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April 6, 2026

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@TVachaW: @TVachaW: A beautiful practice from classical Tibetan Tantra is the a…

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TL;DR. Tibetan Tantra invites you to live as a divine being in a sacred ceremony, transforming regret and fear into reverent participation in your own unfolding ritual.

Takeaways

  • Envision yourself, everyone you meet, and your surroundings as divine — weaving wisdom, compassion, and mindfulness into ordinary life.
  • Reframe past events not as "good or bad" but as notes in a symphony — regret dissolves when you see the hidden ritual function.
  • Meet the future as "the next brush-stroke in the mandala of your life," not something to fear or grasp at.
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Two systematic, meta-analyses on psychedelic drugs today

@EricTopolx

TL;DR. Two new meta-analyses landed today on how psychedelics rewire the brain and treat depression.

Takeaways

  • Nature Medicine mega-analysis pooled 11 fMRI datasets across psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT, and ayahuasca — found a shared signature of increased connectivity between transmodal (default, frontoparietal, limbic) and unimodal (visual, sensorimotor) networks.
  • Within-network connectivity reductions were weaker and more variable than single-site studies suggested — Bayesian modeling cooled off some of the prior "ego dissolution = network breakdown" narrative.
  • Companion paper in Nature Mental Health covers depression outcomes specifically — worth pairing if you're tracking the clinical side.
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@WillManidis: @WillManidis: the function of your professional life is to find t…

@WillManidisx

TL;DR. Your career's job is to find the structure that turns your natural rhythms into compounding capital and joy—and ruthlessly rotate out of anything that isn't it.

Takeaways

  • The right work feels as natural as breathing; if it doesn't, the structure is wrong.
  • Compounding requires decades, so fit matters more than effort.
  • Speed of exit from misfit situations is itself a core professional skill.