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Luke Stokes

@lukestokes

Cofounded FoxyCart. Hive Witness. eosDAC launcher. FIO Managing Director. EOS Foundation. Voluntaryist. I want to help create a world we all want to live in....

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Luke Stokes
@lukestokes Dec 16, 2025, 2:49 PM UTC

Exponential Optionality

At any given moment, such as right now, you have X possible actions you can take, limited only by your identity attachments, responsibilities, constraints on time, money, and current location, weathe…

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Luke Stokes
@lukestokes Nov 14, 2025, 3:24 PM UTC

The Map Is Not the Territory

The Map Is Not the Territory 🗺️🌐🌏🌍🌎 The mental and emotional experience you’re having is a story about reality, not reality itself. If you’d like to experience a different story, there are permi…

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Luke Stokes
@lukestokes Nov 10, 2025, 6:44 PM UTC

Why the triggers are the guides, the value of grit, and are we really being loosh farmed?

Why the triggers are the guides, the value of grit, and are we really being loosh farmed? (This one will get a little weird in ways my esoteric friends will enjoy.) My favorite maxim of Sean King’s f…

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Luke Stokes
@lukestokes Jul 19, 2025, 8:36 PM UTC

It’s Biases All The Way Down

My primary bias (or delusion, if you don’t agree with it): The experience I’m having is not real. What I mean by this is best explained emotionally through some of my favorite films like Tron, The Ma…

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Luke Stokes
@lukestokes Jul 6, 2025, 1:12 PM UTC

What Is Truth?

What is truth? Stephen Ulicny, someone I had the privilege of meeting and meditating with in 2023, calls it the underlying organizing intelligence at the foundation of creation, not an intellectual r…

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Luke Stokes
@lukestokes Jul 3, 2025, 12:37 PM UTC

The Triggers Are the Guides

I’ve been thinking lately about the tools I use for self-development, the main one being “the triggers are the guides.” I attribute many aspects of the success I have to delayed gratification (holdin…

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Luke Stokes
@lukestokes Mar 21, 2025, 2:56 PM UTC

Evolving Beyond the Madness: Tools for Thriving in an Illogical Age

(Image and title generated by Grok, content created by Luke’s meat cap) A lot of people seem confused about what’s going on. They have trouble predicting future trends like the rise in value of bitco…

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Luke Stokes
@lukestokes Mar 19, 2025, 10:52 PM UTC

Luke’s Current Theory of Everything

Along the lines of “this sentence is false”, the following isn’t “true.” Treat it as a thought experiment and take from it whatever value you find, ignore the rest. Luke’s Current Theory of Everythin…

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Luke Stokes
@lukestokes Mar 11, 2025, 7:06 PM UTC

Multiple Data Streams

(My family over a decade before my brother Christian was born. That’s me as a baby.) My dad passed away in December of 2007, a few months after my mom died of cancer. He endured a ten year struggle w…

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Luke Stokes
@lukestokes Feb 7, 2025, 1:42 AM UTC

We Live in Different Realities

I’m starting to see the world from a perspective that each of us as humans have our own constructed virtual experience in our minds and therefore our “realities” are as unique as our own individual l…

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