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Jun 13

Psychedelics have become the new yuppie drugs

Extracted from Twitter rants…haha Typical stoner argument: oh maybe you had addictive personality to begin with anyway oh maybe people with schizophrenia shouldn’t smoke oh maybe it is ‘dependeeeeeeeence’ not ‘addictioooooooon’ oh I can quit any day I want These people get so defensive and their head is so much…

Psychedelics

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Psychedelics have become the new yuppie drugs
Psychedelics have become the new yuppie drugs

Jun 1

Has comedy become too nerdy?

I just ranted for 2 hours — 20 minutes of which composing a fuckin YouTube comment where I rebuke the damning descent of comedy at the hands of commercialization — where comedians memorize the same god ffin damn patter, routine, bit, script, gag, schtick and rehash the same tired and…

Comedy

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Has comedy become too nerdy?
Has comedy become too nerdy?

May 21

The Unreasonable Myth of Social Media Marketing

Originally posted on my LinkedIn feed YouTube is the new hustle. YouTube is the new rap game. Kids nowadays want to be YouTuber when at one time of era all they wanted to be were firefighters and astronaut. So when I study all these OG YouTubers who got started from…

Socialmedia Marketing

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The Unreasonable Myth of Social Media Marketing
The Unreasonable Myth of Social Media Marketing

Jan 28

I believe

I believe in free speech. I believe all lives matter. I believe gays are discriminated and persecuted. I believe pronouns shouldn’t be shoved. I believe in vaccines and your right not to vaccinate. I believe immigration is a problem. And so is xenophobia. I believe in gun rights. I believe in…

US Politics

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Jan 2

Left’s obsession with mental illness

Well Medium is thoroughly left, so this should fare well… My comment response to this video. Well spoken! As an American it is usually the left’s obsession with mental illness. That is becuse the left/liberals/democratic party luvvvvv to play victim. When you say you have mental illness you don’t have…

Mental Illness

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Jan 2

Hard work is overrated

Despite a secular country, America is steeped in calvinistic, puritan, protestantant work ethic mindset. Sure it may work out, but it is pyrrhic victory. For instance, once I forced myself to walk 12 miles to go the beach. By the time I went there, I was absolutely knackered and hated…

Hard Work

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Jan 2

We live in a Eat […] Society

Maybe not the best way to start the new year, but here it goes… We live in a “Eat Sh*&” Society. So, it is the first. It is late at night. Around 12. I decide to go for a walk. But I deliberately leave my wallet in the house. …

Homelessness

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Dec 26, 2021

Why luck matters more than you think: What successful people don’t tell you

Lately I have been obsessed with winner’s mindset, positive psychology, daily ritual and routine and being a champion. I have obsessively studied Kobe Bryant and Mamba Mentality as well as Michael Phelps and his coach Bowman and what these people had to do to get where they are/were at today. …

Luck

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Why luck matters more than you think: What successful people don’t tell you
Why luck matters more than you think: What successful people don’t tell you

Dec 24, 2021

My nuanced take on positive thinking

The following was a comment response to this Youtube video. I thought I would share it here. (Turns out I blasted it in just under 3 minutes. Hooom. Maybe getting off pot made me write so much so furiously banging the keyboard like infinite monkey pouncing a xylorimba tryna produce…

Positive Thinking

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Sep 19, 2021

How to biohack your intelligence — with everything from sex to modafinil to MDMA
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I will just rehash and regurgitate a Eva Wong story.

I will just rehash and regurgitate a Eva Wong story. Now internet doesn't have the record of it, so I just have to rely on my memory with my own license to color. Lieh-Tzu who was a noted Taoist celebrity on his own accord once went to the archivist, the…

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