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152 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 7h \ on: What other rabbit holes have you fallen into? BooksAndArticles
These days I try to stay away from non-work related rabbit holes, but here's some that I enjoyed over the years:
  • Biohacking-ish things from 2015-2020 - saunas, routines, supplements, ketosis, fasting, blood tests. That's one thing I can see myself coming back to.
  • I dipped a toe in the pickup artist scene around the same time. Mating psychology is a lot of fun to learn about.
  • Right out of high school I got really into telescope design, intending to study astrophysics and unable to afford a decent telescope, so I started planning to make my own.
  • Graffiti and oil painting. Although that wasn't much of a rabbit hole. I just did it.
  • Anarchism and political philosophy not long after.
  • Fashion and interior decorating for a time.
  • I've grown weed a few times over the years and really enjoyed messing with soil composition, genetics, environment.
  • Fermentation.
  • Smoking meat.
  • Hamburgers.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 6h
What made you give up the pursuit of astrophysics?
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152 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 6h
My plan was math+astrophysics, and while that lasted, I would tell people I was going to be carpenter upon graduation.
I didn't know why I was doing it exactly. Then my girlfriend broke up with me and I stopped going to school and became a grocery clerk before going back to school four years later (for premed lol).
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 5h
You may dig some of those Hopewell books in my original post here. They are a serious math and astronomy mystery rabbit hole.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 7h
Graffiti and oil painting
You would have been west coast when doing this? Whats that scene like there?
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 7h
California. I was never in a scene. Musicians are lucky in that their art is more social than most.
Also my stint was short. I only did ~4 significant tags: two water towers, one billboard, the exterior of an abandoned warehouse. Oil painting didn't last more than a year. I only produced three complete paintings.
tbh most of my rabbit holes are me exploring the entryway pretty thoroughly more than anything.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 7h
When you say make your own telescope, does that include figuring out how to make lenses? That sounds really cool but extremely ambitious.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 7h
I was going to make everything except for the lenses and mirrors. Making lenses and mirrors would probably require a lab of some kind.
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