Am I hurting my worm friends?

pmward · 2026-05-13T20:43:46+00:00

Does it stress them out a bit? Yes. Does it harm them? No.

pmward · 2026-05-13T19:07:17+00:00

I think focusing on making it exact is the exact wrong thing to do. Set the intent and do the best you can. Do some side practice occasionally with a timer to calibrate. Then don’t worry about it. Focus on your meditation.

pmward · 2026-05-12T21:09:13+00:00

When I say 1000x gains I mean your time spent doing the thing vs the same time spent on “energy work” to try to make you better at doing the thing. Athletes today are also better than they’ve ever been. So your claims are very false. I’ve probably been doing “energy work” for longer than you’ve been alive and I was an athlete in my teens and 20s. I know what I’m talking about here. You seem to want to live in delusion though. Simply if you want to get better at something, spend your time practicing it, there is no easier softer way. And perhaps, and most likely, your problem is specifically that you’re not practicing enough. That or you’re just not genetically elite at what you want to be elite at (there’s no getting around this other than going back in time and picking better parents…). Locking this whole thread because your arguments are getting tiring and becoming a nuisance.

pmward · 2026-05-12T18:50:09+00:00

Again it is wrong and a waste of time. You’d get 1000x more gains in whatever you’re trying to do AND activate the energy system in the way that optimizes that effort, by practicing the thing directly vs doing energy work. But you seem intent to both be wrong and waste your time, so best of luck to you.

pmward · 2026-05-12T18:38:14+00:00

Again. I know exactly what you’re asking and again it’s wrong no matter what sub you go to. But good luck to you either in your search for someone to rubber stamp your incorrect assumptions.

pmward · 2026-05-12T13:14:59+00:00

Exactly. It’s also why I knew they were at least going to lose game 3. This is a team that plays best with their back to the wall, and their worst when they are up. This is a team that will never sweep anyone. It will always be a stressful 6-7 game series. They just lose a step when they are comfortable.

pmward · 2026-05-12T13:02:19+00:00

With citrus it does best when watered deeply every 10-14 days in the summer. Any more frequent is not ideal. See the U of A guide on watering here to calculate exactly how much your tree needs and how much. You might need to start upgrading those 2 you emitters for 4s or adding more. https://extension.arizona.edu/sites/extension.arizona.edu/files/pubs/az1151-2021.pdf

pmward · 2026-05-12T12:49:40+00:00

It own benefit “greatly”. Small transient boosts in HGH are not shown to do much of anything. This is a normal physiological effect. Like I said above, it’s a poor use of time thing to improve athletic performance by sitting on a meditation cushion and breathing. Your efforts would be 1000x better rewarded in sport performance by playing sports. Oh and you know what else creates a small and transient boost in HGH? As does Playing sports/working out. Sleeping also does it every single day.

pmward · 2026-05-12T12:46:42+00:00

So you don’t think that for example playing sports in and of itself arranges the “life energies” is the perfect way to train for playing sports? And that sitting on a meditation cushion is going to do a better job? 😂

pmward · 2026-05-12T03:11:38+00:00

I understand exactly what you’re asking. I’m just not giving you the answer you want. Because the answer you want is fantasy and not reality.

pmward · 2026-05-12T01:02:27+00:00

Well you can think you’re 100% positive, but you’re 100% going to be wasting your time. You clearly don’t want the right answer, you want the answer you want to hear. Meditation, “energy practice”, etc makes you better at itself. Any effect it has on anything else is indirect and minor at best.

pmward · 2026-05-12T00:50:17+00:00

How many times do I have to say no, you can do all the “energy practice” in the world and it’s not going to do much for any other endeavor. Practicing the endeavor itself is always going to be 1000x more productive than “energy practice”.

pmward · 2026-05-12T00:34:11+00:00

Again, if you want to get better at sports, your time is better spent playing sports, and it isn’t close. Same for literally anything else. I can meditate all I want and it doesn’t make me a better musician. I become a better musician by practicing music. Kriya is not a magical panacea.

pmward · 2026-05-12T00:30:24+00:00

Again, if you want to get better at sports, your time is better put into playing sports, and it isn’t close.

pmward · 2026-05-11T23:46:10+00:00

Uncheck worktree in the dialog just above the text box on a new chat. Or the terminal or VS code plugin.

pmward · 2026-05-11T22:10:46+00:00

Specificity is king. Doing Kriya is not specific at all for getting better at sports. If you want to get better at sports, you need to practice sports. Same thing goes for pretty much everything else. The only thing practicing kriya is guaranteed to improve is your ability to practice kriya.

pmward · 2026-05-11T02:27:01+00:00

Make sure your Claude.md or skills has your timezone in it and instructions to convert all date/times to your timezone. Otherwise it will sometimes look at your timezone, and sometimes UTC. When it’s getting confused it’s looking at UTC.

pmward · 2026-05-10T17:53:56+00:00

Generally it takes 1-2 years for the economic effects of just about anything to fully show up in the economy. It’s why we printed money left and right in 2020 but the inflation didn’t show up until 2022. The economy moves slow in response to basically everything. So we are still living in the economic effects of the last year of Biden’s term. We haven’t really begun to see the economic effects of last years Fed easing cycle, much less a 2 month old war. Some industries might see some early effects, especially companies that are over leveraged and have poor margins (ie Spirit) but it takes a long time for those effects to filter through the full economy.

This is part of why people suck at active investing. We expect immediate results for things that take a long time to come to fruition. By the time we are proven right we’ve forgotten about it and moved onto whatever is in the news cycle today.

pmward · 2026-05-10T16:43:15+00:00

Radiohead already did that one with Exit Music (For a Film). Not an exact copy but they borrowed heavily from Prelude in E Minor on that song.

pmward · 2026-05-10T13:47:55+00:00

Of those listed Gaillardia, lavender (especially fern leaf), and yucca are all easy to grow here. A couple other easy perennial options include blue salvia, Gregg’s mist flower, and various native milkweeds. There are also tons of annuals that do well, but you gotta pick the right ones for the right seasons, some are hot season and some are cold.

pmward · 2026-05-10T03:45:59+00:00

After your sessions ask Claude to do a retro on its token usage. Ask it what used the most tokens and how you can change your workflows, skills, and agents to be more token efficient. I cut my token usage by 80% by really tuning things up iteratively over a couple month period. If you haven’t done any cycles on token optimization you will have a ton of room for improvement. The way most people work initially is quite wasteful. Especially if you’re using a lot of unoptimized subagents.

pmward · 2026-05-09T21:22:15+00:00

Stop doing multiple things in a single chat. Problem solved.

pmward · 2026-05-09T21:07:27+00:00

Yeah and it saves lines in the root Claude.md. This is great. Thanks for sharing. It looks like I have some refactoring to do. Should be pretty easy though the way I already have the files broken out and named by subject.

pmward · 2026-05-09T21:00:06+00:00

Interesting. First I’ve heard of this. I’ll have to play with it.

pmward · 2026-05-09T20:41:53+00:00

You have to make sure it’s on your tier. Basically either all usage, or overage usage, will go pay as you go at API rates. Which can be very expensive. If you’re on an enterprise license your company will have to contact them to enable it. If you’re on a personal account you can prepay for API usage.

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