neuroplasticity is powered by unearned confidence. act like you're guaranteed to succeed, and your brain will rewire itself just to keep up with your delusion.

Who knew Fable is the sophon

Great piece. Only issue: "mercenaries" get rewarded tiny % of massively inflated equity at the bottom of pref stack with no liquidity in sight, expected to stay when they're deeply underwater & founders lie about the true valuation. Jason hasn't been an employee forever.

Which way union man?

Ben Horowitz with another banger On fear and self-belief: “If your guts aren’t boiling, you’re not even trying.”

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Even with Cursor, building a product as a nights and weekends indie-hacker is HARD work.

Maximize holiness in life. Do personally meaningful work, listen to your favorite music, consume or create art, have and nurture your child. Corollary: minimize whatever makes life feel less holy.

Using "schizo", "slop", "oneshotted" etc are signs you're spending too much time on twitter.

Everyone's angry about the expense but nobody cared to verify 😐

Carl Jung hits the "haters" particularly hard.

Peace of mind until the storm passes ✌️

A very underrated health hack is cultivating an unwavering overly optimistic borderline arrogant and quite frankly delusional belief that absolutely NOTHING can ever break you and that you’ll be fine whatever comes your way because you’re destined to nothing less than GREATNESS.

Why does Yelp UI look like it is stuck in 2009?

Were you ever truly immersed in a thing? This is when we are most joyous, time cease to exist, future and past dissolve, problems fade. But then something happens.. The World asks us - how useful is what we are doing? The World tells us how pointless what we are doing is. The World tells us there are better things out there. Then the mind takes over. Thoughts emerge. “Maybe I am wasting my time.” “Maybe there are better things out there.” “Maybe I am missing out on opportunities” “Maybe I need to give to the World.” “Maybe I need a purpose.” Subsequently, we are removed from a complete moment of peace when we were immersed in the thing, into absolute terror, unrest and anxiety. Into the rat race. We do win, we get money, fame, accolades but something still deep down feels .. out of place. The next time you want to do something, if you see those thoughts emerge, remember that you are in the rat race. Perhaps consider breaking out of the race. Go through the desert, in the dark, and walk alone.

Every election is the "most important election of our lifetime".

Idea: Mobile app to detect every time someone says "We operate like a startup within <big company>" and plays the sitcom laughter track after. Can be built as a startup within Google Assistant or Siri teams.

Corporate harassment prevention trainings everywhere have the best hilarious edgy humor by the "bad guys" that the school prefect instructors then point out as unacceptable.

A worthy addition to the banned phrases list