@stevegraham A lot of people obsess about downside reduction rules instead of potential achieving ones. Lack of consumptive vices is neither sufficient nor necessary for creating greatness
Only action matters. Vice reduction = helpful if it increases your bias for action, else irrelevant
Unfortunately momentum equities repricing is not relatively bullish for crypto majors because the same degen liquidity pool now sees the 40% off AI darlings as a nicer upside than getting liq’d on $ETH
Medium term choppier
Reminder:
- No intelligent person will shame you for studying intensely
- No healthy person will ever shame you for taking your health seriously
- No good looking person will ever shame you for taking your looks seriously
- No accomplished person will shame you for ambitious trying
- No wealthy person will shame you for trying to make money
- No winner will be upset to see you winning too
Everybody who has ever thrived respects your earnest efforts to do the same.
These are the only people who ought to be listened to.
Curating this type of environment is one of the most important investments you will ever make in this life.
Do what you must.
@entelechiada Happy hours or conferences incredibly important for this tbh. Also get to see who’s comfortable in own skin, who stays attractive, who is loyal to family/spouse, who has enough, etc
Also helpful to find the forum / meme account for each industry too
There's a lot of talk these days about fuel management, dirty versus clean fuel. The reality is all of that is retroactive. You optimize the fuel once you're already in air and you want to escape to the next level of orbit. You need to manage, you need to ration, and you need to make sure your engines run for a thousand years instead of 10.
If you're still on the fucking ground or you're still visible to the trees and to the dwellers on the mountains, then the type of fuel you're using doesn't matter at all
What matters is if you're burning it 🚀
Time doesn’t stop for anyone or anything at all. Those moments when it stops for you are the only moments you incarnated into this consciousness for
The goodbye seared into my heart that was so fresh 3 months ago is now a shock “that was 3 months ago??”
What if there are another many months before I can at least soften the blow and let her heart know that its one time companion still beats with memory??
@theralkia CS Lewis sci fi trilogy Into the Silent Planet. The best philosophy / psychology / whatever you want to call it is woven into compelling narrative and characters, not stand alone (too dry & intellectual)
Doomscrolling is a black magic ritual. You lay in the same position. Turn off the lights, deeply focused on the feed. You’re shown memes, tragedies and “useful” information (it’s all slop) and before you know it you’re stuck in a trance. Your thumb moves without thought. You’re in flow but it’s artificially engineered by the dopamine loops the algo was built to trigger. You remember you have things to do but the black mirror pulls you in deeper by showing you something that stimulates you more. Before you know it, all your free time is gone. Every original idea you may have had is gone. You’re polluted with open loops and feel restless all the time. Every day you go to your altar (your bed), pull out your rosary (your ig feed) and you endlessly worship slop. Time blurs together and years have gone by yet you repeat the same pattern. Why? because you’ve never been taught how to engage with your own boredom, with your own pain, with your own discomfort. You resist it like it’s killing you, but what’s killing you is what you’ve turned into a part of your life (scrolling). It’s inverted. If you simply learned how to be courageous and face your immediate discomfort with pain and boredom. You’ll allow your natural wisdom and creativity to rise and begin living a life you truly want to live.
Your body is insanely good at telling you when you're living a lie
That morning sun feels disgusting as you're walking into some office building to suffer for 8 hours
Michelin dinner tastes like garbage when you're sitting across from someone you can't stand
Lot of people are dragging themselves through life & calling it adulthood. "Growing up"
Haunted by a repulsion they bury every day under smiles & niceties
As they look back on "simpler times" when they didn't feel like this
You can't shake the dread because you've spent your life trying to ignore it
The only part of you that knows better
As the world continues to become more wicked, continue to become & befriend the exceptions, but forget not the duty to help improve the baseline
Life has always been cruel to the unexceptional, but when it’s unbearable, even the exceptional’s transcendence is muted and fleeting
@WillManidis@pmarca Outlier behavior is neither sufficient nor necessary for outlier achievement. That's the biggest cope. A lot of people are just cosplaying the inputs of better men.
@thedulab Feels like great entertainment and great art is only digestible by the souls that can appreciate it. Bug men mentality fundamentally is incompatible with the celebration of creativity
I think very similarly to other key aspects of an advanced civilization. Once those traits, or the civilization underlying them, got conquered or subjugated by much more violent, more primitive civilizations, then the behaviors from the old ones, especially the ones that have to do with the quality of the genders of the weak and of the strong, are lost. That equality only stems from the enlightenment ideals or the Vedic ideals of a soul having equal value. Those are the hardest ones to get back after they've been the reason that your civilization was so peaceful it couldn't fathom a more aggressive one operating by a fundamentally different moral code and then destroying it.
Ah yes what will certainly help hiring of regular humans is to further lower cost of capital for AI bubble R&D & compute spend (With the stated goal to automate & deflate cost of said labor) and inflate entry prices to assets as retail realizes the denominator truly is worthless