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[dante @dantefofante]

This is simultaneously the best and worst time to be young. You can literally learn anything and do anything, which is exactly the problem. Dual edged sword.

This is why we can’t enjoy movies anymore. Streaming gave us everything and weirdly we watch nothing. You don’t have drive to a brick and mortar shop, pick up the new gas, and commit. You hop on Netflix, swipe around for 40 minutes, pick something, half watch it while watching tik toks, and quit when you get bored.

Same thing happens with life. With so many choices, and so many people, algorithms, influencers, your feed, telling you what you want, what you like, what’s cool, you never actually end up doing shit. You run on a treadmill forever, cosplaying as a modern day Da Vinci but you have no substance to ya.

Yeah, try everything. Experiment, tinker, dabble. But also dive deep. Get in the soup. Breadth without depth is the equivalent of scrolling through life.

Phones are awesome. Modern day wands. But a wand doesn’t make you a wizard ya hear.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

This is the final photographs of Phillip Herron 34, crying in his car, literally minutes before taking his own life.

He was a single Dad with three kids, struggling with crushing debt of over £20,000 and was desperately waiting for a Payday loan he'd applied for. But it was paid in arrears, with a 5 week wait time. That wait drove him even deeper into debt, and when he died he had £4.61 in his bank account and clearly couldn't see any other way out.

Like a lot of people, especially men, he kept all of this to himself, nobody else knew how bad things were getting. This poor man even had to tell his children that Santa Claus wouldn’t come this year, and in his suicide note he wrote that they'd be better off if he wasn't around any more.

And now he isn't.

We need to talk more. We need to be kinder. And we need to be a country that helps each other when we need it the most.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

MICHAEL SAYLOR: IF MICROSTRATEGY ACCUMULATES 5% OF ALL BITCOIN, BTC COULD HIT $1,000,000.

AT 7%, THE MODEL IMPLIES $10,000,000 PER BITCOIN.

ABSOLUTELY INSANE NUMBERS. 🔥

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

The best therapist I’ve seen is exercise.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Presence is a privilege.

“If your mind is always elsewhere, you’re not really experiencing anything. Nothing is ever real.”

[dante @dantefofante]

You dont want a yacht. You dont want a big house. You dont want a super car, a $40,000 watch, or shoes you worry about getting dirty. You want free will.

You want to wake up naturally on a Tuesday and you want to go to bed when you’re done having fun. You want to say yes to everything that excites you without having to request time off. You want to go to the the gym at noon, in absolutely no hurry. You want to spend 18 hours a day doing what you love. You want to be exactly where you desire being, always. You want to spend as much time with the people you care about as possible.

You’re saying you wanna be rich? In what?

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Society was built to make money.

Indifferent to your health and sanity.

For example, we did not evolve to:
+ sit 10 hours a day
+ have our attention fractured 300 times daily
+ compare ourselves to millions of others
+ travel 9 time zones in 13 hours
+ tolerate sounds above 85 dB causing hearing loss
+ outsmart algorithms hijacking our reward system
+ breathe fine particulate air pollution
+ live under 16+ hrs of artificial light a day
+ have 3 courses of antibiotics before age 2
+ eat ultra-processed foods for 60% of daily calories
+ consume 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day

So if you're feeling down in the dumps, maybe fatigued, a little or a lot depressed, anxious, that's why.

[The ₿itcoin Therapist @TheBTCTherapist]

People who bought the dip at $60,000

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Bitcoin rises above $80,000 for the first time since January 31st.

[The ₿itcoin Therapist @TheBTCTherapist]

“If you want to preserve your wealth you buy assets that someone richer than you, more cultured than you, more intelligent than you will want to buy from you in a decade.”

- Michael Saylor, Chairman of Strategy

[Path of Men @PathOfMen_]

Stop being a loser. Quit mindless scrolling. Quit watching porn. Get up early. Move your body. get in the sun. Go for a walk. Sit in silence. Wear new clothes. Go out. have fun. Meet new people. Talk to cute girls. Play sports. Build a business. Read books. Watch sunset. Figure out what you want to do.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

You're under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you feel lost, build something.

A business. Your body. A skill set. Anything that gives you a reason to learn and focus.

Don't worry about choosing the right thing. Don't think about how difficult it will be.

Just start moving forward and you'll find a path that feels right

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I got C-holed.

Suffered sleep consequences.
I busted my screens-off rule.
Turned down socializing.
Fell behind on work.
Kate is now upset.

AI is preposterous. As close to magic as I’ve experienced (except a seed becoming a tree and a zygote becoming a baby).

It started on April 2nd when Karpathy shared LLM Knowledge bases. I wondered if this was the opening to structure the 1.5 billion data points I’ve collected on my body over the past five years. It's the most dynamic n=1 biomarker dataset in history. It was just sitting there.

Next thing I knew two weeks had passed and Kate was wondering if she lost her boyfriend to Claude.
I’m non-technical. Which honestly makes me sad. I wish I’d grown up with a computer or at least been around engineer culture. I didn’t know anyone technical until my early 20s.

I became an entrepreneur at 21 and had my first of three kids at 25. I sold Braintree Venmo at 34. Learning to code stayed on my to-do list through all of it. The timing was never right. I was always on the outside looking in, wishing I had the skills to assemble 0's and 1's into digital structures.

The exhilaration I’ve felt in the past two weeks is hard to explain. The 1.5 billion data points became a functional database, queryable, and microscope into my 70 trillion cells. The biological age of my organs updated in real-time like stock tickers. My build morphed from a knowledge base into a breathing organism that was self-learning and in sync with my heartbeat. I did this entirely on my own. It’s buggy, breaks and the data needs to be cleaned, but damn it’s cool.

It became a mirror and ledger, one I could ask questions to. About my psyche, behavioral patterns, biology and protocols. Patterns across my life I couldn't previously connect. It’s made me insatiably hungry for more data.

I’ve written about Autonomous Health, how cars now drive themselves and software wires itself. Health is next. My build showed me what it looks like in practice.

Before Kate started protesting, she joked that she felt relieved for herself, our colleagues, and the world that I’d found something that matches my energy. That they could all express a sigh of relief. It’s true. This experience left me wondering if I’ve been bored my entire life. Never having found something that could match my work ethic, speed, intensity, and build capacity. Something that didn’t have the delays of the real world, human complications, or logistical drag.

Two weeks deep in AI and I'm realizing that when people talk about AI, they're not talking about the same thing. Someone using a chat interface has a completely different opinion than someone building with it. And that chasm deepens for the people seeing what's coming next but isn't yet public. Society can't have a coherent conversation about AI because everyone's intuitions are calibrated to a different version of it.

Off-the-shelf LLMs are mostly useless beyond narrow tasks. When they get you 80% there, it's often faster to do the whole thing yourself. And they're dangerous because the hallucination is hard to detect. Now you don't know what you don't know.

Give them expanded context, memory, and architectures for self-reflection and autonomous learning, and you start to realize that AI is bigger than any of us can fit in our context window.

I need to take Kate on a date, turn my screens off on time, and get some work done.

And then properly dose C.

Note: the image above is my 2021 baseline when starting this longevity project.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Plugins for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, … coming soon

[Bark @barkmeta]

Most of making money is just being patient and doing boring things consistently. Nobody wants to hear that because it doesn’t go viral. But it’s the truth.

[Shruti Codes @Shruti_0810]

You can make $500 per day if you have:

1. A laptop
2. Wi-Fi
3. Time

Here are 12 Claude Prompts that pay you daily:

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Bitcoin surges above $77,000 for the first time since February 3rd.

Asset owners continue to win in this market.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Anthropic is now trading at an implied valuation of $1 trillion+ on secondary market platforms, surpassing OpenAI.