If you made $500,000 per day, every single day since the Great Pyramids were built, you would have less than half of what the US govt has borrowed since June.
@TylerDurden@blknoiz06 I had Claude read the entirety of three different acoustic testing software user manuals, then had it explain to me how to run a specific set of tests, and which of the three different softwares is the best one for each specific use case. For end-of-line testing of loudspeakers
- Put it on the resume
- Say it in the interview
- Nod confidently in meetings
- Tell coworkers you’ve done it before
- Get the job
- Open the documentation
- Google everything
- Watch 12 YouTube tutorials
- Figure it out at 2:37 AM
- Ship the feature
Welcome to the tech industry.
Your job is to keep the wheels from falling off.
If you slip into a doomscroll session, eat too much, or go to bed late, the worst thing you can do is let that bad behavior be a permission slip for more.
Get back on the horse. The people you envy aren’t machines. They’re not perfect. They probably just snap back quickly. It’s so easy to spiral when the dam breaks, but the best thing you can do is keep the bus from breaking down entirely.
Eliminate the huge swings, if not for the sake of progress, than for your sanity.
i have no desire to be rich so i can buy a lambo or birkins.
I want to be rich so I can control my time and go to the gym at 2 pm on a wednesday.
sit at a cafe and relax for an hour on a rainy afternoon.
so I can cook meals at home with fresh ingredients.
spend on my family and friends without worrying about a budget.
that’s my idea of a rich life, not the fake consumerist idea shoved down my throat.
I Bought $250,000 Worth of Physical Nickels
No, that’s not a typo.
That’s 5 million coins. 55,000 pounds of American metal stacked in boxes from a local bank vault — an asset the government literally can’t print anymore.
Most people would call it insane.
But let me explain the thesis.
Each U.S. nickel is made of 75% copper and 25% nickel, weighing 5 grams. That means every $1 million in face value equals roughly 100,000 pounds of metal.
At current metal spot prices, the melt value of a modern nickel sits around $0.043 – $0.047, depending on commodity fluctuations — or roughly 90–95% of face value. That means the U.S. Mint loses money on every coin it produces. They’ve tried to change the composition for years, but Congress hasn’t approved it yet.
So what happens when they finally do?
The old “real” nickels become the last batch of government-issued coins containing significant industrial metal. When that happens, they’ll vanish from circulation overnight — just like the 90% silver coins did after 1964. Those who held them saw a 10–15× nominal gain over the following decades as melt value outpaced inflation.
My $250,000 position, therefore, isn’t a “trade.”
It’s an asymmetrical bet that the U.S. Mint will eventually debase the coinage again, that metal scarcity and inflation will continue to erode the dollar, and that a bag of nickels will one day be worth more dead than alive.
Worst case? I still have $250,000 in legal-tender coins backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.
Best case? The melt value doubles, triples, or gets banned outright — which would make the existing supply finite and far more valuable to collectors and contrarians alike.
It’s not crypto, it’s not stocks, it’s not even silver.
It’s 5 million tiny claims on an industrial commodity the government accidentally subsidizes.
That’s deep value.
That’s the Nickel Standard.
If you ever catch yourself saying “it’s only 5 SOL,” go ride public transport at peak hour.
That’s five days of this, twice a day, every week for most people. It wasn’t just 5 SOL, it was 40+ hours of work in the spreadsheet factory.
Until you see crypto as a game of maximum time extraction and start measuring PnLs in time saved or lost, your relationship with money will never truly be healthy.
Yes, gamble. But never forget the real value of what you’re gambling with - your time.