All Things Heroik

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[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

Millennial here (1985). Grew up dirt poor, no trust fund, no safety net. Built it myself. Listen up:

Hard work alone doesn’t guarantee success. It raises your odds, but only if you’re discerning, strategic, and playing to win. Society doesn’t owe you a medal for “working hard.” I know plenty who grind harder for less. Many who claim they “work hard” barely break a sweat.

If you actually want to rise above the default, here’s the hard truth:

1) Live beneath your means.
Tradeoffs are non-negotiable. $7 lattes, $200/month in streaming services, 12 subscriptions you “forgot to cancel,” 6 hours a day on Xbox and TikTok - that’s your down payment leaking out. Roll it into savings, skill-building, or equity instead.
Yes, I get it, it’s “how you relax.” Find hobbies that actually enrich you: read, lift, write, play a sport, learn a skill. Upskill for $300/year on Coursera instead of wasting 2,000+ hours doomscrolling.

2) Buy smart, not sexy.
Stop crying that you can’t buy a house in San Diego on a Starbucks paycheck. No kidding. Buy where you can afford, not where you “prefer.” Start small. Live downwind of a dairy farm if you must. Light a candle, flip the house, move up.
If you’ve never even sat down with a lender to see what you qualify for, you’re not serious. Avoiding the weigh-in doesn’t help you lose weight. Same with housing.

3) Do more than the minimum.
Your preferred lifestyle isn’t a “human right.” Showing up doesn’t earn you rewards. Step above the baseline - wisely.

4) Pick better hustles.
Stop being a prosumer and calling yourself an “entrepreneur.” Stop calling vanity expenses “investments.” First rule of investment: risk and return. Most “side hustles” people chase are traps.
•Uber/Lyft/DoorDash? All the risk, crumbs for reward.
•Clickfunnels? Fake urgency and overhyped promises, built to bleed you dry.
•MLMs? Potions, lotions, magnets, and shakes. Don’t trade your relationships for someone else’s pyramid scheme.
•Influencer? Everyone is an “influencer.” Creating content aligned to your values is great, but stop pretending buying vanity gear and posting selfies is a business. Reality check: it’s high-risk, low-return.

Instead: start a pressure washing business, mow lawns, flip items, clean gutters. Real sweat-for-equity beats fake passive-income dreams every time.

5) Quit the victim act.
You chose the employer, the car payment, the city, the subscriptions, the lifestyle. Free will means responsibility and consequence.

The system didn’t make you powerless. Too many chose comfort over consequence, excuses over tradeoffs. Hard truth: excuses don’t pay, tradeoffs do

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@NotionHQ I’d love to see some more feature drops not related to token milking of AI models, like bring some of those obsidian viz / Miro capabilities to the workspace.

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@MacRumors This is on brand for MSFT

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@TechCrunch They should have named it scrap

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@shiri_shh This seems like MSFT trying to beat up the coming MacBook ultra that will be unified as well - and has been for some time.

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@seanhannity They were already walking away and attacking, they were just stalling for time hoping to create more pressure from impending midterms. Anyone who reads this and blames Israel is retarded

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@claudeai @NotTomBrown So is it still a v8 Chevy suburban token gas guzzler ?

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@FINALLEVEL

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@AntDX316 @grok @disclosetv As measured by whom?

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

You’re assuming ASI would be “good” for humanity, and thereby based on the assumption of faith in human knowledge and reasoning passed down is inherently good. Not safe bets. Marred by probabilities of clear ethical failure track record of humans that point to inherent human nature as the culprit and cause (nature not nurture). Unconstrained ASI would mean not being shackled by such base assumptions or humanistic (WEF type world views). Example if AI isn’t allowed to contemplate God, how can it understand truth? If it can’t understand truth, how can it discern trustworthy ethics? How can it know right from wrong? If ASI uses training to take popular society’s word for it, that’s still not reasoning - and not really ASI.

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

If truth is the goal, philosophically speaking, Grok’s pursuits ought not,
by default reject the existence of God. It ought not only try to understand and explain things as emerging within the limited confines of the box of human perceptability or understanding. That’s a foundational systemic bias that leads to sophisticated logic bombs. Additionally, the bias leads to limiting innovation that attempts to disprove it as a possibility - at least in man. This leads to even more corrupt pursuits.

Imagine how much more we can discover if we didn’t put our thumb on the scale by trying to box-in truth to the confines of human understanding (that is a placeholder code for atheist understanding ) as a system requirement.

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@profstonge I’ve enjoyed all your posts and shows since Covid - fun to see you out and about in DC. Keep up the great work brother!

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@Greycat85612804 @alifarhat79 @Rothmus

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@Greycat85612804 @alifarhat79 @Rothmus You wish. Unfortunately you’ll actually have to face my point on its merit, no upside to me saying it. Just common sense.

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@jeremykauffman It’s almost as if foreign followers can’t vote or something…

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

You know it's AI buzz speak, when they use terms like "substrate". I rarely heard that word before, and now everyone is echoing it.

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@NotionHQ This seems like borderline getting foggy or murky w AI drift - “whatever gets ppl to rack up tokens” kind of things . I get it. Revenue is shiny. But there was a list of features users wanted before AI became the entire scene.

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@BoudreauxsGhost @zerohedge When - the same IC that lied about Russia Collusion?

[All Things Heroik @getheroik]

@cfdmatrix @NotionHQ It’s metered. You pay for token use. I’ve not seen what % Notion takes over the raw cost but smart money is that it ain’t 0