putting up a beacon || Cofounder studiometis.co
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20 Mar 2024
Universities are funny. Hey what if we took a medieval institution for training priests and aristocrats and combined it w a hedge fund, sports franchise and resort for teenagers
Oh and it'll be the backbone for fundamental research for our entire civilization
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12 Aug 2025
The key difference btw the sweaty midwit and the idiot / wizard is the sweating
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11 Aug 2025
I’d love to figure out a way to get information off the internet without absorbing the vibes of the internet
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8 Aug 2025
You know you have a clear intent when it makes it clear how to live intentionally
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4 Aug 2025
A great teacher isn't someone with great insights
It's someone around whom others have great insights
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4 Aug 2025
This is hard for me because I like being the guy with great insights
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1 Aug 2025
Conflict aversion is the inverse of self acceptance
By avoiding conflict one avoids the risk of being discovered in ones true feelings, thoughts and desires
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1 Aug 2025
Today is Swiss national day and I'm just overwhelmingly grateful to be in such a sane, well run, high trust country
Every other country on earth should be studying it to know what good looks like
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30 Jul 2025
Wild how humans can jack their nervous systems into concepts. Total terror, joy, grief, rage at numbers going up and down, abstract propositions, reports on the behavior of people half the world away
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30 Jul 2025
This is a superpower! The ability to *feel* concepts is a big part of how we coordinate and build across vast swathes of time and space. Also the root of all suffering.
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18 Jul 2025
Mediocre meditation teacher: “There’s nothing you have to do”
Incredible meditation teacher: “There’s nothing you have to do”
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18 Jul 2025
One of my favorite new practices is every time I notice I’m telling myself a story about the future with high emotion (excitement, fear, etc) I just say “maybe” then laugh like a madman
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16 Jul 2025
Things that are bad for you stop feeling good when you actually start liking yourself
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12 Jul 2025
Magic isn’t chants and sigils. It’s developing exquisite discernment for what is true.
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13 Jun 2025
A pleasure @joaolmateus!
12 Jun 2025
This is probably one of my favorite conversations ever.
@JLBornstein is phenomenal.
Listen to the whole thing here:
youtube.com/watch?v=qtnwjmaZ…
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6 Jun 2025
This thread itself is a work of art
13 Nov 2020
1 Like, 1 LOTR opinion that probably isn't that interesting anyway...
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2 Jun 2025
The bright dividing line for future humans in LLM world will be how well people have addressed their need for validation
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30 May 2025
Important to learn the difference between hard choices and painful answers
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30 May 2025
They require opposite movements. We usually make rushed calls on hard choices to avoid the discomfort of uncertainty, while dithering on painful answers to postpone the consequences of that clarity
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