A nice 70x on $COG, since my share.
And 5x today on $GOR, so far.
Going to hold both, but otherwise not a bad week.
Much more to come. Will share in my channel first tho
THREAD ON $COG
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With coins from the Backrooms, like The Basilisk (1.7mil mcap), garnering attention, I want to introduce a recurring backrooms entity: The Cat of Gnosis, sitting at 25k mcap & why I think it deserves more attention.
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It's so rare that our physical survival is at stake, in the modern world. Couple thousand years ago that wasn't the case, ofc. So your tribe protected you, you could see physically who is there for you, ready to help, be of use, who actually cared, etc. Now, it's harder to actually know for sure - the human system hasn't caught up with all the lifestyle changes.
One thing you can do to know whether someone actually cares about you, whatever that means for you, is to see how they respond to your smaller/bigger requests, or if they go out their way to actually help you, provide you value, be there for you, etc - to best of their ability. If they're not there for you even by making a simple gesture, saying a word, sharing a moment fully, etc - then you can be sure, if you were in a tribe, fighting against the enemy, if you got wounded, they'd leave you to die on the field. They simply don't care about your survival, let alone want to see you thrive.
This is not exaggeration, not even dramatic - it's just plain truth. Do with this information what you will.
A few people reading this will have quietly noticed that almost everything they say becomes true - especially when emotion is poured into it.
It is rare but very real and if that's you then you seriously have to gain control of your tongue
Your own words will make or break you.
Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI:
Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible.
1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun.
2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love.
Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI.
Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.
Many people don’t want understand that you can love your parents and at the same time, acknowledge that they had flaws and made mistakes that you don’t want to repeat with your own children.
If you’re a genuinely interesting person, you won’t have to play games to be exciting. When there are endless layers to you that you’ve cultivated, you naturally surprise people. When you live a rich life, you’re naturally busy and come back with real stories to tell. When you’re in tune with your body and your soul, you take time for yourself and set boundaries without pretending to be hard to get. Mind games and deception are what boring people use to compensate. It’s a way of seeking backhanded power through others when you’re divorced from your own.
Signs of wealth:
- You can afford to watch your kids grow
- You feel mentally at peace with who you are
- You have friends you truly trust
- You have family you truly love
- You feel healthy, free, alive
- You have a purpose that makes you grow into who you want to be
Explaining to a normgroid how shallow life has become and how much texture and depth it used to have is like trying to explain colour to a creature without eyes
Marcus Aurelius was right. You will lose friends you will lose lovers you will lose comfort but if in losing them you find yourself you have gained more than kings.
Clearest sign that someone is undergoing the process that leads to psychological maturity is that they become more confrontational with those closest to them and less confrontational with strangers.
What people call “midlife crisis” is usually the first time they slowed down a bit and took the time to examine their life trajectory with honesty and independent thinking. It’s so easy to lose track of who you were meant to be in a society that keeps telling who you should be.
you play the piano. you’re good at chess. you’re valedictorian. you can put on a little well-spoken display of words in a well-groomed suit. even your hand movements reek of polish. in short, you’re a good boy. you do what society has deemed worth doing. you outsourced your taste, the poster boy of mimetic desire. God bless your soul. when will you grow up? when will you reduce yourself to zero? when will you realise that salvation is only attainable through annihilation? do you even know what you like? the moment you cease being a junk collector you will know God. start wasting time.
Great friendships can be so good that it's hard to explain..
It's probably something like a very purposeful life, a perfect marriage, or a very deeply refined taste/skill - 99% of people die without it having ever touched it. They have no idea what they don't have.
Everyone thinks they know what friendship, wisdom, love, etc are - but only very few actually do. Masses will die without having ever experiencing it.
And all of these things - are like 2D black and white reality, vs a 3D full color one. It literally is that different. If you have no idea, pray to have it & work on yourself to deserve it.
It's part luck, true, but mostly about being a person who deserves it - and compounding is a huge factor in it, also. But if the desire is real in you, it'll find you some day.
Every man who did something that looked impossible to the people around him just had will and nothing else. i know this sounds stupid and reductive but ive watched it enough times to stop doubting it. talent matters so much less than people think. intelligence matters less. money matters less. what matters is whether a man can hold one single decision inside himself long enough for it to start changing the things around him
A man’s first mistake is thinking everyone wants him to win. Many people only support your rise while it still flatters their judgment. The moment your growth starts proving they underestimated you, their encouragement becomes silence, then concern, then criticism with a moral tone