this is obvious but no one has figured out the game of life, at all
all the struggles and tests you face can never truly end
financial freedom, retirement, marriage and kids, etc, creates firstly a solution and then creates a problem later on
after networking with older successful retired people, who on the surface “won” and achieved everything they wanted, you will then realise to the day you die you will always face some form of internal conflict
lesson in there
One thing I've noticed about successful people (if they're honest enough) is that they end up going through tough times even AFTER they've made it big...
Really just goes to show you that nothing is ever linear in life and tough times are inevitable.
If you realized this, you'd stop trying to avoid bad things happening to you so much and embrace them as ways to grow and evolve.
I just read a must-read article:
We Have Never Taught Critical Thinking
AI didn’t make people worse thinkers.
It made it obvious who was never thinking in the first place.
A lot of education trained people to produce the shape of intelligence: essays, citations, polished arguments, academic tone, “nuanced” language.
But producing smart-looking work is not the same as reasoning.
Reasoning is the part underneath:
Can you find the real claim?
Can you separate evidence from assertion?
Can you surface the hidden assumption?
Can you steelman the other side?
Can you say what would change your mind?
Can you update when the evidence moves against you?
That’s the skill AI exposes.
If all you learned was how to produce the output, AI replaces you.
If you learned how to think through the problem, AI gives you leverage.
Critical thinking is not consuming difficult material.
It’s not sounding smart.
It’s not having the right opinions.
It’s a loop:
claim → reason → evidence → assumption → objection → update
Most schools taught the artifact.
Very few taught the loop.
This article explains the problem well:
Article below.
With literally endless information at their fingertips, people are in for a (rude) awakening - it was never about the lack of info. Your biggest blockers are/were almost never about not having the information.
The actual bottleneck is the mind + nervous system. As people start to realize this, it'll feel very disorienting - because it demands a total change, and doing the exact things you've been avoiding your entire life.
Not necessarily a bad time - it can be flourishing time if you resist it zero. Most will choose to distract themselves. Others will ascend. There's no rush.
"stop learning & start doing" is by far the #1 piece of advice i'd give my younger self...
i would've been so much more successful if i realized that learning w/o application is cope earlier
you're already aware of the potential vehicles that can take you to your goal, yet you're studying the mechanics of the vehicle instead of jumping in it and figuring it out as it takes you to your destination
it's a form of procrastination that most people don't realize
you're probably gonna fail a lot, so fail fast instead of procrastinating the failure
One mistake I made in my 20's was neglecting the compound interest of focus. I thought that if did two things, I'd get 50% progress for both. It seemed like a smart risk prevention strategy. But when you go from doing two things for 30 hours per week, to one thing for 60 hours per week, magic happens. On that 31st or 42nd hour, you spot a solution or a clue. A door gets unlocked. You have an aha moment. And you sprint on that aha moment with your full focus, without context switching. Then come next week, you've got another sixty hours to stack on top of that aha moment. So you begin to run laps around the version of you that was splitting his time.
I thought 60 hours on one thing would give me 2x the outcome of 30 hours on two things. But I was wrong. 60 hours on one thing can be 5x, 10x, 100x or even 1000x.
The fastest way to turn into a NPC is to fill every moment of stillness with audio books, podcasts, CEO interviews, tweets, threads, and YouTube videos.
The fastest way to turn into the Main Character is to spend more time in stillness and give yourself 4 hours to create.
this is true… the way we acquire clients now for our B2B offer is mostly by upselling our info clients into DFY
we sell courses and consulting on the frontend
we turn beginners into our perfect client
and they APPROACH US for more help
which is where we graduate them into our B2B DFY service
- way better quality
- no dealing with cold dm/email
- much longer retention period
as market changes, increasingly important to create unfair advantages in how you acquire customers
You can placebo effect your life into a better place by being perpetually optimistic.
Assume things will always work out, speak in affirmations and think positives thoughts.
Your life will change.
Good things will happen, better people will come into your life, opportunities will become more abundant.
Your perspective is your reality.
Even having "desires" is utter homosexual behaviour.
Imagine being a grown ass man and wanting to "MAKE MONEY" just so you can travel around the world like a diva.
Are you a bitch flying around?
What the fuck do you want to "SEE THE WORLD" for when you haven't even seen your own country?
"But bro, you'll experience different views and food and blah blah blah!"
What? Sit on a beach shirtless and get tan?
Party? Drugs? Alcohol?
What a pathetic waste of time, performative acting all for some second-hand punani.
Gay retarded losers.
"When I make it, I'm going to do this and that!"
I physically cringe whenever I see niggaz dream about living a certain life AFTER they acquire $$$.
The only cool thing that comes with being BREADED UP is absolute freedom to do NOTHING.
If you're getting giddy about materialistic shit, you are a complete ph4gg0t.
Cool, you cop something, it is what it is. SUM LIGHT.
No more to it.
If you aren't THAT NIGGA when you were/are poor,
You will NEVER be THAT NIGGA even if you get rich.
~ Dr. Axius.
This is the mindset that brought me here
1) ship fast
2) get 1k-10k visitors
3) ✅ validation > focus
❌ no validation > move on
My biggest mistake was not quitting early.
The more I work on a startup, the more attach I get, the harder it is to move on.
The hit rate for most entrepreneurs is 5%.
I’d rather place 20 small bets than spend 2 years doubling down on the wrong one.
For the entire build of Cal AI, I worked on TWO things:
- Sign more influencers
- Get the influencers I already paid to post more
If a task didn't directly impact revenue, it got de-prioritized or it didn't happen at all.
You think you’re being productive by filling the day with low-leverage work (reporting, fancy branding, etc) that feels like progress.
Find the one thing that actually makes you money and do as much of that as humanely possible.
Build-in-public is probably the wrong move for startups, where the attention they command is finite
Ironically, Build-in-public may be best for established companies: you can pre-announce features, get early feedback from the userbase, identify all edge-cases, get buy-in from the community, and then finally: Launch with precision
Fable 5 is gone, but agents are here to stay.
I sat down with Nevo who shared the playbook he used to hit $118k/month building for agents:
> The one file that makes you agent-ready (1:15)
> Why agents prefer a CLI to your API (2:23)
> The X article growth hack (3:24)