Dirty Herz

Signed to Ultra / Dirty Dutch

[no.mind @the_no_mind]

Shopify billionaire co-founder & CEO Tobi Lütke — one of the most analytically rigorous founders alive — uses affirmations.

His exact words:

"If you tell yourself or write down something about yourself 100 times, it writes into the neurofrontal cortex at such a deep level that your brain will start reconciling you to that. It just works."

His personal example:

He was terrified of public speaking.

For one week he sat down every day for 10 minutes and wrote: "I love public speaking."

A week later the fear was gone.

"It's not like a placebo. You just actively change your neurofrontal cortex in this moment."

Your brain starts shaping your behavior around the identity you rehearse most.

[Dirty Herz @DirtyHerz]

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[Dirty Herz @DirtyHerz]

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[Omar Agag @OmarAgag6]

The moment you learn this one candle…

… is the moment you’ll finally give up on trying to trade a random one min IFVG.

I have been trading the same setup from my pinned post for years and is still the most profitable trading system I’ve encountered.

[Tom Dante @Trader_Dante]

Anything good rarely comes from telling people you’re a trader

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

“You need to be stubborn on your vision, but very flexible on the details.”

— Jeff Bezos

[Jey @0xJeyx]

Matthew Gallagher built a company doing more than $3 million a day with one employee, and he told The New York Times: "It's not an A.I. company, but I did it with A.I."

This is him explaining what he actually automated - and the half of the company he never touched.

The front is AI. The code, the website, the ad creative, the customer replies, the performance reports.

The back is rented. Doctors, pharmacies and shipping run on somebody else's platform.

It was never clean. His chatbot invented drug prices and recommended products the company does not sell.

More than 1,000 customer calls landed on his personal cellphone.

Since launch he has hired one person. His younger brother.

The AI never picked the market or found the gap. A human did that first, then handed the chores to the machine.

Watch how he split it, then work the 9 steps in the article below.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Never rule out a goal because you think it's unattainable. Be audacious.”

— Ray Dalio

[Breakout Trading Academy @onlybreakouts]

One indicator.

That’s all I need to build a complete breakout strategy from scratch.

ATR handles the entry.
ATR handles the filter.
ATR handles the exit.

Here’s exactly how:

Entry

> Open of the bar + 2.5 × ATR(20).
> A hard, calculated breakout level. No guessing. Price either hits it or it doesn’t.

Filter

> Compare short-term ATR to long-term ATR.
> When short-term is below long-term (volatility contraction), the market is coiling - energy is building. These are the higher-quality breakouts.
> When short-term is above long-term (already expanding), the move is more likely exhausted. Sit out.
> One comparison. Big reduction in false breakouts.

Exit

> Flip the entry math.
> Use a fraction of ATR to set the stop distance from entry.
> The market itself decides how much room the trade needs based on current volatility.

That’s it.

One tool measuring the same thing across all three decisions: how much the market is actually moving.

Most traders only use ATR for the stop loss and leave the other two-thirds of its power unused.

I don’t.

I use it for the entire strategy.

[Lima @limalemonnn]

this is insane. i genuinely don't understand why ambitious people aren't shown this lecture before their careers start consuming their entire lives.

clayton christensen spent his career studying why successful companies collapse. in his final class, he asked students to apply the theory to themselves: if you keep allocating your time the same way, what life are you actually building?

he had already seen the answer in his own harvard mba class. everyone looked successful at the fifth reunion; by the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th, many were unhappy, divorced, and living far from their children.

work shows you the score immediately. close a sale, ship a product, finish a presentation, earn a promotion, get paid.

an hour with your child may produce nothing you can measure today; it may take 20 years to understand what that hour built. so the next free hour goes back to work, one rational decision at a time.

this is how people build lives they never planned: through hundreds of right decisions that lead in the wrong direction, day after day.

money, titles, and headcount are easy to count. christensen believed a life should be measured by the people who became better because you were there.

he died in 2020.

one question remains: if someone saw only where your time, energy, and attention went this year, what would they think actually mattered to you?

the full 19-minute lecture is in the video below.

[The Algømist @TheAlg0mist]

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[34 EMA Trader @Zabaroptik]

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[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Naval Ravikant literally explained how to productize yourself to escape the rat race:

[Isa @isssa0x]

A dead MIT professor accidentally destroyed the $20 billion executive coaching industry with one hour of lecture, and ten million people have already watched him do it.

He filmed it once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.

Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in that one hour for free.

His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.

Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."

His entire framework fits on a napkin.

Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."

That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.

"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.

Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.

The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.

Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.

The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.

[Raytar @Raytar]

NVIDIA CEO, @JensenHuang:

"If you're still writing prompts, stop. Build loops instead."

The 7th richest man on earth spoke at Stanford for 67 minutes. No script. No PR.

This is free. I've seen $300 courses that teach less.

Don't just watch it. Build your first loop. Step-by-step guide below.

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[The Algømist @TheAlg0mist]

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