Welcome explorer

You’re in the Slipstream. The wake of the worlds greatest scientists, thinkers, teachers and doers. If you’re looking for the best ideas to improve your life you’re in the right place.

After 6 years of deep immersion in entrepreneurship, health, crypto, investing, AI, product development, self-improvement and dabbling lightly in a few others, one lesson stands out as the clearest one among them all -The quality of your ideas (and thoughts) determine the quality of your life.

Let’s begin!

ENTREPRENEURSHIP/ DESIGN/ THE SLIPSTREAM

✍🏽Writing is the path to wisdom

After a 2 year break of producing content, I’ve realized a few things:

1. Learning (and unlearning) is the #1 skill you need to stay ahead in a rapidly changing world

2. I love learning, and honestly cant stop.

3. There is no end to learning. Its a constant process of updating your internal models of the world

4. I love sharing (and discussing) ideas with others

5. Writing is one of the best ways to clear and refine your thinking. In fact, it is a different form of thinking - more effortful and deeper, often leading to insights of wisdom

As such, I’ve decided to commit to the path of the writer and you can expect much more writing from me from now on

The Slipstream will be a channel to pass on the most impactful, important and useful ideas I’ve ever found as well as those I’ve discovered, refined and used in my own life.

I know how to go from being stuck in the matrix to being free and living a life of purpose. After 6 years as an entrepreneur and 10 years of nutritional experimentation and physical training I now know how to help most people cut through the resistance and noise in their lives and break through to a better version of themselves. More than that, it’s something I have a yearning to do.

I now know how the conditioning of school and university makes it near impossible for the everyday man to break out of the rat race. But that, of course, is the design of the system.

After 6 years of daily learning and deep work, I am able to better see fully what were the paradigms and ideas that held me back, and what I needed to replace them with, in order to achieve the life that I want.

I want to help other people break out of their mental paradigms and enable them to create the life of their dreams. This is the first step, by introducing you to the ideas and behaviours that will set you free.

I’ll be developing products and tools to help the people stuck in corporate make this change, gain mastery over their own mind and fears, unlearn the paradigms that have been holding them back and install new ideas that will propel them forward to unimaginable success.

Interested in this? Let me know!

Why should you be excited about The Slipstream?

“The quality of your ideas determine the quality of your life.”

As you understand more of yourself, the world and your own desires, you can craft a better strategy and act upon it towards the goal of a fulfilled life.

You were not at fault for your upbringing and the ideas you were programmed with. But you are responsible for the new ideas you program yourself with now, and the future you create for yourself.

Your inner thinking is responsible for your outer results. To get a better outcome in your life, you need to improve the inputs - you need to improve your thinking!

The Format?

This newsletter will go out twice weekly - Wednesday and Saturday. In addition to resources and the ideas behind them, I will aim to share one of my own big ideas which will often be a synthesis of ideas, beliefs and personal experience saving you time, energy and frustration in your own life.

HEALTH

🍖Meat for food, plants for medicine

Now, before you raise your hand at the obvious concerns this diet brings, know that it has taken me about a year of research to eventually make this choice! What might be more shocking to believe is that the year prior I had actually been completely vegan!

You see, nutrition is a fundamental part of health and I’ve always been interested in the most effective protocols and the science behind them.

In the essay I published last week, I walk through my 10 year history with dieting, give you the reasons I went vegan in the first place, and then walk you through the ideas that have changed my thinking since then, so much so that I now believe this is the more correct way to approach diet and nutrition.

Why should you read this?

• You have tried dieting before but have had minimal/ no success

• You value your own health, and want to make a change, but don’t know where to start

• You’re curious about this diet and want to know why people have attempted it and, more so, why it is working

Read time: 32 mins

HEALTH/ PRODUCTIVITY

💪🏽Your morning routine is the secret to winning

Dr Huberman is an excellent teacher. He explains, with biological reference the various mechanisms in our body, how we can leverage our environment and habits to put us in an optimal state for work, and life. A lot of it centers around our own management of dopamine, a critical hormone that is responsible for motivation, craving and pursuit of goals - but not the actual pleasure!

Productivity is something we all want to be better at. There’s a saying that goes - "show me the first 3 hours of your day and I’ll show you your future". What it means is that how you start your day is extremely important to setting the tone for the rest of the day. I have experienced this on both ends of the spectrum, having completely unproductive days as well as having highly structured and productive days, and those first few hours of the day set the precedent for what unfolded.

It literally makes all the difference.

Some practical recommendations: Get natural light into your eyes within 1 hour of waking up. Incorporate exercise as early as possible. Cold showers can wake the body and mind up and strengthen the mind. Wait 90 minutes before drinking any caffeine.

However, you got to watch the video to truly understand why.

Why should you consider this idea?

1. These simple tools can have a profound positive impact on mood, energy, metabolism, dopamine, sleep, focus, body temp and more.

2. When you understand how your body works and why movement and natural sunlight are so critical, you’ll find it much easier to commit to and maintain a morning routine.

3. Your morning routine is the first “tool” you use everyday. It sets you up for success or failure. It's best to set yourself up for success.

Watch time: 16 mins

WEALTH

💰Beware the (narcissistic) dark side, young padawan 

A study has shown that people with stronger narcissistic traits end up much higher on the corporate hierarchy. Being manipulative, self-centered, domineering and authoritarian can get results, but often at the cost of inter-personal relationships, mental health and true long term productivity. Yet we all know how companies tend to overlook this obvious reality, to not think too deeply about their “different” star performers.

This study explains why corporate environments are toxic, stressful and often counter-productive. But more so, this study provides an important signal about the system known as corporate capitalism.

Driven by short-term profits and the attitude that humans are expendable inputs (costs), companies are designed to select for and encourage an attitude of ruthlessness and service-to-self. Exceptions occur, but they remain exceptions.

Why should you consider this idea?

1. Most people have had, or are in, a corporate job. This idea explains your experiences with self-serving and abrasive personalities, as well as confusion at how the company can allow such people within.

2. If you’re vying for a promotion in your company it’s important to know what characteristics are more likely for promotion.

3. While we all may be prone to narcissistic moods, if we’re in an environment that selects and rewards for this, it will increasingly become a part of our personality. Do you want to become narcissistic?

4. If success in corporate means moving away from your higher self and becoming someone you like less, why are you doing it?

Read time: 5 mins

Mentors, teachers, thinkers and doers. The best portals to a better you

👨🏽‍⚕️Huberman Lab - Deep neuroscience backed ideas and protocols for improving your life. Dense, actionable information delivered with care.

🤖Lex Fridman - Stimulating, free-ranging conversations with the worlds’ greatest thinkers, builders and problem solvers. Stretch your mind.

💥Impact Theory - More pithy interviews directed at the world’s most successful people in every area of life. Find the specific habits, tools and ideas that took them from zero to hero

🏋🏽‍♂️AthleanX - Unmatched training advice on muscle gain, fat loss and injury prevention. Decades of experience in human physiology and sport science applied to elite world performers, now applied to the everyday human

You know, I’ve missed writing and discussing ideas with intelligent people such as yourself. Now that my schooling days are done, it’s been more difficult finding other explorers on this journey called life.

As the world has gotten crazier, staying sane is harder than ever. This is my channel to you, to express those life changing and stimulating ideas I find. But its also your channel, to me, and to others, as a way to find and open portals to better thoughts, discussions and ultimately, a better life.

Join the conversation, find better ideas, incorporate them and transcend yourself. If you were forwarded this email, join the mailing list here:

Btw, if you’ve been struggling with anything particular in the area of personal development or self-improvement shoot me a question or thought! I’ll try recommending something that helped me with a similar issue.

Lastly, if you have anything interesting to share and think other peoples lives could benefit from it, please reach out to me on Twitter, or just reply to this email. My DMs are always open!

Till the next time,

warmest regards,

- Karmsheel

AI Prompts used in today’s newsletter:

1. Panoramic view from the great galactic interjunction view point --ar 16:9 --c 5
2.30-year-old chinese man, with beard, wave goodbye, chinese watercolor --v 5.2 --iw 1.2 --ar 16:9 --seed 2324765282
3. silent theater with gestures in ancient rome --ar 16:9 --s 250
4. The Via Appia: Learn about the engineering excellence of the ancient Roman road known as the "Queen of Roads" --ar 16:9 --s 250
5. Toga Virilis: Discover the significance of the "toga virilis," a special toga marking a young Roman's transition to adulthood --ar 16:9 --s 250