Ashwin Krishnan

Thoughts about things

[Aditya Mishra @adityamtweets]

Assume the movie had flopped and the director lost his entire $750,000 investment. How many crew members would have voluntarily returned their fees to help offset his loss?

This is the fundamental asymmetry in risk and reward. When someone puts up their own capital and shoulders the real financial risk especially in a high-failure industry like entertainment they alone bear the downside.

Yet the moment the project succeeds, suddenly everyone who was paid upfront wants a bigger piece of the pie. The same people who would not have shared in the loss now feel entitled to share disproportionately in the upside.

If you accept payment for your work regardless of outcome, you’ve already been compensated for your risk (or lack thereof). Why should the person who risked everything not be allowed to reap the rewards when their gamble pays off?

[du @thedulab]

If money can buy it, care less about it. One of my favorite personal mantras. Good example is career. There's a number that exists that would probably make you quit your job or choose a different one

Compare this to your health, relationships, etc. Get offered generational wealth, but pretend you'd need to permanently live with excruciating back pain in exchange. Someone hands you a billion dollars, but requires you to cut off everyone you love

No shot. Wouldn't even entertain the hypothetical for a second. This tells you everything. Makes you realize that whatever aspects of your life can be tangibly bought are ironically the cheapest things in your life

If you agree then pay no mind to the BS. Fake corporate urgency, disrespectful managers or clients, getting passed up for a promotion, losing a deal or whatever, etc. The emotional investment never justifies the value. Take literally none of it seriously. Don't give any of it power or control over your wellbeing

Know your battles and choose them intentionally. Laugh and relax in the face of what doesn't matter. But with what does matter, go all in. The things that actually matter will always be objectively priceless

[Ashwin Krishnan @ashwin_someone]

...And treat those two imposters the same

[Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani]

"[Alex Pereira's] dad was crying, his family was sad, and he said, 'Hey, we've made other families feel like this. It's our turn.'

I was like, 'That dude is a legend,' just for having that perspective so quickly after a fight and carrying that mentality... A lot of respect for that."

Sean O'Malley praises Alex Pereira for his perspective following his loss to Ciryl Gane.

[Tej Dosa @ComedicBizman]

If you want to make $$$ online, I recommend you start by getting your mind + routines in order. Not because these will make you money. But because business is volatile. If your mind and life is chaotic, then the volatility of biz will destroy you. Create space for the chaos.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

The fastest way to change your life is to rip yourself out of your (physical and digital) environment. Change everything overnight. The places you go, the accounts you follow, the info you consume, etc. It's difficult but it absolutely works.

[Ashwin Krishnan @ashwin_someone]

Man, USA is truly the toxic abusive boyfriend you're still in love with despite everything, for the rest of the world

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

As an immigrant to the US I don't think Americans realize to what extent most of the world admires the states.

They look up to it, its incredible. Americans are heroes of the world for the country they've built and the impact on history. Most of modern civilizations major achievements are American, at least the big ones - mass production, space industry, nuclear power, decoding the human genome, robotics and AI, on and on.

There's really nothing that compares to the excitement of moving to the states from another country. You made it. This is the big leagues. The main stage. The soft power of Hollywood cultural projection meant by the time I arrived, everything was oddly familiar, the design of street signs, roads, the look and feel of the country. This guy from India said - "you know, its like I am in GTA" - and its true. Everywhere on the planet people play video games as American soldiers.

You get primed for it, by the time you get here you're like, fuck yeah, America.

When I first moved here for an internship at SLAC I drove a pickup truck down from Canada and played country music. Smoked cigarettes on the highway. Went for late night rips in the hills behind Stanford. Bought a surfboard.

It was just awesome, truthfully, and I think America will have to save Europe from itself a third time, simply by protecting freedom of speech, national pride, individual liberties, given Europeans a taste of those things, showing them - look, this is how its supposed to be. This is how rich you can become if you respect individual rights over government rule, if you relax the bureaucracy, the taxation, the regulation.

[Ashwin Krishnan @ashwin_someone]

one of those events where the setting, the stakes, the narrative, and the actual results all seemed written.

Destiny -it's the feeling of watching something that couldn't have been scripted better if you tried, happening anyway, for real.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

America is a country of winners.

We love a spectacle.

[Salih GÜNEY💙 @seri702]

Evlenirsen pişman olursun. Evlenmezsen de pişman olursun. Çocuk yapsan da yapmasan da pişman olursun. Kierkegaard bunu 200 yıl önce şöyle söylemiştir:
"Neyi seçersen seç pişman olursun. Çünkü sorun tercihlerinde değil yaşanmamış bir hayatı romantize etmendir. İnsan her daim gidilmemiş bir yolu cazibeli ve gizemli bulur. Bu yüzden mesele en doğru seçimi yapman değil. Hangi pişmanlıkla yaşayacağını seçip karar vermendir."
Sen neye karar verdin?

[lilmonk3y @lilmonk3yy]

demeyeyim demeyeyim diyorum da her karttan sonra yine akla düsüyor, herkesin herkesi yenebilecegi bir sporda nasıl hic yenilmeden 15 ünvan macı kazandın, nasıl 12 kez kemer korudun amk ya

[MysticMacMMA @TheMysticMacMob]

“Until death, all defeat is psychological.”

[Kenny Okoye🇳🇬 @TruthfulUfcFan]

It’s time for that conversation

UFC Makes ZERO Sense #UFCWhiteHouse

[Aj @AjDuxche]

MMA might be the most unpredictable sport in the world

[Ashwin Krishnan @ashwin_someone]

Ok genuinely I think iran war may be forgiven cuz of this event

[Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani]

The unlikely career of Justin Gaethje culminates in the unlikeliest of spots for a fight.

He’s earned this and deserves it. Give him his flowers.

And in the end, this celebration of America actually ends with the American on top.

Unbelievable.

[Ashwin Krishnan @ashwin_someone]

@AlphaJeffrey45 Jeffrey I mean this with all due respect

You're a loser

[Super Fan🇮🇪 @McGregorRousey2]

I’m not a Donald Trump supporter but this is the coolest shit that I have ever seen

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

I don’t know a single person who obsessed over something for 10 years straight, surrounded themselves with peers with the same goal, and genuinely went all in that didn’t end up successful.

[Mubbu @wizofecom]

I know a founder with $10,000,000+ net-worth that only works 3-4 hours a day.

I asked him how he does it and is response was:

"I hyper-focus on making fewer but better decisions"

He showed me behind the scenes into how he plans/makes decisions and it was unbelievable simple:

- He never optimizes his time
- He does NOT have a massive team

He built his company culture around testing & automating.

Their literal workflow is: Identify new opportunities -> test them out -> if they work, then automate it

They find small anomalies and go all in with it.

He spends the rest of his time going on hikes, flying is family out to be with him around the world, and doing random side quests in small villages in countries you've never heard of.

This life is possible. You don't need to become to next Elon Musk trillionaire to live the same way.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Matthew McConaughey cuts through the “do what you love” hype.

Sometimes the job sucks. Sometimes the relationship needs work. Sometimes you don’t feel like tending the fire you’ve been building for years.

But that doesn’t always mean it’s wrong, it might just mean it’s hard.

He says do the sweaty, bloody work anyway. Put out the small smoke before it becomes a blaze. Sacrifice today so you can sleep better tomorrow, still connected to who you set out to be.

Real life isn’t all passion. Sometimes it’s tending the garden even when you’d rather walk away.

[Ashwin Krishnan @ashwin_someone]

@TheAliceSmith No thats not it

I'm an elon fanboy and I've been curious why the left hates him

It's cuz no matter if he's the second coming of Jesus himself

Its unfair one man has access to so much when billions can barely put food on their table

Leftists are just nice, confused people

[Wealth Squad Chris @Chrissssjohnson]

Crazy how we had to read about Henry Ford or Rockafeller in books but we got to see Elon Musk’s work in real time