Rohan Kumar

18 | Tech and finance

high stake database gambler

[Rohan Kumar @RohanKumar2007]

Be grateful for your reality, it's someone's dream.

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

The ugly truth about why .5% of men make it and most live sh!t lives...

Is that you can't work or motivate yourself to success.

You have to create a metaphoric gun to your head with a very real mental bullet. An outcome that is up there with death.

Let me explain:

You won't see growth in your life... personal or in income... from motivation. You can't willpower it either.

You will see it when you've endured enough pain that you have truly had enough and refuse to stay as you are.

Most men only stop drinking when it makes their life unbearable.

Most men only choose to take big risks and become successful when they reach a breaking point from the work they are stuck in.

I for example NEVER wanted to be an entrepreneur growing up. It wasn't till I was 22, broke and stuck and hating my job, that I literally couldn't live any longer in my current situation. I didn't want to build a business. I had to. My life was unbearable due to where coasting had gotten me.

Only when "at any cost, I can't live like this anymore" becomes your motivation will you see huge growth.

The way to achieve this is by removing what numbs you. The things that stop you from looking in the mirror and going "what the fucking fuck."

The cheap dopamine, cheap thrills, booze/pot/junk that leave you foggy and unclear. The things that let you feel okay, despite your life being very much "not okay" if you actually look it in the eye.

Most men never do this. They never look at the things they CHOOSE accept about themselves. Poor health. Poor habits. Awful results in everything.

They just open a beer, load up a video game, scroll social media and bury it. This is because looking at how ugly you are is hard. The best way to ensure you stay metaphorically fat and disgusting is simply to not look in the mirror.

You have to look at who you truly are and feel such disgust that you will no longer tolerate staying where you are.

Without this you will only get temporary bursts. You will only make do on willpower, which is finite.

Something close to a gun to your head must be created in your mind. You must vehemently reject who and what you are to the point that it keeps you up at night.

Then you'll simply make whatever you want happen.

This is why most men never unlock their potential till they hit rock bottom. Most, despite WANTING success, are always in a numb state of "mostly" comfortable. The years then pass, they get old, nothing changes.

Whatever it takes to trigger this. Do it.

The answer isn't a self help book. It isn't researching and admiring other role models. It isn't envisioning a better life and mapping out daily steps to get there.

It's unbridled-unholy-rage as a result of where your life choices have gotten you.

This won't sustain you forever....But shit damn...It will guaranteed get you over the initial hurtle and to the point where "love of the game" will carry you.

Like I said before, it usually comes down to removing everything that is distracting and numbing you so that you are forced to look at yourself for who you truly are.

[PyQuant News 🐍 @pyquantnews]

I'm 42.

If you're still in your 20s, read this:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

God Bless America

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

https://t.co/FjADcZJBlB

[Goshawk Trades @GoshawkTrades]

Chris Camillo, featured in Jack Schwager's Unknown Market Wizards, turned $20K into $70M+ over 18 years averaging 77% annualized returns. audited.

his edge? TikTok comments and beauty influencer videos.

he found ELF Cosmetics at $7 because a YouTube creator with 10 million views said their $8 primer was as good as a $60 product. he went to Walgreens and stood there all day watching moms buying out every ELF product on the shelf.

then he called the Wall Street analyst covering ELF to check if it was priced in.

"what do you think about the Jeffree Star video on ELF?"

"who's Jeffree Star?"

"at that moment, i knew everything i needed to know about that trade."

ELF went from $7 to $170.

Blankfein lives in a world of phone calls and 40 years of relationships at the center of global finance. Camillo lives in a world of TikTok comments, Google Trends, and standing in a drugstore counting what sells. both have something the marginal participant in the market doesn't understand or can't act on.

as Agustin Lebron (ex Jane Street quant) puts it:

"edge is something you understand and can act on that the marginal participant in the market doesn't understand or can't act on."

the question is: what's yours?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

In the future, a trillion times a trillion dollars will be spent on making antimatter to travel to other star systems

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Starcloud just became the fastest YC company ever to a $1B valuation after Demo Day. 17 months. Building data centers in orbit.

The hardest possible problem, the fastest possible ascent. This is what we should be building.

[alexei @alexeixbt]

"be realistic"

don't trap me in the same cage you live in

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

In the first episode of our new series Full Stack, @conductor_build CEO and co-founder @charlieholtz takes us into the details of how he sets up his workflow for coding and managing AI agents.

00:00 – Building Conductor With Conductor
01:05 – Managing a Team of Coding Agents
02:39 – Do You Still Write Code?
04:17 – Charlie's AI Stack and Setup
05:48 – “Slop-free” Zones
07:25 – Don’t Let the AI Be Your Architect
09:15 – The Future of Cloud Workspaces
10:40 – Claude vs Codex
12:01 – Tokenmaxxing
14:17 – The Future of Human–AI Collaboration
15:07 – "Code Is Becoming Sawdust"

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

https://t.co/WTy8hynCmb

[Rohan Kumar @RohanKumar2007]

@rathor7_ Generational debt 😆

[Acquisition.com @acq_official]

Alex Hormozi explains how to build wealth without looking rich.

"If you want to impress poor people, outspend them. If you want to impress rich people, outwork them. If you lease a Ferrari for $5,000 a month, I know you're not rich. And every rich person isn't impressed by that, because we know what it costs. You only impress poor people."

"Your lifestyle is your competitor's opportunity. There's you and other version of you. Bizarro you wants to live this great lifestyle, and has the Ferrari, and the nicer place. But when an opportunity comes along, Bizarro doesn't have any savings, because he's trying to show face. There's zero advantage to being accurately judged. If you are strong, you want to appear weak."

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

QUANTMIND JUST AUTOMATED THE SIX FIGURE JOB HEDGE FUNDS PAY ANALYSTS TO DO MANUALLY.

Every paper.
Every news article.
Every SEC filing.
Every blog post in quant finance.

All of it turned into a queryable knowledge graph automatically.

The analyst who spent 60 hours a week reading, tagging, and connecting financial research just got replaced by a system that does it in real time.

Hedge funds pay six figures for this.
QuantMind just made it available to anyone.

[J.P. Morgan @jpmorgan]

Live from our global headquarters: Jamie Dimon and Elon Musk discuss SpaceX and more. https://t.co/WQfJ3j8atX

[Naval @naval]

If the people you most look up to are investors and financiers, then your God is money.

[Ming @tslaming]

Antonio Gracias, Elon Musk’s best friend, loaned Musk $1 million to keep SpaceX alive 🤝

Now he is poised to make as much as $140 billion from SpaceX’s IPO, making him one of the 50 wealthiest people alive, according to Fortune 💰

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

We raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z.

Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.

[۟ @MINHxDYNASTY]

never take a trade after a big win

[Rohan Kumar @RohanKumar2007]

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[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Claude AI developer Anthropic to pay Elon Musk's SpaceX $1.25 billion per month until May 2029.

[Rohan Kumar @RohanKumar2007]

Lol, wearing those would mean your love has zero latency and unlimited bandwidth. 😭

[Zac @Zac_labs]

My Korean friend says the subtle flex in the dating market right now is wearing an SK Hynix jacket to your first date.

My Taiwanese friend says he is wearing TSMC shoes to his reunion.

Wonder if I can buy both on Taobao and wear them for morning jog at East Coast Park.

Semiconductor drip is the new streetwear. No wonder Nike stocks tanking.