Zettel 202410042007: Weight Loss isn’t about Weight Loss
Weight loss shouldn’t be the goal of weight loss. The goal should be health. Look for signs that your overall health has improved. How’s your blood pressure since you started exercising? Do your clothes fit different? Are you getting compliments on your appearance even though the scale hasn’t changed? Can you lift more? Can you walk or jog farther now?
Don’t focus on the scale when trying to lose weight. The scale cannot tell you these things.
October 4, 2024
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Zettel 202410041959: Because humans believe stories more readily than facts, what you say and think about yourself is powerful and important to examine.
What to tell yourself about yourself is very important. That’s because humans generally believe stories over facts.
So, watch the narrative you tell yourself. Watch the assumptions you hold on to. This will shape your life.
October 4, 2024
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Zettel 202410012005 : Humans’ Power of Imagination and Need for Social Connection Causes Us to Believe Stories before Accepting Facts
Humans use their power of imagination to tell stories. This story telling ability creates connections with other humans. This connection also causes humans to rally together around these stories. This happens so much so that humans care more about the connections and the stories than they do reality. This need to connect and embrace stories can cause humans to follow a delusion to one’s own demise.
October 1, 2024
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Zettel 202410011956 : Humans’ Greatest Strength and Weakness is Our Power of Imagination.
Imagination is the Human’s greatest strength because with it one can see what isn’t and then make it so. Imagination is also the Human’s greatest weakness because with it one can follow delusion to self-destruction.
This makes us both foolish and wise. This makes us Human.
October 1, 2024
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What happens when you watch a video created by AI, but you can’t tell the difference?
Or a podcast where the voices aren’t actual humans. But you didn’t know?
What happens when you can’t know what’s true even though “seeing is believing”?
What happens when a bad actor manufacturers information in order to influence you because you can’t tell it’s misinformation?
How do you stop manufactured information when it has exploited you in some way? Taken your life savings? Lulled you into a cult? Convinced you to not vote? Or convinced you to take your AR-15 and storm a pizza parlor because someone lied to you that the resturant is harboring child sex slaves?
September 20, 2024
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Information Overload is noise. Disinformation can easily hide in that noise. Knowledge isn’t grown in such an environment. This is the Anti-Zettelkasten.
In Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book Nexus, he discusses the history of information and how humans have handeled it across history. In this overview, he discusses how tech companies are using algorithms to exploit people with misinformation. The algorithms (and tech companies) have one goal: To keep your attention. They don’t attempt to form genuine connections between the pieces of information that they feed us. Instead, they leverage the glut of information so that they captivate us so as to advertise to us. Or learn our habits and sell that information about us to the highest bider.
Disinformation can easily hide in this environment. And this can create polarization in nations, cause good people to make horrible decisions, and mask truth and reality from our minds.
Social media, advertisments, the attention grabbing headlines, the trolling, the sensationalism . . . it’s all working against our ablity to form genuine connections with our information and with each other as people.
This is dangerious and may one day destroy us.
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September 20, 2024
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