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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.” — Richard Feynman

“The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.” —Carl Jung

i hate when someone living a life i don’t want starts telling me how to live mine

Jim Rohn: "All you have to do is work harder on yourself than you do on your job." Stop waiting for things to change around you. Become the kind of person things change for.

The loser has more in common with the winner than with the person sitting on the sidelines. The winner and the loser each had the courage to try. Both risked embarrassment. Both were willing to face uncertainty. Both were stubborn enough to continue. Success is endurance in disguise. It belongs to the person who can absorb the losses without absorbing the identity of "loser." It's the courage to start — and to stick with it — that is the real separator. Results tend to find the person who stays in the game. The sidelines are safe, but sterile. Nothing grows there.

One smart move can replace years of hustle.

There's an old Chinese saying that I love: “The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.”

I’m not a lawyer, but Sam Altman and Dario Amodei may be creating a legal problem for their companies. If their AI products ever do cause serious harm, these public warnings of theirs could be presented as evidence that the risk was foreseeable and they knew about it.

In order to be a genius you have to be crazy

A boy becomes a man when he chooses dangerous freedom over comfortable slavery.

Job market is so cooked that starting your own startup feels easier than getting a job

“Being very early and being wrong look exactly the same 99% of the time.” — Seth Klarman

use whatever the fuck you have. looks, genetics, talent, connections, money, all of it. there's nothing noble about choosing the hardest path just to feel like an underdog.

The only reason Clarity Act hasn’t passed yet is b/c crypto disrupts traditional banking model… It’s really that simple. We can talk ethics, BRCA, etc. But it all boils down to crypto reducing need for banks as intermediaries & disrupting net interest income model. And the politicians who are incentivized to support that model.

If you told me in 2011 that The Clarity Act would fail I would have asked you why the fuck you're looking to the government for permission to use Bitcoin.

People will call your discipline extreme because your focus exposes their excuses. Never let someone who settled talk you out of your sacrifice.

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. —Professor Richard Feynman

The best way to rebuild yourself is to go back to reading and learning.

i used to have this mental illness where i thought having better arguments would make people change their minds

“You can't make a good deal with a bad person.” — Warren Buffett