the biggest word of advice that I can give younger people (really, anyone):
go outside
get off the internet
get off the video game
go get in trouble
go have experiences that become really cool stories
take risks
love others (platonically, romantically)
The older I get, the more I realize:
Momentum is everything. One good day creates another. One workout leads to better eating. One hard conversation opens ten easy ones. One small win builds confidence for bigger ones. Get the ball rolling. Physics handles the rest.
cool convo from few days ago: most ppl don’t realize that unlike girl group dynamics of subtle hierarchies male friend groups often function more like role based ecosystems. in real friendship groups nobody’s ever really jockeying for alpha status. instead the group coherence depends on everyone leaning into their strengths.
the funny guy, the planner, the driver, the chaos agent, the diplomat, etc. each role contributes to the vibe. when circumstance shifts (road trip vs breakup vs night out), the leader shifts too, dude leadership is situational not fixed.
thoughts?
I was wrong about Trump
Entire Trump family are nepotistic extractive grifters, probably sets crypto back a decade after leaving office
Getting us into another large scale conflict in the Middle East after he campaigned against the Iraq war and foreign wars for other nations
Instead of securing the southern border like he’s promised for a decade, he unleashed a Gestapo into American cities which barely put a single drop in the bucket of immigration, but did successfully bait the Right into cheering on a federal police state where white vans show up and take people off the street
Campaigned against the deep state as an enemy of the people, and then worked with Palantir to increase federal agency domestic surveillance on Americans
The entire MAGA campaign was a fraud. We got duped. Feels horrible.
I don’t trust nice people, they’re always hiding something. The guy who comes off an asshole with a big ego is usually the most selfless. While the “nice guy” will stab you in the back
We basically got confirmation of a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve and Trump announced to the WEF that the US will become the crypto capital of the world.
And Bitcoin is up 0.5%.
Higher. So much higher.