I’m reading Autocracy, Inc By @anneapplebaum in prep for her @interintellect_ salon She says free speech, accountability & democracy are the “dangerous ideas” dictators fight I’m curious to hear her opinion on the jailing of UK citizens for X posts etc by @Keir_Starmer govt 🤔

Confidence is over-rated When you’re willing to show up, despite your insecurities, you create new possibilities

This is a very important point by @elonmusk. When we have near full abundance, the definition of our human contentment will move to a much higher level, or unfortunately some will drift to the “lottery winner’s” abyss. We need to raise children with this awareness today.

Everyone needs to hear this… In a 1998 commencement speech at Rice University, author Kurt Vonnegut shared a story about his Uncle Alex, who had an uncanny habit we can all learn from: “One thing which my Uncle Alex found objectionable about human beings was that they seldom

The US Government is ordering to create a unified AI platform using federal supercomputers to cut scientific breakthroughs from years to days...  This is perhaps the largest tech push since the Apollo mission.  Is this America's AI moonshot?

For all my girl dads out there

100% - antisemitism is a threat to us all It’s also breathtakingly stupid

Timothy Leary said putting a man on the moon was the biggest evolutionary step since the first creatures came out of the ocean onto land To quote @DoombergT, "Energy is life" In many ways, our evolution as a species is a function of our ability to harness energy The Kardashev

When do you get your best ideas?

Great article on "impact" from @davetrott

New book by @shadihamid — much recommended! (And @interintellect_ salon in one hour — online and public!)

Taking notes for my LinkedIn profile refresh 🤣 "...a quantum leap through the liminal spaces of tech and spirituality."

McKenna is one of my "neurological heroes", alongside people like Robert Anton Wilson, Milton H Erickson & Timothy Leary This clip from 1999 gives an interesting interpretation of the strange, chaotic times we're living through atm

The Sun is 99.8% of all mass in our solar system. Even if you somehow burned Jupiter and everything that is not the Sun in a fusion reactor, the Sun would still round up to 100% of all energy. The Sun is all that matters long-term.

Top Tip: If you want to be more interesting *to* other people, start by being more interested *in* other people

A rise in consciousness is like a kind of penicillin for the mind… ...an increase in understanding that brings you peace, perspective and greater clarity 💎

Google just dropped "Attention is all you need (V2)" This paper could solve AI's biggest problem: Catastrophic forgetting. When AI models learn something new, they tend to forget what they previously learned. Humans don't work this way, and now Google Research has a solution.

Two thoughts from Nelson Mandela “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” “One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.”

If you wonder how paintings can sell for $50 million, this post explains it NB: Paintings have 0 intrinsic value- market value is a function of factors including scarcity, narrative, demand etc You, on the other hand, have huge intrinsic value, unrelated to what others think

Love, intimacy and connection are what’s already there for us when there’s nothing in the way... ...and all that’s ever in the way is contaminated thinking