Gabriel Colón

[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

My ethos.

I owe it to myself to unlock my full potential,
To prove through action what I am truly capable of.
Each battle fought builds my belief, a certainty that I’ll prevail,

I will live in pursuit of two questions:
How much am I capable of? What is possible for me?
I will rise, grow, and break through every limit,
Until I discover the answer in the person I become.

— Gabriel

[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

Steal this today.

"When I'm in the hurt locker I ask myself one question: Can you take another step? And that answer is always YES."

— David Goggins

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

One line that hits.

"I judge you unfortunate because you have never been unfortunate; you have passed through life without an antagonist; no one will know what you can do — not even yourself."

— Seneca · On Providence 4.3 (trans. John W. Basore, 1928)

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

Morning discipline.

"Fear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when you're hungry, give you light when you are in the dark, and produce energy. Let it go out of control and it can hurt you, even kill you."

— Cus D'Amato, to a 13-year-old Mike Tyson · José Torres, Fire & Fear (1989)

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

Steal this today.

"Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work."

— Chuck Close · interview with Joe Fig, Inside the Painter's Studio (2009)

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

Morning discipline.

Seneca would say that he actually pitied people who have never experienced misfortune.

"You have passed through life without an opponent," he said. "No one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you."

— Seneca · On Providence 4.3

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

They told his parents he was dead.

He lived 71 more years.

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THE RAFT

May 27, 1943.

Olympic runner Louis Zamperini's B-24 crashed into the Pacific.

8 of the 11 men aboard died.

He lived on rainwater, albatross and raw fish.

Sharks. Storms. Japanese planes shooting at the raft.

Day 47: he reached land and was captured.

He weighed 75 lbs.

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THE CAMPS

More than two years as a POW.

He was beaten again and again by a guard the prisoners called "The Bird."

In his words:

"It was the attempt to destroy your dignity, to make you a nonentity, that was the hardest thing to bear."

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THE WAR AFTER THE WAR

He came home, married Cynthia in 1946, and fell apart.

PTSD. Heavy drinking. Nightmares about strangling his captors.

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THE TURN

1) 1949: Cynthia got him to a Billy Graham tent meeting in LA.

2) He remembered what he had prayed on the raft: "If you will save me, I will serve you forever."

3) He committed his life to Christ that night.

4) By his own account, the nightmares stopped and he forgave his captors.

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WHAT HE DID NEXT

1) 1950: went to Japan and met former guards in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison to forgive them in person.

2) 1952: started Victory Boys Camp for troubled kids.

3) 1998: age 80, carried the Olympic torch at Nagano, past one of the camps where he had been held.

4) Died in 2014, age 97.

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SOURCES

1) https://t.co/SkLJT6jJH8

2) https://t.co/t4YTwVyhxk

3) https://t.co/WQBvdhEAgm

4) https://t.co/0gWA510d9Z

5) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken (2010)

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[DHH @dhh]

Thrilled to welcome @spacexai as a Founding Corporate Patron for the Omacom Foundation. That's $1,500,000 in @grok tokens for the maintenance and development of Omarchy. Maybe soon they'll be beamed straight from orbit? Let's go 🚀🌕 https://t.co/PeVkvxHecg

[DHH @dhh]

@steve_cook "Review this with claude" or "Review this with codex". That's it. Models know how to call the adversarial agent over the cli, how to take turns, etc.

[DHH @dhh]

This. People keep asking me for my setup. It's really just any harness, multiple agents concurrently, barely any skills, and using adversarial reviews. There's no magic sauce (or source!). The models are great out of the box.

[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

If you're going through something or working on yourself, listen from about 1:41 to 1:48 of this episode. Joe, Ehsan and Deric talk about how staying positive is daily maintenance, how Ehsan climbed out of depression with small habits, and how you can rewire the way you think.

https://t.co/wDJJDP2jer

[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

At 31, Beethoven wrote a goodbye letter to his brothers.

He never sent it.

Then he wrote music for 25 more years.

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THE DARK SEASON

By 1801 he was going deaf.

Constant "buzzing and ringing day and night."

He avoided people for almost two years rather than tell them.

He had to give up performing.

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THE LETTER

October 6, 1802. Heiligenstadt, outside Vienna.

In his own hand:

"a little more and I would have put an end to my life it was only art that held me back"

"it seemed impossible to me to leave the world before I had brought forth all that I felt was within me"

He kept the letter hidden. It was found after he died.

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WHAT FOLLOWED

1) 1801 — to a friend: "I will seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely."

2) 1805 — the Eroica premieres.

3) 1818 — so deaf that visitors write their side of conversations in notebooks.

4) May 7, 1824 — the Ninth Symphony premieres in Vienna. By then he could not hear at all.

SOURCES

1) https://t.co/60sV98rhUY

2) https://t.co/Vd4aFZz6SZ

3) https://t.co/yCuwsKWKIu

4) https://t.co/QIs0ze7pI6

5) https://t.co/3EjUarSLU3

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

A shark took her arm at 13.

About a month later she was back on a board.

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WHAT HAPPENED

Oct. 31, 2003. Bethany Hamilton, 13, was surfing Tunnels Beach on Kauaʻi with friends when a tiger shark bit off her left arm just below the shoulder.

Holt Blanchard — her best friend’s father — got her to shore and made a tourniquet from a surf leash. She lost about 60% of her blood. She lived.

Late November 2003 she paddled out again on a longer board, learning to kick harder and paddle with one arm. On Jan. 10, 2004 — about 10 weeks after the attack — she entered an NSSA meet, placed 5th, and refused special treatment.

Then the stack: 2004 ESPY Best Comeback Athlete. 2005 national surfing title. Pro career. 2016 Fiji Women’s Pro — 3rd, after upsetting top seeds. 2017 Surfers’ Hall of Fame.

Still here. Still surfing.

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SOURCES

1) https://t.co/si8dyTxtAL
2) https://t.co/SYH3MyqD1u
3) https://t.co/Ak7xSOIy0U
4) https://t.co/mrt0CBBxK0
5) https://t.co/MslmtC2VoG
6) https://t.co/Ts0GA9sa2t
7) https://t.co/JKdahilz42
8) https://t.co/CA5TBBhtRo
9) https://t.co/ELrqcxJo32
10) https://t.co/uiASG4VbMl

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

Will it improve my workflow?

Please share your setups! There are people out eager to learn. I'm just a curious learner trying out things, learning from more people professionals and novices alike would be amazing. Sadly there so much bullshit being sold. I want to find friends/sources for improving AI skills.

So having multiple sessions of @claudeai code interact with each other and interact with @grok so it builds, claude plans and reviews.

Not only fun but useful at least to me.

Would love to know what other people are doing.

Tools I like/use:

1. @herdrdev
2. @claudeai
3.@grok
4. ghostty
5. @digitalocean VPS
6. @higgsfield
7. @Tailscale
8. Omarchy and my Mac (waiting for Omarchy for M3 chips @dhh haha just kidding I know people are working hard.)

For example just read:

https://t.co/RP4KuwN3n1

would love to learn more about this and how to implement it properly.

What the screenshot below shows is just I'm going to try to have one session be just a manager and tracker of the other.

[DHH @dhh]

Every developer needs an AI shed: An always-on machine running on their tailscale network where the majority of their herdr agents are running.

[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

Their ship sank in Antarctic ice.
Nobody on Earth knew where they were.
All 28 men came home.

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THE STORY

1915. Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance was trapped and crushed by pack ice in the Weddell Sea.

28 men were left on floating ice.

They rowed lifeboats to Elephant Island, an empty rock at the edge of Antarctica.

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THE GAMBLE

Shackleton and 5 others sailed a 22-foot lifeboat about 800 miles across the Southern Ocean to South Georgia.

Then he, Worsley, and Crean crossed the island's mountains on foot to a whaling station.

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THE PART PEOPLE FORGET

Rescue failed. Then failed again. Then failed a third time.

Ice turned the ships back.

On the 4th try, Chile's tug Yelcho got through.

August 30, 1916. Shackleton called from the boat:
"Are you all well?"

Frank Wild answered:
"We are all well, boss."

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THE LESSON

1) Don't sit still and wait to be saved
2) Trust the people holding the line while you're gone
3) Failing three times is not the end of the story

Shackleton, on reaching safety with nothing but wet clothes:
"We had reached the naked soul of man."

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SOURCES

1) https://t.co/E5DcL6d7TJ
2) https://t.co/eA7ZDkS5IP
3) https://t.co/MDH2MJOZM3
4) https://t.co/F9WYfn82r7

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

One line that hits.

"Respect is earned every day by waking up early, challenging yourself with new dreams or digging up old nightmares, and embracing the suck like you have nothing and have never done a damn thing in your life."

— David Goggins

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

Morning discipline.

"When a half-assed job doesn't bother you, it speaks volumes about the kind of person you are."

— David Goggins

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

Creating a new theme with this in mind for Omarchy.

Omarchy = Freedom

Thank you @dhh and everyone working on this amazing project.

Try it, join us... https://t.co/v4AgPqj4iH

[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

She couldn't see or hear.
Then cold water ran over one hand.

Helen Keller was deaf and blind from early childhood —
stuck in a world without real language, only frustration.

On March 3, 1887, teacher Anne Sullivan arrived in Tuscumbia.
For weeks Helen finger-spelled words by imitation
without grasping that everything has a name.

April 5, 1887, at the pump-house:
Sullivan held Helen's mug under the spout
and spelled w-a-t-e-r into her free hand
as cold water rushed over the other.

Suddenly it clicked.
The cool stream was the word.
Helen spelled "water," then raced to name everything she touched —
about thirty new words that day.

She later wrote that living word
"awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free."

How she got through: a teacher who stayed,
weeks of patient groundwork,
and a child hungry for a way out of silence.

Evidence / sources
1) https://t.co/YwQpk55mMW
2) https://t.co/oY69pX9B3g
3) https://t.co/uET14UWGU4
4) Helen Keller, The Story of My Life (1903); Anne Sullivan letter to Sophia C. Hopkins, April 5, 1887

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

Steal this today.

"Discipline is the only thing in this world that will change your DNA."

— David Goggins

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[Gabriel Colón @GsLearningXp]

Tired is not the finish line.

"Don't stop when you are tired. You stop when you are done."

— David Goggins · Can't Hurt Me (2018)

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