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aspiring! optimist! and persistent! daydreamer! life is long. do what u like.

[Rock @edrodryna]

I love this

[David Perell @david_perell]

Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist talks about his 12 Favorite Problems, which is a list of open questions you have about the world.

[Kristijan @kristijan_moves]

To all my people who consider me a high-maintenance friend, i'm sorry.

My brain was rearranged by this article and now I'm much more nosy about your lives, I send many texts, ask to meet and jump on calls constantly.

I will carve out space and time for friends whenever they want, because I want the tail end to be much longer

https://t.co/ckDBlGOBZw

[Slava Akhmechet @spakhm]

Long range career advice. (Won't help you get a job tomorrow, this is a ~10-20 year thing)

You want to run two processes. Your main loop:

1. Knock on doors, many outside your league, and get yourself in a room with the most competent people who will have you.
2. Work your ass off to be reliably useful to them. Like, really, _really_ hard. However hard you think you're working to be reliably useful, work ten times harder. Also, be cheerful.
3. Every once in a while pop your head out and go to step 1.

Your background loop: look around for weird asymmetric opportunities. A startup to found/join, a project to hack on, an angel investment into a friend's company, whatever. When your heart sings, jump on it. (You will fail a lot but that's fine so long as you handle failure well, I'll cover that in another post)

In exchange for working really hard you get two things. First, knowledge/experience-- you learn a ton. Second, relationships-- ppl will remember how great it was to work with you. Knowledge and relationships with competent ppl create crazy asymmetric opportunities. You then jump on those. (There is a lot of twitter slop about compounding, well this is what career compounding looks like.)

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Now some failure modes. Do _not_ do this:

"I deserve much better than this company/role, I'm just going to begrudgingly collect a paycheck" --> first, you deserve what the market clears and that's that. Second, if you act this way you'll only hurt yourself. Your colleagues will remember you as a grouch and it will wreck the compounding loop. Third, it's a very unpleasant state to be in, and you should choose not to be in it.

"But I work at Home Depot, what's there to compound?" --> that's extremely shortsighted. Maybe you do a super good job helping a customer who then has an open spot and remembers you. Maybe your store manager becomes a regional manager and calls you. Maybe years down the line your quiet peer is looking for a partner to start their own store. Maybe none of this happens, but it doesn't matter because empirically ppl who try hard to be useful wherever they are tend to do great, and people who don't, don't. (Home Depot is a metaphor, obviously)

"I hate this place, I quit! And anyway they're a faceless corporation that will lay me off any time." --> don't do that. The company may be a faceless corporation, but your colleagues are not faceless. They bet on you, hopefully you did a great job, and now they depend on you. Leaving is never easy, but do it in a way that respects the trust ppl put in you.

"Everyone around me is an idiot, I hate this!" --> maybe they are, or maybe you're not ready and some day will discover you were wrong about this. In any case you can learn from everyone and everything. So do that and be useful, don't break the compounding loop because opportunities will surprise you and things are often not what they seem.

“_I_ should have been promoted not that other guy/why is my manager layering me, screw this!” --> every time that happened i eventually understood I deserved it, you probably do too. Don’t hold grudges, do your best to figure out how to learn from this and move on, it will make sense eventually.

P.S. it helps if you’re a little talented.

[Adam C Palmer @ac_palmer]

Must-read article for anyone whose job involves *thinking*

https://t.co/88ezsrjMgz

"The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling...
What, uniquely, does writing do? ... It compels thinking in ways that silent contemplation or spoken language rarely can."

[Digi @digiii]

Pro tip: If you're afraid to take the risk, write down in excruciating detail what you're actually afraid of having happen. Step by step what happens next when you fail. You'll often find it's not so bad when you spell it out. Fear exists in the vague, not the specific.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

For the days that are already ruined by 2pm. You know the ones — morning gone, nothing started, and the whole day feels contaminated.

There's a protocol for this. I call it the 10-minute funeral. It has saved more of my afternoons than anything else I do.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Tolstoy’s advice to achieve a long term goal:

[aether @bluewdrift]

I don't know who needs to hear this but someone recently told me "no amount of waiting will make you more brave, and no amount of worrying will make it more safe."
And honestly I think about this everyday.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said, “When you walk through a museum, you’re not just looking at art. You’re moving through centuries of people trying to explain love, grief, power, beauty, and belonging.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a museum described so beautifully.

[aether @bluewdrift]

You should study what makes you defensive. The topic you avoid, the joke that irritates you, the question that feels insulting, the feedback you instantly reject. Defensiveness is usually the guard dog sitting in front of a weakness you have not trained yourself to face.

[Rock @edrodryna]

At this point curiosity is a matter of life or death

[Xeer @Xeer]

the wealthiest people i know all had one thing in common. they seemed genuinely interested in life. they asked questions. they noticed little details. they got excited about books, recipes, travel, music, ideas. curiosity is such an underrated kind of wealth.

[Charlie Kerr @charliekerr]

My girlfriend has thousands of TikTok’s saved- day trips, vacation ideas, restaurants, gifts, etc. I couldn’t keep track of it.

Now she texts the videos to Hermes, it watches them + stores in a vault, I text the agent to pull from her lists and plan. Magic.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I nearly shut down my longevity company last year.

I was asking myself what one should build on the eve of superintelligence.

The answer is obvious now: cure all diseases.

But this wasn’t an obvious path for an individual like myself 12 months ago. Sid Sijbrandij hadn’t yet put his cancer into remission by going founder mode. The Australian engineer hadn’t shrunk his dog’s tumor by building a custom mRNA vaccine. And Kate and I hadn’t yet been diagnosed with disease.

Curing disease was something that big, billion dollar companies did over ten years. Not individuals.

That’s now changed.

Two weeks ago, I started focusing my company, Immortals, on building the infrastructure to allow individuals to discover and resolve their own health issues. Kate and I are the first customers as we both try to address our recent disease diagnoses.

If you’re a cracked engineer looking for a hard challenge, come build this with me.

Immortals will continue to be best-in-class with nutrition, GLP-1s, longevity medicines, hormones, peptides, biomarkers and concierge medicine.

We’re now adding induced pluripotent stem cells, organoids, deep cellular characterization, and personalized therapy development among other things.

I hope what we build in the coming year makes current health care look like it’s medicine from the 1500s.

Hit me up if you’re building biotech that matches in goal.

When our basic needs are met, solving all diseases is the only rational next thing to do. And to not wait around for someone else to do it on your behalf.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Tapioca, Patagonia, subito, slip, cacahuète, pistache, courgetti, paella, lasagna, asticot, and Tapadaka are among the words that Pierre Coffin has recorded as part of the language of Minionese. When he was working on the film “Despicable Me,” 15 years ago, the writer, animator, voice actor, and director accidentally invented a language for the little yellow sidekicks. “It’s not really a language. It’s a melody that I struggle to express,” Coffin says. He talks to Lauren Collins about the creation of the massively entertaining minion tongue: https://t.co/Q0aohS8kwa

[Ash 🍔🍕🥪🍜 @Ashsukamakan]

First time buat Crispy Fried Salmon SUMPAH SEDAP GILAAAA 😭😭🔥🔥

[Adele Bloch @adele_bloch]

my favorite ways to talk to a stranger:

- offer to take a photo for them in pretty places
- ask what food they ordered
- comment on how beautiful the weather is
- give them a casual compliment
- ask what they're reading
- ask for directions
- casual smile when you walk by

either it leads to a longer convo or it's just a positive human interaction of the day

strangermaxxing success

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

There are only five levels of income:

Level 1 - you work
Level 2 - your team works
Level 3 - your systems work
Level 4 - your product works
Level 5 - your money works

[Rock @edrodryna]

I rly wanna read this book omgggggg . I rly wanna experience nature and amazing amazing culture and people sooo badly

[aether @bluewdrift]

In order to become a better person, you must first realize how horrible you really are. Not in the dramatic sense, but in the quiet ways you sabotage yourself, repeat unhealthy patterns, hurt people who care about you, or tolerate what wounds you. You cannot grow if you keep pretending you're innocent in the story you've created.

[Rock @edrodryna]

Tbh a good day is when I can say my life is awesome and it’s not bcs of my fiancé’s existence alone

[Rock @edrodryna]

I want a running list of ASIAN university dropouts pls