{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Playing with my navel lying on my back and realizing I've lost enough fat and built enough muscle it feels like it hasn't since...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/696226323672301568/", "html": "<p>Playing with my navel lying on my back and realizing I&rsquo;ve lost enough fat and built enough muscle it feels like it hasn&rsquo;t since childhood.</p><p>Just one more case of how, since the personality change, I <b>continue</b> to progress at maximum feasible pace towards my ideal self\u2026</p><p>Like you&rsquo;ve got to understand that from my perspective all the 2020-on shit was two nested tests \u2013 immediately in maintaining function and reconstructing my mind like, <i>in production</i>, but in a broader sense that was when <i>the 2010s</i> came to a head, proving that my understanding of them \u2013 and activity and affiliation in reaction \u2013 was <b>precisely</b> calibrated.</p><p>Oh, and that was flanked by a year on either side by two pop quiz tests where I suddenly had to apply reasoning, knowledge, and initiative to <i>restart my breathing</i>, passed those too</p><p>And in reaction I receive a <b>very</b> border-of-plausibility <i>total upgrade</i> \u2013 I&rsquo;m like &ldquo;this <i>doesn&rsquo;t happen</i> \u2013 okay given all the crazy stuff I&rsquo;ve heard it&rsquo;s <i>technically</i> possible for everything to all line up in exactly the right way but <i>still</i>&rdquo; and ever since things just consistently break my way as hard as possible.</p><p>It&rsquo;s been <i>very</i> weird to experience.</p>"}