Tommy Tranfo

@TheProfInvestor @mrholdingbags @TheLongInvest @howardlindzon @gpaisa7 you guys are the best

@mrholdingbags @TheLongInvest @howardlindzon @gpaisa7 @ttranfo One reason we are good friends- you are humble, and a down to earth real talk guy. Nothing but for you pal.

@TheLongInvest No man. Let me help you a bit more: Stocktwits and X are not the same. Been on Stocktwits since Jul 2020. Like many others here @howardlindzon @mrholdingbags @gpaisa7 @ttranfo Anyways you get the point. And if you dont, lets leave it here.

@sablikefab stay winning Ri

@ihtesham2005 HT: @billsweet thanks for the lesson. always gotta carry the notebook

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

@ppearlman > love the post format > keep slaying!

@ttranfo Tommy!! Hey buddy.

I love running. > It’s play > I get to run with my kids > I love how I feel > It’s a challenge to get faster & > A self-improvement practice > I sleep better > I eat better > My legs are crazy strong > I move like a gotdamn cat > I’m lean af > I’ll stay healthy longer

@JFDI @gpaisa7 @mrholdingbags @Stocktwits seeing you guys up there together made my week, sky’s the limit baby

@gpaisa7 @ttranfo @mrholdingbags @Stocktwits Super cool!!!

What an honor and privilege! @gpaisa7 @JFDI @Stocktwits

@BruniCharting @CMTAssociation congrats man!

Personal Update: I’m returning to my roots, officially joining @CMTAssociation as Director, Community & Content (Americas) to build, engage, and amplify our community across the Americas. For those who don’t know, I discovered Technical Analysis in my senior year of high school, and it just clicked. As I carved out my place in the finance world, CMT Association’s events and members were invaluable resources; they taught me first-hand the power of community and the organizations that support it. After 15 years as a member, I’m "flipping the script" and joining the team to help create more success stories like my own and advance the discipline even further. Member value is maximized when content and community work in sync. I’m here to ensure we are a living, breathing ecosystem by focusing on two core principles: - Amplifying the Community: We have thousands of members and candidates globally. My focus is on scaling our city-level communities and ensuring our volunteers have the systems and support they need to thrive. - Elevating the Content: Our members are already doing world-class work. My job is to leverage and package the incredible insights already being produced to drive visibility for our members and the discipline at large. CMT Association’s future is bright, and I want to thank @_TBone_Pickens and the team for welcoming me on this journey in advancing the discipline of Technical Analysis. If you are a member, volunteer, or partner in the finance space—I’m excited to hear your ideas on how we can continue to move the industry forward together. You can reach me at tom@cmtassociation.org. Or join me this month at these two community events: - Boston Spring Summit (May 14-15) - Canada Quarterly Summit in Toronto (May 26)

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@WFAN660 good for you guys

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@TheStalwart definitely bad! naughty naughty ai!

Kinda mixed feelings about using AI. For writing it’s definitely bad. But I think it’s totally fine to use an LLM to gauge which of two (anonymized) FOMC speeches is more hawkish (macro context dependent) and repeat that thousands of times to derive an ELO-like score for each.

what are we doing this set brother

@howardlindzon pretty lucrative for a corner

@ttranfo thats cornered to just lunatics where every sucker truly opts in

A reminder why crypto is a mess WTF were you all thinking would happen

@BarcTheShark legends never die

Got laid off yesterday. Kinda funny getting laid off by the same company twice in three years 😂 Grew Cryptotwits 1,100% in a few months and fixed every platform on the equities side in a single month.

@foundmyfitness @arthurbrooks great stuff, ripping this to explain why hardcore gaming is much better than softcore gaming, churrr

Success doesn’t truly make us happier. Why? Our neurobiology is wired for progress, not arrival. The dopamine system rewards the pursuit. Once a goal is reached, the brain resets and the target moves. It’s what @arthurbrooks calls the “striver’s curse.” You work relentlessly toward a goal believing it will bring lasting satisfaction, but when you get there, the feeling fades quickly. The trap is thinking the answer is more (more success, money, weight loss, etc). A better framework: Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want. Most people try to increase the numerator. But the more powerful lever is reducing the denominator (wanting less).

feels so wrong that tiktok literally sells impressions, back in my day we would call this kind of behavior a scam

legit poker rooms are being witch-hunted and closed in the states but we let sports and prediction markets run rampant across teenage apps and content the people who govern us are fucking retarded and crooked

wrote about this exact feeling here: x.com/ttranfo/status…

@orphcorp @a16z gdi, got me u lil bitch

Alysa Liu recently joined the @a16z new media team to help shape the narrative arc of the future. "I’ve spent enough time on the internet to know it’s the most important place in the world. It’s not separate from real life anymore. It is real life". She adds, "we’re building the team that starts, shapes and shares the most important conversations—for our founders, but also for tech."