Damo Balagi

[Damo Balagi @trusttheedge]

Permission from the people you expect resistance from is a different kind of permission. It doesn't come from them agreeing with the math. It comes from them agreeing with you.

[Damo Balagi @trusttheedge]

The cover is final.
The photograph is one I took in Alaska — years ago, at the moment the reinvention began, though I didn't know it yet. The summit is there. You just can't see it through the fog.
That's the whole book, in one image.
Two Cups: The Fog Is the Canvas — a reinvention memoir. This fall.

[Damo Balagi @trusttheedge]

"That's the thing about a daily practice. It doesn't announce itself. It doesn't ask for a room. It doesn't need recognition to continue. It just needs the next morning."

We overrate the dramatic decision and underrate the boring repetition. Reinvention isn't the leap. It's what you're willing to do again tomorrow when no one claps.

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An hour a day is a marinade, not a meal. You won’t taste it the day you put the work in — but the days stack quietly, the way deep flavor does, and the thing you could never force in one furious week, you build without noticing across a patient year.

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"The balcony is not a place you find. It is a question you remember how to ask."

What's the question you've stopped asking? The one the old life slowly, quietly trained out of you?

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The Makers and the Keepers

I left a nineteen-year career to become a writer. The first thing I had to learn wasn't how to write. It was what to protect.

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Abundance Has a Shape

The question is not whether the robots can grow the peppers.

The question is what the gardener does after the robots have done planting.

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Wrote a chapter this morning, then cut 800 words of it. The whole point survived in one sentence I almost deleted. The book isn't the writing — it's what's left after the subtraction.

#writing #books

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The kettle is on. There are two cups next to it. The first cup is mine. The second cup is yours.

The countdown begins...

Coming: Fall 2026

#twocups #tanrenmedia #booklover #reinvention

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The Shape of the Thing https://t.co/xEK1m38Bon

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Marquis Who's Who Honors Damo Balagi for Financial Technology Leadership and Reinvention as an Independent Trader https://t.co/Ksov7dzUNg

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World s best Diablo

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Sunday yet?

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Attempt at under exposing by 2 stops

#xpro2 #fujilove

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Saturday evening walk..