Alex Gold

Failing polymath | anti-productivity | Angel investor and startup advisor in Asia | father of 3 | love of sipping tequila (unrequited)

[Alex Gold @Alex_truesearch]

Nobody Is Buying THIS Anymore — And Politicians Are PANICKING | Punters ... https://t.co/lenjK0C2Qy via @YouTube

[Alex Gold @Alex_truesearch]

@sunil_trades @sunil_trades FTX Support is claiming I’m 'Forfeited' because I missed the original Sept 2025 window. I completed all steps for March but i was not included.

Is there anything we can do?

[Alex Gold @Alex_truesearch]

@aaditsh AI

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@ArynneWexler why do you think someone decided that cricket matches should be played over 5 days!

[Nicholas Drummond @nicholadrummond]

This is the best summary of the current geopolitical situation I have seen. Sir Alex Younger was head of MI6 between 2014 and 2020. Really worth watching.

[Alex Gold @Alex_truesearch]

@1MainCapital Freshworks holding up well. Otherwise a bit of a bloodbath

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I recently came across a beautiful Buddhist teaching: The Two Arrows.

The Buddha once asked his student, "If a person is struck by an arrow, is it painful?"

The student nodded, yes.

The Buddha then asked, "If a person is struck by a second arrow, is that even more painful?"

The student again nodded, yes.

The Buddha then explained, "In life, we cannot always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional."

The first arrow is the negative event that hits our lives.

This is the uncontrollable chaos that we may find ourselves thrown into from time to time.

The first arrow is impossible to avoid. It hits and it hurts.

The second arrow is governed by our response to the first—and as the parable teaches us, being struck by the second arrow is entirely within our control.

Our reaction and response controls the direction and force of the second arrow:

• If we attach ourselves to the pain of the first arrow, continue to think all of the negative thoughts it brought about, repeat the patterns of our past, dwell in the pain, and bemoan our bad luck, we send the second arrow hurtling straight into our open wound.

• If we pause, breathe, give ourselves a moment to reset, and choose a balanced response, we send the second arrow falling feebly to the ground.

Viktor Frankl, the Austrian philosopher and Holocaust survivor renowned for his contributions to existential psychology, has a brilliant framing for this:

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."

Our power is in the space that we can create between stimulus and response.

Creating that space is the key to avoiding the second arrow.

As Frankl famously said, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

So the next time you encounter an uncontrollable negative event in your life—when you're struck by that painful first arrow—consider the parable of the two arrows.

The first arrow may have hurt, but the second arrow is always optional.

[Alex Gold @Alex_truesearch]

@tomowenmorgan @paulg Save @readwise

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Consider this thread very carefully. Whatever the explanation of the clip,
It does appear to approximately describe our position and likely trajectory. What we do now is extremely important

*I’m aware of the story of the clip, which I presume is true, but we don’t know for sure.

[Alex Gold @Alex_truesearch]

@callmehouck Threads

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@qcapital2020 Prosus is very exposed to Russia/Ukraine (their classified's business i believe but could be wrong)

[Alex Gold @Alex_truesearch]

@HarryStebbings Nice but It's no Waldringfield, the Hamptons of Suffolk

[Alex Gold @Alex_truesearch]

@INVESTMENTSHULK they should really remove the word transition from their lexicon!

[Alice Bentinck @Alicebentinck]

Loved recording the Founder's Mindset with founder psychologist Dr @Gena_I_Gorlin. Here are some of my favourite quotes from the podcast that delves into the ways your mind can influence you as a founder:
https://t.co/ZUl1N8cMTP

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I never ask this, but I'm asking now: Please retweet this.

Texas plans to kill Melissa Lucio in four days. Five jurors say evidence was withheld from them. A bipartisan majority of the Texas legislature favors clemency. Why are you waiting, @GovAbbott?

https://t.co/9iMkVhNDrQ

[Alex Gold @Alex_truesearch]

@matthewclifford @join_ef Well done @matthewclifford @Alicebentinck and team, no mean feat

[Alex Gold @Alex_truesearch]

@EvergreenMEP @readwise save thread

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@dickiebush @readwise save thread

[Sachin Ramje @SachinRamje]

20+ rules of thumb that simplify decisions:

Hyper-visual🧵on the most valuable razors

- @SahilBloom