Josh

please remind me to go through all my tweets on my birthday.. thank you in advance

[Josh @tweetsofjoshua]

Regardless of your ambitions, get your finances in order first, hard to focus otherwise. #Orangebook

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You'll feel drained as long as you make efforts in the wrong direction. Your relationships should energize you. Your training should make you feel alive. Work should make you discover creativity you didn't know you had. Your neighborhood should make you feel grateful to be alive.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

In retrospect, it's clear that most frictions in life were actually a test to see whether you truly wanted what you claimed you wanted.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Josh @tweetsofjoshua]

What if you add an electric toothbrush head to this? @Philips

[Arun 🌞 @arunv2808]

-you’ll find a good spouse.
-you’ll be able to raise 3 kids.
-you’ll have abundance.
-you’ll find the right job that pays you well.
-you’ll beat inflation, and build resources that will take care of you.

Be away from bhosa*apillers.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Let’s normalize playgrounds for adults

[Top 1% Men @dtop1percentmen]

This video will change your life.

[Modern Dad @ModernxDad]

A focused fool can achieve more than a distracted Genius🔥

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

Comedian, Don McMillan breaks down the career Venn diagram.

This seems fairly accurate.

[Aditi Choudhary @AditiRajasthan]

Extreme results come from extreme preparation.
Years of reading hard books shows in your conversations. Years of a strict diet shows in your energy. Years of consistency shows in your confidence. Years of focus shows in your results.

[Wisdom Walk @wisdom_walkss]

Do it now!

[Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee]

🚨🚨🚨 this video should be intoxicating to anybody under the age of 30. Every parent of someone under the age of 30 must share this video and send it to them in the family group chat immediately. We are living in the era of over-analyzing and lack of patience and disproportionate judgment against oneself. Meanwhile, this generation that’s under 30 years old will live the longest of any generation of all time. I hope this video is a wake up call and a reminder of how many options and opportunities you will and do have. Wanna go party ??! Go , wanna go work your face off ?? Go. The only thing I ask everybody under 30 to not do is to be entitled and blame everyone for whatever adversity you’re dealing with with based on the choices YOU made.

[🪷 @maddified18]

Mindset 💯
https://t.co/2EAbQszMaQ

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting to feel ready. Gathering more information. Creating the perfect plan. Simulating progress. Convincing themselves they’d start tomorrow. Readiness is a myth. Action creates clarity. Go do the thing.

[Tim Worden @twflawless]

@SahilBloom Certainty is what quitters wait for.

The market doesn’t reward the smartest plan.

It rewards the last person still standing when the fog clears.

Uncertainty isn’t the obstacle.

It’s the filter.

[Josh @tweetsofjoshua]

Refinement must precede usefulness. You cannot skip the purging process and go straight to the finished vessel. The impurities must be dealt with first — not because the silver is worthless, but because its worth demands that nothing corrupt remain mixed with it.

[Josh @tweetsofjoshua]

The heat reveals what is dross and what is true silver. You cannot tell them apart just by looking — you need the fire.

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Perplexity founder, Aravind Srinivas, shares the one piece of career advice from Sam Altman he never forgot:

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Increase your recovery speed. You will get rejected. You will lose money. You will embarrass yourself. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. Fast recovery compounds.

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Don't wake up early to watch the sunrise, wake up earlier and let the sun watch you rise