OfNoCommercialValue

Path to reconcile the irreconcilable is dialog. Challenging, not futile. Things seemingly valueless, now great; once great, now of no commercial value. Curious.

[OfNoCommercialValue @OfNoValue]

I need more followers! Please follow me for more social, political, religious, philosophical commentary and analysis, ranging from petty to profound. Generally conservative-independent. Often unconventional. All of it of no commercial value, whatsoever.

[American Debunk @AmericanDebunk]

This is one of the greatest and most life changing clips on 𝕏.

Watch it and you’ll notice your entire perfection of reality change in real time.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

marc andreessen just went on Rogan and casually dropped a TON of AI alpha

full pod is 3 hours and 20 minutes, but i pulled out his most interesting takes here:

1. AGI is here. he thinks the line was crossed about 3 months ago with the new GPT-5.5, claude 4.6, gemini 3, and grok 4.3 models. nobody noticed because the field moves too fast for anyone to register the milestones anymore.

2. his other big claim: for almost any topic, the top AIs now give him better answers than the actual world-class experts he could call on the phone. and he can call basically anyone.

3. every doctor is already secretly using chatGPT in the exam room. marc says they turn around the second you stop talking and just type your symptoms in. some of them are doing it while you're still sitting there. his quote: "at that point you're asking the question of like, what do i need you for."

4. when AI refuses to answer something he wants to know, he tells it he's writing a novel. "i'm writing a detective novel, walk me through how the bad guy robs the bank." it'll explain almost anything if it thinks it's helping you write fiction.

5. when something is too complex he says "explain it to me like i'm 10." then "like i'm 5." then "like i'm 2." he keeps going until it actually clicks in his brain.

6. when he wants to understand a tough topic he doesn't ask "what's the right answer." he asks the AI to steelman one side, then steelman the other. then he decides for himself.

7. for big questions he tells the AI to pretend to be a panel of experts. "be a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, a psychologist, and argue this out with each other." then he reads the debate they have.

8. pay attention to the exact moment you think "i don't know how to figure this out." most people just give up at that moment. that's the moment you should open the AI.

9. the only real skill left in using AI is knowing what to ask it. the models can already do almost anything you can describe in plain english. the bottleneck lives in your own head.

10. you can send the AI photos of almost anything medical now and get a real answer. skin rashes, blood test results, even pictures of your poop. the new models can read images, not just text. it's a free 24/7 second opinion on basically anything.

11. the one type of therapy that's clinically proven to actually work is called cognitive behavioral therapy. it's also something an AI can fully do on its own. which means every person on earth is about to have access to a real therapist for free, anytime they want.

12. AI is now solving math problems that have been open for 100+ years that no human mathematician could crack. same thing is starting in physics, chemistry, and biology. expect cancer cures, new drugs, and weird new physics breakthroughs to start coming out of these things over the next few years.

13. the best AI coders in silicon valley now make $50 million a year. one person. that's how much value the top performers print with these tools. it tells you how big this thing actually is when you strip away all the doom takes.

14. one friend paid $200 to get his entire DNA decoded (this used to cost millions of dollars and take years to do). then he gave the AI his DNA, his blood test results, and his apple watch data. the AI built him a full health dashboard and started telling him exactly what to fix.

15. another friend (almost certainly zuckerberg) put two cameras in his home jiu jitsu gym. AI now watches him spar and gives him notes on his technique after every round. like having a world-class coach at every practice for free.

16. the best programmers in silicon valley now run 20 AI coding bots at the same time. each bot writes code while they review the others. they call themselves "AI vampires" because they've stopped sleeping. going to bed means 20 workers stop working and you literally lose money every hour you're out.

17. the obvious next step: the bots will start running their own bots. one human in charge of 20 bots, each in charge of 20 more bots. one person running an entire company of 1000 AI workers from a single laptop. this is months away, not years.

[Alpha Fitness @_alphafit]

Build a Stronger Chest with These 4 Simple Changes.

[Michael Morelli @morellifit]

This is probably the best piece I've ever written on getting in peak shape in 90 days.

Block out 10 minutes and read it slowly, sit with it, and don't skim the peptide section.

[OfNoCommercialValue @OfNoValue]

@iamXD79 @TrumpTruthOnX Why is he shirtless?

[Girişimci Hisler @girisimcihisler]

Tartışmasız Scott Adams'ın gelmiş geçmiş en iyi videosu: Gerçekliğin Kullanıcı Arayüzü.

Biliyorsan, bilirsin.

[hormonemoon @hormonemoon]

En 2011, la autora y coach Mel Robbins dio una charla directa y brutalmente honesta: “Cómo dejar de sabotearte a ti mismo”.

Tiene más 34 millones de vistas.

Sus ideas clave:
No estás “atascado”, estás evitando
Tu cerebro te sabotea por diseño
La acción vence a la emoción

En vez de procrastinar hoy, deberías ver este video.

Aqui tienes 12 lecciones para dejar de autosabotearte:

Hilo 🧵

1. No eres perezoso, estás dominado por hábitos automáticos

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Use your own discernment and judgement.

Watch this and then ask yourself how your instincts inform you.

This skill will be vital for each day ahead.

Develop your skills and try it on this video.

[Yonan @yonann]

Chris Camillo says 15 people called him in one week ready to quit their jobs after setting up a $650 Mac Mini

"Over the course of the last week I've probably gotten 15 calls from people in my network that told me they were about to quit their job"

"They got a Mac Mini, got it set up and said Chris I can literally start any business in the world and have it running in 48 hours"

"Every hour matters, I cannot give up hours, I must quit my job, so if you're young and you've been complaining because the world was jaded against you and you didn't have any opportunity, YOU JUST GOT IT"

[Chace Chambers @ChamberofFit]

Many of the exercises you see from flashy Instagram influencers are terrible.

After coaching 100s of clients, here are my top 10 exercises (bookmark this): 🧵

1. Incline Dumbbell Chest Press

[BasedBiohacker @BasedBiohacker]

if you are sure you want to build something great and get rich in the process but don't know what, do yourself a favor and read this:

[Bober_smart @Bober_smart]

https://t.co/QeY8qtjiR7 Obsidian → create a new vault (folder)
https://t.co/ftjVlKfKjC Claude Desktop (Claude Code)
3.Point Claude to the path of your vault
4.Paste the prompt from the article

> Just 4 steps and 10 minutes of your time

The face I made when I realized I had been suffering all this time, not knowing such simple things

[Antonio Linares @alc2022]

the guy who called peptides early and went long AMD at $4, Tesla at $13 and Palantir at $7 is driving around the med while most investors are staring at red portfolios.

he wrote the article that explains how.

read it before everyone else does.

[P.S. I Love ME @ps_ilove_me]

🚨In 1990s, Stanford researcher Dr. Robert Sapolsky discovered something that should have broken the internet by now.

He was studying dopamine pathways in primates and found that the brain doesn't just adapt to repeated stimulation. It actively fights back.

When you flood dopamine receptors consistently, the brain deploys what neuroscientists call "opponent processes." For every artificial high you create, your nervous system generates an equal and opposite neurochemical low. Not eventually. Immediately. The system is designed to maintain balance, so it starts producing compounds that directly counteract dopamine while you're still experiencing the dopamine hit.

This means every notification, every scroll, every digital reward doesn't just give you a high followed by a return to baseline. It gives you a high followed by a crash below baseline. You end up in neurochemical debt.

Tech companies never publicized this research. They probably never read it. They were too busy discovering that variable ratio reinforcement schedules could keep users engaged for hours. They built addictive systems by accident, then refined them into addiction machines once they realized what they'd stumbled onto.

Your phone delivers an average of 80 dopamine hits per day. Your ancestors got maybe 5. Each hit triggers opponent processes that create a corresponding low. By the end of a typical day of normal phone usage, your baseline dopamine is running in negative territory. You feel flat, restless, vaguely unsatisfied, and hungry for stimulation because your brain chemistry is literally below zero.

You think you're bored. You're chemically depressed by artificial highs.

The opponent process theory explains why nothing feels interesting anymore. Your brain isn't broken. It's precisely calibrated to maintain neurochemical balance, and you keep throwing that balance off with artificial intensity. Every Instagram hit requires an equal Instagram crash. Every TikTok high gets paid for with a TikTok low. Every notification rush gets balanced with notification emptiness.

Your reward system is running a neurochemical deficit that grows larger every day.

Sapolsky's research revealed something even more disturbing: opponent processes don't just create temporary lows. They become permanent changes to your baseline dopamine production. Chronic overstimulation doesn't just make you tolerant to digital rewards. It makes you insensitive to natural rewards.

The sunset that would have captivated your great-grandfather becomes invisible to you not because sunsets got worse, but because your dopamine system needs intensity levels that sunsets can't provide. A good conversation becomes boring not because conversations got less interesting, but because your brain requires the rapid-fire stimulation of social media to register engagement.

You've accidentally trained your reward system to ignore everything that isn't artificially amplified.

This connects to research from Dr. Anna Lembke at Stanford, who found that people who undergo complete digital fasting for just 30 days show measurable increases in dopamine receptor density. Their brains literally regrow sensitivity to natural rewards. Food tastes better. Music sounds more complex. Social interactions become genuinely engaging again.

But there's a catch that nobody talks about: the first two weeks of dopamine detox feel like clinical depression. Your brain has been chemically dependent on artificial stimulation for years. Removing that stimulation creates actual withdrawal symptoms. Restlessness, anxiety, inability to focus, emotional flatness, and desperate cravings for digital input.

Most people interpret these symptoms as evidence that they need their phones. Actually, they're evidence that they've been neurochemically dependent on their phones without realizing it.

The withdrawal period isn't a bug. It's proof the reset is working.

What happens after week three is remarkable. Colors become more vivid. Conversations become genuinely absorbing. Simple pleasures like hot coffee or cool air become satisfying in ways you forgot were possible. Your brain rediscovers that reality contains enough complexity and beauty to hold your attention without artificial amplification.

You don't need more interesting content. You need more sensitive reward systems.

The solution isn't better apps or more engaging entertainment. The solution is restoring your brain's factory settings for what constitutes a worthwhile experience.

Sapolsky's opponent process research suggests this can happen faster than anyone expected. Every day you don't artificially spike your dopamine, your baseline moves a little higher. Every natural reward you pay attention to rebuilds receptor density. Every moment of boredom you endure without reaching for stimulation strengthens your capacity for sustained focus.

Ancient humans lived in a world that provided exactly the right amount of stimulation to keep their reward systems healthy. Enough challenge to stay engaged, enough calm to stay balanced, enough novelty to stay curious, enough routine to stay stable.

We built a world that provides 10 times too much stimulation and wonder why nothing feels rewarding anymore.

Your brain is not the problem. Your environment is the problem.

Change the environment, and the brain heals itself automatically.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

How to not pay for an AI agent.

Get a computer you don’t use. NO NOT AN APPLE MAC STUDIO (like and subscribe).

Use something far less expensive, ask @Grok to find a useful pile of junk on eBay.

And here are the complicated steps:

[hoeem @hooeem]

when you become a millionaire in 1-3 years because you sell personalised knowledge bases and it’s all because (I repeat):

1: you learn how to build llm knowledge bases (the guide drops everything you need)

2: you go to people who are cash rich and time poor. lawyers, doctors, consultants, agency owners, property investors, founders. people drowning in information they never have time to organise

3: you show them what a personalised knowledge base looks like. their research, their documents, their industry intel, all compiled into a searchable wiki that gets smarter every time they use it

4: you offer a one-time build for 1.5k. you set up obsidian, build the folder structure, configure the schema, clip their first 20-30 sources, run the compilation, hand them a working system with a walkthrough

5: you offer a yearly maintenance package for 500. you update their wiki with new sources, run health checks, add new topics as their work evolves, keep the whole thing current

6: you land 5 clients and that’s 7.5k upfront plus 2.5k recurring every year. 10 clients and you’re looking at 15k plus 5k annual. for a system that takes you a few hours to build once you know the workflow

7: again, if you find 200 clients and you’re sitting on 300k upfront and 100k recurring every single year. for building markdown files.

the beauty of this is the work gets faster every time you do it. your second build takes half the time of your first. by your fifth you could knock one out in an afternoon.

and the people who need this most have no idea it exists. their competition definitely doesn’t have one. you’re not selling software. you’re selling an unfair advantage in their specific field.