lukestokes

Exponential Optionality

At any given moment, such as right now, you have X possible actions you can take, limited only by your identity attachments, responsibilities, constraints on ti...

The Map Is Not the Territory

The Map Is Not the Territory 🗺️🌐🌏🌍🌎 The mental and emotional experience you’re having is a story about reality, not reality itself. If you’d like to experi...

Why the triggers are the guides, the value of grit, and are we really being loosh farmed?

Why the triggers are the guides, the value of grit, and are we really being loosh farmed? (This one will get a little weird in ways my esoteric friends will enj...

It’s Biases All The Way Down

My primary bias (or delusion, if you don’t agree with it): The experience I’m having is not real. What I mean by this is best explained emotionally through some...

What Is Truth?

What is truth? Stephen Ulicny, someone I had the privilege of meeting and meditating with in 2023, calls it the underlying organizing intelligence at the founda...

The Triggers Are the Guides

I’ve been thinking lately about the tools I use for self-development, the main one being “the triggers are the guides.” I attribute many aspects of the success ...

Evolving Beyond the Madness: Tools for Thriving in an Illogical Age

(Image and title generated by Grok, content created by Luke’s meat cap) A lot of people seem confused about what’s going on. They have trouble predicting future...

Luke’s Current Theory of Everything

Along the lines of “this sentence is false”, the following isn’t “true.” Treat it as a thought experiment and take from it whatever value you find, ignore the r...

Multiple Data Streams

(My family over a decade before my brother Christian was born. That’s me as a baby.) My dad passed away in December of 2007, a few months after my mom died of c...

We Live in Different Realities

I’m starting to see the world from a perspective that each of us as humans have our own constructed virtual experience in our minds and therefore our “realities...

The Quality of Your Consciousness

What will you experience today? What circumstances will you observe yourself responding to? Did you know that's not nearly as relevant a question as HOW you res...

The Greatest Gift You Can Give

If you could manifest anything your imagination can dream up without the constraints of known physical matter reality and do so instantly outside of time and sp...

Every Moment Can Evolve Your Consciousness

With a (loosely held) worldview that we’re in a consciousness training simulator which evolved from the absolute unbounded oneness to improve the quality of our...

Hell is not what you think but only what you believe.

I woke up around 6am this morning with these thoughts streaming to my mind. I wanted to roll right back to sleep, but they felt important as if they needed to b...

Bitcoin to Kardashev Type II Civilization

Bitcoin will become so valuable via Hyperbitcoinization that the frenzy to mine it will lead to an accelerated energy race only imagined in science fiction. Nuc...

Understanding Bitcoin OGs

OG bitcoiners (10+ years) are often misunderstood. Many of us got into this for ideological reasons (“Let’s flip some money-changer tables like Jesus!”, “Fix th...

The Stokes Family Creed

The Stokes Family Creed We are not perfect, but we do improve through what we value. - We tell the truth, even when it’s inconvenient or stirs up fear within us...

Tow Foiling Chicama, Peru

I just got back from an amazing trip last week to the longest wave in the world in Chicama, Peru. We did two 3-hour two sessions each day for 7 days straight. T...

Fixing THE Problem

A lot of the broken things people lement in our society are not actually problems as much as they are symptoms of THE problem. What is THE problem, you ask? We ...

Morpheus & Venice AI Guide

Bitcoiners talk about "orange pilling" people into blockchain (with a nod to The Matrix red pill vs. blue pill), and I believe Morpheus and Venice will "green p...