I loved reading about your schedule and we have many similarities! PS Going to your wonderful talk in NYC was probably the only large social gathering I attended in 2024 - it satiated my social needs for an entire year basically - quality over quantity 👼🏼 thank you!
I have recently discovered your work and over the past week I have read and listened to a lot of what you talk about... Whenever I find the work of others interesting and inspiring I love to use it as an opportunity to figure out what parts of that person are areas reflected back to me that I may enjoy. I love your work on reincarnation, and your discussions around autism.
I always wonder how inspiring people fill their time.
This has saved me a lot of time wondering to myself it is very helpful.
My favourite quote so far is "like wanting to bring back information from a rainforest to use in a game of Tetris."
I feel like I am of two minds relating to this schedule:
1. I feel jealous and in awe and motivated by your schedule. I want to have more of the things that (I currently think) that I want. I also want to be free of things that weigh me down, like social media, overthinking, and mindless context switching. I don't know what is motivating me towards these things quite yet, so I will think more on this and try to understand what draws me toward your lifestyle.
2. There are some things in your schedule that I don't think would work for me. I don't think I could do without so much human contact. I wonder what that would be like for me. I've come to think that I *need* human contact in order to survive+thrive. I also feel like I would find my mind wandering and not getting things done as I desired with such a schedule, something to do with ADHD and a shitty attention span atm. I do also feel that I am in some sense "locked in" to a career path that I chose, not because of outside obligation or skill building (a bit of this one), but mostly because I care about the work (AI alignment). I want to do some things in similar ways to you, but I don't think that my pursuits support this afaict. This is likely a lack of imagination and trying.
I have a general direction that I want to go as a result of your schedule, and I think maybe just trying a couple things might be the way to do this. I'll think some more. Thanks for writing this!
One question: how did you get to this point? How do you make adjustments to your schedule? Ie, do you use "willpower" to change your schedule/habits? Or do you change them with/through other sources, eg aligning your parts or making it impossible to fail by removing affordances?
It’s more intuitive. I try to stay flexible and have overarching goals, which currently are to detox my liver, improve my general health, and work on my essay collection.
Maybe not since middle school. Since then, I've always had a goal of wanting to be healthier mentally and physically. I've had writing goals all the time since college.
Oh nice, wanting to be healthier are good broad(?) goals! I think I was restricting my def of goal too small st it felt like I didn't have goals. I guess I do have goals :)
What are writing goals? (I'm not a big writer (yet), so idk what these might be.) And any in particular that you mind sharing?
Please make tiktok version
woah my routine is quite similar to yours. yours has more cats and caffeine than mine does. mine has more weed and snow management
i read this, shirtless
thank you for reading
You are the ancient future 💚
Sounds peaceful.
I loved reading about your schedule and we have many similarities! PS Going to your wonderful talk in NYC was probably the only large social gathering I attended in 2024 - it satiated my social needs for an entire year basically - quality over quantity 👼🏼 thank you!
Cool—that was a good gathering that night.
love how varied this is while regimented still!
How does one shower in 0-5 minutes? Is that called a shower?
I enjoyed reading this and it made me want to bike barefoot
this was very readable i enjoyed it
i feel much better about myself after reading this
Sounds ideal and not too different than my days.
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I have recently discovered your work and over the past week I have read and listened to a lot of what you talk about... Whenever I find the work of others interesting and inspiring I love to use it as an opportunity to figure out what parts of that person are areas reflected back to me that I may enjoy. I love your work on reincarnation, and your discussions around autism.
I always wonder how inspiring people fill their time.
This has saved me a lot of time wondering to myself it is very helpful.
My favourite quote so far is "like wanting to bring back information from a rainforest to use in a game of Tetris."
Thank you...
I feel like I am of two minds relating to this schedule:
1. I feel jealous and in awe and motivated by your schedule. I want to have more of the things that (I currently think) that I want. I also want to be free of things that weigh me down, like social media, overthinking, and mindless context switching. I don't know what is motivating me towards these things quite yet, so I will think more on this and try to understand what draws me toward your lifestyle.
2. There are some things in your schedule that I don't think would work for me. I don't think I could do without so much human contact. I wonder what that would be like for me. I've come to think that I *need* human contact in order to survive+thrive. I also feel like I would find my mind wandering and not getting things done as I desired with such a schedule, something to do with ADHD and a shitty attention span atm. I do also feel that I am in some sense "locked in" to a career path that I chose, not because of outside obligation or skill building (a bit of this one), but mostly because I care about the work (AI alignment). I want to do some things in similar ways to you, but I don't think that my pursuits support this afaict. This is likely a lack of imagination and trying.
I have a general direction that I want to go as a result of your schedule, and I think maybe just trying a couple things might be the way to do this. I'll think some more. Thanks for writing this!
This makes sense—everyone is different and would have their own ideal schedule. Mine is constantly shifting too.
Working on a collection of personal essays helps sate my desire for human contact somewhat, and also my awareness that I'm just in a reclusive phase.
Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts.
Thanks for the reply.
One question: how did you get to this point? How do you make adjustments to your schedule? Ie, do you use "willpower" to change your schedule/habits? Or do you change them with/through other sources, eg aligning your parts or making it impossible to fail by removing affordances?
It’s more intuitive. I try to stay flexible and have overarching goals, which currently are to detox my liver, improve my general health, and work on my essay collection.
Goal-driven, very nice! I'm writing a poast on thinking/acting from principles right now!
Do you have times when you don't have goals?
Maybe not since middle school. Since then, I've always had a goal of wanting to be healthier mentally and physically. I've had writing goals all the time since college.
Oh nice, wanting to be healthier are good broad(?) goals! I think I was restricting my def of goal too small st it felt like I didn't have goals. I guess I do have goals :)
What are writing goals? (I'm not a big writer (yet), so idk what these might be.) And any in particular that you mind sharing?