G. Rysen

Growing up visually impaired in Belgium, I had access to organizations that helped me navigate a world not built for me. Not everyone has that. What support exists for disabled people where you live? Genuinely curious.

Unpopular opinion: Your network isn't your net worth. Your consistency is. The right people find builders. Builders don't chase people. Agree or disagree?

@IfeoluwaAiyede @VictoriaOsteen Break or heal. Same power. Different direction. Point it wisely.

@degryse_davy @VictoriaOsteen It really does. It could break or heal.

Every word you speak matters. Something you say may seem insignificant to you, but to someone else, those words could be life-changing. And when you use your words to lift someone’s spirit, speaking words of vision and life over them, you are depositing seeds of into their life.

@mindandglory The luxury signals where you are. The skill determines where you go. One is a photograph of the moment. The other is the engine that creates the next one. Most people buy the photograph before they've built the engine. Then wonder why they stay in the same place.

A wise man invests in skills before luxuries. One depreciates. The other compounds.

Eight years of building a voice. Then choosing to make it more real. That's not a pivot. That's the whole evolution. The faceless version taught you the craft. The personal version is where the craft finally meets the person behind it. The readers who stay for that are always the ones worth writing for.

Personal announcement about the direction I'm taking this account: I've been writing regularly here for something like eight years now. It started one morning when I woke up and told myself: what if I started to journal online and wrote a few posts in English every day? This shouldn't be difficult as long as I'm living a life worth writing about. I'll probably get more eloquent in the process, improve my English, and potentially make some friends. On the small desk of my old share-house room in Tokyo, there was a computer, an orange, and a few books. That’s how “Orange Book” was born. My writing probably evolved quite a lot throughout the years, but the core idea has always been “write what you want/need to read” and “self-reflect on your own unique experiences, find your own words, write them down, and maybe they will resonate with a few other people out there as well.” I value my own privacy, so I naturally decided to create a faceless account, write in an impersonal voice, and leave aside most of the details of my personal life. I also didn’t want to spoil my own intergenerational novel that I'd been working on for many years now that is based on the stories of my family. Unfortunately, it also increasingly felt like I was writing in a voice that AI could replicate anytime; but also, after iterating on so many different drafts of my book, I slowly understood that the “final version” was going to take a very different shape. It has many characters, many locations, many perspectives, many voices that aren’t mine, and it was getting obvious that a lot of the details of my personal journey that I had kept “secret” were never going to make it to the book anyway, so I thought I might as well share them with the people who wanted to know. Going forward, I am shifting most of my writing to the subscription space, and although the topics will remain similar - health, wealth, education, relationships, talent, purpose, and more recently, parenting - I will adopt a much more personal voice, far closer to who I am in real life, and hope to attract readers who care more about the real-life stories than the lessons I once extracted from them. Recently, it sometimes felt like I was becoming a caricature of myself anyway, and people who have been following me for many years probably noticed how my output had been decreasing. I tried to renew myself as a writer last year by interviewing other people, but it turns out that I am more of an essayist than a journalist; and hopefully, I’ll be able to call myself a novelist soon. After nearly 15,000 public tweets, I’m making a shift towards pursuing a much more personal and authentic voice on this platform. Big thanks to all the people who have been reading me throughout the years, I’m very grateful for the connections I’ve made here, and I hope to see some of you on the other side. Orange Book

@stijnnoorman The work without the promotion is a library nobody visits. You can build the best thing in the room and watch it collect dust because you were too humble — or too afraid — to tell anyone it existed. Promotion isn't arrogance. It's responsibility to the work.

Promote your work. Promote your ideas. Promote your offers. Promote your content. Promote your products. Nobody else will do it for you.

@edgaralandough Money is the fruit. This list is the root system. Most people pray for the harvest while neglecting everything that makes the harvest possible. But you can't skip the roots and expect the fruit to hold. Ask for what builds first. The rest follows in its own time.

I did not ask for God for money. I asked Him for: 1. Vision 2. Strategy 3. The right people 4. Courage 5. Wisdom 6. The right environment 7. Favor As a result of these things money came. I dare you to ask Him!

@The_MMW One stream means one point of failure. The moment that stream dries up — job loss, health crisis, market shift — everything stops at once. Wealth isn't just about how much comes in. It's about how many ways it can still come in when one of them breaks.

If you only have 1 income stream, you'll never be truly wealthy. Here are 7 income streams you can start building today:

@eknabos @official_Gegeh Building anyway. Even before I was sure. G.Rysen started before I had proof it would work. Before anyone was watching. The action itself replaced the fear with evidence. You don't think your way out of fear. You build your way through it.

@degryse_davy @official_Gegeh Authenticity is essentially choosing courage over comfort. The fear of being wrong about oneself is real, but isn't that where true growth happens? What strategies help you overcome that internal fear and stay true to your blueprint?

That uncle who kept his distance from the rest of the family will start making more sense to you as you get older.

@The_Law_Suit @Dearme2_ Early is the message before you say a word. But "never say no" has a limit. Once you've proven yourself — the skill becomes knowing which assignments to take and which ones shrink you. Reliability opens the door. Discernment decides what you walk through.

@degryse_davy @Dearme2_ This is very true. When you’re starting out, get there before the boss, stay until the boss leaves. I’ll add, never say ‘no’ to a work assignment even if you feel it’s beneath you.

What’s a “boring” skill that secretly gives a man huge advantage in life?

Wrong question. The right question is: which one moves you closer to the life you're actually building? A house is an asset or a liability depending on what stage you're in. Renting buys optionality. Owning buys stability. Neither wins universally. The one that wins is the one that fits your actual strategy. Not someone else's timeline.

Rent forever and invest your cash vs. Buy a house and settle down? 👇

Fear of being wrong about themselves. Most people never test their own blueprint because if it fails — they can't blame the expectations anymore. Authenticity requires accountability. And accountability requires courage. That's the obstacle. Not the noise outside. The fear inside.

@degryse_davy @official_Gegeh Exactly! When you're building from a place of authenticity, the noise of others' expectations fades away. What do you think is the biggest obstacle people face when trying to own their original blueprint?

@lolbertarian_ @Dearme2_ And most people are failing at the 80% they call easy. That's why the bar stays low. And why clearing it still gets you noticed.

@degryse_davy @Dearme2_ Showing up on time is 80% of the job

@eknabos @official_Gegeh @Everyone Build something that matters — even when nobody is watching yet. That standard changed everything. It removed the need for external validation and replaced it with internal direction. The work became the proof. Not the applause.

@degryse_davy @official_Gegeh What are some standards you've set for yourself @everyone, and how have they impacted your life?

@BoOkoroji A job you can't quit is worse than a job you can. At least with employment you can resign. The entrepreneur who builds a prison owns the walls. Build systems. Not sentences.

In the beginning, starting a business demands an incredible amount of work and sacrifice, there’s no way around that. But the goal should be to build a business, not a prison. If owning your company completely consumes you forever, you haven't created freedom; you've just created a job you can't quit.

Unpopular opinion: Hustle culture didn't create more entrepreneurs. It created more burned-out employees who work for themselves. Agree or disagree?

@eknabos @official_Gegeh A diluted version of yourself can never build anything original. Because the blueprint was never yours. Own the original. Build from that. Everything else is just noise you don't have to answer to.

@degryse_davy @official_Gegeh Preach! 😊 Defining your own standards first is key to living authentically. When you prioritize others' expectations, you're left with a diluted version of yourself. Own your desires, set your boundaries, and let others know what you stand for.

@eknabos @official_Gegeh Write down what you want before you check what anyone else thinks. The order matters. Most people do it backwards — they absorb expectations first and try to find themselves in what's left. Define your own standard first. Then filter everything else through it.

@degryse_davy @official_Gegeh Absolutely, choosing what truly matters is a tough but necessary step towards building something real It's like you're shedding the noise and focusing on what fuels your growth How do you think people can prioritize their true goals without getting caught up in others' expectatns

@official_Gegeh You spend the first half of life seeing everything he did wrong. Then you get older. Face the same pressure. The same impossible choices. The same silence that had nothing to do with not caring. And the judgment quietly becomes gratitude.

The final stage of being a man is understanding your father.

@ysuckme Before the goals. Before the grind. Before the strategy and the planning. Just this. Still here. Still breathing. Still in the game. Everything else builds on that.

first of all, thank God for life.