Saturday Seven's: 1st April 2023
A compilation of my findings, interests, and actions from the past week that might be of interest to you. It allows me to share the results of my weekly routine, and you can follow too!
Hello you!
Here you will find my findings from this past week, things I’m thinking about, and discovering. If you enjoy it, feel free to forward this along to friends (they might enjoy it too!).
What I’m currently reading:
What I’ve listened to:
Music I’ve liked:
Video’s I saved:
What I’m excited about:
NothingPhone(1): I’ve been needing to change my phone for a while, mainly for battery issues, the phone slowing down, but also because I wanted a change. So much of what happens in our life tends to end up on our phones. From our workouts to our callLogs, our daily playlist to the events happening around us.. Our phones are evermore useful in our lives.
I purchased the NothingPhone(1) as part of a spring sale so I got it for 100€ off on its initial 500€ price and I must say, I’m happy with my purchase. I’ve had iPhone7+, samsung Galaxy s7 and s9+, and although these phones did their job, the evolving app market, updates, and simply usage tends to make these phones ‘less usable’ ?
The NP(1) is really nice, it has a design that could literally have come from Apple, its battery life is solid with a 4500mAh battery, so for my usage it lasts about 2 days without charging it, that alone is awesome by my standards. It also has a snappy 120hz screen and 256Go of memory, and the UI is pretty good. It’s external power buttons do have a little noise wobble and although I would pass on the Google apps for photos and so on. I also enjoy the inscreen fingerprint scanner. For my usage, this phone is a must, and if the only thing you’re complaining about is the sound of your 3 buttons when you purposefully wobble your phone, then you probably have bigger worries to deal with.
P.S: I also enjoy the light function at the back, it’s enjoyable and if you get tired of it, just turn it off, or buy a solid case.
Quotes I’ve liked:
“The body is the servant of the mind.” - James Allen
“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.” - James Allen“Be amusing: never tell unkind stories: above all, never tell long ones.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“The secret to success is constancy to purpose.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“Any person you can cite - Steve Jobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Micheal Jordan, - they are not common names because they did it nine-to-five. There are people on Earth that dedicate themselves to their practice or whatever. I’ve always been like that.” - Virgil Abloh
This week’s curiosities, interests, and thoughts:
Thoughts:
So, I used chatGPT to summarize and bullet point list a text I love into step by step segments. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you James Allen ‘As a man thinketh’ through the lense of chatGPT:
What is the quality of the thoughts you think on a daily basis?
What is the quality of your thoughts when you don’t rely on books to fuel them?
What are the quality and frequency of good emotions that you feel on a daily basis?
How often do you dip into discomfort and negative emotions?
Do you see the link between the quality of your thoughts, the quality of your emotion and the type of life you life?
How can you think better quality thoughts? What does that represent? In contrast to what?
How can you feel better quality emotions? Do you even know what that feels like? How do you practice these emotions?The emotions we feel stem from the visions we entertain, and the visions we entertain are empowered by the thoughts we think.
Anonymity seems to be where we’re going.
Similar to the pirate radio, anoymous internet seems to be the way forward for a world of freedom. Why do we have to have identity checks to use social media and so on? As always, one guy fucks up and the whole group has to get out of the pool…What are the solutions to this?
Alpaca gpt? → Offline AI.
Anon email → https://temp-mail.org/en/
Anon phone number. → https://quackr.io/temporary-number
Anonymous phones/ Second hand phones/ Burners.
Anonymous PC’s and phones → https://puri.sm/products/
VPN’s. → https://protonvpn.com/
CryptoWallets → Exodus / Ledger
Anon global ID’s:
A third party validated PASS: where Identity is confirmed by organization but the person in front of you doesn’t get the information. This could protect individuals, but also allow officials to have confirmation that you’re a solid valid law abiding entity.
An Identity validation passport where only the middleman knows, but doesn’t care about who does what, so long as there are no criminal activities.
Governments can contact this organization to check validity, but Big tech, and other institutions don’t have access unless X person has committed criminal activity. So institutions can use this ID for users, but not have access to their personal data.Law institutions can work with this Anon ID’s in order to confirm X ID. This ensures that civilians are secure and their data and identity is kept private. But also keeps civilians accountable via the fact their identity is held by third party and can be divulged in the case of ill intentioned activities.
I came up with this idea because I tried to create a test Instagram account and found that I couldn’t log in if I didn’t give a proper name, with a photo, and so on. The data checks are intrusive. Then, I decided to reactivate my linked in account and found that I had to wait for ‘activation’ by some third party and this triggered me. Also, big data has been stealing our data for years. So, for me this is something I think could set users free while ensuring that innocent people don’t get caught up in bad peoples muck.
WarpSpeed learning (with chat GPT) :
Stop wasting time, stop wasting valuable time watching youtube videos. Use chatgpt extension to summarize the text, then pop it into chatgpt and summerize it into bullet points. 15 minutes → Becomes a 10 bullet point list of digestable content you can read in under a minute.“Men do not attract that which they want,
but that which they are.” - James AllenThe quality of the value propositons that life gives you is directly correlated with your ability to cease it, your intrinsic value (which you have worked on until then) and skillset. Life gives you what you are. The opportunities you take right now, are equal to the value you are able to deliver right now. If you settle for what is offered right now, you also lose a better proposition later on when your value is higher due to your current personal work. Master a skillset and see the opportunities that arise while you’re mastering it, and when you have mastered it. The opportunities will be of different value. The more input of value and the more work you do to improve your value output, the better the opportunities. Because the vision you have right now is related with what you are conscious of. Learn more and you’ll find that the vision is slightly improved.
Setting alarms like school.
We used to abide by the school bell.
8.00 → Into class.
12.00 → FOOD.
13.00 → Back to class.
18.00 → End of class.
Just use an alarm for each phase, and reallocate your time and focus towards an activity and trust that the bell will ring to pause your activity. Your inner pavlovian dog will soon get in line. c
Readers Hack:
Life gives us precisely who we are. So, when we see someone who is ghosting us, they are judging us silently because in their eyes we don’t match their supposed standards.
So, when someone is judging, its a good thing, they are essentially taking away the weight of their judgements, and they liberate a space in our life.
Each person that leaves our life is like an onion skin we can let go of, it makes out life easier, more essential. We become more in sync with what we are and we get to meet people who are more aligned with what we truly are.
So when someone ghosts me, or judges me. First of all, I’m always observing people, and I count their mistakes, I see where they go silent, where they tend to limit their definition of me and put me in a box they can grasp. Then secondly, I accumulate all of those mistakes and I either see if those mistakes allow them to be worthy to continue. And last but not least third, I let time pass, I evolve massively, and then I give them a chance. If they still define me the same way, or don’t give me the time of day, I’m therefore free of them and their heavy energy. They cancel themselves out.
If you can make your life boring as hell, you’ll quickly find that subjects you’ve always found as boring, complicated or simply overwhelming to comprehend take on a different shade: contrast creates interest.
Understanding the intention behind all of your pursuits is the best way to find clarity at who you are and what you do best. And in turn that allows you to do what you do best and to find the activities for which you are best suited, what works best with what you are. Seeing your personal touch by looking back at all past activities you applied yourself in allows you to bring something of the same nature to what you are currently doing and in in future areas where you apply yourself, that subtlety is you.
Questions:
What activities will grow my energy?
What activities will make me happy?
What activities will compound my energy over time?
What activities are fun?
What activities grow my stealth, my endurance, and lung capacity?
How can I expand my emotional wellbeing?
What visions of the future can I repeat in addition to these activities?
What lifestyle awakens me and makes me feel alive?
What is risky?
What am I afraid of? And how can I deconstruct that?
Concepts I liked this week:
WorldCoin: a cryptocurrency founded by SamAltman, seeking to give cryptocurrency to every person on earth.
Bellman Ford Algorithm: It is an algorithm used to find the shortest path between a single source vertex and all other vertices in a weighted graph that may contain negative weight edges. It works by relaxing all the edges in the graph repeatedly until no more improvements can be made.
You can also give me your feedback on Twitter @check_goldberg. What did you like most about this week’s findings? What would you like more or less of in this newsletter? Any other suggestions? Please let me know. Just send a tweet to @check_goldberg and put #saturdaysevens at the end so I can find it.
Also, if you find any of my ideas interesting make sure to check them out in ‘The creators guide to the galaxy’, and ‘Addiction’ on amazon!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Much love to you and yours,
Cherokee