Thoughts Of A Trillionaire

I share my experiencing renting a car through Turo, talk about design as a tangent, then discuss a bit of my talk with Elijah Christopher from Lagos, and finally end on a segment about the necessity for more positive or at least curious news and radical change...

Sharing my schedule and my Black Ignite talk idea.... FORGOT to publish this yesterday!

Today I Finally create my Mission according to this great episode by Hal Elrod https://halelrod.com/hal-elrod-commit-to-your-mission/. I walk through much of his advice and share my own goals, value, and mission.

I quickly go through some of my thoughts on Lex Fridman's interview with Jeff Hawkins https://youtu.be/Z1KwkpTUbkg and then dive into ideas around capitalism and doughnut economics https://time.com/5930093/amsterdam-doughnut-economics/ and point out how a lot of ideas around capitalism are more propoganda than facts.

I recount my experience this weekend around the retreat. I harp on the frustrating experience of renting a car without a credit card (FIY! I didn't discover Avail and Zipcar until After I got to the retreat, and Turo was way too expensive). I then share the misadventures of our off-grid living and how enlightening it was to see how such a living situation could work.

Today, I discuss Saint Andrew's great video on Right Wing Authoritarianism. https://youtu.be/yP6dqzUoQeE It's a great, indepth video that goes into who these people are, why they are that way, and a little bit into how we can better handle them. I talk about the nuances of this idea and how America is pretty much controlled by this group. I also talk a bit about taxes, billionaires, and my work efforts.

Yesterday, I watched the WeWork documentary on Hulu with my SO. I talk about how wild it is that people are so easily manipulated into not just blindly following, but giving undue opportunities to on the basis of how 'charming' and 'confident' they seem. I talk about how this focus on excessive work, excuse of harassment and, rampant discrimination creates an inherently exploitive and myopic culture. I hope we can be better.

If we can achieve relativistic speeds (>90% the speed of light), we could theoretically reach anywhere in the galaxy or beyond within one hundred years or less... But thousands or even millions of years would pass back on the home planet. This means that aliens should be everywhere... But maybe they don't care to colonize or visit planets at all! Maybe they rather just sit around and wait... Here is the calculator for time dilation: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/space-travel and here is Part 1(ish) on this topic: https://anchor.fm/trillionaire/episodes/UFOS---Aliens--Terrans--or-something-else--Part-1-e12ta55

I talk about the 3 shows I watched recently on Netflix: Seis Manos, Legend of Exorcism, and The Daily Life of the Immortal King. I then go into talking about my ideas for my new, faux-3D portfolio website and building my personal brand.

Creativity is a human thing, not a specialist thing. I go into a bit of a rant about how important it is for everyone to feel creative and be able to express themselves and their dreams. I then recount my weekend and end with my desire reorganize my schedule.

I try to work through my money problems by gaining some perspective, criticizing capitalism ... And talking about my virtual commune idea.

Just some quick updates. Got accepted into the Black Designers Ignite talk! Also will be working on a medtech XR startup. And a friendly reminder about the terribleness of car centric suburbia...

Today's episode is very... ruminative,... exploratory, and inconclusive. I try to work through my feelings and worries and struggles. I try to figure what makes games so fun and life so... not. How do we make life feel more like the enjoyable game we know it can be? I think there are a number of elements to figure out... Part of this was inspired by this video: https://youtu.be/dE1DuBesGYM

This morning, I read this amazing article https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/brains-might-sync-as-people-interact-and-that-could-upend-consciousness from this great research https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2020/1/niaa010/5856030 I also share my thoughts on how to build more fractal communities. Finally, I talk about Hal Elrod's Achieve Your Goals podcast, where he talks about the importance of aligning with your mission to accomplish more goals.

Not Just Bikes made some great videos about some research the Strong Towns nonprofit organization found about car-centric cities. They showed how absolutely terrible, unhealthy, inefficient, ugly, unAmerican, financially wasteful, and all around stupid it is to build cities around cars instead of people. Check it out here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa

I share what I learned about Emotion Wheels and emotional maturity. I also go deep(er than expected) into my problems with Jordan Peterson. In short, I think his ideas on IQ and power structures are inherently biased, limited, and myopic.

Forgot to post yesterday's episode!! I talk about how much I connected with Lex Fridman's Dream, my Black Ignite application, and updates on my project

I go into a tirade about the crazy, paternalistic things nonprofits have to go through, the issues of social media sites created by people who don't understand how social spaces work, as well as the crucial need for a principles and educated approach to designing technology or other services. You can find the research I was talking about here: https://newpublic.org/study/1358/the-signals-in-the-pandemic

I published my first newsletter!! elijahclaude.substack.com I also talk about the Urban Doctor's videos on why lawns are wasted green space and the problem with American urban planning. https://youtu.be/WbdNH8fBtdM

Today I dive into some ideas around subjectivity vs objectivity; why the mind abhors a vacuum and thus why people cling to bad ideas; as well as the nature of consciousness and free will.