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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

finally figured out my meaning in life & that's to provide value to shareholders

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Orpheas

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2 years

remembering this absolute banger today

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Orpheas

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9 months

still thinking of this ngl, excellent work

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Orpheas

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2 years

"man these Romans were so stupid, not realizing they were poisoning themselves with lead & stuff"

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Orpheas

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2 months

mutual just posted this on linkedin she, ugh, doesn't seem to know the context

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Orpheas

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3 months

hey sorry I didn't respond to your text I'm trying to process a nonstop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to collect nuts in a forest

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Orpheas

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4 months

you cannot - and I cannot stress this enough - imagine how useful spending even 5 undistracted minutes pondering this question is

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

19 days

gave my Grandma an old iPad so she can, like, watch a lil Netflix when she's bored, or maybe look for recipe inspo saw her today, "I haven't slept much, I was on the computer you gave me and suddenly it was 4am and I couldn't sleep" what have I done

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 months

please bro just a little more information, i just need to acquire a little more information to develop a strong enough illusion of control, please just a little more

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

8 months

the average person is so flaky you can literally just do the things you say you'll do & find yourself in the top 1% of reliability & thoughtfulness

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

1 month

in your 20s in your 30s

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

9 months

"he was also offered a new handle of his choice – as long as it's available" bruh that's just using twitter as normal lmao 😭

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

Twitter laid me off today. If you know of any open positions for project managers or senior software engineers, let me know. I was the PM in charge of making drafts on web different from drafts in the mobile app

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 months

a lesson in optimizing for distribution

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

8 months

I've seen ppl move cities & immediately become more extroverted change friend groups & turn more social it really feels like introversion is a context-dependent, restricted mode of being, that transforms to an outgoing, energetic sociability when those restrictions are lifted

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

by age 30 you should have gathered the forces to retake Constantinople

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

never forgetting deep covid lore

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Orpheas

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3 months

relatedly

Samswara

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Have a mid 20’s engineer at my work. She changed her mind on a technical decision after a good nights sleep and was worried she was flip flopping and I had to coach her through the “technical decisions made in a dream are insanely Lindy trust the spirit world”

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Orpheas

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1 month

making being "smart" a core part of someone's identity is such a foolproof way of paralyzing them when one's identity hinges on being "smart", they inadvertently avoid anything that might make them seem stupid, which unfortunately includes most worthwhile endeavors in this life

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 months

i got blocked ☠️☠️☠️

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

4 months

Me: I need smth to clean cat hair from my couch Dyson Household Appliances: Sure, here's our Humdinger handheld vacuum. Anything else? Me: U wouldn't know where to get a megastructure to harvest a star's energy to advance civilization, would u? Dyson: U're not gonna believe this

Robert Komaniecki

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Me: I need a "personal massager" Hitachi: No problem, here's our Magic Wand. Anything else? Me: You wouldn't happen to know where I can get a 20-ton industrial crawler excavator would you? Hitachi: You're not gonna believe this

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Orpheas

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2 years

did u know that you absorb the energy of the books in your home even if you don't read them

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Orpheas

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4 months

Lex Fridman currently begging to be accused of plagiarism as part of the MIT staff & faculty review so he can finally have conclusive proof of his affiliation

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Orpheas

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2 months

@Coscorrodrift replying "what does 'came in fluffer' mean?"

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Orpheas

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1 month

this is particularly true of former gifted kids who grew up rawdogging life w their abilities, while simultaneously racking up emotional debt due to lacking the necessary emotional skills their 20s then become a time of emotional debt clearing & world model reconfiguration

Orpheas

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1 month

in your 20s in your 30s

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Orpheas

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2 months

@benohanlon it's an Aella Birthday Diagram

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

imagine disrespecting your ancestors by getting plastic surgery, couldn't be me

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

1 month

looking at prices, thinking of this chart

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Impressive price difference between Germany and France tomorrow

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Orpheas

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1 month

Sydney Sweeney recently revealed in an interview that she's extremely worried about the evolving information environment. "We really are living in a cognitive wild west. Most people have near-zero memetic defences or cognitive security suited for the online age". She adds, "any…

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Orpheas

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4 months

wait, the Romans yassified Alexander? lmao

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

What's causing all these shitcoins to look the same?

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Orpheas

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7 months

increasingly convinced that part of the reason for low birth rates is that the median adult barely ever gets to interact with babies/toddlers/kids outside of like a couple family gatherings a year & that makes even the existence of smol humans abstract & "abnormal" start…

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

11 months

founder of Ethereum & Cardano was serving real insider info 2 whole days ago

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

are you an introvert or do you simply hate exposing yourself in low-trust environments

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

9 months

very contemporary humor, referring to ostensibly serious matters in a v casual, unceremonious manner

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Orpheas

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10 months

@choosy_mom

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

3 months

lmao. just Palmer things

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

7 months

one of the reasons I think ADHD types are overwhelmingly night owls, is because it takes an entire day to re-construct your intentions, for them to only get erased when you go to sleep and in the morning you have to start all over again

Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

7 months

huh, reframing ADHD as Intention Deficit Disorder highlights why spending a few minutes at the start of each day reminding yourself what your intentions are works so well

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Orpheas

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8 months

Wolfram is cool but sadly lowkey underrated/appreciated, but at least not by everyone here's the rec letter Feynman wrote for Wolfram for the 1981 MacArthur Genius Award "the method he uses in studying each question is not so much to read about it but to work it all out…

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Orpheas

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8 months

good morning, the men yearn for the waves

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Orpheas

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3 months

There Are Cathedrals Everywhere For Those With The Eyes To See

from death to death transfigured

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Orpheas

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1 year

today's launch but make it ghibli rocketpunk

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

8 months

overheard one of my cousins (19yo) talk with his gf on the phone & was interesting to observe some of the typical dysfunctions of that age using "is there smth else you wanna say" to ask for verbal intimacy, becoming annoyed when the other cannot guess exactly what you want, etc

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Orpheas

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4 months

this is my 2024 politics

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Orpheas

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Orpheas

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2 years

happy mental health day ❤️ remember that upwards of 50% of psych studies are not replicable, the chemical imbalance theory of depression does not hold, SSRIs are placebos with side-effects, and the mental health industry can help w symptoms but rarely fixes anything longterm

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Orpheas

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2 years

only if they're organic

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

1 year

my favorite genre of photography has gotta be priests blessing modern tech

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

6 months

"you don't talk much do you" sorry king past experience in normie circles has shown me that whenever I start to openly talk abt opinions, practices, habits, the convo rapidly devolves into an interview where I am interrogated & field questions abt any deviation from mass…

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Orpheas

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7 months

reminder that the frontiers of neuro, biology, and psych are begging to be explored the degree to which infectious agents (viruses, bacteria, fungi, worms, protozoa) may be contributing to various disorders & physical/mental syndromes is insane herpes is endemic and may be…

mrs. harrison

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7 months

I wasn’t ready to take the “mold causes autism” pill. This is wild stuff

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Orpheas

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3 months

thinking again abt how wild it is that we put kids through 12+ years of operating within a constrained decision set w few consequences & when they're unleashed into the world we're stunned by the fact that they feel stuck, aimless, & unable to make decisions for themselves lmao

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Orpheas

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8 months

good morning, it's a great day to focus less on self-perception & more on the external manifestations of your decisions & actions

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Orpheas

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5 months

funny thing to notice is how people who think abt things deeply often end up assuming court jester roles in their friend groups — being forced to do so both bcs of the need to make their takes palatable, but also so as to not get bored themselves Nietzsche used to talk abt this

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Orpheas

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5 months

wow

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Orpheas

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8 months

[at a job interview] them: what are your greatest strengths? me: it’s impossible to psy-op me. I’ve been exposed to too much information as a child. I’ve studied too much. I’ve worked too hard. My perception rolls are off the charts. The longer you talk to me, the more you…

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

3 months

Not gonna lie this looks overengineered to hell

billy

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Not gonna lie this looks overengineered to hell

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Orpheas

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8 months

@rSanti97 pretty sure it was Chigurh

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 months

hmm, pet theory that a reason Gen Z is "lazy" is bcs through high info/knowledge exposure since youth, they get to cultivate much more taste than skill their skill severely lags behind taste & by not being afforded environments that satisfy their taste & by simultaneously being…

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

treating depression by conceptualizing life as an RPG where you take control of an NPC and have to turn them into a main character

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

3 years

I quit my big tech job. Last week was my last day. Freedom.

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Orpheas

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2 years

insane to me that so many friends seem to be "unable" to go on a walk without listening to music or to a podcast zero interest in their surroundings, they have to somehow keep themselves in constant overstimulation

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

how much of listening to podcasts, watching streams, etc, functions as a sort of intimacy substitute, a way for people to feel less lonely when alone in front of their compooter

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 months

@eigenrobot greek fire mentioned

Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

6 months

Byzantine flamethrowers go brrr, here's a copy of one in the War Museum of Athens

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Orpheas

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4 months

hot take, if America/the West is a dystopian hellscape it's precisely because bringing your kids to work is seen as unprofessional and repressive in a healthier society kids would casually be around & would not only appear at a small number of specifically designated spaces

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America is a capitalist dystopian hellscape. Childcare should be free for everyone. Service workers deserve a living wage and to be treated with dignity.

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Orpheas

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when i was 15 or so I told a friend that taking different routes in our neighborhood is fun bcs you get to see the same old places in a different light & never get bored of them — he immediately said that this is stupid lol couple of weeks later he turned up to me & told me I…

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

7 months

huh, reframing ADHD as Intention Deficit Disorder highlights why spending a few minutes at the start of each day reminding yourself what your intentions are works so well

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I saw it described as “intention deficit disorder” today and it shook me

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Orpheas

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5 months

every time

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3 months

@willobri God I've seen what you've done for others

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Orpheas

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2 years

luckily my colleague who was in charge of making bookmarks the same across all devices was told to quit tech forever as that feature didn't make any sense at all

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

11 months

“So you’re saying... that you, a mere cook for the president, one day decided to be president yourself? And you just walked into the Kremlin together with thousands of your friends? That’s… crazy.” *picks up pen* “it's really quite beautiful when you think about it”

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Orpheas

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2 years

reminder that Soros would beat the market by using bodily pain as a sign to switch up his portfolio

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

what if consciousness is not produced by the brain? What if the brain is an antenna that merely picks up "consciousness"?

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Orpheas

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2 years

can't believe adults in my life used to tell me "college years are the best years of your life, make sure you enjoy them" lmao seeing long-standing goals start to materialize & gradually building the life I want is a million times better than anything I did during college

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Orpheas

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1 year

it's the best possible time to be alive

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Orpheas

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8 months

Doing Things becomes remarkably easier once you stop imagining that you're performing in front of an unforgiving audience ready to devour you at the sight of the slightest imperfection

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

7 months

the entire economy & arguably the world's progress literally runs on "we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy"

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Orpheas

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19 days

it's kinda fun and/or concerning to see the effect this kind of tech has on a virgin organism

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

1 month

you know how babies and toddlers love helping with "adult" tasks? this is true for teens and young adults too, yet what we do is keep them in artificial enclosures (school, college) that only serve to paralyze them and sap their life force (purpose of a system what it does)

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Lots of people are against unpaid internships but not against spending 4+ years and 80-200k+ for zero exp points And That's Weird what this poor girl needed, what many people need, is an internship out of high school. Any kind.

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future generations will judge our society as by default abusive at how we were forcing kids to spend their most curious years locked up in child prisons, mutilating their love for exploration & learning, while substituting it with stale rule-following and submission to authority

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

1 year

are you a "nihilist" or are you merely afraid of facing life & its complexities head-on, preferring instead to use rampant skepticism and relativism as a distraction from your tender-heartedness & the fact that you actually care, and deeply so

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

8 months

we really are living in a cognitive wild west most people have near-zero memetic defences or cognitive security suited for the online age any semblance of it is easily brute-forced by the onslaught of information & the situation is even worse when it comes to intentional psyops

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@OrphicCapital We’re living in the cognitive wild west

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

used to be confused about why FAANG ppl always say they want to quit but never do, then I realized that most FAANG corps are experts in retention & are basically utilizing the same skills to gamify employee retention via explicit leveling, income that needs unlocking (RSUs), etc.

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@OrphicCapital

2 years

apparently the trick to achieving your goals is to spend some time each morning reminding yourself what they are

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

2 years

yeah living in the present is cool but have you ever made grand, life-affirming, ostensibly out-of-reach plans & seen them start to materialize over the years?

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best thing you can do after days on end of endless information flows & consumption is to dedicate an entire day to simply lying on the floor and letting your brain connect & find patterns among it

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1 year

one more time meeting homeschoolers, one more time wondering whether they are a different species the tiptoeing is absent, they engage w adults better, can question authority, are overall much bolder, joyous, & willing to try & fail ig not growing up in prison does that to ppl

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Orpheas

@OrphicCapital

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you know some of those dysfunctions, you remember them, but you are unable to help in any lasting way you try to explain, but you know & see that the other person lacks the necessary scaffolding at this stage — any advice falls on deaf ears human problem since time immemorial

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Orpheas

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2 years

he's a 10 but his favorite book is Sapiens

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@OrphicCapital

1 year

"how many buzzwords can you fit into our startup thing?" "yes"

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@OrphicCapital

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you used to be illiterate if you couldn't read, and later if you couldn't use a computer now you're illiterate if you can't discern what's true in a polluted information environment

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