Cameron McAlees

The one and only P/L post I'll ever make publicly, because it's directly relevant to the tweet above. Bag held GME five years ago and lost $1,000 not having a clue what I was doing. Needless to say this about covers that; what a journey.

Full circle moment for me. Five years ago, I fell in love with the market through the GameStop short squeeze. Five years and over half-a-million in trading profits later, I’m staring at the best example of an institution-driven short squeeze in a decade. Incredible stuff.

@JeffEisenband How are we feeling after today?

Over/Under 3.5 Masters titles for Rory McIlroy

Boss: “We’ll also give you a 95% raise—just don’t leave!” Employee: “Sorry, it’s too late now.” Lesson for Leaders: Employees don’t leave only because of money—they leave when they feel undervalued or unappreciated. Retaining good employees isn’t just about increasing their pay; it requires recognition, growth opportunities, and proactive leadership. Take care of your best employees— before they decide to leave you.

I’m cooked.

There are 100x more people living in mediocrity because they were told they couldn’t than those who used that same doubt as fuel to rise. “You can’t” isn’t guidance. It’s usually projection, confession. The spiral starts when people who never took the chance try to protect themselves from discomfort. Watching you attempt, and possibly win, forces them to confront their own inaction. Your ambition can trigger their inferiority, so they try to shrink it. But here’s the truth most overlook: The biggest achievers in the world are often those who faced the highest levels of adversity, and turned it into work ethic, resilience, and relentless output. Even envy, misunderstood and mislabeled as purely negative, can be one of the most powerful driving forces when redirected toward growth instead of the negative jealousy. Most negativity pushed onto you isn’t about your limits. It’s about someone else protecting theirs. The strongest resistance often holds the greatest fuel potential. Greatness doesn’t come from avoiding adversity. It comes from pulling back the curtain, stepping through it, and using everything you find on the other side. The world is a web of push and pull mechanism designed by our drive to conform to social norms.

I’m shocked that it took this long…

Anthropic have just buried OpenAI and ChatGPT with this ad lmfao There’s no coming back from that

We are living through a moment where a group of people do not just disagree, they do not even acknowledge a shared fundamental reality. There is no common frame of reference, no mutual set of facts from which discourse can even begin. They can watch the same video, from multiple angles, and walk away convinced they saw a completely different event. They exist inside a narrative so deeply entrenched that to question it, to even acknowledge a contradiction, is to commit some sort of ideological treason. This is a deliberate, conditioned immunity to contradiction. It is a cultivated resistance to evidence. They have developed a mind so thoroughly welded to its chosen reality that it will alter, discard, or fabricate whatever it must to maintain coherence. They can be shown, in real time, the unraveling of their worldview, and they will patch over the holes with fantasy rather than face any doubt whatsoever. Politics has turned knowledge itself into a partisan weapon. The expectation is no longer to seek truth, but to defend your team at all costs. There is a lingering obligation to have an opinion on everything, to be informed at all times, to adopt the correct stance. And so, they improvise. They adopt prefabricated opinions handed down by their faction. They fill in the gaps with instinctive loyalty rather than demonstrating any semblance of independent thought. The game is rigged, and they know it. Two parties, two choices, two sides that everyone is herded into, and neither is worth the loyalty demanded of them. But to acknowledge this would be to admit powerlessness, to admit that they are trapped in an illusion of choice. So they cope. They retroactively justify their allegiance by turning their side into something righteous, infallible, and necessary. The alternative is too terrifying. It is a coping mechanism turned mass psychosis. And it is escalating. When reality itself is dictated by allegiance, when loyalty outranks reason, when every fact must be bent into submission to fit the tribe’s chosen narrative, the outcome is inevitable: war. When factions exist in separate realities, they cannot coexist. They cannot negotiate, they cannot reason, they cannot even comprehend the other side as anything but a threat. This is irreconcilable. We cannot function like this. A society cannot sustain itself when its people are no longer individuals but ideological husks, possessed by abstractions, fighting battles for masters who do not even know their names. You are not your faction. You are not your party. You are not an extension of a collective mind. The moment you outsource your thinking, the moment you allow yourself to believe that your side must be right because the alternative is unbearable, you have ceased to be an individual. You have become another interchangeable pawn in a game that does not need you to think, only to obey. Wake up. This war for reality is not one you want to be drafted into.

I will keep pounding the table on this because people don’t realize how bad it is We are actively destroying family formation and upward mobility of people in their 20s and 30s just to make boomers happy They are already the wealthiest generation by far. They already make up the majority of the political class But it is still not enough > more money printing that benefits the asset holders at the expense of savers > more regulations that prevent new housing construction at the expense of new homebuyers > more tax cuts that transfer wealth from the working youth to the idle old > more deficits and national debt that the younger generation will have to bear the burden for The youth no longer believe in a capitalistic system because their elders have taken it as hostage for themselves The youth no longer have skin in the game of society. A generation with no stake in the system would rather watch it burn

In a world where everyone has access to artificial intelligence, or limitless knowledge at their fingertips, what differentiates you from the person next to you? Agency. It is your ability to be intentional, self-regulate and advocate for ideas or people… not AI prompt writing.

@toritrades @Perch_Trades isn’t temporary. @Perch_Trades is for life.

This too shall pass. Everything is temporary. #toritrades

@SethCohen_25 If this is what your palate looks like, I might have to rescind your invitation to Oregon…

I also consider myself a “foodie” @noremachi

Apple used to be based.

There is no escape. thecamaracase.com

A question that lives rent free in my head...

This chart is nuts. Software developer jobs down 70% from peak. People will blame the end of free money. But something way more interesting is happening. The middle class engineer is dying. And it's dying because they're not needed anymore. One good dev with Github Copilot ships what entire teams did five years ago. Microsoft just reported the highest revenue per employee in history. The "entry-level engineer" doesn't exist anymore. Instead, we have product builders who happen to code. Armed with AI, they ship entire products in days. Meanwhile, the truly elite engineers are making more money than ever. And they've shifted to working mostly on frontier tech. I mean the stuff that's really hard. AGI at OpenAI. Designing rockets at SpaceX. Self-driving car tech at Tesla. Product builders are becoming solopreneurs and creators Frontier engineers are making hedge fund money In 2025, "software engineer" doesn't mean what it meant in 2020. And that's what this chart really shows. The middle is gone. The top is elite status. And everyone else is becoming a builder.

@Halina @ForbesUnder30 LETS GO HALINA

Woke up to being named in @ForbesUnder30 🔥 let’s gooooo

@SookiePark Love Island US Season 6. Peak reality TV.

does anyone have some good show recommendations to have on in the background and barely pay attention to while i work?