Every decade we get a new thing where we state the phrase: “I can’t imagine what the world was like before X”.
2020s is AI.
2010s was Smart Phones.
2000s was Personal Computers.
1990s was the Internet.
back to electricity, the wheel and so on.
What will the 2030’s “thing” be?
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I also remember before they dropped J11 Flints and Purple Metallic 4’s you could scrape PIDs brute forcing ATC requests via wishlist and you could get stock numbers by just spamming a 10k QTY pid. You could even check them out too before the drop as well. I bought over 100 pairs of flints morning of the drop before drop time and passed on the thousands of 4’s they had loaded. Made a few thousand but definitely fumbled the bag not buying the 4’s. My parents house is still permabanned from dicks online and they send gift codes every now and then.
CLOSEOUT FLOW Backend SKUs from the return intake warehouse is one of the best Nike loops of all time and I’m sorry if you did not get to witness it.
Went from phone calling Nike reps and logging good ones to just put requesting them in bag via chrome console.
In the same realm as taking action on AI’s suggestions for people’s questions and seeing success, I wonder how many people have also been steered away from successful outcomes by blindly listening to its answer and missing out if they had just tried it anyways
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Your phone is a pacifier for adults. Discomfort arises, IG reels instantly opened, nervous system numbs. You're self soothing, because it's easier to "check your phone" and escape the pain of your existence than sit through the first 20 minutes of overstimulation withdrawal. You've forgotten the magic that exists in long states of boredom (child like imagination) and all it takes is to experience that is going on a leisurely walk with no destination.
Why would ChatGPT be using the India Times as a searchable resource to answer my questions for any reason
Trump accounts are a financial litmus test to see where your children will participate in the k-shaped economy in roughly 20 years
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You gotta be putting like 10x shots on net compared to what you’re currently doing. Most people take one shot every few years. To run up the score you should be putting up 2-3 shots a day minimum. At the end of each year you’ve shot thousands of shots while most people did nothing. It’s a numbers game. Your shooting percentage can be horrible and you’ll still lap everyone. Gotta score to win. Gotta shoot to score. Shoot more.
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The 2-4 hours you spend scrolling each day (or 730-1460 hours each year) is more than enough time to write a book, build a business, or get in shape. In the moment, it seems like nothing. That's why it's so dangerous. Your time disappears without you being conscious of it.
People who use ozempic and other weight loss drugs are cowards who can’t commit any dedication to accountability for themselves to just eat better and move more rather than looking weird and receiving bad side effects instead of increasing their longevity and health
Say “I’m going to be a top 10% person at this thing” and carry that mindset to whatever you actually execute you’ll live an extraordinary life
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you wake up and reach for your phone before your eyes focus. scroll through a hundred thoughts that aren’t yours until your own voice sounds like someone you used to know and by noon you’ve consumed more information than your grandparents did in a year but can’t name a single thing that actually moved you. the feed keeps serving up other people’s lives and you keep swallowing them whole, mistaking the fullness for satisfaction when really you’re just bloated on nothing. you’ve become a processing unit instead of a person and the loneliest part is how normal it feels.
Pulled out a personal Gold Amex to pay off my tab at the bar this weekend. Guy beside me asked if it was “daddy’s money”
If you still believe a Gold Amex or anything alike to it “wealth” you’re a midwit
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Some life alpha:
If you are determined, ambitious and hardworking, life will give you a lot of opportunities to succeed by allowing you to find spots in which you can press for an advantage.
You can think of your day to day as mostly being uneventful as you press yourself up against the wall of opportunity. Months go by and often nothing happens.
One fine day, without warning, a crack on the wall will appear and you will be able to reap what you have been sowing for the past couple of months/years. The time from pushing to reaping is indeterminate, random and extremely frustrating.
Most people will give up long before it happens - for 2 reasons:
1) their patience is finite, fragile and thin and
2) they are easily distracted by the things that don't actually matter. (hint: MOST things in life don't actually matter ex-post)
When you are chasing an outcome, you will find a hundred distractions in your path and conjure a million reasons on why you should give up.
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But if you are earnest about your goals and have the patience of a monk and the drive and tenacity of a warrior - the wall will break. Reality will crack under your will.
Everything else is a distraction.