Benedict Miriti

One day, you'll look back and realize the moments you rushed through were the ones worth staying for. Slow down. Look around. Love on your people. Take some time and enjoy your surrounding. The next chapter will write itself. I believe in you. I love you. #Breathe

Minimize envy. Just because someone else wins doesn’t mean you lose.

🚨 DO YOU HAVE A BETTER WAY? Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Lebanon: “The most effective way to stop Hezbollah is to announce that for every drone, 10 buildings in Beirut will be destroyed. Seven drones means 70 buildings. Fifteen drones means 150. And if the buildings in Beirut run out, we move on to Tyre, Sidon, and the Beqaa Valley.”

When it's your turn to be the hammer, hit hard because when you were the nail, no one showed mercy.

We hide our connectivity very well through ego. That is one thing I would work towards changing.

It has taken us too long as a planet to realise we are all in this together. We are all connected in very significant ways.

Eat what you kill.

Google knows your preferences more than you do. We are slowly losing self awareness.

Do whatever it takes to make it work.

Privacy is a fundamental human right.

Jane Street made ~$40B in 2025 with 3,500 employees, a ~2x from the year before. At ~65-70% profit margin, that's $8M profit / employee, the highest for a 1000+ ppl company. High-frequency trading continues to be the most efficient money making engine. I want to share an old story about my Jane Street interview in 2014. Jane Street was known for hiring a lot of math, physics and CS olympiad winners from top universities and putting them through many rounds - including, for trading roles, a gauntlet of mental math. It was my 6th interview and my final round and I recall being asked "What is the next day after today in DD/MM/YYYY where all the digits are unique?" They'd toy with you and say "You can use a pencil and paper, if you want" but you knew that was an instant no. Painstakingly and as quickly as I could, I came to an answer. "How confident are you that this is correct on a 0-1 probability scale?" the interviewer said. "0.95", I blurted out, not fully knowing how to answer that. "Are you sure?" After thinking harder for a few more seconds, I realized I could've flipped the digits around to get a closer date. I gave the interviewer my answer. It was correct. "0.95 huh?" he chuckled. That's when I knew I failed. Note: fwiw, other companies that come close in efficiency are - Tether ($90M+ profit/emp) - Hyperliquid ($80M+ profit/emp) and on revenue: - Valve ($50M/emp) - OnlyFans ($37M/emp) - Craigslist ($14M/emp) - Anthropic ($12M/emp, run rate) - OpenAI ($8M/emp, run rate) For comparison, Nvidia is very efficient at scale and is $4.4M/emp.

Jane Street just showed the inside of their AI training data center in Texas. 4,032 GPUs. 56 racks. 8,000 km of fiber. liquid cooling running through every server because air cooling can't handle the heat anymore. but the part that got me was the origin story. Ron Minsky, who co-heads their technology group. said their first compute cluster was literally six Dell boxes stacked on top of each other at the end of a desk row. they called it "the hive." the trading systems sat out in the room with the traders because they wanted to be able to unplug them if something went wrong. at one point, someone vacuuming the office unplugged a live trading system in the middle of the day. from six Dell boxes and a vacuum cleaner incident to a liquid-cooled GPU data center processing trades in under 100 nanoseconds. that's a 20-year arc.

@djvlad The day Drake wins 27 Grammy awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Music, we can talk... Kendrick Lamar is the first and only hip-hop artist to receive the honour of a Pulitzer Prize. Put some respect on his name.

@djvlad @djvlad, what are we doing, folks? Just dropped 12 songs and went on about his business.. Twitter/X isn't a real place.. Lawbreys paid Bot Farm

Who dropped the better album?

My only advice? Go and get you a bag.

Gold supply increasing every year by a couple of percent. Bitcoin there is a finite amount that can be mined. It's decentralised and so in that sense it has the greatest scarcity value of anything.

Bitcoin is unequivocally the best inflation hedge that there is more than gold because bitcoin is finite.

You're only worth what you can write a check for tomorrow.

Or you're gonna be one of those value investors like Warren Buffett.

You're going to make your money by riding a trend for the very very longest time.