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[Blumer @FixNaija2]

@RahimaAbdulkar5 Happy birthday to you

[0.1% @sandy4kad]

In 2001, Warren Buffett gave University of Georgia students an impossible deal: buy 10 percent of a classmate's lifetime earnings.

Pick anyone in the room. 24 hours to decide. Ten percent of their income, forever.

Not the richest kid. Not the one with the best grades. Buffett said grades wouldn't separate the winners from the pack.

Then he flipped it. Now short one classmate. Bet against them. Collect 10 percent of their failure.

Neither pick, he said, comes down to talent, height, speed or looks. It comes down to 3 traits: intelligence, initiative, integrity.

Miss the third one and the first two turn against you. A smart, energetic person without integrity is more dangerous than a lazy, dim one.

Buffett's point cut deeper than the game. Every quality on the winner's list is something you can choose. Every quality on the loser's list is something you can drop.
He pointed to his own mentor, Ben Graham, who as a teenager studied the people he admired, then built himself into that person on purpose.

Buffett's own line on habits: they stay too light to feel, until they're too heavy to break.

His advice on jobs followed the same logic. Work for whoever you admire most, he said, not whoever looks best on a resume. A Harvard student once told him he was stacking prestige jobs to build the "perfect" resume before doing what he actually wanted.

Buffett compared it to saving up for retirement in a way that never pays out.

You already have the ability. You already have the energy. The gap between a big winner and everyone else is character, and character is self-made.

[SheyMan🎬🍿 @Holuwaseyi60]

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[alexei @alexeixbt]

repetition is the bridge between who you are and who you want to be.

it's just the same boring rep, done when you don't feel like it, on the day nobody's watching, for longer than makes sense.

[mentalium @mentalium_]

Jane street pays $600,000 for the skill of selling anything to anyone, and now this 21 minute Tony Robbins masterclass filmed 30 years ago in his castle gives it to you completely free.

This is the uncut 1992 session. Just raw persuasion from the master who coached presidents and billionaires.

You will learn how to find anyone's buying state and anchor your offer to that feeling. No scripts. No tricks. Just psychology that works on everyone.

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[Ruben Hassid @rubenhassid]

I absolutely hate AI writing. And my entire job is to write about AI. So I keep a file of the new em-dash to recognize AI writing instantly:

Everyone learned the em dash trick.
AI is trained to not write with em dashes anymore.
Now you can get accused of using AI if you write in perfectly structured sentences.

These are some of the dead giveaways of using AI:

1. "That's not X. That's Y."
"That's not compliance. That's stalling."
Say the second half only. "They're stalling."

2. Two short bits stuck together.
"Fast. Simple." "No fluff. Just answers."
Pick only one to write like a real person.

3. "Less a hammer, more a scalpel."
Visualizing two pictures with no advice. Directly say what to do instead.

4. Clapping for itself.
"And that matters." "That's the part everyone misses." "Which is exactly the point."
Delete them all. You lose nothing. I promise.

5. "It's the Excel of AI agents."
Only works if I know both things. Usually I don't.

6. Warming up before talking.
"Here's the thing." "Let me be clear." "The truth is."
Start one sentence later.

7. Always three things.
"Faster, cheaper, smarter."
Real life gives you two reasons. Or five. Never always three.

8. "5 to 10 minutes."
A range means you never did it. Just say 7 minutes.

9. The ending that repeats the whole post.
"In short…" "At the end of the day…"
Just stop typing. End on a high note.

Now that you know how AI writes. Here's how to actually stop AI from doing all nine:

Step 1. Type only these two words in your prompt.
Open chat & write: "Use ASD-STE100."

That's the writing standard for plane manuals. Short words, short sentences, because a confusing sentence there can kill someone. Claude already knows it. Those words remove 80% of the bad writing. Works on ChatGPT, Gemini & Grok too.

Step 2. Get the skill so you never type it again.
I built the full version with every rule inside. It's free: https://t.co/rFXoSKBlNd

Download the zip. In Claude, click Customize on the left. Click Skills. Click Upload a skill. Drop the zip in. Type /ste to use it.

Step 3. Turn it off for fun stuff.
I asked it for a poem. Unreadable. I asked it for a LinkedIn post. It sounded German.
Use /ste for guides, steps, explanations, emails, documents. Turn it off for anything with a heart.

Step 4. Add 4 lines to your claude .md.
"follow Zinsser's four principles of quality writing: 1. Simplicity 2. Brevity 3. Clarity 4. Humanity"

/ste gives you the first three but forgets about the fourth. This prompt puts it back on the track.

Step 5. Make a forbidden .md.
Copy the 9 patterns above into a file. Tell Claude to check every draft against it.

Then add a new line every time you spot one. Your file gets better every week. Mine certainly does.

Step 6. Start a new chat more often.
If your chat is long, the writing gets worse. It repeats itself & goes back to the pretty sentences. When it feels half full, open a fresh chat & paste your files back.

The skill is free, right in your inbox: https://t.co/rFXoSKBlNd

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

Peter Thiel says competition is for losers.

He says founders are told competition is healthy and good.

He says it is the opposite of what you want.

In a perfectly competitive market, all the profit gets competed away.

Restaurants fight each other and barely survive.

He says you should aim for a monopoly instead.

Build something so good that no one else can touch it.

Stop trying to win the race.

Leave it entirely.

— Peter Thiel's (.@peterthiel) 2014 Stanford University lecture.

[Isa @isssa0x]

Insurance is the oldest of the four ways. It is a nine-trillion-dollar global industry. The equation underneath it was invented in 1560 by a broke Italian gambler.

His name was Girolamo Cardano. He wrote a book called Liber de Ludo Aleae. A short manual on how to win at dice. Nobody in finance read it for four hundred years.

Then in 1996 a ninety-year-old man in New York wrote a book that traced every modern risk model back to that manual. He called it Against the Gods. One thesis. Every dollar of premium ever collected on Earth is a footnote to a gambler scribbling in Milan.

His name was Peter Bernstein. He founded the Journal of Portfolio Management in 1974 and ran money at Bernstein-Macaulay before that. Wall Street called him the historian of risk.

In 2008 a small production company filmed him for thirteen minutes. He walked through the entire five-hundred-year arc. Cardano to Pascal to Fermat to Black-Scholes. Then he stopped and said the industry had built glass towers on the back of an idea a broke Italian scribbled to settle a card debt.

He died the following summer. Age ninety.

Reinsurance premiums crossed six hundred billion dollars last year. Every actuary on Earth prices catastrophe risk with the same expected-value framework Cardano invented to shave the house edge in Milan.

The video is thirteen minutes and twenty-two seconds long. Free. Eleven years on YouTube. Twenty-nine thousand people have watched it.

Almost none of them work in insurance.

[Sharran Srivatsaa @sharran]

Nobody taught you how to actually speak. But a kindergarten teacher cracked the code on how to explain anything to anyone.

And it’s the same framework I use in every pitch deck, keynote, and presentation:

[Shegun 🌪️🌟 @ShegunTweets]

this might be the first time i've genuinely agreed with every side

[Jayroo @jayroo69]

Bro thought it was funny until his 5 year sentence got turned into a 50 year sentence real quick....

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

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[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

People who spend long periods of time at home and slowly lose the desire to go outside often think they're just resting. But psychologically, many of them are experiencing something called mental rumination. It's a state where the brain starts slowing down while the number of thoughts inside keeps increasing and the motivation to do anything slowly disappears. The mind gets stuck in the past, worries about the future and burns itself out. This isn't laziness, it's a nervous system stuck in survival mode. And the longer it lasts, the more distant normal life begins to feel. And the difficult part is that you usually can't escape it through one massive burst of motivation. And sometimes,recovery starts with just one small step.

[Lunar @LunarResearcher]

Google just released a free 2-hour course on full Graph Engineering.

How to go from one prompt to 100 agents running inside one graph:

17:44 - Build your first AI agent
39:30 - Run agents with loop engineering
1:12:38 - Turn agent loops into graphs
1:34:26 - Build agents that throttle themselves
1:55:05 - Orchestrate the full multi-agent system

Most people build one agent and stop there.

Google is teaching the full stack:

Prompt → Agents → Loops → Graphs → Multi-Agent Systems

Single agents are the old workflow.

Self-regulating agent graphs are the new one.

This 2-hour watch is worth more than most paid agent engineering courses.

Bookmark and watch it today

Then read the full architecture below ↓

[Mahax @Mahaximus_]

Google Brain founder, Andrew Ng:

"Prompting will die in 6 months.

Loops and Graphs are what's replacing it."

In 2 hours, he shows exactly what the best engineers already build instead, and how to start building it yourself.

The missing piece most people skip: how to connect those loops into a graph that compounds every time it runs.

Watch it, then read the full guide on loops and graphs below.

[Tigerflow @tigerfl0w]

A billionaire went on stage and explained in 42 minutes how the entire economy works. for free. Wall Street spent the next decade pretending nobody saw it.

he didn't sell a course. he didn't plug a fund. he stood at a whiteboard and drew three lines that explain every crash, every recovery, and every rate decision since 1929.

MBA programs charge $200,000 to teach frameworks he covered in the first 15 minutes. six of the models he drew on that board are still classified as proprietary at three major banks. he gave them away on YouTube.

the part nobody talks about: he predicted exactly what happened in 2020, two years before it played out. interest rates hitting zero, the central bank running out of tools, the money printer. he drew it on a whiteboard in 2018 like he was reading tomorrow's newspaper.

a portfolio manager at a top-five firm told me every new analyst on his desk watches this before they're allowed to open a terminal. not the CFA prep. not the internal training. this one lecture.

40 million people have seen it. almost none of them can name the three forces he draws in the first ten minutes.

it is still free.

[Divyanshi @Divyyanshishrma]

My friend makes $1.2 million a year as an Anthropic engineer.

I asked him how he learned prompting so well.

He sent me a video that was never supposed to get out. Their core team's prompting playbook.

You won’t find anything better about prompting than this video.

I watched it last night.

Halfway through, I realized I've been using Claude completely wrong for two years.

Watch it and save!

[aether @bluewdrift]

With books unread, muscles untrained, and thousands of skills untouched - if you're bored, you're not even trying.

[alexei @alexeixbt]

back in the 70s, game theory was hyped the exact same way AI is today. every genius was obsessed with one thing: how to win.

then one guy watched his kids play with legos and realized everybody was completely missing the point.

in short: if you're constantly trying to "beat the competition," you're playing the wrong game entirely.

hands down one of the clearest explanations of strategic game theory applied to real life by @simonsinek

I mapped out the key rules and action points below.

[Lumen @lumenxbt]

Ten million people have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the executive coaching industry.

He filmed the lecture 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 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.