Welcome.
This is an archive for things I'm interested in or want to share.
Recommended External Resources
Readings
Podcasts
- The Lord of Spirits
- The Great Tales
- The Burning Bush
- The Whole Counsel of God
- Not Related! A Big-Braned Podcast: Against Method and For 'Pseudoscience'
- Not Related! A Big-Braned Podcast: When You're Too Rational to Be Rational!
- JRE MMA Show: #32 with Firas Zahabi
- The Joe Rogan Experience: #2254 Mel Gibson
- The Joe Rogan Experience: #2252 Wes Huff
Youtube Channels
MMA Instruction
Health & Fitness
Technology
Technical Analysis/Finance
Entertainment/Education
Youtube Videos
Core Memories
Health & Fitness
- Vertical Diet Overview l OPERATION FATTEREST - Stan Efferding
- Why 10 Minute Walks Can Change Your Life - Stan Efferding
- Mixed Martial Arts Fundamentals by Georges St-Pierre
- Back To Basics | Technical Beginner's Guide To Kickboxing - Gabriel Varga
- The Wrestling Video I Wish I Had Day One | Wrestling Fundamentals- Martial Breakdowns
- Powerlifting Technique - PowerliftingToWin
Tentative Goals
List
- ✔️ 1000lb Powerlifting Total
- ✔️ Amateur Muay Thai Fight
- ✔️ BJJ Tournament (Gi)
- ✔️ Muscle-Up
- ✔️ Engineering Degree (BS CompE)
- ⏳ BJJ Tournament (No-Gi)
- ⏳ Amateur MMA Fight
- ⏳ BJJ Black Belt
- ⏳ Backflip
- ⏳ Dragon Squat
- ⏳ Standing Ab Wheel
- ⏳ One Arm Pullup
- ⏳ Learn Chinese (Improve Cantonese/Mandarin), Spanish, Latin, Koine Greek
- ⏳ Grow Kickin' Combat
- ⏳ Install Gentoo
- ⏳ Learn Video Editing
- ⏳ Learn Graphic Design
- ⏳ Improve Mathematics Skills
- ⏳ Improve Drawing Skills (Medieval Art / Illumination / Urban Sketch)
- ⏳ First Aid / CPR / AED Certification
- ⏳ Security+ Certification (OSCP optional)
- ⏳ HAM Radio FCC Technician License (General optional)
- ⏳ Private Pilot License
- ⏳ Tactical Firearm Training
- ⏳ Basic Level Skills (Electrical / Welding / Carpentry / Plumbing)
- ⏳ Horseback Riding
- ⏳ Cooking / Brewing / Fermentation
Notes
- Sin feels liberating, until one tries to stop it. Only then does one realize they are slave to it.
- Scientific observational data is viewed in paradigmatic lenses
- Historical events are viewed in paradigmatic lenses
- We are not in a "post-history" world
- "Human progress" is a one-dimensional illusion; we can regress in many areas while seemingly progressing in one. And by what standard is that one-dimensional progress anyway?
- Questions about metaphysics should be left to philosophy, not science
- There are no "neutral" worldviews in the negative sense. A lack of belief in one worldview is a postiive belief in another, or an incoherent worldview
- The future of AI is model collapse, the decline of informational quality on the internet, erosion of digital privacy, and further growth of hyperreality (Baudrillard)
- Human brains better comprehend concepts by parables, heuristics, analogies, stories, examples as opposed to a list of statements and “facts”
- Time-tested heuristics > new-age optimization