Zvi Mowshowitz: belief

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…Yeah. I'm not perfect at this for sure. But I put a big emphasis on, yeah, you need to rest your brain. You need to think about other problems. You need to be exposed to the rest of the world. So part of this is that, like, I don't just exclude non AI things from my coverage. I haven't posted like, I I sort of just accumulating more and more non AI things in my buffers for some day when there's a lull or something. But I'm writing at least my own writing process still continues. And then when things are a little quieter and I'm not introducing a bunch of new readers who just came in from the Hugging Face incident, I'll post a bunch of that stuff probably. We're going have some breaks. But like, you need to not be on for sixteen hours a day in that sense. Right? And so find other pursuits that you refresh you, that, like, expose you to different things, that make your brain think about other things. And so, yeah, I've found movies are very good for me in this environment because I'm not a television. But, like, movies are higher quality. I highly recommend The Odyssey and The Invite of the current movies that are out there. If you haven't seen both of those, you should see both of those, especially The Odyssey. But, you know, it can be gaming, can be walks in the park, can be time with your family, can be, you know, any number of things. Right? But, like, don't, you know, don't think that you can work continuously all day for more than a few days at a time without paying more interest on that than it's worth. You just it's not gonna stop being so productive unless you are in literal crisis mode for that. Well, and that's also a problem. I also believe in the Sabbath. So, like, every Friday around 5PM, you know, when dinner we just serve dinner. From that point on, I don't check email. I don't check social media. I don't basically, like, take non non logistical inputs from the outside world. Like, if somebody's trying to, like, arrange to, like, get together to have fun, like, that's one thing, but, like, I'm not gonna, like, get know, the thing, these steady streams, like, push them away, and then that lasts for 20, you know, twenty four hours, twenty five hours until the next evening. And I think that helps a lot. There's, like, try to relax, try to, like, just put them out of my mind. I have suspended that for speed premium reasons a few times over the last few months, but then I try to take a day off at a different point. I try to, like, reclaim that Sabbath, like, another point. And, like, again, like, if I was doing that all the time, I would notice this was not sustainable, and that'd be a problem. I mean, during when I was playing Magic, I couldn't do it because, like, I was tournaments play on Saturday. So, like, a lot of weekends, you're just on. It's like, okay. And then, like, I pick off a lot of Tuesdays. So it's like, you know, basically, okay. But, yeah, like, I also, like, protect lunch. rday. So, like, a lot of weekends, you're just on. It's like, okay. And then, like, I pick off a lot of Tuesdays. So it's like, you know, basically, okay. But, yeah, like, I also, like, protect lunch. So, like, every day, I don't have dinner very often, but I have lunch, and, like, I have lunch usually with my wife or I have it alone. But during that time, I'm not gonna try and work or anything like that. Like, I also have a very strict, like, I don't write on the laptop rule, similarly. Like, I'm gonna write at this computer in front of this desk. Anything but, like, a very, very short email or, like, a tweet or something, because it's, like, oh, wait here. I think you have to develop your own rules, know what refreshes you, know what exhausts you, know what the warning signs are. Also, get some exercise. Like, I try to run-in my life to goal. Every day, I have, a 90 something percent stress rate on that. Unless, like, I have a pain somewhere or something, I'm gonna do it. And, like, you just have to. I think you have to get yourself moving around. But, like, again, find the things that work for you and explore that area, and, don't get caught in too much rot. Wisdom to live by. Thank you again for being part of the Cognitive Revolution.…

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