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nietzsche understood the futility of the normie pursuits. moneymaxxing, girlmaxxing, chillmaxxing, slopmaxxing pedestrian pursuits when collapsed into their implication signs in the action space become trivial. there is no great romance in the balancepilled chillmaxxer life.
- society has conditioned us to always permeate interaction with pleasantry. you meet a friend, it's over dinner you go on a date, it's over drinks you reminisce together, it's over a walk in the park mfs will get oneshotted by the fact that eventually you realize connection is
- trading and startups seem to be the only careers where you are truly living and operating in a pure meritocracy
- there are thousands of ivy league/oxbridge grads, thousands of crypto millionaires, even more corporate slopco successes, yet most are trapped. credentialed, capitalized, yet empty. running on scripts, their existence legged into repetition and a primal yearning for the
- the ancient art of oneshotting is the secret that many great armies, politicians, and powermaxxers have used to annihilate traditional power structures and capture the attention and minds of the masses. this art manifests via three avenues: speed, force, and the idiosyncratic.
- peter thiel’s greatest gift to humanity is his elucidation of verticalstriving and horizontalstriving every young smart bright ambitious kid gets oneshotted by the interplay between the vertical and the horizontal. perpetual exclamations of “oh the grass must be greener over
- beginning to think everything is just momentum and mean reversion
- Every global thematic shift has agents which enact it; and this usually comes in many forms. It has become clear to me the emerging theme is efficiency. We already see power transitions across all of these industries playing out to the most potent agents with the veneer of
- a few months can change everything, went from not being very good at pandas and knowing nothing about systematic trading strategies to running a 2+ sharpe on multiple alphas as an intern
