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Lately, after Seedance 2.0 came out, I've been seeing pretty cool AI short-movies on YT, wanted to share some of them here: Most of internet is filled with AI slop videos, but some of them are pretty cool. And just a reminder, this is the worst it will ever be, so 😂 Personally, I don't see much value in AI video, I think it will cause more harm then good. But the genie is out of the bottle, so we might as well embrace it.

@LoneWonderer Looks pretty horrific, I'll watch it

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?

Hey, I'm working as a software developer (mostly web) for 8-9 years now, and for the last couple years, the industry is being reshaped in front of my eyes due to AI. At the moment, it's like, if you don't use some sort of AI agent in your workflow, you're getting behind, and you feel that each month. Managers push us to use AI more and more, and expect productivity gains due to it, and for the last 2-3 months, AI agents have improved to such a degree that me and most developers around me don't actually type code manually, the process has morphed into talking with an agent, or multiple agents at once, and basically orchestrating them, reviewing code, making sure they do the job correctly, and if an agent isn't able to do something, then we switch back to an old school way and do things manually. These agents affected the industry so much that many of us have anxiety over losing our jobs in the long term. That's why now I'm switching more and more into roles and projects that require more architectural and big-picture thinking skills. If not at the current job, I try to advance those skills with my own toy projects in my free time. So, I was wondering if any of you guys experience similar changes due to AI in your induestries. Would be interesting to hear your thoughts.

Yup that's the one. Yeah, keeping routines are hard enough, and when you have couple dragons to slay and some obstacles to go through in order to eat clean or exercise, it becomes harder. Of course it's not impossible, but reducing the friction to lower the barrier for entry just makes life easier. As another example, when I was living with my family, it was much harder to eat clean because there was always some junky snacks at home, and I couldn't just throw them away cause others would buy them again, and it was constant friction and struggle to not eat them. Now I live alone and I fully control what I keep in my fridge, so, that's what I mean. Also, as another example, when I lived with my family it was wierd to meditate because they were fundamental christians and it was very unsusual, and I had to come up with excuses like "it's just exercise to improve focus" and stuff like that. Again, just more friction to just do daily meditation. Now I don't have that and it's so much easier without thinking on all that. A huge part of success is building a proper lifestyle slowly and methodically. It took me literally years to build some of the infrustructure that I know I needed. Just imagine trying to build all this stuff in Iraq or in some war-torn country. Not impossible, but much harder. Removing friction in that case would be to somehow escape the environment. oh yeah 😆 sometimes I am amazed how clever some of the excuses I come up with are. I try to not leave room for excuses with pre-planned action (as you do with your planning ahead) to reduce reasons for my mind to come up with new clever excuses.

@Natasha Tori Maru That works great for me as well. It also strenghtens the intention of execution, like if I clean my meditation space or working area couple hours before or before I get to sleep, the next day I'm more likely to execute on my plan because I already invested some time with that cleanup, so, it's a bit easier 😂 What I'd add is, one often overlooked things is building an infrastructure for different projects that we're working on. Couple examples from my life: - When I wanted to get up early in the morning, I'd sometimes put my phone with alarm in different room, and it worked, but sometimes I forgot to do it or sleep with my phone while watching something, and I brought an alarm clock on amazon which I have in a different room from where I sleep, and it just sits there, every day I have to wake up and physically get up and move my body to turn it off. - I was too lazy to clean up dishes in the past, sometimes I would leave them ovenight which created a mess physically and also mentally, and because of that I was ordering food more and more. Then I invested in dishwasher and since then it has been much easier to keep the kitchen orginized and as a result, cook healthier and follow a proper diet. Also, shit like buying a sharp knives and comfortable utensils and stuff like that, to reduce friction in your mind when it comes to healthy eating. - I'm trying to lose weight, and I was being lazy in winter to go out and put in daily steps and cardio, sometimes I kept missing gym. Then I brough a home portable treadmill and couple dumbbells and I just do all the exercise at home, again, reduced friction. There are many other examples, but you get the point. You have to be creative. It's all about removing or at least reducing friction to whatever you try to do. note: I'm not saying that you need to buy all this shit to keep your routines, just figure out whatever frictions you have in your case, and get creative on reducing them. Oh and don't forget that you can fall in the trap of endless optimization of environment, infrustructure, routines, etc. At the end of the day it comes down to just repetition. Leo has an old video on this, I think it's called Building Infrustructure for Success, check it out @Elton

This reminded me of this clip, lol

@Elton Yeah man it's pretty doable. I'm also in the same boat, trying to integrate some of the habits, here's what I've found: Prioritize sleep and resting, as much as you can, at least 7 hours and try to sleep on consistent times every day. That will make doing your routines easier, because it's a routine, right? So it should be easily repeatable, so if you one day wake up at 7am and second day at 2pm, it won't go well. Reduce or entirely remove dopamine-depliting habits (porn, doom-scrolling, etc). That will mess everything up. You probably already did that, but just a reminder. Next one is basic time management, as @Natasha Tori Maru adviced, one way is chained tasks, you can try to do that. Also, in general be more mindful of how many minutes do you waste every day. I did one experiment for a week, when I woke up I turned on stopwatch and I was pausing it when I wasn't wasting my time (work, practices, exercise, self-care routines, intentional rest periods, cooking, etc) and in the end I had a number of hours I purely wasted on scrolling, watching shit on yt, gossiping, etc. it was like 4-5 hours, I was shocked. I just worked on reducing that to 1-2 hours mostly, or sometimes less then that. Just figure out and experiment with some ways on making most of your hours spent on a valuable things for you. This is not a correct mindset. Don't expect others to validate the plans, just do it enough times that you see if it works or not. If not, adjust accordingly and try again and again until something sticks. Good luck.

@Mondsee https://www.youtube.com/@KriyaYogaOnline Do you know this guy? He has like 25+ years of Kriya Yoga experience, and I remember in one video (can't find it now) he mentions that he practices just sitting on his chair because it's more comfortable (as I remember him saying). I'll try to find the exact video. So what's the problem with that?

@Leo Gura Hey, I don't understand one thing, maybe you could clarify. You've mentioned elsewhere and also in the latest podcast that you're constantly aware of God, that when you're walking down the street you have that awareness with you. So my question is, why are you doing Kriya Yoga at this point? Isn't the whole point of Yoga to get to a place where you get consciousness of God? You want to deepen your current experience? Or you still think there are some facets that Yoga will reveal that you might have missed. What's your motivation for doing Pranayamas.

@Natasha Tori Maru Yes I also did that, but in subtle ways. Approval seeking played a big role in anxious attachment style, because I was hyper aware every time there was a threat (or things I percieved as threats) of not being approved in some way in a relatioship. It was super exhausting honestly. For me it came down to self-esteem and confidence issues. And those came from fears of losing validation and love from an intimate partner. What can be solution for that? For me it's handling self-esteem and confidence issues, making fears conscious and facing and being okay with all of them (somehow), but ultimately it seems an existential identity issue, so I'm not sure how deep and fully can it be fixed without addressing the existencial part. But well, we have to walk before we fly so, doing whatever I can. Goal is not perfection, just slow improvement over time. Ralston suggested satisfying yourself whatever love needs you have, without external source, as an ultimate solution. But I don't know how to do that yet. Is that even possible?

@Natasha Tori Maru Yup, that's the goal. Oh yeah, it's the surest way, if only one manages to stay somewhat aware during suffering. Or reflect extensively after the fact. 🔥🫶

@Natasha Tori Maru Yeah that's the key, the intention should be there. If there is no intention for that and there is no growth mindset in each partner, it quickly turns into an ego shitshow. This is so rare around me. At the moment I'm devoted to internalize those qualities in me and actually execute on some of those because it's one thing to think of yourself as someone with a growth mindset, and another thing to consistently do difficult shit that actually grows you. That sounds obvious but I learned it a hard way. Me and my last girlfriend had that mindset in theory, but when it came to an actual real-life, when things got difficult, we couldn't handle those difficulties because so many emotional frustations were snowballed without consciously addressing them, and broke up. Basically, I didn’t fully love myself, so I wasn’t able to love her either. And I realized that after relationship was over, not before. So yeah, since then I know for a fact that when I look for those qualities in another person, first I have to make sure that I'm living up to them. And that leaves me with a lot of emotional / consciousness work that I can do for myself while single. Not for the future relationships or anything, but just for deepening my own understanding of myself and healing. Then from that place relating to another can be done in a healthier, more loving way. Yeah, and that only comes with healthy and mature / developed ego, self-esteem, self-worth, self-efficacy, etc. And the trick is, you can't fake it 😆 I tried faking it but, in an intimate relationship you are what you are, you can't hide for too long. Trying hiding it will only make unhealthy attachment tendencies worse. Just biting the bullet and facing all the personal shit and somehow healing / overcoming them is the way to go. I wish all the single people were doing it, dating market would be so much healthier lol. That's what's a bit scary to me, when I see all the people around oblivious to their running scripts, that makes we wander what parts of my script am I being zomebied to. What am I not seeing. Relationship was one way of finding out, but I'm trying to figure out some other ways too. Well, all this consciousness + emotional + etc work is all about that.

@Natasha Tori Maru As I observe in my experience, those are basically all the qualities that you develop after you are okay with yourself, so to speak. That can be a lot of work for some people, but less work for others. As you said, it's mostly based on upbringing and emotional regulation ability, which are developed from childhood into adulthood. What I like about relationships is that before them you are blind to the attachment patterns that you have, maybe even thinking of yourself as securely attached, and then all of a sudden you are in the middle of a relationship acting all over the place, expressing those deeply buried unconscious tendencies. It's a great mirror for self-reflection. This is huge, even outside of a relationship. That's why after my relationship ended, I realized that before I commit to a relationship with somebody else, the only relationship that I needed to figure out and make work was with myself, and matching my own words, promises, and behavior turns out to be critical for my own development, which probably translates into healthier and more securely attached relationships in the future. Do you think one can start a relationship as a secure partner and then morph into anxious or avoidant over time depending on the partner? Or does secure attachment mean that you are stable all the way through? Also, I've heard that non-securely attached people get bored around secure ones because there isn't enough drama for their ego to be entertained. What was your experience in that regard?

@Natasha Tori Maru Can you elaborate some more on this point? What made him securely attached in your experience? In what specific way did he show up as securely attached partner? I'm trying to figure out what secure attachment means and how it shows up in practice.

@Leo Gura Isn't it easier to sit with your back straight when you are crossed legged? It's as if when I sit in a chair without back support, my back slouches more and I get more sleepy.

@Infinite Tsukuyomi What do you mean by this? What issues do you come across most often that make people undateable for you?

@Tboy You could always terminate your retreat and get back to home, couldn't you? If it becomes unbearable. Do you usually get trauma surfacing when you meditate for long hours? Also, what exactly do you do during your "satisfaction" meditation? What's the technique?

Yea or reptilians, anything would do at this point 😂

@Infinite Tsukuyomi Just curious, why do you do this? What are the results you're getting from it, or at least what are the expectations of results you think you should be getting? I've done it couple times but gained not much from it.

Web dev industry is changing so rapidly, we don't actually write code manually any more, we just do it with AI 90% of the time, but the thing is, it's crucial to know the fundamentals and actually understand what AI is doing to differenciate slop from useful code. Also, you take charge whenever it doesn't do things correctly. But that skill of actually knowing stuff came from years of experience for me that I got from doing this full time professionaly. I'm not sure where juniors gonna get that experience if no companies hire juniors anymore (junior jobs are almost nonexistent atm). We're moving into a new abstraction where big picture thinking, architecture design, AI agent orchestration, proficency at fundamentals, and leadership qualities are becoming more and more valuable.

@Ryan M I turned 30 this month and I also struggle with this, especially when I think back and realize how quickly it went from 20 to 30, I'm assuming it won't be any different from 30-40 in that regard. I also made some pure health choices that led me to be a bit overweight and in a bad shape at 30, which I'm trying to correct now but it's challenging with all the bad habits developed over the years, but it has to be done. But in many ways I think 30-40 will be far more exciting and enjoyable then 20s, because I have all the lessons of some fucked up decisions that I made over 20s now that I can use to dramatically improve certain aspects. I just wish when I'm 40 I look back at my current self and be proud that he really considered all the lessons from failures and really put theory into practice. I think the most important thing is to prioritize your health and well-being that will create a foundation for all the other stuff (creativity, career, relationships, spirituality, etc) that you will be doing. Without that foundation, nothing works and everything is extra-struggling. At least for me.

@LoneWonderer Because of some spiritual / moral reasons or you just don't like it? For me it's the easiest source of protein.

@Michal__ I've listened to Daniel Ingram talking about some crazy experiences that he and some of his friends had with Fire Kasina. What is your experience with that practice?

@LoneWonderer Hopefully these docs come out during our lifetime. I don't wanna die without seeing these gray creatures 😂