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To be honest if I had constant access to psychedelics, I'd do it slowly and methodically instead of Holotropic Breathwork. Maybe it works in different ways idk but still. Stan Groff invented that hopotropic thing after LSD was outlawd and he coudn't practice his therapy with it, so... Hey man, just remembered, I found this book last week: https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Therapy-Revolutionary-Restoring-Reclaiming/dp/1645476049/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 It will come out at the end of March, you should check it out it could be helpful.

@Judy2 I think it's more of an individual thing. For example for me, I have no problem working out fasted except for the lowerbody exercises. For some reason I get very dizzy and nauseous on leg day on an empty stomach to the point that workout becomes impossible. So I eat a banana and 1-2 egg before it. It also depends on the intensity of the workout. As guys said above, loading up with carbs prior evening or in the morning is a good idea if the intensity is high enough. It all depends. It's irritating, yeah. For me it depends on current priorities. Is that situation going to last for month / years? If so, then I'd go for a version that's more sustainable. Which is more sustainable, eating at home or at work? Do you bring home-prepped food to your workspace? If eating at work means eating out daily, I'd go with the home version. What would be the ideal schedule for you if work wasn't interrupting?

Sure, but I was referring to people who struggle to find food and safe shelter, like a lower class North Korean people for example. Not sure how resourceful would be to lecture them on epistemology.

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.

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.

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.

For the past few years, I’ve been struggling to stay consistent with myself — with the promises I make to myself, with integrity, and with discipline. I’ve examined this many times and identified some fundamental issues that I’m working to fix. This journal will serve as public accountability while I build the foundation for the next phase of my life. I’ve just turned 30, and I now realize how little time I have and how easy it is to waste most of it. I need to take much more action than I did in my 20s. Currently, I’m struggling with addiction, I’m overweight, I do the bare minimum at my job as a software developer, I don’t exercise much, and I deal with some anxiety. I know how to fix all of it — and more. I know what to do to make my life unrecognizably better (at least to try my best), and inaction only makes me resent myself more. I know what to do. I just have to do it. This thread will help me stay accountable. I’ll be posting every Saturday with a report on the previous week. This is how it will go. Phase 1: 3 Months I’ve been overconsuming pornography and engaging in compulsive masturbation. Since I’m single and somewhat isolated, I need to control this habit. I will abstain from both to reset my dopamine reward cycle. I’ve been slacking off at work, so I need to refocus and concentrate more. I currently work in 45-minute blocks, then rest for a few minutes, repeating this 2–3 times a day. I want to increase this to at least 6 blocks. Work inconsistency has caused me to sleep very late or work late into the night. As I fix my work habits, my sleep habits should improve as well. My goal is to sleep at least 7 hours, from 12:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. I’ve gained a lot of weight. I’m currently around 105 kg and eat a lot of junk food. The plan is to build muscle and lose fat simultaneously until I reach 72–75 kg. Eat 1,800–2,000 calories with at least 160 g of protein Weight train at least 3 times per week Jog for 30 minutes at least 3 times per week Cut out junk food at least 90% of the time I work as a software developer, and the industry is changing rapidly. I need to keep up. I will invest at least 1–2 hours per day in studying, building side projects, or diving deeper into AI. Read books for at least 1 hour per day. Summary of Phase 1 No porn or masturbation No social media Limited YouTube/Reddit for recreation 6–8 daily 45-minute work blocks 1–2 hours of study 1 hour of reading Fixing sleep routine Weight loss: 1,800–2,000 calories 3x weightlifting, 3x cardio weekly Cut out junk food Phase 2: 3 Months On top of the foundation built in Phase 1: Add spiritual practices: Mindfulness meditation (breath-focused) and Kriya Yoga pranayama Add therapeutic practices such as shamanic breathwork, TRE (Trauma Release Exercises), and self-therapy journaling to work through unresolved trauma and issues from the past few years Continue weight loss and exercise — likely reaching target weight by the end of Phase 2 Continue reading and studying Allow masturbation at most once per week after the first 90 days, since more than that negatively affects my life Phases 3 and 4 I can’t say much about these yet. I imagine strengthening spiritual practices, making them more focused and prioritized, socializing more, and possibly starting to date — though dating may be too distracting at the moment, and I don't want it honestly since I've recently got out of a LTR. Phases 4+ Getting involved with psychedelics More socializing More dating experience Starting to work on additional income streams aside from my job Working on creative projects Traveling Meeting new people Exciting things — but first, the foundation. That’s the plan. I won’t plan further than this because planning is a trap for me. Planning gives me a false sense of accomplishment, but it isn’t real progress. Real accomplishment comes from daily execution — day in and day out. It’s that simple. I’ll update every Saturday. 52 updates total. Let’s see how far I go. See you next week.

@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