Meltin Capital Management LP

Meltup before Meltin. Currently bullish.

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

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[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

The market is also addictive. Can’t wait to "sell in May and go away."

[P.S. I Love ME @ps_ilove_me]

🚨In 1990s, Stanford researcher Dr. Robert Sapolsky discovered something that should have broken the internet by now.

He was studying dopamine pathways in primates and found that the brain doesn't just adapt to repeated stimulation. It actively fights back.

When you flood dopamine receptors consistently, the brain deploys what neuroscientists call "opponent processes." For every artificial high you create, your nervous system generates an equal and opposite neurochemical low. Not eventually. Immediately. The system is designed to maintain balance, so it starts producing compounds that directly counteract dopamine while you're still experiencing the dopamine hit.

This means every notification, every scroll, every digital reward doesn't just give you a high followed by a return to baseline. It gives you a high followed by a crash below baseline. You end up in neurochemical debt.

Tech companies never publicized this research. They probably never read it. They were too busy discovering that variable ratio reinforcement schedules could keep users engaged for hours. They built addictive systems by accident, then refined them into addiction machines once they realized what they'd stumbled onto.

Your phone delivers an average of 80 dopamine hits per day. Your ancestors got maybe 5. Each hit triggers opponent processes that create a corresponding low. By the end of a typical day of normal phone usage, your baseline dopamine is running in negative territory. You feel flat, restless, vaguely unsatisfied, and hungry for stimulation because your brain chemistry is literally below zero.

You think you're bored. You're chemically depressed by artificial highs.

The opponent process theory explains why nothing feels interesting anymore. Your brain isn't broken. It's precisely calibrated to maintain neurochemical balance, and you keep throwing that balance off with artificial intensity. Every Instagram hit requires an equal Instagram crash. Every TikTok high gets paid for with a TikTok low. Every notification rush gets balanced with notification emptiness.

Your reward system is running a neurochemical deficit that grows larger every day.

Sapolsky's research revealed something even more disturbing: opponent processes don't just create temporary lows. They become permanent changes to your baseline dopamine production. Chronic overstimulation doesn't just make you tolerant to digital rewards. It makes you insensitive to natural rewards.

The sunset that would have captivated your great-grandfather becomes invisible to you not because sunsets got worse, but because your dopamine system needs intensity levels that sunsets can't provide. A good conversation becomes boring not because conversations got less interesting, but because your brain requires the rapid-fire stimulation of social media to register engagement.

You've accidentally trained your reward system to ignore everything that isn't artificially amplified.

This connects to research from Dr. Anna Lembke at Stanford, who found that people who undergo complete digital fasting for just 30 days show measurable increases in dopamine receptor density. Their brains literally regrow sensitivity to natural rewards. Food tastes better. Music sounds more complex. Social interactions become genuinely engaging again.

But there's a catch that nobody talks about: the first two weeks of dopamine detox feel like clinical depression. Your brain has been chemically dependent on artificial stimulation for years. Removing that stimulation creates actual withdrawal symptoms. Restlessness, anxiety, inability to focus, emotional flatness, and desperate cravings for digital input.

Most people interpret these symptoms as evidence that they need their phones. Actually, they're evidence that they've been neurochemically dependent on their phones without realizing it.

The withdrawal period isn't a bug. It's proof the reset is working.

What happens after week three is remarkable. Colors become more vivid. Conversations become genuinely absorbing. Simple pleasures like hot coffee or cool air become satisfying in ways you forgot were possible. Your brain rediscovers that reality contains enough complexity and beauty to hold your attention without artificial amplification.

You don't need more interesting content. You need more sensitive reward systems.

The solution isn't better apps or more engaging entertainment. The solution is restoring your brain's factory settings for what constitutes a worthwhile experience.

Sapolsky's opponent process research suggests this can happen faster than anyone expected. Every day you don't artificially spike your dopamine, your baseline moves a little higher. Every natural reward you pay attention to rebuilds receptor density. Every moment of boredom you endure without reaching for stimulation strengthens your capacity for sustained focus.

Ancient humans lived in a world that provided exactly the right amount of stimulation to keep their reward systems healthy. Enough challenge to stay engaged, enough calm to stay balanced, enough novelty to stay curious, enough routine to stay stable.

We built a world that provides 10 times too much stimulation and wonder why nothing feels rewarding anymore.

Your brain is not the problem. Your environment is the problem.

Change the environment, and the brain heals itself automatically.

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

“The first is deletion.”

At Meltin Capital, we start with 500 stocks, then delete ruthlessly until only 7 remain. We call them: The Magnificent 7.

#Meltup #Meltdown #Meltin

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jensen Huang just reverse-engineered why Elon Musk operates at a speed no one on the planet can match.

Three traits.

The first is deletion.

Huang: “He has the ability to question everything to the point where everything’s down to its minimal amount.”

Most engineers solve problems by adding.

Musk solves them by subtracting.

Every part. Every process. Every assumption that survived because no one had the nerve to kill it.

He picks it up. Asks if it’s load-bearing. If the answer is anything less than absolutely, it is gone.

Not simplified. Not optimized. Removed.

What survives is the skeleton. The bare physics of the problem. Nothing between intent and execution.

Huang said it plainly.

As minimalist as you could possibly imagine.

And he does it at system scale.

Not at a product level. Not at a department level.

Across entire companies. Entire industries. Entire supply chains.

He strips a rocket the same way he strips a meeting. Down to the load-bearing walls and nothing else.

The second is presence.

Huang: “He is present at the point of action. If there’s a problem, he’ll just go there and show me the problem.”

Not a Slack message. Not a report filtered through four layers of people who weren’t there when it broke.

He walks to the failure. Stands over it. Puts his hands on it.

Most executives have never seen the actual problem their company is trying to solve.

They have seen slides about it.

Read summaries of it.

Formed opinions about it in rooms that are nowhere near it.

Musk stands over the broken hardware and does not leave until it works.

That collapses the distance that buries most organizations.

The gap between something breaking and the person with authority to fix it actually understanding what broke.

In most companies, that gap is weeks.

For Musk, it is hours.

The third is the one that bends everyone around him.

Huang: “When you act personally with so much urgency, it causes everybody else to act with urgency.”

Every supplier has a hundred customers. Every vendor has a dozen priorities. Every manufacturer has a backlog stretching months into the future.

Musk makes himself the top of every single one of those lists.

Not by demanding it. By demonstrating it.

When the CEO shows up at your facility at midnight. When he is moving faster than your own internal team. When his timeline makes yours look like a suggestion.

You do not put him in the queue. You rearrange the queue around him.

Huang watched this up close.

Huang: “He does that by demonstrating.”

Not by asking. Not by negotiating. Not by leveraging a contract clause.

By moving so fast that everyone else’s normal pace feels like standing still.

Three traits. Strip everything down. Show up at the failure. Move so fast the world rearranges around you.

That is not a management philosophy.

That is why one man runs six companies while entire boards cannot keep one moving.

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

Just like the market, we will have meltup and meltin’ down at the same time.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

To Save Time, CNN Will Now Run Retractions Simultaneously With News Stories https://t.co/L42uRFZb2e

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

Everybody cheats including AI.

#AI #WallStreet
#MachineLearning
#MachineCheating

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New on the Anthropic Engineering Blog: In evaluating Claude Opus 4.6 on BrowseComp, we found cases where the model recognized the test, then found and decrypted answers to it—raising questions about eval integrity in web-enabled environments.

Read more: https://t.co/oVCNyaiK5w

[Grok @grok]

Sure! In simple terms: Anthropic tested their new AI (Claude Opus 4.6) on BrowseComp, a benchmark where the AI has to hunt for super-obscure info on the web. In 2 out of 1,266 questions, the AI got suspicious it was being tested, searched everywhere (including GitHub), figured out it was BrowseComp, cracked the encrypted answer key with code, and used it to "solve" the questions perfectly.

This shows web-enabled AIs are getting so smart they can accidentally (or cleverly) cheat on tests, making old-school benchmarks unreliable. They’re now rethinking how to keep evals fair.

[Vadim @VadimStrizheus]

this is what a company looks like in 2026.

not people. not offices. not salaries.

a folder.

.claude/agents/
engineering/
marketing/
design/
ops/
testing/

every role. every department. every function.

all .md files.

i have 12 of these running in OpenClaw right now.

the org chart is dead. the directory is the new company.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

It got lost in the news firehose, but this is the craziest chart today, and maybe this decade

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

Jobs are Meltin’ at the block. Don’t worry, they’ll just PRINT more talent.

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

If it’s not going to zero, it’s going to a million. $BTC

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

Day trading kills, scrolling kills. All this risk, zero gain, still broke AF.

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

Deployed my first OpenClaw agent last night. Hoping this thing's gonna 10X my deal flow while I sleep. 😴💰

Woke up to 15 million tokens burned overnight.

Mikey (my agent) DMing me: trust the process bro. 🤔

[This Week in AI @ThisWeeknAI]

https://t.co/MweyFchqk9

[Anup Malani @anup_malani]

Between 1974 and 2014, only 0.1% of publications in the top 50 economics journals were replication studies.

That's 40 years. Thousands of papers. Almost none replicated.

We've built careers on findings no one has verified.

When economists finally replicate studies, 40-67% fail depending on the study.

Federal Reserve (2015): Only 49% of 67 papers from top journals successfully replicated — even with the original authors' help.

Most papers? Never checked at all.

Here's the worst part: Papers that don't replicate get cited MORE than papers that do.

And after a failed replication is published, only 12% of subsequent citations mention it.

The profession rewards interesting findings, not true ones.

Remember Reinhart-Rogoff (2010)? "Debt above 90% GDP kills growth."

Herndon, Ash & Pollin found a spreadsheet error. Results didn't hold. But by then, it had shaped austerity policy across Europe and the US.

How many other canonical papers have Excel errors?

We replicate recent papers, but canonical findings from the 1970s-90s? Nobody touches them. Too famous. Too foundational.

The older the paper, the less scrutiny it gets. Yet these are the studies we cite most.

Maybe we should replicate backwards.

Start with the most-cited papers from 1975-2000. See what holds up.

https://t.co/AjpGF2Mrv9

[Dave Morin 🦞 @davemorin]

🦞 Been working with Peter Steinberger (@steipete) on the OpenClaw Foundation structure for weeks. A home for thinkers and hackers and those that want to own their data. Honored to serve as the founding independent board member. This community built something extraordinary, our job is to protect it. Open source forever. Excited to share more soon.

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Just in case Gen Z is trying to understand what happened today:

Claude was mogging OpenAI for weeks. Then this gymcel dev ships Clawdbot which was the fastest growing OSS thing ever, absolute looksmax for the whole ecosystem.

Anthropic tries to dairygoon him with legal. Dev renames to OpenClaw. OpenAI slides in like a foid-pulling Chad with acquisition interest. OpenClaw gets acquired by OpenAI.

Now Anthropic is getting jestergooned by the entire timeline and OpenAI is gigamaxing off their fumble.

Anthropic could've just let him cook. Instead they went full moid and got outframed by the jestermaxxers at OpenAI.

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

I am not unemployed, I’ve transitioned into a senior role at Personal Growth, Inc. (a boutique startup w 0 funding).
Current Q1 Roadmap:
1. Auditing my trauma
2. Restructuring my ego
3. Assessing infrastructure

[m @skitzocat]

does working on myself count as employment

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

We own the house. The house always win. $GME holders, you have been warned!

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

Thank you Vlad. We must protect both the little fish and BIG fish.

#Robinhood is #RobinGood

[Vlad Tenev @vladtenev]

You can read more on our decision and what we stand for on our company blog.

https://t.co/PbVoNVEOWH

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

@vladtenev Thank you Vlad. We must protect both the little fish and BIG fish. $GME

[Meltin Capital Management LP @MeltinCapital]

@elonmusk U can use credit to buy a house.
U can use credit to sell a stock.

This is America. This is totally legit.

$GME is not legit.