Marios Vasilakis

[signüll @signulll]

one of the biggest fucking problems with traditional resumes or linkedin is how aggressively ppl pigeonhole you. ppl glance at your job history, make lazy assumptions… “oh you did x, so you must be a y” & suddenly you’re boxed into some narrow, reductive archetype. it’s brutal for anyone who thinks across domains, who isn’t easily classifiable.

the only real antidote is a public profile built on ideas. a bunch of x posts, essays, or prototypes… whatever proves you think clearly, & thoughtfully. that’s the modern resume. it’s the only way to escape the traditional outcomes & hierarchies.

[@jason @Jason]

.@JensenHuang is a national treasure 🫡

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

You just have to fucking try.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Meta will continue to be successful because they understand that a winning consumer AI strategy is “hey you can use AI to negotiate a good deal on a Peloton through Marketplace and btw we made a silly little AI character with a fluffy butt that you can look at on your new Meta Tamagotchi”

not “run our open weight model 6.7.1 on this new Chinese orchestration architecture oh and btw it might take your job and kill you good luck”

[DHH @dhh]

It's incredible how far you can go if you just don't stop.

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

being yourself is easy. all you have to do is: defy your parents, disappoint your friends, question your education, ignore your feed, resist your boss, confront your culture, and betray your past self.

[signüll @signulll]

every major company is arriving at roughly the same offering:

persistent memory, email/calendar/messages, browser + computer use, background tasks, proactive notifications, voice, app/tool execution, ambient context, & some notion of a personal agent sitting above everything.

remarkable levels of convergence with very little differentiation whatsoever.

[Marios Vasilakis @mariosvasilakis]

@marclou Congrats Marc!

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

To be a good founder, you have to be a very harsh judge of everything around you. Most painfully, of people.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

When you need clarity, subtract.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

In a scarcity world, the hard part is getting the thing. In an abundance world, the hard part is knowing which thing, and then not drowning in the other 10,000 things.

[Marios Vasilakis @mariosvasilakis]

First hybrid race is in the books.

Hyrox Athens 2026
Mixed doubles — 1:23:27

Wouldn’t have gotten there without my teammate.

———

Expectations reset.
Time to work.

[VV @visualizevalue]

"The more you get pushed, the thicker your skin, the thicker your skin, the higher you go.”

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Episode #432 The Mind of Napoleon:

0:00 — " This book gives you insight into the mind of a man who combined energy of thought and energy of action to an exceptional degree."

0:30 — "Work is my element. I am born and built for work. I have known the limitations of my legs, I have known the limitations of my eyes; I have never been able to know the limitations of my working capacity."

0:52 — "He knows that men have always been the same, that nothing can change their nature. It is from the past that he will draw his lessons in order to shape the present."

1:33 — "All my life I have sacrificed everything: comfort, self-interest, happiness, to my destiny. Destiny must be fulfilled that is my chief doctrine."

2:33 — "A consecutive series of great actions never is the result of chance and luck; it always is a product of planning and genius.

2:40 — "What is luck? The ability to exploit accidents: The vulgar would call this luck, but in fact it is the characteristic of genius."

3:30 — "Hesitation is fatal; once an action is begun, it must be followed through with the utmost exertion of the will."

3:44 — "If I have any ambition, it is so natural to me, so innate, so intimately linked with my existence, that it is like the blood that circulates in my veins, like the air that I breathe."

4:14 — "To have lived without glory, without leaving a trace of one's existence, is to have not lived at all."

6:25 — "Without great men, we have only mediocre men, and if there had never been anything but mediocre men, we would still be half apes."

7:20 — "The great majority of men attend to what is necessary only when they feel a need for it-the precise time when it is too late."

7:30 — "True character always pierces through in moments of crisis. There are sleepers whose awakening is terrifying."

9:11 — "Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions."

11:15 — "The truth is that everything around us is miracle."

15:18 — "Men of genius are meteors destined to be consumed in lighting up their century."

16:13 —  "A man must know himself. Until then, all endeavors are in vain and all schemes collapse."

17:53 — "All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything."

18:12 —  "What I am, I owe to strength of will, character, application, and daring."

19:27 — "Imagination rules the world."

20:58 — " History I conquered rather than studied. That is to say, I wanted from it, and retained of it, only what could add to my ideas. I spurned what was of no use, and I seized upon certain conclusions that pleased me."

26:01 — " It is better to eat than be eaten."

26:08 — "Appetite comes with eating."

 27:43 — "It may be possible to arrest the surge of progress or to throttle it, but not to destroy it."

29:01 — " I have read your letter. It is utterly worthless. There are too many words and not enough ideas."

31:08 —  "Without talent, without knowledge, there is no equality but the equality of misery and servitude."

33:46 — Napoleon to someone who hasn't studied history: " Speak as little as possible. Your knowledge is too limited, and your education has been too neglected for you to engage freely in discussions."

36:08 — "The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.”

36:44 — "If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity."

39:30 — "In war, men are nothing. One man is everything."

40:20 — "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day."

46:23 — "Conquest made me what I am. Conquest alone can keep me there."

46:34 — "Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me."

47:13 — "My soul is made of marble. Lightning has found no grip on it and had to slide off of it. I have no fear of becoming their victim. They will be biting into granite."

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Napoleon on luck:

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

People who lack the courage to make choices often spend their whole lives building optionality that they will never use.

[chl$ @chelsssseeeea]

Maybe one of the biggest mistakes modern culture made was treating responsibility as the enemy of freedom.

Marriage restricts you. Children restrict you. Owning a home restricts you. Caring for family restricts you. A career restricts you. Community obligations restrict you.

Of course they do. Anything meaningful places demands on you.

But if you remove every obligation in pursuit of maximum freedom, eventually you’re left with a life where nobody needs you, nothing depends on you and there’s very little bigger than yourself.

We talk constantly about wanting meaning while systematically avoiding the exact commitments that tend to create it. And I guarantee you there’s going to be a lot of sad and lonely people in our aging generation because of this nearsighted pursuit.

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

we've created a society where being seen to do the thing matters more than actually doing it. the real world is now merely a stage for the digital one. and an entire generation will be left with nothing but a full camera roll and empty memories.

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

the assumption is that you find yourself by looking inward, but I think you can stare too long. you begin with curiosity and end up dissecting yourself - like you’re trying to explain why you are the way you are and you turn yourself into some sort of specimen.

sometimes the only way out is to forget yourself. disappear into something real. become so absorbed that there is no room left to monitor your own existence. throw yourself into the fire of an all consuming pursuit.

maybe the self reveals itself best when it isn’t being watched.