Residualize everything that’s trivial and then ask your questions

peter thiel’s greatest gift to humanity is his elucidation of verticalstriving and horizontalstriving every young smart bright ambitious kid gets oneshotted by the interplay between the vertical and the horizontal. perpetual exclamations of “oh the grass must be greener over

the ancient art of oneshotting is the secret that many great armies, politicians, and powermaxxers have used to annihilate traditional power structures and capture the attention and minds of the masses. this art manifests via three avenues: speed, force, and the idiosyncratic.

the world belongs to the convexity scalpers

everything is downstream from discipline peter thiel proclaimed that “the most contrarian thing is not to oppose the crowd, it is to think for yourself” signalling has destroyed modern value systems, psuedonormies are oneshotted into being slaves to performative contrarianism.

nothing is ever binary never forget that

every choice erases a thousand possible lives. i can’t pick a sandwich flavor

feels like it’s time to start posting long-form articles again end of a beautiful run of slopmaxxing

society has conditioned us to always permeate interaction with pleasantry. you meet a friend, it's over dinner you go on a date, it's over drinks you reminisce together, it's over a walk in the park mfs will get oneshotted by the fact that eventually you realize connection is

there are thousands of ivy league/oxbridge grads, thousands of crypto millionaires, even more corporate slopco successes, yet most are trapped. credentialed, capitalized, yet empty. running on scripts, their existence legged into repetition and a primal yearning for the

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Nietzsche on “the normie” “I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule - and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and

always know what your edge is the second it's gone - exit the trade

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At the tails, everything is correlated