Key ideas from Anthony De Mello

• "Abstinence or asceticism can be as much a trap as anything else because it binds you to the thing you're abstaining from" - Tim, quoting Anthony DeMello's Awareness
• Kevin adopted a "2-2-2 rule" for alcohol: maximum two drinks, two times per week, two-drink maximum per session, reserved for special occasions only
• Accelerated TMS with D-cycloserine pretreatment compressed five-day anxiety treatment into single day, potentially opening access to millions who can't take week off work
• Google trained Gemini 3 frontier AI model entirely on proprietary TPU chips without using any NVIDIA hardware, demonstrating full-stack independence in AI development
• Aphantasia affects low single-digit percentage of population who cannot voluntarily visualize mental images, while hyperphantasia represents opposite extreme with vivid recall
• Dual Orexin Receptor Antagonists (DORAs) like Belsomra may help prevent Alzheimer's by clearing beta-amyloid plaque and tau proteins during sleep more effectively than traditional sedatives
• Modern dating apps designed for maximum addiction create challenge: when relationships get difficult, "the well's right there, 20 seconds away and a swipe away" - Tim
• AI development now enables solo developers to build and ship complete applications in days that would have cost $50,000+ and months of development time just years ago