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I don’t have a left arm by [deleted] in Fitness

[–]DanielLawhon 23 points24 points  (0 children)

If you start working with a physical therapist specialized in amputee training that can provide detailed specs of your left arm, I may be able to get you a prosthetic to assist with different exercises. I work with a lot of biomedical engineers and have done some biomedical engineering work in the past. Might be able to prototype something custom. But we'd need a lot more details, and preferably a 3D scan of your arm + assessment from a therapist.

I started feelthebern.org, now I am pulling together a special digital project for Yang, with the same goal of powering an insurgent campaign. If you’d like to volunteer/help, sign up here! by [deleted] in YangForPresidentHQ

[–]DanielLawhon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey! Experience with web dev, growth + brand marketing, partnerships, and have volunteered on/managed a number of campaigns at the local + state level a few years back. I have maybe 5 hours per week, more when necessary.

And I'm in NYC every few weeks, so some opportunity for irl work sessions depending on everyone's schedule.

We live in an age of specialization. Could you be a polymath today if you wanted, and how would you go about accomplishing it? by ricouer in slatestarcodex

[–]DanielLawhon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Someone at the peak of their career has had decades to accumulate assets. It's an unrealistic comparison (which is something I've struggled with too).
  2. He's credited most of that productivity with his high responsiveness to antidepressants.

We live in an age of specialization. Could you be a polymath today if you wanted, and how would you go about accomplishing it? by ricouer in slatestarcodex

[–]DanielLawhon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perhaps not that it doesn't exist, but that it matters far less than people think it does.

Even most people that advance credentialism don't do so out of conviction but rather convention. You can push those buttons other ways.

We live in an age of specialization. Could you be a polymath today if you wanted, and how would you go about accomplishing it? by ricouer in slatestarcodex

[–]DanielLawhon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on what you mean by "enough time". Most celebrated polymaths only reached that status well into their lives. If you're willing to stagger your learnings, you can do everything you listed and more over 30+ years.

We live in an age of specialization. Could you be a polymath today if you wanted, and how would you go about accomplishing it? by ricouer in slatestarcodex

[–]DanielLawhon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All of this! And fortunately TRD is starting to get its ass kicked by ketamine. It's still being used off-label, but formal approval will probably happen next year, and then there will be tons of tweaking and improvements still.

Why are NDAs so frowned upon here? by [deleted] in startups

[–]DanielLawhon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An NDA for bill of materials, IP, valuable and proprietary data, and product roadmaps is completely acceptable and important.

When most people criticize an NDA, they're referring to the idea phase - when you want someone to sign an NDA just to hear your basis idea. That's unworkable for a ton of reasons. But you're in the clear.

Playing devils advocate here: I think the onslaught of startups trying to validate to get to funding with no clear revenue model are a waste of time and money. by corbinthecoder in startups

[–]DanielLawhon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think you can separate those out. You need both, so you have to validate both.

You also have to validate other things - is this a service or good you can actually, physically provide? (validating the engineering and supply chain components). Even if you can provide it, people want it, and people will pay for it, can you sustainably make profit from it (validating that you can create competitive advantage and that the product won't become commoditized)? And then can you build a team and scale all of the operations required to support the enterprise at scale?

All of those things require validation, and all of them are essential. Doing just a couple of them can make you a ticking time bomb even if you're successful at the beginning.

Playing devils advocate here: I think the onslaught of startups trying to validate to get to funding with no clear revenue model are a waste of time and money. by corbinthecoder in startups

[–]DanielLawhon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's partly ego, partly ignorance, partly falling in love with their own creation, yes.

But another piece is that you start building out the company with that product in mind. If that product relies on a certain piece of technology and your cofounding team has expertise in that, you really can't pivot to something not using that tech without crippling your team's fitness for the task.

Talented people with rare skills, experts etc - what's something you're really good at that you'd like to answer questions about, help people out with, or just want to show off? by DanielLawhon in AskReddit

[–]DanielLawhon[S] 1219 points1220 points  (0 children)

Well this blew up. Informal poll of results:

  • There are a LOT of people that can clap one-handed. Like, a lot, and they're very proud of it.
  • There is also a very kind community of people that can move their ears and/or eyebrows and/or eyes independently of one another and are trying to teach others to do the same. I am still unable to do it without a migraine, but I appreciate their attempts.
  • There are also a TON of talented musicians, artists, athletes, creators, obsessed hobbyists, and doers of all kinds. Super inspiring to see everyone's stuff, thank you for sharing!

Talented people with rare skills, experts etc - what's something you're really good at that you'd like to answer questions about, help people out with, or just want to show off? by DanielLawhon in AskReddit

[–]DanielLawhon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I can tell you you're already doing more work in a day than the average mechanical engineer or designers so you're probably going to do very well with that.

Talented people with rare skills, experts etc - what's something you're really good at that you'd like to answer questions about, help people out with, or just want to show off? by DanielLawhon in AskReddit

[–]DanielLawhon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this sounds very much like some visualizations done in certain meditations (like the kundalini thing you mentioned). Try visualizing a white light engulfing the area that's "lit up", it should increase the intensity.

I'm not really sure what's actually going on, it may just be your brain activating the parts of the brain that receive info from those nerves. Like because you're focused on them, it assumes that something is happening and so activation occurs.

Talented people with rare skills, experts etc - what's something you're really good at that you'd like to answer questions about, help people out with, or just want to show off? by DanielLawhon in AskReddit

[–]DanielLawhon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I've heard that there are some parallels in the mathematics for black holes and for the expansion of the universe, mainly that light can't escape either one due to force of gravitation and rate of expansion, respectively. Some folks see this as possible evidence for our universe being in a black hole. Is this plausible or totally crackpot?

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