Raymond Reddington

Believing you are the voice in your head

your relationship with uncertainty dictates your success

A recent SC petition by @asi_dharmic raised serious concerns about targeted hate against Brahmins. The response wasn’t legal action but a lecture on tolerance. We show how Brahmins are portrayed in pop culture, and what that means. youtu.be/ilBrM6MOjUg cc:@realitycheckind

I don't care who he is. This level of ideological cuckery is the exact reason we have been the most attacked civilization. A thousand years of constant threats and attacks later, we never fucking learnt a thing, did we!

Isn't this a pattern with him ?? Hamesha koi ambulance aa jaati hai, koi baccha ped pe chad jaata hai .. ye hamesha ka ho gaya hai

@VHPDigital What a downfall

@_kumbhkaran They are signalling support for blue 🔵

What is the common thing in all these images?

The bitter truth you want to look away from :

A new procedure from Duke University uses a catheter to directly remove blood clots from the brain within hours 🧠

Discontinue Ladki Bahin if government doesn’t have funds for pension: Bombay HC trib.al/ovZOHmH

10% of startup founders succeed. 90% fail. Those who fail and succeed later on have one major common pattern : they don’t externalize their failure.

AI PM roles pay $1M+ at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Here's literally how to ace their interviews (full mock):

This is amazing

@awara__octopus Yes .. now I need a mental maths of Gamma exposure

One of the hardest things I realise that every founder has to go through in their journey of building a venture is seeing - everyone else move on. Move on for opportunities, move on from situations, move on for their reasons, move on from conflicts, move on because they can move on. Everyone has that choice, not the founder. For founders to move on, they have to give-up. That's not how they are built, so they do all that is possible to win. Even if they win, or lose, either ways - they end up being lonely in their own journey.

Bro's been practicing

If you want your OpenClaw or Hermes Agent to be able to have perfect total recall of all 10,000+ markdown files, GBrain is here to help. It's exactly my OpenClaw/Hermes Agent setup. MIT-licensed open source. Hope it helps you build your mini-AGI. github.com/garrytan/gbrain

bro was right. Atlassian down 75%. HubSpot down 69%. Figma down 86%. Almost all of them down 30–70% from their 52-week highs. AI is literally eating software alive and repricing every company in real time. SaaS is cooked fr 😭

The ad industry crossed $1 trillion in global revenue in 2025. If forced ads didn't increase sales, that number would be $0. Here's the math that makes it rational. 65% of people skip video ads the moment they can. 90% of people say they skip pre-roll ads. 76% report actively blocking ads. By every self-reported metric, advertising is a product nobody wants. And yet the average conversion rate across digital ads is 2-5%. Sounds pathetic until you run it at scale. A $10 CPM campaign reaching 10 million people for $100,000 converts maybe 50,000 of them into site visits. 2% of those purchase. That's 1,000 sales. If average order value is $100, that's $100K revenue on $100K spend, breaking even before you count lifetime value, retargeting, and brand recall. The deeper trick is what happens to the 98% who didn't buy. A Nielsen study found that from the moment a pre-roll ad is viewed, even for five seconds, there's a measurable lift in brand recall and purchase consideration. The people who skipped your ad still absorbed your brand. That exposure compounds over weeks. The 90% who say they skip? 68% of them can't recall more than five ads from the past week. They think they're immune. They aren't. Companies spent $777 billion on digital ads alone in 2025. Google crossed $200B in ad revenue. Meta takes 23% of global digital ad spend. These aren't charity donations. Every dollar is tracked to a conversion event, an attribution model, a return on ad spend metric that someone's bonus depends on. The real answer to this question: yes, forcing people to watch ads increases sales. The person watching the ad just doesn't realize they're the proof.

The "invisible guest theory" is a 25-year-old psychology experiment with a TikTok rebrand, and the actual mechanism is more useful than the viral version. Cornell ran this in 2000. Made students wear a Barry Manilow t-shirt into a room full of strangers. Students predicted 50% of the room noticed the shirt. Actual number: 23%. Less than half what they expected. The researchers called it the spotlight effect. The mechanism is anchoring. Your brain starts with your own experience of the moment, which is extremely vivid and detailed because you're living it, and then tries to adjust for how much less other people are paying attention. The adjustment is always too small. You feel 100% of your own embarrassment and assume everyone else feels at least 60% of it. They feel about 15%. But here's what the viral version leaves out. Gilovich ran a follow-up and found the effect works in BOTH directions. People also overestimate how much others notice their positive contributions. You think your clever joke landed with the whole room. It didn't. You think everyone saw you handle that tense moment well. They didn't. The spotlight shines equally on your wins and your failures, which means both are mostly invisible. The real freedom isn't "nobody's judging you." The real freedom is that nobody's paying nearly as much attention as you think, to anything you do, good or bad. Once you internalize that, you stop performing entirely.