I started General Assembly’s WDI (Web Development Immersive) in Santa Monica in January 2017. In July I accepted a position as a front-end software developer with Lightstorm Entertainment (think Avatar sequels).
This is what happened in between.
You know you should be meditating. You know you should be exercising regularly. And you know you should be eating real food. Let me help you put it all together in an effective and sustainable way.
I learned a ton from Antranik in this broad conversation.
This year I stopped going to the gym and started to train outside instead. And you know what happened? I got stronger. I look better. I feel better. And while this remains the case, I won’t be going back.
What would you say if I told you that making a tiny modification to your normal routine could absolutely change your life? What would you think if I told you it only took 2 minutes? And that the cost is just about zero if you already have running water?
I loved two women then, but Amber and I had decent enough chemistry while carousing in our underwear or less. I was disappointed that she was falling in like with one of the camera assistants, but Francois Rousseau managed to make our toilet paper ad look like a fragrance campaign, and we were all happy about that.
Nicolas Gregoriades is the founder of the Jiu-Jitsu Brotherhood, co-host of Digital Communion, a world traveler and experienced psychonaut, and a dear friend of mine, among many other things.
Knott’s genius in crafting this is all of the little built-in devices, not the least of which is that whole business of the “key under the stair carpet on the fifth step.” Precise details like this, and their cunning repetition, plant seeds in the minds of the audience that Tony has thought of damn near everything.
When we segued from talking about dreams into psychedelic use I realized Marko had his first ceremony about 10 years before many of us had even heard of ayahuasca and DMT.
I imagine my mind like a planet with rings around it, each representing a different gear. There are gears devoted to reason, gears devoted to the senses, and gears devoted to creativity, all orbiting my consciousness at different speeds. And my mind’s eye will spotlight up to three gears at once at its most chaotic and unchecked.
