I was 13 the first time I took acid. Since then, I’ve easily spent over a 2000 hours exploring psychedelic states. Here are 8 hard-won insights for beginners from these thousands of hours of experience. (For deep-dive trippers, keep scrolling to Guidelines for Heroic Dosages and Expert Psychonauts) The basic…

If individuals are cells in the superorganism of humanity, companies are its organs. Let’s make sure they’re healthy. In today’s newsletter I talk about how to create a company culture that gets outsized results and amplifies the best version of you and your team: The Value of Mental Fitness in…

“God mode,” comes from the world of video games. It’s a mode that makes you, the player, exceptionally powerful — a deity within the game. In the Game of Life, it’s the only sensible mode to play. It’s an angle of approach that assumes anything is possible. Always. Using the…

Accessing Your Inner Buddha This newsletter is about equipping top performers to conquer challenges, achieve holistic success, and craft a legacy that shapes a brighter world. To really enjoy it, you have to be enough of a narcissist to believe that you create your own reality, but not so much…

In today’s newsletter you’ll: Get a numbers-driven perspective on our mental health crisis Be Introduced to the 6 Stages of Human Development (and why understanding them will boost your mental fitness) Upgrade your thinking about how a Human Operating System will benefit society Our Mental Health Epidemic In Numbers In…

Scientists say seven out of eight measures of the Earth’s health are flashing red. But that is not the front line of the fight to secure our future. The front line is within ourselves. If there is a war to fight, it’s a war on stupidity. If there is a goal to achieve, it’s the universal enhancement of intelligence. Upgrading our collective intelligence will help us achieve every other…

In the 50’s, researchers did an experiment in which they divided newborn kittens into two cohorts and kept them in striped cylinders for the early months of their lives. The difference between the two cylinders was simple: their wall paper was striped with either horizontal or vertical lines. When the…

Safeguarding a Successful Future for Us All — Calling culture “The Cultural Cloud” is a linguistic trick designed to do one thing — remind us that we are in control of our culture. Like our own selves, we have the ability to influence, hack, and change the ideas, values, institutions, and various memes of our society. …

I was recently speaking with a colleague in the medical industry. He was expressing his concern about how relentless the schedules of residents are and how haggard it makes them. …