Live life like a daring adventure.
Do we develop relationships with cities or with the people in those cities, or both?
Apparently, when you match eye levels with someone, studies have shown that they feel like they are more heard and that you’re a good listener. Something about matching and mirroring, by being on the same eye and ear level, makes us feel more heard.
Charlie Munger said, “It’s remarkable how much long-term advantage myself and my partners have gained by trying to be consistently not stupid rather than trying to be very intelligent.”
Cannabis overdose deaths still at 0.
Technology helps us stay ahead of the competition.
“I don’t know that much. The shore of ignorance grows just as fast as the island of knowledge.”
________
The camera is a liar and has always been a liar
Is our digital photo stream a truer manifestation of ourselves?
We see photos of our friends more often than we see most of our friends
The camera creates a fake reality
The presence of the camera causes us to behave differently
We want the camera to tell the truth but it always fails. It always seems to be telling something slightly false and slightly seductive
We now use photos to communicate and tell stories
We now set up our photos and stage our photos and take our photos with a particular audience in mind
We can easily edit them
This conversation of photos may be less ephemeral than voice communication, because they’re online “forever”
Our photos are less about getting the facts exactly right and more about telling a story, showing our emotions, editing to show how we feel
Some people didn’t vote for John Kerry because they saw what they KNEW was a fake photo of him, with Vietnam anti-war supporter Jane Fonda
Eventually, we won’t have any trust on what is true or not
Prior to this we looked to video to be true, but now it can be edited very convincingly (deep fakes)
Liars dividend – if a news story about you is true and you spread enough fake stories, we don’t know what to believe anymore
________
We’re all afraid that we’re not enough BLANK, and that if we’re not enough BLANK we won’t be loved.
Love is the oxygen of the soul.
Someone has loved you.
Someone in your life has put your needs in front of theirs otherwise you wouldn’t be here.
When your standard is perfect it’s just a way to beat yourself up for not being enough.
It’s a false standard.
It doesn’t exist.
Once you get to whatever you thought perfect was you’ll discover something else, won’t you?
________
182 262 m per second
1 light year is 10 trillion km
Synaptic impulse happens on average 300 ms before we realize we have had a thought
At 3 meters or 10 feet of distance, you’re seeing someone as they were one 100 millionth of a second ago (distance /speed of light) .
But the way someone looks now and the way they looked one 100 millionth of a second ago is too small to notice.