Finger Roll James

ghetto hippie with a Bronze Age Mindset.

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@Cellowphane You’re questioning/diminishing a black woman on a topic she’s qualified to talk about as she’s actually sold records in the industry. It’s crazy how the misogyny jumped out in your attempt to get brownie points

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@Airplanmode1998 Don’t worry - the guys under 25 are watching and learning. These things take a few years to bear out but once the boomers die off you’ll see the dam break

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@MaadyBK67 They just traded a dude from Boston like that

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@frontierism @arkditi We’re still around twin

[Lola Bravo @LolaBravo91]

All skin folk ain’t kinfolk. No such thing as saving the black community. All you can do is be the best version of yourself and look out for your direct bloodline.

[🗽 @verritass]

Doomscrolling is a black magic ritual. You lay in the same position. Turn off the lights, deeply focused on the feed. You’re shown memes, tragedies and “useful” information (it’s all slop) and before you know it you’re stuck in a trance. Your thumb moves without thought. You’re in flow but it’s artificially engineered by the dopamine loops the algo was built to trigger. You remember you have things to do but the black mirror pulls you in deeper by showing you something that stimulates you more. Before you know it, all your free time is gone. Every original idea you may have had is gone. You’re polluted with open loops and feel restless all the time. Every day you go to your altar (your bed), pull out your rosary (your ig feed) and you endlessly worship slop. Time blurs together and years have gone by yet you repeat the same pattern. Why? because you’ve never been taught how to engage with your own boredom, with your own pain, with your own discomfort. You resist it like it’s killing you, but what’s killing you is what you’ve turned into a part of your life (scrolling). It’s inverted. If you simply learned how to be courageous and face your immediate discomfort with pain and boredom. You’ll allow your natural wisdom and creativity to rise and begin living a life you truly want to live.

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@For3verQuan Nas nails everything you mentioned in the 2nd paragraph on It Was Written. Some of these lyrical myrical guys navel gaze too much for their own good

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@HolderOftheFire There’s a whole class of bioregulators waiting to be explored

[rayane 𓃮 @EsotericaHQ]

Devote every fiber of your being to becoming your ideal.

DEVOTION.
HUMILITY.
AUTHENTICITY.

These are the values that will bring anything you desire into reality.

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@Morpheus156 Is she mentally all the way there? She spent half the video speaking as if a dream was reality to prove her point

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@bruceisprimal This is where I think bioregulators can help because even peptides have trouble getting to the tissues in the spine and cartilage

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@Thermobolic Condolences sir

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@gaezpeat I feel seen

[Amanda Orson @amandaorson]

Deep cut recommendations for business book nerds:

Founder - about Meyer Amschel Rothschild and the inception of the Rothschild banking dynasty: from being a rare coin dealer into Fx into war finance. At the time Jews were still legally restricted in landholding, and municipal citizenship, so lending, brokerage, and financial intermediation was one of the comparatively open and recognized roles for “court Jews” and Rothschild leveraged this.

John D - h/t @FoundersPodcast episode tipped me off to this. Despite being 1/2 or less as long as Titan by Chernow, it is far more detailed in how he actually engineered the beginning of Standard Oil, executing the “Cleveland Massacre” strategy (negotiating secret, discriminatory rebates with railroads, giving Standard Oil lower shipping costs than competitors, which let him undercut their prices and make their books bleed. Then approaching rivals with an ultimatum: sell to Standard Oil for cash and/or Standard stock and a role in the combined enterprise, or face a price war they'd lose, and then how he scaled this monopoly to unprecedented heights... eventually abstracting himself away from day-to-day management. It is a blueprint everyone with big ambition should read.

The Invisible Billionaire Daniel Ludwig - another @FoundersPodcast find. A detailed account of how he quietly built, diversified, and then largely disappeared behind a vast, globally distributed fortune. Unlike Rockefeller, who was highly concentrated in Oil and subsidiary industries, Ludwig's empire spanned shipping, real estate, finance, and a gigantic (and controversial) Amazon project. Learn lessons about leveraging frugality and why he obsessively avoided public attention ("bad boys move in silence".)

Dead Companies Walking - a supplemental read from a class I did at Wharton on Distressed Asset Investing. Hedge Fund manager PoV on how to spot “dead companies walking” long before the financials fully break, by focusing on qualitative red flags and recurring management mistakes, and then profit from shorting them. Insightful for traders (obviously), but also managers on how qualitative impacts eventually manifest in numbers via his six “deadly business sins." IMO, startups are just repositioning projects without the money, so you can reverse engineer how to build a company from these insights as well.

The Chief (William Randolph Hearst) - another overlooked business biography of a complicated man. Starting with the takeover of a single paper he built a vertically and horizontally integrated media conglomerate: 28 newspapers, magazines, a film studio, and radio stations into one of the most influential companies on earth. We are still suffering to some degree from the concentration of influence he pioneered.

Cargill: Trading the Worlds Grain - CRIMINALLY understudied, I really hope someone writes a Titan like narrative book about this family. This book is a bit academic/ lengthy, but its a case study in how a private, family‑run logistics and trading network can come to touch roughly a quarter of global grain trade and a significant share of broader food and feed commodities without public markets ever seeing its cap table. The author tells the story through a lot of internal correspondence and company archives; impressive because they are so tightly held, and like Ludwig secrecy-obsessed. But their global network has diversified (like his) to include elevators, ports, shipping, and trading desks, integrating into steel, meat, financial services, etc

Again, CRIMINALLY understudied - Cargill’s global revenue is ~160–177B with a B USD annually, with ~150,000 employees in more than 70 countries. They are thought to control about 1/4 of the entire world's grain trade on its own while building “invisible infra layer” many commodities/ competitors have come to use (like Rockefeller).

[BasedBiohacker @BasedBiohacker]

depressed? you probably aren't. your body is probably fucked, though. do this:

1. fix your gut first. cut shitty food and alcohol, no nicotine or coffee on empty stomach. daily kefir. butyrate. 30-45 days of 500mcg oral BPC-157 evening and night.

2. if that does not cut it, microdose psilocybin. start with a 7 day period. no results? time to get experimental.

3. intermediate dose psilocybin. double or triple the microdose.

4. start daily saffron extract and continue for 1-3 months.

throughout all of this:
- daily 1hr walk in nature
- once it feels easy, try jogging a little bit during the walk or doing a few pushups and situps after
- no more social media. yes seriously. streaming is okay but never stack stimuli (one screen at a time)
- no more gooning
- daily writing. just write something everyday
- make a list of minor things you are scared of and do one of them everyday. things like talking to a stranger etc
- nightly warm showers before bed
- no laying in bed if not sleeping

whatever you do, DO NOT HOP ON SSRI'S

yes it's going to be difficult. no, there's no one drug that will fix it for you. yes, once you get out - you're out. you'll understand why when you're there.

more info on some of these things in here: https://t.co/hI1Nt0OHqr

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@theriac33 Been hearing about tropisetron as a nicotinic receptor agonist

[Marko Jukic @mmjukic]

The real reason to cultivate physical virtue in the industrial age is that physical virtue cultivates testosterone and testosterone is the hormone that allows you to build and rebuild organizations, which are the real unit of the industrial age.

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@NickStillHere @AdonisTheBlack And it’s never going back—ever

[Finger Roll James @FingerRollJames]

@Mentzersmethlab Georgi gang all day baby

[Moosa @questmoosa]

20 WAYS TO STIMULATE THE VAGUS ("SOUL") NERVE TO IMPROVE PERCEIVED BEAUTY AND FEEL LESS STRESSED:

- Repeat “uhhh” or “ahhh” in a low, relaxed tone for 2 to 3 minutes - It activates the vagus nerve through the vocal cords and larynx.)

- Deep Breathing (Try 4-7-8: Inhale 4 → Hold 7 → Exhale 8)

- Sip something sour before breathwork

- Humming or Bee Breath (hmmmmmm for 5 seconds)

- Right-Side Sleeping

read the lines below slowly and reread it 10x if you need to:

- Gargling - try gargle now for 5 seconds

- Slow, mindful eating

- Strengthen and stretch neck muscles (The vagus nerve runs behind the sternocleidomastoid muscle and in front of the scalenes, which tend to be two of the tightest muscles in the neck, and can cause irritation to the vagus nerve....
...Stretching out these muscles relieves pressure that may compromise vagus nerve function.)

- Fix neck and thoracic posture - stop slouching 99% of the time.

- Massage your forehead and the top of your head(stimualates pre-frontal cortex and neocortex bloodflow)

- slow, breath-driven mindful MOVEMENT to activate the vagus nerve.

- Acupuncture & acupressure / Foot and hand Reflexology with massage

- Laughter (Even Fake) - laugh out loud now

- Carotid Sinus Massage - massage your neck just below the ear

-Brushing or tapping over your sternum can activate vagus-linked sensory receptors. (Tap your sternum)

-Release diaphragm tension (The vagus nerve passes through the diaphragm - massage there now to feel less fear - both sides.)

-Shift your visual focus (A narrow, fixed gaze keeps you in a stress state. Softening your gaze sends a safety signal to your brain - diverge your eyes outwards.)

- Bitter herbs can stimulate vagal pathways and calm the body. (Gentian root, dandelion extract, swedish bitters)

-Stimulate ear’s vagus branch (massage your inner ear and upper ear for 5 second)

If you have any more methods to stimulate the vagus ("soul") nerve - drop them in the comments below - i'm curious.