I hate picking berries. It's either too hot, or too cold, or too humid. Maybe I will convince myself some day; who knows?

But I entirely understand the idea and support that.

In my experience, there are two approaches:

1. Freestyle: I try not to steer anything; just the mind is flowing.

2. Focusing on here and now: I try to focus on the present moment.

Here are my ideas:

1. Wandering in the woods/park without the phone and counting backwards from 50 to 1 over and over again, or focusing on the present experience (noticing people, nature, and other stuff without judgements, just the observation).

2. The same as above but with the phone + recording voice memos. Sometimes, it's over 30 minutes long voice memos :-) Saying things out loud have more power than just thinking about that. It makes that happen, real and physical.

3. Swimming in the pool, counting strokes, breaths, pools swum, etc.

Tough call. On one hand, CC keeps asking me about the permissions; it shouldn't. On the other hand, I would rather not unleash it.

Currently, I'm running an internal experiment.

1. I have a side project. 2. I want to give the full control; CC is the so-called CEO, and I'm the so-called president of the board.

The cost of an error is marginal. I would like to see how this will end. The test is in progress.

There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (~4.3 × 10¹⁹) different positions. 1. If I try every position (1 position/sec) knowing it's unique, it will take me 1.37 trillion years. 2. If the pro tries (let's say 10 positions/sec), it will take 137 billion years. The universe is younger than that. :-D

Wondering how fast the machine or computer will do that?

Here is another way of looking at the same question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252106

Almost every idea is copyable. Digital ideas are even easier to copy.

Here's the antidote: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/better-than-free

Excellent! Thanks! It got me thinking, is there any way people can defend from this privacy abuse?