Jack Burton

[Patrick Aldrin @dpatrickaldrin]

You force yourself to the gym, white-knuckle the diet, fake the confidence, and still feel behind.

Chris Bumstead - who won Mr. Olympia 6 times, says the discipline you chase was never the secret.

7 truths from one of the most disciplined man alive:

1. Discipline was never willpower.

[Wayne Liang @wliang]

Before Neocloud rallies hard...

Here's what I like about:

$BTDR - ~3.0 GW global power portfolio with $69M+ AI Cloud ARR and Norway data center conversion

$CIFR - Nearly $10B in contracted HPC revenue (AWS $AMZN, Fluidstack, $GOOGL partnerships)

$CLSK - Strong balance sheet, but still awaiting hyperscaler AI lease

$CORZ - $CRWV hosting deal with gigawatt-scale Muskogee, Oklahoma buildout

$CRWV - Benchmark with $NVDA equity stake, $MSFT anchor, and Nasdaq-100 inclusion

$IREN - Multi-billion dollar $MSFT contract with direct $NVDA partnership

$NBIS - Vertically integrated AI cloud platform with $44B+ backlog, $NVDA equity stake, and Nasdaq-100 inclusion

$WYFI - My favorite at the moment. Reminds me of a smaller cap and earlier stage $NBIS, just signed second major contract ($160M+ Paris)

Or $WGMI ETF is an option for broad exposure.

Most sit at different layers of the same structural AI infrastructure thesis.

[Jack Burton @captjackburton]

@jayparsons @JohnnyDrama0 Definitely. Sounds wild, but I’m not sure some of these groups connect the dots on the reason behind the challenge. It’s very difficult to make the jump from a private capital “deal” mindset to the mindset of running an efficient, scalable business. Very different skill sets

[Barbara Oneill @BarbaraOneillAU]

This is what fasting really does to your body.

FASTING TIMES – CHEAT SHEET

12 Hours: Full Gut & Liver Detox Cycle

14 Hours: Insulin and Blood Sugar Lower and Fat Burning Kicks In

16–18 Hours: Ketones Start to Increase & Elevation in BDNF for Better Brain Function

18–24 Hours: Inflammation Goes Down & Autophagy and Deep Cellular Healing Increases

24 Hours: Human Growth Hormone Rises (up to 2000% in Men & 1300% in Women)

24–36 Hours: Shifting in Gut Microbiome & Increased Intestinal Stem Cells

36–48 Hours: Higher Autophagy Levels & Immune System Rejuvenated

48–72 Hours: Maximal Autophagy & Stem Cell Increase

3–5 Days: Maximal Autophagy & Stem Cell Increase

[Jack Burton @captjackburton]

@jayparsons @JohnnyDrama0 Big guys are struggling too. Even the big MF groups can’t efficiently scale due to fragmented capital. Too many different LPs makes achieving cost leverage very difficult.

[Jack Burton @captjackburton]

@JohnnyDrama0 Thoughts on BTR now? Path forward or DOA indefinitely?

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

Avengers - if it was made in the 80s:

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

If you answer anything other than 'he's gay,' you are by proxy gay as well.

[Daniel S. Loeb @DanielSLoeb1]

Making sure everyone on my team listens to this. So much wisdom and priceless mental models for growth investing. Spoiler alert: a priceless homage to his legendary father. https://t.co/0tC7Xc9gc6

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

If you take Omega-3s, don't make my mistake:

Once you open the bottle, they need to go in the fridge.

Omega-3 fatty acids oxidize at room temperature.

Rancid fish oil doesn't slow biological aging. It increases oxidative stress and does the opposite of what you paid for.

An easy fix is putting them in cold storage to keep them stable.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

Obsess. For f*ck sakes. You only get one life. Don’t screw it up by being normal. Go all in. Act like a psycho. Let people call you insane. Please. I beg you. Obsession is the path.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

In a rare interview, Tolkien is asked why he spent 14 years building the world of The Lord of the Rings.

His answer reveals a philosophy of creation rooted in something deeper than storytelling.

When pressed on whether the hobbits and their world emerged from his unconscious, Tolkien pushes back. He describes himself as a "meticulous sort of bloke" who spent those years "finding time schemes and getting everything right."

The appendices, the languages, the social customs, and the histories all existed before the story itself.

In fact, the world came first.

The Hobbit was almost an accident:

"It existed in posy and in large scale plan before The Hobbit was written. The Hobbit was intact originally an attempt to write something outside it and drew into it."

The interviewer, surprised, asks why.

Why create an entire world before writing a single story within it?

Tolkien's response gets to the heart of his creative philosophy:

"Because being made by a creator, one of our natural factors is wishing to create. But since we aren't creators, we have to subcreate. Let's say we have to rearrange the primary material in some particular form which pleases us, which may it isn't necessarily a moral pleasing. It's partly aesthetic pleasing."

This idea of subcreation is central to Tolkien's worldview.

Humans cannot create something from nothing, but they can reshape what already exists into forms that satisfy an aesthetic vision, not merely a moral one.

When the interviewer suggests that moral concerns should outweigh aesthetic ones, Tolkien disagrees.

He argues that an "aesthetic facet is as strongly to be predicated as a moral one in this world."

On the question of good and evil, Tolkien explains that the Dark Lord was not always dark. He fell, "several stages down of Lucifer."

The One Ring, he says, represents "a power so enormous that even if a good man were to use it against a bad it would corrupt the good man."

He emphasizes that this idea predates the atomic bomb. He had been developing these stories since his undergraduate years, long before modern allegorical interpretations could be applied.

Asked whether he would rather be remembered as a man who said something or a man who made something, Tolkien rejects the distinction:

"I don't think you can distinguish. The made things unless it says something won't be remembered."

[cvxv666 @antpalkin]

Citadel fired their best quant. He rebuilt their entire algo with Claude Fable 5 in 48 hours - and he's up $430,000 trading it against them.

He didn't take a single file. He didn't need to - ten years of that logic lived in his head, and you can't raid a memory.

Wallet proof: https://t.co/JSA6VkmGuX

Here's the engine MiroFish runs - and it's rigged in his favor. Picture a Galton board: a ball dropping through eight rows of pegs, bouncing left or right at random.

One ball is chaos. Thousands of balls always fall into the same bell curve. That's the law he weaponized.

Every ball is one trade. Each row is a volatility gate - news, liquidations, order-book flow, things nobody controls.

On a fair board every gate is a 50/50 coin flip. His model tilts each one to 0.54 - four cents of edge that only shows up when fair value splits from the book.

Four cents sounds like nothing.

Compound it through eight gates, thirty-two thousand times, and the whole bell shifts right of breakeven: 71% of trades land green.

$93 of edge per trade. $430k across the distance.

Watch the win rate converge in real time - it swings between 50 and 85% for the first few dozen trades, then locks on 0.71 and never leaves.

He doesn't predict a single trade. One trade is a coin flip. Eighteen thousand is mathematics.

They thought firing him protected the edge. They just handed it a grudge.

Copy the wallet quietly out-trading a $60B fund before they connect the dots: https://t.co/vbDZyVcfT3

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

Anthropic posted a FULL GUIDE on how to prompt Fable 5 (Mythos).

Claude Fable 5 is not meant to be prompted like any other model.

It's meant to run autonomously.

Here's exactly how to enable Fable to do work for you with minimal manual intervention:

1. Effort selection

Anthropic recommends using High for most tasks and Xhigh only for complex workflows.

Low/medium: quick questions, basic research
High: default for most work
Xhigh: complex builds, multi-step analysis
Ultracode: full autonomous orchestration

2. /loop prompting

Use /loop prompts to kick Fable off to complete full tasks.

/loop <time interval> + <goal>

3. Tell it WHY, not just what (context)

Fable can't perform on instructions alone. It needs context to make decisions on its own.

Anthropic's exact prompting structure:

"I'm working on [larger task] for [who it's for]. They need [what the output enables]. With that in mind: [your actual request]."

4. Keep prompts short (instructions)

Counterintuitive but critical.

Over-engineering your prompts on Fable 5 degrades output. You're constraining a model that would have figured it out on its own.

4. Tell it when to stop and check in during runs

"Pause for me only when the work genuinely requires my input: a destructive action, a real scope change, or something only I can provide. Otherwise, keep going and report back when done."

5. Build it a memory system

Fable performs best when it can record lessons from its previous loops.

Give it a markdown file and this instruction:

"Store one lesson per file with a one-line summary at the top. Record corrections and confirmed approaches. Don't save what the repo or chat history already records."

The optimal general prompt structure:

"Goal: I'm working on [larger task] for [who it's for]. They need [what the output enables].

Request: [your specific ask in one sentence]

Output format: [exactly how you want it]

Constraints: [what must not happen]."

One last thing - your old prompts may actually work against you.

Skills and project instructions built for Opus 4.8 may produce worse results on Fable.

Bookmark this to actually maximize your Fable workflows.