1. Never stop exercising or learning.
2.Accept compromise to begin relationships.
3. Manifest the power of compounding.
4. Never gamble.
5. Have kids and be a good parent
6. If it flies or floats, rent it.
7. Buy half the house you can afford.
8. Art in the eye of the beholder is cheap.
9. Be thankful for and to all.
10. Be charitable.
The Life Stack (the no-cope baseline).
Every single one of us wants to stay focused the whole day, sleep well at night, look young, keep our hair, and recover from everything as if it never happened.
The majority of you are attempting to do this "naturally." Or to put it another way, the hard way.
You're terrified of a medication that has been tested in dozens of clinical trials.
But you'll drink 4 energy drinks per day. Sleep only 5 hours. Put some rosemary oil in your hair and call it natural.
It's not that you don't want to take a risk. It's just that you are terrified to do anything.
This is not an advanced stack. This is the absolute baseline.
❖Armodafinil
➪ Increases dopamine
➪ Increases wakefulness
➪ Increases attention
➪ Increases executive function
➪ Improves learning, most especially with hard, complex work
❖Bromantane
➪ Increased production of dopamine in the brain (the brain makes more on its own)
➪ Reduces fatigue and increases energy
➪ Decreases anxiety
➪ Normalizes sleep/wake cycle
➪ Stabilizes nervous system
➪ Improves quality of life
➪ Enhances alertness
➪ Enhances hand steadiness
➪ Improves memory consolidation
➪ Effects last a month after stopping, no withdrawal
❖Tretinoin
➪ Increases collagen synthesis
➪ Blocks breakdown of collagen
➪ Increases growth of new skin cells, thickens skin
➪ Reduces fine wrinkles
➪ Reduces coarse wrinkles
➪ Smoothes skin texture
➪ Decreases yellowing
➪ Decreases sun spots
➪ Lightens dark spots/hyperpigmentation on dark and Asian skin too
➪ Increases blood supply to the skin
➪Treats acne
➪ Long term results remain even on lower dosage
➪ Low strength works just as well as high strength
❖Steroids
➪ Increase muscle size
➪ Increase lean mass
➪ Increase strength
➪ Increase leg power
➪ Reduce fat mass
➪ Raise IGF-1
➪ Muscle grows without training
❖Reta
➪ Decrease body weight by up to one quarter
➪ Decrease liver fat at every dose tested
➪ Lower blood sugar
➪ Lower triglycerides
➪ Lower ldl/apob/total cholesterol
➪ Decrease small ldl particles
➪ Lower blood pressure
➪ Decrease inflammation
➪Decrease knee pain
➪ Decrease sleep apnea
➪ No higher than other obesity drugs in terms of muscle loss
❖Tadalafil
➪ Blood flow is enhanced
➪ Stronger erections that are more reliable
➪ Prostate and urinary symptoms improved
➪ Lasting effect
➪ Confidence in sexuality is increased
➪ Partners prefer over viagra
➪ Exercise capacity improved in pulmonary hypertension
❖Whitening strips
➪ Teeth whitened, same visible result as dentist-supervised home bleaching
➪ Less tooth sensitivity than dentist bleaching
❖Dihexa
➪ HGF/MET signaling pathway enhanced.
➪ Synapse formation enhanced.
➪ Neural branching enhanced.
➪ Supports long-term potentiation (LTP), the process that locks in memories, through HGF/MET.
➪ Protects neurons from mitochondrial toxicants, inflammation, glutamate overload & oxidative stress.
➪ Neurons protected from amyloid. Tau build-up reduced.
➪ Pro-survival signaling pathways ERK/AKT enhanced.
➪ Memory deficits reversed in animals.
➪ Gamma brain waves increased in humans.
➪ A marker for speed of the brain (P300) normalized in alzheimer's patients.
➪ A marker for damage to nerves (NfL) decreased in Alzheimer's patients.
❖Cerebrolysin
➪ Works like natural brain-growth factors (NGF, BDNF, IGF-1, VEGF).
➪ New neurons formed.
➪ Myelinating cells formed.
➪ Axonal rewiring enhanced.
➪ Improved cognition in alzheimer's disease; equivalent to donepezil.
➪ Improved motor recovery post-stroke.
➪ Improved consciousness and arousal post-stroke.
➪ Improved recovery post-brain injury.
➪ Short-term memory remained intact in healthy men.
❖fin/dut
➪ DHT is lowered in the scalp and the blood
➪ DHT in bald scalp drops to the level of scalp that still has hair
➪ Hair count increased.
➪ Hair improves at the crown and the front.
➪ Dutasteride grows more hair than finasteride, with the same sexual side-effect rates
❖Lemborexant
➪ Blocks orexin, the brain's wake signal
➪ Falls asleep faster
➪ Stays asleep, less time awake at night
➪ Higher sleep efficiency
➪ Better sleep quality
➪ Keeps you asleep better than zolpidem (Ambien) in the second half of the night
❖Clonidine
➪ Stimulates alpha-2 receptors in the brain
➪ Falls asleep faster
➪ Strong sleep-inducing effect
➪ Longer total sleep
➪ Better sleep quality
➪ Lowers blood pressure
that's the list.
I'm sure natties will pull quotes from here and claim it's dangerous.
Same dudes buying test boosters.
You can still compete clean.
Drink your water. Sleep in. Wait for the genes you're never going to have.
Some folks need to remain natural. Not all were going to do what it takes.
That's barely even scratching the surface, btw.
not medical advice.
Uruguay has the same old-world coastal life people fly to Italy and France for.
Like this 1912 mansion in Piriápolis, 650 feet from the beach.
Fully restored. 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,900 sq ft, and a rooftop terrace over the bay.
Two saunas and a separate guest apartment.
Piriápolis is a small beach city with a long waterfront, a marina, and restaurants along the bay.
The house was built by Francisco Piria, the man who founded the city.
$675k.
Uruguay is safe, stable, and calm, with a coastline full of gems like this.
Jim Simons built a $100B empire and took the math to his grave. MIT just leaked the document he never wanted published.
Two Sigma and Citadel pay analysts $500k+ a year to run exactly this framework. Independent traders were never supposed to see it.
"Practical Math for Traders." 2026 Working Note on Quantitative Trading. The internal system MIT's experimental trading lab built in secret. People close to Simons confirmed privately that Medallion Fund's early edge came from exactly this pipeline. Position sizing. Risk modeling. Portfolio construction. The complete system from raw market data to consistent returns - documented for the first time.
The path that was closed for 30 years just opened.
Here's what $500k/year quants actually do differently.
A trader with 55% win rate and 1.5 win/loss ratio. Kelly Criterion gives the optimal position size: 25% of capital per trade. Most retail traders size by feel - 50%, 80%, sometimes all-in. The math says 25%. That single number is the difference between compounding wealth and blowing up an account on a losing streak.
The document models the full trading system. Expected return. Portfolio variance. Sharpe ratio. VaR. All five calculations every desk at Goldman, Citadel, and D.E. Shaw runs before touching a position. The equity curve inside shows a trend-following strategy from 2020 to 2025. $50,000 starting capital. Drawdowns never exceeding -30%. Consistent upward curve through every crash in between.
The efficient frontier chart shows exactly where the optimal portfolio sits - the tangency point where Sharpe ratio is maximized. Every dollar of risk producing the highest possible return. That's what Medallion runs on $100B+. That's what this document teaches you to build.
Jim Simons never gave interviews about the math. He didn't need to. The document does it for him.
Watch the moment [Fig. 2 - Efficient Frontier]
Individual assets scattered. Suboptimal. Too much risk, too little return.
One point on the curve: the tangency portfolio. Maximum Sharpe ratio.
The dot that separates a $50k account that compounds from one that doesn't.
MIT Quantitative Trading Lab - Working Note, September 2026
Restricted circulation - now public
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