Jeff Chan

@stillfounder @vibemaker_ Having a 600+ source was immensely helpful to me: Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. -John 14:17

@vibemaker_ that's the heart. the gateway. eastern traditions tackle this with focus on devotion. so do parts of religions.

Courage is the threshold. It unlocks all the good feelings. It expands life. Unless you move past it, you're locked into the bottom tier emotions.

@andysvibe I used to walk around with clogged mental piping. Thank God I made it a priority to get un-clogged.

Life improves dramatically when you think in your favor. You can truly manifest anything you want when you get your thoughts right.

@fortelabs the cure for the condition of being uninteresting, is Retardmaxxing - see the work of @ElishaDLong

I think the main thing AI has taught me, through all the time savings it brings, is that I’m not a very interesting person Faced with a surplus of free time, I realize I don’t really have hobbies besides content consumption I’m forced to conclude that I don’t have very deep friendships, and am not a core member of any particular community I’m not very cultured, I’m finding, and don’t have abiding interests in art or literature or history or much that isn’t directly related to my work I have a work-centric life, in other words. AI pulls back the curtain on just how impoverished such an existence is, by disabusing me of its necessity Given the freedom I’ve always said I wanted, I’m at a loss as to what to do with it, except plow myself even harder into work, thus exacerbating the lesson There’s nothing more confronting to humans than freedom

People don't struggle to find the right directions in life, they are just afraid of exploring paths that are deemed "a waste of time" by most people, where the best life scenarios are actually hidden.

@SebaTheOracle @Freyy_is It is not an insult, it would serve as a way to distinguish your writing from that of AI, if that is a problem that you are having. See the work of @ElishaDLong

@JeffChanX @Freyy_is I love this. Do you really wanna just sling insults? Cause I’m all about it, bro.

the em dash is no longer the clearest sign of ai-generated writing. honestly? it’s this.

@SebaTheOracle @Freyy_is You might want to start applying the principles of retardmaxxing to your writing. 😆

I am a published author and used its not x but y and — and now I don’t know what to do with my life. I even had to make a deal with my editor on how many dashes I could use per paragraph. It’s not x but y is so a superb writing skill. There’s a reason AI uses these—bc it’s actually pretty good at writing. That said, the tell of all tell is that about every 3 paragraphs it says “The distinction matters.” All the models do it and I can’t stand it.

⚡️The American economy has quietly split into two economies. One economy belongs to people who already crossed the bridge. They own homes. They locked in low-rate debt. They have equity. They have retirement accounts. They benefited from asset inflation. They can borrow against collateral. They can wait out bad markets. They can downsize, refinance later, rent out property, gift down payments, help children, or simply sit still while their balance sheet compounds. The other economy belongs to people trying to cross the bridge now. They face high rent, high mortgage rates, high tuition, high insurance, high utilities, high food costs, weaker entry-level hiring, AI pressure, and a credential system that still demands payment while delivering less certainty. They are told to work harder while the price of entry keeps moving away from them. That is the insider-outsider asset regime. The insider owns claims on the system. The outsider pays tolls to the system. Rent is a toll. Student debt is a toll. Insurance is a toll. Utilities are a toll. High mortgage rates are a toll. Delayed ownership is a toll. Credential inflation is a toll. Childcare is a toll. Every one of those payments transfers time and income away from the entrant before they can build capital. A young person today is not competing against the same ladder. They are competing against inflated asset prices, incumbents with locked-in debt, older households with equity cushions, institutional landlords, zoning restrictions, fiscal deficits, higher long-end yields, and a labor market that increasingly wants experience before offering the first serious job. The old system converted work into ownership. The new system converts work into servicing costs. That is the break. A person can make decent money and still not feel like they are moving because the fixed-cost wall eats the surplus before compounding begins. Rent eats the down payment. Student loans eat the savings rate. Insurance eats the raise. Utilities eat the budget cushion. High mortgage rates destroy purchasing power. AI weakens the entry-level career ladder. Time passes, and the compounding window narrows. This is the quiet violence of the regime: it does not always make people poor in a visible way. It makes them unable to become owners. That is why the economy can look fine from the asset side and broken from the entry side. Stocks up. Home prices stable. Luxury travel strong. High-income spending fine. But beneath that, the first-job market weakens, first-home affordability collapses, family formation gets delayed, and younger households become renters of everything. Deepest compression: The system now rewards arrival more than effort. Getting inside early creates protection. Arriving late creates extraction. That is the structural fracture behind the generational anger.

i always operate under the assumption that things are easy until proven otherwise. mostly cuz the people loudly insisting things are hard are usually selling difficulty (consultants, gatekeepers, or incumbents who benefit from the moat narrative). also starting from easy means you actually attempt things. the cost of a false easy is often an afternoon now esp with ai whereas the cost of a false hard you never try at all. e.g. this is how i got into woodworking & hard edge painting, among many other things.

The game truly comes down to who loves themselves the most. This is all manifestation is. Have something to offer, put yourself out there, and just be ok with however the side characters choose to perceive you One player gets laughed at and exits the arena immediately. Another player makes it to the three month mark but a last second rejection ends up being too much to emotionally handle. Every day the risk of embarrassment takes another prisoner Don't have to be the best and oftentimes don't even need to do anything outwardly impressive. Just have to see yourself in a genuinely positive light and allow the world to mirror that self perception back to you. Radiate abundance through your thoughts and physically attract it back in kind. Last one standing always wins by default

@MettaMatta @su_dreams That's what she looks like. Coool. 😆

@su_dreams Yay! Lots of courage. Congrats! I just started doing more video and it’s disorienting but super exhilarating

My first ever social media video post! Uncomfortable and rambly but hoping to get used to it 😀

@danwestworld I'm interested - @JeffChanX

I helped a coach go from $0 to a $47k month this guy now: - works 3-5hr/day - closes dream clients - gets paid to be himself How? We “Productised him” I made a 21-page doc breaking down EXACTLY what we did Want it for free? - follow me - comment your name & I'll DM

🚨🇷🇺You’ve got to see this - an Orthodox Christian prayer won a Russian talent show. "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us sinners" Just listen to them and you will fill him, you will feel God! Christ is King!

Good News: After 20 years of declining numbers, indie booksellers have come "roaring back." There are about 70% more bookstores now than there were in 2020. The American Booksellers Association membership has grown from 1,900 to 3,200.

You need to be compassion-maxing, becoming a judgement-minimalist, & exercising expert discernment so you can properly help others alleviate their burdens and augment their strengths Their are latent talents to be multiplied, life to be lived more abundantly, and we must play our part in it

If you're in your 20s, the smartest thing you can do to secure your future is create a personal brand. Getting a degree no longer secures anything. We have no idea what jobs, finance, or tech will look like in 10 years. Our parents' generation can't properly advise us because the future we're moving into is so different from the world they grew up in. In an uncertain world, the only asset that can't be outsourced, automated, or taken from you is you. Your character traits and skills will be yours for life. Your network of other builders and creators at the edge of work are the most valuable connections to have. Your unique story and expertise are your greatest sources of value. The only thing to actually fall back on is yourself. The best thing you can do to secure your future is to become anti-fragile, self-sovereign, well-connected, uniquely yourself, and irreplaceable. Your future self will thank you for putting yourself in the online arena now, accumulating invaluable skills, and acquiring specific knowledge — because it's inevitable that everything we once knew is shifting to automation and AI, and everything we are going to know will shift to decentralization and the creator economy.

Do the opposite of the average person, and you'll be successful: Stop following rage-baiters. Don't get mixed up in politics. Be kind to everyone. Be optimistic. Do insanely good work always. Eat well, sleep well, and train hard. Great lives are remarkably simple.

"This is the kingliness of Friendship." — C.S. Lewis

When you stop performing, you stop leaking energy. All that cognitive load you were spending on "how does this make me look?" just returns to you. And you can use it for literally anything else. Making things. Learning things. Enjoying things.

@QuoteSunTzu Power vs Force by David Hawkins

It hits different in the age of AI everything. You can't outsource the feeling of a great workout. You can't automate the satisfaction of crafting something with your hands. You can't delegate the joy of learning something new.