Pascal Wagner

@justmazer lol I laughed when I saw this. I’m in the same boat (wedding in October). I’ve been trying on this $10 silicon ring from Amazon. Not really interested in anything else.

my fiancee was frustrated I don't have a plan for my wedding ring (wedding is in july)... I thought about it, and excitedly told her I had decided I wanted an oura ring. turns out my proposed solution did not improve the situation

@TricklerHQ @40yardhammer @paulg 1000%

@40yardhammer @paulg 100%! It's possible to disagree with ICE tactics while also believing many Judges are making ideological interpretations. Polemicism 101.

Thank God for the judicial branch. Remember all that stuff in elementary school about the separation of powers? It used to seem so boring. But now we've got an administration so bad that it actually matters.

This is sick... I used the prompt and it generated my screenshot. It analyzed my code based and built it within a few minutes. VERY Helpful. @DaveJ you are now a legend in my book. Thank you for sharing!

Ask Claude to document and describe the main flows in your app and output in a single page html + json data file. Incredibly useful for humans and the JSON file is very useful for explaining the flow to the LLM when working on new features/bugfixes.

@DaveJ This is sick... I used the prompt and it generated my screenshot. It analyzed my code based and built it within a few minutes. VERY Helpful. @DaveJ you are now a legend in my book. Thank you for sharing!

@DaveJ I needed this - I’m going to try it out and report back!

I checked it out because I downloaded your skill and it was genuinely one of the better ones I’ve seen. My biggest piece of feedback would just be clarity. I’d love to see: * what problem it solves, * who it’s for, * and 2–3 concrete examples of how someone would use it. I looked at the link you posted, and I couldn’t figure it out. And I’m interested in protecting myself better. She’s clearly talented — now it’s just about making the value obvious to the outside world.

My fiancé doesn't like to promote herself but she's been working on Skills for cybersecurity 🥷 She worked for JPMorgan Chase for 8 years and knows a ton about cyber. Can we show her some love? 🙏 (all feedback/suggestions are welcome!) github.com/briiirussell/c…

The entire world is watching oil. Not metaphorically. Google search interest for "price of oil" just hit the highest level on record — going back to 2004. → +300% above the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war peak → +300% above the 2008 financial crisis → +235% above the 2020 pandemic (when oil briefly went negative) 1) Either this is the greatest setup of the decade. 2) Or we're going to see the biggest oil shock in our lifetimes. I genuinely don't know which one. What's your read? —— (Chart via @KobeissiLetter on X — if you're not following them, you should be. They're one of the only accounts posting this kind of data consistently.)

Alternative investments aren't a starter tool. They're for people who already have their cash cow. And there's a reason for that. —— Nobody wakes up at 27 and says "I want to allocate to private credit." If you're early in your career, the math doesn't work. The minimums are too high relative to your liquid net worth. The illiquidity makes a 7-year lock-up feel like forever. And the returns — even great ones — won't change your life the way one good career move will. —— If you want to own real estate, buy a duplex. If you want to build wealth, build your career or your business. Don't try to be a passive investor before you've earned the position to be one. —— There's another reason I push people away from this space until they're ready. There are a lot of ways to get wrecked here. Sponsors who look polished and disappear with the capital. Deals that pencil beautifully until they don't. Operators who've never lived through a real down cycle. —— The opacity that protects insiders is the same opacity that lets bad deals look reasonable until they aren't. You need real exposure before you can tell good from glossy. Twenty offering documents. Dozens of conversations. Scar tissue you didn't pay full price for. That takes time. Don't skip it. —— The wealthy investors I work with skipped none of that. They earned the position to be passive. And they use these deals for exactly one of three reasons. —— 1. Tax reduction. The number one reason I see business owners and high earners invest in alternative deals — usually commercial real estate — is depreciation. They invest passively with operators who do the actual work. The paper losses offset their active income. If your business is structured correctly, this is one of the only legal ways to materially reduce a six-figure tax bill. —— 2. Replacing active income before retirement. The closer you get to stepping back from earning, the more you need consistent monthly income that doesn't require you to show up. Commercial real estate distributions, private credit, and operator-backed deals are the most reliable cash flow vehicles I've seen for this. The yield matters less than the consistency. —— 3. Diversifying away from concentrated stock positions. Once your brokerage account moves $200K in a single afternoon, you're not investing anymore. You're emotionally riding a wave. Alternative investments don't move with the stock market — and that decoupling is the actual point. You're not chasing higher returns. You're buying volatility insurance for a portfolio that got too big to sit in one place. —— If you're not solving for one of those three, you probably don't need to be in alternative investments at all. —— These deals are a tool. Not an identity. Pick the job first. Earn the education second. The deal is what you find afterward.

I asked 5 investors what their money was doing for them. None of them could answer in one sentence. One said "growing." Another said "a little bit of everything." A third pulled up a spreadsheet with 14 tabs and still couldn't explain what outcome he was building toward. These weren't beginners. They had $200K–$500K deployed across multiple deals. They just never decided what their money was supposed to do. Here's what they had in common: 1️⃣ Chasing returns instead of a role Every deal they looked at, they asked "what's the return?" That's the wrong first question. The right one is: "What job am I hiring this money to do?" —— 2️⃣ Not knowing money only has three jobs Your capital can grow equity, produce cash flow, or reduce your taxes. That's it. Every deal you'll ever see is doing one of those three things. —— 3️⃣ Not knowing what a deal is built to do Every investment touches all three levers — equity, cash flow, and taxes. But each one has a primary structure. That's what it's designed around. If you don't know what YOUR primary need is, you can't tell if the deal is built to serve it. And you can never tell if it's working — because you never defined what "working" means for you. —— Pick the one job that matches where you are right now. Your income, your timeline, your tax situation. That single decision eliminates 70% of the deals you'll waste time evaluating. The other 30% become dramatically easier to say yes or no to. Your money doesn't need more options. It needs one clear assignment. If you want help picking yours, the link on my profile will walk you through it.

@TaylorPearsonMe Love this rec @TaylorPearsonMe - I’ll give it a shot!

I think the top tip I've picked up since I started using Claude Code: write a CLAUDE [dot] md at every level of your file structure and be intelligent about how you nest folders. Claude Code automatically loads the Claudemd file from every directory level above whatever file you're working on. So if you organize it intelligently, it always has the right context at the right time. Say you're running a business and doing some marketing work. You might have: - A general CLAUDEmd on your computer — how you like Claude to work, voice, tools you have wired up - A vault CLAUDEmd — how your files are organized - A folder for your business with a CLAUDEmd — what the business does, who the clients are, how you price, etc. - A folder for marketing inside the business with a CLAUDEmd — channels you run, what's working, brand voice, etc. - The specific marketing project with its own CLAUDEmd When you open anything in the marketing project folder, Claude Code walks up the tree and pulls all five into context automatically. Global → vault → business → marketing → project. That means the very first message in a chat about that marketing project is going to be like talking to someone that knows you, your business, your marketing history, etc. You need to keep the CLAUDEmd at each level current for this to work I have a "wrap" skill that I run at the end of every chat session. It updates the relevant CLAUDEmd(s) and makes a more detailed entry into a workbench file for whatever I was working on. So if I make a decision about a project or learn something about a client, that context lives in the right file by the time I close the session. Next time I come back, Claude already has it. Starter repo for this kind of setup: github.com/heyitsnoah/cla… I built a little mini-extension for the workbench structure I use: github.com/ParrotDiceFoun…

Here's the plan tool: dealflow.growyourcashflow.io Takes about 10 minutes. You answer questions about your income goal, capital, tax situation, and timeline — and it builds a personalized roadmap that tells you exactly what to target before you ever look at a single deal.

I watched an investor sit on $200K for 8 months earning 4%. He wasn't lazy. He'd been "looking at deals" the entire time. He'd scroll through pitch decks at night. He'd sit through webinars on his lunch break. He'd ask friends what they were investing in. He had plenty of opportunities in front of him. He had no framework for knowing which ones were right for him. Here's what I've watched happen over and over: Nobody ever asked him the one question that actually matters. "What does MY path to $10K/month actually look like?" Not a generic "invest in real estate" plan. A plan built around his specific situation: → His income goal and timeline → His deployable capital → His tax situation → His honest risk tolerance A deal that's perfect for someone with $500K and a 3-year horizon is terrible for someone with $50K and a 10-year runway. Same deal. Completely different answer. 8 months of scrolling, comparing, second-guessing. 8 months of feeling like he should be doing something — and not knowing what. 8 months of watching other people deploy while he sat on the sideline with $200K ready to go. That's the real cost. Not the returns he missed. The confidence he never built. Because he never had a plan that would have told him which deal to pick. Once he did, 80% of the deals he'd been agonizing over became obvious "no"s. He deployed $150K in six weeks. The deal was never the decision. The plan was. I built a personalized investment plan tool inside my new dealflow app for exactly this reason. Check it out using the link in the comments.

@JeffScottDev Right? Their status page is completely useless. I need to search @X using @grok to see if other users are experiencing the same thing.

Good news everyone, Claude Code isn't down the status site says it's up! This is just a figment of your imagination: "API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server error"},"request_id":"req_XXX"} · check status.claude.com " status.claude.com

Today is tax day. Not everyone's writing the same size check. I've been in calls this week with people I've worked with over the past year. One of them is a business owner — earns passive income from multiple company locations. He put money into three private real estate deals in Q3 and Q4 of 2025, specifically because they were structured around bonus depreciation. His cost segregation studies ran. The paper losses offset his passive income dollar for dollar. He offset over $150,000 in income. Legally. At his marginal rate, that's north of $55,000 he didn't write today. I've also spoken this week with investors who knew about this strategy but couldn't use it. Some have W-2 income — the tax code doesn't let them use real estate losses against their salary. It's not a loophole. It's a structure question. The investors who can take advantage of bonus depreciation are specific: Sometimes it's a business owner earning passive income from their company. Sometimes it's someone running short-term rentals who's materially involved in operations. Sometimes it's an oil and gas investor holding a working interest directly. Trump's tax legislation restored 100% first-year depreciation in 2025. The investors who had the right structure AND found the right deals in Q3 and Q4? Their check today is different. The ones who had the structure but couldn't find the operators fast enough? Same income. Same marginal rate. Same check as always. That gap — between knowing a strategy applies to you and finding the deals that execute it — is exactly what I built my dealflow platform to close. I'm adding depreciation-specific filtering now. If today stings and you have the right structure — this is the right moment to start. The window opens January 1st. Link to the platform in the comments.

Hey @claudeai - in my mind, both of these screenshots should not be possible at the same time. It looks like the service is down... Not operational as the website claims.

@Sirius420Nova @nikitabier You can’t be serious. He has receipts.

You lost credibility the moment you cited Nick Shirley. There’s real fraud out there, sure. But he jumps from “this looks weird” to “this is massive fraud” with zero proof. Even state investigations have already contradicted some of his biggest claims. Suspicious doesn’t equal fraudulent, and filming empty offices isn’t evidence. It’s content.

For this creator payout cycle, we’re experimenting with new tools to identify original authors of content and allocating a portion of revenue to them. Over the last few months, we've seen incredible work from original creators on X. Nick Shirley uncovered billions of dollars of fraud in hospice care. Charles Curran parodied global events with studio-quality videos. Will Manidis earned acclaim for his insightful articles on technology and AI. Reposts & commentary will always be a core pillar of X, but our Revenue Sharing program should incentivize original, high-quality content that brings new value to the Timeline. This means rewarding the effort it takes to produce something, not just the poster who helped it travel furthest. This is how we build a richer Timeline and how X continues to be the most valuable platform in the world. The Revenue Sharing program will continue to evolve to encourage creators to post their best content to X.

I think this has gone a little too far…

This is not peaceful protesting. All of these people should be taken into custody and put into jail for at least a year.

@DaveShapi @nikitabier This please.

@nikitabier Mostly I just want to abolish all the crypto shills

Every time we do a user survey. What would make X better for you? Normal Person: > Maybe a podcast feature? Guy who reposted 370 videos from TikTok using Scheduled Posts, has never opened the app, and has a bot writing replies: > *Foaming from mouth* > Gib…more…money….