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You don't need a tremendous level of skill or insight to do many important things. The world is built by flawed people.

If you’re in your 20s-30s and your circle isn’t discussing - Statistical Rock Physics - Quaternion Algebras - Machine Learning in Finance -Abelian and non-Abelian Quantum Hall States / Exact Models of Critical Spin Chains It’s time to get a new circle. You’re ngmi.

Entire Course on Volatility Surface Models:

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Legendary quant & author of infamous Quantitative Finance book “Virtual Barrels”, Dr. Ilia Bouchouev just posted an entire lecture on oil vol trading! Dr. Ilia Bouchouev is globally recognized as THE pioneer in energy options trading: youtu.be/1LKChhP-kSw?si…

things i fuck with heavily: - 2mg daily tadalafil for performance enhancement (bonermaxxing) - triple espresso - DCAing into physical gold & platinum - my girl - electrolytes - ingesting 100mg sublingual bromantane & enjoying my work 10x, entering flow effortlessly - apple

Your brain doesn’t need creatine, it needs constant exposure to: - Statistics - Linear Algebra - Game Theory - Differential Equations - Thermodynamics - Derivatives - Quantitative Research Thank me later.

>be Edward Thorp >born 1932 in Chicago >Great Depression kid >dad loses everything >age 7, calculate the number of seconds in a year in your head >teachers don't know what to do with you 1940s: >obsessed with science experiments >build radios, explosives, whatever you can find

Most critical career pivots you can make: • Game Theory • Cryptography • Stealth Aircraft Automation • Mathematical Operations Research • Applications for Quantum Computing • Missile Technology Superiority Master any of these, your life will change forever.

You could literally just get a PhD in Meteorological Applications in Quantitative Finance, and work at 幻方量化 (DeepSeek Quant Fund) and buy this penthouse in Hong Kong, then dm that influencer with 3.5M followers on 抖音 (Chinese TikTok) who keeps liking all your pics, first

push me god.

> be random guy on the internet > makes decisions purely on vibes > misses a few huge opportunities in crypto > wonders why his life keeps looking random > stumbles on a weird article about probability theory > realizes every decision has expected value > realizes markets are

The New Marc Rich? > be german oil trader >obsessed with dallas since childhood
>see jr ewing drinking champagne and trading oil
>decide "yeah that’s gonna be me" > go to kazakhstan young
> just making contacts and smoking cigarettes in -40C oil fields > buy crude in cash

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how to live a GREAT LIFE: - find your mission - become obsessed with your craft - fear of failure is non existent - doubts are non existent - reprogram your identity - find your true love - exercise every day - be a delusional optimist - write on paper about your future - keep

subtle signs someone is a baller and has a huge steel sack: - check engine light is on - discreetly pays the bill and then "doesn't have venmo" - eye bags - treats the busboy better than the manager - doesn't know the exact name or reference number of the watch he's wearing -

Solo dev reverse-engineered Google's billion-dollar algorithm in 7 days Google published the paper that crashed memory stocks worldwide. Then shipped zero code. Tom Turney read the math, opened his terminal, and built the whole thing with Claude - then made it faster than