Some days, I get so much done before Noon that it's hard to keep track of how many tasks I could be checking off for free dopamine.

Other days, I flounder the entire day or haphazardly bounce between whatever task(s) are highest priority until I look back and have to add new things to my lists just to assuage my ego.

This is classic ADHD. I've been able to manage it partially through a multi-decade long curation effort for my own cannabis product consumption. Yes, I've consumed cannabis nearly every day for 20+ years through high school, college, PhD, building a $1M biotech startup, and absolutely every time we've been on a DAO community call together.

“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life." ~ Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi

The documented cognitive effects of cannabis I believe that I continue to leverage include (but are not limited to): analysis enhancement, conceptual thinking, creativity enhancement, focus enhancement, mindfulness, immersion enhancement, increased music appreciation, novelty enhancement, personal meaning enhancement, thought connectivity, and time distortion (most commonly reported to be in the form of time expansion). Source: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Cannabis

I've also learned to lean into thought connectivity sometimes when it takes over. Since my mid-20's I referred to my proclivity toward "thought connectivity" (wandering thoughts and ideas) as a product of genetics by stating that "I'm a lateral thinker". Which is a nice way of saying my brain can't sit still for more than 1.2s and I get way too excited about way too many things.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."~ Hunter S. Thompson

People are trained to prefer linear thinking because for thousands of years knowledge was largely passed down through oral tradition. The cultures in our society have convergently evolved to use stories as the de facto mechanism for delivering the moral to a story.

One foot in front of the other. KPIs and trajectories are easier to measure. Narratives and through lines basically write themselves.

"To use your head, you have to go out of your mind." ~ Simon Posford

The problem is that there is no moral to the story. That was a uniquely human assumption. Data doesn't care about morals and Occam's Razor doesn't have an ego.

Linear might seem like the simplest solution, but linear is just a model to represent the real world. And, by definition models are incomplete representations of the world. Making models that capture a robust and coherent view of the world is not a trivial task.

“When we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, we learn to become more than what we were." ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Even the strongest critics of the Many-Worlds Hypothesis will tell you that a world without counterfactuals is a world without free will. Breaking free from linear narratives opens the door to asking 'what if?' - what if the story had a different moral?

"You are not thinking. You are merely being logical." ~ Niels Bohr directed towards Albert Einstein

Source: The Bohr-Einstein Debates

If I didn't get baked this morning would I have written this post? Maybe, because this post is an extension of an unpublished blog article exploring my logic behind net productivity & how I'm able to juggle so many projects simultaneously. But, we could just keep going down that rabbit hole all the way back to when I was 15 years old.

"There is no time which flows equally for all observers. Now, sooner, later, and simultaneous are relative to the frame of reference of the observer."~ Albert Einstein

My Morals: Chaos can be incredibly productive, the value of anything is determined by the metrics & measurements we choose (hello RPGF). Assumptions are the enemy of truth, objective observation and social consensus is its infrastructure.

"Not only is the universe stranger than we think. It is stranger than we can think." ~ W. Heisenberg

Time to go rip some tubes before my next couple hours of deep work. ✌🕊

"Life is too short, so love the one you got." ~Bradley Nowell

Bonus content: "History, On Weed" ~ Elijah Spina
Image prompt (created using Mage.Space): "photorealistic image of Albert Einstein passing a cannabis joint to Hunter S. Thompson. Put the people in the foreground and include relativistic cannabis plants in the background."

Some days, I get so much done before Noon that it's hard to keep track of how many tasks I could be checking off for free dopamine.

Other days, I flounder the entire day or haphazardly bounce between whatever task(s) are highest priority until I look back and have to add new things to my lists just to assuage my ego.

This is classic ADHD. I've been able to manage it partially through a multi-decade long curation effort for my own cannabis product consumption. Yes, I've consumed cannabis nearly every day for 20+ years through high school, college, PhD, building a $1M biotech startup, and absolutely every time we've been on a DAO community call together.

“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life." ~ Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi

The documented cognitive effects of cannabis I believe that I continue to leverage include (but are not limited to): analysis enhancement, conceptual thinking, creativity enhancement, focus enhancement, mindfulness, immersion enhancement, increased music appreciation, novelty enhancement, personal meaning enhancement, thought connectivity, and time distortion (most commonly reported to be in the form of time expansion). Source: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Cannabis

I've also learned to lean into thought connectivity sometimes when it takes over. Since my mid-20's I referred to my proclivity toward "thought connectivity" (wandering thoughts and ideas) as a product of genetics by stating that "I'm a lateral thinker". Which is a nice way of saying my brain can't sit still for more than 1.2s and I get way too excited about way too many things.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."~ Hunter S. Thompson

People are trained to prefer linear thinking because for thousands of years knowledge was largely passed down through oral tradition. The cultures in our society have convergently evolved to use stories as the de facto mechanism for delivering the moral to a story.

One foot in front of the other. KPIs and trajectories are easier to measure. Narratives and through lines basically write themselves.

"To use your head, you have to go out of your mind." ~ Simon Posford

The problem is that there is no moral to the story. That was a uniquely human assumption. Data doesn't care about morals and Occam's Razor doesn't have an ego.

Linear might seem like the simplest solution, but linear is just a model to represent the real world. And, by definition models are incomplete representations of the world. Making models that capture a robust and coherent view of the world is not a trivial task.

“When we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, we learn to become more than what we were." ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Even the strongest critics of the Many-Worlds Hypothesis will tell you that a world without counterfactuals is a world without free will. Breaking free from linear narratives opens the door to asking 'what if?' - what if the story had a different moral?

"You are not thinking. You are merely being logical." ~ Niels Bohr directed towards Albert Einstein

Source: The Bohr-Einstein Debates

If I didn't get baked this morning would I have written this post? Maybe, because this post is an extension of an unpublished blog article exploring my logic behind net productivity & how I'm able to juggle so many projects simultaneously. But, we could just keep going down that rabbit hole all the way back to when I was 15 years old.

"There is no time which flows equally for all observers. Now, sooner, later, and simultaneous are relative to the frame of reference of the observer."~ Albert Einstein

My Morals: Chaos can be incredibly productive, the value of anything is determined by the metrics & measurements we choose (hello RPGF). Assumptions are the enemy of truth, objective observation and social consensus is its infrastructure.

"Not only is the universe stranger than we think. It is stranger than we can think." ~ W. Heisenberg

Time to go rip some tubes before my next couple hours of deep work. ✌🕊

"Life is too short, so love the one you got." ~Bradley Nowell

Bonus content: "History, On Weed" ~ Elijah Spina
Image prompt (created using Mage.Space): "photorealistic image of Albert Einstein passing a cannabis joint to Hunter S. Thompson. Put the people in the foreground and include relativistic cannabis plants in the background."