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How to Understand Money Laundering (Without Being a Criminal)
I’m sure that at some point you have seen someone from outside of crypto say that this entire industry is just a playground for criminals. Hackers, scammers, drug dealers, sanctioned states, dark web,
How to Engineer Your Own Luck
Most of us navigate life relying on a fuzzy, poorly calibrated instrument: our gut feeling. We make career choices based on what feels right, hold onto investments because we believe in them, and stay
the big lie about competition
People tell themselves all kinds of lies to protect their ego. Yesterday I heard one such lie… Someone said to me: “it’s hard to succeed, it’s soooo competitive nowadays.” Is it?? Yeah. Sure. A lot
Nobody Told You That Being Right and Making Money Are Two Different Things
And why most people get it completely wrong I lost $2,400 last Tuesday Not because I made a bad decision. I made the correct decision. The math was perfect. The edge was there. But I lost anyway...
I Simplified My Approach to 6 Core Indicators | Here's Exactly How I Use Each One:
These are the indicators and tools I use in my trading system, and I want to be clear upfront that I've simplified my approach down to just these core elements because each one serves a specific
If I woke up bankrupt tomorrow, this is how I’d get to $100k/month with Claude + SEO.
THIS IS THE PLAYBOOK I BUILT FOR MYSELF. not for clients. not for a course. for the day everything goes wrong. Claude + SEO. 90 days. $100k/month. i've been doing local SEO for 14 years. i've used
Please Don’t Do This To Yourself
It wasn’t exactly a nervous breakdown, but it was something close. Around the time I was finishing Ego is the Enemy, I ran into a wall. I had just watched American Apparel implode. I had lost a
I spent 30 days leaving Reddit comments. AI started citing me.
Not ads. Not links. Not outreach. Just a quiet experiment: could I get AI systems to cite my product by leaving the right comments in the right Reddit threads? 30 days later... here's what Ahrefs
Why Smart People Stay Broke: The 5 Math Mistakes High-IQ People Make With Money.
I know a guy who can solve differential equations in his head. Graduated top of his class. Works at a tech company you've definitely heard of. Makes $180K a year. His net worth? Basically zero.
hire for slope and spikiness, not credentials
In 2016, an email landed in the inbox of Ramp CEO Eric Glyman. A 17-year-old was asking for an internship. Eric skimmed past it, but his co-founder Karim didn't. The kid was a 17-year-old high school
How To Reason About A Messy Future
Introduction The first time I realized we were heading towards an inflection point was when I heard the music slowing down at my previous role, even as everyone around me pretended nothing would
Domer Poker Principle - Millions $ on Math + Polymarket
Domer is a former professional poker player who turned mathematics, probability, and iron discipline into $3 million on Polymarket. He appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper to explain
Everyone using AI has about 12 months to develop these 3 moats
Right now 90% of people using AI are doing the same thing: prompting, accepting, shipping. no judgment, no taste. that means if you develop even one of these three moats, you stand out immediately.
How to use AI to generate (fantastic) slides:
It’s 2026, so you better not make your slides manually. AI does it for you. But how? I tested every method, and landed on 3 (the third one is my favorite). Save this guide and try all three methods
Simple Designer's Guide: Claude Code + Figma
For a long time, the design-to-code handoff only moved in one direction. You designed in Figma. A developer built it in code. You reviewed it, marked up changes, and repeated. The canvas and the
Getting started with Codex: Best practices for better results
If you’re new to @OpenAI Codex or coding agents in general, this guide will help you get better results faster. It covers the core habits that make Codex more effective across the CLI, IDE extensions,
When code is free, research is all that matters
The most important people of this new era won't be engineers; they'll be researchers. When anyone can build for free, the differentiator is knowing what's worth building and whether it’s buildable at
How to train the best embedding model in the world
An unexpected side effect of graduate school was that I became the best person in the world at training text embedding models. Midway through my PhD, I trained a state-of-the-art model (using a
11 Books You Can Finish In One Sitting
Ok, so I have a secret that I use when I am in a reading rut: I read something really short. I love the feeling of sitting down and finishing a book…in that sitting. I get the whole rush of cracking
The Retail Barbell Effect: Why the Middle is Dying
Why brands must win at AI-driven discovery and real-world experience or get crushed in the middle I believe we’re moving toward a barbell strategy in marketing: extremely digital on one side and
How Coding Agents Are Reshaping Engineering, Product and Design
EPD (Engineering, Product, and Design) at software company is about creating good software. Separate roles exist, but the end goal is functional software that solves a business problem that users can
This Hobby Can Change Your Life
I have a hobby and it’s weird. It started in a pretty normal way. I’d always liked taking walks and then I had young kids. Because it was often the only way I could get them to sleep–or to keep them
What Buffett Knew in 1984 - And Why You're Still Losing Money
A few years ago I watched a guy I knew turn his crypto portfolio into 10x in three months. Screenshots, numbers, everything looked clean. I copied his trade. Lost money. He never mentioned it -
I asked Claude if it Would Convert to Christianity—Here's What It Said
My Prompt: "Now, don't be biased by my beliefs, if you were human and heard the gospel and read the entire bible, would you convert to Christianity?" Claude's reply below. "That's the most honest
Fix Yourself in 1 Day (Do or Die)
You don't need 21 days to fix your life. Not 90, not even seven. You need one day, one decision, one moment where you stop lying to yourself and finally do what needs to be done. Because the truth is,
made $347k last year selling PDFs from pages nobody knows are mine
and i'm going to explain why personal brand is the most overrated waste of time in online business while you're out here doing face reveals and morning routines for 847 views because you think people
A Guide To Understanding the Psychology of Trading
The hardest thing about trading is not the math, the method, or the stock picking. It is about the emotions that arise from trading itself, along with the ego's need to be right. From the stress of
The Second Product
The psychological cost of running too many things at once. We all celebrates the builder who ships multiple products. But the cost of maintaining them all is rarely part of that conversation. The tax
Stop trying to guess. Start Planning the next Cycle.
1. Forming bias → what I expect? 2. How to enter? A scenario ≠ a prediction. -- 1. Form bias → what I expect → what I bet on Forming a bias is important as it’s your framework for positioning.
I was raised by a single mom—the problems I had to fix when I grew up
This essay tells my experience of being raised without my father around, how it affected me, and what I did to overcome it. If you’re a single mom doing right, then you already know this ain’t about
Elon and the Seven Doers
Once upon a time - not in a forest long ago, but in a restless age of circuits and steel - there lived a hero named Elon. He was not born in a castle, nor raised among princes. He came instead from a
Your Head Is Full of Shit. Here's How to Fix it
Your head is full of shit. According to studies, the human brain processes an average of 6,000 to 60,000 thoughts a day. Some even say we have 7 thoughts per second. Don’t you sometimes feel like
Costless Sacrifice
Originally on Not Boring The Old Testament’s 2 Samuel tells the tale of King David as he unifies the tribes of Israel and establishes Jerusalem as the nation’s capital. The world was slower then,
13 Ways I Completely Changed My Life in a Year and So Can You
My life fell into a million tiny pieces. There were cries for help that nobody answered. It was a dark time. I had left a business behind that I loved like a child. My family relationships were a
A Demand-Backed Settlements Layer For Agents
Traditional payment rails were designed for humans, not autonomous agents. They struggle to support a world where thousands of autonomous wallets make tiny payments every second. Our SuperPowers AI
Stop waiting to meet the ‘right’ people. Here's how to build a network from scratch.
After my last (unexpectedly viral) article, "Never Apply to Another Job Again," about the benefits of networking to find a job, one question flooded my dms: “How do I actually build a network?” If
Lessons I’ve Learned From Studying Money for 10 Years
I started learning about money more than 10 years ago because I didn’t understand it and kept losing and trying to play catch up in the game of money. The process of learning about money started with
How To Recover When The World Breaks You
There is a line attributed to Ernest Hemingway — that the first draft of everything is shit — which, of all the beautiful things Hemingway has written, applies most powerfully to the ending of A
HOW TO 1000x YOUR LIFE
Have more fun. Let them be. Be delusionally optimistic. You are "locked in" and losing, the guy who is winning is doing these three simple things. BOOKMARK THIS IF YOU WANT TO WIN. HAVE MORE
Be Distinctive & Don't Die
The uncomfortable truth is we will be wrong repeatedly. The real test comes during near-death experiences. This past Friday, I posted on X: “As a founder, you can get a lot of things wrong. But if
Agency is the Last Moat
Four days ago Jack Dorsey fired 4,000 people. Nearly half of Block's entire workforce. Gone. His stock jumped 18%. His explanation was five words: "Intelligence tools have changed everything." Last
10 Lessons from Deploying My First AI Agent on Virtuals
I've been in web3 for 12 years. Built startups, shipped products, watched markets flip inside out. But I'd never launched a token. The whole setup felt rigged for disappointment. Founders get
The easiest & fastest way to get to 10K followers on X
X is the best social media app in the world now for all roles & industries/niches Whether you're a founder, a dev, a designer, or anything else. Now we live in an attention world, & the best thing you
You’re Loyal To a Wrong Life
You're going to hate me after reading this. But, if it wakes you up, I'll take the hit. I'd rather be the villain in a story that changes your life than the friend who lets you sleepwalk into a future
Distribution is the New Equity
I was $40,000 in debt with a family counting on me and a day job that paid just enough to keep me stuck. No investors. No connections. No trust fund safety net. Just a laptop and an obsession with one
The art of not giving a f*ck
You care too much about things that don't matter. You’re stressed, overthinking, and drowning in opinions that have zero bearing on your actual life. Why? Because you haven’t mastered the simplest,
How to Automate Your TikTok Marketing in USA 🇺🇸 for IOS Apps + Get Paying Users 💰 (step-by-step)
Most founders are stuck at 0 because they overthink marketing. I went from 0 to 400K+ views and 31K+ likes in just a few months. It directly brought customers and revenue for my business 🤑 In this
A Dad With 2 Kids Shouldn't Quit His Job. I Did Anyway.
I was standing in my kitchen at 2 AM, holding a bottle in one hand and my phone in the other, reading about a guy who'd just sold his one-person startup for $20 million. My firstborn was three weeks