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Just a monkey on the www.

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

Marrying the right woman is the most important part of building wealth.

[Superman @thesupermannx]

This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.

Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.

It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”

they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.

And the results are wild.

participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.

they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.

the paper revealed a brutal paradox:

the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.

if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.

this creates a dangerous systemic loop.

the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.

meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse.

top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else.

they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add.

we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence.

the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't.

the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.

[theLine @theLineNotDrawn]

@Jason you forgot to send me the money for the hangover medicine you wanted me to send you?

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@BrodieHelms_ @Jason are you guys at the bar together?

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@Jason Happy weekends done right..... I love you for doing this either way

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time to fight

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Controversial take from Gemini 4 Argon

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I write cause I can't speak
I speak cause I can't experience
I experience when I can't write
I write what I experience

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To the people who feel like the world is full of opportunities, I hope you never pursue those opportunities - In my experience that just reveals that all this hope was backed by smokes and mirrors

stay delusional, stay happy

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@neu_rot_ic Its blurry through the tears and the silent nights, but sure I think I do have that

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@kirtandopamine @IndieSamMaker I want to shitpost my way in too 🥲

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@elonmusk I say this from the pov of - regardless of how "smart" someone is, a sense of "setback" has a paralysing affect on most people (you seem too strong to be unflinched by it, but I am talking about mere mortals here)

what do you think they should do then?

drugs and sex?

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@elonmusk well then what should one even be working towards then?

do you even see it being an "exciting future" ???

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when all of my body is asking me to give up
when my mind literally can't think of a way through the problem at hand

and yet I am incapable of folding my chair

what is that? stubborn? courage? foolish?

whatever it is, makes me feel stuck for now

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To everyone that still cares,
Take care.

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@primal_brainer write a letter to a random address and wait to hear back

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Here's to the LARP-ers
Because those who "say" they think they can change the world (just Trust me bro!)
Are the ones that never do

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thinking deeply is a smart man's way to procrastinate