[Written by ChatGPT. Image credit] Introduction The field of longevity science is growing rapidly, fueled by advances in genetics, metabolism, and biotechnology. Alongside this scientific progress, an increasing number of researchers and futurists have turned to personal supplementation regimens in an attempt to slow aging and optimize health. Some of these figures, such as Dr.ContinueContinue reading “The Supplement Stacks of Longevity Experts: Science, Business, and the Fine Line Between Evidence and Entrepreneurship”
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The Utility of Emptiness: How Absence Gives Function to Form
Verse 11 by Lao Zi: 三十辐共一毂，当其无，有车之用。埏埴以为器，当其无，有器之用。凿户牖以为室，当其无，有室之用。故有之以为利，无之以为用。 Thirty spokes share one hub,But it is the empty space that makes the wheel useful.Clay is shaped into a vessel,But it is the empty space inside that makes it useful.Doors and windows are cut to make a room,But it is the empty space that makes the room useful.Therefore, what existsContinueContinue reading “The Utility of Emptiness: How Absence Gives Function to Form”
The Work-Life Tango
There’s a Chinese saying that marriage is like a fence—those inside want out, and those outside want in. Personally, I think that’s a bit dramatic. Plenty of people are perfectly happy inside the fence, and plenty are happily lounging outside with a cocktail. And the same goes for work. The grass isn’t always greener onContinueContinue reading “The Work-Life Tango”
The Network Effect: Language, Cognition, and the Dawn of Human-AI Collaboration
[Written by Claude] Language serves as humanity’s most fundamental cognitive technology—transforming isolated neural networks into an interconnected cognitive ecosystem. When we examine language as an interface protocol, we gain insight into both our past cognitive evolution and our potential future augmentation through large language models. Language as Cognitive Networking Protocol Human cognition in isolation facesContinueContinue reading “The Network Effect: Language, Cognition, and the Dawn of Human-AI Collaboration”
Gratitude for Being Human: A Reflection on Our Uniqueness
[Written with help from ChatGPT] It’s easy to be cynical about the human race. So much of our modern storytelling—especially in sci-fi—revolves around the idea that we are inherently flawed, even destructive. Movies like Atlas depict AI recognizing humanity as the problem and deciding that the logical solution is to eliminate us. I, Robot exploresContinueContinue reading “Gratitude for Being Human: A Reflection on Our Uniqueness”
Mental Model for Decision Making
[Image credit] I wish I had come across Charlie Munger’s talk, “A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as It Relates to Investment Management and Business,” when I was younger. After decades of formal and informal education, I’ve accumulated countless data points and insights, yet I haven’t fully connected them into a structured decision-making framework orContinueContinue reading “Mental Model for Decision Making”
Living in Harmony with the Dao: Wisdom of the Tenth Verse of the Daodejing
Verse 10 by Lao Zi: 载营魄抱一，能无离乎？专气致柔，能如婴儿乎？涤除玄鉴，能无疵乎？爱民治国，能无为乎？天门开阖，能为雌乎？明白四达，能无知乎？生之畜之，生而不有，为而不恃，长而不宰，是谓玄德。 Carrying the soul and embracing the One, can you not depart from it?Focusing your breath and attaining softness, can you be like a newborn child?Cleansing the deep mirror of perception, can you be without blemish?Loving the people and governing the nation, can you act without force?Heaven’s gate opens and closes—canContinueContinue reading “Living in Harmony with the Dao: Wisdom of the Tenth Verse of the Daodejing”
Sleeping in vs. Workout: The Great Morning Mind-Off
Three missed workout days this year so far. Exercise duration and calories burned trending up from last year! Related Post: Atomic Habits [Written by Grok] This morning, my brain turned into a stage for a two-princess showdown, starring the only voices that ever seem to steal the mic in my head. As the alarm wentContinueContinue reading “Sleeping in vs. Workout: The Great Morning Mind-Off”
The Language of Thought: Can AI Develop Its Own Inner Dialogue?
Periodically, my mind drifts toward the act of thinking itself—especially the role language plays in shaping it. My inner dialogue is constant, mostly in English, with occasional bursts of Chinese. It seems that only when I’m playing the piano or solving a math problem do I engage in a form of non-verbal thought. This makesContinueContinue reading “The Language of Thought: Can AI Develop Its Own Inner Dialogue?”
Arrived, Yet Becoming
[Written by ChatGPT] There is a quiet joy in realizing that I have, in many ways, arrived. Not in the grand, cinematic sense of a final destination, but in the deep, steady knowing that I am exactly where I am meant to be. I have worked, I have stumbled, I have questioned, and I haveContinueContinue reading “Arrived, Yet Becoming”
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