poet. a lifetime is not enough to be all that i want to be.
The Road less taken
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Please, read books. Not just captions, or carousel posts, or what made it to the top of your feed. Read books. Long ones. Complex ones. You cannot build a mind with weight on the back of social media ephemerals. Intellectual depth demands patience.
"the painful truth of human connection is that we are all, from time to time, profoundly incompetent... and we clumsily step on the very vulnerabilities we promised to protect."
when someone tells you, 'You'll just hurt me like everyone else,' they are setting a psychological trap. it is a brilliant, albeit unconscious, manipulation tactic..."
It's important to articulate these kinds of things because some individuals have elevated their brokenness to such a degree that healing feels like an affront to the sanctity of past pain. If someone gets better, they suddenly have to compete in the "open fields" of life based
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Learn:
1. Math
2. Excel
3. CRM
4. Sales
5. Oral & Written Communication and Presentation
6. Resource Management—time, people, money, liabilities, and value
7. How to manage information. Includes how to learn, what to learn, and what to ignore
8. Style
9. Pricing
10. Incident Response/Damage control.
Think of how these things apply to where you are in your life. This is all from me.
variance dictates the scale of the outcome, yet it's constantly mistaken for skill. finance remains the ultimate case study for teaching how easily we are fooled by randomness.
do not collect asset classes like hobbies. maximize your safety in things you know cannot blow up, and only venture into speculative markets if you fully understand your exposure to tail risk and have genuine "skin in the game."
simultaneously learning "equities, credit, options, currencies, derivatives, crypto & fixed income" creates an " expert problem." investors gain superficial knowledge, taking massive, misunderstood risks that can lead to total ruin (naïve empiricism).
purpose is not an inherent treasure hunt; it is a retrospective narrative we construct out of dedicated action.
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intellectually understanding how to change your behavior doesn't just change your behavior...
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To generalize from the Kasparov & the math debacle: as a rule, all performative skills will be destroyed by AI. A computer will always outperform a human, so chess is no longer a skill.
Same w/mathematical acrobatics.
What's left is what makes us human.
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Where we see evidence that mathematicians are more interested in the welfare of mathematicians than the improvement of scientific knowledge.
unlike the peasants of the past who were aware of their illiteracy and thus had an unclouded perspective, today's educated individuals often read just enough to confuse the repetition of media and financial opinions with original thought.
love is a series of precise, localized frequencies. it is a specifically beautiful goodness that exists entirely on its own terms, independent of timing, logic, or compatibility.
