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What I like about this is that it not only makes truth-seeking more accessible, it also frames survival nicely. It creates a context for it, so instead of blind survival, now you have an overarching vision of developing proper epistemology, and properly handling a survival serves that overarching vision. So now working on survival aspect of life becomes more exciting because it has that extra meaning and proper context.

If you struggle to survive, or barely do so, truth will be the least of your priorities, even if you don't literally die. I think people underestimate how powerful the survival force is.

I found him through Rogan's James Fox podcast, it has some interesting interviews like the one with a Brazilian neurosurgeon from Varginha case. But there's a lot of wacky shit as well, like a guy claiming that he's a time travaler.

The Next Two Years of Software Engineering: https://addyosmani.com/blog/next-two-years/ This was a good read

I've just finished reading Yeonmi Park's "In Order to Live". She is North Korean defector, who escaped with her mother. She just described unimaginable things, seeing dead bodies was an everyday normal thing for her growing up, she didn't meant what it was to not feel hungry all the time, she ate grasshoppers and fireflies to survive. She was trafficed and sold multiple times in her teenage years. She escaped North Korea 2 weeks after appendix surgery, where she woke up in the middle of surgery because the anesthetic wasn't proper dose. She saw her mother getting raped in China in front of her, and later she was raped as well. She nearly killed herself multiple times. She was ridiculed and told that she won't achieve anything. And so much more. I can't watch this without tearing up myself. Such a brave girl. Her story made me so grateful for everything I've got, the fact that I have food everyday is really a privilage if I think about it. It's not something to be taken for granted. But I forget that often. I want to remember and appriciate my life and circumstances much more. And not be complaisant. There is so much opportunity around us that we take for granted. I will continue researching North Korea, it's such a great example of the cruelty and deception that humans can do to each other. Great example of when you don't have basic survival handled, you don't care about anything higher. These people were motivated by hunger and safe shelter. To that little girl, freedom meant she could ate food.

@HopefulMan Hey man, sorry to hear that. I don't have much experience with serious trauma, but when I did Holotropic Breathwork many pent up emotions came up via crying, laughing, shaking, screaming, etc. I still plan to do more of it weekly, maybe you should try that as well. Also, I've been researching some other ways of trauma release, and I've found Trauma Release Exercises (TRE). It's couple somatic exercises with your body that causes shaking and trauma release, you could also do that, you can find instructions on YouTube.

@Joseph Maynor I have periods when I crave lots of alone time, weeks at a time. Then sometimes I crave socialization and I go out from time to time, with friends mostly. But I'd have much better socialization skills if I did it much more. Not at the moment, but in the near future I will. So, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing if you plan ahead and if it's intentional. When you are working on other aspects of life, socialization might get deprioritized from time to time.

@PolyPeter I'm using Android, but still, drop it in my PM when it's approved.

That's when years of experience come in handy. That's why senior engineers are best users of those tools nowadays. But again, if all the new people vibe-code their way through first years of their careers, I don't know what good will come of that. We'll see. At the moment I see a need for deepening fundamental knowledge and caring about understanding the output of AI plus working on some projects without using LLM's (for solutons, I think it's okay to use for boilerplate even in study projects), just for deepening the knowledge.

@Infinite Tsukuyomi Nice. Why don't you just use honey instead of artificial sweeteners? Not sure if it's healthier though.

@Natasha Tori Maru Oh okay, makes more sense now. I do some of that on some sundays when I'm not too lazy, cutting and prepping ingredients and saving them in the fridge, and use them daily, I just cook the marinated meet and use pre-cut veggies, saves some time. This is the reason I don't go nuts with eating same thing day in day out lol. I just change combination of condoments on my chicken, rice and other things, makes a real difference. Also changing combinations gives me different taste variations, so that meat doesn't taste the same every day. Same. Just imagine the hustle and prepping that people go through when they have a need to eat something different / special each day. So much energy and thought process would go into eating. For me it it's a waste. But I have a friend who can't eat same thing daily and he spends half of his day in the kitchen lol, and always trying to come up with something different daily. Gourmet type of people. Kangaroo hamburger sounds interesting, sounds exotic 😀 Maybe I'll try it one day. The most exotic thing I've tasted outside my local cuisine was some snails in French.

@PolyPeter Yup I've seen it. Good stuff. But still, most of that will be senior positions though.

Just keep in mind, when they conquer us they won't remember that fondly, lol. @PolyPeter Yes same for me, definitelty. I'm starting more projects on my own and learning much more things much faster and easier than before AI. I'm just concerned a bit that I'll lose that pure programming skill over time. I try to do leetcode weekly to keep it sharp. And also dive deeper into technologies and languages itself. Like building an interpreter from scratch, or building a clone of sqlite, stuff like that, that forces you to understand things beyond surface level. I think that's important, especially now.

@Infinite Tsukuyomi Do you make sweet snacks yourself? Could you share some recepies you like? Sometimes I mix banana, raisins and a bit of honey. It does't taste like a candy but pretty sweet. Something like that.

@Natasha Tori Maru Doesn't the taste go wierd in couple days? I also tried meal prepping on sundays for mon-sat but after the middle the week, food lost a fresh taste, it wasn't as tasty as it's when you just prepare it. I switched to daily prepping in the evenings for the next day. It takes 30-35 mins.

Haha what 😆 I remember when I was a kid our local zoo brought a kangoroo and the whole population was rushing there to see it. I didn't know that you could actually it eat, lol. @Natasha Tori Maru What does it taste like?

@Leo Gura Real, but over-exaggerated. Dude got some botox or did some face plastic surgery.

Its been a relatively good day Things I did successfully I'm fixing my schedule, so I got up at 6:45 with 4 hours of sleep, and now its 22:00, preparing to get to sleep so tomorrow I naturally get up early, and must resist urge to nap again, and all is goof No addiction relapses Read 1.5 hours. I read multiple books at once, today I was reading Yeonmi Park's "In Order to Live" and Ralston's old book called "Reflections of Being". Very insightful. Ate 1900 calories with 160g protein Did leg exercises, but I have a knee pain on both of my knees probably because of a sitting pose on my office chair, for months I have one leg bent in a knee and put under the second leg, which is probably the reason of the pain. I'll skip leg exercises till I feel better. Ill focus more on upper body. Run for 12 minutes. Oh god, I'm out of shape, 6 months ago I was running 17-18km without break, now I'm dying at 2km. Such a shame. I've to build up my endurence again, slowly. Walked 6000 steps Cleaned house and orginized working environment Cooked and prepared food for tomorrow What I wanted to do and didn't do: Meditation and Kriya. I'm skipping days again out of pure laziness. I've to get used to doing these first thing in the morning. Haven't done career study, also laziness and procrastination on this front. Those to are very important to me so I'll have to put more effort or figure out why am I resisting this much. Main lessons for today: I have to do meditation and kriya first thing in the morning, at least in this stage when I'm trying to build a consistent habit. Super important. Take care of my knees, I've to fix my sitting posture and observe if pain goes away or not. Tomorrow: I'll wake up at 6:45 and do the practices first thing in the morning Then run for 20-30 minutes Then study for an hour Try to work without procrastination and have a productive day Good luck to me.

Master Debaters 😂 Leo's been watching South Park

@theleelajoker For sure. Too much "solo" can be masking fears of intimacy, connection and relationships in general, and missing growth opportunitues. Currently I'm 5 months post a breakup of a 4 year old relationship, and I'm trying to recalibrate my experience from "we" to "me", and trying to resolve some of the attachment issues and some of the problematic ways that I was behaving during those years. That's why I was emphasizing a solo work.

@vibv He's friends with Eckhart Tolle and was talking about no-self with an interviewer couple years ago. Maybe he's somewhere up in the Himalayas meditationg while the clone does Hollywood stuff.

Looks good for 64 year old dude to me https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15575871/What-face-Rosie-Huntington-Whiteley-looks-puffy-Vogue-Australia-event-prompting-wave-online-debate.html Same for this transformers girl here, I wonder how much shit they inject in their faces to look younger.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/ This movie amazed me lately. With literally zero action and with just couple people talking in the room, it got me captivated for the whole duration.

Nice. That's also what I'm working towards, still in infancy stages but still 🙈 What kept you going daily initially, when you didn't have much results to go with? You just did it over and over again until your senses got developed more and more? Some people told me that it was psychedelic experinces that gave them motivation to practice deeper.

@Natasha Tori Maru Do you practice Yoga? It's literally a practice of manipulating a sexual energy (supposedly), and if you already have high concentration ability with meditation, it would translate into Yoga breathwork nicely.