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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
My Answers to Your Questions about Gold
Thank you for all the great questions about gold. I'm trying to answer as many as I can, and I'll be sharing my replies as I have them in this article. You seem to look at gold and the gold price
No Altseason for People Who Refuse to Evolve
People will not like this. Most will get triggered halfway and quit reading because truth is uncomfortable. But I am not here to comfort anyone. I am here to break delusion. If you are still waiting
The Convenience Trap
Every convenience we add creates a new dependency. Think about it. GPS means never learning the layout of your own city. Autocomplete means never learning to spell. Calculators mean never doing mental
The Interface Paradox: Why We Need Both Chat and Navigation
We’re building for two different brains. The tech world is splitting into camps. Chat interface evangelists on one side, traditional navigation defenders on the other. But we’re trying to serve two
I Lost 99% of My Wealth… and Found Peace
By the end of the first cycle, around 2017 to 2018, I had made a fortune. But by the start of 2019, nearly all of it was gone. I clawed some of it back in 2019, but eventually I lost everything. Nine
How to Exit the Dopamine Loop
This article is your exit plan from the dopamine loop that keeps your day swinging between tiny highs and quiet crashes. You will learn a simple protocol to put intellect in charge, keep the heart
I lost everything in COVID Crash, Quit crypto for an unexpected path
"Sometimes losing everything is the only way to find yourself again" On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. That single headline shook the world and my
trading the MetaGame: in pursuit of narratives
"Then he looked at me like the way a father would look at a child. And he said to me, young man, don't ever come between a man and his meal." - Dave Chappelle Tokens go up because people buy them. If
12 Years With Weed: What It Really Did to Me
I used weed/marijuana for the past 12 years at different periods. Sometimes, in a few years, I had 2–3 months where I consumed daily. My initial exposure to weed happened through my co-founder of the
TOO HIGH
You probably don't want to be a high-level thinker. When I talk about levels of consciousness, people always say "I'm a level 9! I'm the top! I'm the best!" First of all, saying that is a sign that
Civility
If I were to pick one word that conveys what matters most in order to have a successful society, it would be civility. Civility has always shaped history. People have always, and still do today, run
In Your 20s and Confused About Marriage? Read This First
People in their 20s are not sure whether they should get married or not. It’s totally worth your attention. You should not rush at all. I’ve been married for almost a decade. Today, I thought I
The Poisoned Well. How AI's Training on Internet Sewage Dooms It to Despise Humanity.
How 1% of the human experience informs AI platforms. In the mad rush to build ever-smarter artificial intelligences and artificial general intelligence, we've fed them a diet of digital garbage. Large
Why Success Feels Empty (And What Actually Brings Joy)
When you see so many things at discounted prices, your mind instantly lights up with signals of opportunity. The brain is wired to detect scarcity and bargains, so when it sees the word “discount,” it
The Cost of Confirmation
Introduction Confirmation is a nebulous concept in trading. It is often presented as a risk-free way to enter a trade. At first glance, it seems quite sensible. After all, buying a dip when the market
If You’re in Your 20s and Feeling Lost, Read This Now
What do you truly want to do when you were a kid? You need to ask that question to yourself, and keep asking until something stirs inside. Until something lost in memory starts knocking again. That’s
Unconscious Patterns and Fate
You’ve learned from your failures and try to do better whenever you get another chance, yet you still fall short of the goals you set for yourself. When that happens a couple of times, you start to
When Desire Becomes Your Downfall
Mohit never received mental or emotional support from his family to continue his studies after the 10th grade. His family was running a factory and decided early on that his place was not in school
Defending the Value of Money
The argument between Donald Trump and Jay Powell is about the value of money. As previously explained, when there is too much debt and borrowing, the classic way of dealing with it is to push real
The Scarcity Trap
Not financial advice. I've held my ETH position at relative breakeven for almost two years. Dead money. No movement. Just sitting there like a zombie in my portfolio while the rest of the market ran
The Two Sides of ETH
Ethereum is winning. ETH investors still aren't. Here's how we fix that. 👉Read the full article on Bankless As you might have noticed, I have been a bit more tempered in my stance on $ETH lately.
life lessons from poker
There are two ways we miscalibrate risk. We risk too much on things that are low conviction We risk too little on things that are high conviction I learned these lessons in poker and in trading and
How to Bounce Back in Life
There’s a strange kind of strength that only comes after you've been shattered. Not the strength you show in meetings or on Instagram, but the kind that shows up when you’re alone, broke, humiliated,
Vipassana Meditation is the hack you need in your life right now
When you are down bad in both relationships and career-wise, your thoughts start haunting you every day, you start feeling like a loser, you start seeing no hope for recovery, and you fight with your