It's the year of the great ideological-political gulf between family members across the holiday table.

Many chose to just not discuss touchy subjects with family, and I get that - it might be best to just keep the peace. But, some families are able and willing to engage in rigorous discourse and debate without it devolving into hurtful insults - I'm fortunate to have a family mostly like that.

Thus, I wrote them this letter urging them to pass on the COVID-19 vaccine - feel free to copy it, edit it as you see fit, and use it to try to change your loved ones' minds...

Book Review: Mindfulness > Tinnitus

I developed moderate tinnitus (persistent ringing in the ears) out of the blue about a month ago. I had just returned to the city I live from a much-needed vacation at the Black Sea, I was cuddling with my wife in bed shinning my infrared light on my back and I noticed a troubling ringing in my ears. A mediocre night of sleep ensued. To my dismay, it didn't go away...

I tried a number of the manual therapy methods (pulling ear, tapping head, finger in ear, etc) that can be found on YouTube with clickbaity titles like “Cure tinnitus in 60 seconds!" I tried powdered Ginkgo Biloba. I got my hearing checked by a specialist and it was fine. I took the medicine the doctor recommended (Vinpocetine, B-Vitamins, and Ginkgo Biloba extract). I tried EMF mitigation. I took a week off of using the fancy Bluetooth headphones that I love. I tried EFT "tapping" on the issue. I took a week off my liquid Nicotine solution. I tried shining my red light on my ears for 15-20 minutes. I took a break from daily red light therapy to ascertain if the red light might somehow be causing it. And none of this stuff made any difference!

How to meet a nice girl instead - from a tantric husband with a better sex life than you!

Women are dangerous.
Good, yet naive, men routinely wreck their lives because they “stick their dick in a blender” — having sex with the wrong kinds of women. STDs, unplanned pregnancies, false accusations, mental health headcases, and divorce make chasing skirts a dangerous game. While lesser men retreat from the pursuit of women into the pixel-powered pleasure world, you have faith that your hunt for a virtuous woman will be fruitful.

Few men (or women) will experience, either in intensity or frequency, sex that powerfully infuses the rest of their life with zest and vigor.

I'm a man with significant breadth and depth of sexual experiences, thus this article is mostly for men but I include some biohacks and supplements that I'm confident (either because of scientific research, meaningful anecdotal data, or first-hand experience) will improve a woman's experience of sex. I'm hoping that one-day virtual reality comes up with a way for me to experience sex as a woman, which is a weird thing for a straight male to write, I'm sure it will be an even weirder experience!

The Inevitable Uncondoming…

Single guys, if you implement some (or all) of the sex hacks described here you're going to be having some very hot, passionate sex which tends to lead to unprotected sex. In my new book, Don’t Stick Your Dick in a Blender, I have a chapter, The Inevitable Uncondoming (which you can download here for free and read at your leisure), all about unprotected sex. Please, don’t underestimate how easy it is to royally screw up your life by inviting the wrong kinds of women into your bed. Good, yet naive, men routinely wreck their lives because they “stick their dick in a blender” — having sex with the wrong kinds of women. STDs, unplanned pregnancies, false accusations, mental health headcases, and divorce make chasing skirts a dangerous game. This book delves deeply into advanced social dynamics strategies and lifehacks for meeting and seducing a woman worthy of your uncondomed cock.

A personal anecdote...

This 20-year-old Ukrainian girl had kept me up all night. After I had put her in an Uber completely sleep-deprived around 8 AM I dropped 200 milligrams of Modafinil.

After reaching peak productivity that day in the mid-afternoon I settled down for 20 minutes of Jedi breathing combined with meditation. Modafinil is a drug that effectively prevents me from being an introspective time traveler; instead of trying to predict the future or analyzing the past I'm fully committed to the present. Usually, the first 10-15 minutes of meditation is something like wrestling with a rowdy pig in a kidipool filled with Vaseline but on Modafinil it's a whole different experience; all my worrying and grasping at abstractions goes away.

Typical of my meditation sessions as I held my mind empty and stared into the abyss subtle hallucinations appeared on the insides of my eyelids. In a powerfully symbolic moment a vivid wolf appeared, I stared into its eyes and it transformed into a dove that flew off. The wolf was my bullying mind. The tyrant within me that beat me up constantly. That self-critical internal dialog. The dove was my flighty mind that lurched and reeled in reaction to the world.

But now I was the wolf. Finally, I was the one in charge. The world would react to me.

A powerful sentiment that imbued a degree of tranquility for days after I had taken the Modafinil.

As the Internet's smart drug dealer I have to admit something to you...

The end game of smart drugs is to not really need them.

Would you believe that a lot of days I don't actually even use them? Here's why; I've internalized and habituated a lot of the self-discipline that Nootropics imbue.

Drugs do permanently change personality; this is why we have stereotypes about potheads or psychedelic enthusiasts. Smart drugs will have a long term effect on your personality via several mechanisms:

• First of all, they show you how focused and productive your mind can be. Some people have never been as focused as they will be the first time they use Nootropics.
• They feed your mind the raw building blocks for synapses that will increase the density of gray matter.
• Smart drugs are an instant gratification tool for self-control. They work fast.
• With the enhanced degree of self-control you get from smart drugs you can habituate other "more holistic" practices that will cultivate your self-control.

A smart drug that will really wake up your powers of concentration is Modafinil. After trying +100 different smart drugs it's easily within my top 5 for habituating focus.

We are living in history and the profound tectonic level political, cultural and technological changes happening below our feet will reward those with extraordinary powers of attention and punish harshly those who remain unenhanced.

FocusWish.com did an exhaustive meta-analysis of Modafinil and created this useful Modafinil infographic which breaks down the 8 mechanisms of action by which this drug transforms our self-control capacities.