Samuel Appah Jr.

Economist/ Trader

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

The quickest way to realize we are not as clever as we think is to read someone who lived 200 years ago.

[Next Circ @NextCirc]

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[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

the greatest people aren’t disciplined.

they are obsessed.

[shyamal @shyamalanadkat]

bet on people with insane learning curves.

[Riċ @ricblurs]

how it feels to say “okay” instead of arguing

[naiive @naiivememe]

mom getting older while you’re not rich yet

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

“He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.”

- Plato

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”

- Thucydides

Lift weights.
Learn to fight.
Read books.
Learn to write.

[PROFESSOR @SIGMAPROFESSOR]

If you dive into philosophy before securing material success, you risk sabotaging your worldly life.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨 This is wild. We are talking about actual building blocks of life found on a raw asteroid. Sugars, amino acids and nucleobases sitting out in space tell us that the recipe for life was already everywhere long before Earth formed. This matters more than people think

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

While ribose was present, deoxyribose (the DNA sugar) was not. This suggests RNA may have been more prevalent than DNA in the early solar system – supporting the “RNA world” hypothesis that DNA was not necessary for the origin of life.

[Vlad Tenev @vladtenev]

We are on the cusp of a profound change in the field of mathematics. Vibe proving is here.

Aristotle from @HarmonicMath just proved Erdos Problem #124 in @leanprover, all by itself. This problem has been open for nearly 30 years since conjectured in the paper “Complete sequences of sets of integer powers” in the journal Acta Arithmetica.

Boris Alexeev ran this problem using a beta version of Aristotle, recently updated to have stronger reasoning ability and a natural language interface.

Mathematical superintelligence is getting closer by the minute, and I’m confident it will change and dramatically accelerate progress in mathematics and all dependent fields.

[Flash @Flashyasf]

Delete that old version of me in yo head. It expired

[KACHI 🎎 @Kachidey4you]

The way life continues after people die is one of the most humbling things ever.

[Stefan Georgi @StefanGeorgi]

Today I say goodbye to my 30s. It was a wild decade:

-Launched my first supplement company (Holy Land Health) in 2015 and went from $1MM rev that year to $23MM the second year.

-Had to meet with 9 district attorneys in Oakland after they sent me a letter about that company (it worked out alright).

-Launched an agency (Red Ox Consulting) that did $10MM+ in revenue in a single year. Hated that business.

-Made $1MM+ in freelancing income for 4 straight years (while running businesses). Did it by charging $50k per sales letter for clients.

-Wrote hundreds of sales letters that generated billions of dollars.

-Saw the emergence of AI occur, embraced it, and accepted that the days of charging $50k a sales letter were over.

-Founded a call center (Turtle Peak) and sold it for 7 figures.

-Founded a SaaS and sold it for 6 figures (FreeAdCopy).

-Founded Copy Accelerator (CA Pro these days), through which I've helped 500+ DTC brands who collectively have generated $10BN+ in revenue since working with them.

-Bought out my original co-founder of CA Pro for 7 figures.

-Became a guru and built a personal brand.

-Realized I didn't want to be a guru and stopped doing it.

-Made millions of dollars selling courses and info, including RMBC which is considered one of the best copywriting courses of all time, and more recently RMBC II.

-Did live events that generated millions of dollars in a single 3-day period.

-Stopped doing those events because I didn't like pitching/selling from stage.

-Flew private 50+ times.

-Bought a Bentley.

-Became an "investor" with 7 figures put into movies, an agriculture startup, tech startups, multi-family real estate, food startups, etc.

-Saw most of that money disappear as those companies/projects went bust and multi-family got crunched due to high interest rates.

-Became super illiquid

-Realized being an "investor" sounds sexy until you need cash and all your money is locked up in things

-At one point I sold a Rolex to help cover mortgages (at the height of my liquidity crunch).

-Recovered from that, but stopped spending like a celebrity. Most of the time I fly Comfort+ but rarely splurge for first class. Also stopped putting any personal expenses on credit cards. Went from monthly credit card payments of $200K+ to payments of like $10k or so on average.

-Had my first daughter in 2018.

-Almost got divorced in 2022. We separated and were in arbitration.

-Stopped drinking alcohol (along with my wife - and yes our drinking was related to us almost divorcing).

-We saved our marriage.

-Had our second daughter in April.

-Marriage is in the strongest place ever.

-Met an endless list of celebrities, billionaires, etc.

-Saw my best friend since childhood get diagnosed with cancer in his mid 30s and die right before his 38th birthday.

-Saw another best friend since childhood also get diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 38. Spent weeks at the hospital in LA supporting him last summer during/after emergency surgery to remove multiple infected organs. He's doing okay right now thank God. I try to visit him at least once every 3 months.

- Did $10MM+ in real estate transactions - these ones have mostly worked out pretty well.

-Got in great shape thanks to my friend Glenn Dawson and ResetU.

-Survived attacks from enemies trying to destroy my business.

-Finally stopped bouncing around to things and got hyperfocused on the telemedicine business I run, which did $20MM in our first year and is doubling that in our second year.

—

Honestly there's so much more I could put. It was a very busy decade…

But ultimately, the biggest transformation as I come out of it is a feeling of maturation and focus.

I'm thankful for the experiences I had. The good and the bad. The wins and the dumb mistakes. All of it...

But as I turn 40, the most beautiful thing is how much simpler my life feels.

Family:
They come first. I love being a dad. I coach my oldest daughter's softball games. I'm up early in the morning with our 6-month-old. I don't go out and party. When I'm not working or working out, I'm with my family. If it's not work time and I'm not with my kids, it's because I'm out on a date with my wife.

Business:
I say no to every new business opportunity that comes my way. I say no to pretty much any speaking invite or opportunity. I don't launch new info products or courses (with the exception of RMBC II). I don't have any interest in investing in random businesses. I'm good with CA Pro and telemedicine and that's it.

Finances:
I spend less. Money goes out of my account every month and into an index fund. Every now and then I'll buy some individual stocks. I don't do speculative stuff. I don't spend money on PJs or ultra-luxury cars. I still like nice things, but I buy them rarely, and there's never a compulsive need for "more." We have a nice house and even if I had a billion dollars, we probably wouldn't move. The house is great and the neighborhood is full of families and kids that my daughters can play with. Who cares about a house that's bigger.

Health:
I work out every single day. I eat pretty healthily. I'm as mentally and physically strong as I've ever been.

Spirituality:
I meditate regularly and I give thanks to God for everything I have.

—

And that's the tweet. Long. Maybe self-indulgent. Maybe contains lessons. I don't know…

But I'll only turn 40 once and there's something about big milestone events that can leave a man feeling reflective.

[Naval @naval]

The people who start the wars don’t fight them, the people who spend the taxes don’t pay them, and the people who forgive the criminals don’t live next to them.

Of course we’re going to have too many wars, too much spending, and too much crime.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

A couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced...

Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed.

After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing.

It powers Majorana 1, the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core.

We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years.

The qubits created with topoconductors are faster, more reliable, and smaller.

They are 1/100th of a millimeter, meaning we now have a clear path to a million-qubit processor.

Imagine a chip that can fit in the palm of your hand yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not!

Sometimes researchers have to work on things for decades to make progress possible.

It takes patience and persistence to have big impact in the world.

And I am glad we get the opportunity to do just that at Microsoft.

This is our focus: When productivity rises, economies grow faster, benefiting every sector and every corner of the globe.

It’s not about hyping tech; it’s about building technology that truly serves the world.

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

Ghana has granted visa free access to citizens of all African countries starting from January 2025.

[Pixie @impixiecat]

$24 million dollars, luxury watches, and the largest sim swap hack ever.

this is how teenage gamers became the most wanted cybercriminals, their entire empire collapsing from greed before they could even drive..🧁

[naiive @naiivememe]

normal day in crypto

[Tsarathustra @tsarnick]

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says data is a natural resource of a country and to harness it requires translating energy into intelligence with AI factories