What's the most common mental illness after depression and bipolar disorder?

It's probably schizophrenia. There's no treatment for it but evidence suggests that psychedelic drugs like psilocybin may cure it.

I explore this in detail with @BasicMorality in my podcast. Image
Here's the podcast link for Youtube:
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If you enjoy the conversation, make sure you read @BasicMorality's blog. I especially love this one: mad.science.blog/2019/08/02/tho…

An excerpt of why psychedelics tend to provide new perspectives.

(Or why Steve Jobs said LSD was one of the most profound experiences of his life) Image

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2 Jun
This was new to me:

How short farm animal’s lives are as compared to their natural life expectancy. Image
Chicken.

Make chickens are killed on day 1 as they’re not egg laying.

Broilers (for meat) live only 40 days. Image
Cattle.

Even what appears to be harmless (milk) tends to reduce lifespan of the cattle to 1/4th of natural life span.

This is because they’re kept in constant pregnancy for lactation and stress of constant milking and being away from their calf takes its toll. Image
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25 May
How do our bodies know what to become?

There are no instructions in our genes that code for the exact 3D structure of our bodies. There's no tiny human contained in our DNA.

I discuss this with @drmichaellevin in my podcast and he's 🤯 blown me away with his ideas. Image
Here's the podcast link:

It's 90 minutes of one perspective-shifting idea after another.
We cover a lot of ground in the podcast. Image
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22 May
If you donate here, I’ll match your donation with an equal amount (total upto a lakh rupees).

Simply DM me the proof of your donation.
Matched donations of 5 people already.

Let’s go, folks.

We can help @scottishladki feed 100,000 meals to the needy during these hard times.
Matched Rs 91k of donations to this cause, will match another 9k.

Let's get the 2 x 1L donations done for helping feed people free meals during covid.
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22 May
Solve the most important problem that you can personally impact.

(a thread)
1/ Picking problems to solve is a function of attention.

Wherever and whatever you’re paying attention to is going to reveal problems in that domain to you.

Solving such revealed problems is going to absorb you and will reveal even more problems worth solving in that domain.
2/ So this creates kind of a feedback loop.
Read 34 tweets
17 May
How much can science tell us about reality?

(a really long 🧵 thread)
1/ Reading and re-reading The Brief History of Time when I was young, I grew up into adolescence with an unshakeable faith in science to reveal truths about reality.
2/ At school, we were taught scientific laws as if they're the gospel of reality, never to be changed and never to be questioned.

Once you understood magnetism, for example, you could seal that part of reality forever as being understood and then move onto the next thing.
Read 65 tweets
13 May
What you build your business on doesn’t limit how big it can grow.

(a 🧵 on this mental model)
1/ Can an app built on top of Facebook become bigger than Facebook itself?

It’s easy to believe that you will get limited by how big is the businesses on which your business is built. But that’s not true.
2/ An app built on top of Facebook can become bigger than Facebook because the customers and desires that Facebook serves are very different than customers and desires that the business that’s built on Facebook is trying to serve.
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