John Rea

2x founder, finance, systems analysis. Nuclear-powered abundance is the future. Currently @pachafinancial. Prev @scrutinize_io.

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

Physicist 120 years ago: Maybe the inside of an atom is like plum pudding.

Physicist today: Light doesn’t experience time. All this shit might not even be real.

[John Rea @johnrea]

@mountainwesttax Which explains why all available copies of The Art of the Deal are currently checked out 🧐

[John Rea @johnrea]

@almostcmb Somehow my son and I always find that we did in fact need things from Home Depot. Truly a dad time cheat code.

[John Rea @johnrea]

@IshDtax @IraGilligan @LizMpersonal Here’s a number - 100% of the people upset at this post saw a bit of themselves in what I said, and it triggered them.

[John Rea @johnrea]

To be clear - I am extremely neuroconvergent.

You’ll find no one closer to the middle of the bell curve.

Unnaturally average.

[John Rea @johnrea]

I’m gonna say it…there are too many people self-describing as “neurodivergent”.

Like a statistically improbable amount.

Most of y’all are just straight up normies with a dopamine addiction.

[John Rea @johnrea]

@LizMpersonal @IraGilligan Yes, almost everyone could find some personal malady to make a huge part of their public identity, but most don’t. I’m highly suspicious of the claim that the difference causing that is “neurodivergence” - however you’d like to define it.

[John Rea @johnrea]

@LizMpersonal @IraGilligan Nobody’s taking that away from you. And if you read my initial post, it clearly wasn’t about people with actual disorders. I wish you well.

[John Rea @johnrea]

@IraGilligan Calling things you don’t want to engage with a trope is itself a trope.

[John Rea @johnrea]

@cgcardona If there were a gate, I would not be keeping it.

[John Rea @johnrea]

To be clear - I am extremely neuroconvergent.

You’ll find no one closer to the middle of the bell curve.

Unnaturally average.

[John Rea @johnrea]

I’m gonna say it…there are too many people self-describing as “neurodivergent”.

Like a statistically improbable amount.

Most of y’all are just straight up normies with a dopamine addiction.

[John Rea @johnrea]

@LizMpersonal https://t.co/IG9mYQJXIr

[John Rea @johnrea]

As in, there are too many people who are proclaiming they diverge from the middle of the bell curve for it to be statically probable that they do.

If we create arbitrarily complex definitions of what constitutes divergence, and continue segmenting that ad infinitum, then we would end at the divergences in our DNA (ie everyone would be divergent and the segmentation would be worthless).

On a deeper level, I think most people are using it as a form of signaling that they are “different”. Like dying your hair pink or any other form of overt signaling. And upon inspection, a lot of people in this category are in fact just dopamine addicts - which explains 99% of their supposed symptoms (trouble concentrating, executive dysfunction, social anxiety, etc).

[John Rea @johnrea]

As in, there are too many people who are proclaiming they diverge from the middle of the bell curve for it to be statically probable that they do.

If we create arbitrarily complex definitions of what constitutes divergence, and continue segmenting that ad infinitum, then we would end at the divergences in our DNA (ie everyone would be divergent and the segmentation would be worthless).

On a deeper level, I think most people are using it as a form of signaling that they are “different”. Like dying your hair pink or any other form of overt signaling. And upon inspection, a lot of people in this category are in fact just dopamine addicts - which explains 99% of their supposed symptoms (trouble concentrating, executive dysfunction, social anxiety, etc).

[John Rea @johnrea]

My grandfather started the 80s with a private jet and ended them dead broke and being sued by the Federal government for $100m.

He’s spent the last 40 years reliving that decade in every story he tells, and it saddens me deeply every time I see that look in his eyes.

[Peter Psathas @Peter_Psathas]

Anybody here in real estate live/work during the S&L crisis? What was it like?

[OnlyCFO @OnlyCFO]

My board freaked out that our updated forecast had $1M higher cash burn.

I reassured them that the $1.5M will be the most important $2.5M we have ever spent because it was time to “accelerate or die”.

If we don’t spend that $3M, then we are going to get crushed by competitors

[John Rea @johnrea]

@LoganGrafTax Export all of the emails. Feed them to Claude describing your issue and asking for specific filtering criteria you can use to catch them. Implement filters you don’t think will clash with real mail (can also test against inbox before saving them). YMMV

[John Rea @johnrea]

@anothercohen Truth. But, the revealed preference of the majority of Austin voters is that they like this.

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This must have been caused by the lack of education and healthcare, right @JosePGarza?

[Austin Police Department @Austin_Police]

BRIEFING: City of Austin Mayor Kirk Watson and Chief Lisa Davis provide details on shooting incidents.

[John Rea @johnrea]

@HeatherEHeying https://t.co/P8drCluk7E

[John Rea @johnrea]

Iatrogenic harm is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. to this day and is vastly underreported for obvious reasons. The CDC doesn’t even track it as a distinct category.

(I wonder why?!)

And we’re just supposed to trust all doctors explicitly anyway because they have an extra EiGhT YeArS oF sChOoLING.

It’s called “practicing” medicine for a reason.

[John Rea @johnrea]

Newsom: “We have to undermine democracy to save Democracy™️”

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Gavin Newsom says there is a “break the glass scenario” if Democrats are shut out of California’s governor race.