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Everything you want is on the other side of not giving a fuck, asking again, and taking another shot. Life gives you endless lottery tickets to try and you only need one win to change your life forever .
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This seems like a pretty risky tradeoff. On one hand, you gain probably some small % of new users and retain some existing at the cost of alienating power users and those aware of distillation…Then again if every frontier lab is doing it 🤷🏼♂️
I hate to break it to everyone, but Opus 5.5 has been nerfed starting the last few hours today.
Autistic Claude speak is back, it's doing really dumb shit & this is not the same model I was using the last 2 days.
Confirmed this on multiple accounts, it's turned into an idiot.
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In her latest sciolistic letter to me, @SenWarren made it clear that she knows even less about foreign exchange markets than she does about banking.
What is equally shocking, but not surprising: not a single member of the media mob has a rudimentary-enough level of financial market literacy to spot her remedial error.
To reiterate: under @POTUS, the United States delivers for America’s trusted partners.
For a fuller explanation, I recommend Senator Warren take any entry level course in international finance for her and her staff, or I can personally give her a tutorial on Foreign Exchange for Dummies. Although I am not holding my breath, I hope her next letter will demonstrate that she has learned the difference between a currency purchase and a swap or a loan.
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Shopify billionaire co-founder & CEO Tobi Lütke — one of the most analytically rigorous founders alive — uses affirmations.
His exact words:
"If you tell yourself or write down something about yourself 100 times, it writes into the neurofrontal cortex at such a deep level that your brain will start reconciling you to that. It just works."
His personal example:
He was terrified of public speaking.
For one week he sat down every day for 10 minutes and wrote: "I love public speaking."
A week later the fear was gone.
"It's not like a placebo. You just actively change your neurofrontal cortex in this moment."
Your brain starts shaping your behavior around the identity you rehearse most.
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I was incredibly concerned with the debt.
Now I get it.
It’s never going down.
The budget will never get balanced.
Both parties don’t care and if they say they do they are lying.
Fighting about taxes is silly.
We can’t tax our way out of it.
There isn’t enough tax revenue to be extracted.
We are going to print our way out of it.
5% real inflation forever.
What’s 40 trillion in debt if we inflate the gdp to 100 trillion?
It’s the only choice.
Both sides want to keep spending.
My thesis the next 30 years:
The dollar will be worth less tomorrow than today.
The government will promise anything and spend everything.
Plan accordingly.
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A hill I will die on: lots of people suffer from mental health issues bc no one forced them to struggle enough growing up. Struggle builds resilience and is great for you. Life can’t be too easy or every mole hill becomes a mountain.
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The most researched winning strategy in game theory isn't kindness or retaliation. It is tit-for-tat: open with trust, then mirror what you're given. Reward cooperation instantly. Punish betrayal instantly. The simplest strategy that has beat most complicated games.
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C.S. Lewis: favorable conditions NEVER come
ALT There are always plenty of rivals to our work. We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
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My favorite line from Atomic Habits has been living in my head rent-free:
“It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”
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Dear @ZohranKMamdani, thank you for improving the lives of New Yorkers by spending your days either explaining to the Americans that Islam should rule the US, and/or why Israel is an evil entity. The United States failed its citizens when they allowed your family to become Americans. You are as American as a man who sleeps in a stable becoming a horse.
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The older I get, the more I realize that life will meet you at your level of audacity. The people who get what they want out of life aren't necessarily the smartest or most talented. They're the ones who have the most courage.
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whenever I come across Americans trashing the American experiment, I think back to Dr. Karp talking with Bill Maher about what makes America special.
"Part of the problem and part of the reason why people don't stand up for America is they don't understand how magical it is to get these things to work, and no other place does it at our scale with our diversity and different kinds of people and different kinds of thought.
And like, in my case, you know, I was viewed as the Frankenstein monster. I don't come from wealth, and I get the opportunity to prove myself. No one in this country cares how crazy you are if you deliver."
Happy USA 250. I love this place. Cheers to the next 250 🇺🇸🚀
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A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. This is one reason why meaningful change does not require radical change. Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. And if a change is meaningful, it is actually big. That's the paradox of making small improvements.”
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I’m in love with this sentence:
“The more delusionally optimistic you are, the more life rewards you.”
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