Freedomizing

I listened to a podcast the other day that spoke of a gentleman that lost his vision at an adult age, this adult learned to listen to audio (book on tape style) at 6 times the speed. I was really proud of myself because I was listening to this particular podcast at 1.5X speed. Then when I heard that we (humans) can process language at up to 8 times the spoken word, and there was this dude that was listening at 6x I thought, well shoot! Challenge accepted! (I don't believe I will get to 6x by the way) I immediately went to 2X and have been listening to podcasts at that level for months now. I also found that Audible.com offers audiobooks read at 3X. Currently, I'm not there, but I am comfortable with what I consider to be very good comprehension at a 2.5X and training myself to get to the 3X. So what?! Well, time is money, if I can listen to a book on tape in 1/3 the time that my peers listen to the same book and we both get the same out of the book, I just p...

I recently put up a little bit of scratch up for a Tesla Model 3, which, by the way, goes against every logical freedomizing frugality physical activity essence I have ... However, allow me to go on a bit of a rant. Go back about 3 years, my first ride in a Tesla, a friend of mine took me down a major vein in our city, took his hands off the wheel feet off the pedals, and wallah! We drove down Broadway autonomously! I was impressed, but my friend at the time didn't trust it, and rightfully so it wasn't to be trusted at the time. Fast forward to about two weeks ago, Tesla updates their driving software for the nth time and very positive reviews. I reach out to my same friend, who happened to have taken a little road trip about 100 miles up turning roads that day, his comment, he didn't touch the steering wheel or the pedals at all! I had just finished a book Homo Deus, and was already completely freaking out about AI and algorithmic realities that are becoming our lives when...