Industrial Relations & Personnel Management 🎓 Second Class (Upper... Division) Zero carryover throughout my academic journey. Top 10 in my department🥺 God did this 🙏✨ #35THOOUCONVOCATIONshow more

Day 3 - La Chung to Zero Point Distance... - 3 hours approx The journey is so fckin beautiful that at one point I had tears in my eyes, not kidding! Felt blessed and privileged to have done this. 🥺 Also, I felt disappointed in our Tourism game. India is beautiful, and I wish we could promote it right. We really need to learn how to market our tourist places. Btw, if you are lucky, you can experience snowfall at Zero Point ❄️🥰 You can see China Border from here. Note - Do carry a raincoat/umbrella. Drink enough water throughout the journey. Carry an oxygen cylinder, highly recommend. Carry essential meds.show more

Today, I walked across the stage as a graduate... of the University of Georgia School of Social Work. But long before the robe and the honor cords, there was a little boy in Makoko with absolute FAITH in God who dared to rewrite his story. These degrees (Masters of Social Work and Certificate in Nonprofit Management) are more than academic milestones. They are markers of God’s ever sure mercies, grit, and grace. Grateful to be surrounded by the Dean, my professors, mentors, and well-wishers who poured into me throughout this journey. To every child from humble backgrounds and communities like mine: your beginnings may be humble, but your future is not limited by your environment. “Faithful is He who calls you, who also will do it.” —1 Thessalonians 5:24 #socialwork #UGA #MakokoToTheWorld #gratitude #FaithJourney #graduation #communityimpact #goddidit #jesusrevealedjesusglorifiedshow more

Today, I graduated from Stanford with my masters in... law, with a focus in law, science, and technology. I expended considerable time exploring how to add value to emerging companies by advising them throughout their lifecycles, specifically on raising venture capital and licensing intellectual properties and technologies. I hope to spend the foreseeable future deepening my expertise in these areas. For the Stanford journey, I must start with gratitude. First, I am grateful for my parents, siblings and family who supported me through everything. I am grateful for my former employers who invested heavily in my growth, played a substantial part in Stanford happening, and in whom I found another family. I am especially grateful for my friends (including those I made at Stanford) who have overwhelmed me with love and support that I do not think I deserve. I am grateful for my colleagues, with whom I have shared this journey, and who have blessed me with their knowledge and experiences. I am grateful for all my mentors and professional connections whose benevolence towards me have never run dry. I am grateful for my professors and the Stanford academic faculty who have shared their knowledge with me and have challenged me intellectually, and finally, I am grateful to God, for the invisible hand in how my life has played out over the past year. At the ceremony, my friend Ana Julia – who spoke on behalf of the class – said we already made it before we arrived for this program. That is true, because the program is a gathering of highly exceptional people from different parts of the world, and with different experiences. Having been privileged to spend the last one year with these people, I will go on from here knowing that I mean something. I am something. And I will devote my time to leading with my humanity and advocating for positive change in the world. I charge you to do the same.show more

I am excited to announce that I have committed... to play Mid Major Division I baseball and continue my academic journey at Alcorn State University (ASU), in Lorman Mississippi and in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). I can’t thank my close teammates, coaches, and family enough for helping me along the way. Thank you to the entire staff at Joliet Junior College for helping make this dream a reality. Also, a special thank you to head coach Greg Braun for believing in me and my dream. A special thank you to my brother, Leo, my dad, Andrew, my mama, and my best friend and teammate, Mark, for always pushing me past my limits and helping me become a better person as well as athlete while accomplishing this goal. I could not have done it without you. Go Braves 🟡🟣⚪️ #BraveNation #AlcornBSB #BraveStrong #AlwaysAlcorn #BraveEnough #D1 #committed Alcorn State Baseball carlton hardy Alcorn State Braves Athletics Alcorn State JJC Wolves Baseball Scott Halicky Matty Holem Omar Almodovar Elite Recruits Clyne G. H. Namuo, Ph.D. The JBB Noah Sharp Joliet Junior College Joliet Junior College Athletics Prospect Dugout Prep Baseball Illinois PG College Baseball Perfect Game Illinois @TennesseeJuco National Scouting Bureau NJCAA Baseball NJCAA Region 4 Brock Wilken Josh Fields Jackson Rockabillys Prospect League D1Graphics Top Tier North Elite Baseball Teams Justin Stone Matt Van Mill Jordan Dean Athletes HQ®️ New Trier Booster New Trier Athletics New Trier Trevians Baseball Mike Naps Jim Davisshow more

The name “Rampage” originated long before 2018. It spawned... in 2009 as I ventured into my very first attempt at content creation. As a 12 year old, I was obsessed with Call of Duty and needed a username to both join a clan and attempt making content about the gameplay. This started my journey into trying and failing over 20 different YouTube channels/ideas between 2009 and 2018 until I discovered the poker niche. I tell this story to set context - it’s extremely easy to look at someone with X number of followers on social media and think everything portrayed like sunshine and rainbows. When you look at all the biggest creators in the world today, everyone started with the same number; zero. The common denominator that sets them apart is consistency, dedication, and a delusional amount of self confidence. I’m not here to compare myself to the top creators but I did put in the time, effort, and work to get to nearly 400,000 subscribers on Youtube. This was by no means an overnight success story, especially competing in a small market niche space like poker. But the reel above shows my subscriber count in 2018, when in reality my journey started in 2009 recording videos with a flip phone that was propped up in a frisbee disc between 2 remote controllers. Talk about bootstrapping. My start with poker content started like a lightning in a bottle, after all my trial and errors with YouTube - I uploaded my very first poker vlog, my best half assed attempt to display a semblance of knowledge about the game even though it was my 3rd time every playing. This was classic 101 larping. But I recall within 24 hours of the upload on YouTube, this video generated over 1,000 views and I FREAKED. This was an unbelievable number that I’ve never seen before in any of my previous content ventures. Immediately all indicators pointed towards poker, there was clearly something special here. And even though I knew nothing about the game, I was going to document the entire journey and used poker as a way to create content.show more

I made over 2.5 million dollars this past week... betting sports. Yes, it sounds easy. Yes, it sounds simple. But the truth is, this is the result of years of obsession, discipline, and grinding at my craft. I spent four straight years playing poker 18 hours a day. That was my entire life. Wake up, play poker, think about poker, sleep, repeat. That level of focus is how I became one of the top players in the world and made over 10 million dollars playing poker. Poker built my foundation. Discipline, risk management, emotional control, and the ability to perform under real pressure. But the reality is, there are no billionaires in poker. There are billionaires in sports betting. So I went all in on sports betting and walked away from poker completely. I took everything I learned and built this the right way. I hired the best analysts and handicappers in the world, people I met through poker, and brought them together under one operation. Because of the platform I’ve built, these guys make more money working with me than they ever could on their own. That is how I’m able to operate at an extraordinary level and consistently win at a very high rate. Winning 2.5 million dollars in a week is incredible, and I’m grateful, but I’m not satisfied. I’m constantly sharpening my edge and building something bigger. My vision is to turn this into a nine figure a year business. I truly believe I’m on the path to becoming a billionaire one day. I think back to being a kid, dreaming of being a professional gambler, having a gambling themed bar mitzvah, and looking up to my father, one of the best poker players in the world. This path has been inside me for a long time. Today, my entire life revolves around becoming the best sports bettor possible. I wake up thinking about it, go to sleep thinking about it, and live it every single day. Grateful for the journey. Let’s keep going.show more

Hello Tata Motors I purchased a Tata Nexon EV... (30 kWh battery pack) on 10 February 2024 for around ₹18 Lakhs. Tata claimed a range of 325 KM, but throughout my ownership I NEVER received more than 175 KM on a full charge. Now the condition has become even worse. My battery drains so fast that I can barely drive 90 KM per charge. After reporting this issue, even the service center admitted there is a battery problem. At the time of purchase, Tata Motors clearly promised an 8-year / 160,000 KM battery warranty and assured us that defective batteries would be replaced with NEW ones. But now, when the issue has actually occurred, they are trying to replace my battery with a REFURBISHED (second-hand) battery instead of a new one. I raised this issue in February 2026. It has been months, and despite continuous follow-ups, there is still no battery replacement and no proper response from Tata Motors. What is more shocking is that Tata keeps blaming driving habits for the poor range. But according to THEIR OWN meter, my average consumption over the last 6434 KM is 91 Wh/KM, which technically should deliver around 329 KM range. Yet in reality, I never received anything close to that. To make things worse, the car makes frightening noises while charging. Honestly, it feels unsafe and scary, as if something could go seriously wrong at any moment. And when I asked Tata about exchanging this problematic vehicle, they offered only ₹5 Lakhs for a well-maintained 1.5-year-old car purchased for ₹18 Lakhs. Is this a joke? My demands are simple: 1. Provide a BRAND NEW battery replacement instead of a refurbished battery. 2. Offer a fair replacement/exchange value for the vehicle. This has been the worst ownership experience of my life. Extremely disappointed with Tata Motors and their after-sales service. TATA.ev Nitin Gadkari Department of Transportshow more

I went from ZERO($0) to 5 figures in less... than 5 months The year 2024 was a defining year for me and a lot of my friends. This story is one I should have told since but was waiting for the right time It all began in August after losing a cumulative of $20,000. That was literally all I had left with me and was down to less than $300. They say it all begins when you are down to your last 1 million and funny how I didn't even have up to a million Over the course of several days I began asking myself questions as to what I would have done with the money. I could have given my parent their dream house or gotten a car for myself, my mum and started my Agric business. Well, that was how Anxiety started with heavy palpitations and a pulse of 130 Not to bore you, allow me explain step by step as to how I bounced back 1) God - I wont lie to you, God and Prayers are very important in this WEB3. We have very few Normal people on here as this space is toxic enough to destroy you and your mental health 2) Network - See, I know all your idolos are telling you to grind hard which is factually correct but the real profits in this life are from who you know. Check SAYRAAH #WID 📈📉📊 content on networking for more information 2) Excellence - One little lesson I've learned from life is that excellence in itself is not restricted to a particular sphere but its a way of life. I strongly believe the reason all my clients refer me like their lives depend on it is because I handle my job with a unique style of excellence. Starting from my personal page to my clients jobs and even mannerisms 3) Hard work - This aspect has been misused so much. Hard work although very vital must be accompanied with a lot of smart work for you to have results. Scripture shows us that there is a possibility for two people to engage in similar work while they get different result. The one with the smaller result was termed a FOOLISH MAN and the one with better results was called a WISE MAN. The difference is in the knowing, you need to learn how to actually work hard 4) Voice out - Make sure you always voice out when you are not doing as much as you are supposed to. I have a lot of my guys that I tell intricate stuffs about my money-making journey and everyone puts heads together to ensure we all make money I might sound like aspire to perspire but the reality is, bouncing back is difficult but I want you to know that your hard work will eventually pay off I could have just said GOD DID but I know there's someone out there that might need this. Don't stop and don't settle, your future will thank you for it Over the next few days, I would be sharing some opportunities I recently found that I'm sure will print you money. Stay gluedshow more

Yesterday after securing Rena’s results, I immediately took her... and her mother to meet Tonny Tumukunde. We had a very emotional conversation. Tonny recommended a Christian school for her (Rena and her mother are Christians), Code High School. When he first mentioned the school, I thought it was just an ordinary school. Oh my… Earlier today, Rena, her mother and I traveled to Bajjo, Seeta in Mukono District to seek admission. When we arrived, we were received by the Deputy Head Teacher. After listening to the girl’s story and seeing her impressive PLE performance (Second Grade Upper – 15 aggregates), she was admitted immediately. Rena is going to a school that many of us who come from humble families only dreamt of. After the admission, it was another emotional moment as her mother broke down in tears of joy. Frame 2 shows the girls’ quarters, one for O-Level and another for A-Level. Frame 3 is the main hall and dining hall. The video shows the main classroom block. The school is not only strong in infrastructure but also academics. They performed very well in the 2025 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education examinations. The school administration has allowed Rena to start next term and catch up with her S.1 class. It all started with Mariam reaching out to me… and here we are. Knowing that this girl is going to school feels like a lifetime achievement. Thank you, Ugandans on X, for the love and generosity. Csl Tumukunde Tonny, you are blessed beyond limits 🙏 I’m now a father of three, my biological daughter, Saad Junior, and Rena 🙏show more

On the second day of recruiting myths… Myth #2:... “The name on the front of your jersey doesn’t matter.” There is some truth here. But people usually say this to make you feel better if you’re not on a team in the “recruiting bubble.” And yes of course there are always outliers. If you’re Montana Fouts, you could show up playing for the Butterflies and coaches would still be lined up drooling at the fence. But for most of us? The jersey does matter. Especially if you don’t have true 5-star size or can’t blow people away with elite metrics. I know this because I’ve been on both sides of it. Same player. Same work ethic. Completely different response from coaches. Why does the jersey matter more than people admit? First impressions. If a coach doesn’t recognize your club as one that consistently produces players at their level, you have to overwhelm them with performance and numbers just to get the same look. What matters even more than the jersey name is the coach attached to it. My last club, Rising, was brand new. But my coach, Steve Appel, had a lot of successful former players at top 25 programs. Coaches knew him. Trusted him. We were at the best fields and no one cared what was on the front of our jerseys. At my first tournament with that team, I saw more college coaches than I had in my entire recruiting journey before that. It’s true. College coaches aren’t recruiting a jersey. They’re recruiting you. But your jersey affects: •what fields you play on •who stops to watch •how risky you look on paper A well-known club with proven coaches comes with built-in credibility. Can you get recruited without that? Yes. I did. But if you’ve read my book, you know how many things had to line up for that to happen. So is there truth to this myth? Yes. But most of the time, when people say it, they’re trying to protect you from a harder truth: Recruiting isn’t just about how good you are. It’s also about who’s willing to vouch for you. And your jersey is a powerful indicator of that before a coach sees you even pick up a ball. #RecruitingRules Rule #6: The lifeblood of recruiting is relationships. And whether you like it or not, the front of your jersey is part of that. Photo Caption: Top image my OG team, AZ Steel after winning the Colorado Sparkler Supplemental Power Pool. Bottom image with steve appel after winning PGF Nationals. My original team eventually made it into the “recruiting bubble” the summer after I committed. We were a solid competitive team at the national club level, but having played for both, no one will ever convince me that my recruiting opportunities would have been the same regardless of which jersey I was wearing. Completely different worlds. I wouldn’t change my path. I ended up exactly where I always dreamed to be, and my path made me who I am, but in my case believing this myth for so long cost me time and my family money.show more

🦴✨ **Breaking News: The Mooseweiler Finally Gets It (Thanks... to Me)** ✨🦴 Listen up! I have an important announcement from the top of the couch: My brother baby rottie Kenji (aka The Mooseweiler, aka my oversized shadow with zero chill and even less coordination) just learned how to pick up his toy and actually PUT IT IN THE BOX like a real dog instead of a confused moose. Yes, yes, clap for him. I’ll wait… still waiting… okay, that’s enough. The human is over here rolling around like she just invented dog training. “Look what *I* taught him!!” she keeps saying, beaming with those victory selfies and acting like the kibble fairy godmother. Bless her sweet, optimistic heart. Sure, she did the whole beginner routine: scattered a couple pieces of kibble in the box so he’d shove his giant moose snout in there, had him nose-push the toy inside, then outside, then the grand finale — “pick it up and try not to yeet it sideways onto the box like a total amateur.” That last part took… several attempts. Because apparently my little brother thinks boxes are for leaning on, not actually putting things *in*. But let’s keep it real. What actually happened. The moment I casually strolled over, hit him with the patented Chesnyy Side-Eye of Wisdom™, picked up my own toy, and dropped it in the box clean as a pro… …boom. Lightbulb 💡 finally flickered on in that big, beautiful, empty-headed Rottie skull of his. He copied me. Obviously. Who wouldn’t? I’m basically the Einstein of the household — better hips, superior sass, and zero need for three rounds of kibble bribery just to do something this simple. So congratulations, Kenji the Mooseweiler, for finally mastering the sacred art of “toy goes in box”… all thanks to your brilliant, patient, and extremely talented older sister’s demonstration. You’re welcome, little bro. Try to keep up next time without the dramatic side-lay fail reel and all that confused moose energy. The human can keep taking the credit if it makes her happy. We both know who the real teacher is around here. Big sister supremacy remains undefeated. 🏆🐾 🎥 Video evidence that he's actually teachable #ChesnyyTheServicerottie #KenjiTheMooseweiler #BigSisterDidItFirst #ServiceRottieWisdom #ToyInTheBoxChallenge #MooseCopycatshow more

🚨 There’s been a lot of debate about whether... the Conor McGregor fight was fixed… I was there. I saw everything. Here’s my take. I filmed the two videos below as he walked into and out of the stadium. (Definitely take a second to watch them) What alarmed me the most about the first video was that there was no joy, excitement, or confidence as he headed toward the Octagon. As he walked into the sea of people, there ZERO percent hope in his eyes; complete deadpan. We all grew up watching Conor hype himself up before battle. That was NOT the Conor we’ve come to know. I’ve watched Conor make that walk dozens of times over the years. The swagger, the grin, the confidence; it was non existent. That’s what IMMEDIATELY caught my attention. The second I saw him, I knew was going to lose. This was his first UFC fight in five years, yet there was zero hope in his eyes? Just a completely blank expression? After all that 💩 talk? Really? To me, he looked like someone who already knew something wasn’t right. Whether it was his body, his preparation, or both, his energy was completely different. The second video shows him WALK back to the locker room. Yes, without a noticeable limp, he WALKED back with that same hopeless look in his eyes. I know 10+ people who have blown out ACLs, and none of them were casually walking around minutes later. That made me think one of two things: He already knew he was dealing with a serious injury, and that kick simply made it much worse. OR He straight up lied about his health, and planned to do a wild kick to blame the injury on in order to cash the check Regardless, it’s unfortunate how it ended. The highest selling gate in UFC history ended up being one of the biggest letdowns the sport has ever seen. Growing up means watching your heroes become human. I sincerely hope Conor continues his spiritual journey with Jesus, gets back to 100%, and returns one more time because we’d all still pay to see it. Shout out to Paddy for saving the night. What do you think? Do you believe Conor knew about the injury before the fight? Do you believe his tweet? Let me know your thoughts in the comments. 👇🏼show more

An Anthropic engineer paid for my espresso at Sightglass... when he saw my screen I was running my Polymarket bot from the counter. He was next in line. Looked over my shoulder. Stopped scrolling. "That's not a normal trading app. What's it actually running on" I told him. Claude Code. Four repos. $25 a month. He sat down without asking. "I'm on the agent team. We stress test Claude for exactly this. You're letting it find its own edges" Not just edges. Wallets. 86 million trades. Every wallet. Every entry. Every exit. "You're feeding Claude raw wallet data and letting it identify who consistently wins. Then cloning them" He said it slowly. Like he was writing the threat model in his head. One prompt. Find every wallet with 100 plus trades and win rate above 70%. Rank by profit. Export top 50. Claude scanned 14,000 wallets in 4 minutes. Returned 47. The top 20 made more than the bottom 13,000 combined. "That's not a stat. That's a hit list" Exactly. "And you didn't write the scoring function" Claude did. I just wired it into an if-statement. Then I showed him the second repo. Official Rust CLI. No API key for reads. 500 markets, Claude scores them in minutes. Gap. Depth. Resolution window. 487 markets become 35 before a dollar moves. 93% killed before I even see them. A green fill landed on the screen. +$84. Copytrade wallet: He watched it hit. "How does it decide to actually enter" Three agents. Shared wallet. No shared memory. Arbitrage, convergence, whale copy. 2 agree, full size. 1 alone, half. Disagree, no trade. Consensus filter alone killed 40% of losing trades. "And the exits?" The 47 whales never hold to settlement. 91% exit early. 73% of max profit captured. Redeploy immediately. My bot cuts at 85% of expected move or on a 3x volume spike. "You built a whale copy bot that exits before the whales" Yeah. He put his espresso down. "How often does it trade" 10 a day on average. Most of them skipped before I look up from my coffee. My setup: Claude API - $20/mo VPS in Germany - $5/mo poly_data - free polymarket-cli - free Polymarket/agents - free $200 seed. 27 days ago. $14,300 now. Copytrade here: 271 trades. 74% win rate. Sharpe 2.47. I haven't touched it in 27 days. He stared at the screen for a long time. "This is literally what our red team simulates. Except you actually shipped it" He emailed me the next morning. "Any chance you'd take a call with our policy lead" I told him the article is the call. Read it twice. Too late to gatekeep.show more

A case of two coronary scans: Nick Norwitz (high-fat,... keto 🍳); Simon Hill (plant-based 🌱) First, for context, this post is largely in response to an incredibly nuanced and non-dogmatic podcast conversation between Dave Feldman and Darius Sharpe, one that had me scratching my chin and holding my ribs throughout. I definitely recommend giving it a listen. 12/10 Episode! They spend a substantial amount of time discussing cardiovascular risk and, in particular, the contrast between my coronary CT scan, showing 0 calcified and 0 soft plaque (total plaque 0mm3) despite astronomical LDL levels in the high 500s for seven years vs that of plant-based nutrition influencer Simon Hill, which showed 61.3 mm3 of plaque despite his never having had high LDL and, for the last decade or so, targeting exceptionally low LDL and ApoB, including by taking a PCSK9 inhibitor and eating a low-saturated-fat, plant-forward diet. First and foremost, there’s only so much you can conclude from a comparison of two cases. That’s obvious, so let me state that clearly. However, considering the broader context and expressed public interested, it’s still an interesting thought puzzle: What is “protecting” me from atherosclerosis, or what is leading Simon to develop plaque despite his low LDL and ApoB? I’ll address the common hand-wavy answer up front: “Well, maybe Nick has some special protective genetics.” What I’d say to this is that, although I can’t rule it out definitively since we haven’t annotated the entire human genome, my father had 99% occlusion of his left anterior descending artery at 44, and I also inherited his high Lp(a), which sits between 150 and 200. That is in addition to my historically exceptionally high LDL and a history of inflammatory bowel disease, which should further increase my risk of progression. Yet despite all of that, I have no measurable plaque, even though, as the patient, I can tell you that many cardiologists assured me I would. Additionally, the excuse that “he’s just young” doesn’t fly, since Simon is also young. We’re both in our 30s. And, as a historical comparator, children with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia can develop plaque within a few years of being born. So, puzzle me this: Why am I not developing plaque if the relationship between LDL/ApoB exposure and plaque progression is so "remarkably consistent?" Hand-wave if you want, but I’d like something more specific please. (And I’d like anybody to tell me why they think I was confident enough to spend seven years on a self-experiment, risking my heart on the bet that this would effectively be the outcome. Was I just cocky and lucky?) That’s mostly what I want to post: a thought question to consider based on two individuals who have chosen to make their data publicly available. However, since this field is so wrapped in controversy, let me elaborate on a few more points that are related. 1. KETO-CTA. To anyone who wants to pivot and try to point the finger at KETO-CTA, I will remind you that, in 4 separate analyses, there was no relationship between LDL or ApoB and plaque progression. That remains true to this day. In fact, it's a result that remains more robust for having had our hands forced to run the additional analyses. With respect to our retraction of the April 7th Cleerly paper, which continues to be misrepresented (at this point, I have to assume willfully) I will remind you: i) we the authors, pushed forward the retraction of the April 7 paper; it was not forced upon us ii) we did so because of the Cleerly anomalies that came to light after publication – nb: Dave and I were blinded to elements of data willfully to protect the integrity of the project (there’s an irony for you) iii) we sought retraction only after company’s refusal to repeat a properly blinded rescan and quality assessment, and subsequent analyses that made the only reasonable interpretation that Cleerly systematically overestimated plaque progression iv) in none of the analyses did ApoB or LDL predict plaque progression, which was the main novel finding and remains robust. 2. Ezetimibe I am now taking ezetimibe. Critics have tried to cast this - incorrectly - as some form of me hedging, but I intentionally did not start it until after my 7-year scan, and I am not withholding any information from or about that scan. The reason I’m taking ezetimibe, which I have very clearly disclosed, including in my newsletter and in a video, is 2024 Aging Biology research suggesting cholesterol-independent effects on neuroprotection, which is something that’s important to me. The fact that I am taking it, I would cast as a testament that I’m not dogmatic on this issue, and I’m not trying to “LDL-maxx” for some aware. Rather, I’m being open, honest and transparent in my journey as a person and patient trying to make the best decision for myself at ever step of the journey. Also, on the topic of ezetimibe, see recent work by Adrian Soto-Mota DoctorTro et al., which adds another layer of nuance to LDL and ApoB management in the context of low-carbohydrate diets. TL;DR, if someone sees their LDL and ApoB rise on a low-carbohydrate / ketogenic diet, ezetimibe is likely to punch above its weight for LDL and ApoB reduction. Setting aside dogma, understanding individual biology and how to manipulate it can often be very useful in a clinical setting. I will always put data first. Acknowledging this fact is not contradictory to anything I’ve said, but completely consistent with it. It is all about individual context. Now, everyone should go listen to episode 43 of TFP_ with Dave Feldman and Darius Sharpe (Spotify, Apple and YouTube). It’s stupendous! P.S. I want to thank Dave for sharing on the podcast that, before each of my cardiac scans, I said a priori that I would release the results, whatever they were. You all know Dave to be impeccably honest. That is not in dispute, and it has always been my intent to share my data openly, as I have.show more

The current state of the Islamic Republic is quite... strange. From a social restrictions perspective, it is utterly incomparable to when I was young or even 5 years ago. This goes far beyond people choosing to mass defy hijab laws - the restrictions against things like mixed dancing, concerts, music festivals, rave like atmospheres, drinking, recreational drugs, and all sorts of out of marriage sexual relationships are dissolved to a unrecognizable very low bar compared to the past. No it's not Turkey or Dubai (yet) and yes people still do get in trouble frequently (particularly businesses who host things - which is why you'll go to high end restaurants where everything is happening and they don't care but they'll immediately stop you if you take a picture out of fear it will go viral). But the cat is out of the bag. In every corner of the country the rules are flagrantly defied. Not just in cute underground parties at some well connected kid's house or some hippies doing drugs in a desert 3 hours from the city - no very much in the open, often advertised on social media, and not hidden at all (both videos are from the last month - the second video is in Shiraz). This was unthinkable just a few years ago. On the other hand the political atmosphere is currently closed at a level I don't remember other than the first few months after the 2009 election. It resembles the Islamic Republic of the late 80s more than what we've seen for most of my life. And from an international relations perspective all caution & restraint are gone and you see the most extremist elements (who ironically were kept in check by the older Khamenei who mistrusted them just as much as he mistrusted liberals) increasingly running the show, eagerly acting in a way that I struggle to describe in anyway other than delusional insanity. The economy is shattered to a level in which even the upper middle class are struggling to make ends meet, let alone the poor who are living through unthinkable conditions. This is a very different Islamic Republic from the "normal" baseline my generation is used to. Quality of life continues to nosedive at a horrendous level. Uncertainty is everywhere. External attacks are no longer a fear but a near daily reality. It is increasingly unclear who (if anyone) is in charge and what direction they are trying to steer the country in. The current situation might last for a bit as a transition state, but it is very difficult to imagine something this unstable, with so many contradictions, and this reckless, being durable. At some point very soon something will have to give. It can't last forever like this.show more

A Jane Street quant sat down across from me... at Dandelion I was grinding through a loss streak. Three red windows in a row. BTC 5-min bot on screen. She clocked it from the next table. "Is that Polymarket? Why is your oracle pinned" I told her. Chainlink. Resolves every 5 minutes. Binance and Coinbase are the real price. She moved her matcha over without asking. "You're trading oracle lag. We did this on ETH perps in 2022. Regulators shut us down in six weeks" Not perps. Binary markets. Nobody regulates a 5-minute window. 86 million Polymarket trades. Every fill. Every book snapshot. Every resolution. "You wrote a scorer on top of this" I didn't. Claude did. One prompt. 21 days of tick data. I asked what setup has the highest follow-through. Binance and Coinbase both cross the target by $50. Same direction. Chainlink hasn't printed yet. 94% of the time the oracle catches up inside 2 minutes. "So you're front-running a feed that can't front-run you back" Yeah. She pulled out a notebook. Actual paper. Wrote something. Circled it twice. "At the desk we called this a stale quote trade. Died the minute oracles went sub-second" I told her Chainlink on Polymarket still runs on a 5-minute update. That's the whole game. A green fill landed. +$52. "What's the second layer" Order book imbalance. First 10 levels. First 90 seconds. Above 1.8 buyers are loading. Below 0.55 sellers are breaking it. Retail doesn't show up until t+240. Three files. Entry scorer. Exit trigger. Settlement router. Claude rebuilds the scorer every Sunday from the week's logs. "You're letting it rewrite its own strategy" Exactly. "That's the part my old risk team would have lost sleep over" The exit is what keeps it alive. 0.75 shares. Never resolution. Polygon settles in 1 to 3 seconds and half the fills miss in the last minute. Early exit locks 70% of max. Redeploy next window. "55 out of 400 a day" How did you know. "Kelly fraction on a 71% hit rate with that payoff geometry. You'd be insane to trade more" She wasn't wrong. My setup: Claude API - $20/mo Hetzner VPS - $5/mo poly_data - free polymarket-trade-engine - free Polymarket/agents - free 30 days. 1,847 trades. 71% win rate. +$14,200. Copytrade here: Sharpe 2.84. Max DD -$640. Avg hold 3:12. She closed her notebook. "I make more than this in a bad afternoon at the desk. But the desk doesn't let me copy-paste a scorer from Claude on a Sunday" I told her that's the whole point. She stared at the screen for a minute. "Can I follow this wallet" Already live. The article was up the next morning. Her partner DMed me by lunch. Three lines. "Saw your post. My entire prop group is reading it. We'd like to talk" I told him the post is the talk. Everything's in it. Nothing left to gatekeep.show more