Satellaview

Those are, in fact, perfectly sensible guidelines.

Oh, this is a good one.

It lets you view modern life from outside.

Which of the things we do every day are truly necessary? When you remove something or add another, what happens to the greater shape of society? What do our relationships to each other look like without cars, without jobs, without money? What might take their place?

What does it mean to be sentient? What does it mean to be human? What’s the shape of the gap between those two things?

I find it philosophically entertaining.

Rest for the mind. Anything that lets me not think and just kind of exist.

Long baths with nice-smelling bath bombs, meditation, even just deciding with intention “okay, this evening I’m just going to lay in bed and watch this set of YouTube documentaries that looks interesting, and if I fall asleep for a bit, I’ll just rewind when I wake up.” Put on an album and listen to it start to finish, and either let it wash over you or let yourself get lost in the little details.

I tend to “relax” by starting new projects, so finding ways to actually relax has been hard. If you’re a little bored and understimulated, you’re on the right track.

Good luck. Medical work is really, really hard, and I hope your new job is a hell of a lot better!

Even a bad episode of Mandalorian is still, like, perfectly fine. I’d just watch until you’re no longer enjoying it, or you finish it—whichever comes first.

goals tbh

This happened to a close friend of mine. He was already on the edge, with some weird opinions and beliefs… but he was talking with real people who could push back.

When he switched to spending basically every waking moment with an AI that could reinforce and iterate on his bizarre beliefs 24/7, he went completely off the deep end, fast and hard. We even had him briefly hospitalized and they shrugged, basically saying “nothing chemically wrong here, dude’s just weird.”

He and his chatbot are building a whole parallel universe, and we can’t get reality inside it.

…you probably don’t do anything that complicated in your life where this would give you genuine value.

God that’s arrogant.

Yeah, checks out.

Cool idea, great writeup!

me when I open my eyes for the next Faiz