Alex Bardaji

Non-linear and sprinter.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone needs to hear this...

Michael Caine on his defining philosophy for life:

Use the Difficulty

As a young actor, he was rehearsing a play when a chair got stuck in the door and blocked his path. He told the other actor he couldn't get by the chair to enter the scene.

The actor's response:

"Use the difficulty...if it's a comedy, fall over it, if it's a drama, pick it up and smash it."

This idea became a defining mantra for his life.

"There's never anything so bad that you cannot use that difficulty...if you can use it a quarter of one percent to your advantage, you're ahead, you didn't let it get you down."

I can't stop thinking about this...

How can you use the difficulty you're currently facing? How can you embrace the struggle? How can you find flow through the friction?

As with everything in life, control the controllable:

The difficulty is already there. You can't control it. But you can control how you react to it. You can control your response to it. You can control your attitude towards it.

Lesson: Difficulty is inevitable. Use it.

[AlexBuildsAi @AiandAlex]

@conductr_ "In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it."

"What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead."

[Steve Burns @SJosephBurns]

“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

There are stuff in real life that cannot be transmitted in books and stuff in books you can never pick up in real life.
The disease is the inclination to learn from books what you must learn in real life and attempts to reinvent from experience what can only be found in books.

[Gregory Blotnick @gregoryblotnick]

https://t.co/Fd8dDG03Ka

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Testing reveals speed, not depth. Real life is about depth.
RIP Jim Simons

[Louis Gleeson @aigleeson]

Someone used Elon Musk's actual thinking framework as AI prompts.

It's the closest thing to having a billionaire engineer rip apart your ideas and rebuild them from physics.

Here are the 15 prompts that changed how I solve problems:

[Steven N. Durlauf @sndurlauf]

9 Favorite history books of 2025

1. Capitalism: A Global History, by Sven Beckert

[Gregory Blotnick @gregoryblotnick]

https://t.co/HQTMoye8xC

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

“One day the toys will all be put away, the house still and quiet.”

These words—from a video my friend @isaacfrench_ made for his wife—hit me hard this morning.

📢Parents of young kids, take it from me—a recent empty nester:

The Good Old Days don’t feel like it at the time. It feels more like hard work and struggle. The days are long…

But the years fly by. Then, one day you wake up and the house is still and quiet.

One of my most cherished memories is coming home from work each day and opening the back door to our 1947 craftsman home. My 3-year-old daughter (now 20) would drop her toys and run down the hall—her footsteps booming on the old wood floor—to greet me.

I love my life and don’t need to go back, but I do wish I could pass one message across time to 35-year-old me:

You’re living the good old days right now. Savor every moment.

[Alex Bardaji @alexbardaji]

Verbalized sampling. Good idea. https://t.co/RUBezx5R1X

[Teledeporte @teledeporte]

🤯 ¿Pero qué ha hecho Decathlon?

Gruel y Lapeira dejan de tirar a falta de un kilómetro, llega el grupo de detrás, Bissigger se sacrifica para Lapeira en el sprint y... se quedan sin podio.

🥇Trentin se lleva la victoria para @TudorProCycling

➡️ https://t.co/kuuJXMSkB8

[Alex Bardaji @alexbardaji]

Due diligence standards...

[Alex Bardaji @alexbardaji]

Due diligence standards...

[The Icahnist @TheIcahnist]

They analyzed 10,000+ PE deals.

54% of Private Equity value creation comes from one thing.

Let’s break it down⬇️

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

https://t.co/Xpdl8fYoBg

[Alex Bardaji @alexbardaji]

https://t.co/b5xfvFxBRY

[Gregorio Luri @GregorioLuri]

“Knowledge is what you think with”.

- Greg Ashman

[Quartr @Quartr_App]

ASML's EUV machine is one of the most complex machines ever built by humanity.

Some *insane* stats about it:

→ Without EUV machines, it's impossible to manufacture cutting-edge chips for things like $AAPL iPhones, $NVDA GPUs, and $AMZN data centers.

→ $ASML is the *only* producers of EUV machines in the world.

→ Shipping a single EUV machine requires 40 freight containers, three cargo planes, and 20 trucks.

→ Each EUV machine costs around $200M, consists of more than 100,000 parts and weighs 200 tonnes.

→ The mirrors inside (supplied by Zeiss) are said to be the flattest objects ever produced. If scaled up to the size of Germany, the largest unevenness would be a tenth of a millimeter.

→ The next generation High-NA EUV systems have been shipped to $INTC and $TSM and costs closer to $400M.

This is human ingenuity at its best.

Thanks @intel for the fab tour!

[Alex Bardaji @alexbardaji]

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