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Tools like this are badass as well. Infinite canvas whiteboards with AI integration. I haven't found a great option for this yet but this is the best I've come across so far. https://www.heuristi.ca/discover/ca392ec1-face-4685-a686-87387adb5a18

By style, I don't mean aggressive. Consider how Vernon Howard might yell something like "GOOD GOD MAN, LOOK AT HOW PATHETIC YOUR LITTLE EGO IS". 😂 Some people would call this cruel, over the top, and just too much, but some, myself included, appreciate it because I don't want to be pathetic, I don't want to be weak, so it's motivating. It doesn't hurt me... it jolts me and makes me say, "how am I being pathetic?". If I see the weakness I've been operating on or by, that weakness is not Vernon Howard's fault and I'm glad to have someone be blunt and direct with me. I prefer this style of communication. I don't want any sugarcoating. This is an aspect of Leo's teachings as well. IDK the best label for this style, but "aggressive" is not it. It's coming from a good place, even though it might seem harsh or aggressive. Since I have no prior history to judge from, IDK if kksd's critique came from a good place or not, but I could see how it could have, so I had no reason to assume it was aggressive. If it was coming from an ego kicking down, then of course, I would condemn that, but that wasn't discernable to me from the post.

@Javfly33 James Allen touches on this topic a lot. It is commonly supposed that to get ahead in business, one has to deceive and play games. People justify their deceptions by saying things like "other people are doing it, and the only way to play against them is to play their game... if you don't play, they will take advantage of you and you will not win... you HAVE to play because it's the only way to win". It reminds me of a time Leo said something like he doesn't own a gun and he said others might say "Well, what if you need one? What if someone kicks down your door and a gun could have saved you?" And Leo said something like "yeah, that's the risk I take by not partaking in guns". James Allen talks about the character you build when you take the high road and do not deceive. Sooner or later, the deceiver's karmic debt will mount up and their whole game will collapse, whereas the man who never lies and who builds his life from integrity will never have those regrets and can build on solid ground. They will show others that it can be done and in the process, will gain far more reward than the deceivers because they will earn the trust of their fellows and their psyche will be guilt-free and can rest in peace knowing they have done good. You cannot have this peace if you embody devilry. If you're interested in James Allen's teachings, I think they are in the public domain but here's a PDF of most of his works: https://1lib.sk/book/23422791/948a89/james-allen-21-books-complete-collection.html

Yeah, I like to just put out what comes out and then refine a little bit afterwards. My 11th grade education level doesn't help much but I do the best I can without going deep into structure. I at least try to punctuate and spell correctly. I should set aside some time to improve my punctuation. I often ask AI how I can articulate my thoughts better, which is probably one of the best tools available for this sort of thing. Grammarly seemed cool a few years ago but it was getting on my nerves and interfering with stuff in Chrome, but I think I will have a look at some tools like this. I recently started using "windows + h" for speech to text into any textbox. Pretty nice.

Big lesson: How you do anything is how you do everything. Try to do everything well. If you get red squigglies under your words when typing, try your best to correct it and after you can't, look it up on Google. This is how I learn to spell. Example: I just learned the problems with this word: This lesson is hard to balance though. I don't want to spend too much time on spelling.

Hell yeah man! That's nice. I like the sound. I was waiting for a beat drop though 😆

Yeah, non-aggressive is the best default. I think some people find it beneficial to be hard on themselves and so they think others could also benefit from it too. I've been like this and still am to a degree. It can definitely be toxic though. I've overshot this in dealing with my nephews and have felt really bad about it. But, it can also be a whip to weakness, which is commonplace, and is itself a big problem. I think this style of critique is more favored by people who value advancement over comfort and they find comfort in being made stronger by rebuilding after each tear down.

It would be weird to ask OP for his personality test results, age, and maturity level before providing a critique. 😆 But maybe that should be the norm. Yeah, that's a good thing to think about. Why would a stranger provide a critique to another stranger? Why would a stranger seek another stranger's critique?

When producing work for the public, ALL critiques are useful if they can be viewed objectively. Each critique gives you another perspective from which to look from. Collect and analyze all critiques, including @Kksd74628's. Here's how I interpret the critique: Many readers might feel the content is repackaged and a waste of the their time. In the marketplace of ideas, originality is like a rare gem, and people like rare gems. Rare gems sell easier than common gems. You can always improve upon something by addressing its imperfections. Perfection is never reached but the degree to which you strive for it is the degree to which you'll get closer to it, which should make your product more valuable. Of course, the degree to which you sugarcoat things depends on the person you're critiquing. Probably not a good idea to be so direct with a 14-year old who just released their first e-book.

Thank you @Keryo Koffa! I wasn't able to comprehend very much on first pass but I'll sit with it a while.

I think phone is more likely than non-phone mobile device because no one wants to carry around 2 devices. We're gonna be running out of pockets soon.

This is interesting. Zuck thinks the "interaction layer" between humans and AI will be AI Glasses, but I think that's a bit ridiculous because everybody already uses phones. He might be looking too far ahead. The phone should come first and glasses second.

I can't offer any long-term solutions but for short-term: Buteyko breathing works well for me. For social and performance anxiety and if your symptoms make themselves known by sweating, red face, heart racing, etc., you can mitigate that with beta blockers, and just knowing you have those available can reduce your anxiety a lot. Depending on where you live, you can get a prescription from gokick.com. Also, I discovered how to make myself sneeze non-stop by stimulating the trigeminal nerve with a massager. If you do a 5-minute sneeze session, you will expel much mucus and you'll produce a lot of tears. When you're done, it will feel like you have been crying and your parasympathetic nervous system will be activated and much tension will be gone. I have used this to manage acute anxiety. It's also really good before going to sleep.

RFK Jr. asks Supreme Court to keep his name on New York ballot despite Trump endorsement. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/politics/rfk-jr-asks-supreme-court-to-keep-his-name-on-new-york-ballot/index.html He fought hard to get his name off the ballot in NC but he's doing all he can to keep it on the ballots in blue states.

We'll start with Tucker Carlson wanting to outdo big tobacco.

Basically the same constraint you mentioned about traversal. The mind operates like a single-threaded processor, processing one instruction / thought / mentation / emotion / memory / judgement / previously formed perspective, etc at a time, in linear fashion which culminates into a perspective. I was just curious if I could have multiple threads running simultaneously. This was several years back. It seems like a childish dream now. Why would I want such a thing? Efficiency, and to see what emergent phenomena might arise from it. Just dreaming, really. It was a "problem" I found inherent in building perspectives. Now that I think about it, it doesn't seem relevant to OP. Probably just an attempt by my ego to interject it's 2 cents. Oh well! 😂 Even if you construct grand perspectives, which can hold many things, you can't be in micro, messo, macro, and meta all at once. That's what I wanted. Multiple threads. Don't know why.

space grey dildo 😂

I'm only buying if it can strap to my groin

It's not the same issue but I remember a while back being bothered by the constraint of only being able to connect to and hold one perspective at a time and I wondered if it were possible and what it would be like to hold multiple at the same time. Seems absurd to think of it now, but this question has sat in my mind for years and till this day, I have not been able to hold more than one at a time. I can traverse them, but I can't hold more than one. lol. This seems absurd why I would even want to do this. I don't even know what the purpose would be. It's like I'm just playing around in my own world and pissed about the constraints. Maybe with you, you're bothered you have no goal or no clear driver. If you had a clear goal, you simply choose the perspective that serves the goal. If you are uncertain which perspective does that best, you simply have to rely on probability. Life is like poker. It's a game of imperfect information. If you find yourself in a spot where you need to make a decision, you have to just take the leap with the best information you have at the time, and whatever happens, happens.

Yeah, I didn't think of that. That would move them in the health tracker direction though. I'm not sure if that makes sense for them.

Good point. Different strokes for different folks though. Some styles of influence work on some but not others. If I had a magic money machine and I wanted to bring awareness to the masses of Brand's grift, I would use various styles of influencer because what resonates with some don't resonate with others. You'd have better success if the same message was tailored to specific audiences. People who are more serious might appreciate Coffeezilla more than Decoding Gurus but jokester types might find Coffeezilla too boring to sit through long enough to be influenced. So, as long as a corrective message is getting out, it's better than no message at all, IMO.

@jacknine119 Yes, it is so easy to get lost in exploration but I also think it's a need that has to be fulfilled, so it can't be completely ignored or you will become unhappy. Balance is probably the second most important principle. 😂

smart glasses would be cool as hell but seems too niche. OpenAI is definitely in good position to deliver a nice smart speaker, so that's a good contender, but something tells me they're aiming higher than that.

"Hey ChatGPT, show me that PDF Sarah asked about in her latest email and after I confirm it's correct, send it to John" Microsoft wants to get here first, and for good reason, so MS would do all they can to thwart OpenAIs attempts at getting there first. When you try to install Chrome on Windows, MS pulls like 20 deceptive UI patterns to trick you into using Edge. This is just one problem OpenAI would face if they depended on their competitor's structures. Notice how Google just made an update to their Chrome extension manifest policy, which rendered uBlock origin useless for bypassing Youtube video ads? That's the sort of shit they'd pull on OpenAI. Apple, Google, and MS would do all they can to thwart OpenAI from becoming the most popular feature on their devices.

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