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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him. - Confucius

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. -Rumi

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. -Benjamin Franklin

"Never feed a horse you don't ride" - Russian Proverb

What punishments of God are not gifts? It's a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering. - Stephen Colbert

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?" - John Keats

@Codie_Sanchez That's exactly what I'm building keolabs.ai

One of the most overlooked AI opportunities in the next 24 months is voice agents for boring businesses. Every HVAC, plumbing, and pest control company in America is sending calls to voicemail after 5pm. One AI voice agent fixes it overnight. Most owners have never even heard of this technology, yet alone know how to implement it. The person who packages this up and sells it to 500 of them is going to be very rich...very quietly.

Only dead fish follow the stream.

Don't quit now, quit tomorrow.

"The only effective solution against evil and violent people, are good people more skilled in violence." - Bushido (Japanese Code)

If I didn't have haters, I would be a nobody.

Lean is law.

The cure for pain is in the pain. -Rumi

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions. - Eliud Kipchoge

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

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The bigger the goal, the bigger the sacrifice.

Demand from your body and you shall receive

Same goes for wearing mouthpieces in jiu-jitsu

You may need your sword only once in your life, but you must always carry it. -Japanese proverb

Amor fati Love your fate - Nietzsche