Post

https://twitter.com/AllenInstitute/status/1312071927813480453

More from @nickcammarata

Nick

@nickcammarata

Apr 3

https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1836573676147478584

if you’re high functioning autistic I think it’s worth trying to change it and mitigate its downsides, the “I have autism must accept every symptom 100%” thing I think is a bit too far. mdma, oxytocin nasal spray, meditation, exposure therapy, regular therapy I think can do a lot

https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1836573676147478584

I think autism is completely real in the same way that depression is real but identifying with “I’m a depressed person” can be extremely life limiting. I think it’s important not to fall into learned helplessness. Though kindness with yourself along the way is critical too

predisposition doesn’t mean destiny, muscles we’ve strategically let atrophy long before we know what was happening bc they were overwhelming for us don’t have to stay atrophied our whole life

Read 5 tweets

Nick

@nickcammarata

Mar 16

I tend to think I understand my own unresolved “inner work” (“I contract here because I’m afraid of X from event Y”), but almost every time I’m wrong. When the contraction finally releases, the real reason surprises me. If I’d truly understood, it would already be gone

Or I’ll think, “I intellectually understand why I’m doing X but haven’t emotionally processed it,” and that’s wrong too—I’m always missing deeper layers. When the real insight arrives, it makes way more sense both felt-emotionally and intellectually

I’m not even convinced there’s a difference between emotionally processing something and intellectually understanding something. In every case I can remember they were the same, when I fully understood the causal graph it let go and unwound

Read 13 tweets

Nick

@nickcammarata

Mar 15

I wish there were better neuroimaging tools to measure happiness. you can look at the financially wealthiest people on earth and see how they got there (mostly start tech startups and hold the equity a long time). you can’t do the same with happiness bc too many people faking

I think you’d see roughly the same narrowness of paths if you had the imaging and then sorted. there’s a physics of happiness in the same sense there’s a physics of money. if you want 100 billion there’s only a few ways to do it. if you want to 100x happiness only a few ways

The academic science of happiness is a mess bc we can’t sort, so there’s just lots of noise lots in the signal. If you were able to sort I think you’d see extremely obvious signals, just like you see in financial wealth

Read 20 tweets

Nick

@nickcammarata

Mar 13

there should be like one month all in retreats where you do all the healthy things at once. you have doctors and physical trainers and you maintain perfect diet and it’s also a meditation retreat. It’d be 10x easier to teach people meditation if all their habits were good imo

all the things compound on each other so there’s a benefit to doing them all at once. And then after the month I highly doubt anyone will revert that much once they realize what doing all the good things can feel like

It’s sort of the same attempt at “shocking you” that an ayahuasca retreat offers but slower and more traditional. all the things everyone says is good, but at such a high dose and across all the different areas that it shocks your system, wakes you up

Read 5 tweets

Nick

@nickcammarata

Mar 7

meditation can be like learning a bunch of cool tricks as a giant black hole gets slowly closer and closer to you every time you do a trick, and you fear the black hole, but you love doing the tricks. Then the black hole eats you and it’s so much better than any of the tricks

Also it wasn’t a black hole it was kind of nothing but an amazing nothing

It does in some sense take everything from you, but only in a narrow sense and in the way it does you’re glad it does, the stuff was heavy. it’s like having the best friend ever and it’s life itself, or something

Read 8 tweets

Nick

@nickcammarata

Mar 2

I’m surprised more people don’t experiment to find food they find like >8.5/10 both healthy and tasty. the upside over the long term of eating healthy almost all the time is so huge (much of life/health variance) that if you can find a way to do it w/o willpower that’s a big win

I haven’t worked out any numbers but my guess is that any willpower/coercion spent on food is better spent on designing and running experiments (ai can help) to find food that doesn’t require coercion to eat, than spent on directly eating healthy food you don’t like eating

I’ve run maybe high two digit low three digit food experiments and at least for me whatever my theory of healthy diet is (have tried many) there’s probably a way to +4/10 how tasty it is. current diet: morning fruit, soft boiled eggs, lunch a salad I like, dinner meat/vege hotpot

Read 7 tweets

Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

Nick

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

More from @nickcammarata

Nick

Nick

Nick

Nick

Nick

Nick

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Send Email!