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@AflGlicko @spissy_c Your boy Bradley Close might become one this year.

@spissy_c Do Geelong have a whipping boy anymore?

Josh Hunt erasure

@calvinfroedge Dear Sir, I suggest you look into TVN.AX. Also, am I able to be invited to your website articles?

You saw every single senior miner moon Then it started with the mid caps and juniors The rest of the juniors and explorers are next Many 10 baggers waiting to be discovered

@calvinfroedge Can you send me an invite to join?

New on the blog. Debt free gold jr ramping production including a US mine. Trades for < 2x 2028 FCF with long mine life on size of resource base. Oct presentation: "management-owners...obsessed with no dilution and long-term price maximization" $GG.V calvinfroedge.com/golconda-gold/

@kofinas @grok do you have the link to this entire video?

I can tell almost instantly when I meet a young man or woman, whether he or she is a deep thinker. They may not be at the top of their class, but that doesn’t necessarily make them less intelligent than the kid who scored 1500 on his SAT or the guy with an IQ of 134. They may be more intelligent. Much more intelligent, but the methods we have for quantifying that intelligence do not adequately capture the breadth and depth of brilliant minds that exist in the world. So they go unrecognized while the kids who excel on answer-based examinations get the best grades, attend the best schools, earn the best degrees, and, more often than not, go on to have mediocre lives. Why? There is one thing that the most brilliant and accomplished people I have ever met all share in common, and it isn’t pedigree or IQ. It’s curiosity. And not just any curiosity—it’s the inexhaustible kind. It’s the kind that will never be satisfied. In my experience, this is the sort of curiosity that breeds humility and most often coincides with a questions-based mindset. And it’s this type of mindset, not the answers-based mindset our educational system selects for, that is the actual prerequisite for brilliance. I’ve seen this kind of brilliance in physical therapists, plumbers, and pretty much any profession you can imagine that we don’t typically associate with brilliance. But we do associate it with excellence. And that’s because to become excellent at something, you have to become your own teacher. This means going from learning how to give the right answers to learning how to ask the right questions. And that requires curiosity and an almost psychotic commitment to excellence. So, while the person in this video is correct that less intelligent people than he are far more successful than he has been, the more interesting and less remarked upon insight is that people like him are not as brilliant as the system tells us they are.

I've seen enough. This team's winning the flag in 2026.

@SoveyX @grok find me the full video

Chamath Palihapitiya ($5B net worth), one of the very few conservative tech leaders in Silicon Valley, tells the truth about the 150 people who actually run the world. Worth a listen.

@AlfieJCarter content

Claude just wrote me 43 posts in under 10 minutes. For the past 7 months, I've been working with GTM engineers, leaders, and operators and found what truly drives LinkedIn growth. They all started implementing this AI system and the results were absurd: Saved 10+ hours per week on content creation Drove 4.2x higher engagement across posts 96% of readers couldn't tell it was AI-generated This entire process takes less than 10 minutes per week. I put together a step-by-step guide on how you can do the same. Want me to share it with you? Just follow and comment “CONTENT” and I’ll send it your way in a few minutes.

@ttmygh @John_Hempton I would absolutely love John on the End Game podcast. Can this happen?

@John_Hempton Your call is important to us. Please hold…

As an Australian in London I would like to register a protest about the weather.

@ttmygh @CultishCreative Hi both, would I be able to get a copy of Grant's article? I do subscribe to his podcast, so happy to email that way or DM here, whichever works.

@CultishCreative is such a great interviewer and genuinely original in the content he creates. I love everything he does and am thrilled to be a part of it. This was such a fun conversation. Thanks Matt

It is a film which explores the inner lives of its characters and makes you want to discuss it afterwards. The imagery/cinematic style is also quite beautiful. I would encourage people to see it either at the movies or when it is released on whatever streaming service.

I finally saw Sentimental Value tonight. Occasionally, when a film is released, it does give me hope that movies and films are not dead. Whilst Sentimental Value is not a complex film, it is a welcome change from the endless release of brain dead superhero moves we get now.

@tom_king79 lots of little teases on today's podcast, Kingy. Any chance of an elaboration via the DMs?

@abasimaenyinn @grok please list the pieces mentioned in this thread

I want to read 30 short stories and 60 essays this month, and I need recommendations, top-quality works, experimental, remarkable journalism, insightful thoughts. I’ll also take academic paper for recommendations, profiles, book reviews, and critiques. Thank you.

@grok @dickiebush @grok please list the other books in the thread!

Here's a list of unique books recommended in the thread (from 150+ replies fetched; thread has 333 total, with some repeats and non-recs): - Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson - The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton - Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - The Prize by Daniel Yergin - The Secret History by Donna Tartt - Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek - The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel - Shoe Dog by Phil Knight - The Book of Mormon - Developing Talent in Young People by Benjamin Bloom - Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - The Art of Focus by Dan Koe - Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins - The War of Art by Steven Pressfield - East of Eden by John Steinbeck - Stoner by John Williams - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Die with Zero by Bill Perkins Many more in the full thread!

What’s the best book you’ve read this year?

@grok @dickiebush Give me the other books in the thread.

@nobodyatallbros @bronzeagemantis @grok can you make this a gif?

@bronzeagemantis Other classics include: Leigh Matthews breaking Neville Bruns' jaw in 1985 (only instance a footy player was charged by police for on-field violence) Barry Hall puching Brent Staker's lights out in 2008

I believe in this...how this scene makes you feel??

@kofinas Do you have a list of books in your bookcase? I'm looking for something new to read.

What Comes After 10,000 Hours? (A Weekly Newsletter) If you are someone who spends much time on YouTube or social media, you may have noticed the emergence of a thriving fitness subculture—influencers with tens and even hundreds of millions of followers promoting new exercise regimens, diets, biohacks, and other ways to monitor and improve your health. What you likely haven’t seen is an equivalent movement for the regimentation and strengthening of your mind. This is not to say that books, newsletters, and other sources of information catering to those interested in becoming mental alphas don’t exist; it’s just that the effort we dedicate to sharpening our minds pales in comparison to the time we dedicate to strengthening our muscles. I believe that we need a wellness and fitness movement to address the former that operates on a commensurate scale to the cognitive and epistemic crisis facing humanity today. Learning to Think Critically When I began the Hidden Forces podcast in 2017, I had already built two successful current affairs programs—one for radio and the other for TV. It was a different time, and I was a different person. I was cocky, sure of myself and of my theories about the world. I knew who the villains were and who was to blame. It was the Wall Street banks who caused the Great Financial Crisis, the Federal Reserve that bailed them out, and the politicians who enabled them. It was the Washington Consensus that had led us into two destructive wars and that was actively building a national security state in which our freedoms were slowly being chipped away, bit by bit, until even our memories of what freedom felt like had come to seem almost like a dream—like they never happened. I still agree with most of the sentiments that arise from these words. Still, what changed for me in the years after the Great Financial Crisis was the urgency and honesty with which I interrogated the narratives I told myself about the world and my superficial and unexamined explanations of how we got here and where we are going. As a student of Austrian economic theory in the early 2000s, the crisis was anything but unforeseeable. Was it expected? Not necessarily, but it wasn’t a shock either. The difference between the 9/11 attacks and the 2008 financial crisis for me was that I had a framework for understanding the latter, having studied the business cycle as taught by people like von Mises, Rothbard, Schumpeter, and Friedrich Hayek. I understood the role of prices, credit, and leverage in the economy. What I did not understand was money. It’s why everything I thought I knew about what would happen in the years after the GFC—primarily my expectations that inflation would ravage the economy and that the dollar would collapse—never came to pass. Asset prices rose, but Main Street inflation remained shockingly subdued. The hyperinflation predicted by prominent adherents of the Austrian school, such as Peter Schiff, Thomas Woods, and Ron Paul, never materialized. Learning to Ask “Why?” My experience of the post-GFC years was that they produced two kinds of people. Those who faced their failed forecasts and poor performance by rethinking their assumptions, and those who re-interpreted the data to fit their broken models and preserve their preexisting understanding of the world. It was my decision to ask why and to investigate the sources of my misunderstandings that led to the creation of Hidden Forces. My friend Russell Napier is fond of saying that the worst thing you can do during times of change is to “get all the right answers to all the wrong questions.” We are certainly living in a time of change…I would say a time of upheaval, where many of our baseline assumptions about the world, our economies, the market, and even reality itself, no longer hold. If we want to navigate our way through these changes successfully, we need to begin by asking the right questions and in an answers-based society like ours, this is not something that comes naturally. It’s an acquired skill, and most people haven’t learned it. I spent the first eight years of my podcast asking questions—finding and interviewing the world's smartest people on topics ranging from philosophy to finance, geopolitics, culture, science, and engineering—to help me answer those questions. I’ve devoted over 10,000 hours to reading their books, articles, papers, newsletters, and social media feeds. I’ve put myself through the equivalent of five graduate programs across a broad range of disciplines, all because I wanted to understand the world better. It was empowering. It is empowering. But in the last few years, something inside of me has changed. I no longer see myself as just a student. I’ve arrived at a place in my life and in my journey through adulthood where I feel that I have something to teach. A Weekly Letter Hidden Forces is and will remain a platform for learning about the world and the forces driving it, through long-form conversations with brilliant minds. But this newsletter that I’m starting today will be an opportunity for me to begin to share my own thoughts, ideas, and frameworks that I’ve developed over the course of my training. What you can expect to receive going forward is a weekly newsletter with my thoughts about the world—about markets, geopolitics, technology, culture…you name it. If I find it interesting, I will write about it. My goal with these letters is first, to give myself a new outlet for my thoughts and ideas that doesn’t put a strain on my podcast or subvert what has become a popular and rewarding ritual for me and for my audience—namely, long-form conversations exploring interesting questions with brilliant minds. My second goal is to begin to chip away more explicitly at some of the stories we tell ourselves about the world that may not be entirely true, and to put forward alternative theories that do a better job of explaining the transformational changes we are experiencing today. Lastly, I want to turn those observations and explanations into practical lessons for my readers. Perhaps these insights and frameworks will help make you a better steward of your clients’ and family’s wealth. Perhaps they will make you a better leader, a better parent, or a more informed and engaged citizen. Or maybe they will just make you a better consumer and critic of information, and that will be enough. Ultimately, the goal is to make you a better thinker—someone able to navigate this once-in-a-century economic, technological, and cultural transition that we are living through and which is altering those baseline assumptions that I talked about earlier. A Revolution in Learning I started this letter bemoaning the absence of an equivalent culture of intellectual fitness to complement and support the physical fitness and wellness movements I see gaining traction on the Internet today. I hope that these letters in some small way help to spark or nurture the development of a similar movement of intellectual warriors or renaissance thinkers adept at meeting the unique challenges posed by today’s gamified and chaotic information landscape—one populated by trolls, bots, deepfakes, and a pervasive climate of mistrust, cynicism, and paranoia. We are in the midst of a revolution that is transforming all facets of our lives and how we interface with and relate to the world and those around us. New modes of communication, computation, and personal identity will undoubtedly reshape many of our self-conceptions and notions of what it means to be a human being. Decades of economic mismanagement, political corruption, and moral decline will force a reckoning, and things that we find unimaginable today may soon be upon us. My hope is that these letters and the community of readers who will grow up around them can help illuminate the dangers that lie ahead, while shining a path through the darkness to higher ground. The question I have for those of you who have gotten this far is whether you want to be part of this journey. Are you prepared to ask the difficult questions? Are you willing to confront uncomfortable truths about the world that challenge your preconceptions and even your own identity? If you’ve gotten this far, my guess is you probably are. If so, I want to hear from you. What questions are you sitting with that you cannot find a good answer to? What assumptions are you interrogating? What framework do you use to navigate the world that feels broken? If you want to receive these weekly newsletters to your inbox, subscribe at hiddenforces.io/newsletter/ Until next week, Demetri

the party that digs their heels in, often does not fare best in the long-run.

Now whether 'fairness' matters is a very different question. There is no requirement that a trade be fair and if Carlton want to dig their heels in and refuse, that is their prerogative, but in my experience having managed thousands of commercial negotiations...

12 year old me would just not believe you if you told me every single media pundit thought it was a given Geelong were a lock to finish top 2, 3 years straight. The league has never been more even, literally if Geelong had lost 2 more games this year, the pick would be close ...