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How to be a high agency man? It's all about your locus of control, have an internal locus of control, that's your pillar, that's your base. That's how you gather the courage to pursue your dreams and aspirations. To ascertain the differences between people with an external locus of control and internal locus of control, let me just give you two simple examples: Internal: "I choose healthy habits like eating nutritious foods and exercising to protect my well-being." External: "Good health is just genetics and luck. It's up to fate whether I stay healthy." People with "high agency" have the will, determination and belief to sculpt their future and shape it in the way they want to, but it's easier said than done. Like anything you can also practice this way of thinking, just get your reps in. It's really important to develop this mindset muscle in this day and age because blame and hatred are very very quickly becoming normal. Reading and watching videos about @elonmusk 's journey after the IPO reminded me my locus of control wasn't internal enough lol.

@IvanLandabaso How is Asia higher than Europe? TIL.

The Bay Area (7.7M people, $150B) raises all of Europe's annual VC (~530M people, $44B) in about 4 months.

@IvanLandabaso @natfriedman delusional optimism combined with untamed determination and serious passion is the key.

"Pessimists sound smart, optimists make money" - @natfriedman

@garrytan wtf, how the hell do i create a company brain, need one ASAP

I think one underestimated thing when we look back on it was how useful it is to have your own personal brain and company brain in 2026 at the dawn of usable AGI AGI gives you the intelligence You still have to collect your personal context to get the real unlock

@EvrybodynthrMom Cybersec companies to mars?

Sigh. Elon tried to warn everyone

@Samhain948689 you should still fantasize a little because there is a very good chance our lifespan increases by a certain %

ill be dead long before then so i dont want to waste what precious little time i have left imagining some future that may not even happen but that i definitely will not be a part of

replacing my moments of rest with twitter shit-posting.

@Macro_Harder SHUT UP

A little crashout now and then is cherished by the wisest men.

@JsonBasedman 5.6 is going to be either super retarded or super based i dont think any in-between

I love watching the timeline buck when new models come out >it's agi! >it's fucking retarded! >i'll have to readjust my timelines >wow it's fucking over for <insert_company> >open source is so back! so long as you have a 200k computer Can't wait for 5.6

@henokcrypto and GTA 6 will be the opposite

Fable 5 will be the greatest catalyst for business growth in American history

@rand_longevity GPT 5.6 will come out before GTA 6

GPT 5.6 will come out before Fable is reinstated.

i also want to say rawr i am a tiger

the founders who make it have a specific blind spot, they genuinely cannot model failure as a permanent state. ask one what happens if the company dies and you get a shrug, a pivot idea, dont make the mistake and confuse it with optimism. it's closer to a mild dissociation from consequence, the same wiring that lets soldiers function in combat, the brain just declines to fully process the downside scenario in real time. most people need the fear of failure to take it seriously. founders who win are wired in a differnet manner, the fear shows up late, after the decision, sometimes years after. by the time normal risk-aversion would kick in, they've already fired the idiot cofounder or raised a new series. but like all things there's a cost. the same blunted threat response that lets them build through years of no signal also makes them quite bad at recognizing real danger when it shows up like legal exposure or a toxic hire.

also just remember that frontier labs ship two versions of everything. the public one gets a launch video and a benchmark chart while the other one sits inside a handful of trading desks and defense contractors for six months first and by the time retailtards finds out a model exists, the people who actually mattered or were prioritized have already extracted the alpha and moved on. benchmarks are theater for people who weren't going to get access anyway. call me conspiratory or wtever

also business plans are mostly useless, once you validate your idea just set goals and work everyday

most people treat a business plan like scripture. write it once, defend it forever, ignore every signal that says it's wrong. a plan is just your best guess on day one. hold it loosely, hold your standards tight and just bloody focus on solving the problem

@rand_longevity @scottlincicome you can still get cheap protein from obscure chinese suppliers and just have it lab-tested for heavy metals etc

@scottlincicome damn man I remember getting 5 pounds of isolate for 55 in early 2024, now its 90 lol

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@zeyu1337 Holy shit this is amazing, revolutionary, I love chinese people

PSA: when you wake up, reach for your phone immediately. Do NOT scroll Instagram reels. Send a good morning message. Not to your girlfriend, to Claude. That way, you can start the clock for your 5 hour Claude Code usage limit while you freshen up and head to the office. At noon, the 5 hour window would have passed and the usage limit would reset. Then you can generate more shareholder value.

@davidpattersonx It's not a negative consequence for sure.

An interesting consequence of reaching the end state of technology by 2030 is that all the incorrect predictions made by futurists and in science fiction will be proven false.

A new resolution of mine, to be articulate and more knowledgeable is to read regularly

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