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φaul.
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φaul.
@mndrot
functional retard; in pursuit of greatness.
homeless. Katılım Şubat 2026
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if you are interested in mongering, you only have three options:
1. fear
2. war
3. fish
it’s tough
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father, forgive me for i have sinned.
φaul.@mndrot
going on a music fast till serotonin drops.
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if the eastern seaboard is getting wiped out at this second it was an honor and a privilege to escape from you in teenage rebellion
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a fun fact about me is that i do not have any visible clock face on my phone. if i need to know the time (rare) i merely call the US Naval Observatory and have them tell me it in 5 second intervals.
and this, reader, is why i know something is up, bc today they ain't picking up
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@ahmedshubber25 would you even want an investor that couldn't find your mail?
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Guys the number of General contractors asking to invest in us isn't slowing down,
How their finding me, my email is still a mystery to me tbh
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This is the least spicy true-but-fake-sounding historical fact I could come up with.
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The -ez ending in Hispanic surnames stems from the post-Roman Germanic tribes who swept through Iberia and used patronymics, enshrining those names.
Hence:
Martinez->son of Martín
Rodriguez->son of Rodrigo
Fernandez->son of Fernando
Sanchez->son of Sancho
Etc.
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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it always comes as a surprise when i meet people that claim to be/are bored by routine.
i would be willing to bet that what they feel is not boredom, but rather a fear of structure and responsibility, as routine (perhaps counterintuitively), makes it easier to encounter (and engage) the unexpected.
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You will reach a point on your journey before you reach terminal velocity.
People, even those you are close to, will watch you and make a deliberate & conscious effort to avoid supporting you or giving you your flowers.
Despite their admiration for what you do; it will be for no other reason than because it is you.
You will sense it. Do not be gaslit, it is obvious. Whether it's because they don't want to appear as if they are 'glazing' or have become weird and scheming with inner envy – it is true.
Deal with your own weakness.
It is only the pathetic & lowly aspect of yourself that allows you to recognise this behaviour in the first place. A 3rd person view of your life is always degrading.
Dismiss your desire for external validation.
It is a serious weakness that must be dealt with in order for you to genuinely succeed.
When you feel watchful eyes it is because your attention is inappropriately placed. This is one of the surest universal signs that it is time to put your head down. Develop a maniacal focus. Your gaze must be fixed. There is to be nothing else.
Any onlooker should become deeply disturbed upon sensing the intensity of your concentration.
Become a freak.
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Symmetry in biology, including the structural symmetry of fruits, refers to the balanced distribution of duplicate body parts or shapes. While biological symmetry is generally approximate and not perfect, many fruits exhibit distinct patterns such as radial or fivefold symmetry.
Psychologically, symmetry feels appealing because the brain associates balance with health, order, and trust. It’s easier to process visually, so it feels naturally “right.
Symmetry and asymmetry become visual metaphors , balance and disruption, order and tension, yet their meanings remain open to interpretation. And this is only a small part of visual language, where perception speaks long before words do.
Pick the right fruits
Jesperish@Jesperish
Fruits of Light
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@TouchlineX that's it - im buying the dip and becoming a real madrid fan.
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🚨 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Real Madrid have agreed to Jose Mourinho's requests before he joins the club. They include:
• He has the right to determine transfer targets and player positions
• No interference from the board in team training
• No pointless press conferences
• He is allowed to bring his coaching staff.
— @COPE
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@blueprintsmb22 thankful (and inspired) to hear about your journey. God bless and be with you and yours. 💟
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Long post but the TLDR is choose your reference points carefully.
I grew up comfortable in Kansas with a father who owned a small business pulling $40k a year. I felt rich until I went to Brown. Then I felt like the poor. There were students that had BMWs parked on different parts of campus so they wouldn't have to walk far to get access to a car.
I needed to make money to pay back my parents for college so I went to Wall Street. After Morgan Stanley, I worked for a single manager hedge fund managing $1.5Bn (alot of money back in the day) in SF that had just received an anchor investment from Yale University.
My boss was making more money than ever and was spending it. He would vacation with Lance Armstrong and Cindy Crawford. He became close with Wes Edens at Fortress. We made investments in Fortress portfolio companies. My boss took board seats on some of these investments. My boss spent alot of time frustrated he was not on the same level as Edens.
My boss was also close with Charles Schwab and we also invested in SCHW. Charles would let my boss and the firm stay at Stock Farm in Montana to host events for our LPs and management of some of our portfolio companies. It was the first time I ever flew private. I met Don Valentine of Sequoia who was an LP in our fund. We ran into Huey Lewis in the men's locker room before playing some golf. It was a world I never knew really existed growing up in Kansas.
We were also investors in Herbalife and would complain to the CEO at the time Michael Johnson (ex Disney) that he was massively overpaid and that the compensation structure of the company needed better alignment for shareholders (based on hitting key KPIs, etc). He would say he impressions mattered in his industry and living in LA was expensive.
When 2008-9 happened, our fund got decimated as we basically were a long only. Heavy exposure to Fortress names with massive leverage was no bueno. My boss had board seats which meant we were restricted. Yale pulled their entire investment. While the world was burning down, my boss in his fancy office in the Transamerica building told me that I was lucky "to not have any money to lose" while the world was burning down lol. I get what he was saying now as we saw clients that had amassed generational wealth in tech or owning boring businesses in Louisiana lose half of their net worth in 12 months. People were scared.
I would move back to NYC and end up working for 3 billionaires at different points during my career as a journeyman buysider. I did well enough at points to have direct contact with some of them. I saw the same dynamic - always someone doing better. Always frustrated. Not that happy.
I stayed in this world just trying to stay alive with some good years and years I got paid nothing when performance was poor. I was fine staying on this never ending hamster wheel until 1) I got married 2) we had a daughter 3) my dad's cancer diagnosis got more grim and I did more self reflection on what game of life I was playing.
Ultimately I left to buy a small business which has been hard. I still have friends on the buyside and in tech that struggle with comparison. But the reference points I was around constantly in my W2 are no longer loud. I wake up early and turn on machines. Most of my team members never graduated high school. My customers are mostly salt of the earth sales people working for small distributors sprinkled with some big publicly traded companies. $4 gas is a huge problem to everybody I interact with during my day - my customers complain daily about it in their daily lives. I sometimes lend money to my team members when they need help. I have to fix problems every day as the business isn't big enough to support hiring a general manager right now. But I'm home for dinner every night. This works better for me and my family.
My life is simple now => bring in business to make sure the 10 team members can feed their families. Last year when tariffs and a big customer shutting down hurt business badly for 3 months, my accountant told me to start firing employees as my competitors were either shutting down or firing 25-33% of their entire staffs. Entire shifts were shut down. I fired no one. It didn't feel right. I just stopped paying myself.
This year things have turned around. Team members are making 25-33% more due to overtime. I have more purpose now as my life is simplified as I'm just focused on making sure my team can eat, we make good product for our customers and the business can continue to pay down debt.
This is a hard path. I wouldn't recommend it for many, but it works better for me at this point in my life. My mental health has never been better. My wife reminds me how big of an asshole I used to be in finance as I was always stressed about my exposure / frustrated I wasn't doing better. What changed? My reference points changed. I no longer live in NYC. I live in this myopic world where I spend my weeks talking to team members, customers and vendors. 4am until 4pm is spent living in this world. 4pm-8pm is spent with my family before I go to bed ahead of a 330am wake up.
I have no doubt if I stayed in finance and was living in the Upper West Side in NYC, I'd still be playing my own version of "why aren't I doing better."
It took having a child and thinking more about my Dad's mortality (he passed this October from cancer) to re-evaluate things. I wish I had been brave/smart enough to consider a pivot earlier in life.
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Deedy@deedydas
The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.
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Literally reminds me of a fraternity brother in college who ran track and did study abroad in Prague his sophomore year and came back with a bizarro European look like this (literally wld wear ascots to economics class like a complete ahole.)
Previously he exclusively wore khakis and polo shirts. Girls started paying attention to him with his new look after ignoring him previously. He grew up in St. Louis.
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1) if you haven’t made it theres still a ton of oppty to be a startup founder. Your first step is to understand the technology and the second step is to train yourself to imagine forward two years
2) if you have made it you should take a one way flight to Brazil and fuck your self to death in between runs on the beach, steak dinners and Ji Jitsu classes until you’ve reset your dopamine receptors and are ready to be curious about the world again.
Don’t return until you wake up every day with childlike wonder and a deep disdain for American status games
Deedy@deedydas
The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.
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