Brian Hicks

you’re not missing anything. There’s not a lot of first mover advantage here.

Seems like I need to read up on yoga nidra! I’ve only ever encountered these techniques in a meditation context.

I do feel nice though.

did a guided NSDR recording. At the beginning the speaker was like "this isn't meditation, it's a different thing"… then guided me through breathwork and a body scan.

Not exactly beating the "meditation for guys with a nootropics stack" charges here.

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Basically: I can research this on my own too, but I wonder what people's experiences have been with it. (And some initial searching has not disabused me of the vibe.)

Gut check: non-sleep deep rest seems interesting, but the term seems to be mostly used by nervous system bros who want to sell me nootropics. Is there another term I should be looking up for this? Has anyone I know here tried this and seen good results?

I've been re-reading the 2015 edition of The Design of Everyday Things. One interesting thing he mentions right away is that after he introduced "affordance" as a term, everybody started misusing it. We've been mixing "affordance" and "signifier" in his terms. Getting clear on the two is neat.

I got some things I’d love ruined, what’s your rate.

This one. This post wins the contest. 💯

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

oooh this one is especially good. 😍

parasocial relationships are WILD these days

I don’t think Mr. Hollywood would be pleased with my crumb but it at least does not have a soggy bottom.

Living up to stated expectations of “not dead”.

Two loaves of bread on a cooling rack. One is cut in half and set on top of the other to show the puffy, medium density crumb.

aaaaand we ate half a loaf immediately 😆

Two loaves of white bread cooling on a rack. They have a weird shape and way too much flour on top, but they’re just about perfectly brown.

I made bread! It’s ugly because it’s my first loaves ever but I learned a lot and I’m excited to taste it!

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

I love it when headlines say so-and-so appeared before a judge, as though they're some kind of Christmas ghost.

The buckets aren’t that fancy, BTW. Just food-safe 2-gallon buckets with 1" holes in the top. Had to get a guy at Lowe’s to get them off a high shelf but that’s the extent of the exclusivity. 😆

It’s Kratky hydroponics. Big draw is that the buckets, nutrients, and a light source are all you need. Slightly less efficient in material use than a nutrient film or flood and drain setup but WAY simpler.

Post from last year: bytes.zone/posts/kratky... (I’m due to write an update)

Accidentally left out a couple words: so here’s another way to say it: one bucket started in full strength nutrients a week before the other.

Four seedling-stage lettuce plants in white buckets. The upper right plant is the largest, followed by the lower right, the lower left, then the upper left. The plants in the right bucket have a couple true leaves each, while the ones in the left bucket barely have one true leaf each.

Accidentally did a little experiment. These four blocks were started the same day, but one bucket started in the full-strength nutrients and the other stayed in just water until today. Can you tell which?

CONSTANTLY. I also feel I’d be much further along in life if I treated myself as part of “everyone” to which standard advice can apply instead of constantly trying to be a special outsider.

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

Banner: DECIDING TO WIN: Toward a common sense renewal of the Democratic Party THE PROBLEM: Democrats have been offering voters a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This is despite the fact that only 40% of voters want PB&J and 35% want ham and cheese. (A Pie chart shows 40% pb and j, 35% ham and cheese, and 25% other) THE SOLUTION: The Democrats are poised to earn a supermajority by targeting what the median American voter wants: a peanut butter and ham sandwich Clip art of a peanut butter and ham sandwich

This "Deciding To Win" study is pretty compelling, say what you will about the participants but you can't argue the stats

at some point in the next couple quarters he's maybe going to be able to afford a new jacket!

Always. Means testing is wasteful bullshit beloved by busybody creeps. Just give people food.

Widening gyre? That’s loser talk.

If I were a rough beast I would simply not slouch towards Bethlehem.