Mikey

Amateur @Nissan Juke Enthusiast. Distressed/Special Sits. Certified private equity bad boy. Trying to meet my soulmate in Denver next month

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Spend around 10–30 minutes a day visualizing a version of yourself that you are deliberately trying to build. Do it when your mind is already calm, especially in the evening or just before sleep, because the mind accepts imagery more easily when it is not being pulled in different directions.

The basic idea is simple. The brain treats repeated internal experience as something important. When a certain kind of situation is lived again and again in imagination, with enough detail and emotional weight, it starts to lose its “imagined” quality and becomes something your mind recognizes as familiar territory.

And what becomes familiar stops feeling impossible.

Old patterns weaken in this process not because you fight them directly, but because you stop feeding them the same mental rehearsal. At the same time, new patterns begin to stabilize because they are being repeatedly experienced internally before they ever exist externally.

Start by settling your body. Slow breathing. Less tension in the face, shoulders, stomach. You are not trying to force anything, you are just lowering internal noise.

Then choose one specific scene. Not an abstract goal. A moment. Something you can step into mentally.

If it is health, do not think “I want to be healthy,” instead see yourself moving through a normal day with physical ease, walking without effort, breathing clearly, feeling your body light and responsive.

If it is confidence or success, see yourself in a real situation where you would normally hesitate, but now you speak without that hesitation, you are steady, direct, and things unfold without internal resistance.

If it is discipline, see yourself already inside the routine, doing the work without negotiation, as if it is simply what you do.

Always stay in first person. Through your own eyes.

What is directly in front of you. What is under your feet. The texture of the environment. The light in the space. The small details your attention would normally skip.

Then sound. The way voices actually enter the space. The rhythm of your breathing. Any background noise that belongs to that environment.

Then physical sensation. The weight of your body. Temperature on the skin. The sense of movement. The way you occupy space when you are not resisting yourself.

Emotionally, you are not trying to force excitement. You are allowing a quieter set of states to appear. Relief that things are simple. A sense of “this is already how I operate.” A quiet internal stability that does not need justification.

You are not building a fantasy. You are rehearsing familiarity.

At the end, stop adding detail and just remain in the general felt sense of it for a short moment, as if your mind has already accepted it as normal.

Let that feeling continue lightly as you move into the rest of your day.

Repeat it often enough that the scene stops feeling like something you are trying to reach, and starts feeling like something your mind already knows how to do.

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

Some of the best career advice I could offer anyone

[Shanu Mathew @ShanuMathew93]

Instead of focusing on external optics about your job, focus on 1) having a good manager invested in your success & development and 2) working for a good culture that respects boundaries, gives you opportunities to grow, and treats people with dignity. Most importantly, 3) do good work for people and go to bat for people that work alongside you. Jobs change but relationships endure over the years.

If the job doesn’t give you 1 & 2, move on. Do 3 regardless because even if you have short stints, as long as you prove yourself a strong & capable worker that delivered for teammates and have people that can vouch for you, you’ll be welcome elsewhere.

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

@RaminNasibov Was on the SNES, but Earthbound. Playing that game with my older brother was a treat. Simpler times

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

The “peace deal imminent” and “reopening of the Strait close” discussions sound a whole lot like the “inflation is transitory” discourse from mid-Covid

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

People in the comments make me lose hope for our country

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We've published a paper that explains our views on AI competition between the US and China.

The US and democratic allies hold the lead in frontier AI today. Read more on what it’ll take to keep that lead: https://t.co/TgJBeodWYK

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

@SuperMugatu Likely net negative employment
Potentially leads to rate cuts
Which is maybe bullish for AI/data center buildouts
Which might lead to acceleration of robotics
Which could turn into deflation

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

@evrgn11112231 @StonkCapital101 I’ve not done any research (I’m a distressed vulture after all) but have a feeling market is underpricing the Meta glasses to a significant degree

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

Was in Tokyo for work during the last four days. During this trip I unexpectedly got drinks with:

- my cousin who I haven’t seen in 13 years
- two friends I met in Turks and Caicos 5 years ago
- a high school friend who shouted my name at the airport

Small freakin world

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

@TMTLongShort Outside of the Citrini report, any good resources/primers on the industry and where it’s going?

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

@volcrushed I don’t blame them one bit, and I had the exact same reaction, but you also need to understand how to play the political game long term. I tried to defuse as many landmines as I could, but one can only do so much when emotions are running that high

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

This ended up getting resolved. Took a good bit of my political capital to prevent self-immolation from junior colleagues, probably took a few years off my life in between, but was resolved nonetheless

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

Watching my old boss royally, insultingly fuck over my former analysts w/ their bonuses for last year after he took home low 9 figures in 2025. I’m so blind with rage I’m considering torching the relationship & throwing away 7 figures of deferred comp to let him know he’s a cunt

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

@volcrushed @WisemanCap Honestly same

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

I got lucky in a number of ways in that I went to Thailand in December 2019, my mom texted me saying “watch out for this new virus”, and I listened to her/did research and shorted the market in Jan/Feb 2020 (took me way too long to go levered long afterwards, but that’s another story). Haven’t felt that same conviction since then

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

Beginning to think I should stop my weekly automated investments into the S&P and Nasdaq, and just put it all into $TQQQ instead. If the market pulls back 5% I double it. If it pulls back 10% I quintuple. If it pulls back 30% I leverage everything I own and put my entire net worth into $TQQQ

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je ne pense pas qu'on réalise le tsunami qui arrive.

Ce que vous voyez là, ce n'est pas une démo de plus. C'est le premier domino d'une cascade qui va redéfinir ce que ça veut dire être humain au 21e siècle.

Pendant 200 ans, la révolution industrielle a automatisé la force brute. Mais la dextérité fine, le geste précis, l'adaptation à un environnement non standardisé, c'est resté la chasse gardée de l'humain. Casser un œuf. Plier une chemise. Réparer une fuite. Ce mur vient de tomber.

Étape 1 : les robots humanoïdes commencent vraiment à marcher. Pas des prototypes de salon, des machines qui exécutent des tâches manuelles complexes en autonomie, à vitesse réelle, avec un seul modèle pour tout. Le hardware suit la loi de Wright. Comptez 5 ans pour passer de 100K€ à 15K€ l'unité.

Étape 2 : toutes les tâches manuelles non créatives vont être automatisées. Cuisiner, nettoyer, ranger, jardiner, livrer, soigner, construire. Pas "certaines" tâches. La quasi-totalité du travail manuel répétitif que l'humanité produit depuis qu'elle est sortie de la savane.

Étape 3 : tout le monde aura un service 3 étoiles chez soi. Aujourd'hui, avoir un chef privé, un majordome, un kiné à domicile, c'est réservé à 0,01% de la population mondiale. Demain, c'est le standard. Le luxe va se démocratiser à une vitesse jamais vue dans l'histoire.

Étape 4 : la société va se réorganiser entièrement autour des robots. L'urbanisme, le droit, la fiscalité, l'éducation. Tout est designé autour d'une contrainte qui disparaît : la rareté du travail humain. Comparable en ampleur à l'arrivée de l'électricité, sauf que ça prendra 20 ans, pas 80.

Étape 5 : la place de l'humain est à retrouver. Si une machine cuisine mieux, soigne mieux, code mieux, à quoi ça sert d'être humain ? La réponse n'est pas dans la productivité. Elle est dans l'expérience subjective, la création de sens, le lien, le jeu, le risque, la transmission.

Étape 6 : abondance totale de biens et de services. Le coût marginal de produire un repas, un vêtement, un logement, un soin tend vers zéro. Marx pensait que c'était la révolution prolétarienne qui apporterait l'abondance. Erreur. C'est le capitalisme et la technologie qui le font.

Étape 7 : on réalise que la vie est un énorme jeu. Toutes les civilisations qui ont atteint un seuil d'abondance ont basculé vers la culture, le sport, la philosophie, l'art. Sauf que cette fois, ce n'est pas 0,1% de la population qui accède au jeu. C'est 100% des 10 milliards d'humains.

Étape 8 : le but devient de coloniser l'intégralité du cosmos. Une espèce qui a résolu sa subsistance et qui dispose de robots autonomes ne reste pas confinée à une bille bleue. Mars dans 15 ans. La ceinture d'astéroïdes dans 30. Les lunes de Jupiter dans 50. L'univers observable contient 2 trillions de galaxies. C'est notre terrain de jeu.

Le 20e siècle nous a appris à craindre la technologie. Le 21e va nous apprendre à la chérir. Parce que c'est elle, et elle seule, qui nous sort de la condition de primates obligés de travailler 40h par semaine pour ne pas mourir de faim.

Les luddites ont toujours perdu. Ils perdront encore. Et heureusement.

L'humanité n'a jamais été aussi proche de devenir ce qu'elle est censée être : une espèce de joueurs, d'explorateurs, de créateurs, libérée de la nécessité, partie à la conquête des étoiles.

Le tsunami arrive. Ne le subissez pas. Surfez-le.

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

I’ve got a (i) dumb, (ii) potentially philosophical, and (iii) maybe unanswerable question. I agree with your sci-fi/creative thinking angle wholeheartedly. Assuming AGI is achieved in the medium term, then imagination/creativity seems to be the only real limiter/bottleneck getting in the way of achieving things beyond (current) comprehension

So what leads to brand new, novel and entirely original ideas? I’d wager it partially comes from the exploration of new frontiers (eg, exploring new vs. old world historically, space travel, virtual reality/the matrix, etc.). But I also wonder how much fantastical/non-sensical dreams, hallucinations, psychosis & mental illness, drug-induced distortions to perceived reality, etc. a contribute to the overall expansion of population-level imagination & creativity.

So I guess what I’m asking is, even if we achieve AGI, machines become capable of creative/independent thought, etc… Since so much (all?) seems to be based on the entirety of lived human experience or things that are uniquely human, is there an upper bound to the amount of creativity / novelty AGI can generate because computers don’t dream/do drugs/etc.? Or does it not even matter because humans will theoretically have more free time, and continue doing all of these things, then come up with new ideas, which expands the universe of imagination, which basically is just an infinite loop?

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

Just about the best possible news they could’ve hoped for and we’re all beyond overjoyed. What a day 🥲🥲

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

In case you need a pick me up today: my best friend’s wife was diagnosed with an aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia the day after Christmas. She had a successful bone marrow transplant ~40 days ago & her tests today showed she’s fully in remission & neg. on molecular level

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

@peterdacreep

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

Watching my old boss royally, insultingly fuck over my former analysts w/ their bonuses for last year after he took home low 9 figures in 2025. I’m so blind with rage I’m considering torching the relationship & throwing away 7 figures of deferred comp to let him know he’s a cunt

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

@InnocenceCapit1 tweeted** this

[Mikey @MikeyFourTweets]

@InnocenceCapit1 I was a few drinks in and seething when I tweeting this, but in the intervening period I’ve figured out a better route to make them whole while also making my old boss look like a jackass w/ minimal professional risk to myself. Meeting with old boss is next week