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@ontologician @somewheresy Genuinely skill issue

@somewheresy great guide to becoming burnt out and miserable as fast as possible

Do not, under any circumstances, move back to your hometown. Go to the largest city with the largest market for the thing you want to do and only leave once you’ve succeeded. You can make your 20s harder to have an easier 30s and 40s

@Fantasy14472099 @aviboman6 @cosmorxn @okaythenfuture No he’s right, the chinamaxxing meme has been hot all year now. It’s extremely popular among young ppl (gen alpha and gen z, some younger milennials) so you might not have noticed. I’d say it originated when Speed visited China - that was the single greatest PR move in history

@aviboman6 @cosmorxn @okaythenfuture No they arnt hahah fuckin idiot

Your kids are going to grow up in a world where China will be their model society in terms of technology, commerce, culture, and even governance. They will idolize and idealize the place as a fantasy wonderland and society. They will want to study there, visit there, and even move there(sadly for them, most aren't getting in.) You see how crazy the Japan simping is right now? 40 years past Japan's economic peak? The China simping will be 10X that level by 2040. Because China has won the end of history.

@IterIntellectus Disagree. It’s actually mid-IQ men who think they’re high IQ and “misunderstood” who struggle the most. Aka all the morons in this thread who are angry about your post 😂

high-IQ men don't struggle with dating low-IQ men who think they have high IQ, on the other hand...

@lianda_edu I gamed the DEI system to get in. Apart from a perfect SAT, I did nothing noteworthy in HS. Obviously I don’t actually fit the DEI categories. But I applied during the “claim you’re LGBTQ++ for free points” era. And that degree has opened so many doors since 💪

I don’t think students from MIT, Harvard, or Stanford are necessarily much smarter than me (except for those who came through IMO and other major math competitions). Nor do I believe they were born inherently superior. In many cases, they simply won the “ovarian lottery” that Warren Buffett talked about. Most of them are products of heavy packaging by their families and institutions. After all, there’s a huge element of packaging involved in undergraduate admissions. Especially at Stanford — their “fake it until you make it” culture has led many students to habitually exaggerate or fabricate things just to inflate their own value.

@ksadras @Thazhigilla_ There ARE many doctors who pivoted to tech lmao. Try traveling a bit and you'll see plenty of restaurants opened by people not of that nationality, with nowhere near as much training. It can be done. Btw this discussion's over.

@SoraUnchained @Thazhigilla_ There’s a reason why restaurants are French, Italian & Indian, you moron! And if you were right you will see 1000’s of doctors doing tech business.

A medical doctor can wake up, get tired of the ward, buy a Macbook, and pivot into tech. A doctor can buy a ring light and become a content creator or filmmaker. But a Senior Software Engineer cannot wake up, buy a stethoscope, and decide to pivot into the operating theater. There is a hierarchy to this pivot game.

@David_Charts2 @SenWarren It’s easy to blame the rich for being rich. Do you have the courage to blame the poor for being poor?

@SenWarren Top 10% have $118 trillion. Bottom 50% have $4 trillion. Tax the rich.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@TroyVanmaanen @JamesonCamp Misunderstanding the true point of the Ivy League. It’s not about learning, it’s to be around “better” people

@JamesonCamp Traditional school will be thought of less than. Kids that are homeschooled and build with AI will be the new Ivey leagues.

Bets I'd put $1M behind right now. Most people disagree with at least half: › The specialist era is over. Generalists with taste win from here. Entire generations were raised wrong. › The loneliest generation in history is about to overcorrect hard. IRL events explode. › AI slop floods everything. People start paying a premium for proof something is real. › Reality TV has a massive renaissance. Only content you can't fake with a prompt. › Creators matter more not less. In an AI world your resume is worthless. The only thing that matters is what you've actually built and whether people trust you. › 4-person teams start producing what 400-person companies used to. Boring businesses get automated first and fastest. › Everyone predicting the death of enterprise software doesn't understand moats. Salesforce isn't going anywhere. Neither is Workday. › Local models catch up to cloud models the same way 5G caught up to broadband. For 95% of what you do you won't be able to tell the difference. › When that happens the $200/month AI subscription dies. Models run on your device. No data leaves your machine. No subscription. OpenAI's business model has a clock on it. › Every investor is obsessed with the AI software layer. That's the wrong layer. The money moves to hardware, chips, and energy. Nuclear. › When labor gets commoditized the only scarce resource left is energy. Be long anything that produces it. › Peptides go way beyond GLP-1s. Individualized protocols for sleep, recovery, cognition become the new baseline for anyone serious about performance. › AI-enabled drug discovery doesn't just find new drugs. It finds disease-modifying treatments. The kind that change how long humans live. › Someone alive today reaches 150. I actually believe that. › I believe in the Fourth Turning. The world gets scarier before it gets better. Be long defense tech. › Bitcoin becomes the payment layer for AI agents. Autonomous systems need autonomous money. Crypto finally gets a use case that isn't speculation. Missing anything?

@ksadras @Thazhigilla_ I actually do have 10k in multiple fields, and it doesn’t work the way you’re describing. The quality of those hours matters far more. And the field matters too. Gamers easily hit 10k, who cares? Likewise, no one cares that a software dev has 10k hours. They do for a surgeon.

You are probably too young to know what a 10k hours of effort is. See when you study a 4 year degree and then work for about 8 years, then you would have out about 10000 hours of effort in total. Once you put 10k hours then that lays the foundation for a profession for the next 10 to 15 years. Simply because you have a doctors degree doesn’t qualify you to be a good engineer!!!

@varunram We need to push this further. Still so many jobs that should be automated. To a brighter future ☀️

The more you scroll back in history, the more jobs you'll find that people have simply forgotten about because of mass industrialization And soon, because of AI, it'll be funny to think humans spent 8 hours of their life sitting at a computer typing code or doing something on a physical keyboard The exponential of progress must go on

@mil000 Don’t underestimate the power of will. Yes the founders are going to be convicted and sent to prison. That’s obvious. But this will give them time to form a new startup

I don’t think people understand how rare it is for this to happen. They are just not going to survive

@nosilverv Tattoos are a strong signal of low-IQ, dysfunction, or both. There are of course exceptions. And to all the tattoo lovers, be very honest with yourselves if you’re actually an exception

Friend recently telling me tattoos are just the latest elite differentiator rugpull: look at Pete Davidson removing all of his 200 tattoos — he can afford it. The poor people who tried to mimic him cannot.

@karunkaushik_ The point of prison is to 1. Prevent you from doing further harm 2. Rehabilitate you 3. Reintroduce you to society While it’s clear that you and her are going to be convicted to serving time behind bars, take this opportunity to make your next company actually compliant 💯

There’s been a lot of allegations against Delve. But we haven’t been able to share our side of the story until today due to ongoing cybersecurity and forensics investigations. Maintaining customer trust is central to everything we do. That said, we grew too fast and fell short of our own standard. To our customers, we deeply apologize for the inconveniences caused. We take these allegations seriously and have made changes: a new auditor network, free re-audits and pentests for all customers, enhanced transparency in audit communications, and more. However, we also want to set the record straight on the anonymous attacks. The evidence we have points to a targeted cyberattack from a malicious actor, not a “whistleblower.” We believe the attacker purchased Delve under false pretenses, exfiltrated internal company data, and used it to launch a coordinated smear campaign. The posts rely on a mix of fabricated claims, cherry-picked screenshots, and stolen data taken out of context. See the link in the comments for more details. Delve was built to modernize compliance. We are not going anywhere and are committed to building what's next.

@TS_Secrets @mikeroweworks An influencer can make $300k a year with no degree. If money’s the goal then there is only one career path that’s optimal

Medical Doctor vs Airline Pilot Doctors spend 12 years in school and training, graduate with $250k in debt, and start residency at $65k working 80-hour weeks. Day 88 tagging @mikeroweworks and getting closer to connecting him. Airline pilots train for 2 to 3 years, spend $80k on flight hours, and senior captains at major carriers make $350k to $500k per year. United Airlines captains topped $600k in 2023. Delta is offering $200k signing bonuses. The pilot shortage is so severe the FAA is in emergency talks about it. You were told to become a doctor to make real money. A guy with a 2-year certification is out-earning most surgeons. Follow me for more of what they don’t teach in high school.

@jeremykauffman I believe him. I also forgot mine, but it was 176 - 178. I can’t remember exactly because 1. My practice scores were also in that range, and and they blurred thru the years 2. Ended up turning down Harvard Law for Wharton MBA (lmao) So it’s def possible to forget a high score

I spent a few years as a standardized test tutor for Kaplan I forget my LSAT score but it was high enough to teach

Sure: 1570 SAT (2002): 800 verbal, 770 math 1500 GRE (2007): 700 verbal, 800 math Did zero prep for the GRE, just took it cold. Intelligence test results should be common and uncontroversial, like measuring 40 yard dash times for athletes

@shagbark_hick We’re currently shifting back to open elite rule. It’s always been elite rule, but now there’s much more awareness and, slowly, acceptance of it. And I agree - this is the better state to be in. Nature is healing 💯

Populism in our era is actually preposterous when you think about it. Who looks at the most complex civilization in human history and thinks: "The plain 'ol regular folk oughta run this thing instead of the damned elites!" It takes a certain kind of high-born genius to even begin to comprehend the system we've constructed, much less to actually know how to govern it well. Though perhaps we needed a wild, chaotic period in political history in order to attain the degree of technological progress we have attained -- at a certain point, there are too many variables at play, and the revolutionary chaos of the hoi polloi has reached its point of diminishing returns. Democracy and civilizational complexity strike me as being very much at odds. Current events seem to tell us we may be at the turning point where we must choose one or the other. Said differently, it may be true that the West has dismantled the Ancien Regime only to be forced to eventually reinvent it from first principles -- or die.

@KhandaniM I went to the best universities (including an abroad year at Oxford) and this guy is completely correct. It is what it is. Study what you love. But if you are pushed by parents or your society into eng, you’re indeed lower class. Which is ok, most ppl are.

The study of science, engineering, commerce, law, accounting, actuarial science is for the children of the poor & working class to slave for the children of the rich. The children of the rich study political science, philosophy, sociology and the classics.

@spencertbarber Sounds like this is the type of small talk they’ve been used to for decades. Whereas Gen Z have only been alive for less decades

I hate to play into generational stereotypes, but they can feel very real sometimes. I was traveling with my family last night, and we were in the hotel hot tub with two baby boomer couples. They were going off about how much golf they’re playing. The conversation shifted to the war, and first they complained about Trump’s speech interrupting their shows, then about how the war is hurting their retirement accounts. It was amazing to me that two couples who probably don’t have more than 15 years left didn’t say one thing about their posterity for a whole hour, but talked about golf, TV, and stock prices. I’m a millennial, but I have daily conversations with multiple people from Gen Z, and the attitude feels completely different. Gen Z seems optimistic but realistic. They know the fate of the future is in their hands, and they’re focused on making sure things are better for their future kids. I honestly don’t know what happened to the baby boomers. I know many are great, but many can also be intolerable.

@DefiIgnas Fk effort, I only ended up making mid 6-figs from this shit before it collasped 😔 pivoting to AI now to actually try to make some easy money

Crypto easy money era has ended. Historically, most easy money periods last 3-7 years: - California Gold Rush lasted 7 years. - Tulip mania lasted 3 - The dot-com bubble about 5 years before the Nasdaq dumped by 78% - Japan's bubble was 6 years, then Nikkei took 34 years to recover So most speculative booms in history last 3-7 years. Crypto easy money started in 2017 with ICOs. Then DeFi summer 2020. NFTs in 2021. Airdrops. Points farming. Memecoins. That's ~8 years of easy money. We are already past that as every easy money model has been discovered, exploited, or arbitraged to max competition. Philosophical hard-forks like BTC -> BTC Gold or ETH -> ETH classic are over as crypto ossified not just technically. ICOs got regulated. Airdrops get farmed by industrialized sybils. Memecoin launches went from community fun projects to extraction tools. The gold rush analogy seems quite good here as FOMOs end the same way: Surface deposits get exhausted and then industrial mining takes over. (Literally same happened to BTC mining moving from retail to institutions who even IPOed from BTC mining.) So here’s where crypto is now: TradFi suits moving in, tokenization, RWAs, corpo-sloppo permissioned chains, and regulation. The Trump family & insiders are the last to get easy money from crypto. For retail, the surface easy money gold picking is gone. What's left to earn requires real infra, real users, real revenue which means more specialization, specific knowledge and REAL hard effort. Not sure how many of us who got easy money are ready to grind harder now. So many builders, KOLs, projects are extracting as much as they (we) can before leaving crypto coz adapting to the new hard-money period is gonna be hard. Question is: where to pivot for easy money? Asking for a friend.

@Om_Codes_ Dates Sydney Sweeney as well. Absolute legend and the hero of Web3 💯

- Meet Changpeng Zhao (CZ) - Founder of Binance - Started coding at 12 - Worked at McDonald's , gas station to support his family - Sold his only home in Shanghai - Bought Bitcoin at ~$600 - Friends beg him to stop - his mother cired - He ignored the noise - Went all in on Bitcoin - Trusted his skills over public opinion - Built Binance in just 165 days - Without traditional VC backing - Became the largest crypto exchange in the world - was processing billions in daily trades - net worth peaked around $90B+ - Still No obsession with cars, watches, or lifestyle flex -  to one of the biggest wins in tech Sometimes the risk surely looks stupid until it works.