It's time to rethink our 10x habits with a sci-fi twist (with specific examples)
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The day starts when we wake up. Many people set an alarm, but in the past, it seems that they could only make a sound at a predetermined time.
But now it's different. It wakes us up at the most efficient time based on our past sleep logs. It makes it easy to wake up comfortably by tapping our arm when we're in light sleep, without strictly defining the wake-up time.
After waking up with the AutoWake alarm, we ask HomePod, "What's today's update?" Even if the iPhone is out of reach, Siri behaves exactly the same on devices logged in with the same iCloud account. Until recently, the keyword "artificial intelligence" was only a hope for the future, and there was no tangible reality. However, as philosopher Yoichi Ochiai showed, the term "digital nature" is sufficient to explain the future. Then, it tells us about the weather today, the news that is happening now, and reminds us of the things we have registered in our reminders and calendars.
HomePod's "Personal Request" feature apparently recognizes our voice and tells us about what's registered in our calendar. I haven't tried it, but if someone else talks to HomePod, there's also a feature that tells them a different schedule than when I asked the question. If we can't find something, we can ask HomePod, "Where are my keys?" and the keychain called AirTag will make a sound and claim its location. If we still can't find it, we can use the iPhone to map it on augmented reality. We take a shower while still feeling sleepy. I moved to New York in the United States about three months ago, but the house I'm living in now has a bathtub, and it feels great to soak in it in the morning.
Scientifically, it's said that soaking in a bath for about 20 minutes is good for our health, so we ask Siri to set a timer while we soak in the hot water.
The latest iPhone, as well as the ones from several generations ago, are waterproof, so you can take them into the bath. While waiting for the timer to go off, I open a language learning app called Duolingo. (In words that many people can imagine) You can learn languages like it's a game. Indeed, in this world, there is something called machine learning, which absorbs human intelligence and creates a single language model that can provide answers better than the average person in most topics, but there are still language barriers.
Furthermore, language is one of the ways in which humans communicate with each other, and there is still a need to learn language as a way of life, and it's fun to learn about unknown worlds and concepts through language.
That's why language learning is a form of intellectual exploration that expands your thinking while you learn English.
When I open this app, the iPhone switches to focus mode as I have set it to do. When I use apps such as Kindle or Duolingo that require concentration, I have set it to automatically switch to focus mode. This prevents you from being distracted by notifications while using your smartphone. I think that "attention" is a valuable resource for a person, and it decreases throughout the day when exposed to strong incentives and rewards. If the available attention decreases, it takes longer to do the same task, and I'm currently using the pomodoro technique to write this article. I think that "life hacks" are techniques for maximizing efficiency, and they are one of the things that can be learned and trained.
Duolingo is one of the things that became possible because of the existence of the internet, and more than 500 million people worldwide use it. This is also a world line made possible by the internet and, more recently, the benefits of machine learning. The wisdom of crowds has accelerated language learning. People all over the world can now learn languages from their iPhones or computers, and apparently there used to be so-called "standardized tests" that you couldn't even attend without paying a lot of money, but now you can take exams to go to university from your smartphone with Duolingo.
Recently, it seems that more people in Russia are learning Ukrainian, even though another Cold War seems to be starting. After soaking in the bath for about 20 minutes, the timer goes off and reminds me of the time. Today's study was pretty good.
Taking a slightly hot shower and starting the day feels good, and personally, it has become a habit for me. Doctors with enlightenment seem to recommend it, so I'm doing it happily as my charm, but it's not a bad thing. Now, I soak in the bath, take a shower, wash my whole body, and start getting ready.
By the way, when I was a child, there was a time when I was touching a game console called 3DS while lying in bed without following the bedtime my parents told me, so my eyesight is not good enough for daily life. In terms of a certain unit called "visual acuity," it corresponds to 0.1.
But there are hardly any problems. I have glasses, and I also have contacts for daily use. Recently, there seems to be a technology called LASIK. In fact, in this day and age, having poor eyesight is not much of an obstacle if you can spend a certain amount of money. And the "certain amount of money" I'm talking about here is enough to easily buy cheap glasses or contacts if you work for about five hours a day for about a week. This is innovation, commoditization. Originally, it seems that humans as a species were hunting about 200,000 years ago, so if there were no contacts, it would be a matter of life and death. "I couldn't notice the tiger approaching because my eyesight was bad, couldn't catch any prey, and died of starvation." There might have been such a thing.
["The concept of disability is defined by the environment," said Toshi Kimura. I don't understand everything he meant, but the fact that visual impairment is not a life-threatening issue in modern times is probably what disability looks like. As the world approaches the assumption that "for most things that need to be done, it is more convenient to have a computer do them," my brain has become less of a place to store things I need to remember.
So, I have ADHD, another one of the names for "disability." In Japanese, it is said to be attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but thanks to that, my brain is full of things I want to do next. Rather than keeping it in a corner of my brain, I can simply say "Hey, Siri" and then "Add 'search for Japanese food that can be made in advance' to my reminders" to save it to external memory.
There is no happier society than this, because I can use almost 100% of my brain resources for what I really want to do.
I put on clothes to go for a walk and check the weather again. There is still no concept of air conditioning outside the house. It is said to be a field of study called geoengineering, and in the future, humans may be able to control the climate themselves. Still, Siri says "It's 2℃ today." I need a coat.
I go outside with AirPods, AppleWatch, iPhone, and a Leica camera. If I wear AirPods, I can enjoy music from there, and Siri is inside. The watch detects that I went for a walk and tells me the appropriate information. Let's go buy some coffee. Life is only once. You can take pictures with an iPhone, but carrying a camera as a work of art is physically and mentally satisfying. It's like meditation, exploring the sense of one-time excitement that can be touched by hardware, between mass and photon.
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I come home and open my computer. Of course, you can check your email and SNS on your smartphone, but it's physically different. In the end, attention controls ourselves, and dopamine that underlies it can't judge its substance; all information obtained from the body is everything.
"The sense of "doing the same thing but feeling different" is important. Everything you feel is everything.
Well, I think that reading and writing emails on a computer requires a different concentration and type of thinking than completing them on a smartphone. That's why ritual and meaning as a symbol are necessary.
By the way, do you know about email? It was before the current mainstream Facebook, Twitter, and other various SNS, and surprisingly, the protocol of email itself is not monopolized by any profit organization.
Personally, I think that this greatness or charm has not yet been conveyed to many people. I think that if you ask, "Which is better, email or Slack, Discord?" Most people seem to choose the latter. Although it's just my prediction, we're in the middle of a game of oscillating between decentralization and centralization that humanity has repeated, so someday the opposite assumption will overturn the world again.
Right now, I'm the "founder of a crypto project" that anyone can understand. So what am I doing? I have a hard time explaining it. I'm just living to seek inspiration.
In my mailbox, there was a continuation of communication with a scholar with whom I had been communicating for some time. The recipients include an economist who leads a reasonably large IT company research team in the world, a digital minister from a certain country, and researchers and entrepreneurs with various backgrounds, to put it bluntly, "people who are trying to make the world a better place."
This situation can be interpreted in various ways.
Next week, I'll go to Berkeley to meet these people. I've only talked to them online, but I'm looking forward to meeting all the internet citizens in the mass world.
Many other people seem to use the word "association" to express what I consider to be one of the things about living and following curiosity. It's not an obligation. It's the result of being driven by curiosity. I happened to have some related knowledge in an area that I was interested in, and the other person seemed not to know about it, so I sent them the URL of the article as a reference. In just a few minutes, I received a reply saying, "Thanks for passing along". It's great that you shared it without assuming they already knew. The language I learned in the place where I was born and raised is different from the mainstream language used around the world, so I struggled a bit, but basically, I can use tools like DeepL, which is like the Tower of Babel, and ChatGPT, a tool that learns assumptions from the world and is very good at inference, so I don't have to struggle. What's important is "where the person who masters the tool ultimately wants to go," not the fact that there is no tool called language.
After replying, I happened to notice that a digital minister from a certain country was participating in the conversation. There is a custom of signing emails, where you write your name and affiliation at the end, but he must be reading his own.
As for what I wrote there, it was my name and the project I'm working on now. That's what it means.
Recently, it seems that only the word "decentralization" is walking alone, taken out of context.
I think that the enthusiasm of the world is born from bias. Certainly, the transparency of governance technology has increased with this DAO, but history always begins with an inner circle. Yes, there are only seven people in this email exchange, and not everyone can see it. I'm putting it here because I explained the project through Twitter and sent my thoughts and self-introduction to the author of the paper that is the premise.
The Internet makes this possible. Even if you don't have a degree or speak a different language, you can still meet through discourse. "The gateway to knowledge" has undoubtedly expanded. With the Internet, one can literally connect with people all over the world, given that one has the sense to reference both the "future's everyday" and the "gap that society has yet to recognize." Wherever one is, one can always be found with such a sense.
Well, that's the kind of feeling I have found myself with--somehow, (or rather?) being here.
I must also express gratitude to those who have supported me in achieving this foundation. In the long history of mankind, youths ought to always regard their elders as a small part of the times. To continue this long history, I believe it is the mission of youths and apprentices alike to surpass all of their seniors. Of course, passing on knowledge to future generations is what has value only.
As for "Live as a gene or as a meme," I would like to survive as a meme, living as information and contemplating what kind of moment one will experience upon their death Standing on the shoulders of giants. Then the Apple Watch reminds me not to sit too long by sending a notification that says "let's move our body." Yes, of course, I'll walk. Recently I have become addicted to bodyweight training. I feel like my life has transformed with just a single Yoga mat. The public apparently goes to the gym or hires personal trainers in order to become healthy, but in my opinion, this is only a question of how to focus one's attention and motivation. Without this ability, one couldn't obtain any results even if they paid a lot of money, or they could even produce good results without spending any money at all. One can learn the technique of bodyweight training from books, but there's much more available via Google search. There's also Youtube for videos and the Web where, in the past, one could only exchange text, but now it is possible to transfer large amounts of information, and high-quality content including videos is increasing exponentially in the world.
People pay for things which they can get for free for various reasons, but those who do not know this information must pay regardless. I believe that one of the factors needed to maintain one's health is knowledge, not money.
Recently, I feel like I've visibly improved my physique, and I also feel healthier. When I wake up every day, I feel more refreshed than before, maybe it's just my imagination, but it's enough.
The highest thing in capitalism is health itself, but you can't buy it with money. There are things that can't be realized even in capitalism, and that is ego. The sprouting of ego, experiencing despair properly. I think that there is a world that can only be seen with the premise of active nihilism. And for those who have that premise, everything starts from there. It's meaningless for everything, and there's no meaning that you or I exist separately. Let's start from there, and the thing is to find something that you believe in yourself. I think that's hope, that's what life is about.
I feel like I can concentrate longer when I keep changing my location, so I go to a co-working space called WeWork. Capitalism is great, because with currency, you can align incentives if you just believe in it. As soon as I arrive there, it automatically switches to Work mode, and only necessary notifications for work (which I denied this word earlier) are received.
Then, I write this. You can do a life hack with tech, but the ultimate "meaning of life" can only be answered by yourself, and you don't even know if it's the answer or not. Just find something that you can convince yourself of.
Finally, let me summarize the life hack that I'm doing.
Motivation in life
- Imagining how you would write your own Wikipedia page may increase the likelihood of success in life.
- Placing Symbolic Moments at Milestones in Life.
- "Ethics" is necessary for people who can do both things equally well.
- Motivation cannot be bought with money, so it's better to spend money to prevent burnout.
- Disparity of souls.
- To 2017: "Childhood is over. Let's build the Tower of Babel now."
- AI (Ellie) that automatically writes emails is by invitation only.
- Buying and using things that are obtainable worldwide.
- Entrepreneurs and routine work.
- ICO was a revolution.
- Chrome extension.
- Daydreaming about the near future.
- The only good thing about inflation is that the cash of the elderly who do nothing becomes just a piece of paper.
- Yoko Ochiai says "Photography is a workout for the creative brain".
Life hack
- Learning What Siri Can Do.
- Waking Up with an Alarm.
- Hacking Yourself to Sleep Early - Book Sucking.
- Passive skills.
- On December 22nd, 2022, Melatonin called "Yawn" arrived.
- Operation of Attaching AirTags to All Belongings (2022/9~).
- Thinking about the best clothes in rainy cities.
- Contacting an unknown celebrity.
- It's a good idea to insure things that are irreversible.
The book Antifragile discusses balance, nature and artificiality, and the importance of protecting irreversible things with insurance. It also explains why the United States is preferable to Japan, and the reasons for betting on Prediction Markets. The book provides insight into how to create a reliable algorithmic stablecoin, regardless of whether it is Bitcoin or Ethereum. Additionally, it announces Stablesats and describes how this platform brings USD to the Lightning Network through Galoy. Other topics covered include futures trading, perpetual futures, derivatives, and common pitfalls for Web3 founders. There is also a focus on event derivatives, feedback on elections, and the power of prediction markets. Money On Chain, Lightning Labs, Cryptoeconomics Lab, and Dark Forest are just a few of the other subjects explored. The film "The Man Who Drew Van Gogh" is also mentioned, as well as tracing Bitcoin as a part of internet history. Other topics include Cash App's business, aiding the detection of fake accounts in social online services with SybilRank, newsletters recommended for catching up on crypto-related news, making blockchains more human-friendly, and tips for logical structure in English. These are all useful resources for learning about the field. Additionally, there is information on card cases, crowdsourcing, commons-based peer production, and the definition of crowdsourcing as "an online, distributed problem-solving and production model" as well as travel expenses for those looking to relocate to Dubai, the Deep Sleep Cocoon, and gamefi, which is based on the concept of account reselling. Finally, the Matsuzaka method is introduced, which is a method to reduce methodological uncertainty. AMEX credit card for immigrants to the United States.
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