🦾 Die at 27 yet buried at 72?
Dear Melius Humano (Better Human),
“Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72." - Mark Twain
A few are reborn at 28... they find their power and take complete ownership of their lives.
They rebuild their life based on self-created meaning.
They shed their past dogmas, perceptions, fears, and indoctrination. They escape the herd. They wake up.
This is the Better Human path, and I’m committing my life to creating the philosophy and helping others develop their version.
The world needs more self-created individuals. It certainly does not need more automaton following scripts.
History repeats itself because humans fall into the same patterns of thought, organization, and ignorance of history and themselves.
Even after the horrors of WWI and two and even more dead at the hands of communist and collectivist ideals, people today are generally ignorant of it all. They might know many people died early in the 20th century, but they assume that’s just a historical event that we will not repeat. It’s a thing of the past.
Yet look at what’s going on in China right now. Or what’s been going on worldwide the past three or so years.
Read books like The Fourth Turning and Ray Dalio’s recent book The Changing World Order. Study the history of civilization, money, economics, evolutionary biology, and psychology, then look deep into your own life and find how the mistakes you make are always similar to the mistakes others have made and keep making.
Then observe how most people around you keep making the same mistakes. Hopefully, you’ve learned and grown. You have to ask yourself, Why?
The why is a big question with many answers.
But the fact remains that the individual pursuing a life of meaning and purpose that doesn’t violate the rights of others makes others and the world better by the natural force of markets (value creation/exchange).
The flip side is this: any effort pursued through a collective action utilizing the monopoly of violence (the state) always benefits some at the expense of others and violates natural law.
I could try to convince you that anarchy would be better than centralized government or that the best government, if we need one, is the smallest (the libertarian philosophy). But I no longer care about politics. They are fun to get lost in for a period, but then we must return to reality. And reality has governments, laws, corruption, and everything that comes with it. Because that’s the reality of NOW, my best effort is to convince you to become your own self-created, self-thinking, free and sovereign individual. The more free humans there are, the less power the state has. (Dive into the Bitcoin rabbit hole to see how the state is already losing its control daily; few understand how/why.)
The world is decentralizing, as it has throughout human history. Look at trust in the medical establishment, Bigi Pharma, Big Food, and Big Nanny State government. Each day another mind is freed from its Matrix of Bullshit. Over time, these institutions will shrink as they determine what role they can play in citizens’ lives.
I was afraid of the US government for a while. Now I’m not because I know what it is and isn’t. The US could never sustain an opting-out of its citizenry. It exists ONLY because people believe it does. It’s a pure collective delusion held in the minds of millions. But like I said, it loses one plugged-in believer at a time. Eventually, it will have to adjust itself, or it will collapse completely. (Or it may collapse under the weight of its money printing and spending, but that’s another topic entirely).
The other reason I’m not afraid of the US government is Americans still have strong property rights. For as long as they remain, it will likely be one of the best places in the world for modern humans to build their citadels of sovereignty and freedom. If that changes, we’re out.
Here’s the thing: it’s all connected.
Most people don’t want to hear about things that aren’t in their purview. If you aren’t interested in economics or what the state really is or any of that, you don’t want to hear about it or waste your precious time on it.
I get that. That was me for a while, and that’s me now. The difference is I did the work and went through the learning phase. I had to figure it out and then figure out how I would live based on that learning process.
The average person will always prefer sticking his head in the sand, even when the writing is all over the wall. There’s some famous quote from a communist leader (I think) about people waking up to tyranny only when there’s a book on their neck. That’s always been the case and probably always will be.
At this point, most writing would give you a bullet list of things you can do to “prepare” or “take action” or whatever. Instead, I’ll offer you general advice about opting out of your own life.
Do everything you can to become free in your thinking and living.
Food, healthcare, child rearing and raising, education, community, entertainment, information, spending habits, investing, etc.
Everything you do because you saw others do it is suboptimal. If you do the work to understand why you’re doing it and decide it’s still the best way to do it, then you’ve made an optimal, self-educated decision.
You get one life. There’s no encore. So you better make sure your choices are well-considered.
I’m always happy to help in anyway I can. Just reply to this email.
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Some stuff
Cowards of course.
Mainstream centralized institutions are eroding before our eyes. The future household will be full of smaller brands they bought from creators.
Universal Health Care is a joke. People literally fly to the US so they can get GOOD health care. Of course, health care in America has become broken too, but that’s because the State has gotten so involved. More government involvement results in a lower quality product, more corruption, neutral monopolies, and general waste.
Ownership
Nature holds no court. She has no policy enforcers. She doesn’t care if someone wrongs you.
No one cares except you.
Caring is a choice. Suffering is a choice. Accepting is a choice. Letting go is a choice. Learning is a choice. Adapting is a choice. Moving on is a choice
When you see that everything is your fault/responsibility/choice, you have no choice (ha!) but to accept it and then weld it to live a better life.
That’s what life is all about: living life on purpose!
My goal with Better Human is to help more humans wake up to their power and take complete ownership of their lives. From that waking up, one builds a personal philosophy and lifestyle based on their beliefs and values. Sure, they learn from others around them, but they follow what Bruce Lee suggested: “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
That new life is their life, created by them, and becomes integral to their self-created meaningful existence.
It's The Art of Life, not the art of living someone else’s life, vision, or ideal.
I’ll be sharing more about starting a new company and pursuing this vision here.
Getting land again goal
We lived in Wimberley on 11 acres for over a year. It was quiet, beautiful, and far from Austin.
It came with a big mortgage.
So we sold it at the peak prices as the great migration of humans started leaving blue-run lock-downed states.
I didn’t feel like it was our forever place. So I resisted investing in the property and doing all the things I wanted to do. (Like a half-built treehouse).
So we were not back living in the Austin City Limits and feeling the itch to get back out to nature.
It’s also just better for the kids. It’s how I want them to grow up.
So we have to figure out the balance between city, community, distance, space, etc.
Five acres is a decent size. Ten is still what I want at least, 25-50 is fantastic, and 100 is eventually.
I also would prefer to be within 30 minutes of Austin. One hour is too far.
My goal is to create a place where friends/fam/clients/visitors can come to stay and experience nature, Real Food, community, and a slowing down of life. Eventually, it will be the bootloader for the Better Human School (a completely new, fully immersive program for adults to change everything).
I’m going to start looking again in 2023. Stay tuned for updates.
And if anyone reading this is interested in co-investing/being apart of the larger vision, hit me up.
Bryan Johnson’s blueprint
Fascinating stuff.
I’m not too fond of his vegan approach, and it doesn’t look like he’s tried an animal-based approach, so without that variable, he has no idea the difference it would make. And I bet it would make a huge difference.
Aside from that, the rest is interesting.
Here’s a short interview: Bryan Johnson: Current Business Ventures After Selling His Company To PayPal For $800 Million
I’ve taken some ideas from his supplement routine and added them to my already extensive program. My strategy right now is to take a bunch of stuff while listening to my body. Recently, adding Wild Fulvic and shilajit caps (40% fulvic acid) has been doing wonders for my gut and energy levels.
Also read his Plan for Humanity. → An except on cognitive bias
For those of you unaware of the severity of your cognitive shortcomings, or think that you are the exception to the rule (85% of people do!), I’d encourage you to become familiar with the literature. It is a useful and high value form of enlightenment that will help you in every aspect of your life. (A suggested reading list is below plus a visual representation of your 188 cognitive biases.¹)
For me, I find my daily practice of working to improve my cognition by trying to lessen my biases, blind spots, distorted reality, etc. is higher value than other practices I’ve had over the years (i.e. meditation).
My Daily Program
Goal: A daily fitness program I do when I get home from work
Struggle: inconsistency / long gaps between my weight lifting sessions—complicated by racquetball Tuesdays/Thursdays due to overtraining/soreness.
Hypothesis: figure out a mobility/light weights/calisthenics routine that I can do daily in addition to racquetball / and is the same format so I can build it into a subconscious daily routine without having to think about it or garner external motivation.
I’m working on a daily training program and will throughly dissect some of his exercises here and see what I can add to my routine.
For the past few years, my weight lifting program has struggled. I’m already fit and healthy and I’m not training for anything specifically, so it’s been a challenge to figure out what the perfect dose is for longevity/general fitness.
I kept falling out of an MWF routine no matter how many calendar reminders I set. What I think will work best is a daily program that I don’t have to think about and one designed not to tax my CNS and muscles too much so I can perform it daily. So far, it consists of some backward sled pulls, overhead squats (lightweight), presses, ab cable curls, farmer’s carries, dips, and pistols. I have to figure out the exact reps/weights to make it a daily program I can sustain. I am currently working through it.
Courses
I’m a big fan of courses and personal development in general.
The issue for most people is not information. They have all the information they could ever want.
The problem is CURATION and SKIN IN THE GAME>
This is why you must PAY FOR INFORMATION.
College is mostly for credentials and skin in the game. The cost forces people to take it seriously and to commit—grades and awards and all that are gamification attempts at the same thing. Very few go to traditional schooling because they genuinely want to learn and grow as a human. That’s sad, but it’s human nature, so we must accept it.
I went through the entire program when I spent $2000 on a consulting course. I had bought many $49, $99, and $19 courses and ebooks before, and I kid you not; I only partially read through or finished the material. (That said, I still digested the core ideas and took action, which led to learning.)
My daily drive revolves around how I can help people improve.
I think about it all the time. Dream about it. Write about it. (I’ve written over 500,000 words in the cloud, doing nothing.)
I keep coming back to the idea of showing exactly how I get so much done, how I think, how I eat, etc. There is value here, I know it. After all, it took me 15 years to develop these skills and the awareness and knowledge needed to make them stick while fully understanding why I do them.
So I’ve decided to build a few pillar courses and make them flagship evergreen programs that I offer/update forever. They will also serve as SOPs for my life/work that I can always refer back to if needed or use for training as my team grows.
My initial ideas are this:
Extreme Productivity → How to get a lot done in the 21st century using digital tools, apps, software, automations, and a general GSD (getting shit done) mindset that will make you stand out amongst the sea of average (working title, obviously)
My idea with this program is to create an SOP for everything I do (I’m currently screen recording and writing this newsletter).
The impetus for why is this: I worked closely with a team of high-paid remote employees running multiple million-dollar companies, and I realized a few things: 1) what a shit show, 2) I’m really good at getting stuff done, 3) the founder mindset of growth/GSD/pressure is the difference between owners and employees.
These are not good/bad/right/wrong things, but they are all quantifiable via data like how fast X took, how many times you followed up, did you get this thing done, or did a manager have you ask you twice, etc.
I realized that most employees are ineffective because they don’t try to figure things out themselves and instead hand off tasks to someone else so they can then abdicate the responsibility. (example of the owner vs. employee mindset).
The few star performers write their tickets because they think like owners, are aggressive, and don’t need to be managed. So they don’t hang around long, moving “up” to another company or their own thing.
So what’s left are employees that figure out the “minimum effective dose” to not getting fired, then hang out there for the length of their employment.
For those who want to be stars, getting effective at remote work and getting things done in general while being aggressive with time management is the fastest way to WRITE YOUR OWN TICKET in life literally.
But how?
Learn basic productivity.
Learn how to move around apps, how to figure shit out yourself (like open a support ticket rather than telling your boss: “It’s not working.”)
Learn how to outline information and present it (this alone makes you stand out from the 99%)
Show you know how to think for yourself.
Apply aggression and respect your time and your organization’s time by cultivating a sense of urgency (slow employees are some of the most annoying to managers)
Mindset (ownership, sense of urgency, not delegating hard things to someone else + physical skills (speed, know-how, thinking) + consistency = star player
Nutrition → How To Eat For Optimal Health and Longevity and Effortless Weight Loss - or something like that. It still boggles my mind how confused people are with nutrition. What feels so obvious to me is not obvious to the average person, even those in fitness/health.
And for as much free advice as I can give you on the topic, which could fit on a 3x5 index card, you’re unlikely to make the drastic lifestyle changes that get you doing it.
It’s not about knowing. It’s all about doing.
So my hope for this Masterclass is to assault your head with so much KNOW-HOW that the habits follow naturally. (And hopefully, I can also convince you to feel guilty every time you eat at a restaurant because you should. Enjoy the meal, absolutely, but know you paid a health cost in addition to the overpriced final bill + tip)
Maybe a Notion course. I love this piece of software so much. It’s so powerful. It took me time to figure out how to stick to using it, but now it’s part of my everyday life and I use it to manage multiple businesses, projects and my personal life.
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Areas of Study
Austrian economics - modern economics follow Keynesian principles of bullshit, and that’s why we have inflation and an ever-growing government that will eventually gobble up everything, then tip over and die.
Study Bitcoin. Start with the What is Money podcast episodes 1-9 with Michael Saylor. Then watch a bunch of his interviews.
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