The SpoonFed Ideas Newsletter

Every Sunday, I promise to give you three things.

• One idea.
• One action.
• One update.

All to supercharge your life and help you make use of the short time you have here.

the idea.

- some wise old dude.

It was true in the 1800s when people still thought girls had cooties and it’s even more true today.

Especially today… considering the entirety of human knowledge is at our beck and call and technology has given us almost god-like powers... it’s never been easier to do something and exert influence on the physical world.

I mean, think about it. Back in the day, you could’ve been as smart and gifted as Albert Einstein, Newton and Mozart combined. But because you lived in an era of caves and wooly mammoths, the best you could hope for was not getting your face smashed in by a rock. The amount of influence you could exert on the world was measured pretty much by just how far you were able to piss.

But today? Give a 13-year old a laptop, and he'll eventually figure out how to mess with Kim Jong Un’s nuclear arsenal.

If human potential is a curve that we graph, we’ve definitely hit that steep part where it’s only going to get steeper… exponentially more exponential.

I’m not sure how aware people are of this. Most probably fall into 3 camps - they are either super excited, completely unaware or fucking terrified.

Consider yourself aware.

The next few years are going to get insane. You can literally make a million dollars in a year from the comfort of your own home… if only you knew the exact sequence of steps to do… the correct sequence of keys on your keyboard to bang on. Sure you may not know right now, but have you even tried?

If not, then it’s no wonder you feel stuck. The amount of influence you exert on the world is still pretty much measured by how far you can piss. And that's exactly what I did the other day. My neighbor's dog peed on our lawn... not sure what to do, I pissed on theirs. I'm not sure how much influence I exerted there but it felt good just to do something. Just kidding, I didn’t do that. Nobody’s got time for passive aggressive games. I went over and actually pissed on their dog instead. Dominance baby.

I like to imagine this situation in the form of a magical shopping spree. Whatever you can fit in this cart is yours... some distant voice echos. You have 1-minute. And on the shelf are stacks of cash, trophies, oscars nominations, grammy awards, Mona Lisas, keys to entire cities, charisma and good looks. You, my neighbor and their dog would be scrambling to fill up their carts with as much stuff as possible. That’s just human nature. When it’s right in front of us, when it’s easy… we scramble like mad to get it.

But put a few minor obstacles in front of it and all of a sudden, poof. Never mind?

Whatever you want in life… whatever you want to achieve. This is the era to go for it. You are in the most privileged position in the entire history of humankind… the age of technology. You’re past all the war and disease your grandparents had to face and not yet in the dystopian future where robots have murdered us all.

And so, in this sweet spot, why not create the life you’re excited to wake up to?

You know why you don’t? Because that magical shopping spree happens to be hidden behind two potted ferns, a bag of popcorn and of course, this Chinese Uncle rapping in front of a teahouse.

the action.

Ask yourself, what are you doing today to capitalize on this technological gold rush? What powers have you tapped into today? What new skills have you tried on for size? If the answer is nothing except for clicking on a few funny videos on the internet, well, I sincerely hope it was worth it because the future waits for no one.

the update.

I was supposed to fly across the country to give this wound care lecture. I’m not sure why I signed up to do it in the first place but here I was, beating up my past self for agreeing to it.

I hate flying and being forced to fly there and back and then work a shift in the ER was more than my heart could handle. Luckily for me, some storms in Texas intervened and basically gave me an adult “snow day.”

If you don’t know what a snow day is, you are seriously missing out. It’s when a kid gets a unexpected day off from school because of heavy snow, and all of a sudden, all of the tests you were supposed to take, all the homeworks that were supposed to be handed in, all the (wound care) presentations you were supposed to give but didn’t prepare for… all POOF. Gone, just like magic (or at least, pushed back another day or so).

Thinking back to childhood, I don’t think there was another feeling quite like that. Anyway, instead of flying to Cali, I ended up going with my family to the zoo (I got to feed a giraffe and some billy goats! I purposefully ignored the bullies and strategically fed the small ones because fuck bullies) and worked on some more fun video ideas. I even tried my hand at making an app with chatgpt before realizing, okay, this is a rabbit hole I do not want to fall into. If anyone is adept at making apps and wants to work on a small little project with me, email me!

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