Monthly Themes: Being & Becoming + Zero to One

Each month, we’ll venture one layer deeper into the biggest questions of human existence: Why do I suffer? Where do we find meaning and purpose? Who and What am I?

The mothly themes are arranged so that we peel back the onion of our experience and reveal what is beyond our thoughts and beliefs. This is deep self-inquiry, a process that will uncover our essential nature and act as a MAP. This MAP will be a part of a tool set that can help you on your journey.

Each month there are 1-3 deep dives on the theme, and the Zero to 1 section offers bite-sized insights that take 1 minute to read.

If you are new here, you can start at the top and go down.

1. Perception & Reality

• Deep Dive: The Science of Perception & How we Hallucinate our Own Reality

• Zero to 1: Perception vs Reality Insights

  • Zero to 1: How Limited is Our Perception? Swimming in a Sea of Possibility & How we use Attention

  • Zero to 1: Is information inherently meaningful?, Reality vs Perception and The Role of Meaning

  • Zero to 1: Evolutionary Games, Fitness vs Reality, and The World vs Our World

2. The Human Condition

• Deep Dive: Exploring the Human Condition: Our Crisis of Meaning & Why we Suffer

• Peom: The Paradox of Fulfillment

• Zero to 1: Our Core Problem Insights

  • Zero to 1: Yearning for Fulfillment, More Better & Different and The Paradox of Desire

  • Zero to 1: Connection & Loneliness, Emptiness & Abundance, and Meaningless Possibilities

  • Zero to 1: Why are we so anxious? Our Ultimate Fear and How to Address your Fears Template

3. Our Fundamental Problem

• Deep Dive: Transcending Man's Fundamental Problem

• Poem: Finding Fullness in Emptiness

• Zero to 1: Addressing the Core Problem Insights

  • Zero to 1: Beliefs as Reality Filters, The Costs of Separateness, and The Trap

  • Zero to 1: Confrontation with Reality and the Quest for Meaning

  • Zero to 1: The Meaning of Suffering and The Inward Journey

4. Mindfulness

• Deep Dive: The 3 Meditations: Complete Guide to Mindfulness, Mantra & Contemplative Meditation

• Peom: Saoking it All In

• Zero to 1: Mindfulness & Meditation Insights

  • Zero to 1: The Science of Meditation, Mindfulness vs Drugs & Vipassana in Prisons

  • Zero to 1: Unlock 'The Observer', Transcend Thoughts and Feelings & Gain Clarity

  • Zero to 1: Transcending the Subjective, Path to Objectivity & 1 Big Question

5. Information: Science & Technology

• Deep Dive: Complete Guide to Understanding the Nature of Information

• Zero to 1: Science of Information Insights

  • Zero to 1: The Nature and Paradox of Information

  • Zero to 1: Information in People and Consciousness

  • Zero to 1: What it Means that Humans & AI Speak the Same Language

  • Zero to 1: Humans Shaped AI and Now AI will Shape Humans

6. Information & People

• Deep Dive: Why Believing is Seeing: How Our Minds Shape Reality Through Meaning-Making

• Zero to 1: Cognizing Information Insights

  • Zero to 1: How We Process Information

  • Zero to 1: How We Turn Information into Meaning

7. Beliefs & Ideology

• Deep Dive: The Matrix of Beliefs: How Beliefs Shape Personal Reality and the Path to Awakening

• Zero to 1: Understanding Beliefs Insights

  • Zero to 1: How Beliefs Shape Your Reality

  • Zero to 1: Waking Up from the Matrix of Beliefs

8. Values: Value Systems, Worldviews, & Ideology

• Guide + Videos: Breaking Free from the Matrix of Ideology

• Deep Dive: How to Navigate a Changing World: Map of Hope

• Deep Dive + Audio: Dancing with Destiny: The Evolution of Value Systems

• Video: Your Map to the Future: How Modernism, Postmodernism & Traditionalism Shape Our World & What's Next

• Zero to 1: Value Systems & Ideology Insights

  • Zero to 1: The Hidden Architecture of Human Behavior

  • Zero to 1: The Values Mirage, Are You Chasing What Matters?

9. Understanding Motivation & Behavior

• Guide: How to Change your Life with One Simple Model

• Deep Dive: The Motivation Masterclass: From Science to Soul

• Zero to 1: Human Motivation Insights

  • Zero to 1: The Hidden Forces Shaping Your Motivation

  • Zero to 1: The Key to Everlasting Motivation

  • Zero to 1: Want More Motivation? Do Less (Seriously)

10. Meaning & Meaning-Making

• Deep Dive: The Art of Meaning-Making: How your Mind Shapes Reality

• Zero to 1: A World of Meaning

  • Zero to 1: What is Meaning? Man's Search for Meaning

  • Zero to 1: Exploring Meaning & Meaninglessness & Mean-Making

  • Zero to 1: What is the Meaning of Life? Attention, Meaning, & Morality

  • Zero to 1: Meaning is Found in our Stories

  • Zero to 1: How Stories Shape the Meaning of Your Life

  • Zero to 1: The Limits of Meaning

  • Zero to 1: Going Beyond Meaning

11. Identity

• Deep Dive: The Architecture of Identity: Who Are You Beyond the Story?

• Zero to 1: Who are you really?

  • Zero to 1: Who Are You? What Are you?

  • Zero to 1: The Story of Your Life

  • Zero to 1: Are you One or Many?

  • Zero to 1: The Hidden Half of Who You Are

  • Zero to 1: Losing Yourself? When Your Life Falls Apart

  • Zero to 1: What Remains When Everything Falls Away?

12. Consciousness

• Deep Dive: What is Consciousness & The Nature of Reality?

• Zero to 1: Nature of Consciousness

  • Zero to 1: The Seen, The Seer, and The...

  • Zero to 1: The Silence beneath the Sounds

  • Zero to 1: The Seeing

  • Zero to 1: What Can We Know with Certainty?

  • Zero to 1: The Relational Nature of Personal Reality

  • Zero to 1: Experience Requires Limitation

  • Zero to 1: The Ocean and the Wave

13. Consciousness Practices: Discovering Consciousness for Yourself

• Deep Dive: Consciousness Practices Deep Dive (coming soon)

• Zero to 1: Nature of Consciousness

  • Zero to 1: The Effortless Meditation

  • Zero to 1: Breaking the Spell of Your Thoughts

  • Zero to 1: How Can You Know Consciousness if You’re Lost in Thought?

  • Zero to 1: Turning Awareness Back on Itself

14. Purpose and Self-Transcendence

• Deep Dive: Guide to Finding your Higher Purpose

• Zero to 1: Finding Purpose Insights

  • Zero to 1: What is Purpose?

15. Morality, Ethics and Living Well

• Guide: How to Live an Epically Moral Life

• Finding Heaven Even in Hell: Not Started

• Zero to 1: Morals & Ethics Insights

16. What's Real? Exploring Truth, Epistemology & Nature of Reality

• Zero to 1: What is Real? Insights

17. Consciousness & Reality

• Zero to 1: Consciousness & Reality Insights

18. Collective Consciousness & You: Macro & Micro

• Zero to 1: The Macro & Micro Insights

19. MAP of the Real: Putting it All Together

• Zero to 1: The Map we Built

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The World

Understanding how larger world patterns work and shape our lived experience has always been fascinating to me. To that end, I will create a number of series that dive deep into a topic, such as economic systems, societal trends, and cultural shifts that influence our shared experience. By examining how these larger patterns intersect with our personal journeys, we can gain fresh perspectives on global challenges and opportunities.

Looking Ahead:

I believe that over the next 10 years, we will witness greater change than we have in the past 30 years. With significant change comes immense opportunity.

To make this content as digestible as possible, I’ll focus on a topic like macroeconomics and create a comprehensive lesson plan that includes how I am preparing.

First Series: Understanding Macroeconomics

I’m curating the best information into five comprehensive lessons:

• Lesson 1: Understanding How the Economic Machine Works

  Topics: Markets, Money Supply, Debt Cycle, Demographics

• Lesson 2: The Cycles of Changing World Orders & Economic Systems over the Past 500 Years

  Topics: Short and Long Debt Cycles, Rise and Fall of Empire

• Lesson 3: The Great Turning - How Demographics, Technology, and Economic Cycles Shape America's Present & Future

  Topics: A Deep Dive into the Forces that Shaped the US from 1945 to Present-Day America

• Lesson 4: The Way Forward: Growth in an Era of Economic Transformation

  Topics: Current economic landscape and our biggest challenges

• Lesson 5: Tariffs, Inequality and the Road Ahead

  Topics: Our response the current economic landscape

• Lesson 6: The Exponential Age: The Age of AI Agents & Crypto

  Topics: Technology’s convergence and its impact on the world

• Lesson 7: The 6-Year Plan

  Topics: Managing risk and asymmetric rewards

• Lesson 8: Sharing My Plan

  Topics: Sharing what I am doing and why

Future Tech

This section will focus on AI, Web 3, and sharing the journey of building technology that helps improve life quality, mental health, & well-being.

• What is an LLM, really? How they Work & How to Work with Them

• What is Bias & Why Does It Happen in LLMs?

• The Truth About the Dangers of AI

• How AI is Shaping our Perceptions & Transforming our World

• The Great Acceleration: How AI Is Collapsing Search, Websites, and Jobs Into Something New

AI Tutorials

• SEO: I Published 500+ AI Articles & This at What Happened

• Live Experiment: Training LLMs on your Knowledge Base

• How to Organize Data for RAG

AI for Humanity

• Why am I starting a Substack? AI + Humanity and the Experiments We Are Running.

• Project X Revealed: Journey into the Unknown with AI Experiments

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I aim to create tools that help us actualize our Mission.

Tools Included in this Hub

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• AI TOOLS

  • AI Second Brain with Notion AI

  • AI Cheat Sheets & Resources

  • Templates (coming soon)

• AI AGENTS

  • Dreams Interpreter

  • AI Psychologist & Life Coach

  • AI Personality Games

• PSYCH TOOLS

  • Psychometrics & Values Assessments

  • Journals

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This hub serves as a dynamic repository for all our content related to Philosophy, Psychology, and Consciousness. It's designed to foster a community of individuals keen on exploring the deeper aspects of the human experience.

Mission Statement

• Discover Why This Substack Was Started: The Mission

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Community

• Discussion Thread: Philosophy + Psychology + Mindfulness Thread

• Polls: What type of Topics are you most interested in?

Guides

Understanding Self

Topics: Perception, Self, Human Condition, Psychology, Motivation, Behavior, Mindfulness, Identity

• The Science of Perception & How we Hallucinate our Own Reality

• How To Change Your Life With Just ONE Simple MODEL

Understanding My World

Topics: Information, Bias, Beliefs, Ideology, Value Systems, Collective Consciousness

• Breaking Free from the Matrix of Ideology

• 17 Profound Enigmas That Will Help You Make Sense Of The World

Deep Thoughts

Topics: Mean Making, Purpose, Morality & Ethics, & Consciousness

• How to Live an Epically Moral Life

• How can Philosophy help in our Modern World?

Creative Expressions

Poems with a Song

• Finding Fulness in Emptiness

• Soaking in All In

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This Hub is part of my AI Journey as I build AI Agents that help Improve Life Quality, Mental Health & Well Being.

This is the key step to building Ethical AI Systems.

Mission:

• Why am I starting a Substack? AI + Humanity and the Experiments we are running.

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• AI Thread: Join the Conversation Here

Polls

• What type of AI Content are you Interested in?

• What types of AI Experiments are you Interested In?

AI Guides

This is a Guide contains all of our AI content in organized by topic.

Getting Started

• What is an LLM, Really? How they Work & How to Work with Them

• What is Bias & Why Does It Happen in LLMs?

• Knowledge Bases, The New Conversational UX Stack, & AI Agents of the Future

Deep Thoughts: Culture, Society, Ethics & Future of AI

• The Truth About the Dangers of AI

• How can Philosophy help in our Modern World?

• Bridging Realms: Navigating the Present and Future of AI and the Metaverse through Philosophy & Mindfulness

Live Experiments

• Live Experiment: Training LLMs on your Knowledge Base

• How to Organize Data for RAG

AI For Humanity Project

• Project X Revealed: Journey into the Unknown with AI Experiments

• I Published 500+ AI Articles & This at What Happened

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