Frothy Fiat

rubber-necking this monetary and fiscal pile up.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

@WithoutHistory Bro didn’t even think to say thank you

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

@mikealfred They should pay the $1M purses to the existing WR holders.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

@AlpacaAurelius No nicotine
No caffeine
No added sugar

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

@alifarhat79 @Not_KevinWarsh Now get off the board!

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

@ChuongIsHere @petergyang Can literally go surfing and snowboarding in the same day, then camp in the desert that night.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

@petergyang Beach = vacation = tourists. Nobody wants to spend their vacation days traveling to the bay… gross.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

@JohnHowardRoar1 @BoringBiz_ On average, women marry older men. If a 29 year old woman married a 31 year old man, it would show up in the women’s percentage but not the men’s (because the cutoff is married by 30).

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

@GoingParabolic Knotters

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@Breedlove22 Also, don’t skip leg day

[Peter Atwater @Peter_Atwater]

For those following along at home, looking for a real-time measure of consumer stress...

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

@DariusDale42 And the chaser:

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/bDCdltFo0A

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

Smoking weed makes you comfortable with being bored. Sharpen yourself and go deep on something challenging instead.

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

18 million Americans are smoking weed 21+ days a month

This is a full blown addiction crisis that even the NYT now says: "It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem"

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

Calluses are evidence of paid dues adaptation to work. Don’t be afraid of applying stress to the system.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

The man who sleeps nine hours and eats clean and never drinks and exercises daily is the deadest man i know btw. his bloodwork is immaculate and he has nothing to say. the body is a temple and no God showed up. meanwhile the ones who actually see things are running on four hours and cigarettes and something chewing at them from inside that wont let them become vegetables. consciousness is expensive it costs health. you pay with the body. the flame eats the candle thats the deal

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is a dopamine loop, and it’s one of the most powerful ones humans have ever encountered.

Every time you prompt an AI and get a useful result back in seconds, your brain gets a hit. Variable-ratio reinforcement, same mechanism as slot machines, except the reward is real: actual output, actual progress, actual leverage on your ideas.

Traditional work follows a delayed-reward structure. You write code for 6 hours, maybe it compiles, maybe you get feedback in a week. The gap between effort and reward is wide enough that motivation decays constantly.

AI compresses that loop to seconds. Effort → reward → effort → reward. Your prefrontal cortex stays engaged because the next payoff is always one prompt away. This is why people describe it as “fun” when they’re actually working 14-hour days. The subjective experience of effort disappears when reward frequency is high enough.

The “harder than ever” part is real too. When your bottleneck shifts from execution to imagination, you run out of excuses to stop. There’s no “waiting on the build” or “blocked by review.” Every idea you have can be tested immediately, which means your brain never gets a natural stopping point.

People who thrive on this are selecting for a specific neurotype: high novelty-seeking, high conscientiousness, tolerance for rapid context-switching. That’s maybe 10-15% of the population.

The other 85% will experience the same tools as overwhelming, not energizing. And that split is going to define the next decade of who captures value from AI and who gets displaced by it.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

If you’re spending more than 2 minutes making a list, STOP.

Take action and finish something.

Lists are seductive, but anything you might forget probably isn’t worthwhile anyways.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

Tomorrow will be a new mountain to climb. You don’t need yesterday’s baggage.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

“Today is yesterday’s tomorrow.”
- 3 year old (today)

His reflection on language got me reflecting on all the “I’ll do it tomorrow” things that never happened.

Do it TODAY.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

Nothing saps your mental bandwidth more than open loops. Respond to that text. Make the appointment. Finish the assignment.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

Strava is the casino where we gamble orthopedic injuries for internet glory. Pain is temporary, leaderboards are forever.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

Your time is priceless, but so many of us wander or scroll through life as if that means it’s worthless.

It’s worth more than your wildest imaginations, and you need to honor that price that with every decision.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

You need to decide how much your time is worth.

True potential- more than you’re currently making. This is your opportunity cost, and it’s accruing every second.

[Frothy Fiat @frothyfiat]

Does the task in front of you meet the standard you’ve set for your time? Perhaps it’s not worthwhile. Perhaps you can pay someone to do it cheaper.