The people who won, lost first. they lost hard, they lost stupid, they lost everything, more than once. and one time they didn't lose, and that was it. nobody who made something real had support while making it. nobody. they stood there like idiots. family said no and left,

Meeting smart technical people into compilers and FPGAs. Telling them they could probably make 4ms at openai right this very moment like it's the worst news ever. Watching them stress out over the opportunity cost, not the money, but of losing the freedom to continue hacking

May your children have children and may those children forget your name but carry your blood into centuries you will never see

If you want to change your life and you say im trying, you have lost. God never blessed trying, he blessed going. Abraham did not try to leave his home, he got up and left. Noah did not try to build the ark, he built it. every man in Gods book either obeyed or did not, there is

"You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves". - Robin Sharma

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People are capable of far more than they think, on far shorter timelines. Problems expand to fill the time you give them.

ITS VERY IMPORTANT TO ACT ON IRRATIONAL TIMELINES TOWARDS UNREALISTIC GOALS WITH IMPOSSIBLE LEVELS OF VOLUME

-British guy goes to Africa: “What’s this animal called” -African tribesman: “We call it Okapi” - Western scholars: “The Okapi was discovered 150 years ago by that British guy”

> be Alexandra Elbakyan > be born in Kazakhstan in 1988 > start coding at 12 > hack your internet provider at 14 > hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford > get a CS degree from Satbayev University > intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech > speak at

doomer “It's always worst to be raided by an agency you didn't even know had armed agents. An FBI raid could be whatever, but if the Marine Mammal Protection Commission is raiding your office it's because they know, without a shadow of a doubt, what you did to that walrus."

That dopamine spike you get from solving a difficult problem >>>

The longer you avoid the basics, the more your future depends on luck pretending to be skill.

This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.

I shall be sending my envoys to the new King of Switzerland shortly, congratulating him on his bloodless conquest.

UK: top-1 percentile EPL footballer with wife who is partner at City of London corporate law firm US: guy who co-invented 3rd best app for rating hotdogs

High agency looks like arrogance to people who have mistaken learned helplessness for maturity.

c++,python,solidity,rust,golang,dart,func and other skills under my belt I’m tired dawg like when do I become a multi-millionaire already?

Jobs are not the goal. They are the output of consumption. When people consume more, businesses hire more. This is why a consistent commitment to market creation matters more than almost anything else in development.

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse. An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of: They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.