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How to get Rich and Healthy, without getting lucky
I defeated Lyme and Long Covid with peptides. I went long AMD at $4.2, Tesla at $14 and Palantir at $7. I didn't get lucky. I had a framework. Most people think wealth and health are separate games


I Used Claude Code to File My Taxes. Here’s Exactly How I Did It (And Got a $6,500 Refund).
I just finished filing my 2025 taxes. Married filing jointly, two kids, a W-2 job, two LLCs (mine and my wife’s), investment accounts, a mortgage, and a mess of credit card statements with business


Risk Management: A Trader's Guide
Over my last 9 years I could have saved $4,000,000+ with better risk management. I made this guide so you can avoid the trading mistakes I made. In This Article: Lesson 1: How Casinos Make Money


It is your moral responsibility to get rich
I grew up the poorest kid at my school. But I spent my 20s rewiring my financial mindset. And I learned that building wealth comes from creating value for the world and capturing a piece of it.


Stepping Outside the Fiat Frame: Gold Is What Remains When Money Stops Telling the Truth
They say the currency is unsound, political, debased, endlessly managed. They say it is manipulated at the source and diluted at the edge. They say it cannot be trusted except as a temporary


Turn Claude into your personal financial coach (full guide)
Turn Claude into your personal financial coach (full guide) Most people pay $150 an hour for a financial advisor who meets them twice a year and tells them to diversify. You're making the same


Control your risk 100% - one formula changed my trading forever
The formula that saved my portfolio from blowing up and helps make money when everyone else is losing Most traders on Polymarket focus on one thing - finding the right market but anyone can do that


Why Other People's Financial Advice Will Never Work for You. Here's How to Think for Yourself.
Everyone loves copying strategies. 'Just do what the top traders do.' 'Follow this guy's portfolio.' 'Here's the exact system that made me $100K.' And then it doesn't work. Not because the strategy


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


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


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.


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


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


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 -


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


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.


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


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 Make Enough Money to Retire in the Next 5 Years
I worked in finance and spent years learning about assets — particularly digital assets. People ask me via social media how I made enough money to face retirement in the next five years. They seem to


I Almost Quit Trading. This Setup Gave Me My First $10K Month.
There was a point where I was ready to quit. Not because I didn’t understand charts. But because I kept doing everything “right” and still couldn’t stay consistent. I could spot momentum. I knew what


How I publicly turned $150 into $32.7k on copy trading
If you read this thinking copy trading is a form of passive income, stop. I publicly made $32,700 on copy trading this month, but it was way harder than you think. I chose this way of making money on


Don’t Quit Your Job for Trading (Until You Do This)
When I was bartending and serving, I didn’t hate the work. I hated the ceiling. I could work harder. Pick up more shifts. Move faster. Upsell better. But at the end of the month, the math didn’t


60 luxuries in life & business (in no particular order)
1. minimal ai slop consumption 2. a boss you really respect or no boss 3. investors you really respect or no investors 4. 7h+/night quality sleep 5. best friends live within 5 mins of you 6. a group


How to Get Ahead of 99% of People Financially in the Next 6 Months (5 Steps)
Most people will never be financially free. Not because they're stupid. Not because they don't work hard. But because they're playing a game they were never taught the rules to. They wake up,


Trading is Math
Profitable trading is not about opinions, not about a prediction, or even great stock tips or picks. Profitable trading is all about math, making more money on profitable trades than you lose on


How To Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky)
Naval taught me more about making money than almost anyone else. He wrote a famous Twitter thread called “How to Get Rich” and thousands of creators used those ideas to get rich online. I’m one of


10 Trading Lessons from the Epstein Interview That Was Buried for 7 Years
Jeffrey Epstein did a secret interview in 2019. It was buried for 7 years. It just leaked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIEYmflX090 To be clear — Epstein was a pedophile, a trafficker, and a predator. I do not


When You Feel Pain, Remember to Reflect
Or: What 6-Sigma Feels Like Friday was painful. This is my reflection. Later in this post, we’ll walk through the standard format for when something historic like Friday’s precious metals washout


A $100K Salary Is Now the Equivalent of Poverty
When I said this on LinkedIn I got roasted. People lost their marbles. They reacted out of emotion because they didn’t study the point I’m making. “This is white privilege” said some crazies who make


Dollar Doomers Missing the Point
Gold just hit $5,000. Silver hit $100. I’ve been pounding the table on both for a decade. And I’m long dollars. Even back as far as the Black Snow Capital days, when your humble author wore out his


What if I told you billionaires pay less in taxes than you?
You are paying more than 24% of your income in taxes. But these billionaires pay less than 5% in taxes on their billions of income. Not because they’re breaking the law but because they’ve mastered


Money, Civil & International War, Minneapolis, and Beyond—in Perspective
For me, watching what is now happening is like watching a movie that I have seen many times in history. I am a global macro investor whose approach to betting on what is going to happen is to


If You Make Money Every Day, You’re Not Maximizing
If You Make Money Every Day, You’re Not Maximizing This is an expression I heard early in my trading days. In this post, we will use arithmetic to show what it means in a trading context, specifically


How to fix your entire (financial) life in 1 hour
Open minara.ai Prompt "How to fix my entire life in 1 hour" Follow the "Quick Financial Reset" within 1 hour.


Break Society's Money Rules If You Want to Be a Quiet Millionaire
You gotta break society’s money rules because society is broke. The average person isn’t doing well. Not because they’re stupid. No. But because to stay ahead financially you need to understand how


22 life-changing things I bought in 2025
I don't go nuts with money and I don't live in a massive house. I don't have a beach house. I don't have a mountain house. No car collection and no Rolex watches. But I have spent a lot of energy


I'm 39 and Just Realized I've Been Lied to About How Money Works
The education system pretends to set us up for life. You choose one career. You go into debt for a college degree. You work hard. You earn a salary. You save money. You get into debt and buy a house.


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.


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


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


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


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


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
