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High cortisol is destroying your productivity. 7 natural ways to solve that.
If you’re an entrepreneur, there’s a good chance you’ve tried to “fix productivity” with AI tools, apps, or even forcing yourself to be more "disciplined". And yet your output still feels inconsistent
Why Ambitious People Self-Destruct (The Neuroscience)
"Focus on one thing." You've heard it from every business book, every podcast, and every successful entrepreneur. And you've tried. You know it's the right move. But somehow you're still spread across
How To Make Life Feel "Real" Again
In the 1950s, a Dutch biologist named Niko Tinbergen discovered something disturbing about animal behavior that won him a Nobel Prize. He found that birds would abandon their own eggs to sit on
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
HOW TO UNF*CK YOUR LIFE
NOTHING CHANGES IF NOTHING CHANGES... Your life is 100% your responsibility. BOOKMARK THIS IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE. NEWSFLASH: YOUR LIFE SUCKS. The first and arguably most important
Really Long Books That Are Worth Every Page
Oh man, there is nothing I love more than a big, long, thick biography. Last month, we talked about short books you could finish on a plane, well I’m talking about the opposite of that now, the ones
Turns out, the internet is bad.
I just learned something I probably should have already known, and honestly it made me feel like a normal person again. Quick backstory. For the last month or so, whenever I sat down at my desk to
ALL YOU NEED IS ONE WIN
"You only have to be right one time" - @mcuban It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your
You Are Just 3 Decisions Away From a Completely Different Life
You already know what you need to do. Quit the thing that’s draining you. Start the thing you’ve been “researching” for 14 months. Have the conversation you keep rehearsing in the shower but never
Stop Overthinking Every Decision. Your Subconscious Already Has the Answer.
You've been agonizing over the same decision for days. Late nights replaying both options. Spending hours weighing pros and cons. Meanwhile, there's a network in your brain designed to solve exactly
Lock the F*ck in and Make the next 6 Months Better than the Last 10 Years
I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s time to lock the f*ck in. A quarter of 2026 is nearly gone. And most of you haven’t achieved even 1% of your goals. This essay is your wake-up call. It’s
Don’t Go To Business School. Read These 18 Books Instead
Warren Buffett considers the foundation of his multi-billion dollar empire to be a book. At 19 years old, he bought a copy of The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. We don’t know exactly what he
70+ Free Subscriptions - Become a Student
Almost everything is free, and some offer crazy discounts. You can become a student, study, and use all the services without even attending classes. Absolutely everyone gets annoyed at having to pay
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
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
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,
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.
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
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 set up OpenClaw Agents that actually get better Over Time (My exact stack after 40 Days)
My agents get smarter every day. All I do is talk to them. Not tweak prompts. Not swap models. Not rebuild the architecture. Just talk. Give feedback. Watch them write it down. 40 days ago, my content
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
I Wish I Knew The Real Reason I Was Lazy Earlier (Wasn't Distractions)
An invisible enemy is sabotaging your performance. You encounter it dozens of times every day. It makes all your work harder than it needs to be and blocks you from getting into the zone. And by the
Extended Overthinking
I’m tired of AI lately. Not of what it can do. Of what it does to me. Every new model, every new tool, every new workflow. Yes, they’re powerful. Yes, they let us do more. But there’s this weird
how to lock in (for real)
your attention has been strip-mined by apps built by billion-dollar teams whose only job is to stop you from doing exactly what you are about to learn in this biological playbook. i have listened to
how to replenish your dopamine receptors after exposure to porn and scrolling.
many people are aware of porn addiction, the same people are also aware of the scrolling addiction, yet they do nothing to fix it, why? if life feels flat, your motivation has tanked, and everyday
How To Get Ahead Of 99% In 1 Day
I’m 27. In my short time on Earth: I made a lot of mistakes I have done some things right I learned a lot of valuable lessons In this article, I'll share the best business and self-improvement lessons
Addition Under Pressure
I asked Claude Code and Codex to each train the smallest possible transformer that can do 10-digit addition. Claude Code came back with a 6,080-parameter model and Codex came back with 1,644
Build a life worth living, don’t think inside the box
My Experience There is something I understood a bit too late in my life: the importance of thinking outside the box. There is a puzzle that perfectly illustrates this idea, one that 99.99% of people
intro to ray peat.
before we get started, i want to tell you the most important thing about ray peat, and it is... don't listen to random people, only listen to peat himself random people on twitter have a high
i benchmarked K2.5 (1T params) on 1x to 8x 3090s. every result, every crash, every dollar.
a single RTX 3090 can run a 1 trillion parameter model. a GPU you can find used for $800. the same card people game on just ran the largest open-weight model ever released. i wanted to know how far
Know Your Chronotype, It'll Change Your Life.
The science shows that when you work matters more than how much you work, who you work with, or how hard you work. That sounds backward. We obsess over effort, hours, and team dynamics. But there's
IN THE PURSUIT OF GREATNESS
""He who has a why to live can bear almost any how" - Friedrich Nietzsche The only way out is delusional optimism. That is your how: WHY? Because you owe it to yourself and those around you to
9 Daily Habits That Have Nothing To Do With Writing (But Have Made Me A Wealthy Writer)
I'm not a "genius" writer. But over the last 10 years, I have: Published 11 books Written thousands of articles Built multiple 7-figure writing businesses The secret? I treat my writing like a mental
You Don't Actually Want to Be Successful. You Just Like Thinking About It
You've saved 847 motivational posts. You follow 23 productivity gurus. Your camera roll is full of screenshots about discipline. And you're exactly where you were six months ago. This isn't failure.
OpenClaw Works. Your Setup Doesn’t (Yet).
Every person I talk to is excited about OpenClaw. "We have 10 agents! 14 agents! An agent for everything!" Cool. How do they remember what happened yesterday? *silence* That's the gap. And it's huge.
I Tried Going Back to Supabase After a Year on Neon. Lasted 30 Minutes.
Last week, I did something stupid. After a year of using Neon Database exclusively, I decided to give Supabase another shot. Not because I needed to. Not because Neon was failing me. But because my
Clearing Your Allostatic Load Makes Laziness Impossible
It's 11 AM. You're getting bombarded from seven directions: Slack, email, a call from your boss... You're underslept and over-caffeinated. Every interruption pinches you harder than it should. You
How Average People Become High Achievers (Top 1%)
Her husband lost everything. Right when their second child was born premature and almost didn’t survive. Her little family spent weeks in intensive care. During this time her husband’s business
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
Openclaw (clawdbot) Starter Pack: Tools, Plug-ins & Resources
Your Openclaw (clawdbot) workflows are about to get 10x better. This article compiles the top Openclaw resources you need to deploy your best autonomous workflows yet. Over the past week, I've read
Successful People Disappear for Months at a Time like It's Normal. You Should Too.
Disappearing for months without a trace is supposed to be bad. Experts claim this way of life leads to loneliness. Psychoanalyst Robert Waldinger says, "Loneliness kills. It’s as powerful as smoking
You Should Be Building Your Own Thing for the First 2 Hours of Every Day
Quitting your job for your dream is reckless. This idea needs to die. It’s unrealistic to go from a regular salary to $0 and build some business, movement, or not-for-profit based on hope. The way I
The Stack Discourse
Or, why I stopped caring about tech choices. Every week my feed fills up with the same arguments. React versus Svelte. Next.js versus Remix. Whether Rails can scale. Why use Convex, or Supabase, or
Why You’re Addicted To Self-Improvement (But Never Actually Improve)
You’ve saved 47 posts about productivity. Bought 6 courses on building a business. Read 12 books on mindset. And you’re still in the exact same place you were a year ago. Most people think they just
I stopped meditating and became retarded instead
Meditation is the habit the self-improovement gurus LOVE to talk about. It's the ultimate cure for everything. And if you're anything like me you have followed the advice to meditate daily. To be
HTML tips you won’t see in most tutorials.
In this article, I will share with you some very useful HTML tips. Enjoy! I recently published a 50-page eBook with lots of HTML tips, examples, and illustrations. It’s available here: HTML eBook. But
7 steps to design the life you want
What do you actually want out of life? Pause for a second. Think carefully about this. For years, I struggled to even imagine what my dream life looked like. Growing up, most days felt like a struggle