If you’re a young investor trying to make sense of this market, you have to bookmark this and read it line by line. Josh Kushner (whose a legend imo) wrote his first ever formal letter to backers of his $65 billion firm, Thrive Capital. it offers a rare window into where the smartest capital is actually flowing.
Winning isn't about diversification anymore…
🔴18-step Python roadmap to master data structures and algorithms from scratch:
1. Language Fundamentals: Variables, loops, functions, and exception handling.
2. Python Collections: Lists, dictionaries, sets, tuples, and lambdas.
3. Math Foundations: Modular arithmetic, primes, and bit manipulation.
4. Complexity: Big-O notations, asymptotic analysis, and recurrence relations.
5. Linear Sequences: Sliding windows, prefix sums, and two pointers.
6. Exhaustive Search: Recursion trees, permutations, and backtracking.
7. Sorting: Merge, quick, heap, and custom comparators.
8. Nodes & Pointers: Singly and doubly linked list manipulation.
9. LIFO/FIFO: Stacks, monotonic queues, and parentheses matching.
10. Hierarchical Data: Binary trees, traversals, and lowest common ancestors.
11. Ordered Trees: BST insertions, deletions, and range queries.
12. Heaps: Min/max priority queues and top-k element tracking.
13. Maps: Frequency counting and collision handling via hash tables.
14. Optimization: Fractional knapsack and greedy interval scheduling.
15. State Memorization: 0/1 knapsack, LCS, LIS, and grid-based DP.
16. Network Flow: BFS/DFS, Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, and disjoint set union.
17. Advanced Structures: Tries, Fenwick trees, and segment trees.
18. Execution: Curated grind across LeetCode, Codeforces, and CSES.
@RealJayPublic@aussiekittycat@KarolineGosling In the West, women are seen as second class citizens (as opposed to subhuman or as servants elsewhere like Afghanistan).
Opinions of women are not given the same weight as men. Only 1% of venture capital firm money goes to women despite women competing at the same rate as men.
@MahammanMasaba@GeorgyP777@kokonastopguy The Second Amendment exists for a reason. You’re a hit dog who hollered and will be eradicated from the gene pool justly.
A friend of mine got divorced and looked like a different person six months later. Down almost 25 pounds. Business finally moving. Dating someone eight years younger. A few of us were having drinks and I asked what changed. Gym? Therapy? Some insane morning routine? He said, “You’re going to hate the answer. I stopped doing one thing I used to do maybe 50 times a day.” Then he named it. I thought he was joking because it sounded like the kind of advice you’d scroll past on Instagram.
proof people are literally under spells. start getting serious about locking yourself away from your phone for a minimum of 7 hours a day because the egregore entities behind these apps are absolutely harvesting your life force in the astral. everything about this is spiritual!
A neuroscientist who studies focus discovered something unexpected about AirPods Pro 2.
The combination of Active Noise Cancellation + brown noise at 40% volume + Conversation Awareness OFF creates the fastest path to flow state she's ever measured in a consumer device.
Average time to deep focus: 4 minutes.
Average deep work session: 90 minutes without interruption.
Previous average without the protocol: 23 minutes before the first distraction broke the session.
She didn't discover a hack. She applied neuroscience.
The auditory cortex never fully deactivates during wakefulness. It is always listening, always evaluating the acoustic environment for threats and social signals. The question is not how to silence it. The question is how to feed it something so consistent and non-threatening that it stops looking for problems and allows the prefrontal cortex to take over.
She now prescribes this protocol to every PhD student and executive she coaches:
"Your brain can't focus in silence. Silence is threatening your auditory system scans for sounds that aren't there. And your brain can't focus in noise noise is unpredictable stimulation that pulls attention. Brown noise through ANC headphones is the neurological sweet spot: consistent enough that your threat-detection system relaxes, rich enough that your auditory cortex is occupied, and featureless enough that your prefrontal cortex takes over. That's flow. In 4 minutes. On a device most people use to listen to podcasts."
Here's the full protocol the neuroscience behind it and the exact AirPods settings to replicate it tonight 🧵