Levi Türk

This is about task prioritization. What do you do first? The most important things should come first, right? Sure, but first, you just get a couple of quick tasks out of the way so you can better concentrate on the important work. After all, you must be 100% efficient at the important stuff. A text message just came in about the party tonight. Certainly, you can just answer it real quick. Ah, and the gift you have to wrap right now because you don't want your girlfriend to see it when she comes home. Man, I am so hungry, I better eat before tackling this really important task or I won't be able to concentrate! The low hanging fruit is more important, it seems, than the most important stuff because you will do it first. In most cases you only do the low hanging because you only have so much time every day. So, are you actually prioritizing according to importance or easyness? The above chart shows how tasks get harder as you get the easier ones out

I'd like to show you a way of identifying yourself that you probably never thought about. Have you ever meditated? The coolest thing about 'meditation' is that you start to realize that you no longer have to identify with the stream of thoughts that show up in your head. Meditation's lesson: you are not your thoughts. What are you then? You are the thing that chooses which thought to engage with. You are the master of your conscious processes. You are this very tiny part of your brain that is processing a very specific thought right now. Everytime you are awake, you are the arbiter of what enters your attention. You are not whatever desire has manifested in you because you saw the photo of a tasty burger or a half naked woman! You are not the simulated discussion you are having with your sibling inside your head. You are not your profession! You are the light inside a human's body who decides whether or not to engage with a thought or stimulus

If you don't like reading, here is a brilliant piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5RH3BdXDOY If you like to read and have 3 minutes, let me introduce my theory about 'not giving a fuck', broken down to 3 levels. Each level tells the same thing in increasing detail and complexity. Level I Stop worrying because it does not help you! Level II   Technology to your social needs is what sugar is to your nutritional needs. Technology = facebook, instagram, snapchat, whatsapp groups Sugar is so addictive because we, humans have evolved to love easily available energy sources. It has made us obese and as much as modern agriculture is a bless and nobody ever goes hungry in our societies, it has spurred a new epidemic . Social information is so addictive because we evolved to be interested in social news, such as who is friends and enemies with who and who fucks who. There used to be a limited amount of this information available and it used to be much more r

Why do I want to : upload my mind extend my life slow down time enhance my mind's capacities start a new life as an API (Artificial Personalized Intelligence) Because : I am becoming ever more aware of my limitations. I have a shitty memory, slow brain, I am often lazy, and I am possibly going to die soon. I want to be a better person. I want to experience deeper levels of complexity in thought. I want to meet other similar minds and I want to form true friendships with them. I don't want to have to choose which cool things not to do. I feel like I am losing 99.9% of all possible amazing experiences. I want to feel less guilt doing stuff that I love but I think is a waste of time. (eg. starcraft) It seems like a very daunting, yet possible challenge. My currency is consciousness. I want to live to see the future, which I believe will necessarily be an amazing time to explore. I want to