Countdown to Trump saying “Iran? I’ve never heard of it…”
04.03.2026 03:50
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Countdown to Trump saying “Iran? I’ve never heard of it…”
So disappointing. Huge waste of electricity.
Meditation thoughts on Renunciation for this morning's mindfulaware.com gathering: mbellows.notion.site/Renunciation...
Bob Weir has died. I am bereft.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
My Substack on surviving and thriving in the startup life
open.substack.com/pub/matthewb...
An illustration for our times
His pointer to Via Negativa (coffeeandjunk.com/via-negativa/) reminds me of the "Beyond the Four Extremes" arguments in Madhyamaka, which seek to blow up conceptual thinking by talking about what enlightenment (and reality) is not.
His (excellent) lucid dreaming post reminded me of the Dzogchen instruction to do the same thing - periodically ask "Am I dreaming?". Tim uses that prompt to trigger lucidity when asleep. The Dzogchen folks use it to trigger it when awake.
I always read @timferriss.bsky.social
Friday email, but this edition is particularly good: Lucid dreaming for beginners, Mob Land, Via Negativa Philosophy (eg not doing dumb things). Lots to explore! 🙏 #5BulletFriday
“keeping promises we make to ourselves is the ultimate form of empowerment”
Turns out “Vote for the abuser or the rich people will leave” is not a great campaign slogan.
Dear @myrmidia.bsky.social I see your page says Commissions Closed but if you ever take them up again, I would love to commission a Vajrayogini image to hang above my meditation shrine.
If you elected a billionaire to appoint billionaires to fix the system that made them billionaires… you must be some special kind of stupid.
At the early stage that’s what good board members do - shoulder to shoulder with the founders in the trenches helping build the business: www.grit.vc
Being famous is SO overrated.
Aw! They miss us!
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
My first thought too
Congrats Justin! That’s excellent!
Rolling thunder review is a New Year’s Eve movie
Insta-translate in emails is magical:
Sometimes our anthropocentric assumptions about how intelligence "should" work (like using language for reasoning) may be holding AI back. Letting AI reason in its own native "language" in latent space could unlock new capabilities, improving reasoning over Chain of Thought. arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06769
My neighbor just signed off her email to me with “If you have a diagnosis for neurodiversity/ADHD, telling us might help.”
What am I supposed to do with that? Please advise…
Like they say... chop wood carry water. The normal household things have been a great practice environment for me.
People say that the proliferation of media is a bad thing because we binge too much but GD is it amazing to see David Bowie perform Ziggy Stardust as filmed by D.A. Pennebaker.
I love how everyone is saying BlueSky is a haven for all the lefties when it's mostly scientists posting research and folks sharing what video games they like.
Heart popped and mind blown by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings tonight in Boston. Top five concert of my life. I've never cried so many tears of beauty at a concert before. Go see them www.gillianwelch-davidrawlings.com
Founders: for your own good pls double check name spelling in your email. It’s a bad look to misspell the person who made an intro for you. Slow down to speed up.
Journal writing while my dog chews sticks
Journal writing while my dog chews sticks:
