Mike

Real Estate Professional

[Augustus @AugustusDelano]

Underrated life hacks:
- pray first thing every morning, last thing every night
- always keep an open notebook and pen within sight
- halve the amount time you allot yourself to read books & do your work
- extend your vision out by 5-10 years, then reverse engineer to present
- every time you catch yourself worrying, immediately surrender it to God
- never stop learning, ever, no matter what
- recognize no one is stopping you more than yourself

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

[Donovan Mitchell @spidadmitchell]

#LetEmKnow

[Z’s Turning 🍊 @Z4BTC_]

Men are never going to see women the same way again.

In the past, women had the benefit of most men being clueless to their nature. Most men truly believed their wives loved them the same way they loved them.

The evidence is there now that women probably only got with most men due to social pressure, economic dependence, and safety.

However, I believe the women of 1650 had the same yearning for “Chads” as they do in 2026.

It’s clear that if left to their own devices, women will embrace harem culture, seek sexual attention, and engage in sexual deviancy.

This is why for centuries their behavior was controlled. Marriage will only be fixed when:

1. Women are economically dependent on men again
2. The state is no longer involved in marriages
3. Social shame returns, and women are punished for bad actions

Until then, we will see many more of these cases.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans.

Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable.

Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale.

Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné.

Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut.

À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol.

Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée.

Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit.

Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie.

Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags.

Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle.

Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère.

Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision :

"La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne)
"La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek
"Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt
Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

[The Architect. @TheMarcitect]

It's starting to become pretty clear that a shadowy group of people have hidden highly advanced technology from humanity for a very long time and are trying to keep it under wraps amidst the ongoing disclosure movement. It's not about hiding aliens it's about hiding technology.

[Th0r @Thzer0r]

2020 brute was a fantastic run

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Comprehensive, from my friend Jesse @AlchemyAmerican

[h @ruinsunflower]

the worst person you know is born in october

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

Eating the same meals daily improves your life SIGNIFICANTLY.

Whenever I'd see patients over 100 years old in hospital, I always observed their habits and it was really obvious they mostly did the same things:

- Same meals daily: Leaner meats, fish, vegetables.
- Potatoes or rice for carbs. They did have toast and butter often though.
- Never ate beyond satiety. None of them ate a lot.

- Never snacked or grazed throughout the day. Seemed intuitive rather than planned.
- Stopped eating quite early. 6-7pm.
- Very little sugar outside of fruit. I know, sorry.

- Regular sleeping rhythm.
I will note, some seemed like night owls. Consistent though.

- Still haven't met one that drank coffee. Again, don't cope in comments I truly don't care about that one person you know who is 813 and loves coffee. This is just what I've observed from running into many people around and crossing the 100 year old age range.

They seemed to prefer milk and tea.

- None smoked. At all.

- Very low amount of alcohol consumption. Most don't have any at all. Those that did would typically go to neurosurgery bc they brain bleeds. Most commonly said they stopped many decades prior.

- A lot of that generation seem to prefer things like prunes over meds to naturally facilitate their bowel movements. They'd refuse senna etc. initially

- Never really saw former athletes or those that trained intensely even in their youth. They just walked around and did stuff.

- None were particularly tall. All average in build, slim but not gaunt.

- Many of them had a close blood relative that lived for a very long time too.

[BowTiedCocoon | Enterprise Sales Hiring @BowTiedCocoon]

Some advice I'd give my old self, I wanted to share with you:

1) Get into a performance-based career, preferably at a famous organization whose name opens doors for the rest of your life (the training, network, tenure will 100x that). You'll be forced to become optimistic and efficient at an early age.

2) Usually takes ~6 months to learn the ropes then focus on getting a second source of income off the ground: Consulting/coaching, info product, e-com, real estate, learn AI or better find the winner in your circle and add to his bottom line until he takes you under his wing etc

3) Leave for yourself six months of cash. Then start investing 20% to 30% every month into the S&P 500 (take more risks (crypto etc) if you have extra disposable cash, or are young enough that you can roll the dice & still have 30-40y to make up for it).

4) Get in the gym or break a sweat 3-5x a week (no exceptions). This system will trick you into prioritizing health and showing up when you don't want to at an early age.

5) The whole drinking / bottle service / recreational drugs thing is completely stupid < 25-26 but it only gets worse past that. It's also the age you can tell which friends to keep close from the ones you should fade.

6) You can absolutely travel international 2-3x/year while crushing your career & starting/scaling a side hustle.

7) Massive amounts of anxiety in your 20s are normal even when you do all the right things - mental health gets 10x better in your 30s. Catching up in your 30s and 40s is *severely* more difficult and the few ppl capable of that are monumental forces of nature.

8) You don't need a crazy contact list to make it in biz/life. Just deep genuine relationships with 2-3 sharks more advanced on the path you're on is enough.

9) Never cut corners, it will ruin your reputation (getting burned a few times is a normal life tax).

10) You'll lose your first fortune foolishly (normal when you run at 1000mph without built-in judgement). The good news is you'll make it back in 1/5th of the time it took the first time.

11) Develop spiritually - no matter what people say, there is a reason Abrahamic religions resisted the test of time. (very) personal note: Do you worship God for the sake of God or because you're (secretly) wishing for something in return? I know I've worshipped "utility" (praying to "feel" certain ways or "get something") and it's been the greatest mistake of my life. I still fall into that every day (feature of being a human vs an angel) but now at least I actively try to catch myself / repent.

12) You're the luckiest man on earth if you can find a woman that's attractive to you (beauty is in the eye of the beholder), who sees the person you're trying to become and appreciate you even more for trying to grow into that. Be honest about your intentions. Have good intentions. Marry that person. have kids. Striving to become a worthy father will infuse every aspect of your character and 10x the best in it.

13) Check in on your loved ones, take care of your family and small circle. It's not about paying their rent but making sure they're alright - and them knowing you will show up in difficulty or challenge of life. No matter what.

14) Every other year, write down who you want to become by the end of this decade. Have a north star to guide your waking moments. When you're at a crossroads, ask yourself what would that person do. Remember two things: 1) what we seek is alignment between what we do and who we want to become. That misalignment causes lots of suffering. This is why you want to shed light onto it. 2) God has the last word on your affairs and that's why there is no mistake in how our lives unfold (focus on your reaction to it, more so than provoking certain events).

15) "Everything in life comes from compound interest. Relationships. Money. Health." Keep showing up. Take care of the small group around you. Extend your hand when you can. Trust the plan. And Smile. Life is great, and so are you

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

33,000 military veterans are currently homeless.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Incredible moment as Artemis II pilot Victor Glover shares the Gospel mere MOMENTS before reaching the back side of the Moon, losing communication with Earth

"Christ said, in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all that you are." 🙏🏻

"And he also, being a great teacher, said the second is equal to it, and that is to love your neighbor as yourself."

"And so, as we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still going to feel your love from Earth, and to all of you down there on earth and around earth, we love you from the moon." ❤️

[Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 @EricSpracklen]

Tim Dillon is literally speaking for all of us.

[Iran News 24 @IRanMediaco]

Dear Americans,

Iran does not have the missile range to strike your country;

if an attack occurs, it would most likely be carried out by your own GOVERNMENT or ISRAEL.

[TreVeyon Henderson @TreVeyonH4]

“For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths.”
2 Timothy 4:3-4

[Praise @tufpraise]

NO the FUCK we are NOT!!!!!!!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

26-year-old Polish guitar virtuoso Marcin Patrzałek responds to those claiming his music is fake.
He created this tutorial-style video to show exactly how he plays so incredibly well – and yes, it’s all performed live on a single guitar.
He is incredible! 👌👌