Zed Kingsley

the moon is already here it's just unevenly distributed

[Matthew Doyle @MattDoyle76]

Nobody wants to admit that MLS made Messi better.

[Reggie Chatman Jr. @ReggieChatman]

The butterfly effect is crazy bc a couple people decided a woman was too pregnant to fly and now US Soccer is going to win the World Cup

[Adam Aaronson @aaaronson]

The letters of WATERLOO zigzag progressively closer together in the alphabet

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

I appreciate the World Cup for introducing me to grammar I’ve not yet seen on twitter

[🇦🇷عبد القدوس OLA @Olaitan_qd]

@premliguefrauds He no even think am twice.😂😭

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

Hilarious that the criticism of Ronaldo this WC is that he's hurting the collective by being too selfish, wanting to be the hero himself, someone slightly too old who's still hanging on to former glory.

No metaphors there though, don't read into it.

[Roger Tugas Vilardell 📊 @rogertugas]

⚽️ La gent d'esquerres prefereix Messi i la gent de dretes es decanta per Cristiano Ronaldo

Així ho determina un estudi a 26 estats amb més de 10.000 enquestes

La ideologia és l'element que més determina la preferència, però altres elements també hi influeixen [🧵]

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

Rhyme it does! 🍾

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

@aakashgupta Hot take, getting to spend time with your kids IS the leisure? Like you imply that it’s bad or it’s work but whenever I take leave or vacation it’s all I want to do and it’s wonderful. If I quit my job I’d spend as many more hrs with my kids as they’d allow for.

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

this ... actually makes sense

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

One of the things that makes @SpaceX so valuable is how valuable it is. The Cursor acquisition costs materially less in dilution because of SpaceX’s high valuation.

SpaceX’s ability to do economically, strategically, and technologically accretive acquisitions is an important component of its value.

There is enormous value inherent to a company with a high value particularly when it is controlled by an entrepreneur that the most talented people want to work for and partner with.

Value begets value.

Talent begets talent.

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

Cursor founders and early employees making more on spaceX ipo than the spacex president did

[Deedy @deedydas]

What a brilliant $60B exit for Cursor to SpaceX today!

$4B in run rate growing 7x YoY.

The 4 25yo MIT founders will make ~$2.7B in a span 4yrs and first 50 hires ~$20-500M each.

A testament to why you should actually join early stage startups and of huge outcomes building apps on top of AI models.

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

ALL STOCK DEAL

[Quinn Thompson @qthomp]

This is brilliant corporate finance. Use your newly printed, low float, retail inflated currency to acquire real businesses ahead of the lockup expiring. Probably the most creative/accretive way to sell as much equity as possible into IPO pump. I wonder what acquisition is next.

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

good balance to whatever else is on your feed:

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

She is absolutely right

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

@nickmmark Same thread different person @camp4 @midIQeth

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

5/ You do not need a doctor to know if you have phone driven dopamine damage.

Run this check:

1. You check your phone within 30 seconds of waking
2. You feel anxious if your phone is not near you
3. You cannot watch a movie without scrolling
4. You cannot sit on the toilet without your phone
5. You feel restless after 10 minutes of doing nothing
6. You start tasks and never finish them
7. You feel flat, but your blood tests are fine

Three or more is the threshold. Five or more is severe.

This is not a flaw in you. This is what a brain looks like after years of heavy scrolling.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Sometimes we forget how lucky we are to live in the US

[andi (twocents.com) @Nexuist]

Sign of the times to read this in an official statement from Microsoft

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

Ai getting good can’t tell if things like this are slop or not

[Electra @Electrarythm]

There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online.

He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history.

He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing.

His entire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living.

He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action.

He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation.

Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not.

Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation.

He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk.

He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation.

The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable.

Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom.

But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back.

Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

@midIQeth @Camp4 @hottakeabe *put not out

[Zed Kingsley @Zedkingsley]

@midIQeth @Camp4 @hottakeabe Like surely the spacex ipo should have made someone ULTRA wealthy, but this out not a single new builder (not investor) on the internationally wealthy map.

I would think Elon would want his fellow builders to have more influence? But instead he got ~400x more for himself.