mayur magar

performance marketer

[alex @alextalksai]

The video I watched every morning At 7 AM for 7 months.

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.

Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.

He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.

I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.

He is a true hero.

[Dr. Dominic Ng @DrDominicNg]

https://t.co/eLRaPDCF3O

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

Peter Thiel has an incredibly advanced understanding of psychology:

[shivam @Shivam675int]

Focus only on your career.

build yourself to the point where your career changes your status, transforms your life, and earns you the respect of others.

Do not always run behind things you like, always make them come for you

[Slava Akhmechet @spakhm]

Long range career advice. (Won't help you get a job tomorrow, this is a ~10-20 year thing)

You want to run two processes. Your main loop:

1. Knock on doors, many outside your league, and get yourself in a room with the most competent people who will have you.
2. Work your ass off to be reliably useful to them. Like, really, _really_ hard. However hard you think you're working to be reliably useful, work ten times harder. Also, be cheerful.
3. Every once in a while pop your head out and go to step 1.

Your background loop: look around for weird asymmetric opportunities. A startup to found/join, a project to hack on, an angel investment into a friend's company, whatever. When your heart sings, jump on it. (You will fail a lot but that's fine so long as you handle failure well, I'll cover that in another post)

In exchange for working really hard you get two things. First, knowledge/experience-- you learn a ton. Second, relationships-- ppl will remember how great it was to work with you. Knowledge and relationships with competent ppl create crazy asymmetric opportunities. You then jump on those. (There is a lot of twitter slop about compounding, well this is what career compounding looks like.)

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Now some failure modes. Do _not_ do this:

"I deserve much better than this company/role, I'm just going to begrudgingly collect a paycheck" --> first, you deserve what the market clears and that's that. Second, if you act this way you'll only hurt yourself. Your colleagues will remember you as a grouch and it will wreck the compounding loop. Third, it's a very unpleasant state to be in, and you should choose not to be in it.

"But I work at Home Depot, what's there to compound?" --> that's extremely shortsighted. Maybe you do a super good job helping a customer who then has an open spot and remembers you. Maybe your store manager becomes a regional manager and calls you. Maybe years down the line your quiet peer is looking for a partner to start their own store. Maybe none of this happens, but it doesn't matter because empirically ppl who try hard to be useful wherever they are tend to do great, and people who don't, don't. (Home Depot is a metaphor, obviously)

"I hate this place, I quit! And anyway they're a faceless corporation that will lay me off any time." --> don't do that. The company may be a faceless corporation, but your colleagues are not faceless. They bet on you, hopefully you did a great job, and now they depend on you. Leaving is never easy, but do it in a way that respects the trust ppl put in you.

"Everyone around me is an idiot, I hate this!" --> maybe they are, or maybe you're not ready and some day will discover you were wrong about this. In any case you can learn from everyone and everything. So do that and be useful, don't break the compounding loop because opportunities will surprise you and things are often not what they seem.

“_I_ should have been promoted not that other guy/why is my manager layering me, screw this!” --> every time that happened i eventually understood I deserved it, you probably do too. Don’t hold grudges, do your best to figure out how to learn from this and move on, it will make sense eventually.

P.S. it helps if you’re a little talented.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

the end of the story is, money.

[sysls @systematicls]

Life is chosen suffering - that's all it is, we have to pick the suffering that gives us the most meaning in exchange.

IF we do not pick, we are assigned a form of suffering; e.g. mediocrity in your career is a form of suffering. Being obese and unfit is a form of suffering.

To live is to suffer, but being able to pick your choice of suffering is a form of bliss.

[alexei @alexeixbt]

one of my favorite lessons from neuroscience: what feels like a struggle today becomes automatic tomorrow. the image below shows your brain working less hard at the same task as you get better, sometimes after just a single practice session.

the struggle is temporary. keep going.

[Isaiah Granet @zaygranet]

A few thoughts on switching lines. https://t.co/3JIXR2G4eJ

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Muscles talk to the brain to fight depression.

The gym bros were right.

[Hades @0xHvdes]

https://t.co/yaevaqn3So

[signüll @signulll]

your daily reminder that ppl are almost biologically drawn to:

- belonging
- certainty
- status within a tribe
- a charismatic interpreter of reality
- rituals & shared language
- an enemy or out group
- a story that makes suffering meaningful
- the feeling that we know something they don’t

religions, political movements, startups, fandoms, fitness communities, crypto, even certain friend groups can all activate pieces of this same machinery. & some companies are doing it brilliantly well right now.

[Chris Lakin @chrislakin]

what your risk-aversion costs you

[Science Magazine @ScienceExpand]

Whenever you feel lonely, remember that your white blood cells are fighting like this for your health..

[ؘ @hildsbrach]

ainda bem que existe a hipocrisia pra eu poder fazer hoje o que eu critiquei ontem

[alexei @alexeixbt]

that's neuron.
it doesn't know fear.
it doesn't know lack.
it just repeats what you tell it.

you tell it "i'm not enough" 500 times. the neuron fires. then fires again. then builds a superhighway for that belief.

you tell it "nothing ever works for me" every morning. the neuron doesn't argue. it just memorizes.

you tell it "i can't change" long enough, the neuron believes you. and then your reality matches.

that's neuroplasticity.

from a quantum perspective, your focused attention is what turns possibility into experience. the neuron is the bridge, but the bridge only appears when you choose a direction.

the good news? the same neuron doesn't know truth from a lie. it just repeats. so you can overwrite the lie with a new signal. when you hold that new signal with quiet certainty, reality reorganizes around it, without you forcing it.

what most people get wrong: they try to "think positive" once. then wonder why nothing changes.

one weak signal doesn't build a highway. repetition does. and without the inner "already done", the repetition stays hollow."

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

When you are born, you look like your parents. When you die, you look like your decisions

[vaishnavi @vayshnuhvee]

as long as the dice is rolling, your six will come.