Waking up to this made me feel very loved. If you have even a tiny desire to call out someone you like, esp if they have < 500 followers, please do it!
The world is chronically undercomplimented. When I was 14 Stephen Fry said like 3 nice words about me and I was high for years
The last person I recd was @czgate and I stand by it. But I need more great unknown people who else should I follow and hopefully end up calling out too
a few weeks after Stephen Fry’s tiny complement on a talk show I asked my crush out and she said “Youre amazing but let me go ask Jack out first bc he’s SUPER hot and if he says no I might be down!” and honestly Stephen’s 3 words were all that kept me from the abyss
after ruminating on it for 14 years I have concluded Jack really wasn’t really as hot as he appeared he just had a cool skater haircut
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After a few years of reading the scientific literature and brewing on it myself I couldn’t be less confident about awareness and basically what’s really going on in the universe. Being merely 95% confused seems impossibly far away
behold my intellectual bounty from thousands of hours of thinking: causality may be important, maybe?
until someone tells me what's really going on I choose to believe the fundamental unit of the universe is kisses 😘
definitely follow @noampomsky even if you aren't doing this though. Her reward system is broken, allowing her to see magic in everything, and I highly suggest breaking yourself in the same way
going down street or at stoplights I’m usually dancing and like half of days I notice a backseat teen smiling and recording me and I wish I could see a big collage of all of these snapchats and whatever over the last 10y (happened twice this coffee run)
also the correlation between how much I notice that I’m autodancing and my previous night’s HRV is crazy. Under 60 no dancing, > 100 it’s just excessive and annoying even to me
propranolol kills the natural urge to dance :( alcohol increases but it gets too much v easily and I fall over, phenibut increases it, makes me auto start conversations with random people walking by me on the street
@Oatmeal hey, I mostly love your work but I find theoatmeal.com/comics/unhappy a bit dangerous. It portrays negative hedonic tone and suggests feeling happy most or all of the time for “no reason” isn’t possible, which is not correct
Most people have positive baselines and it's possible to go from quite negative baseline to happy almost all the time. Communicating this has downsides, but I think the hope is net-positive. Happy to talk through ways to communicate this safely if you’re open to it! (DMs open)
roughly, if someone has low mood they know it. They won’t raise it unless they know they can change it, and many people don’t. Telling the truth and giving them hope, showing them how high the ceiling goes, can motivate the work necessary to get there. Hiding it isn’t helping
So crazy to me how hardcore we are alcohol < 21. We’ll happy screw with the most important neurotransmitters (dopamine amphetamines, snri, serotonin norepinephrine) in kids but alcohol no way
Let the kids get drunk now and then
I’m not even talking glass of wine at dinner, I mean like go nuts have a party. Teach then about alcohol poisoning and sexual consent
I’d be far more concerned if my kid spent time around friends that weren’t kind than if they drank even once a week
Sorry for typos it’s cold out in Utah and my fingers are refusing to accept my suggestions for where they should go
@sam_havens how on earth have I never seen this before thanks so much for referencing it
@sam_havens Some of this doc is too woo for me but I totally agree that in most cases you actually don’t want to start with a therapist (having on at the ready is good tho)
@sam_havens just to be clear I don’t actually have a good proposed new protocol, I just think experimenting there is a high point of leverage for working on 3, and much easier than drug development