should tone the green down a bit. Also recently built my own command launcher/raycast type thing, which is efficient af. Claude code baby!

You don't know nothin' about slithering pythons bro. 😂