dating

a person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly!

time spent w different groups in life as we age

i've seen this multiple times before, but it still hits me everytime

answer the call to life

"all desire is a desire for being"

a great read on desires

https://x.com/SchrodingrsBrat/status/1975979717384634805

you can design your own luck

being grateful
being intentional
being consistent
increasing luck surface area

great video that sums up my feelings on social media

when you’re documenting for an audience, authenticity turns into strategy

this leads to lesser true experience (in the moment) and happiness

the true meaning of a moment is often in the feeling, not the record

being present matters more than how the photos look

are you living to truly live life or living to relive it later?

are you performing or living?

https://youtu.be/QFKTExujYAA?si=WIQyEQCNqXaAx_3x

it’s highly unfortunate that minority of people truly understand this

mimetic society that is often trying to impress others even through social media

overcompensation and portrayal of one’s happiness (individually or a relationship) can often be sensed through social media presence

many are so unhappy with their own lives that they lean into others’ online to feel something

be more present for your own sake (i stray sometimes as well)

an era of performance, the death of authenticity

What we fear most is usually what we need to do.

thoughts?

arrival fallacy is real

The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel

personally have felt this as well

job market tightening

what you don't like - change,
what you can't change - accept,
what you can't accept - leave.

leave some room for our minds to breathe by not filling every moment with something

boredom is important

Smarter people tend to be more outgoing and happy, to have fewer problems falling to sleep and staying asleep, to be less manic, and to be less psychotic, prone to ADHD, etc.

https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1980693292602765312

Polygenic scores can now meaningfully distinguish between embryos for health traits and, critically, intelligence. Our comprehensive pleiotropy analysis suggests that concerns about hidden trade-offs are largely unfounded, in fact, our data indicates that screening for cognitive ability is associated with broadly positive psychological and health outcomes. We think that when negative pleiotropy exists, parents should be made aware of it to inform their choice of which embryo to implant.

https://herasight.substack.com/p/cogpgt

this is interesting because my view has always been that people of higher IQ tend to be unhappier because they know too much of how the world operates (the dark parts of the world that are usually hidden)

something about ignorance is blessing and most of society operates with inconscious incompetence (hence happier)

like how most philosophers think themselves into depression eventually

taste is an info hazard

once you’ve tasted something “refined”, it becomes harder to “downgrade” (simply put)

your relative scale tips

might be a root cause of the hedonic treadmill as well