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[Mario🏇 @TheMarioChase]

If you wanna talk to people flawlessly, the first and the foremost thing need to have is a Happy mindset.

If you are not happy and thankful to the universe internally, no amount of persuasion techniques are going to help you to overcome the speaking anxiety.

👊🏽

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Generational wealth starts with asymmetry.

One person has to see a structural edge early, tolerate being wrong longer than others, and allocate capital into things that look stupid before they look obvious.

Bravery without leverage just produces martyrs.

Bravery without skill produces cautionary tales.

What actually creates generational wealth is:
• timing, not heroism
• ownership, not effort
• patience through drawdowns
• concentration when conviction is earned
• restraint once the edge disappears

Most people who were “brave” ended up broke.

The ones remembered were brave and right and positioned.

So the truer version is:

Generational wealth starts with one person who understands the game they are playing better than the people around them, and has the discipline to act before permission is granted.

Everything else is branding.

[Mario🏇 @TheMarioChase]

To push the frontiers you gotto be cracked engineer
They can't be bought with 30% hike from current CTC
Period

[Gaurav @gauravisnotme]

LOL, one of the most hilarious posts to attract cracked individuals.

They want to push what's technologically possible and their Google Forms has two very important and mind you, mandatory questions -

1. What's your GPA?
Why - because only perfect GPAs can push India to the next frontier.

2. What's your current compensation? -
Hey, if you are making $15,000 a year - we will offer your $20,000 and that should keep you motivated enough to achieve technologically impossible goals.

The hiring approach in India is so messed up. And it's sad to see that people in-charge have no understanding whatsoever of what kind of team it takes to build systems that push the frontier.

Good luck hiring and pushing...

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

I revisit this post often...

[Mario🏇 @TheMarioChase]

Doing hard shit on purpose is real life hack

[conduct|r @conductr_]

doing hard shit on purpose is the real life hack. force yourself to grow before life forces you to suffer. both hurt. only one is chosen. run toward the challenge. the obstacle. the pain. meet it with a smile. with ruthless obsession.

decide that excellence is not a dream but a habit. when fear shows up pull it closer and whisper not today. treat every setback like a message from God saying rise higher or stay the same. growth only starts when you stop begging for easy. stay in the discomfort one more rep one more page one more hard conversation. get comfortable being misunderstood. get fearless about starting over.

your future self will look back at this season and say thank you for not quitting. your younger self will finally rest knowing you turned all that struggle into strength and all that pain into purpose.

winning is not for everyone. winning is a choice

[conduct|r @conductr_]

deep love awakens a certain madness within you. it doesn't matter whether it's a person. a vision. a work of art. an idea. a business. a dream. that love becomes a restless pull

it robs you of sleep and gets you out of bed before dawn. it is utterly irrational. but you cannot do without it. it creates chaotic order. it demands relentless patience

it becomes a beautiful obsession. it is the kind of love that breaks you and rebuilds you simultaneously. you feel as though you are losing and winning all at once. it asks for everything you have. but repays you with everything you could ever want

this is what true passion looks like

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

Fyodor Dostoevsky just after his death sentence was repealed

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

You need HIGH UTILITY HOBBIES. Hobbies that leave you with lasting skills

Martial arts = high utility hobby
Cooking = high utility hobby
Writing = high utility hobby
Guns = high utility hobby

Weaponize your downtime. Consumption-based hobbies are designed to keep you occupied & dependent

[Abhishek Singh @0xlelouch_]

I keep noticing this pattern in engineering teams.

A developer hits a bug.
Opens ChatGPT or Copilot.
Pastes the error.
Copies the fix.
Moves on.

No understanding. No curiosity. Just the green checkmark so the ticket can close.

But then there are the engineers I genuinely admire.
They pause.
They read the stack trace.
They ask why this broke in the first place.
They dig into the source code instead of just the symptoms.
They learn something about the system they'll carry forever.
They fix the bug and three other things they noticed along the way.

That's the difference between using AI as a crutch and using it as a catalyst.

The crutch engineer becomes dependent.
Copies without questioning.
Ships code they can't explain.
Debugs by trial and error, pasting until something works.
Their skills plateau because the struggle is where growth lives — and they skipped it.

The catalyst engineer uses AI differently.
They ask it to explain, not just fix.
They verify the suggestion against docs.
They treat it as a second opinion, not the answer.
They stay in the driver's seat.

I've seen junior devs outgrow seniors because they kept their curiosity sharp.
And I've seen talented people stagnate because they outsourced their thinking.

AI is the most powerful learning tool we've ever had.
But only if you engage with it.
Only if you ask "why does this work" after it works.
Only if you treat every fix as a chance to understand, not just ship.

Because at the end of the day, code that you don't understand is debt you'll pay later.
And a developer who stops asking why has already stopped growing.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

This is how you get everything you want in life.

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

master your craft so completely that it becomes your language. not the language you speak to impress others, but the language you think in. where the work isn’t separate from you, isn’t something you do, but something you are. where your hands know before your mind does. where you’ve repeated the fundamentals so many times they’ve dissolved into instinct.

it’s not just talent. it’s mind and body numbing devotion. it’s showing up when inspiration left. it’s the thousand hours nobody saw that make the one hour everybody wants.

excellence is a religion.
and the only prayer that matters is practice.

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

if you're in the pursuit of excellence, i would highly recommend this book

[vivi @mooncatvivi]

just felt an arrow through my chest

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Trump’s advice on how to handle stress

[Mario🏇 @TheMarioChase]

Stop explaining yourself. Let them misunderstand.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Stop explaining yourself. Let them misunderstand. Read by candlelight. Memorize prayers you don't believe yet. Fast until you see clearly. Delete your autobiography. Burn your manifestos. The story you tell about yourself is a cage. Visit graves of people you never met. Learn their names anyway. Sit in empty churches. Silence is older than doctrine. Stop waiting for permission. The elders are dead. You are the elder now. Teach yourself ancient languages. Not for resume. For resurrection. Walk at midnight. Notice what moves in darkness. Befriend it. Your fear is obsolete genetics. Murder it. Stop journaling feelings. Journal prophecies. Then make them true. Find teachers who scare you. If they comfort you they're lying. Comfort is the enemy. Read the texts they banned. Ask why they were banned. The answer is always the same. Learn to fight. Doesn't matter which discipline. A man who cannot defend cannot build. Stop consuming content. Create doctrine. Your doctrine. Forge weapons from your wounds. Every scar is a lesson you paid for in blood. Collect them. The crowd will call you crazy. That's how you know it's working. Find the others. They're looking for you too. Start the monastery. Physical or digital doesn't matter. Build the fortress. Man the walls. Something is coming and the soft will not survive it.

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

oh my… this shouldn’t be possible

Gemini 3 can generate 3D interactive scenes with three.js… and you can literally move particles with your hands

no coding skills needed at all, it's all free

tutorial + prompts in the comments

[maxus_red @Shivamrut_G]

133 days from now (only 3192 hours)
1. Complete the Striver's a2z sheet
2. Knight on Leetcode
3. At least Specialist in Codeforces
4. Very strong CN, OS and DBMS fundamentals
5. Interview ready system design
6. Deep knowledge in backend, cloud, observability and orchestration
7. A satisfactory full time offer
Pinning this on my profile. Time to lock in. Every hour counts. From now every day will be audited, every moment I must actively seek to improve. Mediocrity is no longer tolerable for me. Lets change that.

Hope to post consistently throughout the journey.
Ending with a quote that keeps me pushing -
"Your lack of commitment is an insult to those who believe in you"
Can't let so many people get insulted now, can I?

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

A lot of young people get discouraged from working long hours because they see their seniors are not doing the same

This is absolutely the worst mindset to have and will be a career killer in the long run

MDs and PMs might be working less hours, but each hour of work is more efficient and revenue generative for the firm

As an analyst, you can work 80 hours a week and bring zero incremental value to your company’s P&L

Compare that to an MD who can work 20 hours a week and still bring in millions of actual incremental top line

And the reality is… most of them worked just as hard as you, and probably even more, when they were your age. Which is why they are where they are in the first place

Harsh truth is your time as a 23 year old college graduate is nowhere as valuable as an MD or PM who has done this for many decades

Following your seniors’ footsteps is the right move, but the right comparison to make is when they were young analysts or associates going through the early career grind

Don’t follow them into working a 9-6 if you want to move ahead