The Moment of Lift - Melinda Gates She talks about woman empowerment, gender equality in the world and her own personal life, health care issues and poverty across various cultures and the lives that have changed and yet to change

People of the future will go to the app store and search "drugs" and a bunch of drug experience apps will show up. They'll tap one for a 30-second sample and the brain-machine interface in their head will give them that experience. If they like it, they can pay for a full hour or pay for a monthly subscription to have unlimited use. Someone who likes, say, psychedelics, will download an app that includes 40 varieties of psychedelic experience to try. When they're high, they'll be able to crank the intensity up and down with a slide of their finger or shut off the high with a tap. All drugs will be totally safe with no hangover or comedown. Musicians will create drug playlists to go along with new albums that time the different highs to different parts of the album. Movie producers will hire drug artists to "score" the movie with physical states the same way composers score movies with music. There will be an "Oldies" app that lets people try a collection of retro drugs that their parents used to use back in the 2020s when drugs were still physical substances. It'll sound so old-school to them that people used to swallow or snort a drug with no guarantee of safety and no way to turn the experience off without waiting it out for hours.

Apricate (verb): To revel in the warmth of the sun on your skin

Our society prioritizes hustling over peace. We're pressured to always be going somewhere/achieving something. “Doing nothing” is scorned as lazy. But it's not. It's allowing yourself to simply be. It's okay to have no purpose beyond enjoying this moment buff.ly/3Qr4KwG

"Doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave." - The Psychology of Money

22 lessons learned in 2022:

Monday motivation ☀️

I meditated 15 hours a day for 6 months straight with one of the toughest Buddhist monks on the planet. Here's what I learned:

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This is a masterpiece

This is why thinking through 2nd order consequences is so important. The old foreign policy realists like Mearsheimer, or his Soviet counterparts, aren’t in charge anymore on either side. So instead of mature realism we got Putin’s irredentism vs Western idealism.

Petr Vacek's Fluidum kinetic sculpture uses robotic mirrors to create waves and play hypnotic games with visitor's mind [author's Instagram account: buff.ly/3qynVJe] [author's site: petrvacek.com/] x.com/crazyfunnystuff/status…

I speak to a lot of people, many who do very well in life. But what really makes people "happy?" Here's a thread on the things that I've found seem to make people the happiest. 1/

Thank you!

We keep seeing the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This is a feature of the system, not a bug. Time for a thread 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Ayn Rand is trending because leftists say they'll never date someone with her books. I'm not interested in dating them, either. So here's a THREAD of quotes by Rand. "The smallest minority is the individual." - Ayn Rand

1/ If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.

Twitter has begun outraging again. It looks like the world is back to its normal 🤷‍♀️

#Bitcoin Halving occurred on block 630,000. We're now in the 4th Epoch.