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Ooh what's that book, the red one, first from the right

One hack to understand what you're naturally good at - look at places where your standards are way higher than average, just naturally.

Without saying too much, if you have serious generational wealth goals, it might be smart to read up on some history regarding decaying/dissolving empires, who did best during those times and how. Might give you some valuable ideas that could potentially save you.

If you run a full bottleneck analysis in your life and actually get to the bottom of the thing (no matter how many layers deep) - the last bottleneck/domino will always be an emotion you're resisting. That's it. That's how funny and wonderful the actual human condition is.

Turns out meditation actually increases your "frame per second" of observing reality, allowing you to feel less time and more presence, which means you also take in & process more data. This is also why life feels "more" and "more real" for meditators (and the opposite, the more you're dissociated, I think). I remember this weird Russian entrepreneur+biohacker guy who wore hearing aids (to enhance his hearing - he actually had no hearing problems) so he'd be able to negotiate better - bc he'd catch people's smallest tonality changes and whatnot and knew where to push/pull, etc. Imagine that kind of a leveling up, but for your full 5 senses - and more, we shall not talk about here. Makes you way more here, way more real, way more able, and so on. Truly the limitless pill, but better. I wonder where it starts to asymptote if at all.

The sharpest razor I've found for people: The ones who gained "consciousness" at around 12-14 vs 18 and later. Never fails.

Zuck's current self-reinvention is so inspiring, mf is almost 40 y.o now. Been the CEO of a world-changing co for 20+ yrs. Not only rejected Yahoo's $1B offer, but Ballmer's $20B+ offer to sell the co just in his 20s. Most ppl don't realize how many times he's had to reinvent

If your IQ is above 120 + you can focus on the real needle movers - you're actually around ~30 pomodoros away from the life you want (at least v1).

I remember reading a classified booklet for Navy SEALs (I think?) on how to handle/survive in serious crisis situations. Like in a t3rror attack or finding yourself kidn4pped in a bunker or whatever. The primary directive golden rule in a crisis/dire situation, it said, was to only focus on the next step - sometimes it's just surviving the next 10 seconds. Anything else can & will come after. I believe this is almost always the case, it's just that when we're not under serious threat, we mistakenly think and feel as if we have all the time and resources to not be serious (illusion).

If winning was guaranteed &certain, you'd go 10x harder at it. Paradoxically, if you went 10x harder, the win would almost be a guarantee, on a long enough time horizon, for any goal. It's easy to mentally recognize this, but it ideally should be felt in the body as a fact.

It's crazy how most of the problems in life are just like max 20 hrs of work to be solved. A huge majority are 20min-20hrs of work. That's it.

If your IQ is above 120 + you can focus on the REAL needle movers - you're actually around ~30 pomodoros away from the life you want (at least v1).

A girl showed me this fringe YT channel - a previous lottery winner is interviewing other lottery winners, and all of their stories are like "I was in NoLa, a weird looking busker gave me this amulet & a week later I won" or "my dead grandma gave me the numbers in a dream"

If you have ADHD brain simply just leverage AI tools to build fast feedback loops around your biggest goals that turn your life into a video game.

Turns out meditation actually increases your "frame per second" of observing reality, allowing you to feel less time and more presence, which means you also take in & process more data. This is also why life feels "more" and "more real" for meditators (and the opposite, the more you're dissociated, I think). I remember this weird Russian entrepreneur+biohacker guy who wore hearing aids (to enhance his hearing - he actually had no hearing problems) so he'd be able to negotiate better - bc he'd catch people's smallest tonality changes and whatnot and knew where to push/pull, etc. Imagine that kind of a leveling up, but for your full 5 senses - and more, we shall not talk about here. Makes you way more here, way more real, way more able, and so on. Truly the limitless pill, but better. I wonder where it starts to asymptote if at all.

The most fascinating group is the American ultra right wing, semi-schizophrenic conspiracy theorists. They're almost always right about literally everything 5-10, even 20+ years earlier. They're kinda uncouth and a few more other things - so they'll never be taken seriously, but it's crazy how little attention their paid usually. They've been right about the virus stuff, jabs, Epstein.. Many many things. Almost all of these are proven now, most of the "sane" people are sharing those beliefs - just 5-10+ years too late. Now, if you were to look at what that group is talking intensely about, today, it's clear that: In some years, everyone will be talking about aliens, angels, UFOs, how Moon eats souls, etc. Crazy things are coming.

The sharpest razor I've found for people: The ones who gained "consciousness" at around 12-14 vs 18 and later. Never fails.

Ooh what's that book, the red one, first from the right

The most fascinating group is the American ultra right wing, semi-schizophrenic conspiracy theorists. They're almost always right about literally everything 5-10, even 20+ years earlier. They're kinda uncouth and a few more other things - so they'll never be taken seriously, but it's crazy how little attention their paid usually. They've been right about the virus stuff, jabs, Epstein.. Many many things. Almost all of these are proven now, most of the "sane" people are sharing those beliefs - just 5-10+ years too late. Now, if you were to look at what that group is talking intensely about, today, it's clear that: In some years, everyone will be talking about aliens, angels, UFOs, how Moon eats souls, etc. Crazy things are coming.

Zuck's current self-reinvention is so inspiring, mf is almost 40 y.o now. Been the CEO of a world-changing co for 20+ yrs. Not only rejected Yahoo's $1B offer, but Ballmer's $20B+ offer to sell the co just in his 20s. Most ppl don't realize how many times he's had to reinvent

Without saying too much, if you have serious generational wealth goals, it might be smart to read up on some history regarding decaying/dissolving empires, who did best during those times and how. Might give you some valuable ideas that could potentially save you.

Turns out meditation actually increases your "frame per second" of observing reality, allowing you to feel less time and more presence, which means you also take in & process more data. This is also why life feels "more" and "more real" for meditators (and the opposite, the more you're dissociated, I think). I remember this weird Russian entrepreneur+biohacker guy who wore hearing aids (to enhance his hearing - he actually had no hearing problems) so he'd be able to negotiate better - bc he'd catch people's smallest tonality changes and whatnot and knew where to push/pull, etc. Imagine that kind of a leveling up, but for your full 5 senses - and more, we shall not talk about here. Makes you way more here, way more real, way more able, and so on. Truly the limitless pill, but better. I wonder where it starts to asymptote if at all.

If your IQ is above 120 + you can focus on the real needle movers - you're actually around ~30 pomodoros away from the life you want (at least v1).

One hack to understand what you're naturally good at - look at places where your standards are way higher than average, just naturally.

Turns out meditation actually increases your "frame per second" of observing reality, allowing you to feel less time and more presence, which means you also take in & process more data. This is also why life feels "more" and "more real" for meditators (and the opposite, the more you're dissociated, I think). I remember this weird Russian entrepreneur+biohacker guy who wore hearing aids (to enhance his hearing - he actually had no hearing problems) so he'd be able to negotiate better - bc he'd catch people's smallest tonality changes and whatnot and knew where to push/pull, etc. Imagine that kind of a leveling up, but for your full 5 senses - and more, we shall not talk about here. Makes you way more here, way more real, way more able, and so on. Truly the limitless pill, but better. I wonder where it starts to asymptote if at all.

One of the trippiest facts about reality is how your mind-body is making you experience the "cached" version of reality, like 99%+ of the time.. Unless something extraordinary/unexpected happens (prediction error), or you're practising real presence - you're basically living in a weirdly compressed copy (simulation) of reality. This means you are NOT ACTUALLY seeing the screen you're reading this from, right now. You are NOT feeling your body directly. Even the colors and textures you see are in some ways degraded/compressed/cached versions of reality. Your brain probably checked if this is true in real time and you might have felt some subtly perceptual shift visually or sensually - because you took conscious control, a bit. It's not so hard to see: Between "you" and "real reality", there are layers. Some subtler, some more clear but one thing is for sure - you're not having DIRECT EXPERIENCE of reality. Another way to test this is to make a conscious prediction about a regular daily action you take, whatever that might be. Looking out from the window, opening and typing on your laptop, whatever.. Make a conscious prediction (not mentally, but "sense/feel into it") by, for example, how it will feel doing the thing. Then, do the thing fully consciously and being aware of it, and listen to the direct experience - see how it ACTUALLY feels, just observing it with no agenda, just to experience its direct experience. How big is the gap between your prediction (usually from your cache) and the direct experience? Even for the most ordinary things like putting on your socks, you'll be surprised at the delta. And even more weirdly, some of the things you think you actually enjoy or like, etc are completely uncomfortable, unattractive, repelling, etc when you do it this way. Turns out, just like you didn't like the taste of wine or beer but gotten used to it, happen to distinguish between brands, and even love it now etc - you also have slowly grown accustomed to MANY things in your life.. Your cache formed. This is why they talk about how "no one changes after 30" - all of the cache is formed and unless there's a BIG prediction error (=trauma), it doesn't really change. However, very fortunately, we're living in a magical universe and there's this magical thing called the human will, consciousness. With it, and with knowledge, anything can be changed. And that's God's grace.

If you have ADHD brain simply just leverage AI tools to build fast feedback loops around your biggest goals that turn your life into a video game.

A criminally underdiscusssed thing is the type of content that one-shot people into some drastic change. You read a book and there's a clear before and after. You watch a documentary and you're changed forever. When it comes to books, Sarno's back pain book is a great one - hundreds, thousands of instances you can read online (and gazillions more irl) where it one-shots people into having less or no pain. Just by reading a book. Or the Easy Way to Stop Smoking book. Same thing. Tens or hundreds of thousands people must've stopped smoking just by reading it. Myself and my dad (previously a 30+ year serious smoker) included. And if you're 25+ y.o, you MUST have known someone who decided to go vegan or vegetarian simply by watching a 1.5hr doc. Tons of these exist, it's insane. Imagine.. DIET - one of the most hardcoded (not only with biology, but also w identity and social norms, etc) things ever for a human, being changed within a very short period of time. If these are not magical, I don't know what you consider as magical. I'm very familiar w the mechanisms behind these effective changes, but it's better if it's not discussed at length here. The only thing is, I think the mindspace online content consumes everyday makes it a bit hard to stick. People's identities have only a few slots for big chunks and that's usually covered by politics nowadays, or their mental illness, for the avg person. And the content they consume is pretty much about it. It's not like 2005 or 2015 where you can just make the thing stick forever, unless it fits this well. Now - tell me in the comments, if you ever had a personal one-shot experience. Could be anything - content, experience, event, whatever else. Where you've had a clear before and after that you feel it truly changed you. From an article to experiencing Jerusalem syndrome, anything counts. Just make sure it's not something that was like "wow" or "impressive" - a REAL CHANGE is what we're looking for here.

Most ppl don't understand why this tech is VERY important. Lucid Dreaming is basically a AI-like promptable role-play with your (personal + sometimes collective) unconscious, think of it like in-your-mind VR where the content is the deepest parts of you. Edison, Descartes, Tesla.. even fucking Aphex Twin used it to produce their work. If this really works, it's a HUGE unlock for humanity. At least for those who'd know how to use it. Descend, ask the biggest question + get an answer and come back. Sleep, rearrange reality, wake up. Etc Watching this startup closely. If anyone is building a startup or a project or an experiment in a similar vein ("psyche-tech") - contact me, I'll give grants and invest and truly help.

What is the best thing you've read in 2025? Book, article, tweet.. Anything.

Brian Armstrong, the genius billionaire CEO of Coinbase ($6B+) was a MAKE MONEY ONLINE BLOGGER before his current thing. Literally selling an eBook, running banner ads, posting about the latest SEO trick.. Never limit yourself. Keep your identity small & eyes on the big prize.

If you run a full bottleneck analysis in your life and actually get to the bottom of the thing (no matter how many layers deep) - the last bottleneck/domino will always be an emotion you're resisting. That's it. That's how funny and wonderful the actual human condition is.