Devilmaycare

Pronoid Objectivist | Entrepreneur | Immortalist | Navigating the path to a post-labor economy | Probably at a beach.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

"Nothing in the stars or the natural world says, “Thou shalt suffer five days of work and enjoy two.” This entire grind-to-the-weekend cycle? A human construct created by industrialists to organize labor, not to optimize life." - @MJDeMarco

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Scientists make the first ever discovery of an atmosphere around an earth-like planet in another star’s habitable zone — a major step in the search for life beyond Earth.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

@PeterDiamandis Tech is not moving too fast.

Government is designed to move too slow. It's the government design that needs to become more adaptive. Not tech.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

This is what all sports and political discussions look like to me.

Hard pass.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

@Polymarket 🤣

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

Whoa.

Wild times.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Tornyol’s autonomous micro-drone completes its first midair kill of a flying moth, a new milestone toward using swarms of tiny drones to hunt mosquitoes.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

Welp.

Here we go.

I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it's likely a one way door.

Hold onto your butts.

[Dr Singularity @Dr_Singularity]

insane

AI Is Beginning to Accelerate AI
The Recursive Intelligence Era

"We built a recursive self-improvement (RSI) system by running autoresearch on autoresearch. The system, AIDE2, took eight days to discover a better autoresearch harness than the one we built over the last two years. Fully autonomously, AIDE2 designed a novel search algorithm, reduced the prompt size by 16x, and built a layered system against reward hacking."

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

What is a one syllable word for building wisdom?

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

While there are many behaviors needed to guarantee high output, there is one single behavior guaranteed to prevent all output: trying to please everyone.

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

BREAKING: Taco Bell denies all allegations of causing explosive diarrhea and vows to fight these charges in court

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

@yesiamgrigori @brianeskow Far too many people are obsessed with it.

This whole conversation was me trying to gently encourage you not to become one of them.

Being gentle is not something I excel at.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

@yesiamgrigori @brianeskow I guess you've only mentioned it twice since April.

I just happened to have both of those posts enter my feed, and few others. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

I'd be more likely to believe that if you didn't mention followers so often on X.

You can buy followers. You can also gain them by being reply guy or other strategies.

But follower count ≠ fame.

Follower count ≠ success in any way whatsoever.

If anything, it's a metric of * potential* engagement.

If you think of fame as a destination (NYC), then follower count at best would be akin to gasoline.

If you try to fill a lawnmower with 50k gallons of gasoline, you just waste a lot of gasoline and still have a vehicle that is completely useless when trying to get to your destination.

If fame is the objective, then the focus should be on the vehicle before the gasoline.

A jet will hold more gas and get you to NYC far faster than a lawnmower.

And doing epic shit visibly will get you to fame far faster than worrying about you X following.

If you do epic shit in a visible manner, the followers come without effort.

Think MJK or even someone as inconsequential as the Hawk Tuah. Girl. They both achieved fame without even thinking of follower count. Their followers are a reflection of their ability to grab and hold the attention of the masses (even if for a brief moment, in the case of Hawk Tuah). Nobody gets famous by worrying about followers.

Cart before horse.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

Fame = doing epic shit where others can see it.

Most miss the first ingredient entirely.

Many (including myself) don't think about the second part of the equation at all.

Few get both ingredients, which is why few are famous.

Fame also has an incredibly fast decay rate. If you have it, capitalize fast, while you can.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

@yesiamgrigori @brianeskow I think this thought is more reflective of how easily you're impressed by vanity metrics than the OP.

The OP was also a joke. He obviously hasn't posted the same image for 136 consecutive years.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

@yesiamgrigori @brianeskow Unless followers pay you, they're pointless.

My e-commerce business had 37k IG followers at one point.

When I realized how little $ I was making off them, I stopped caring.

It's a vanity metric that doesn't tie into anything meaningful, and improves you life by exactly 0%.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

@rand_longevity I honestly don't think about it.

I genuinely just like to walk (always have), I work from home in a beautiful area, and I'm 5 minutes away from a beach.

I've designed my life to resemble a never ending vacation.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

@yesiamgrigori @brianeskow 50k/365 = 136 years

He might just be fucking w you.

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

Precise objectives > busywork.

This week my SaaS got its second user and we bought the URL. Built a cover letter generator for myself and a timesheet agent for my sister-in-law. Started targeted AI governance applications. Caught up with an old boss and tried out for a billiards team. All because I know the direction.

What did you say no to this week because it didn’t fit?

[Devilmaycare @devilmaycare_9]

@rand_longevity Fuck yes.

This is great news.