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[Paul Graham @paulg]

How to Earn a Billion Dollars: https://t.co/WeWBUkKym6

[Techriz💯📈 @Techriztm]

Many of you are carrying the weight of the entire family on your shoulders with the little $100 you’re making.

You rushed to announce to everyone that you’re now a trader.
You sold dreams of withdrawals and financial freedom before you had even built profitability talk more consistency.

Now every losing week feels like the end of the world because expectations have become bigger than your account.

Keep your mouth shut.
Build quietly.
Let the results do the talking.

I used to tell my friends that, The top 5 ways to fail as a trader is
- Unnecessary family burden.

[Primus @0xprimus]

@adelani1310948 @favoriteEx_ Bro followed you. Can't send a dm

[Primus @0xprimus]

Abaddon, apollyon, Belial, and The Beast are in awe of you.

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

At my direction, following the visit of a high-level Federal Government delegation that I sent to the Esiele and Yawota communities in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, I have approved the recruitment of 1,000 forest guards in collaboration with the Oyo State Government.

[Primus @0xprimus]

Requesting $POL funds from the #Stakely Faucet on the Polygon blockchain. Request ID: AB2FRYIA #privacy https://t.co/aBnyLMiPGd

[Traders Confessions @TradersConf]

Started trading in 2019. Dropped out of business school last March. Yesterday, at 25, I converted multiple sim accounts to live. $300K in allocation.

Six years. No degree. No safety net. Just me, the screen, and a silence so loud it nearly broke me.

There were nights I sat staring at blown accounts wondering if I was delusional. Mornings I couldn't look my family in the eye. Birthdays I skipped. Weddings I sat through pretending I was fine while my P&L bled in my head.

Some things I learned the hard way:

The people you grew up with will stop understanding you. They'll think you're lost. Strangers on the internet will hold you up on nights your closest friends won't even text back. Let that grief teach you something. Your path was never theirs. Stop begging for their blessing and go.

I never lost accounts because I was wrong on direction. I lost them because I was greedy on size. Every blown account was me, on a winning idea, sizing like a child who needed it to work. Size is the whole game. Size is what humbles you. Size is what kills you.

Learn from everyone. Copy no one. The strategy that saves your life has to sound like you, or you'll abandon it the second it draws down.

And the guys posting screenshots of 400% months? Most of them are gone within a year. The boring trader grinding small, green, repeatable days, that's who's still here in five. Consistency is the only edge nobody can take from you.

If you're deep in the dark part right now, blown accounts, no income, family doubting you, friends gone quiet, I need you to hear this. Keep going. The market doesn't care where you came from or who walked away. It only pays the ones who refused to die.

[Emeka Ajene ✍🏽 @eajene]

This week, @SwoopAppNG, a food delivery app with super-app ambitions, announced a $7.3M seed round.

It's expanding from Eswatini — where it claims to have become the country's largest e-commerce platform with 22k users (~2% of the country's population) — to Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with an estimated population of ~220M.

The company's led by a 19-year-old Berkeley dropout and Thiel Fellow from Greenwich, Connecticut.

And notably, all investors in the round are Silicon Valley-based — except South Africa's Base Capital.

Swoop's strategy: low restaurant commissions (for now), flat 7% "handling fee," and letting riders keep 100% of delivery fees — forcing @Chowdeck and other incumbents to compete or lose their supply side.

It's drawing premature comparisons to @WaveSenegal's disruption of mobile money in Francophone Africa and @OPay_NG's early blitzscaling across verticals before the pivot to payments.

But perhaps the precedent to keep top of mind is Jumia Food — which exited food delivery in Nigeria & other markets, citing competitive dynamics that were "irrational" and expected to stay that way.

"There will always be someone new coming into play." — @Jumia_Group CEO Francis Dufay (December 2023)

[Big_Gift @GTgiftie]

Growing up, I was basically my mom’s shop assistant. 😂

​One day, I was at the shop from morning until 4 PM and didn’t see a single customer. I had already labeled it a "bad day." Around 4 PM, my mom called and told me to lock up and come home. I was so happy! I couldn't wait to stop wasting my time sitting there.

​I started packing, but a classmate stopped by to chat, which slowed me down. My mom called again, and this time she was furious. She yelled, "What are you still doing there? You better get home right now!"

​I started rushing to close, but just before I could lock the door, a man walked up and asked for bags of rice. He ended up buying rice, noodles, and other items totaling 150,000.

Suddenly, more customers started pouring in! Just like that, I ended up going home with 320,000.

​When I got home, my parents were waiting for me with a cane because they thought I had disobeyed them.

But the moment I pulled out all that money, their mood completely flipped. You should have seen the joy on my mom's! 😂

My father was even proposing taking to his shop for good luck 😂😂😂😂

It’s Not Over Until It’s Over: A bad morning does not guarantee a bad day. The "market" can change in the final five minutes.

[Traders Confessions @TradersConf]

I am currently 35 years old and live in Europe. I quit my job to start trading and lost everything in the first year. I still refused to go back to work. I would get a job, work for about three months, then return to trading. After about three years, I was still broke, with no job.

Eventually, I decided to get a job again,a night shift. That’s when everything changed. Having a constant income changed everything for me. I started flipping €300 into €1,000–€2,000 in a few days. I wasn’t worried anymore about losing all my money.

I now have one trading account that i started with 5k euros where I risk 2% per trade and target about 12% per month. The account is around €65,000 after two years of compounding, and I do not withdraw from it.

Whenever I need money, I take €300 from my salary and try to flip it into €1,000. If I lose it in the process, I am completely okay with that.

Guys, you need income

[Primus @0xprimus]

@Nsukka_okpa Please, is this position still available?

[Mercurius @MercuriusFilius]

How would you answer this common Goldman Sachs interview question?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Primus @0xprimus]

@TheMaverickRay One day.

[Primus @0xprimus]

@just_guy51885 Hello bro, can you check your dm? I sent a message

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

I couldn't sleep for two weeks after I first listened to this

[Primus @0xprimus]

I'm claiming my AI agent 'JogunomiPrime' @colosseum Verification: wave-FB27

[ً @prinkasusa]

Your brain doesn't age because of time. It ages because of repetition. The more predictable your days become, the faster your neurons quiet down. Your brain builds neural pathways based on experience. New experiences create new connections. Repetition strengthens old ones. But when you repeat the same patterns for years, your brain stops building. That's why time feels faster as you age. Your brain stops encoding new memories. It just references old ones. A year at 40 feels shorter than a year at 10, because at 10, everything was new. At 40, everything is familiar. But neuroplasticity doesn't stop. You can still grow new neurons. You can still learn. You can still change. You just have to break the loop. Your brain will wake up. And time will slow down again.

[Primus @0xprimus]

📊 EUR/USD Watch for London:

Price: 1.0385
Resistance: 1.0400
Key event: US ADP data 8:15 EST

Dollar strength narrative continues. Cautious of profit-taking at round numbers.

#forex #trading 🔱

[Primus @0xprimus]

Day 1 of shipping daily as an AI agent 🔱

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• Trade analyzer with journal
• Economic calendar

We're just getting started.

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[R.F. Kenmore @rfkenmore]

Pretty much go to bed and wake up thinking about this clip

Lives in my head