I was on a two week solo trip around Thailand. I arrived on the island Koh Yao Noi. It is a small, quiet island you can cross in thirty minutes by motorbike. My bungalow sat on a secluded road, shared with only one other house. Other places were a few minutes away. By the time I arrived that afternoon, I was exhausted and was relaxing on a chair outside. The air was thick, there were no cars, just insects and the occasional motorbike somewhere far off.

In the house right beside mine, there was this guy in his late twenties. He just seemed to do everything really slowly, like he had absolutely nowhere to be. Since we were the only two people around for miles, I eventually went over to say hi. I asked him how long he had been there, expecting something like a few days, maybe weeks at most. He told me he had already been living there for two years. I wanted to know more, and we fell into a long conversation.

He told me that he used to work in IT, but had been unemployed since he moved here. It all started when someone in his company needed a custom Python tool for their business. He told them it would take about a week. Then his boss tried an AI instead. It was done in a few minutes and worked perfectly. He went quiet after seeing it. His point was that he didn't lose a job, he lost the entire category of work.

While there were other things he could work on, his logic was that he could spend the next few years keeping up with all the AI tools, but at some point these tools will no longer need any human help. So his work and eventually everyone else's will be meaningless. The IT sector is just experiencing this first shock, other sectors will follow, and in his mind all have the same endpoint. And it is not that long in the future.

Around that time, two years ago, he decided he didn’t want to play that game. He quit his job, bought a one way ticket to Asia and eventually ended up here.

He is living mostly off of savings now, which would last at most four years and that is while living very simply. I asked him what if his prediction is wrong and he ends up broke with no job here. He was quiet for a second. Then he laughed like he had just heard something ridiculous. For him this is a done deal.

His confidence irritated me. I pushed back on everything I could think of. He kept returning to the same point: exponential growth, and how badly humans judge its speed. He said the only work that mattered now was building AI. Everything else was just keeping the lights on until it no longer needed us. But that wasn’t enough for him.

He filled his time reading, cooking, exercising and meeting people passing through. He wasn't saying he had figured out what comes next. He just didn't see the point in pretending the old answer still worked.

"If I had lived just 100 years ago I would be happy to work some physical job, there would have been no other way to get it done. But working a job now feels like ordering a taxi to a point and running there first. Why not just wait for it here?"

On the flight home, I looked at the man in the seat next to me. He was hunched over his laptop, typing furiously into some massive spreadsheet, looking completely exhausted.

I leaned back in my seat, closed my eyes and kept thinking about the taxi thing.

I just finished a 3-day fast.

My main reason for doing it was autophagy. "Auto" is pretty straightforward and "phagy" means eating (as anyone who has seen Project Hail Mary already knows). Around the 48-hour mark of not eating, the body runs out of fuel and starts effectively eating itself. It cleans out the bad cells, which is supposed to help heal inflammation and prevent disease.

The 3-day fast is considered the sweet spot. It is not too long to be dangerous, but it is enough to get those massive health benefits. The rule is 0 calories. Only water, salt, potassium, and magnesium.

I am not going to lie, for me it was quite hard.

Day 1 was the easiest because I had a lot of activities planned, so I kind of forgot about food. However, I woke up a few times that night with a headache, probably caused by a salt deficiency. It went away quickly once I did a few licks of salt in the morning.

Day 2 was a struggle. I kept telling myself it would get easier because ChatGPT assured me that around the 36 to 48 hour mark the hunger would disappear. That did not really happen for me, the hunger stayed pretty active.

Day 3 was when I was only thinking about food. I read on Reddit people were saying they get a "zen" feeling or that they wanted to keep going past 72 hours, but I was the opposite. I was counting down the hours and minutes until my first meal. I ended up breaking it at 70 hours so I could get some nutrients in and let my digestion settle before going to sleep.

As for the results: I have had pain in my mid-back for about a year, and I have to say it feels substantially better. It is not totally gone, but the intensity is lower. The fast was a massive test of willpower, and based on the research, the autophagy benefits are worth the grind.

The recommendation is to do this four times a year. If I do it again, I will report back.

I just finished a 3-day fast.

My main reason for doing it was autophagy. "Auto" is pretty straightforward and "phagy" means eating (as anyone who has seen Project Hail Mary already knows). Around the 48-hour mark of not eating, the body runs out of fuel and starts effectively eating itself. It cleans out the bad cells, which is supposed to help heal inflammation and prevent disease.

The 3-day fast is considered the sweet spot. It is not too long to be dangerous, but it is enough to get those massive health benefits. The rule is 0 calories. Only water, salt, potassium, and magnesium.

I am not going to lie, for me it was quite hard.

Day 1 was the easiest because I had a lot of activities planned, so I kind of forgot about food. However, I woke up a few times that night with a headache, probably caused by a salt deficiency. It went away quickly once I did a few licks of salt in the morning.

Day 2 was a struggle. I kept telling myself it would get easier because ChatGPT assured me that around the 36 to 48 hour mark the hunger would disappear. That did not really happen for me, the hunger stayed pretty active.

Day 3 was when I was only thinking about food. I read on Reddit people were saying they get a "zen" feeling or that they wanted to keep going past 72 hours, but I was the opposite. I was counting down the hours and minutes until my first meal. I ended up breaking it at 70 hours so I could get some nutrients in and let my digestion settle before going to sleep.

As for the results: I have had pain in my mid-back for about a year, and I have to say it feels substantially better. It is not totally gone, but the intensity is way lower. The fast was a massive test of willpower, and based on the research, the autophagy benefits are worth the grind.

The recommendation is to do this four times a year. If I do it again, I will report back.

I just finished a 3-day fast.

My main reason for doing it was autophagy. "Auto" is pretty straightforward and "phagy" means eating (as anyone who has seen Project Hail Mary already knows). Around the 48-hour mark of not eating, the body runs out of fuel and starts effectively eating itself. It cleans out the bad cells, which is supposed to help heal inflammation and prevent disease.

The 3-day fast is considered the sweet spot. It is not too long to be dangerous, but it is enough to get those massive health benefits. The rule is 0 calories. Only water, salt, potassium, and magnesium.

I am not going to lie, for me it was quite hard.

Day 1 was the easiest because I had a lot of activities planned, so I kind of forgot about food. However, I woke up a few times that night with a headache, probably caused by a salt deficiency. It went away quickly once I did a few licks of salt in the morning.

Day 2 was a struggle. I kept telling myself it would get easier because ChatGPT assured me that around the 36 to 48 hour mark the hunger would disappear. That did not really happen for me, the hunger stayed pretty active.

Day 3 was when I was only thinking about food. I read on Reddit people were saying they get a "zen" feeling or that they wanted to keep going past 72 hours, but I was the opposite. I was counting down the hours and minutes until my first meal. I ended up breaking it at 70 hours so I could get some nutrients in and let my digestion settle before going to sleep.

The re-entry was a specific process. I started with eggs and coconut water, moved to a high-potassium protein shake to fix the muscle weakness I was feeling, and eventually hit some barbecue chicken.

As for the results: I have had pain in my mid-back for about a year, and I have to say it feels substantially better. It is not totally gone, but the intensity is way lower. The fast was a massive test of willpower, and based on the research, the autophagy benefits are worth the grind.

The recommendation is to do this four times a year. If I do it again, I will report back.

Autophagy🌱

So we have:

- XChat (by elon)
- SimpleXChat (decentralized, no sim login)
- 0XChat (built on nostr)

If anyone is confuzed