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What's your day-to-day diet like? Like for 80-90% of the times, what do you eat? I try to lose weight while building muscle and here's what I eat: protein pancakes (protein powder, banana, egg) chicken breast + rice / buckwheat eggs cottage cheese tuna salad some fruit That's it basically. 1900-2000 calories and 160g protein. And on the weekends I might switch and bring in some variety, but still stay in these caloric range. What about you?

Programming made me cry in the past, but those were not the tears of joy

Do you think it's fine to spend 20s and 30s experimenting with stuff, even 40s? If you hadn't found your passion earlier in life, would you feel urgency in your 30s to finally find it?

I also find that true for maintaining consistent practices like meditation or even exercise. Work ethic translates to all these fields. And if there is no work ethic every endeavour that needs consistency over times struggles a lot. As for faking greatness, just look at Tates. It's a comical example of what happens when you fake success. But maybe not all examples of fakeness ends like that. Some motherfuckers are just lucky till the end, but it's not something to role-model or aspire.

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How long did it take to see results on your head? I've just started using 2ml a day topical, it's been 2 weeks, and I've heared I have to give it at least 6 months to see if it works or not.

Couple years ago I read Om Swami's book "If Truth Be Told", and it affected me in a very deep way. I just stumbled upon a book that he wrote last year that I want to share, where he documents his sadhana in Himalayas in great detail, he describes his routines, techniques, obstacles, experiences, realizations, and much more. It was an amazing read, for those who've read the autobiography and wanted to know more about what he actually did in those thirteen months, don't miss reading this one. It is very inspiring. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/221033478-thirteen-months-in-the-himalayas Want to know what real hardcore meditation looks like? Read the book. Dude was concentrating on God for 16-22 hours a day for weeks and months until he literally met with God. Nicely dovetails with Leo's recent blog-post on meditation: https://www.actualized.org/insights/awakening-is-not-a-different-place

Maybe he'd meet his Deity sooner if he had some DMT in that cave

I don't think he portrays his realizations as the deepest possible ones. He's still relatively young, he could go deeper, and maybe he did after those experiences, who knows. He was questioning, he even writes that if he didn't get direct experience, he'd consider God not being real at all. His vision has some form yes but then he mentions that those experiences transformed his perception and understanding, so maybe it wasn't merely a "hallucinated God". But yeah, it's hard to know all that by simply reading this one book. He doesn't go much into technical details, ontology and metaphysics of God for some reason. When you strip the story of all the religious stuff, the core of it is a man who was dedicated to truth seeking like almost nobody. That's what inspired me.

Discipline and consistency are the key. Invest your time in clever ways, don't waste time, you'll regret it. Don't destroy your dopamine reward system with porn, gaming, social media, doomscrolling. Avoid those at all costs.

@D2sage Are you talking about male pattern baldness (Androgenic Alopecia)? Probably not, because it doesn't get fixed with diet or supplements. It can be helped with minoxidil (helps with regrowth) and finasteride which is DHT blocker (which comes with many side-effects).

That is already the case.

We ended my last long term thing with a girl last year and since then I've realized that I was craving single life, so right now I'm enjoying it I don't envision myself having family or kids, so I don't really care about dating much these days. I have friends in 30s that are in urgency because they want to start a family soon, but since I don't, I don't feel any urgency. And also, at this point in my life I'm hyper focused on other things I'm building or wanna build, so I don't have much time for relationships. Also they take emotional work as well, and I need my stable drama-free life at the moment. Relationships are source of drama (maybe not all, most). I can enjoy that, but not always. As for the future, I'm not really sure. As you mentioned there are lots of fantasies around intimate relationships and you need to kinda be willing to indulge in those, which I don't wanna be doing currently.

I have to agree with this. But also we can't deny that there's a deep conditioning in most of us to mate. All the cultural stuff that we add on top can be ignored, but there are some cravings that can't be ignored that easily. What do you think, what forms of relationships would you like to engage after all that? You said casual dating is kinda lame, what does that leave you with?

@Ulax oh my god 😬 But to be honest, it takes balls to be so shy / wierd and still go to some TV program and expose yourself to the whole world. Oh I didn't know the guy had a redemption kiss:

What's your plan? You're gonna transition into a different industry, or?

https://x.com/bryan_johnson/status/2102920107844624868 Why does he post wierd shit like that, just for the views? 🙄

@Raze Dude, did you just really compare breathing to relationships?

Yes we're moving to a higher abstraction. But it doesn't mean that knowing lower abstractions isn't necessary anymore. It still is important to make sense of the output or else we'll get sloppy apps. But not sure for how long will it be like that. It's like how we transitioned from lower abstraction languages (assembly, etc) to higher abstraction ones (python for example). But maybe this time it's different, I don't know. But surely industry is changing.

They already do actually. Still needs my input and reviewing output though, that's where I come. Thanks, will check it. My problem is that I have skills to build whatever I want, but I don't know what to build. I don't want to lunch another AI slop app. My idea was to spend more time on places like reddit, scanning what problems people have and try to figure out technical solutions. Haven't got it to it yet though.

Yes, that's my experience cause we're working on a single big project that's been in development for multiple years. I do this with my own side-project, which is much more fun than a company one because I get to play around a lot.

Maybe to experience more vulnerable part of yourself? Being in an intemate relationship forces you to be vulnerable. Even attraction phase forces you that, to face life and survival proactively. It's not a medium for expanding consciousness, but there's survival value in it. It can come with a lot of drama though, which is the reason I don't date at the moment, but I can see some value in it. Not the highest value for sure. Do you only do things in life that supposedly increase your consciousness?

Don't you have like an existential fear around your current software engineer role? My day-to-day job became code-reviewer basically. And I don't even know what to learn to stay relevant in the field, since latest models are so capable. So far this reviewer role is valuable, but not sure how long will this last.

Did you try Fable or Astra? I was using Fable last month till I had some discount or extended limit they had, after that it gets limits so fast. They released Opus 5.5 this week and it's pretty good. But still doing code-reviews with Fable.