Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate. Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own. Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society. Make these habits. Say no to everything else. Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media. Relax. Victory is assured.

I, and I alone, am responsible for everything I think and feel.

“What Real Stoicism Looks Like” From my podcast with Naval

The Scientific and the Spiritual. (a thread, recorded on air.chat)

Existence itself is a miracle. Everything else is science.

The search for truth and the search for love are actually the same search. It is the search for, as Jacob Bronowski said, “unity within variety.”

“The worst outcome in this world is not having self-esteem. If you don’t love yourself, who will?” — Naval

The US is broke. The real debt is $175T+. And Elon Musk is 100% correct on the numbers. But the difficult step is the logical conclusion. There is no fix. It's a writeoff. A national bankruptcy. And the default will be in the form of money printing.

Canadians scoff at America's inequality, yet the best in Canada immigrate to it. We come here precisely for this inequality and the unbounded limits of achievement it opens up. In Canada, all humans are given more respect regardless of their achievements. Society is materially

Believing something doesn’t mean you understand it. Julio Froment breaks down the difference between true opinion and knowledge, and why Socrates believed that distinction was key to clear thinking. Read: spreadgreatideas.org/contrasts/know… #CriticalThinking #MentalClarity

Peter Kaufman on Nature’s 2 Secret Architectures When you walk into an elevator, what do you do? The answer determines your outcome in life 👇

Excellent mental model from Julio - Julio Froment - in his latest Substack piece: "Often times when you're having a difficult time making a decision, it's because you're conflating the decision itself with the implementation of the decision." littlealmanack.com/p/how-to-make-…

Yesterday, Patrick Bet-David walked on stage ready to lead a prayer for Charlie Kirk’s survival. Instead, he was struck with the heartbreaking news that Kirk had died. You could see the pain written all over his face as his eyes welled with tears. Yet in that moment, he

The things you own, own you. The words you say, own you.

I want you to hate me. I want you to read my tweets and seethe. To think, "God, he's just THE WORST," as you hate-scroll. Or mutter "fucking tool" when I say something obnoxious on a podcast, white-knuckling the steering wheel. Not all of you. Just some. Maybe 2-3%—that's

To understand human nature, read the older books. To develop specific knowledge, stay on the bleeding edge, read newer (technical) books. The best authors - Deutsch, Schopenhauer, Borges, Ted Chiang - write with very high density. The best authors respect the reader’s time.

youtube.com/watch?v=fEPkwe… Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ Naval great insights!

Thus guy is an intellectual fraud. Nonlinear domains like climate & markets!= mechanics like solar eclipses. If it were true he wd be rich. x.com/neiltyson/stat…