Ep. #17 | Fitness Trackers, The Iran War Prophecy, & The Art of Forgiveness
We’ve turned the simple act of existing into a high-stakes engineering project. In this episode, we’re tearing down the modern religion of "Optimization." From glucose monitors at the coffee shop to Oura rings that tell you if you’re "allowed" to feel refreshed, we are outsourcing our human intuition to Silicon Valley startups.
I’m diving deep into the "Optimized Ghost" phenomenon—how we’ve replaced purpose with metrics and why the most interesting people in history were tragically unoptimized. We also shift gears to look at the high-stakes world of modern authority, the "Predator" energy in…
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