1/ From the ever provocative Jed McKenna via JEDVAITA website--"Dreamweaver"

"Dreams feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."
~Dom Cobb, Inception. 2/ "That incessant chatter going on in your head might not be mental pollution, as it seems. It might actually be how you constantly weave your dream state, yourself included, into existence.

Arthur C. Clarke 🗣️

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.” “I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.”

“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”

“Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence”

Henri Bergson 🗣️

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

“The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.” “Time is invention and nothing else.”

“Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.”

“The Eyes See Only What The Mind Is Prepared To Comprehend.”

1/Implicate and explicate orders--A thread

“We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.”
~David Bohm 2/ David Bohm was a quantum physicist whose work focused on understanding the fundamental nature of reality. Bohm's concept of implicate and explicate orders is a way of understanding the relationship between the manifest world we experience and often

Robert A. Heinlein 🗣️

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.” “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

1/ In the Arena

I've always loved Teddy Rosevelt's "Man (person) in the Arena," yet I've heard from many that they interpret it more along the lines of "Gladiator" than the way I read it.

I've always read it as a call to get in the game, not as a pugnacious combatant 2/ but rather as a creative contributor to life.

I think of it more as having the courage to expose yourself to the critics and naysayers by striving (with great enthusiasm) to contribute, even when (especially when) you fall flat on your face.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 🗣️

“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”

“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.” “To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.”

“Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.”

1/🚨Introducing 3 more @osventuresllc Advisory Council members 🚨

I'm delighted to announce 3 more members of our Advisory Council. First up, it's my great pleasure that the ineffable @rorysutherland is joining us as an advisor!

Rory's reputation precedes him, but let's review 2/ He's the legendary vice chairman of the Ogilvy & Mather Group and author of the bestseller "Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life" hailed as "BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT: wonderfully heretical, naughty, funny, and wise"

1/ Just had an amazing conversation with Chris Nolan, who's involved with @goodfuturefeed project in which we realized that we had aligned visions that the future needs to be rebranded.

The way to do that is to focus on "White Mirror" stories that counterbalance all the 2/ negative, dystopian dreck being pumped out by many media outlets today.

Propaganda 101 posits that if you sew Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, guess what happens? People become filled with them.

Here's a piece from Chris outlining the ambition 👇🏻

futuristgerd.com/2022/12/re-bra…

1/ 🚨Announcing the first members of @osventuresllc Advisory Council🚨

One of our missions at @osventuresllc is to put super smart people from different backgrounds in the same <virtual> or <actual> room and see how much new information we can generate by cross-pollination 2/ and synthesis of emergent ideas when viewed from very different domains.

To that end, I'm delighted to announce that the first 3 I invited to serve on our Advisory Council all said yes!

While this group will grow larger, I wanted to introduce you to our first 3 members:

1/🚨 @osventuresllc names first Entrepreneur in Residence 🚨

I'm delighted to announce that @kylascan has joined OSV as our first entrepreneur in residence!

Kyla has a strong background in finance, economics, and data analytics, having triple majored in these 2/ subjects and graduating as valedictorian of her class.

After college, she worked as a CAP Associate at Capital Group and later helped build the investment education arm at On Deck.

A digital native, Kyla started writing online with her

1/🚨Announcing @osventuresllc internships🚨

I deeply believe that there's more talent in the world than many of us realize--even rational optimists like me.

We did an experimental collaboration with @david_perell and his team at "Write of Passage" by funding 15 scholarships 2/ to give a full-ride to talented people who understood that the ability to write compelling and interesting pieces is only becoming MORE important in this exponentially connected and networked age.

In return, we asked David's team to send us the candidates they felt would

Lovers of the "Tao Te Ching" will see some similarities:

"Technology is humanity’s accelerant. Because of technology everything we make is always in the process of becoming. Every kind of thing is becoming something else, while it churns from “might” to “is.”" "All is flux. Nothing is finished. Nothing is done. This never-ending change is the pivotal axis of the modern world. Constant flux means more than simply “things will be different.” It means processes—the engines of flux—are now more important than products."

1/ Manners as an edge--

One of Twitter's greatest strengths--inviting anyone with WiFi and a smartphone into the conversation--is also one that creates the most misunderstanding.

This app is essentially a confederacy of domains--FinTwit; FilmTwit; Architecture Twitter, etc. 2/ It allows people with specific interests access to everyone else in the world who shares that interest and, as IRL, friendships and shorthand communication develop that deepen the bonds between mutuals, often starting with their shared interest but then developing well beyond

AI Avatar, generated using Stable Diffusion via @PrismaAI A few more...

Did an @InfiniteL88ps podcast recording marathon last week, featuring @therealbrom, a quant who chucked it all and went into psychedelic venture funding. We chatted about the future for psychedelic businesses.

We're an LP in his @EmpathVentures funds. Next up was a chat with my friend @krishnanrohit--I asked him what VCs could learn from the Ponzi-FTX Crypto Collapse, and while I hoped he would answer "ask them if they're a Ponzi scheme" his answer "Ask them if they have an accountant" was great too.

William James 🗣️

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

"We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done."
~Rich Sutton

incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bitte… One area that highlights our humanOS biases is that few researchers in science want to work on a thesis where the result is a null hypothesis.

We're often more interested in getting results that are positive and which gain the interest of prominent journals.

1/🚨New @InfiniteL88ps colleague🚨

Delighted to announce that @atmanpandya is now our video creator for the podcast!

Atman explained that "For most of my life, I've followed two paths simultaneously: The default one (analytical)
The exploratory one (creative)." 2/ In the traditional one, He studied hard, got good grades, attended one of the best B-Schools in India and got a job in one of the top Investment banks in the world.

Over the past few years, he helped launch a UK digital bank

1/ 🚨New colleague at @InfiniteL88ps 🚨

Two in a row!? 🤨 Jeez Jim, give it a rest.

NO.

I think highlighting the talent that surrounds us right here on this very app and how they got a new gig is becoming more and more the norm, and I want to celebrate that! 2/ Please meet @Camelliayang, @InfiniteL88ps's new Social Media and Community Manager!

She was born and raised in Jinan, China and went to New Zealand as an exchange student in her 20s. She majored in English Literature and International Business/Communications,

1/🚨New colleague at @InfiniteL88ps 🚨

I'd like to welcome @Ed__Talks to the @InfiniteL88ps team! Ed has a fascinating backstory that I think illustrates our ideas around the "Great Reshuffle" well.

He studied politics and history at university in the UK, and fell into 2/ what @InfiniteL88ps guest @p_millerd calls the ‘default path’ by studying and then practicing law through his mid-20's.

When I asked him why he would give up a promising career in law to join us full time at @InfiniteL88ps, he told me: