Whatever underlying mental state you have running in the background will come to surface when you use psychedelics. Marijuana is a mild psychedelic. Many people seem to be under the impression we should live free from scary thoughts, dark thoughts, things that make us worry or anxious. This is all part of the human condition though and as long as these states are transitory and lead to positive change they're not "bad". Recognize there's a time and place for everything. If bringing these things to the surface helps you grow and deal with things in your life, even if it's scary, good. If not, then stop ingesting / smoking it. Really simple. People seem to want things to be good or bad when in fact the state of isness really just is. It's not good or bad. It just is. What you make of it, how you live your life is what matters. If you smoke weed and it helps your back pain, or if it helps you think about your feelings and deal with something you've been putting off, that can be "good". If you smoke it and have heart palpitations and freak out about taxes that can be "bad" but the weed hasn't changed, it's just brought something to the surface. Our minds are complicated. Especially now, in a culture where we're overloaded with information, entertainment, manufactured outrage, and expectations about what we should or shouldn't be, all compared to thousands of other things. How can anyone, smoking weed or not, expect to be sane or live a simple life that doesn't lead to mental health problems?
I got to see Falcon Dragon launch in Florida along the A1-A. People there credit SpaceX for single-handedly rekindling the lure and luster of space travel. They were sad when the shuttle program got shut down by NASA but now a whole new generation of space enthusiasts, optimists, and futurists get to see the awesome advances being made in the US. It's patriotic AF. The color, sparkle and glow of it was something I'll never forget. My only regret is I don't have any children to have shared it with. But there'll be more launches!
Gotta minimize the generational transfer of wealth as much as possible, and consolidate in groups of entrenched power as much as possible. It's fine that millennials graduated college in debt, into a recession, a decade after the dot-com bust, and a decade before the covid crash. Take a decade to recover, and as soon as middle-class momentum builds they get slapped and put back in their place again. All while China is 996'ing us into irrelevance and eating our lunch.
We have a choice to make about the work we want to contribute to. Our hands, our minds. What world do you want to live in? Is your work contributing to that in a meaningful way, such that when you're gone those that come after can continue the work because it's worth doing? We only have so much time on this earth.
If we don't get ahead of this we'll regulatory capture ourselves into oblivion and the enemy will win anyway. As long as state-sponsored-actors are indistinguishable from black-market criminals this will never escalate beyond the perpetual cat and mouse game. We simply have to be better, and we can't have oversight committees and regulatory boards managing it. Infosec is ripe for being revolutionized.
Sadly the specter of fentanyl, heroine and methamphetamine ODs, ruined lives and crime will over-shadow the goodness that is decriminalizing psychedelics. The drug-war states will simply say, "so what, everything's legal there and that place is a mess" and they won't be entirely wrong. If SF could shit-can Chessa Boudin and get rid of the Honduran fentanyl gangs terrorizing the City that'd be great.
Gov't is going to try and break the big ones up, and stop M&A's as anti-trust sentiment warms up. Startups will become much, much harder to benefit from. The cost of capital is going to go up and make it harder to fund-raise, and people will get much more judicious about what they invest in. If your company isn't tied to some other industry or sector of the economy and is a tech company, just consider if your business can survive on its own for the next 3 - 5 years.
I think it's a matter of keeping the hands aligned with forearm and not having pressure on the write joints themselves. I try to keep the palms of my hand (the same part you hit with in martial arts) on the "wrist rests" instead, and I've had zero issues for years. For me, the biggest problems I had came from using various mice and never finding a good one until I moved to a MacBook and learned the trackpad. Now I've literally adhered a magic trackpad 2 to the middle of a Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard and I love it. It translates back and forth between using the laptop and a "docked" setup better than anything else I've tried over the years.
The kinesis advantage (now Advantage2 LF) has been my mainstay keyboard over the last 20 years, both professionally and personally. I too adhered a trackpad, although mine is an Ergo Mini touchpad:
https://ergonomictouchpad.com/ergonomic_touchpad.php
I immediately bypassed the aesthetics side of MK and went straight to functionality; the kinesis has probably been the most reliable piece of hardware I've had over the years (with the exception of a key-repeating known issue that has been resolved with the advantage2)
Just ordered a FalbaTech the other week. I am super excited. Have been using the MacBook pro keyboard for the past year and didn't have a proper desk setup until I moved to a bigger place just a few weeks ago. I had to bust out a Kinesis 2 that's been in a closet, and i gotta say, going back to a split setup wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. You learn it once and it can stick pretty well. Now for all the Emacs bindings :D
This is why full self driving coming from a company like Tesla matters. It's vertical integration with hardware, manufacturing, battery and chip production makes it so they don't need any of the OEM legacy auto companies. They are already building the best electric cars available. Nobody comes close. When FSD 9.x is released the zero-to-one moment happens and there'll be no going back. The other companies are going to do nothing but play catch-up and many will go bankrupt.
Tesla's FSD doesn't work and they basically admit it is a level 2 system and may never be more. It's been Elon with the football and Charlie Brown running for the kick over and over.
