people ask me why i'm running stimulants at such a young age.
because this is the most resilient my body will ever be.
if there is a time to work 12 hour days, sleep less, recover faster and take risks chasing ambitious goals, it's now.
not when i'm 50.
not when recovery is slower.
not when energy is lower.
not when responsibilities are higher.
it only takes a few concentrated years of extreme pressure and effort to change the trajectory of your entire life.
i'd rather spend my peak years pushing than preserving.
Your mind is the starting point of all war and all strategy. A mind that is easily overwhelmed by emotion, that is rooted in the past instead of the present, that cannot see the world with clarity and urgency, will create strategies that will always miss the mark.
MIT JUST LEAKED THE EXACT DOCUMENT WALL STREET QUANT FIRMS USE TO HIRE PEOPLE.
It is called the MIT Quant Bible.
And it covers everything the $500,000 a year quants actually know that you do not.
Here is what is inside:
Probability fundamentals. Conditional probability, Bayes theorem, expected value, variance, joint distributions. The mathematical foundation every trading decision at Jane Street and Citadel is built on.
Stats fundamentals. The Law of Large Numbers. Central Limit Theorem. Confidence intervals. The tools quants use to know when a signal is real and when it is noise.
Quant research and data science. Least squares, regressions, dimensionality reduction. Real case studies from Two Sigma, QuantCo, and CitiBikes.
Quant trading and market making. What market making actually is and how the theory translates into real trading decisions.
And then the part that makes this document worth more than most finance degrees.
A question bank with real interview questions from Jane Street, Virtu Financial, Optiver, Akuna Capital, Citadel, Hudson River Trading, Two Sigma, Five Rings, and SIG.
Not prep questions.
The actual questions these firms ask.
With answers.
The firms charging $50,000 a year for access to this type of preparation are not going to be happy this exists.
Bookmark this before it disappears.
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if you ever had the burning desire to:
- sleep 6 hours and wake up like you slept 9
- push for 14 hours without falling apart
- burn the midnight oil
- age slower at the cellular level
- regulate your circadian rhythm properly
- double your REM
- reduce oxidative stress in the brain
- actually remember your dreams
....and wake up like a kid on christmas morning every day
then hop the fuck on pinealon and epitalon
not medical advice
i can't believe this 1 hour talk by the people who control the world's financial system including Ray Dalio, Jamie Dimon & Larry Fink literally told you exactly where the money is going for the next decade:
Godfather of AI: "If you sleep well tonight, you may not have understood this lecture."
This 47-minute lecture is the best thing I saw about AI in the last few months.
It will definitely help you understand how it actually works and where it's going.
Geoffrey Hinton built the neural networks behind every AI alive, then quit Google to warn the world about it.
The part nobody wanted to hear:
> AI is already developing abilities its creators didn't intend
> in most cognitive tasks it's already ahead of us
> the question is no longer if it surpasses us but when
> the only decision left is which side of that line you're on
Right now the average person opens Claude, types something, gets an answer, closes the tab.
They think they're using AI. they're using maybe 10% of it.
I went through his entire lecture, then mapped everything he described to what Claude can actually do today.
17 Claude features most people will never find on their own.
Full breakdown in the post below.
I’ve developed a real distaste for macro over the last few months. Macro is the easiest way to look and feel smart while saying nothing. You can talk rates and geopolitics forever and never be wrong, because nobody marks your calls to market. 99% of it is entertainment, and it’s catnip for content creators, because there’s a fresh thing to react to every other day, so they happily feed the cycle. It’s all fugazi.
“Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfil the way that is in you.”
- Dr. Carl Jung
Graham Weaver gave one of the most psychologically brutal lectures ever delivered at Stanford.
Not about success or money.
He explained why:
- Fear sounds logical
- Smart people stay stuck
- Most people never live at full potential
12 lessons from his final lecture:
Most UK adults are 3 paychecks away from being broke. Not in poverty — properly broke. Behind on bills, on the credit card, having to ask family for help.
The household earning £40K, £60K, £80K runs on the same fragile structure: monthly outgoings have expanded to fill monthly income, and there's no buffer between a single bad event and serious financial trouble.
If you lost your job tomorrow:
- How many months could you cover your fixed costs?
- How much do you actually have in savings, not in pensions or property?
- What's the realistic gap between losing the job and finding a new one?
For most working adults, the honest answer to those three questions is 'somewhere between scary and disastrous.'
The fix has very little to do with earning more. Spending less and saving more, before the next bonus convinces you to upgrade something, does more for your security than another pay rise.