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the 2026 ai engineer roadmap
most developers are building toys while the world demands systems. tutorial hell is a comfortable grave for your career. in 2026 the gap between a prompt engineer and a systems architect is 150k. here
Why You Think AI Coding Sucks (just use plan mode)
This article is for anyone who's used an AI coding agent and been frustrated by the results. If you've ever felt that your AI agent produces low quality code, or doesn't understand your codebase, you
How Not To Be A Shit Gambler
Introduction The reason you’re losing money might have nothing to do with picking the wrong stocks. It’s because the markets has been structurally designed so the average participant WILL lose.
The most important skill to learn in the next 10 years
Most skills will be irrelevant in 10-20 years. Well, maybe... That's what everyone's saying at least, and it definitely feels that way. But if you are a high agency individual, that doesn’t matter.
If You're Not Gambling in 2026, You Will Lose Everything
People aren’t becoming degenerate. They’re responding to broken systems. “Long degeneracy” is usually framed as a moral failure of society. Laziness. Lack of discipline. Fast dopamine addictions like
What Actually Matters for Developers This Year
Another year, another flood of tools, frameworks, and hot takes. So instead of predictions or trends, I want to do something more useful for the first newsletter of the year: Filter the noise. Here’s
I made $3m with 20k followers (and how you can too)
This picture shows you the audited and stamped corporate tax report for my company Unfungible. The amounts are in AED. Converted to USD, the 2024 revenue equals over $1.3 million. In 2025,
Why Keep Going?
**My wife convinced me to publish this letter I wrote for us a couple months ago, on my birthday, because she believes many people might be struggling with questless lives.** My love, I am 35 years
Embrace The Warm Colors Of Life
Introduction "The Prison Of Financial Mediocrity" went places I didn't expect. I had meant for the piece to be a diagnosis of crowd behavior, a framework for understanding why an entire generation is
How Owning a Niche Can 100x Your Growth
jack of all trades is a master of none everyday creators try to build an audience by tackling 10,000 different topics this wont get you anywhere. you're trying to appeal to every single person that
The infinite distraction loop (and how to escape it)
Understanding this concept would have saved me four years of my entrepreneurial career... Every industry has three types of participants. A concept I came across in Daniel Priestley’s book Key Person
Advice for generalists who want to join startups
Most early-stage startups are focused on two things: building stuff and selling stuff. So where does someone with a more “generalist” background fit in? You may be looking for a concise phrase to
Random Quality Of Life Improvements That Will Change Your Life
Bringing you a random list of things (activities, protocols, items) that will improve your life. Prepare yourself… 25 min reading time. Basics On Improving Your Quality of Life (Everyone Should Know)
10 Silver Days of Christmas
It’s been 10 days since our last missive on silver. 10 days was 25% ago. In that time: China announced export licensing on silver starting January 1st. Shanghai physical hit $91 while COMEX closed at
Attention Is a Skill, Not Luck. Why Some People Always Get Noticed (And How You Can Too)
Most people think attention is random. That some creators are just “lucky.” That the algorithm picked favorites. That’s not true. Attention is a skill, and like any skill, it can be learned, trained,
Risk Management (Part 1): Protecting "Mental Capital" & Drawdown Discipline
"THE SIZE OF YOUR DRAWDOWN IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONATE TO THE SIZE OF YOUR EGO." This series will cover risk management in theory and practice, beginning with philosophy, mindset, and trading
The Prison Of Financial Mediocrity
Introduction I am not a stock picker. I worship at the altar of a large breadth of low confidence (<= 53% win-rate) bets, but I am absolutely betting the house that long degeneracy is the prevalent
How to Get Rich in 2026 and Beyond: Those Who Don’t See What’s Coming Will Get Railroaded
Before we begin, I want to be clear – this post is only meant for those of you who actually want to get rich. For the purposes of this article, we’ll define that number as $10MM+. I’m not interested
I do not regret spending 8 years of my life in crypto
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24 KJV Ken Chang
self discovery : before it’s too late
Most of us are trying to belong. We are constantly searching for different scenes where we can connect with another human being on a shared level. It could be a shared topic, shared emotions, or
What EXACTLY went wrong with replyguys (and how X PSYOPS’ed you into becoming grinder)
First things first replyguying isn’t dead and it won’t die as long as the reply button exists (but still ppl will farm your fear today on the TL) what IS dying is the idiotic habit of over-replying
WHY TOKENS TREND TO ZERO.
This article aims to explain some of the common reasons why most cryptocurrencies experience an ever declining price action. If you’ve ever lost money holding a coin, this is for you. And if you’re
What happened to restaking?
Every now and then, friends send me tweets dunking on restaking. None of the dunks really hit the mark. So I decided to write a dunk/reflection myself. This article will be long, dense, and just
Money as Energy: A Paradigm Shift in Economic Value - Part I
Introduction Money is often seen as an abstract construct, but at its core it can be viewed as a form of stored energy. "Maybe there won't even be money in the future. Money might be measured in
"I AM AN (INSERT SILLY STYLE) TRADER"
One of the biggest structural leaks in retail is the need to turn trading into an identity. Everywhere you look you see people leading with labels, “Scalper”, “Elliott Wave”, “Supply and Demand
Building for everyone, Create like an expert, Partner with elites.
Got to watch the amazing session between Wormhole and Fogo co-founders. An excellent discussion, I'd say: these are the thoughts I picked up, most especially from the constructive questions of the
The Complete Guide to Nano Banana Pro: 10 Tips for Professional Asset Production
Nano-Banana Pro is a significant leap forward from previous generation models, moving from "fun" image generation to "functional" professional asset production. It excels in text rendering, character
Crypto Exodus: Why Capital Is Leaving Bitcoin
Bitcoin was never the future of money. It was a battering ram in a regulatory war. Now that war is wrapping up, and the capital that built it is quietly leaving. For 17 years we convinced ourselves
45 profitable crypto niches you can dominate
There are many untapped profitable niches in crypto. This list includes my 45 favourite ones. Now you might be asking, what makes a profitable niche, and how did I come up with this list? One thing I
How to Thrive on X: A Starter Guide for Web3 Beginners
Most people feel overwhelmed when starting on X (Twitter). Big accounts, viral posts, and nonstop activity make success look impossible. But every strong account grew by consistently doing just four
The Geography of Crypto Scams: Why No Region Is Innocent and Every User Deserves Better
In the early days of cryptocurrency, many believed that crypto fraud was simply the cost of innovation and that “rug pulls” or “exit scams” were limited to a few bad actors in unregulated corners of
You are one skill away from freedom. Here’s how to master any skill by utilising Grok:
Be honest with yourself, you’ve been dabbling, half-learning, half-executing, and wondering “why nothing changes”. You can fix that by creating an AI personal assistant with these prompts to master
Some thoughts on AI
Gemini 3 shows that scaling laws for pretraining are intact. This is the most important AI datapoint since the release of o1. This means that Blackwell models are likely to show a significant increase
We (Still) Live in a World of Dollars
We live in a world of dollars. Not pounds, not yen, not RMB. Dollars. For Americans it’s obvious: coffee, rent, the expenses that underpin life are all in dollars. For everyone else, daily expenses
How to Distinguish a Professional Trader from a Gambler
In this article, I want to walk you through the profiles of both profitable and less successful traders so you can better understand behavior and profit-generation strategies on Polymarket over the
So you want to be a trader?
Most people here that trade don’t actually want to “trade for a living" if they knew what that meant. They want to trade, hit a big number, and then coast. Different thing entirely. If you’ve done
How to cope with round-tripping generational wealth multiple times
You are in your 30s now. Markets are bleeding again. Everyone and their mother is calling for a bear market so dreadful, the Black Plague would look tame in comparison. But you promised yourself this
Onboarding Is A Lie
Why good products don't need onboarding tours at all. Users dismiss your multi-step tours after rage-clicking Next, and learn your product from YouTube videos instead of your carefully crafted flows.
0 → 50K (Become Content Creator)
The Complete Comprehensive Guide to Making Money on X & Become a Web3 Content Creator !! In this article, I will explain how you can make money on X without investing even a single dollar. This is
Review: Predictive History
Over the last 2 months I've listened to 100+ hours of Professor Jiang's lectures on world history. His YT channel, Predictive History, has close to 100 videos covering everything from Bronze Age to
Early beginnings - 100% True.
This is the tale of how I made 75 million dollars at 33 during the crash of 1929, and how it wasn’t luck, and it wasn’t magic, it was structure, discipline, and the refusal to believe what everyone
Epilogue: How I Got Here
Being Early Is Expensive. Being Wrong Is Fatal. Contrary to what you might read in my replies online, I didn’t start off as a China hawk. When I left the big fund, China wasn’t even on my radar. My
Wake Up To Reality
We're going to poke holes in a lot of things that people inherently subscribe to when they first join markets. Everything we discuss will be backed by logic, or fact. Having a deeper understanding
What's the point of Crypto AI Agents?
It's been a year since the start of the AI agent run back in Q4/2024, back when @virtuals_io spearheaded "AI Agent Tokenization" where AI apps/agents get paired with a fair-launched token. Time flies.
Gold is the Safest Money
Recently, a lot of people asked me a lot of questions about gold, so I invited anyone who cared to ask me questions about gold to do so, and I answered most of them. Then I put them into both an FAQs
Zero Dollar Distance
Why free and paid are entirely different products. The moment you add a price tag to anything, you change what it is. You change how it's perceived, who uses it, and what it fundamentally is. We
life lessons from trading
1) Traders get paid to guess where money will move. 2) There are many ways people win guessing games: Some people read new information quickly Some people send guesses quickly Some people process new
The Four Levels of Monetizing a Personal Brand
While many are stuck farming Info-Fi leaderboards for a couple hundred dollars, your peers have already evolved three levels beyond you and are pulling in $85K per month. Monetizing your brand is like