my first wave meditation grandma: so great to hear you’ve gotten into that Bay Area dharma scene! how are those old hippies? me: oh, actually, it’s mostly autists now gma: oh? me: yea, and some like millionaires. a couple billionaires maybe gma recovering quickly: well

it has come to this

I loved doing this interview w/@asteriskmgzn because they asked actually hard questions! We talked about why I’m so into spreading the gospel of agency despite some of the worst people on earth being highly agentic, people using agency as an excuse for anti-social behavior, etc.

When people came to me with relationship problems, my first question was usually "and what happened when you said all this to your partner?". Now, when people come to me with Claude problems, my first question is usually "and what happened when you said all this to Claude?"

in which Clara and I express skepticism about how one gain's agency, and I ask @catehall the question on everyone's minds: which is the most agentic enneagram?

good morning from the world’s greatest commute, follow me as I slowly turn into Golden Gate Claude

a) very excited to see this in the world — it’s a theme I always wanted to explore more at asterisk, and I expect Lauren’s absurdly varied background will attract some really cool stories b) I will be a contributing editor

write-up of a @jhanatech retreat or Frankenstein? (it's Frankenstein)

relatedly, the ferry deserves credit as a shining star of Bay Area public transit - orderly line - left on time - this

I will also not be entirely abandoning something so wonderful as @asteriskmgzn — I’ve joined the Asterisk board and will be an occassional contributing editor

and

and since I’m likely to never tweet about AI again, please enjoy such past bangers as

I’m really very happy to share that I’ve joined the editorial team at Anthropic I’ll be keeping comms weird and good, working closely with the societal impacts team, and teaching new hires the jhanas here’s a photo of my new commute home

my earliest memories of California were formed in drought, years of brown hills and dry skin and feeling perpetually parched, the looming threat of fire, and so I never forget that we used to dance in the streets when it rained

signed up for the @eleosai concon swapcard but the only other people in there are p-zombies 😭

my day is divided into two halves: one hour meditation, fifteen hours everything else

meditation email list: this november is awareness awareness month