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[Giuliano @Giuliano_Mana]

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[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

Telegram CEO explains why he never had depression.

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

Okay. I'm ready to talk about this.

It was the worst month of my life. Also ironically the greatest blessing god has ever given me.

Last month I was held in the Cayman Islands facing 15 years in prison.

The charge: illegal firearm importation. Here's what happened. More importantly what I learned.

Short answer: no. I haven't been smuggling guns.

In the States I legally carry a gun on me at almost all times for self defense. Part of this is ensuring I am trained.

Hence why I routinely go to the range to shoot. When I do I pack the firearm I intend to use in in a backpack.

Last month I was in a giant rush to make a private flight and didn't fully check my backpack before leaving. In it was a small firearm I missed.

It was discovered when I went through immigration.

At first I assumed I'd just be sent home.

Then my wife did some quick research. She pointed out the minimum sentence for importing a gun is 15 years. The police who showed up confirmed it.

To say I nearly pissed my pants is an understatement.

This was completely my fault. I'm an idiot. The point of this post isn't to blame or complain about anything. The laws there are fair. I'm a grown man capable of checking his bag before flying.

The point is: for three weeks on the island (on bail), I got to take a long hard look at my life.

I've built a high net worth and a company I love, with people I love working with. I have a beautiful wife who is my best friend. I do whatever I want all day every day. My parents are alive and I get to see them almost every week.

Still, despite all this, I often wake up annoyed I haven't done enough with my life. Asking myself "is this it?" In fact I'm pissed half the time, feeling I can do better.

Which is ironic. I made $20,000 a year in the military. If you'd told me then I'd achieve a 9 figure net worth and all the above, I would've assumed I'd consider my life a dream.

The twist truly hit me on the island as I watched everything I worked hard for in my life held at "gunpoint". Pun intended. Everything I worked so hard to get — poof. Didn't matter for shit.

The way the law works there are simple : if you can't prove it was an accident, the minimum is 15 years.

It became glaringly obvious. Not only was I an absolute idiot who couldn't pack his own bag. I'd also become a fool who couldn't enjoy the blessings I already had.

I'd taken all the people in my life and the success totally for granted. Blind. Blind. Blind.

Nothing like a 20-year potential sentence to make you realize: waking up with fun stuff to work on, then chilling on the couch reading with your wife at the end of the day — that's about as good as it gets.

I should be euphoric 24/7.

To go from having it all, to potentially not even having the option to piss and shit when you want ��� that's a wake up call if there ever was one.

Luckily, the Caymans is a fair place. I was found under exceptional circumstances during my trial. AKA the judge and the courts reviewed the case and agreed it was an accident.

I still love the island. It's probably my favorite place to vacation. Just check your luggage before you go. Ha.

My point is this: be present. Enjoy your life. One day something could happen — even by complete accident — and yoink it all away.

I have so many friends who'll read this and by all definition live a "dream life" — and yet are dissatisfied just like I was. If anything this is the default for most successful men. Not the exception.

I'm writing this to help you stop.

It took god slapping me across the face with my own ignorance to see it. It was painful and scary. Dark.

But honestly, it was the greatest blessing I've ever received. I'm writing this from my office at home, giddy as absolute fuck about my life and everything I have the option to do today.

If anything, I'm sad about how much time I wasted feeling otherwise.

Don't be ignorant and stupid like me. You might not get the blessing of a 15-year prison threat in a foreign country to wake you up.

Wake up. Appreciate what you have now.

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

MOST PEOPLE WILL GO TO BED TONIGHT THE SAME WAY THEY WOKE UP THIS MORNING.

Spend 1 hour with this instead.

A MIT lecture on generational wealth that teaches you more about money, compounding, and building something that outlasts you than 20 years inside any hedge fund, investment bank, or financial institution ever could.

Wall Street teaches you how to make money for someone else.

This teaches you how to build something for yourself.

Here is the difference nobody talks about.

Every financial institution you have ever interacted with profits when you stay confused.

Confused people buy products they do not need.

Confused people pay fees they do not understand.

Confused people make decisions based on fear instead of math.

This lecture removes the confusion.

Not with tips.

Not with stock picks.

With the actual framework behind how wealth compounds over time, why most people never access it, and the specific decisions that separate the people who build generational wealth from the people who work their entire lives and leave nothing behind.

The people who watch this tonight will make one decision differently this week.

That one decision will compound for the next 20 years.

The people who skip it will keep taking financial advice from people who profit when they stay confused.

Completely free.

From MIT.

Bookmark this before you open Netflix.

Follow @cyrilXBT for more resources that build real financial understanding.

[Zane Hengsperger @zanehengsperger]

when spacex was getting started, the first and last men to walk on the moon testified before congress against it.

gene cernan told congress commercial space companies "do not yet know what they don't know."

he said the boeings and lockheed martins were "the folks who have been working on everything we've done for the last 50 years. they know how it can be done."

neil armstrong said he was "not confident" the newcomers could achieve their goals.

together with jim lovell they warned it would put america on "a long downward slide to mediocrity."

spacex now launches more rockets than every country on earth combined.

the experts will always tell you it can't be done. build it anyway!

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

My 3.5-hour conversation with @naval.

Fresh takes on every idea from The Almanack of Naval: happiness, judgment, knowledge, leverage.

Now in one episode, available on Spotify, Youtube, etc.

[George Mack @george__mack]

If consumption is how you learn, you’d be a professional chef, with a comedy special on Netflix, and dunking in the NBA.

[darkzodchi @zodchiii]

https://t.co/kx4hKgCVSE

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Bill Ackman literally gave a 44-minute masterclass that explains money better than any business school:

[shouko @shoukointech]

Naval Ravikant: "Good design is a moat is an AI age"

[Courtne Marland @courtne]

https://t.co/lfOo0sBgsQ

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

this professor explains Game Theory so well it makes you want to learn it now.

[Alex Bouaziz @Bouazizalex]

https://t.co/ZlyngVP95I

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

"Money has no utility to me.  Time has utility to me."

~ Warren Buffett

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

This 2003 speech at the University of Nebraska is by far one of my favorites from Warren Buffett

You will get more value out of this than from reading 90% of books on investing

Worth listening and re-listening to

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

Charlie Munger:

“The secret to life is easy because it's so simple:

You don’t have a lot of envy or resentment. You don’t overspend your income. You stay cheerful in spite of your troubles. You deal with reliable people and you do what you’re supposed to do.”

[Abdul Șhakoor @abxxai]

Forget the $100,000 investing courses.

In 1998, Warren Buffett gave a one-hour masterclass on how to never lose money.

The company built on that thinking is now worth nearly $1 trillion.

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