Life is so incredibly unpredictable. You might have a terrible year from January to June only to have your life dramatically change by July and end up having the best year of your life. I need that.
When I do what I need to do I have unlimited energy. When I don’t I have no energy. I’m starting to think energy is simply keeping promises to yourself.
"Value your time. It is all you have. It’s more important than your money. It’s more important than your friends. It is more important than anything. Your time is all you have. Do not waste your time."
@naval
Not only is AI going to make everyone a personality hire, it’s going to make it more explicit that hiring has always been swayed by qualitative factors like “is this person fun to work with”, and that after a certain point, character is the bottleneck of career growth, not skill
few years ago i read a quote that said “the faster that you do the hard things you want to avoid, the faster you will receive the good things you actually want.” and that changed my perspective ever since.
As one accumulates wealth, their earnings typically shift radically from income to securities and assets. Said differently, they rely less on income and more on equity appreciation.
As such, if the wealthy wanted to benefit themselves the most in tax policy, they would advocate for a lower capital gains tax (or none at all) and modified depreciation or rollover rules, not zero income tax.
So whenever you see a proposal for zero income tax, please try to consider that this benefits lower, lower-middle, middle and upper middle incomes THE MOST.
And it forces the government to abide by lower inflows and be more modest in how the spend your money.
My theory for self-sabotage is that if you’ve always worked hard, you believe that how much you deserve something comes from how much effort you put in, so when something great happens for you, you feel like you don’t deserve it because you haven’t earned it, so you turn it down and go after something more challenging, something that gives you that familiar sense of struggle
Sources tell me top five CEOs of pharmaceutical companies are holding an emergency teleconference at 1 PM.
A lawyer has confirmed that everyone is in a state of panic!
If the election outcome is as I expected, it should cause the large minority of the country who supported @KamalaHarris and predicted her victory to begin to question their sources of truth.
Half the country has believed that @X is filled with mis- and disinformation, and that they could only therefore rely on The NY Times, MSNBC, CNN and other mainstream media for their news. And they did.
If, however, you have been active on @X for the last year, you have known the truth days, weeks and often months before the facts appear in the MSM.
The MSM excerpted, clipped and cut to defame @realDonaldTrump while claiming that @JoeBiden was fit as a fiddle. Then when Biden’s polls collapsed, @KamalaHarris was anointed the candidate and her hagiography was written with glowing acclaim from the press. But this could not hold as she ducked the media and held fast to the teleprompter.
Citizen journalists with their phone cameras in hand captured the real Kamala forcing her to defend her record and her plans in more media appearances. It did not go well and the public demanded to learn more so @KamalaHarris had to risk more unscripted media.
The doom loop was underway with perhaps 60 Minutes as one of the more dramatic examples, even after CBS tried to save her, most glaringly by excerpting one answer to replace a word salad response to another. But the citizen journalists on @X quickly caught and outed this fraud and demanded a transcript.
As many who supported Kamala began to realize that they have been misled, they became open to Trump as an alternative, but they didn’t want to rely on the media to understand him because they did not want to be misled again.
They wanted to hear the candidate in his own words and that is where @lexfridman and @joeroganhq long form podcasts came to the rescue. When Kamala was offered the same opportunities to explain herself, she rejected them. And the voting public could only draw a negative inference.
When the story of this election is written, I expect it will be as much about how half of America woke up to the reality that they have been manipulated by the media. This should lead to an abandonment by many of the MSM as their primary source of information. It will push more people to @X, to podcasts and other empirical sources, and it will lead to a more informed public.
The other outcome I hope happens is the implosion of the Democratic Party. The Party lied to the American people about the cognitive health and fitness of the president. It prevented, threatened, litigated and otherwise eliminated the ability of other candidates for the primary to compete, to get on ballots, and to even participate in a debate. The Party and the administration used lawfare in an attempt to imprison, bankrupt or otherwise kill off Trump as a candidate. These acts are collectively grave threats to our democracy. With the highest irony in order to hide these acts, the Party accused the opposition candidate of being the grave threat to democracy.
The Democratic Party proved itself to be fundamentally undemocratic. It needs a complete reboot. The leadership should be thrown out and those responsible should apologize to the American people.
Honest Abe said it best:
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.