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degen or die

[desdo @desdo6]

@Spotify, I need a negative playlist for tracks and artists that I never wanna hear again

[DHH @dhh]

For anyone with endless ideas, this agent age is nirvana as those ideas are met with endless execution, endless exploration. I've never had has much fun working with computers as I do right now. What a time to be alive.

[desdo @desdo6]

@yacineMTB Isn’t twitter shorts in text form?

[desdo @desdo6]

@yasser_elsaid_ Is there even a Google ads cli/api?

I tried getting access to the api but it seems you need to request special developer access.. I assumed Google doesn’t want ai agents to optimize ad campaigns?

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.

Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”

— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang

[desdo @desdo6]

@immopalAI Dessau hat eine aussterbende Bevölkerung

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Make peace with being unimpressive to the outside world. Drive the normal car. Wear the simple clothes. Live below your means. Stay in the committed relationship. The ability to look ordinary while building an extraordinary life is wildly underrated.

[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?

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life skill: Letting today be today. Stop dragging yesterday into it and stop borrowing stress from tomorrow. Handle what's in front of you. You'll be surprised how much lighter life feels when you carry one day at a time.

[desdo @desdo6]

@PatrickHaede Agent

[desdo @desdo6]

@nikitabier please reduce the redundancy of news in my timeline.

One week ago 90% of the first 20 posts were about Openclaw being acquired by OpenAI, and now, I only read about @jack firing 4k people. It’s extremely repetitive

[desdo @desdo6]

@nikitabier I would love the X timeline to be less redundant on topics of interest. I am interested in Openclaw getting acquired by OpenAI but don’t want 90% of my timeline to consist of this news.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

When I first spoke out about the genocide, I was one of the few voices in tech, and it came at a cost.

I faced sabotage especially from the VC class: lies, leaks, threats, and blocked investments.

It was painful, but I never once regretted standing up for the children in Gaza.

Today, the tide in tech has shifted. The truth is undeniable.

If you’ve been holding back, now is the time to speak out and call out anyone supporting or celebrating genocide. It won’t cost you much—in fact, it will earn you respect, and more importantly a clear conscious. Plus, alienating those who will hate you for speaking is a feature, not a bug.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Paul Graham’s recipe for doing great work:

[desdo @desdo6]

true progress is quiet

[Eric Jiang @veggie_eric]

I’m convinced that anyone who says Thinking Fast and Slow is a good book is just trying to masquerade as erudite and sophisticated

Nothing against Kahneman, but that brick is literally 500 pages of word vomit that could’ve been said in two paragraphs

[desdo @desdo6]

“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. ”

Excerpt From
The War of Art
Pressfield, Steven

[desdo @desdo6]

@AravSrinivas I would call it Ahmad

[desdo @desdo6]

„It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.“

[desdo @desdo6]

@0xjeff Great read!