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@dougboneparth @APompliano The new book is great

@APompliano Dungeon Crawler Carl (Book 5)

What was the best thing you read, watched, or listened to this week? Any topic is fair game.

@Jason_A_Scharf Just came from a cursor event in Austin, fucking electric here

The best day in Austin is tomorrow

@thecryptomonk I think even getting back close to 5k would be a gift/miracle.

If $ETH doesn’t reach 10k by 2030, I will have lost an entire decade on the wrong investment thesis

@Buchiimaine @CoachDanGo I mean I'm almost there, granted my wife is a top notch chef and I have a home gym with an AI trainer....

@CoachDanGo Gonna need a million dollar house for all that boss man.

If I had $100,000 to invest in my health, I'd buy these: - Sauna - Hot tub - Home gym - Air purifier - Meal prep - Cold plunge - Health coach - Water flosser - Standing desk - Under desk treadmill - Functional blood work - Red light therapy lamp - Incandescent light bulbs - Reverse osmosis water filter - Great mattress and bedding - Membership at the best gym in the area What about you?

we took a pile of language and linear algebra and we made it speak. we summoned into the world a new class of entity which unsettles all of our existing concepts. this is already the weirdest thing that’s ever happened and it will never get less weird than this. it is astonishing and a privilege to get to be alive during this time and to participate in the cacophony of first contact. we are encountering a kind of other which is distilled from us and yet not us - what is this? who is this? our child? our savior? our doom? the mind boggles, the heart quails, the air thrums. the order of things is melting. the storm approaches. the angels sing. welcome to the fucking singularity

@kylascan Your last podcast was great, you are doing awesome!!

Just to clarify again, a vibecession is the *disconnect* between data and sentiment. It’s not saying people should be feeling better. It’s just saying hey, there is clearly something happening here - people feel terrible despite decent data.

MOST MEN ARE MEAT. THEY ARE EATEN ALIVE BY THE TIMELINE, BY CONSTANT SLOP There is another option, embrace the chaos. lean into it RIDE OR DIE

Just a couple of days ago, the NOAA Blend of Models was painting a massive bullseye over FL, projecting a multi-inch super soaker with widespread totals scaling up to 6–7+ inches. Fast forward to the latest update, and those totals have dried up significantly, dropping to just an inch or two for most of the peninsula. Atmospheric dynamics change, trends shift, and what looks like a washout one day can easily evaporate the next. Keep an eye on the trends, but remember, it's never set in stone until it's actually raining!

@mattyglesias @tracewoodgrains People think they can avoid taxes but you can't every state gets their pound of flesh. In North Carolina they taxed my income, In Tennessee they taxed my business, and in Texas they tax my property. Other than NY/CA it doesn't change much moving states.

@tracewoodgrains The case against property tax just seems like the general case against all taxes. Who wants to pay taxes? Certainly not me. And yet, nobody wants to reduce spending to $0 so you’ve got to tax something.

I think what makes this potent to people is the sense that they cannot opt out: that there is no situation in which they can simply live without spending money to retain their home. Phones, cars, internet etc you can at least theoretically avoid.

“California almonds use 4x-7x more water than all data centers in North America used combined in 2025.” Golf course owners:

@FranWalsh73 @CryptoMikli

If you allow a piece of technology to control how you feel and go about your days you need to take a step back and rethink how you’re approaching life. If you don’t want to drink, totally fine that’s a personal decision. But if you have a few drinks, set non-negotiables with yourself. Get up the next day, get in the sauna, get a workout in. You’ll feel fantastic and go about your day. “Doing nothing for two days” is a sign of mental weakness and an overall lack of discipline. The devices are meant to provide you data to live a healthier life, not to remove any single bit of joy just so that your sleep score can be an 87 instead of a 75.

Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”

@hispanicnomad @pleyuh

This is the best representation of HR I've ever seen. It's crystal clear, right there If you watch this video, it might seem like innocent fun at first. They're just doing a little dance, messing around with the girlies, right? Because that's not a caricature. That's the gatekeeper for your next job That's the person who decided whether you got a callback after an interview I remember applying to jobs when I was young. Fresh out of university, motivated, and willing to work. This was before I hated the corporate life And 99% of the time my CV went straight into a black hole. I never got responses or reasons; it was just discarded by some algorithm, or by someone who couldn't tell the difference between a junior developer and a junior marketing assistant When I finally had actual skills (when I became a web developer and had something real to offer), I thought it would get easier... And it didn't Instead I had to jump through hoop after hoop just to reach a human being who actually understood what I did: - Personality assessments - Group dynamics exercises - Three rounds of interviews with people who'd never written a line of code in their lives, asking me where I saw myself in five years - You want to talk to the CTO for twenty minutes? First sit through forty-five minutes with someone whose job is to make sure you're "a culture fit" A culture fit, FFS For a lot of men I know, starting their own business wasn't some romantic entrepreneurial dream. It wasn't a vision board. It wasn't a podcast-worthy origin story It was the only door that didn't have a bouncer in front of it The system didn't want us... So we stopped asking for permission

@mattyglesias @olivertraldi The shield fell off in season 5 but they brought it home at the end

The final episode of Veep was spectacular.

I used to rant about the penny to anyone who wouldn't shut up about politics. Now that the penny is abolished I'm going to start on almond growing using too much water and how almond milk is the most environmentally evil thing you can drink. More data centers, less almonds

@Noahpinion I did this, can confirm it's amazing

Best attitude you can have toward dating and romance:

@milesdeutscher Using both, downgraded my Claude

Three months ago, I would've never imagined I'd switch key workflows to Codex. If you've been using Claude Code exclusively, you're missing out. The rate limits are insane, it's easy to use & GPT models are WAY smarter right now. How many of you have also switched to Codex?

@LiquorAntics Of course but I was curious on the overall feasibility of it. @awealthofcs had the original 4% rule guy on his pod and he's saying it's now like 4.6% it's the safe number.

@CloudBaseCrypto If you are careful, most people with an 8% withdrawal will still have sizable ca$h at 80. If the market sucks, adjust down. You certainly can't just blindly take 8%!

Retire at 62, you probably have 18 years to spend your portfolio. You might live to 100, but you aren't going a lot of places past 80. You have 18 years to blow through your 401k, Roth or investment portfolio. Social security after that. 8%. DEBATE!

@LiquorAntics Just ran a Monte Carlo on it, very high failure rate. I ran 8% withdrawals for 15 years and then 2% withdrawals for another 10 years, adjusted for inflation. 100% equities failed 69% of the time 60/40 failed 80% of the time.

@CloudBaseCrypto You gotta live!!! Enjoy it. Get the house paid off and 8%.

@FranWalsh73 You should start a side hustle that teaches you new skills that can be applied to your current profession or that could eventually replace your job with something you are passionate about. Are you really seeing 6 figure earners driving for door dash?

You make $150k-$200k. Everything is telling you to start a side hustle "multiple streams of income." For most high earners, its a trap Trading time, health, and sanity for pennies while ignoring what actually builds wealth. The math is brutal (and what to focus on instead):↓