What amazing fortune To be 1 of the 100 billion homo sapiens sapiens that have ever lived And to be alive at this the moment of the great inflection Not to be 1 of 50 billion that died of mosquito borne disease Nor to be 1 of 30 billion that died before age 5 Nor 1 of 10 billion

"but what are you going to do if it doesn't work out?" motherfucker THERE IS NO PLAN B and there DOES NOT NEED TO BE because unlike you, i have understood the FUNDAMENTAL COSMIC FACT that as long as you stick with something, pivot when you fail, learn from your mistakes and

Realest shit I ever heard: "People pray for the cake. Then God gives them the batter, eggs, oil, icing, a pan, an oven... but they get overwhelmed and leave the kitchen". Sometimes you'll have everything right in front of you, but you still don't take action. Let that sink in.

⚡️Brady is describing a self-engineered compulsion. What separated him was not motivation, discipline, or love of the game. It was that he removed the option to be casual from his nervous system. Practice was not a means to an end. It was the environment where his identity

the act of creation is the only thing that justifies existence

we are overstimulated and we don’t even notice. netflix while eating. reels in the bathroom. music while cooking. podcasts on walks. we consume by default, not by intention. you keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. boredom and silence are the

No matter how articulate or how smart you think you are, or how solid your position is - Aesthetics will always be the most powerful, immediate and easily understood statement of what you're about vs. what they're about. If your body isn't a uniform that states your position

Focus on the work ahead. Glory comes to those who move. Napoleon did not begin with dreams of empire. He wanted to be an officer, a respectable and secure position. As he improved, it revealed possibilities, and his ambition expanded to match reality.

This year, above everything else, just do the work. Stop talking about the work, planning the work, contemplating the work, or analysing the work. Put your head down and just do the work. It's easy to sit back and talk about the work. It's productive to actually do it.

you're always 1 idea, 1 connection, or 1 impulsive decision away from an event that'll snowball into you living the life that you wanna live... the best thing you can do to maximize your chances of such an event occuring are to: > keep learning like you're still a beginner at

"Envy no one. For whatever you see, a price was paid." Absolute truth.

"The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory." - Daniel Kahneman

THE COST OF INACTION THROUGH DELIBERATION IS ALWAYS FAR GREATER THAN THE COST OF MAKING A MISTAKE. DO THINGS

The founder of the biggest hedge fund in the world sold his stake and moved his family office to the UAE. This is under-appreciated. The first significant EXIT.

Most successful people I know with the most to do in a day, respond to messages instantly The ‘sorry I’ve just seen this I’ve been so busy’ types aren’t usually even half as productive The irony…

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Bayes’ theorem is probably the single most important thing any rational person can learn. So many of our debates and disagreements that we shout about are because we don’t understand Bayes’ theorem or how human rationality often works. Bayes’ theorem is named after the

'a moving man will surely meet his luck’ has to be the realest quote i’ve ever heard

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to