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[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

There is no moral difference between putting people in gas chambers and burning children in homes in Gaza.

A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

Yeah guys, it’s the “Islamists” you have to worry about 🙄🤦‍♂️

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

To simplify the INCERTO: noise is self cancelling, signal is additive.

[Veloria🐬 @veloriahq]

“𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦.”

— 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘻 𝘒𝘢𝘧𝘬𝘢

[ashe @ashebytes]

the fuel that you burn when you build from a place of soul and not ego

burns a lot cleaner

[Iñigo San Millán @doctorinigo]

Halfway up a first-category climb, metabolic equilibrium begins to fracture. Mitochondria are under pressure, lactate rises and every cell negotiates between energy demand and its capacity to respond.

The summit remains above and the body asks the same question as life: when equilibrium is lost and the gradient grows steeper, do we retreat or push forward?

Still climbing, against gravity, fatigue, and the odds. Don’t be afraid to step beyond our comfort zone, because that is where transformation begins and where the magic happens.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: The Trump administration officially imposed a 100% tariff on foreign-made drones, per NYT

The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., joined Unusual Machines’, a US drone company, advisory board in November 2024.

Trump Jr. was awarded 200,000 shares in the company for joining the board, and a month before that he had purchased 66,000 shares and 66,000 warrants in a private placement.

[ashe @ashebytes]

you’ve gotta be willing to flop publicly to play big

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

An evil "state". Liars, criminals, land thieves, bloodthirsty savages with technology and advanced PR controlling Western Media.

[Veles @velesxbt]

A billionaire trader has spent 40 years trying to delete a one-hour documentary. It shows him making $100 million in a single afternoon. He predicted the crash that made it possible three months in advance. He has never explained why he wants the film gone. His name is Paul Tudor Jones. The film is on YouTube.

The documentary is called "Trader." PBS filmed it in 1987, three months before Black Monday. Jones was 32 years old, working from a small New York office, wearing shorts and a t-shirt, yelling at his phones, throwing paper across the room, and sleeping under his desk. The film captures him and his research partner Peter Borish overlaying a chart of the 1929 market on 1987, month by month. The two charts tracked within one percent. Borish said this is exactly what happened in 1929. Jones said if the analog holds, October is when it breaks.

On October 19, 1987, the Dow fell 22.6 percent in a single day. It remains the largest one-day percentage loss in stock market history. That afternoon, Tudor Jones covered his shorts and made roughly $100 million. He was 33 years old. He was one of the very few traders on the street who came out ahead.

He tried to bury the tape because it made him look reckless in a professional world that punished swagger. Twenty years of legal effort did not delete it. Someone kept a copy. It is on YouTube. It has fewer views than most makeup tutorials.

The film is not really about a crash. It is about a specific philosophy of trading. Jones is shown building conviction slowly, sizing carefully, then striking hard when the setup arrives. He is never once shown making a random bet. He is shown doing the same thing five times a day, every day, for three months.

His signature line, repeated across a 45-year career:

"The most important rule of trading is to play great defense, not great offense."

He does not try to be right. He tries not to lose. He sets stops tight, cuts positions fast, and never averages down on a loser. Every trade in the film follows this template.

Tudor Investment Corp, the fund he founded in 1980, has compounded at roughly 19 percent a year for 45 years. He is 71 years old and still trading. His method has not changed since the film.

The lesson: greatness in markets is a refusal, not a talent. Refusal to be reckless. Refusal to be certain. Refusal to average down. Refusal to trust yourself in a drawdown. Tudor Jones has refused those refusals for 45 years.

The tape is free. The philosophy is repeated in every trade. Most traders will never watch it.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The maximum success is reached when you are never busy.

[Jayant Golchhā « 高智仁 » @golchha_J]

« Supposedly, if you are uncompromising or intolerant with BS you lose friends. But you will also make friends, better friends. » – NN Taleb

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Voila! "Small is beautiful" in the moralists!
Vauvenargues: "men are not born to love large things".
#LindyEffect

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

To become a scholar, spend decades reading 30-40 h/week; to understand mathematics, 10K problems; to be an option trader, 250K trades; and to be metabolically healthy, 12-16 h/week of exercise.

No Cliffnotes, no hack, no pill, no magic solution.

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

“Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyways.”

- Steve McQueen

[Goshawk Trades @GoshawkTrades]

i come back to this clip of Jim Simons every few months.

the man who built the most successful hedge fund in history sharing his guiding principles in life.

2 and a half minutes that will stick with you.

[Mindset for Money @Mindset4Money_X]

Bro this Chamath clip 😂😂

Watch the whole thing, trust me