Nick Cammarata

wen moon is beautiful too, but passive and lacking the agentic spirit of gmhttps://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1254592461269131264 …

It’s sad our society has so few memes and idioms about creating a bright future through hard work that when one even hints towards that it stands out as a glimmer of hope

Crypto memes are getting better. Lambo was cringe, hodl is good but promoting stasis, and gm is about creativity and the future It’s literally welcoming a new day, and it’s when you say to someone when you’re about to get to work

I lived in Paris for a while and at least then the same problem was everywhere there too My current hypothesis is no one told them that ovens work after sunrise

They only take a few min to bake, like Neapolitan pizza, but if people didn’t want to wait that long you could make batches every thirty min, like some cafes do with drip coffee I’ve searched like 10+ of the “best croissant” places in NYC, all stale after first morning bake

What if instead of bakers making all their items at 4am and then leaving them out to die all day we cooked them to order like everything else Waking up at sunrise to have a good croissant is fine, but we invented the croissant not the other way around. We’re in charge here

Just to be clear, no shade to journey or their investors, they’re playing within the ecosystem that was handed to them and I’m excited to see how the study goes

If I wipe my knowledge of the FDA from my brain and you asked “can I have a million dollars to give a few dozen* people a pill and to see if it helps with X” I’d be shocked, you need a million for that! And that’s >90% less (I don’t know the N, but that’s somewhat typical)

Glad they raised $12m, sad it takes $12m for a partial study of whether mescaline helps people with alcohol use disorder There’s no scientific reason it should be so expensivehttps://twitter.com/journeycolab/status/1435317275838623749 …

I think a borderline divinistic “what was I put here to do” is a healthy way to approach things. There’s so many things to do and each of us is a bad fit for nearly all of them and that’s okay (h/t for part of this @maccaw)

Life is incredibly high dimensional and in high dimensional spaces points increase in distance from each other fast. We’re all outliers, just need to figure out what we’re outliers at and exploit it

I think we sometimes learn progress = hard or something, then discount things that are easy for us that are hard for everyone else. I see a lot of people end up harmonizing their lives exactly for what they’re bad at, I think as a way of proving they can overcome their weaknesses

And if you’re repeatedly terrible at something for years just try to avoid it as much as possible. Not worth maxing your min if you can maxing your max

If so, you should pay a lot of attention to what seems totally reasonable to you (eg meditating 5hrs a day) that surprises everyone. It’s a good chance it’s a superpower you haven’t even realized you have

Increasingly convinced people are very different and each of us should just figure out what our personality is and design our lives to harmonize with it