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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
I Stopped Caring About Results (And Started Getting Them)
The week after my first book came out in 2012 was rough. I mean, it wasn’t actually rough. I was twenty five. My rent was $900 a month for a beautiful two room apartment in the Garden District in New
How to cure your anxiety in the next 24 hours
Anxiety nearly took my life. I became so nervous I couldn’t sit in a meeting room with the door shut. This became my worst nightmare. My hands would shake constantly. It was such an embarrassing way
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.
Society Is Secretly Full of Cowards. This Is the Greatest Opportunity of the 21st Century.
Saying the masses are cowards sounds like an insult. It’s not meant to be. Over the last 11 years, I’ve interacted with millions of people online through email, social media, paid/free webinars, and
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
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
Finding Purpose in Life ( A Practical Guide for Gamers, and Crypto Folks)
We are standing on the edge of a precipice, witnessing a silent but violent transition in the human experience. It is not being broadcast on the news, because the cameras are pointed at the wrong
You're Not Elite
Somewhere along the way, the word elite lost its meaning. Across social media, especially in the fitness space, I keep seeing the same pattern: people defining “elite” in comparison to the everyday
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
Social retardmaxxing: How to stop being lonely
2 years ago, I was lonely as fuck. I didn't even have one good friend. Not one. Why? Because I believed the lies the self-help gurus told me: "You need to find likeminded people" "Your friends are all
My phone was stolen, my banks were hacked, and I lost the draft of my first book
“Dude, are you on a motorbike?” Those were the last words I heard in my headphones as I watched the robbers speed away. I stood stunned. I had just answered my friend’s call as I walked toward my flat
How most people end up living someone else's life (the default trap)
A few months ago I was talking to a friend from high school. We hadn't caught up in a while. He was telling me about his job, his apartment, his routine. And at some point he said something that stuck
PUA Skills Will Get You Laid, But These Skills Will Attract and Keep a Feminine Woman
Everything You've Been Told About Women Is Backwards My buddy Derek had it all. Six-two. Jacked. Made $400K running his own agency. Drove a blacked-out G-Wagon. The kind of guy who walks into a room
How To Stop Getting Disrespected
"They disrespect you because you let them." Read that again. Let it sit. Let it burn if it needs to. This will always be true. It was true a thousand years ago when kings lost their thrones to
I Reviewed 200+ Indie Products and Found the Conversion Killers
Last weekend I went through over 200 landing pages from indie hackers and founders. Some were amazing. Most had the same fixable problems. I saw certain patterns over and over again. If you're
How To Know Yourself
I. Fuck up. II. Burn the boats. Go all-in on yourself every chance you get, put yourself under pressure, back up against the wall, no plan B. You are capable of more than you know - both good and
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
29 Life Cheat Codes I Know at 36 That I Wish I Knew at 26
I’m about to share something that will either change your life or make you angry. Maybe both. Most people will scroll past this. They’ll dismiss it as “too long” or “too much.” Those people will still
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
Zero to Hero in a year
Doing a full 180 wasn't easy but it was entirely necessary in my case, without it I'd be dead. I was going nowhere fast. BOOKMARK THIS!!! Especially if you are stuck. This is my story, but I am
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
The solitude of greatness is a feature, not a bug
You‘re scrolling at your desk. Pretending to work. Dreaming about quitting. Building that business on the side. Telling yourself “one day”. You want out. You want greatness. You want to be the person
How to Restart and Reset Your Life in 2026
I’m going to tell you something that will piss you off: Every restart you’ve ever attempted failed because you were trying to change the wrong thing. You’ve been trying to change your behavior. But,
Happy wife, happy life. THE ORIGINAL SIN and how it's still killing marriages and men.
I always assumed Adam was tending to the garden, corralling wild animals, and doing some cool MAN STUFF while the serpent took advantage of Eve in the garden of Eden. I figured then Eve came
How to fix your approach to losing
If you are anything like me, you don't start something because you want to lose. Most people get hit with a loss, and it ruins their mood. Losing a trade makes you want to trade again immediately.
From Nodes to Trajectories: How Meaning-First Design Unlocks AI's Quantum-Like Efficiency
We treated humans as stateless nodes and paid the price in wasted compute, brittle safety, and broken flow. Author’s Note As a parent, I’m also building an AI version of myself—something my children
Everyone is exhausted. Here’s why it’s not burnout.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably said the same sentence more times this past year than you can count. “I’m exhausted.” Not as a joke. Not as a complaint. Just as a quiet truth. What’s
Does Coding Rewire the human brain?
Exploring how programming shapes the way we think, reason, and solve problems. If you’ve ever stared at your code long enough to feel like your brain was glitching, you’re not alone. But here’s the
How to unf*ck your brain (you have about 36 months)
Unrotting your brain is an emergency. Brainrot is the equivalent of a well-respected doctor in a white lab coat saying, “Ma’am/sir, you have stage 4 colon cancer.” I’ve been quiet about this epidemic
Closed mouths don't get fed
if you don't express what you want or need, no one will know to provide it for you. A simple premise that most seem to fall short on... BOOKMARK THIS and let it change your life. My life changed
How to get dialed with ADHD
Good morning friends. Lets get Dialed. If you have ADHD, Its likely that doing extraordinary things is effortless and ordinary things are impossible. This is a feature, not a bug. “I don’t how you can
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.
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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