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[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I promise you that if you build your life around sleep, everything you care about will get better.

High quality sleep is like a daily dose of the world’s best longevity drug.

Sleep is key for...

+ will power
+ self control
+ sex
+ mood
+ recovery
+ focus
+ appearance
+ work
+ life

My sleep data last night

+ 4+ hr restorative
+ 53% total sleep restorative
+ resting heart rate 42 (elite athlete)
+ no sleep stress
+ no wake events
+ asleep in 2 min

It feels incredible. Gives me the powers of stamina, focus, motivation, discipline and love.

For fun, I made a sleep facts nutrition panel.

The sleep crash course:

1. Final food 4 hours before bed
2. Screens off 60 min before bed
3. Same bed time every single day
4. Light in eyes in am
5. Exercise daily, even if for 20 min

Here’s the key: make these habits non-negotiable in your life.

Build your life around sleep and I promise everything you care about will get better.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

A polished personality can hide a chaotic nature for a long time. This is why first impressions are so overrated and patterns are so underrated. Charm opens the door, but repetition reveals the tenant. Judge people by what repeats when the room gets ordinary.

[E-go @EgoDriv]

You’re a nobody until you can buy what’s not on the menu.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Avoid the temptation of revealing how hard you work, it only raises questions. The world values results, not the effort behind them. Struggle in silence. Let your composure suggest ease, and your ease suggest mastery. Effort unseen carries more weight than effort explained.

[LifeMathMoney ₿ | Unapologetic Truths. @LifeMathMoney]

Your wife or girlfriend will never be as loyal to you as your mother is

All love from women is conditional upon you meeting at least her baseline expectations

The only exception is your mother.

This is why you should treasure her. Because she will give her life for you.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory proves that trust is not a credible signal in low-stakes conditions. Everyone can afford trust when it's cheap. And that's precisely why most trust collapses as soon as the stakes are raised. Never assume trust to be universal. It's always dependent on the situation at hand. Ignoring this fact and electing to be blind merely invites defection.

[esther @esterezw]

signs of high iq:

>doesn't worry
>enjoy walking
>believe everything is simple in life
>underthinking
>high energy music
>can switch from brain rot to intellectual topics fast
>dark humour
>like cats
>deep convos
>rarely ever in a bad mood
>value quality over quantity
>very optimistic
>”everything always works out for me”

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Game theory proves that betrayal is rarely emotional in the moment it happens. It is usually a payoff calculation. The moment someone believes defecting creates a better reward than staying loyal, their incentives begin to shift. This is why trust should never be built on words alone. Trust survives only when loyalty remains the dominant strategy.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

You should understand that the most crucial trait for success is inhibition. And no one talks about it at all.

The person who never learns to inhibit their immediate desires and urges will spend their life wandering, searching for unattainable satisfaction. To your brain, the mere chase will feel like progress, even when it doesn't build anything.

That vicious cycle is most pronounced in younger individuals. As the prefrontal cortex fully matures (around age 25+), natural inhibitions grow stronger, making success more feasible.

In this world, which is engineered to fragment your attention and monetize your impulses, inhibition is a real unfair advantage.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Never let temporary emotion write permanent evidence against you, because one careless message, one public outburst, one desperate confession, or one needy explanation can give people a version of you they will use long after the feeling has passed.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

In game theory, indifference is either your greatest asset or your biggest downfall. On the one hand, it can reduce your cost to walk away to zero, giving you more bargaining leverage. On the contrary, it can lead to bad decision-making due to a lack of urgency. There's a difference between strategy and apathy.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory shows that indifference is leverage. When one player cares far less about the outcome, they hold disproportionately higher power. When your cost to walk away is effectively zero, your opponent is forced to cut their losses entirely or pressured into frantically negotiating to avoid total loss.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Humans demand fairness only when they’re losing. When advantage is on their side, they call it merit. When it shifts away, they call it injustice. Human nature bends morality around incentive; the wise study incentives first and ethics second.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

The real power of 'no excuses' mentality is that when something goes wrong in your life, you know exactly where to look: the mirror. That's not self-flagellation, that's power. Because if you're the problem, you're also the solution. You're not waiting for the world to change or for someone to apologize or for circumstances to align. You just fix it.

[Lone Stock Trader @LoneStockTrader]

If your average loss is -1R and average win 3R, you only need to be right more than 25% of the time to make money.

By using @jfsrev's staggered stops strategy, scaling out at three 33% intervals before the full stop is reached, your average loss falls to -0.67R, and you now only need to be right more than 18.5% of the time to make money.

Combine that with a rigorous selection - of environment, themes/sectors, and stocks - and it becomes difficult NOT to make money over time.

And if you can design exit rules that lift your average R, well… you’ve built yourself a money-printing machine

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

Low-agency embarrassment is social. It's about your position in the status game, what the audience thinks. It's playing defense with your reputation. every move is "will this make me look bad?"

High-agency embarrassment is existential. It's about the gap between who you are and who you could be. It's offense against entropy. Every move is "is this actually moving me forward?"

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory proves that you must always be prepared for confrontation. Regardless of how successful, how liked, or how loved you are, you will face opposition. New threats emerge, and former allies won't be driven by the same incentives as you anymore. To find out what drives your enemies and allies, you must look at their past. Remember that behaviors repeat; the past helps reveal what their true intentions might be. Peace is maintained through readiness, not naivety.

[Moosa @questmoosa]

Men that are more likely to watch porn, masturbate and be hypersexual have:

- Elevated opioids - Naloxone, an opioid antagonist, can help reduce the impulsive and compulsive desire to watch porn and masturbate.

50mg daily can dramatically lower urgess.

- Brain inflammation – There is EVIDENCE that sex addicts (this counts of masturbation addicts as well) have higher tumor necrosis factor (TNF), with a strong correlation between TNF levels and high scores in hypersexuality rating scales.

- Elevated glutamate

-Elevated Estrogen - read the quote below slowly

"High estrogen does sometimes cause insatiable sexual interest, partly because it increases adrenal androgens, and partly by inhibiting satisfying orgasms. Too much progesterone can suppress or neutralize the androgens. Thyroid is the best way to regulate the system, keeping libido up, making orgasms satisfying."

-Dr Ray Peat

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[Aman Shetty - OneAssure @aman_shettty]

How to read a health insurance policy in under 20 minutes:

- Skip the first 10 pages. Go directly to the "exclusions" section.
- Read every exclusion. These are the things that will not be paid.
- Then find "waiting periods." Note all three types.
- Then find "sub-limits" or "room rent." Note the cap.
- Then find "co-payment." Note the percentage and when it applies.

Everything else is mostly standard. These five sections are where claims fail.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

I accidentally broke my brain reading about Nobel Prize winners last month.

There's this thing called "Janusian thinking" that basically explains why some people's minds work like magic while the rest of us think in straight lines. Named after Janus, the Roman god with two faces pointing opposite directions.

The psychologist who discovered it, Albert Rothenberg, was trying to figure out what made breakthrough thinkers different. He interviewed dozens of Nobel laureates, major artists, revolutionary scientists. What he found sounds impossible.

These people can hold two different ideas in their mind at the same time. They can explore both without switching back and forth or forcing a quick comparison. They can consider “yes” and “no” to the same question simultaneously and stay clear-headed.

Einstein too talked about this when he described his relativity breakthrough. He was imagining riding alongside a beam of light while also standing perfectly still. Both perspectives at once. Mozart said he could hear an entire symphony "all at once," every note, every contradiction, every resolution happening in a single moment of awareness.

Your average person's mind works like a courtroom. Evidence comes in, you weigh it, you reach a verdict. Case closed. But Janusian minds work more like... I don't know, like a quantum computer that can process multiple realities simultaneously until something new emerges from the overlap.

I've started noticing it in conversations. When someone can genuinely see both sides of something without needing to pick one, it drives people nuts. They want you to land somewhere definite. The ability to live in that tension space reads as wishy-washy or indecisive.

Most creative advice tells you to "think outside the box." But Janusian thinking is weirder than that. It's being inside and outside the box at the same time. It's thinking the box exists and doesn't exist simultaneously.

Which explains why truly creative people seem slightly unhinged. They think they're choosing between realities. But, they're inhabiting multiple realities at once, mining the contradictions for insights the rest of us never see.

Sadly, most of us have trained ourselves out of this ability. We've learned that holding contradictions feels unstable, so we rush toward resolution. We've been taught that changing your mind means you were wrong before, so we defend positions instead of exploring them.

But the people changing the world have kept that childlike ability to hold impossible thoughts without needing them to make sense immediately.

We just need to live in the questions everyone else is too scared to ask.