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Apps Engineer, DFS degen, BJJ black belt, and all things crypto

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@Ihartitz @splashsports Jordan Love MVP

[Ian Hartitz @Ihartitz]

Officially IN The Survivor World Championship. $21 million in prizes! In this economy!

Even cooler: I have a free entry ($1,000!) to give away to a lucky someone who:

-Follows me and @splashsports
-RT's this
-Responds with a hot take for this season

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[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@J_JamesNeutron @baseballlsdfs https://t.co/4d1ORFj8oW

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Ian Hartitz @Ihartitz]

Fun opportunity: Giving away a DraftKings $5M Monster Millionaire entry ($555)!

We’ll draft the team together, then it's all yours, including any winnings!

To enter:
• Follow @RotoWire + @RotoWireNFL
• Like + RT
• Reply with your top sleeper for 2026

Let’s draft a winner 🤝

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@cryptoklotz What’s a brother got to do to get into dat Doug funnie group chat?

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@SleeperSF49ers @49ers Substation in the background be like

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@btc_charlie Very difficult to add muscle (outside of just beginner gains) while in a caloric deficit.
Would recommend going through 3-6 month cycles where the goals are either fat loss (caloric deficit) or muscle gain (caloric surplus) and not try to do both simultaneously

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@NFL_DovKleiman

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@MrBeast 148751

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).

Your life has seasons.

Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.

But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.

To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.

You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.

You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.

The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.

Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.

I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.

Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.

You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.

In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.

The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.

As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.

But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.

How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.

A mentor recently asked me this:

"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"

It hit me hard.

And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.

Why are you in such a rush?

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.

Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.

The good old days are happening, right now.

And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:

Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@bitcoinpanda69 Fish, pork, chicken breast C tier, less good fish D tier, cottage cheese F tier, rest looks p good to me. Where’s ground beef?

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@tnuttin1 Curious- what’s your 1RM for bench?

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@pantherpundit @AdamSchefter Checks out, carry on

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@cryptoklotz Am I an idiot, or does this make no sense? How can you average x% with a 100% hit rate? It’s either the average or not, what does hit rate have to do with anything?

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@AgentChud @Jebus 20 mins or so for a 5 person sauna, 8 kW heater. App is nice because I can start it when I’m finishing up lifting.

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@AgentChud @Jebus I did a bunch of research and landed on an “Almost Heaven” Finnish trad sauna for my house. Was super easy to install and just had to run a 20A circuit to a Harvia heater and I can control it with an app on my phone. Haven’t pushed it to its limits but it gets to 170 easily.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Life is a game of probabilities, and most successful people are simpler better at positioning themselves in situations where they are more likely to be lucky.

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@JustinHerzig Yea it's been happening since their latest update, when I enter the draft initially I just close and re-open the app and I haven't seen it since doing that.

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

@DavisMattek In your replies: all the Worthy truthers coming out of the woodwork that "knew it all along"

[Buff @BuffaloBrando7]

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