Mission
Increase human Eudaimonia by helping people identify, articulate, and pursue their own purpose in life. Build systems—heavily leveraging the latest in AI—that help people upgrade to the best possible version of themselves (Human 3.0). Transfer (or store) my and B's minds into a format that we can upload into the next (digital) version of our lives.
TELOS Framework
View allP1People lack meaning in their lives, and this is about to get far worse because of AI and robotics taking away most traditional jobs
P2People are stuck in a 1950's style hierarchical mindset that makes them think they're not one of the "special ones" with ideas and dreams
P3People have poor models for how the world works, and the lack the tools to properly improve them Missions (M) - My approaches to addressing these problems:
M1Increase human Eudaimonia by helping people identify, articulate, and pursue their own purpose in life
M2Build systems—heavily leveraging the latest in AI—that help people upgrade to the best possible version of themselves (Human 3.0)
M3Transfer (or store) my and B's minds into a format that we can upload into the next (digital) version of our lives
Books
13"Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
"The Second Mountain" by David Brooks
"The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch
"The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
"Primal Hunter" by Zogarth (LitRPG)
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari
"The Singularity Is Near" by Ray Kurzweil
"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
"Antifragile" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman
Movies
8The Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Ex Machina
Blade Runner 2049
Her
Arrival
Interstellar
Gattaca
Predictions
8Recession-like shock caused by AI job loss by 2027Chances About Even
We'll have AGI between 2025 and 2028Almost Certain
Open-source models will largely catch up to closed-source modelsProbable
Apple is about to go from the worst AI implementation to the bestProbable
Everyone, including people, will have an APIAlmost Certain
Personal daemons will broadcast preferencesAlmost Certain
Venues personalize based on customer preferencesAlmost Certain
People will lack meaning and look for it in gamesAlmost Certain
Projects
technical
Fabric
PAI
Surface
SecLists
Feed
Arbol
creative
Unsupervised Learning
Human 3.0
danielmiessler.com
personal
FoundryServices
Daemon
Preferences
10Writing tools: Neovim with Tokyo Night Storm theme
Programming languages: TypeScript, Go
Operating system: macOS with extensive CLI customization
Coffee: Serious student of coffee since 2015
Music: Heavy metal, electronic, progressive metal — Tool, Meshuggah, Boris Brejcha
Languages: Spanish (DLI trained)
Learning style: Reading, building, teaching
Communication: Direct, honest, philosophical
Work style: Deep focus blocks, automation-heavy
Values: Curiosity, growth, helping others, building useful things
Routine
·8AM Wakeup
🚶Outside 🚶🏼➡️Walk in the ☀️Sunlight for 5-10 minutes.
·Avoid inputs that could be interesting / distracting
💊💊 Vitamins / Supplements / Nootropics
🥛🥛 Small Protein shake
☕☕ Caffeine
📅📅 Start agenda
·Chipotle Bowl (Brown Rice / Black Beans) around lunch sometimes
·Protein Shake for lunch sometimes
·Try to walk around 5-30 minutes near dusk (not strict on this)
·Sleep with Eye Mask and Earplugs, around 2300-1AM
Podcasts
5The Joe Rogan Experience
Lex Fridman Podcast
Huberman Lab
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The Tim Ferriss Show
