Houcine

Some people never start. Most people never finish. The best people never stop.

my favourite quote from atomic habits by James clear; "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"

Facts!

Your best work comes through you, not from you.

code is the source of truth

@kaizendae I find it helpful to think of acquiring knowledge in dimensions. Reading a tweet or listening to a podcast gives you a 2D perspective. But applying what you've learned takes you into a third dimension where the idea becomes internalized and more details come into focus.

“Acquiring knowledge is easy. The hard part is knowing what to apply and when. That’s why all true learning is on the job. Life is lived in the arena.” - Naval what about acquiring knowledge and knowledge of what and when to apply that knowledge? Yes lessons from experience are only gained in experience but there are indirect ways to acquire those lessons! feedback of people who have walked the paths we want to walk often makes our crossing easier. otherwise what's the point of your tweets naval?

Live a disciplined life, spontaneously.

the real tragedy is optimizing for metrics that made sense when intelligence was scarce… we’re force-feeding exponential capabilities into linear business models. watching openai hype gpt-5, alibaba rushing qwen3-coder, anthropic rate-limiting its models thanks to claude code success while getting torched by devs… it’s like trying to monetize the printing press with a scroll subscription service. these monthly cycles aren’t just slowing down AI development — they’re actively training the technology to think in months and quarters instead of decades. but worse: there are actual humans burning themselves out feeding the furnace, desperately trying to prevent MRR churn meanwhile actual intelligence wants to compound, iterate, explore tangents that don’t map to revenue projections. the Universe operates on geological timescales and we’re optimizing for earnings calls and investor updates 🤡 the cognitive dissonance is everywhere: we know we’re building “some form of superintelligence”/ AGI but we’re still acting and treating it like it’s enterprise software. the humans behind these products are getting crushed between exponential capabilities and linear expectations what if the companies that survive the next 5 years are the ones brave enough to decouple from SaaS orthodoxy entirely? build for abundance instead of artificial scarcity… the old pyramids are about to get flattened by intelligence that doesn’t need monthly paychecks to keep thinking.

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Your potential is determined by how much uncertainty you're willing to embrace.

Today, I found myself wrestling with a humbling truth: that innocence of intent does not exempt us from the burden of consequence. In actual fact, it is quite arrogant to believe that if we meant well and our actions were pure in motive, then whatever results must surely follow in kind. But life has an unsentimental wisdom that rarely operates on such moral symmetry. Consider something as negligible as leaving a door open to let in fresh air. It’s an innocent and practical gesture. You imagine the room breathing with you, and the stagnant weight of heat dispersing into something gentler. But through that open door comes more than breeze. A rat scurries in, dragging its panic and unpredictability across your orderly space. Houseflies arrive like unwanted guests at a feast you didn’t prepare. And suddenly, the atmosphere of serenity becomes one of intrusion. You didn’t intend for the rat to enter. You certainly didn’t invite the flies. But you opened the door, and the door in all its impartial glory, fulfilled its nature. That’s the thing about actions: they do not always care for the sentiment that birthed them. They unravel according to the logic of the world, rather than the purity of our hope. You see, we often fail to draw rounded inferences. This invariably means we end up tracing our choices just through their initial aims, instead of through their plausible consequences. We forget that reality doesn’t make sentimental allowances for our ignorance. A kind word said to the wrong person can spiral into dependency. A boundary bent once for the sake of compassion can become the blueprint for exploitation. A decision made in love can still cause someone else harm. I promise you, this is not an argument for paralysis or paranoia. It is simply a reminder that intention is important, yes, but it is only the prologue. Wisdom lives in the pages that follow. We are not gods. We cannot predict everything. But we can choose to be more responsible stewards of the ripple effects our actions set into motion.

Passion is a feeling that follows action. It tends to be created or discovered, not predicted or planned. You don't find your passion. It finds you as you get in the mix and try things.

@enlamp Software Engineering student from Agadir, currently learning advanced React and reading Hackers & Painters.

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Patrick Collison (CEO, Stripe) — How to Move Fast

you need to be a little crazy to do things