Kristof Budai

a guy who likes to create

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

One of the hidden benefits of reading old books is that they rescue you from the arrogance of the present.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”

― Socrates

[Beyond the Cosmic Veil @ClassicalAegis]

There is more to the Sistine Chapel than meets the eye.

God and Adam's fingers are at the intersection of 3 Golden ratios.

• the height of the panel
• the length of the panel
• the intersection of the entire 9 panels

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

"True freedom means surrendering your free will by forming your soul to the Good."

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Why did C.S. Lewis say that Hell is locked from the inside?

He explores this idea in his book The Great Divorce.

In it, souls of the damned are allowed to visit heaven on a bus ride, but they are not pleased with what they see — and they leave of their own accord.

The fact is, the damned cannot touch Heaven. They can't so much as disturb the dew drops on the grass. Nor can they even gaze upon the garden properly.

Why? Because they are blinded by their own sins:

– The philosopher would rather philosophize about God than meet him
– The painter would rather make beautiful art than gaze upon the source of all Beauty
– The clingy mother would rather fret over her son than give her full love to God

Lewis' point is that God cannot force man into salvation. Damnation is not God's rejection of man, but God tragically accepting man's rejection of him.

Hell itself is the ultimate monument to human freedom; for a human with true free will is even free to divorce himself with paradise.

What Lewis suggests is that you don't fully understand human nature until you understand that some humans really do not want paradise.

Conversely then, true freedom does not mean using your free will however you want. True freedom means surrendering your free will by forming your soul to the Good.

By sacrificing your free will in this manner, you gain glory, virtue, and happiness — for man was made to know and love virtue above all.

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

The average student graduates after 12 years of schooling and still cannot answer the most important questions in life.

What is a good man?
What is justice?
What is worth sacrificing for?
What is beauty?
What is truth?
What is the purpose of life?

Classical education begins with the assumption that any education failing to address these questions is not really education at all.

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

@athenaeumbc Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

Comfort is the first sign of death

If your life is comfortable, you no longer want to fight for it

I'm writing this from personal experience, because I've been an entrepreneur for 4 years now, but I still live with my mom. I started my business right after high school, so I had no other source of income

For 4 years, I lived in comfort and didn't let myself feel that uncomfortable urge that would make me fight for it

That's why i made up my mind. When I finish my English language studies, I'm going to travel abroad so I won't be in a comfortable situation anymore

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I don't know anyone who quit their job to live of savings and built something that made money before their savings run out except @AndreyAzimov

I always think it's the wrong way to do it

I think you should build something on the side and once it makes equal or more money than your main job or freelance gigs and it's stable, quit the job and switch

Being unemployed somehow makes people lazy and feel too relaxed to build something, like your day is fully free of commitments which sounds ideal but freedom isn't when stuff is built I think, you need constraints

I had income from my YouTube channel Panda Mix Show in 2013 when I started, and it took over a year before I made enough money to switch

Obviously I wish him well but I think better do the switch than hard quit

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

@marclou What if TrustMRR also let users invest in startups, not just buy them?

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

where is this european date format used?

i'm european, but i learned it as YYYY. MM. DD

[doomer @uncledoomer]

the argument that the european date format is more "logical" never holds up to any scrutiny. the month is going to be the smallest range of numbers, 1-12. day of the month is next, ranging 1-31, and then the year, the largest number. perfectly logical. europeans are just coping.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

If you just get jacked and read old books, 99% of your problems will disappear

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

@ProofofMaro what linux distro is this running?

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

@tibo_maker i've heard that investing is risky

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

"Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And canst thou take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change? and canst thou be nourished, unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Dost thou not see then that for thyself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?"

— Marcus Aurelius

[DHH @dhh]

What it's like releasing a new version of anything.

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

You know Claude is overloaded when it starts telling you to go rest

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Hard hitter from Nassim Taleb

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

@IterIntellectus if it weren't for the logo, i'd think it was a test electric car from a mid-range car brand

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

More SaaS founders should learn from Basecamp's 2004 simplicity

[DHH @dhh]

Basecamp in 2004, Basecamp in 2026. Keep it simple.

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

@dhh I love these simple desings!!

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

i logged into Cloudflare after a long time and the new dashboard surprised me

[Kristof Budai @bkrisa12]

Ai is taking away porn stars' jobs

[Joi AI @joi___ai]

we’re hiring 10 Masturbation Consultants

$2,000/month to test our new Daily Guided Masturbation feature and document the effects on stress, sleep and mood

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