Onihei

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[Onihei @0niheei]

Matt Damon on Robin Williams: working with a great actor, they are great enough for both of you. You just paddle into the wave and stand up.

- on Good Will Hunting Robin improvised the final line of the movie on the ninth take

Damon says great improv is like jewels thrown on the ground for free, and you scramble to pick each one up

bookmark - the best behind-the-scenes acting story you will hear

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Fresh out of Brown, John Krasinski gave himself a deadline to make it as an actor. He hit it, and he was out.

- one phone call to his mom talked him into staying just a few more weeks

that tiny extension is the only reason Jim Halpert exists

bookmark - proof that the quit can come one audition too early

[Onihei @0niheei]

Fresh out of Brown, John Krasinski gave himself a deadline to make it as an actor. He hit it, and he was out.

- one phone call to his mom talked him into staying just a few more weeks

that tiny extension is the only reason Jim Halpert exists

bookmark - proof that the quit can come one audition too early

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Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up in an Austrian village of 800 people where everyone told him to forget it, you will never make it

- in the army he was a tank driver who dug a hole under the tank to sleep and ate almost nothing but potatoes

he still trained two hours every single night with a barbell he hid in the tank's tool compartment

bookmark - the clearest blueprint for building yourself from nothing

[Onihei @0niheei]

Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up in an Austrian village of 800 people where everyone told him to forget it, you will never make it

- in the army he was a tank driver who dug a hole under the tank to sleep and ate almost nothing but potatoes

he still trained two hours every single night with a barbell he hid in the tank's tool compartment

bookmark - the clearest blueprint for building yourself from nothing

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Matt Damon's agent told him he had a 5% chance, so Damon flew to Memphis that same day just to be the third guy filling out an audition

- he was up against Edward Norton, already Oscar-nominated, already the hottest actor in town

he got the part anyway, and that one contract is the only reason Miramax finally green-lit Good Will Hunting

bookmark - the longshot audition that made an Oscar-winning career possible

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Matt Damon's agent told him he had a 5% chance, so Damon flew to Memphis that same day just to be the third guy filling out an audition

- he was up against Edward Norton, already Oscar-nominated, already the hottest actor in town

he got the part anyway, and that one contract is the only reason Miramax finally green-lit Good Will Hunting

bookmark - the longshot audition that made an Oscar-winning career possible

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Jennifer Lawrence was a 14-year-old from Kentucky watching street dancers in New York when a stranger stopped her and took her photo

- no acting classes, no connections, just a girl who admits she would have followed him to a hotel room, no sense of danger

5 minutes on how a random sidewalk photo turned into an Oscar by 19

bookmark - one of the wildest discovery stories in Hollywood

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Jennifer Lawrence was a 14-year-old from Kentucky watching street dancers in New York when a stranger stopped her and took her photo

- no acting classes, no connections, just a girl who admits she would have followed him to a hotel room, no sense of danger

5 minutes on how a random sidewalk photo turned into an Oscar by 19

bookmark - one of the wildest discovery stories in Hollywood

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Charlize Theron was homeless, broke, and crying at a bank teller on Hollywood Boulevard when a stranger discovered her

- ballet career over at 19, down to her last $300, on a one-way ticket from a mother who said don't come back

6 minutes where an Oscar winner tells you how close she came to giving up

bookmark - the most honest origin story in Hollywood

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Charlize Theron was homeless, broke, and crying at a bank teller on Hollywood Boulevard when a stranger discovered her

- ballet career over at 19, down to her last $300, on a one-way ticket from a mother who said don't come back

6 minutes where an Oscar winner tells you how close she came to giving up

bookmark - the most honest origin story in Hollywood

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Sarah Jessica Parker played one character so well it rewired how an entire generation of women saw dating, fashion, and New York

- 6 seasons, 2 Emmys, 4 Golden Globes, and a character that grew bigger than the actress who built her

72-min and you'll see how one role turns a Broadway kid into a cultural institution

bookmark - it's the most honest she has ever been about Carrie Bradshaw

[Onihei @0niheei]

Sarah Jessica Parker played one character so well it rewired how an entire generation of women saw dating, fashion, and New York

- 6 seasons, 2 Emmys, 4 Golden Globes, and a character that grew bigger than the actress who built her

72-min and you'll see how one role turns a Broadway kid into a cultural institution

bookmark - it's the most honest she has ever been about Carrie Bradshaw

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Peter Lynch ran the greatest fund in history and his rules were so simple people ignored them

"invest in what you know"

"know what you own, and know why you own it"

"if you cannot explain to an 11 year old in two minutes why you own a stock, you should not own it"

"in this business if you are good you are right six times out of ten"

$18 million to $14 billion. 29% a year. then he quit at the top.

bookmark and watch the full lecture

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Peter Lynch ran the greatest fund in history and his rules were so simple people ignored them

"invest in what you know"

"know what you own, and know why you own it"

"if you cannot explain to an 11 year old in two minutes why you own a stock, you should not own it"

"in this business if you are good you are right six times out of ten"

$18 million to $14 billion. 29% a year. then he quit at the top.

bookmark and watch the full lecture

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The man who runs the largest hedge fund in the world - $150 billion, built from a two-bedroom apartment - once stood at Google and explained the exact system he used to get there.

Ray Dalio. Principles: Life and Work. Talks at Google. 1 hour.

it all traces back to the year he lost everything and borrowed $4,000 from his dad.

bookmark it before they do

[Onihei @0niheei]

The man who runs the largest hedge fund in the world - $150 billion, built from a two-bedroom apartment - once stood at Google and explained the exact system he used to get there.

Ray Dalio. Principles: Life and Work. Talks at Google. 1 hour.

it all traces back to the year he lost everything and borrowed $4,000 from his dad.

bookmark it before they do

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Stanley Druckenmiller watched Washington run record deficits during a boom and called it what it is

"they're spending like drunken sailors"

he wants seniors to take a cut, entitlements reformed, the debt taken seriously - the unpopular things nobody in office will say out loud

this is the same man who read every major macro turn for three decades and never lost a year

now he's telling you the next ten years won't look like the last

bookmark it before you buy another dip

[Onihei @0niheei]

Stanley Druckenmiller watched Washington run record deficits during a boom and called it what it is

"they're spending like drunken sailors"

he wants seniors to take a cut, entitlements reformed, the debt taken seriously - the unpopular things nobody in office will say out loud

this is the same man who read every major macro turn for three decades and never lost a year

now he's telling you the next ten years won't look like the last

bookmark it before you buy another dip

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Jeremy Grantham has one rule after 50 years: every fully-formed bubble in market history has burst - 300 years, not one exception

1929. Japan 1989. dot-com 2000. housing 2008. he called the last two while everyone said he was early, wrong, or finished

"this time is never different"

now he is pointing at this market and saying the exact same thing

bookmark it before they take it down

[Onihei @0niheei]

Jeremy Grantham has one rule after 50 years: every fully-formed bubble in market history has burst - 300 years, not one exception

1929. Japan 1989. dot-com 2000. housing 2008. he called the last two while everyone said he was early, wrong, or finished

"this time is never different"

now he is pointing at this market and saying the exact same thing

bookmark it before they take it down

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a Wall Street insider went on record and said the mob was more honest than the firms he worked for

dark pools. payment for order flow. speed advantages measured in microseconds that you will never have

"the retail investor is the last one to know anything"

this is the part of the market nobody puts in the marketing

bookmark and watch it today

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@luntych13 @PolymarketSport @PolymarketTrade messi's last dance vs yamal's first. even if the combo misses, this final already paid out

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@0xCodila everyone benchmarks intelligence, kimi is benchmarking endurance. different race entirely

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@0xCarnagee 10x faster to build, nothing shipped. everyone building agents knows this pain, nobody says it on stage

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@tomasSAXC wild part is he has the incentive to underpromise, not overpromise and this is the toned down version

[Onihei @0niheei]

a Wall Street insider went on record and said the mob was more honest than the firms he worked for

dark pools. payment for order flow. speed advantages measured in microseconds that you will never have

"the retail investor is the last one to know anything"

this is the part of the market nobody puts in the marketing

bookmark and watch it today

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everyone thinks investing is about being active. Terry Smith got rich being lazy

he buys businesses with high returns on capital, refuses to overpay, then sits on his hands for years

the accountant who once exposed corporate fraud now only owns companies whose profits are real

"the biggest risk isn't volatility. it's paying too much for a bad business"

bookmark it

[Onihei @0niheei]

everyone thinks investing is about being active. Terry Smith got rich being lazy

he buys businesses with high returns on capital, refuses to overpay, then sits on his hands for years

the accountant who once exposed corporate fraud now only owns companies whose profits are real

"the biggest risk isn't volatility. it's paying too much for a bad business"

bookmark it

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everyone studies Buffett. almost nobody watches the man Buffett's partner actually handed money to

Li Lu fled China after Tiananmen, landed in America in debt, and turned student loans into a fortune using nothing but fundamentals

no algorithms. no leverage. four questions and a business owner's patience

"is it cheap? is it a good business? who is running it? what did I miss?"

Columbia Business School. 2006.

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[Onihei @0niheei]

everyone studies Buffett. almost nobody watches the man Buffett's partner actually handed money to

Li Lu fled China after Tiananmen, landed in America in debt, and turned student loans into a fortune using nothing but fundamentals

no algorithms. no leverage. four questions and a business owner's patience

"is it cheap? is it a good business? who is running it? what did I miss?"

Columbia Business School. 2006.

bookmark it

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Jim Simons cracked codes for the NSA, won the geometry world's highest prize, then walked away to bet on markets he admitted he didn't understand

"I did a lot of math. I made a lot of money, and I gave almost all of it away. that's the story of my life"

the fund he built averaged 66% a year and never lost

MIT lecture. half hour. free.

bookmark and watch it today

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@0xCodila Fable literally just removed the last excuses

[Onihei @0niheei]

Jim Simons cracked codes for the NSA, won the geometry world's highest prize, then walked away to bet on markets he admitted he didn't understand

"I did a lot of math. I made a lot of money, and I gave almost all of it away. that's the story of my life"

the fund he built averaged 66% a year and never lost

MIT lecture. half hour. free.

bookmark and watch it today

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Paul Singer - the man who ran a 15-year war with Argentina and won $2.4B - explained how he actually pressures companies.

~$30B in capital, and he still moves quietly before anyone knows he's there

22-min and you'll understand why boards fear the word "Elliott"

bookmark - it's the best breakdown of activist investing out there