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401,351 views • 3 months ago

Having sex and playing League of Legends is the same thing first time i hit true flow state during sex everything disappeared wasn't me anymore. wasn't her. just pure motion. pure rhythm. no thought about lasting. no thought about technique. no thought at all. breathing synced. movement synced. completely dissolved into the moment. 30 minutes felt like 3 seconds time stopped existing that's when i understood: this is EXACTLY what challenger players feel in league they're not playing league they ARE league watched faker play yesterday: not thinking about cooldowns - he FEELS them not calculating damage - he KNOWS it not deciding to dodge - his body already moved perfect flow state. no gap between thought and action. actually, no thought at all virgin conscious player: thinks about every click "should i trade here?" brain processing already dead chad flow state player: hands moving before brain killed you during your thought doesn't remember doing it "wait we're fighting?" here's what flow state actually is: NO INNER DIALOGUE you know that voice saying "careful" "wait" "check map"? it's gone just pure pattern recognition firing directly into your hands the second you think "i'm in flow state" - you're out the second you think ANYTHING - you're out sex taught me this. league proves it your brain is the enemy your body knows what to do consciousness is lag instinct is instant you want to hit challenger? stop trying to play perfectly start trying to disappear become nothing. become everything. become the game. clip below demonstrates REAL flow state study the saskio way

Having sex and playing League of Legends is the same thing first time i hit true flow state during sex everything disappeared wasn't me anymore. wasn't her. just pure motion. pure rhythm. no thought about lasting. no thought about technique. no thought at all. breathing synced. movement synced. completely dissolved into the moment. 30 minutes felt like 3 seconds time stopped existing that's when i understood: this is EXACTLY what challenger players feel in league they're not playing league they ARE league watched faker play yesterday: not thinking about cooldowns - he FEELS them not calculating damage - he KNOWS it not deciding to dodge - his body already moved perfect flow state. no gap between thought and action. actually, no thought at all virgin conscious player: thinks about every click "should i trade here?" brain processing already dead chad flow state player: hands moving before brain killed you during your thought doesn't remember doing it "wait we're fighting?" here's what flow state actually is: NO INNER DIALOGUE you know that voice saying "careful" "wait" "check map"? it's gone just pure pattern recognition firing directly into your hands the second you think "i'm in flow state" - you're out the second you think ANYTHING - you're out sex taught me this. league proves it your brain is the enemy your body knows what to do consciousness is lag instinct is instant you want to hit challenger? stop trying to play perfectly start trying to disappear become nothing. become everything. become the game. clip below demonstrates REAL flow state study the saskio way

Tony Chau

337,632 views • 9 months ago

A blackjack dealer in Macau got blacklisted from the VIP rooms last spring for counting cards. By August he couldn't get a floor job at any property in Cotai. So he deposit $500, ran a Hermes trading agent on Polymarket and pulled in $881,319 over the next 14 months. His wallet: The casinos taught him one thing - count, size your bet to your edge, walk away when the edge is gone. So he makes 5 trades a day. Not 50. Not 500. Five. And waits for the rest. Here's the actual stack. Claude Opus 4.7 reads the order book nightly, scores every threshold market by Markov persistence x Kelly edge, and surfaces the 2-3 mispriced ones. Hermes Agent by NousResearch executes. A $10/mo Hetzner VPS runs it 24/7. Telegram pings on every fill. Total cost: $10/month. Setup: 30 minutes. No coding. One trade in April: Will Bitcoin reach $90,000? Market said 1.2¢. He put $3,088 on Yes. It hit. +$123,196. A 3,988% return on a single position. The real edge is the nightly self-learning loop. Every midnight, Opus reads the day's trade journal and rewrites MIN_PROB and MIN_EDGE in the .env file. Last week the threshold was 0.87. This week 0.89. Next week maybe 0.91. His version of the bot has rewritten itself 412 times in 14 months. The Macau syndicate couldn't ban him from Polymarket. The bot doesn't sit at a table. It doesn't show a passport. It just hunts the tails. Save this post - if you want to build something of your own based on Hermes. Or just start copying algorithm that has improved itself 412 times:

A blackjack dealer in Macau got blacklisted from the VIP rooms last spring for counting cards. By August he couldn't get a floor job at any property in Cotai. So he deposit $500, ran a Hermes trading agent on Polymarket and pulled in $881,319 over the next 14 months. His wallet: The casinos taught him one thing - count, size your bet to your edge, walk away when the edge is gone. So he makes 5 trades a day. Not 50. Not 500. Five. And waits for the rest. Here's the actual stack. Claude Opus 4.7 reads the order book nightly, scores every threshold market by Markov persistence x Kelly edge, and surfaces the 2-3 mispriced ones. Hermes Agent by NousResearch executes. A $10/mo Hetzner VPS runs it 24/7. Telegram pings on every fill. Total cost: $10/month. Setup: 30 minutes. No coding. One trade in April: Will Bitcoin reach $90,000? Market said 1.2¢. He put $3,088 on Yes. It hit. +$123,196. A 3,988% return on a single position. The real edge is the nightly self-learning loop. Every midnight, Opus reads the day's trade journal and rewrites MIN_PROB and MIN_EDGE in the .env file. Last week the threshold was 0.87. This week 0.89. Next week maybe 0.91. His version of the bot has rewritten itself 412 times in 14 months. The Macau syndicate couldn't ban him from Polymarket. The bot doesn't sit at a table. It doesn't show a passport. It just hunts the tails. Save this post - if you want to build something of your own based on Hermes. Or just start copying algorithm that has improved itself 412 times:

cvxv666

208,352 views • 2 months ago

THIS IS THE BIGGEST LIE IN ECONOMICS RIGHT NOW Everyone's celebrating because "inflation is coming down." Politicians are taking victory laps. Economists are patting themselves on the back. And meanwhile, you're still paying 30% more for groceries than you did 3 years ago. Let me explain why the entire inflation conversation is designed to mislead you: People don't live on rate of change. They live on price levels. Let's say your rent goes up 30% over 3 years. That's roughly 9-10% a year. A massive number. You're bleeding. Then the next year, your rent doesn't increase at all. The bean counters in Washington look at that and say: "See? Rent inflation is zero. Problem solved." Meanwhile you're still paying that 30% premium every single month. Nothing got cheaper. Nothing went back to normal. The government just stopped measuring the pain. That's gaslighting with a spreadsheet. And it gets worse. The official CPI print came in at 2.8% in February. Some economists are running around saying "true inflation" is only 1.8% if you strip out housing. Others say if you annualize the last 3 months, it's barely above 1%. Great. Wonderful. Fantastic. Except the cumulative price increase since 2020 is over 22%. Your eggs. Your insurance premiums. Your car repairs. Your kids' daycare. None of those prices came back down. Not one. The inflation rate could hit zero tomorrow and your cost of living would still be 22% higher than it was 5 years ago. That's the part they conveniently leave out of every press conference. Here's what this actually means for real people: If your wages haven't grown 22%+ since 2020, your real purchasing power has declined. PERIOD And for most Americans, wages haven't kept up. So you've got two outcomes playing out simultaneously: Either workers demand higher wages to catch up, which puts upward pressure on costs and keeps inflation sticky. Or they don't get the raises, their real incomes deteriorate, and consumer spending eventually cracks. Neither outcome is good. This is the K-shaped economy in action. If you own assets like real estate, equities, commodities you've been largely insulated. Asset prices inflated right alongside everything else. But if you're the average worker living on a paycheck? You've been getting quietly crushed for 5 straight years while every headline tells you the problem is "under control." If anyone tells you inflation is "back to normal," they're either lying to you or they don't understand the difference between the speed of the damage and the damage itself. A car crash at 60 mph is worse than one at 30 mph. But decelerating from 60 to 30 doesn't undo the wreck that already happened. That's where we are right now. The wreck already happened. Prices aren't coming back. And the people celebrating "disinflation" are measuring the speed of the car, not the damage to the passengers. 45 years on Wall Street taught me this: when the official narrative diverges this far from lived reality, something eventually gives. Either wages catch up, which means inflation stays sticky far longer than anyone projects. Or demand breaks, which means the recession everyone keeps ruling out becomes inevitable. The government can redefine the math all they want. But your grocery bill doesn't care about annualized 3 month core PCE.

THIS IS THE BIGGEST LIE IN ECONOMICS RIGHT NOW Everyone's celebrating because "inflation is coming down." Politicians are taking victory laps. Economists are patting themselves on the back. And meanwhile, you're still paying 30% more for groceries than you did 3 years ago. Let me explain why the entire inflation conversation is designed to mislead you: People don't live on rate of change. They live on price levels. Let's say your rent goes up 30% over 3 years. That's roughly 9-10% a year. A massive number. You're bleeding. Then the next year, your rent doesn't increase at all. The bean counters in Washington look at that and say: "See? Rent inflation is zero. Problem solved." Meanwhile you're still paying that 30% premium every single month. Nothing got cheaper. Nothing went back to normal. The government just stopped measuring the pain. That's gaslighting with a spreadsheet. And it gets worse. The official CPI print came in at 2.8% in February. Some economists are running around saying "true inflation" is only 1.8% if you strip out housing. Others say if you annualize the last 3 months, it's barely above 1%. Great. Wonderful. Fantastic. Except the cumulative price increase since 2020 is over 22%. Your eggs. Your insurance premiums. Your car repairs. Your kids' daycare. None of those prices came back down. Not one. The inflation rate could hit zero tomorrow and your cost of living would still be 22% higher than it was 5 years ago. That's the part they conveniently leave out of every press conference. Here's what this actually means for real people: If your wages haven't grown 22%+ since 2020, your real purchasing power has declined. PERIOD And for most Americans, wages haven't kept up. So you've got two outcomes playing out simultaneously: Either workers demand higher wages to catch up, which puts upward pressure on costs and keeps inflation sticky. Or they don't get the raises, their real incomes deteriorate, and consumer spending eventually cracks. Neither outcome is good. This is the K-shaped economy in action. If you own assets like real estate, equities, commodities you've been largely insulated. Asset prices inflated right alongside everything else. But if you're the average worker living on a paycheck? You've been getting quietly crushed for 5 straight years while every headline tells you the problem is "under control." If anyone tells you inflation is "back to normal," they're either lying to you or they don't understand the difference between the speed of the damage and the damage itself. A car crash at 60 mph is worse than one at 30 mph. But decelerating from 60 to 30 doesn't undo the wreck that already happened. That's where we are right now. The wreck already happened. Prices aren't coming back. And the people celebrating "disinflation" are measuring the speed of the car, not the damage to the passengers. 45 years on Wall Street taught me this: when the official narrative diverges this far from lived reality, something eventually gives. Either wages catch up, which means inflation stays sticky far longer than anyone projects. Or demand breaks, which means the recession everyone keeps ruling out becomes inevitable. The government can redefine the math all they want. But your grocery bill doesn't care about annualized 3 month core PCE.

George Noble

24,368 views • 6 months ago

Fired It’s been 40 days since we took delivery of the Model S Plaid. It’s my wife’s car. But I’m the one who takes the wheel in the evenings and on weekends. Or rather, I used to. My wife’s been acting strange lately. She gets anxious when I drive. I’ve been driving for 30 years. No accidents. My wife always said, “Your driving is so smooth.” She trusts me enough to fall asleep in the passenger seat. That trust evaporated in just 40 days. “Honey, turn on FSD.” At first, I thought she was joking. She wasn’t. When I drive myself, her hand reaches for the door handle. Only when I turn on FSD do her shoulders relax. She sighs. She looks at ease. My 30 years of experience were no match for AI. I have to admit it honestly. FSD drives smoothly. Acceleration, deceleration, and lane changes are all as natural as flowing water. It’s like having a personal driver for a division commander. The deft touch of a veteran who’s driven tens of thousands of kilometers. But it’s a machine. For 30 years, I thought I was a good driver. My wife told me so, too. But now that I’ve experienced true mastery, my standards have completely shifted. This is what technological progress is all about. Yesterday’s best becomes today’s second best. I asked my wife, “So what am I now?” She smiled and replied, “A supervisor.”

Fired It’s been 40 days since we took delivery of the Model S Plaid. It’s my wife’s car. But I’m the one who takes the wheel in the evenings and on weekends. Or rather, I used to. My wife’s been acting strange lately. She gets anxious when I drive. I’ve been driving for 30 years. No accidents. My wife always said, “Your driving is so smooth.” She trusts me enough to fall asleep in the passenger seat. That trust evaporated in just 40 days. “Honey, turn on FSD.” At first, I thought she was joking. She wasn’t. When I drive myself, her hand reaches for the door handle. Only when I turn on FSD do her shoulders relax. She sighs. She looks at ease. My 30 years of experience were no match for AI. I have to admit it honestly. FSD drives smoothly. Acceleration, deceleration, and lane changes are all as natural as flowing water. It’s like having a personal driver for a division commander. The deft touch of a veteran who’s driven tens of thousands of kilometers. But it’s a machine. For 30 years, I thought I was a good driver. My wife told me so, too. But now that I’ve experienced true mastery, my standards have completely shifted. This is what technological progress is all about. Yesterday’s best becomes today’s second best. I asked my wife, “So what am I now?” She smiled and replied, “A supervisor.”

Angina Pectoris

418,570 views • 4 months ago

A beanie that reads your thoughts and turns them into text — no surgery required?@jason grills the co-founders on their noninvasive brain-computer interface, backed by Vinod Khosla, and calls cap on the whole thing (until he doesn't). This episode of This Week in Startups covers a lot of ground: Jason's tactical tip of the day on making everyone the CEO of their domain, a deep dive into Sabi's thought-to-text beanie, a live demo of AI-powered podcast sidebars built by the TWiST audience, the announcement of a new $5K bounty for an annotation tool, and Jason's big five wellness framework. 0:00 Intro & tactical tip: Make everyone the CEO of their domain 1:49 Matt Coffin's "CEO of X" management philosophy 3:04 Community ownership: Deputizing Ricky, Lawn, Bianca, Maddie, Kabir 4:02 Building the Noti Gang: X group chats and community flywheels 5:08 Founder takeaways: Activate your top 1%, make someone the CEO of it 6:18 The streamer trick, parasocial dynamics, and creator ethics 7:59 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at and use code TWIST for 10% off! 9:34 Guest intro: Rahul Chhabra of Sabi 10:01 What is Sabi? Noninvasive BCI in a beanie with 100,000 sensors 10:02 LinkedIn Jobs - Hire right, the first time. Post your first job and get $100 off towards your job post at 11:02 How it works: From fMRI to EEG, from hospital to hat 13:46 The brain foundation model and thought-to-text decoding 15:55 Vetting the founders: BITS Pilani, Stanford, athlete fatigue AI 17:22 Vinod Khosla's investment thesis: BCI must be noninvasive 19:30 Jason's challenge: Say "Calacanis" or it doesn't count 19:50 Northwest Registered Agent: Get more when you start your business with Northwest. In 10 clicks and 10 minutes, you can form your company and walk away with a real business identity — Learn more at 21:30 Reserve your device, release by end of 2026 22:26 Privacy concerns: Does the beanie read everything? 23:47 Jason's Big Five wellness framework: sleep, nutrition, exercise, meditation, socialization 25:41 Bounty #1: AI live sidebar contest — demos from the TWiST audience 26:02 What the bounty asked for: AI personas watching the show in real time 27:04 Oliver's breakdown: What's easy vs. hard about live AI commentary 28:40 Demo #1: Armchair (by Mark Colebrook) — fact-checker + troll personas, live 30:26 Render: Find out why 5 million developers are already using the all-in-one cloud platform, Render. Go to and apply for the Render Startup Program to get $500-$100,000 in free credits, depending on your stage and backers. 35:30 Live political violence test: The sidebar in real time on the WHCD shooting 38:45 Demo #2: Pod Commentators / SideCast — browser-based, Gemini-powered 40:35 Jason's revised Bounty #1 spec: Fact-checker + cynic, public stream or Zoom 42:41 Timeline: check-ins May 1, May 8; final winner May 15 44:51 Demo #3: BMD Pat (by Patrick Hughes) — instant URL, all-snarky personas 46:52 Bounty #2 announced: — a fair-use multimedia annotation tool 49:31 Annotated: the of media commentary 51:11 Contest rules: Jason owns the domain, winner gets $5K + potential ongoing work 53:13 Wrap-up: Bounty 1 = AI sidebar, Bounty 2 = Annotated 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇

A beanie that reads your thoughts and turns them into text — no surgery required?@jason grills the co-founders on their noninvasive brain-computer interface, backed by Vinod Khosla, and calls cap on the whole thing (until he doesn't). This episode of This Week in Startups covers a lot of ground: Jason's tactical tip of the day on making everyone the CEO of their domain, a deep dive into Sabi's thought-to-text beanie, a live demo of AI-powered podcast sidebars built by the TWiST audience, the announcement of a new $5K bounty for an annotation tool, and Jason's big five wellness framework. 0:00 Intro & tactical tip: Make everyone the CEO of their domain 1:49 Matt Coffin's "CEO of X" management philosophy 3:04 Community ownership: Deputizing Ricky, Lawn, Bianca, Maddie, Kabir 4:02 Building the Noti Gang: X group chats and community flywheels 5:08 Founder takeaways: Activate your top 1%, make someone the CEO of it 6:18 The streamer trick, parasocial dynamics, and creator ethics 7:59 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at and use code TWIST for 10% off! 9:34 Guest intro: Rahul Chhabra of Sabi 10:01 What is Sabi? Noninvasive BCI in a beanie with 100,000 sensors 10:02 LinkedIn Jobs - Hire right, the first time. Post your first job and get $100 off towards your job post at 11:02 How it works: From fMRI to EEG, from hospital to hat 13:46 The brain foundation model and thought-to-text decoding 15:55 Vetting the founders: BITS Pilani, Stanford, athlete fatigue AI 17:22 Vinod Khosla's investment thesis: BCI must be noninvasive 19:30 Jason's challenge: Say "Calacanis" or it doesn't count 19:50 Northwest Registered Agent: Get more when you start your business with Northwest. In 10 clicks and 10 minutes, you can form your company and walk away with a real business identity — Learn more at 21:30 Reserve your device, release by end of 2026 22:26 Privacy concerns: Does the beanie read everything? 23:47 Jason's Big Five wellness framework: sleep, nutrition, exercise, meditation, socialization 25:41 Bounty #1: AI live sidebar contest — demos from the TWiST audience 26:02 What the bounty asked for: AI personas watching the show in real time 27:04 Oliver's breakdown: What's easy vs. hard about live AI commentary 28:40 Demo #1: Armchair (by Mark Colebrook) — fact-checker + troll personas, live 30:26 Render: Find out why 5 million developers are already using the all-in-one cloud platform, Render. Go to and apply for the Render Startup Program to get $500-$100,000 in free credits, depending on your stage and backers. 35:30 Live political violence test: The sidebar in real time on the WHCD shooting 38:45 Demo #2: Pod Commentators / SideCast — browser-based, Gemini-powered 40:35 Jason's revised Bounty #1 spec: Fact-checker + cynic, public stream or Zoom 42:41 Timeline: check-ins May 1, May 8; final winner May 15 44:51 Demo #3: BMD Pat (by Patrick Hughes) — instant URL, all-snarky personas 46:52 Bounty #2 announced: — a fair-use multimedia annotation tool 49:31 Annotated: the of media commentary 51:11 Contest rules: Jason owns the domain, winner gets $5K + potential ongoing work 53:13 Wrap-up: Bounty 1 = AI sidebar, Bounty 2 = Annotated 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇

This Week in Startups

16,398 views • 3 months ago

a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz: “Don’t follow your passion” Ben gives this advice to the Columbia University class of 2015: “Don’t follow your passion. Now I know you’re probably thinking: ‘That’s a really dumb idea because if you poll 1,000 people who are successful, they’ll all say they love what they do. And so the broad conclusion of the world is that if you do what you love, then you’ll be successful.’ But we’re engineers, so we know that might be true. It also might be the case that if you’re successful, you love what you do — you just love being successful, everybody loves you, it’s awesome. So which one is it?” He continues: “The first tricky thing about passions is they’re hard to prioritize. Are you more passionate about math or engineering? Are you more passionate about history or literature? Are you more passionate about video games or K-pop? These are tough decisions. How do you even know? On the other hand, what are you good at? Are you better at math or writing? That’s a much easier thing to figure out. The second thing that’s tricky if you’re going forward in time with this ‘follow your passion’ idea is that what you’re passionate about at 21 is not necessarily what you’re going to be passionate about at 40. Now this is true for boyfriends, as well as career choices. The third issue with following your passion is that you’re not necessarily good at your passion. Has anybody ever watched American Idol? So you know what I’m talking about. Just because you love singing doesn’t mean you should be a professional singer. And then finally, and most importantly, following your passion is a very ‘me-centered’ view of the world. And when you go through life, what you’ll find is that what you take out of the world — money, cars, stuff, accolades — is much less important than what you put into the world. And so my recommendation would be to follow your contribution. Find the thing that you’re great at, put that into the world, contribute to others, help the world be better. That is the thing to follow.” Video source: a16z (2015)

a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz: “Don’t follow your passion” Ben gives this advice to the Columbia University class of 2015: “Don’t follow your passion. Now I know you’re probably thinking: ‘That’s a really dumb idea because if you poll 1,000 people who are successful, they’ll all say they love what they do. And so the broad conclusion of the world is that if you do what you love, then you’ll be successful.’ But we’re engineers, so we know that might be true. It also might be the case that if you’re successful, you love what you do — you just love being successful, everybody loves you, it’s awesome. So which one is it?” He continues: “The first tricky thing about passions is they’re hard to prioritize. Are you more passionate about math or engineering? Are you more passionate about history or literature? Are you more passionate about video games or K-pop? These are tough decisions. How do you even know? On the other hand, what are you good at? Are you better at math or writing? That’s a much easier thing to figure out. The second thing that’s tricky if you’re going forward in time with this ‘follow your passion’ idea is that what you’re passionate about at 21 is not necessarily what you’re going to be passionate about at 40. Now this is true for boyfriends, as well as career choices. The third issue with following your passion is that you’re not necessarily good at your passion. Has anybody ever watched American Idol? So you know what I’m talking about. Just because you love singing doesn’t mean you should be a professional singer. And then finally, and most importantly, following your passion is a very ‘me-centered’ view of the world. And when you go through life, what you’ll find is that what you take out of the world — money, cars, stuff, accolades — is much less important than what you put into the world. And so my recommendation would be to follow your contribution. Find the thing that you’re great at, put that into the world, contribute to others, help the world be better. That is the thing to follow.” Video source: a16z (2015)

Startup Archive

358,132 views • 8 months ago

Rick Rubin can't play or read music, yet he's won 8 Grammys and produced for legends (Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, Adele, Metallica) Rolling Stone called him "the most successful producer in any genre." So what does he actually do? He helps artists access their creativity. 6 lessons from Rubin that changed how I think about the creative process ↓ 1) Be a reducer, not a producer Most people think creativity means adding more. More ideas. More layers. More complexity. Rubin does the opposite. When he worked with Johnny Cash in 1994, Cash's career was considered dead. Labels had dropped him. His albums weren't selling. Rubin's solution? Strip everything away. He recorded Cash in his living room. Just a man and his guitar vibin'. The result was American Recordings — one of the greatest comeback albums in music history. Lesson: Remove until only the truth remains. 2) Trust your taste over your technical skill When asked what Rick does as a producer, he told 60 Minutes: "I have no technical ability and I know nothing about music. I'm paid for my taste." You don't need to be the most skilled person in the room. You need to know what feels right. 3) Create for yourself first Rubin believes you can't make great art with someone else in mind. If you're constantly thinking about what the audience wants, you'll create something generic. Make what excites you. If you have good taste, others will find value in it too. 4) Creativity is like tuning a radio You don't invent the signal. You tune into it. This means staying aware. Paying attention to the world around you. Noticing what others miss. The ideas are already out there. Your job is to receive them. 5) Lower the stakes Feeling blocked? Give yourself permission to make something terrible. Tell yourself it doesn't need to be a masterpiece. It won't impact your career. You don't have to show anyone. The pressure of perfection kills creativity. Remove it. 6) Self-doubt never disappears Even the greatest artists feel fear before they create. Rubin says they don't create in the absence of doubt. They create in spite of it. The difference between amateurs and professionals? Professionals show up anyway.

Rick Rubin can't play or read music, yet he's won 8 Grammys and produced for legends (Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, Adele, Metallica) Rolling Stone called him "the most successful producer in any genre." So what does he actually do? He helps artists access their creativity. 6 lessons from Rubin that changed how I think about the creative process ↓ 1) Be a reducer, not a producer Most people think creativity means adding more. More ideas. More layers. More complexity. Rubin does the opposite. When he worked with Johnny Cash in 1994, Cash's career was considered dead. Labels had dropped him. His albums weren't selling. Rubin's solution? Strip everything away. He recorded Cash in his living room. Just a man and his guitar vibin'. The result was American Recordings — one of the greatest comeback albums in music history. Lesson: Remove until only the truth remains. 2) Trust your taste over your technical skill When asked what Rick does as a producer, he told 60 Minutes: "I have no technical ability and I know nothing about music. I'm paid for my taste." You don't need to be the most skilled person in the room. You need to know what feels right. 3) Create for yourself first Rubin believes you can't make great art with someone else in mind. If you're constantly thinking about what the audience wants, you'll create something generic. Make what excites you. If you have good taste, others will find value in it too. 4) Creativity is like tuning a radio You don't invent the signal. You tune into it. This means staying aware. Paying attention to the world around you. Noticing what others miss. The ideas are already out there. Your job is to receive them. 5) Lower the stakes Feeling blocked? Give yourself permission to make something terrible. Tell yourself it doesn't need to be a masterpiece. It won't impact your career. You don't have to show anyone. The pressure of perfection kills creativity. Remove it. 6) Self-doubt never disappears Even the greatest artists feel fear before they create. Rubin says they don't create in the absence of doubt. They create in spite of it. The difference between amateurs and professionals? Professionals show up anyway.

Avery Chauhan

78,627 views • 8 months ago

Asked about the UFO files, former President George W. Bush smiles and says: "I'm not telling you nothing." Sitting down with Jimmy Kimmel to promote his book Portraits of Courage, Bush is asked the question Kimmel says he'd ask first if he were ever president: Did you go through the secret files, the UFO documents? Bush laughs. "You know, it's funny. My daughters asked the very same question." Kimmel presses: would you even be allowed to tell your daughters what was in those files? "No." Kimmel keeps going. Now that you're out of office, you can do anything you want, right? "True. Yeah. But I'm not telling you." When Kimmel tries to corner him, "You're not telling me what? That you looked at them?" Bush just delivers the line cleanly: "I'm not telling you nothing." Kimmel tries one more angle. Are there really great secrets that you know that you can't share with people? "Yeah." Will he ever write about them? No. Even at 90? No. Kimmel jokes about getting him loopy on tequila to crack him open. Bush doesn't bite.

Asked about the UFO files, former President George W. Bush smiles and says: "I'm not telling you nothing." Sitting down with Jimmy Kimmel to promote his book Portraits of Courage, Bush is asked the question Kimmel says he'd ask first if he were ever president: Did you go through the secret files, the UFO documents? Bush laughs. "You know, it's funny. My daughters asked the very same question." Kimmel presses: would you even be allowed to tell your daughters what was in those files? "No." Kimmel keeps going. Now that you're out of office, you can do anything you want, right? "True. Yeah. But I'm not telling you." When Kimmel tries to corner him, "You're not telling me what? That you looked at them?" Bush just delivers the line cleanly: "I'm not telling you nothing." Kimmel tries one more angle. Are there really great secrets that you know that you can't share with people? "Yeah." Will he ever write about them? No. Even at 90? No. Kimmel jokes about getting him loopy on tequila to crack him open. Bush doesn't bite.

History Nerd

28,182 views • 1 month ago