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A menace.
Polyglot

[War @Aesthetic1War]

El bombasının pimini dişleriyle çeken Boşnak askeri, 1995.

[RT @RT_com]

'No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdoes, no wimps, no radicals — just warriors'

— Pete Hegseth, 29th US Secretary of Defense

[People's Art of War @pplsartofwar]

Classical education matters. Even if you throw in Chinese classics too. Its helped me in my career and life.

Humanities ends up complimenting STEM work if you do it right, imo.

Gives it a framework, depth, and abstraction techbros often lack.

[Tim Wijaya @itsTimWijaya]

Gak banyak yang tau, tapi most Indo tech startup itu ternyata based di Singapore.

Di Indo, PT lokal harus punya modal awal lebih dari Rp2,5 miliar sebelum bisa terima dana dari investor asing.

Tapi di Singapore, modal awalnya bisa cuma $1.

Selain undang2 yang kuat, Singapore juga implement terms dan practices yang udah familiar buat investor asing.

Dalam 5 tahun terakhir, jumlah dana VC funding di Singapore lebih dari 2x Indonesia ($32 billion vs $15 billion)

Makanya banyak startup Indo bikin Singapore Private Limited Company dulu, baru kirim duitnya ke Indo buat operasional lokal.

[Case Bradford @Casebradford]

Some genius made this by hand, before ai. Something meaningful, a true artist

[RinAldrin @RinAldrin_Lives]

The more you read up on ant warfare the more crazy it gets. They have suicide bombers, chemical warfare, and trench warfare. There is a super colony war in California where 30 million ants die every year.

[juju 💰 @ayeejuju]

how it feels having 0 tattoos bc i never fell for the propaganda

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

The best skill you can have as a man, is learning how to keep yourself in a good mood. Always.

[Rivelino @alpharivelino]

To conquer pussy, you must first conquer fear

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Confidence is the byproduct of competence, not the cause.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Whatever you are studying, always keep a parallel portfolio of the things you create. A research result. A robot. A company. A piece of hardware. The world is becoming more interested in evidence of agency.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Retrieval practice is always vastly more effective than re-consuming information (re-reading, re-watching, transcribing, etc.).

The way you make it easier to pull information out of your head is, well, by practicing pulling it out of your head.

[Abhishek @abhishekcode42]

This is why I am on Twitter, to see posts like this

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The most dangerous form of laziness is performative productivity. Notes, tabs, highlights, summaries, plans. A whole pile of activity arranged to avoid direct contact with the work.

[️️️️️️ @novumgradum]

istri nolak jadi tkw, anak gak mau dimasukin ke pesantren, situs judol diblokir, spot mancing jadi kopdes, tapi hidup harus tetap mindful.

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

I asked my math teacher if I would ever use algebra after I graduate

She replied "You won't, but some of the smart kids will"

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Learning advanced math at a young age completely changed my life trajectory.

I definitely had a more fortunate/advantaged childhood than the average person, but at the same time, there is not a single person in my family who is mathematical, technical, scientific, or academic.

High-impact career guidance was completely absent. (For instance, the sole contribution of my HS counselor to my college apps was misspelling the word "Calculus" as "Calculas" on my transcript.)

If I hadn't skilled up on math & quantitative coding in a hardcore way, there's no way I would have landed anywhere near the stuff I'm working on now.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

If you walked into a college math class, you might see a room full of students bent over their notebooks, furiously copying down whatever the professor is writing on the board.

And the professor is just copying that from their own notes or from the textbook.

They’re just facing the board the entire time. Maybe turn around once in a while to say “Hey, you all understand this? (silence) Okay, sounds good. We'll keep moving on.”

Nobody even knows what the heck is going on enough to even ask a question. And the professor mistakes this for everybody knows what’s going on.

And then nobody actually learns anything until the problem set that they do for homework.

I mean, what a waste of class time.

Students are just copying information that they could easily get somewhere else.

They go to class with the hope that all this information will just magically diffuse into their brains.

But that’s not how learning works.

You learn math by actually solving problems.

I mean, if that’s the situation, then learning-wise, you’d probably be better off just skipping class and using that time to work on your problem set.