Smooth

Take it EZ

[dar @radbackwards]

Where am I

[Smooth @SoSm00th2]

@radbackwards Now we’re talking

[dar @radbackwards]

I think tech should be 10x more dangerous.

Gang wars. Custom handshakes. Shoot outs. Candy paint Cadillacs. Drugs. Fake LV Belts. All of it.

Speed of innovation would increase exponentially.

[Bernt Bornich @BerntBornich]

Robot abundance, one NEO at a time.
More tomorrow.

[dar @radbackwards]

NEO for Capsule Issue 5, 2026

It’s no CellMates 30under30 or pay to play Time Mag… but to be recognized by one of the most thoughtful and well respected design publications means the world to me

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

You know that feeling where you're walking alone at night in a city where nobody knows you and your whole life suddenly makes sense?

There's a reason that hits different than anything you feel at home.

Your brain has two modes that almost never run at the same time. One handles paying attention to new things around you. The other handles thinking about yourself, your past, your future. They work like a seesaw. When one goes up, the other goes down. At home, your brain filters out 90% of your surroundings before you're even conscious of them. Everything is familiar. So the seesaw barely moves.

A foreign city at night breaks that.

Every street sign you can't read, every smell you can't name, every traffic pattern that feels wrong floods your hippocampus with dopamine and norepinephrine. Your brain is treating every single input as new. Meanwhile there's no task. No meeting. No one to perform for. No one even knows your name. So instead of your self-reflection system shutting down like it normally does when your environment gets intense, it stays fully online.

Two systems that normally suppress each other firing in parallel. That almost never happens.

The dopamine makes the moment feel significant. The norepinephrine burns it into long-term memory at a depth that your Tuesday commute never touches. And while all of this is happening, your brain is running old memories of who you used to be against present-tense sensory proof of where you are now.

That "how far I've come" feeling is a real neurochemical event. Your brain is building the most emotionally loaded version of your own story it can, in real time, at 20 watts, inside your skull.

[Oliur @UltraLinx]

Can you read 900 words per minute? Try it.

[Smooth @SoSm00th2]

Wu wei

[Michael Antonelli @BullandBaird]

It’s long but WOW did he cook this.

[1X @1x_tech]

NEO’s Starting to Learn on Its Own

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

This is an awesome post-game exchange between a reporter and Jaguars HC Liam Coen:

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 DAVE RAMSEY JUST CALLED ONLINE SPORTS BETTING A “PORTAL TO HELL”

Dave Ramsey says FanDuel and DraftKings are quietly wiping out an entire generation of young men, and it’s not by accident.

Back-to-back ads. Every game. Every break. Every platform.

They spend BILLIONS because they know the math: you don’t win. If you were winning, they couldn’t afford the ads.

This isn’t entertainment. It’s digital slot machines aimed straight at 20 year old men with dopamine loops, debt cycles, and quiet financial destruction.

If it’s “just fun,” why did it need to be legalized, normalized, and shoved in your face nonstop?

[Smooth @SoSm00th2]

Release control, accept the unknown
Do right every chance u can

[Smooth @SoSm00th2]

Ima bring back whoopie cushions

[Favored Sinner @FavoredSinner]

One of the best things my brother said to me this year was that people usually have a real reason for everything they do. That thought genuinely changed how I see people, and myself.

The human brain is powerful, but it was built for survival, not success. It chooses comfort over stress by default. Even though we all have the ability to think long term, plan, and push through discomfort, most of the time we do not use that part of the brain properly.

We see successful people and we know what they did to get there. The problem is not understanding the steps or read their books. The problem is being willing to go through the same discomfort every day without stopping. Our brains are not used to that level of consistency, so they push back.

Take something simple. If you spent three hours a day learning a skill instead of watching films or scrolling, this time next year you would be good enough to make money from it. That is not a theory. It is basic repetition.

We all have access to information now. AI, books, videos, courses. Information is not the issue. The issue is that learning and applying it feels uncomfortable, boring, and slow. So we avoid it and tell ourselves stories instead.

Since that realisation, I stopped waiting until I feel like doing things. When my brain hesitates or tries to delay, I act immediately. I do not argue with it anymore. I just do the work.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Nvidia, $NVDA, CEO: “you cannot show me a task that is beneath me.”

[Brett Usher @UsherNBA]

😂😂😂

[Smooth @SoSm00th2]

Before you pray for new blessings,
Pray to see all the blessings that already exist around you

[Smooth @SoSm00th2]

Grateful