Stunning stats, not a game for the faint of heart... no crying in the casino

do less do it well do it for a long time

the penalty for being average has never been so severe, but the payout for being extraordinary has never been higher.

In a modern economy, and beyond a certain fairly trivial IQ and net worth threshold, the cost of indecision quickly exceeds the cost of failure

Stop rationalizing. "I do not predict, I simply observe" - Soros

it is actually insane how much easier it is to pay someone internationally with USDC/USDT vs wire transfer

Anyone will tell you what you want to hear. Real friends will tell you what you need to hear.

Getting up at 5am on the weekend is a cheat code

It’s a pretty great feeling to have something you love doing that allows you nearly infinite room for improvement and consistently demands you stay on top of your game.

here’s the thing: you are fooling yourself. you think the competition is being first. or being smartest. or having the best reason. it’s not. the competition, first always and last, is making money. took me a while to realize that. it’s why differentiated thinking is so

If it matters to you, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.

talked to a guy who's been trading 23 years and manages $40M asked him what separates traders who survive from traders who blow up his answer surprised me it wasn't strategy. it wasn't discipline. it wasn't psychology. "bet sizing. that's it. that's the whole game." here's

i have no desire to be rich so i can buy a rolex or a lamborghini. i want to be rich so i can control my time and go to the gym at 3pm on a monday. sit at a cafe and relax for an hour on a rainy afternoon. so i can cook meals at home with fresh ingredients. spend on my family

Planning far into the future (10+ years) feels pointless. The world is changing too fast, technology is compounding too quickly. What seems stable today can be completely obsolete tomorrow. In this new era of exponential change, flexibility, speed, and adaptability matter far

i used to have this mental illness where i thought logical arguments would change someone’s mind

All progress is slow. All breakthroughs take time.

Selecting the right abstraction layer is one of the most important meta-skills in decision-making, yet it’s rarely discussed directly; perhaps because it’s genuinely difficult to grasp. It’s the ability to recognize which level of analysis actually contains the signal you need,

Stoicism but for middle-aged women

for the past 2 years ive been deeply paranoid about my kids’ future in the post-agi era. things im increasingly convinced of -> ai will be smarter than the average human before my kids enter adulthood, possibly well before. -> therefore agency and taste r the only things that

Developing patience just comes from time in the game like all skills. You have to truly believe the market will continue to provide great opportunities if you wait for them (it always does multiple times per year) and you have to believe in your ability to hit those good times