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Your whoop device is actually a gender-transition device Man was built for bouts of all-encompassing exertion Congratulations - By chasing the perfect sleep score, HRV, step count, seminal vesicle volume or whatever fuck else these things track, you have successfully neutered yourself. At what point did we figure it would be a better idea to outsource our own natural instinctual regulatory mechanisms to a bunch of tech VC’s in SF? summary: The little band on your wrist is a reliable signal that 1. You pose no threat as a man and 2. Your wife is cheating on you

Rare gift: Unbiased advice from someone who has what you want but wants nothing from you in return.

just like you dont use a hammer to eat soup, you shouldnt use Zyn to make you happy. nicotine is a sword and it needs a sheath. used with precision its incredible, used ad libitum, it will ruin your life. for me, 2 to 3 lozenges per week has no impact on my cardiovascular health and im a productivity demon. any more than that and i notice an increase in my resting heart rate, a decrease in my HRV, slower exercise recovery, and i literally become a slower runner. you need to teach yourself to stay in that sweet spot.

The best way to guard against getting distracted by building AI driven processes is to follow Elon's algorithm. 1. Question every requirement 2. Delete any part or process you can 3. Simplify and optimize 4. Accelerate cycle time 5. Automate Automation is the last step. Your processes can always be simpler, each department can focus on fewer KPIs and your meetings can be of higher signal per minute. You must embrace team building and leadership as your core competencey first (if you are serious about building a business) and then the AI part will naturally become additive instead of distractive.

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I was clearly wrong about Anthropic. They are obviously currently the leader in AI. No company has released a model as good as Mythos/Fable and they will undoubtedly have Mythos 2 ready soon. And I would never cut them off in a way that hurt them badly, even as a competitor. That’s not my style. Tesla open sourced its patents and we made the Supercharger network available to all competitors, even though we could have made it a walled garden. SpaceX launches competing satellite systems with no increase in price or use of unfair terms. Even my worst enemies can attack me on this platform. …

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A friend of mine recently hit $4M/yr in revenue for his business. He’s a smart, scrappy founder, and he’s building something great. He’s also suffocating. And he’s been suffocating himself more and more with each growth milestone because he’s trying to patch every single hole in a leaking ship all by himself. >Every problem that comes up, he swoops in to fix. >Every fire gets routed to him. >Every decision needs his approval >Expenses and complexity scaled faster than revenue. He became the operating system and tried to hustle through the growth period. But hustle isn’t enough because you can’t outwork inefficiency. Pressing the gas pedal on a broken engine doesn’t fix the engine. So I told him that the thing he needed to change was the structure of his business. >Building systems and documentation instead of relying on solo brainpower. >Hiring functional leaders for departments that are bottlenecked. >Optimizing margins to stockpile cash. >Making himself the least valuable member of his team. “Hustling” isn’t the key to scaling a business… …it’s a way of ignoring the REAL problem that needs fixing.