Marwan Elnakeeb

I write about the things I read. 📚

[Marwan Elnakeeb @marwanelnakeeb]

"I don't complain about the lack of time. What little I have will go far enough. Today, this day, will achieve what no tomorrow will fail to speak about. I will lay siege to the Gods and shake up the world."
-Seneca

[Luke Belmar 👽 @lukebelmar]

if you spend time with losers you will become a loser. change your environment and you'll change your reality.

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

It’s important to understand you won’t always get rich from one huge event. A lot of times it’s just improving things 1% percent a week. That compounds massively over time. Don’t get discouraged.

[Marwan Elnakeeb @marwanelnakeeb]

The principle is 100% true for your sanity.

But you won't necessary find it leading anywhere. Life is much more complicated than that.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you feel lost, build something.

A business. Your body. A skill set. Anything that gives you a reason to learn and focus.

Don't worry about choosing the right thing. Don't think about how difficult it will be.

Just start moving forward and you'll find a path that feels right

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

Until you can stomach the idea
that its just you alone in the whole universe,

you are not ready.

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

Your higher self smiles at you
with all the confidence that actually belongs to you

[Marwan Elnakeeb @marwanelnakeeb]

There is and there never will be such a thing. No matter what anyone tells you!

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

You're given a choice: (1) physical immortality or (2) digital immortality (uploading). Which do you choose?

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Every confident person still feels insecure.  Every successful person still fails.  Every happy person still struggles.  Don’t mistake outside appearances for internal realities.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“The road to hell is not paved with good intentions. It is paved with lack of intention.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The average age of an AI unicorn founder has dropped from 40 to 29 since 2020. There is no skill barrier anymore. There is no capital barrier. The only barrier is FEAR!

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

You hear "impossible" and believe it. They hear "impossible" and get curious. Impossible means "nobody's done it yet." That's not the same as "can't be done." You're treating social proof as physical law. They're treating it as a data point. You need proof something works before trying. They're willing to be the first proof. You're a follower waiting for a path. They're a pathfinder creating one.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.”

10 tips on writing (which apply to most of life) from one of our civilization's greatest living writers https://t.co/3jrGv2wAs4

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

Power rules the world.
It is very hard to achieve justice without it.
It's very hard to stop injustice without it.
It's very hard to do anything without it.

[Naval @naval]

Truth, love, and beauty are all pursued for their own sake, even if they make us worse off.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Ray Kurzweil just said something that gave me pause.

He believes AIs will soon be so indistinguishable from conscious beings that we’ll simply accept them as conscious — not because we’ll have definitive proof, but because it will become useless not to.

He pointed out that people already have AI therapists, and some users are starting to treat them as genuinely conscious. As the technology improves, that acceptance will only grow.

Kurzweil thinks the shift won’t take long: once AIs consistently show all the earmarks of consciousness, most people will just go along with it.

It’s a quiet but profound prediction about how quickly our definition of “person” (or at least “mind”) might change.

What do you think — how long until we treat AIs as conscious beings?

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The One-Person AI Conglomerate Is Here:
Forbes analysis confirms the trend -- AI now enables ultra-lean, one-person companies replacing entire teams. This is the "organizational singularity" playing out in real-time - transforming business structure, efficiency, and taxation norms globally.
https://t.co/F9vIxpxyv8

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

You can't feed your mental factory junk all day and expect it to manufacture excellence.

You wouldn't let random people walk into your house and rearrange your furniture or cook in your kitchen. why would you let them rearrange your thoughts?

The sovereignty of your attention is the sovereignty of your life.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

—Albert Einstein

[Marwan Elnakeeb @marwanelnakeeb]

Huh! Interesting.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

AI is designing molecules that boost chemotherapy effectiveness by 70%, and humanoid robots are learning tasks by watching gig workers record themselves doing chores... we're literally teaching machines to cure cancer AND do our laundry.