AI is boring. We’ve done this already. It feels like sacrilege to be working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley and say this, but AI is boring. Now, actually understanding intelligence is not boring, but outsourcing the attempts to understand it is just…bleh. I get it. Thinking is hard…

Dopamine levels are not static, and shouldn’t be. We are all managers of our dopamine levels intrinsically, and most people are not completely satisfied with how they manage the fluctuation. …

I’ve experienced an immediate and noticeable increase in focus and processing speed since adding these two activities to my daily routine. My girlfriend was doing a crossword puzzle and watching Jeopardy on TV, while I was reading and pretty much tuning the TV out. She will often throw out a…

What does it mean to be conscious anyway? I know I’m conscious. I can say “I”. I can plan what I want to do and then do it. I can plan to do something, not do it and feel bad about it. I remember what I did yesterday and what…

Fantastic benefits have been touted in recent clinical studies, but there are reasons why your weekend trip won’t bring you those benefits…and what to do about it. Doubtless, you’ve heard the mainstream hype around psychedelic and psychedelic-adjacent therapies and microdosing being used to treat anything from smoking to PTSD, alcoholism…