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45,549 views • 4 months ago

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Britain installed its 7th prime minister in 10 years this morning, and for the first time in G7 history the man walking through the door of Number 10 is on record pledging to build a Web3 powerhouse. Andy Burnham took office at 10 Downing Street without a general election, appointed unchallenged by his own party. The man he replaced was forced out by his own MPs and left the doorstep saying my work is done. In a January interview that same man warned that removing him in 2026 would plunge Britain into utter chaos. His party listened carefully, waited for spring, then did it anyway. The route to power tells you what British democracy has become. Burnham quit the Manchester mayoralty, won a risky by-election on 19th June, re-entered Parliament within days, and was crowned Labour leader unchallenged on Friday after his only rival withdrew and endorsed him. Today, King Charles asked Andy to form a government. Between the by-election and the black door, no ordinary voter cast a single ballot on who runs the country. Five of Britain's last six changes of prime minister have now happened without a general election. Power in the world's oldest parliamentary democracy changes hands by party process, and the public watches it on television live. Absorb the churn. Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer, Burnham. Seven leaders in a decade, an average occupancy of about seventeen months, a turnover rate Britain once mocked Italy for. Starmer's landslide was only 2 years ago, won on 33.7% of the vote, the smallest share of any majority government since records began in 1830, and by January polled near 19%. Larry the cat, 15 yrs at #10, has outlasted 6 prime ministers and greeted his 7th this morning. The new one arrived pledging stability. The last one pledged stability on the same doorstep two years ago. The doorstep does not remember. To be fair to the machine, Britain has swapped leaders mid-term 11 times since 1945. The constitution is working as designed. What changed is the frequency. One layer nobody in Westminster is pricing. Burnham is the first G7 head of government with a crypto pledge on tape, telling a Manchester audience I'm bought in, promising to make Manchester the Web3 powerhouse that we want it to be. Before the champagne, the calibration. That record is municipal boosterism, not national policy. He has published no digital assets platform. The FCA's crypto rulebook is nearly final and its authors do not answer to him. And the twist worth savoring, he inherits a party that froze crypto donations to political campaigns in March after a review flagged foreign influence risk, and is now moving to make that ban permanent. The most crypto-friendly leader in British history arrives inside a system wired to distrust crypto money in politics. The deeper pattern is the inversion underneath all of it. The first G7 digital sovereign bond is scheduled for early 2027. The Bank of England's stablecoin regime goes operational the same year, complete with a 40 billion pound issuance guardrail per coin. British money is being rebuilt for the next fifty years by an independent civil service on decade-long clocks. The pound's plumbing now has a longer time horizon than the pound's politicians, and that is the quiet story of the age. The state is becoming more durable than the people who run it, and the money is becoming more modern than the politicians who sign for it. So the 7th prime minister begins, acutely aware of the churn, his aides say, and promising to end it. All six before him promised something similar. Maybe he is different. He has chased this job through two failed leadership runs and nobody doubts he wants it. The arithmetic keeps its own counsel. The digital money rails now being wired are designed to run for half a century. The average occupant of Number 10 this decade lasted seventeen months. Britain is building money meant to outlive its signatories, and this morning it watched another one arrive.

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89,730 views • 1 month ago

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Cerebras just IPO’d and the stock already ran up over 100% (Save this). For the entire 70 year history of the semiconductor industry, every company on earth has followed the same process. You take a dinner plate sized silicon wafer, put hundreds of tiny chips onto it, and dice it up like a pizza. Nvidia does it this way, AMD does it this way, Intel has done it this way for six decades and everyone who tried to break that convention failed. Until Cerebras asked the most annoyingly obvious question in the industry’s history, what if you just didn’t cut it? The result is the Wafer Scale Engine, a single chip 56 times larger than Nvidia’s H100 and it fundamentally changes the physics of how AI inference works. The reason this matters is not the size, it’s the bandwidth. Every time an AI model generates a single word, it has to reach into memory, pull weights, multiply them together, and produce a prediction and when you’re running millions of concurrent sessions at once, the bottleneck is not raw processing power but how fast data moves between memory and compute. Nvidia’s H100 moves data at roughly 3 terabytes per second, while Cerebras’ WSE-3 moves data at 21 petabytes per second, roughly 7,000 times faster because memory and compute live on the same enormous piece of silicon and data barely has to travel at all. That gap is exactly why OpenAI went from 150 tokens per second on traditional GPUs to 2,000 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware, and why AWS integrated Cerebras into Bedrock to deliver roughly 5x more inference capacity in the same physical footprint. The macro setup is making the trade even more urgent. South Korea DRAM export prices recently jumped 35%, flash memory surged 47%, and SSD pricing spiked nearly 140% and every single one of those increases hits Nvidia-based infrastructure directly, because the H100 requires 80GB of the most expensive, most contested memory in the AI supply chain. Cerebras’ WSE-3 uses zero external HBM memory, baking 44GB of SRAM directly into the wafer itself which means as memory pricing goes parabolic, every CFO evaluating AI infrastructure is suddenly looking much more seriously at the architecture that sidesteps that cost entirely. The demand is already showing up in the backlog. Cerebras ended 2025 with $24.6 billion in remaining performance obligations for a company doing just over $500 million in annual revenue, that is a number that implies years of contracted growth already sitting on the books. The IPO was 20x oversubscribed, the price range was raised twice before listing, and shares opened 89% above their listing price on a $5.55 billion raise that made it the largest semiconductor IPO in history. The risks are real and worth naming. 86% of 2025 revenue came from two entities with UAE ties, U.S. revenue actually fell 34% to $187 million, and the $20 billion OpenAI contract is conditional, if Cerebras misses delivery milestones, OpenAI can terminate and trigger repayment demands on a $1 billion loan facility. And yet the market is valuing Cerebras at roughly 91x trailing revenue, richer than Nvidia, AMD, and Arm combined. What investors are betting on is not that Cerebras beats Nvidia, it is that the inference supercycle is large enough to support an entirely different architecture optimized for a different workload, and that $24.6 billion in contracted backlog converts to diversified revenue before the market starts asking harder questions. CEO Andrew Feldman said this took a decade of late nights to get right, everyone who tried to copy it failed and given that the entire inference economy is now running through exactly the bottleneck Cerebras was built to eliminate, the market is starting to believe him.

Milk Road AI

30,441 views • 3 months ago

THE SEVEN SEALS The same day the Church is taken out of this world at the Rapture, judgement begins. As it was in the days of Noah, the same day Noah entered the ark, the judgement began. The same day Lot left Sodom, fire came from heaven and destroyed them all. So it is, on the same day that the Church leaves this world, at the Rapture, the Judgment begins. SEAL 1 - The Conqueror (The Revealing of the Antichrist). The Man on the White Horse. Rev 6:2 And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon had a bow; and there was given unto him a crown: and he came forth conquering, and to conquer After the rapture of the Church,2 Thess.6v7 the first thing that happens in the earth is that the antichrist is revealed; a white horse and its rider. This is not the Lord Jesus- i.) “He that sat on the horse had a bow”, Jesus doesn’t use a bow, when you see Jesus, He uses a Sword. ii.) “A crown was given to him”- Jesus is King of Kings; He gives crowns. Rev.6v2 iii.) “He went forth conquering and to conquer”. The Lord Jesus is only going to battle against the Nations at the second coming, which is not yet So this is not Jesus, this is the antichrist. He had a bow, without arrows. He would conquer nations without firing a shot, he would conquer nations with peace; they would give their nations to him. Daniel 8:23-24 describes a powerful king who will arise at the end of a period of time, characterized by transgression and wickedness. This king will have a fierce appearance, understand dark schemes, and wield mighty power, not by his own means, but through extraordinary destruction. He will succeed in what he does, destroying the mighty and the holy people. SEAL 2- Conflict on Earth: Killings, Murders (The Man on the Red Horse) Daniel 6v3- 4 When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come [b]and see.” 4 Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword. Once the Church is gone at the Rapture, no more peace on the earth, there would be killings. Matt.24v7,10 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, [a]pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Rev.13v15 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. SEAL 3- Scarcity (Inflation and Famine) The Man on the Black Horse Daniel 6v5-6 When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales[c] in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A [d]quart of wheat for a [e]denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine. Lamentations 4v4-10 AMP [4] The tongue of the infant clings To the roof of its mouth because of thirst; The little ones ask for food, But no one gives it to them. [5] Those who feasted on delicacies Are perishing in the streets; Those reared in purple [as nobles] Embrace ash heaps. [6] For the [punishment of the] wickedness of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem] Is greater than the [punishment for the] sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, And no hands were turned toward her [to offer help]. [7] Her princes were purer than snow, They were whiter than milk [in appearance]; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, Their polishing was like lapis lazuli (sapphire). [8] Their appearance is [now] blacker than soot [because of the prolonged famine]; They are not recognized in the streets; Their skin clings to their bones; It is withered, and it has become [dry] like wood. [9] Those killed with the sword Are more fortunate than those killed with hunger; For the hungry pine and ebb away, For the lack of the fruits of the field. [10] The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Judah]. Ezekiel 4v10-12, 17 AMP [10] The food you eat each day shall be [measured] by weight, twenty shekels, to be eaten daily at a set time. [11] You shall drink water by measure also, the sixth part of a hin; you shall drink daily at a set time. [12] You shall eat your food as barley cakes, having baked it in their sight over human dung.” [17] because bread and water will be scarce; and they will look at one another in dismay and waste away [in punishment] for their wickedness. If you think there are economic problems right now in the world, this is nothing compared to what is coming. No one would be able to solve the economic problem then, not even the antichrist. He would make promises, but would fail. This is going to be a very terrible time on earth. At this point the peace treaty is broken and the next three and a half years begins SEAL 4- Widespread Death on Earth (Death Released) A Pale(green) Horse with a rider called- Death, and Hell Followed. Rev.6v7 -8 7 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.” 8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And [f]power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. These are the judgments of God, not even the actions taken by the antichrist. The world is being punished for their rejection of Jesus Christ. Killings with the sword, refers to war. Matt 24v21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” (KJV) The Fourth and Fifth Seals are in the second 3 and a half years, after the Peace treaty has been broken. 1 Thess. 5v3 -4 For when they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. At this time the antichrist enters into the temple in Jerusalem and from then on, fierce persecution begins. SEAL 5- The Cry of the Tribulation Saints (Killed for their Faith) Rev 6v9-11 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” 11 Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed. When a godly man dies, he goes to heaven and his soul is without a body, but is clothed with a spiritual garment until the resurrection. At the rapture, those who were dead in Christ were raised up with a glorified body, and we that are alive and remain were caught and changed into that same glorified body. The tribulation saints who were slain for their faith, they gave their lives as a sacrifice to God, they refused to take the mark of the beast, and were killed. Their souls are seen in Heaven under the Altar, without their spiritual glorified bodies, hence their cry. Vr 11 the Lord told them to rest for a while until others to be killed like them also arrive. At this time too something happens, there is more preaching of the gospel ongoing in the earth, Evangelism intensifies. Rev.14: 14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. Here the Tribulation Saints are Raptured, which is getting to the ending part of the tribulation period. #YLWSPECIALSSeason1Phase3 #RaptureModeActivated #RaptureReady #FirstFlightGang #YearOfCompleteness
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THE SEVEN SEALS The same day the Church is taken out of this world at the Rapture, judgement begins. As it was in the days of Noah, the same day Noah entered the ark, the judgement began. The same day Lot left Sodom, fire came from heaven and destroyed them all. So it is, on the same day that the Church leaves this world, at the Rapture, the Judgment begins. SEAL 1 - The Conqueror (The Revealing of the Antichrist). The Man on the White Horse. Rev 6:2 And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon had a bow; and there was given unto him a crown: and he came forth conquering, and to conquer After the rapture of the Church,2 Thess.6v7 the first thing that happens in the earth is that the antichrist is revealed; a white horse and its rider. This is not the Lord Jesus- i.) “He that sat on the horse had a bow”, Jesus doesn’t use a bow, when you see Jesus, He uses a Sword. ii.) “A crown was given to him”- Jesus is King of Kings; He gives crowns. Rev.6v2 iii.) “He went forth conquering and to conquer”. The Lord Jesus is only going to battle against the Nations at the second coming, which is not yet So this is not Jesus, this is the antichrist. He had a bow, without arrows. He would conquer nations without firing a shot, he would conquer nations with peace; they would give their nations to him. Daniel 8:23-24 describes a powerful king who will arise at the end of a period of time, characterized by transgression and wickedness. This king will have a fierce appearance, understand dark schemes, and wield mighty power, not by his own means, but through extraordinary destruction. He will succeed in what he does, destroying the mighty and the holy people. SEAL 2- Conflict on Earth: Killings, Murders (The Man on the Red Horse) Daniel 6v3- 4 When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come [b]and see.” 4 Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword. Once the Church is gone at the Rapture, no more peace on the earth, there would be killings. Matt.24v7,10 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, [a]pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Rev.13v15 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. SEAL 3- Scarcity (Inflation and Famine) The Man on the Black Horse Daniel 6v5-6 When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales[c] in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A [d]quart of wheat for a [e]denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine. Lamentations 4v4-10 AMP [4] The tongue of the infant clings To the roof of its mouth because of thirst; The little ones ask for food, But no one gives it to them. [5] Those who feasted on delicacies Are perishing in the streets; Those reared in purple [as nobles] Embrace ash heaps. [6] For the [punishment of the] wickedness of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem] Is greater than the [punishment for the] sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, And no hands were turned toward her [to offer help]. [7] Her princes were purer than snow, They were whiter than milk [in appearance]; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, Their polishing was like lapis lazuli (sapphire). [8] Their appearance is [now] blacker than soot [because of the prolonged famine]; They are not recognized in the streets; Their skin clings to their bones; It is withered, and it has become [dry] like wood. [9] Those killed with the sword Are more fortunate than those killed with hunger; For the hungry pine and ebb away, For the lack of the fruits of the field. [10] The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Judah]. Ezekiel 4v10-12, 17 AMP [10] The food you eat each day shall be [measured] by weight, twenty shekels, to be eaten daily at a set time. [11] You shall drink water by measure also, the sixth part of a hin; you shall drink daily at a set time. [12] You shall eat your food as barley cakes, having baked it in their sight over human dung.” [17] because bread and water will be scarce; and they will look at one another in dismay and waste away [in punishment] for their wickedness. If you think there are economic problems right now in the world, this is nothing compared to what is coming. No one would be able to solve the economic problem then, not even the antichrist. He would make promises, but would fail. This is going to be a very terrible time on earth. At this point the peace treaty is broken and the next three and a half years begins SEAL 4- Widespread Death on Earth (Death Released) A Pale(green) Horse with a rider called- Death, and Hell Followed. Rev.6v7 -8 7 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.” 8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And [f]power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. These are the judgments of God, not even the actions taken by the antichrist. The world is being punished for their rejection of Jesus Christ. Killings with the sword, refers to war. Matt 24v21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” (KJV) The Fourth and Fifth Seals are in the second 3 and a half years, after the Peace treaty has been broken. 1 Thess. 5v3 -4 For when they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. At this time the antichrist enters into the temple in Jerusalem and from then on, fierce persecution begins. SEAL 5- The Cry of the Tribulation Saints (Killed for their Faith) Rev 6v9-11 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” 11 Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed. When a godly man dies, he goes to heaven and his soul is without a body, but is clothed with a spiritual garment until the resurrection. At the rapture, those who were dead in Christ were raised up with a glorified body, and we that are alive and remain were caught and changed into that same glorified body. The tribulation saints who were slain for their faith, they gave their lives as a sacrifice to God, they refused to take the mark of the beast, and were killed. Their souls are seen in Heaven under the Altar, without their spiritual glorified bodies, hence their cry. Vr 11 the Lord told them to rest for a while until others to be killed like them also arrive. At this time too something happens, there is more preaching of the gospel ongoing in the earth, Evangelism intensifies. Rev.14: 14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. Here the Tribulation Saints are Raptured, which is getting to the ending part of the tribulation period. #YLWSPECIALSSeason1Phase3 #RaptureModeActivated #RaptureReady #FirstFlightGang #YearOfCompleteness

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Gandalf and the Awakening of King Théoden: When One Person Returns to Their True Place, an Entire Kingdom Begins to Heal Some moments in cinema are remembered for their spectacular visual effects, epic battles, or breathtaking action. Others, however, leave a lasting impression without relying on grand-scale conflict. All they require is one person rising at the right moment. Gandalf's liberation of King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is one such moment. What gives this scene its enduring emotional power is not magic or Gandalf's confrontation with Saruman, but a principle that runs throughout Tolkien's world: When what is right is restored at the center, the order of the whole begins to be restored as well. For Rohan's greatest problem was never simply the enemy beyond its borders. At a deeper level, the one who stood at the center of the kingdom was no longer truly himself. A King Who Still Sat on the Throne, Yet Had Lost the Center When Gandalf enters the hall of Meduseld, Théoden is still seated upon his throne. He is still the King of Rohan. He still wears the crown. Yet true authority no longer belongs to him. Peter Jackson conveys this decline through remarkably subtle details: Théoden's aged appearance, his clouded eyes, his weakened voice, and above all, the constant presence of Gríma Wormtongue at his side. Gríma does not seize the throne by force. Instead, he occupies the place of influence beside it, whispering into the king's ear year after year. This reflects one of Tolkien's recurring portrayals of evil: it does not always begin with overwhelming power. More often, it begins by distorting perception until people lose the ability to recognize the truth. The problem, therefore, is not simply that Théoden has grown weak. The true center of Rohan has been displaced. When the one entrusted to lead can no longer act according to his own will, the fracture does not remain within a single individual. It spreads throughout the kingdom. Gandalf Does Not Create a New King The remarkable aspect of Théoden's deliverance is that Gandalf does not grant him new strength. He does not transform a broken man into a different hero. He simply removes the darkness that has been obscuring the man Théoden has always been. This reflects another central idea in Tolkien's world: Goodness does not create a new nature. It restores what has always existed beneath the shadows. Théoden has always been a king. He has always possessed courage. He has always carried responsibility for Rohan. Gandalf merely helps him return to the place he truly belongs. And when the one at the center is restored, the healing of the kingdom can finally begin. Herugrim: The Return of Responsibility The most unforgettable moment of the scene is not the burst of light from Gandalf's staff. It is the moment Théoden receives Herugrim, his sword, once again. At first, his hands still tremble. He looks upon the sword as though rediscovering a part of himself long forgotten. But as the blade is slowly drawn from its scabbard, the transformation becomes unmistakable. His back straightens. His eyes become clear. His voice returns. This is not merely the moment when a warrior regains his weapon. It is the moment when a king reclaims his responsibility. Gandalf opens the door. But Théoden is the one who walks through it. He is the one who takes up the sword. He is the one who chooses to rise. Because true restoration can never be imposed from the outside. It must ultimately be completed by the one who has lost their rightful place. When the Center Is Restored, Everything Around It Changes Peter Jackson expresses this transformation through an exceptionally subtle visual detail. Before Théoden awakens, Gríma always stands beside the throne. He occupies the place closest to power. He is the voice the king listens to. But once Théoden becomes himself again, the composition of the scene changes completely. Gríma is pushed away from the king. He retreats down the steps. Then he leaves the hall altogether. Without a single line of explanation, the film communicates something profound simply through the arrangement of its characters within the frame: Order has returned. The one who truly belongs on the throne once again occupies the center. The one who never belonged there no longer stands at the heart of power. The True Power of Awakening Ultimately, what makes this scene unforgettable is not Gandalf's magical duel with Saruman. Nor is it simply the rescue of a king. Its enduring power lies in the way it expresses a timeless principle: A community cannot truly heal while its center remains wounded. Théoden rises before Rohan rises. One person is restored before an entire kingdom begins to recover. He does not need to become a different hero. He only needs to become Théoden once more. And when what is right is restored at the center, hope returns to Rohan. That is why Gandalf's liberation of King Théoden continues to be regarded as one of the most meaningful moments in The Lord of the Rings. It is more than a victory over darkness. It reveals a truth that reaches beyond Middle-earth itself: Sometimes the transformation of an entire world begins with a single person returning to their true nature and rightful place.
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Gandalf and the Awakening of King Théoden: When One Person Returns to Their True Place, an Entire Kingdom Begins to Heal Some moments in cinema are remembered for their spectacular visual effects, epic battles, or breathtaking action. Others, however, leave a lasting impression without relying on grand-scale conflict. All they require is one person rising at the right moment. Gandalf's liberation of King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is one such moment. What gives this scene its enduring emotional power is not magic or Gandalf's confrontation with Saruman, but a principle that runs throughout Tolkien's world: When what is right is restored at the center, the order of the whole begins to be restored as well. For Rohan's greatest problem was never simply the enemy beyond its borders. At a deeper level, the one who stood at the center of the kingdom was no longer truly himself. A King Who Still Sat on the Throne, Yet Had Lost the Center When Gandalf enters the hall of Meduseld, Théoden is still seated upon his throne. He is still the King of Rohan. He still wears the crown. Yet true authority no longer belongs to him. Peter Jackson conveys this decline through remarkably subtle details: Théoden's aged appearance, his clouded eyes, his weakened voice, and above all, the constant presence of Gríma Wormtongue at his side. Gríma does not seize the throne by force. Instead, he occupies the place of influence beside it, whispering into the king's ear year after year. This reflects one of Tolkien's recurring portrayals of evil: it does not always begin with overwhelming power. More often, it begins by distorting perception until people lose the ability to recognize the truth. The problem, therefore, is not simply that Théoden has grown weak. The true center of Rohan has been displaced. When the one entrusted to lead can no longer act according to his own will, the fracture does not remain within a single individual. It spreads throughout the kingdom. Gandalf Does Not Create a New King The remarkable aspect of Théoden's deliverance is that Gandalf does not grant him new strength. He does not transform a broken man into a different hero. He simply removes the darkness that has been obscuring the man Théoden has always been. This reflects another central idea in Tolkien's world: Goodness does not create a new nature. It restores what has always existed beneath the shadows. Théoden has always been a king. He has always possessed courage. He has always carried responsibility for Rohan. Gandalf merely helps him return to the place he truly belongs. And when the one at the center is restored, the healing of the kingdom can finally begin. Herugrim: The Return of Responsibility The most unforgettable moment of the scene is not the burst of light from Gandalf's staff. It is the moment Théoden receives Herugrim, his sword, once again. At first, his hands still tremble. He looks upon the sword as though rediscovering a part of himself long forgotten. But as the blade is slowly drawn from its scabbard, the transformation becomes unmistakable. His back straightens. His eyes become clear. His voice returns. This is not merely the moment when a warrior regains his weapon. It is the moment when a king reclaims his responsibility. Gandalf opens the door. But Théoden is the one who walks through it. He is the one who takes up the sword. He is the one who chooses to rise. Because true restoration can never be imposed from the outside. It must ultimately be completed by the one who has lost their rightful place. When the Center Is Restored, Everything Around It Changes Peter Jackson expresses this transformation through an exceptionally subtle visual detail. Before Théoden awakens, Gríma always stands beside the throne. He occupies the place closest to power. He is the voice the king listens to. But once Théoden becomes himself again, the composition of the scene changes completely. Gríma is pushed away from the king. He retreats down the steps. Then he leaves the hall altogether. Without a single line of explanation, the film communicates something profound simply through the arrangement of its characters within the frame: Order has returned. The one who truly belongs on the throne once again occupies the center. The one who never belonged there no longer stands at the heart of power. The True Power of Awakening Ultimately, what makes this scene unforgettable is not Gandalf's magical duel with Saruman. Nor is it simply the rescue of a king. Its enduring power lies in the way it expresses a timeless principle: A community cannot truly heal while its center remains wounded. Théoden rises before Rohan rises. One person is restored before an entire kingdom begins to recover. He does not need to become a different hero. He only needs to become Théoden once more. And when what is right is restored at the center, hope returns to Rohan. That is why Gandalf's liberation of King Théoden continues to be regarded as one of the most meaningful moments in The Lord of the Rings. It is more than a victory over darkness. It reveals a truth that reaches beyond Middle-earth itself: Sometimes the transformation of an entire world begins with a single person returning to their true nature and rightful place.

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“The highest instrument of the inner awakening of race is combat, and war is its highest expression.” These words, from Julius Evola’s “Metaphysics of War,” express the core of what I regard as his most essential and enduring work. Nowhere else does Evola so fully unite the metaphysical principles of Tradition with the ethos of the warrior and the political destiny of Europe and the West. This book is not the romanticizing of bloodshed for its own sake, nor the crude militarism of modern ideology. It is the assertion that combat, rightly understood as contest, the agon, is the supreme path by which man may transcend his lower nature, awaken his inner race, and align himself with the eternal order that stands above the rise and fall of nations. Evola grounds this vision on two distinct but inseparable levels. The first is the profane, where war is the highest school of heroism, the most direct means of forming character. In war, men face the fact that everything they have, including possessions, comfort, and even life itself, can be taken in an instant. This confrontation with impermanence strips away illusions and forces detachment from all that is transient. It places life in its proper perspective, revealing the distance between what is temporary and what is timeless. For many, such moments of danger and loss bring a sudden awakening, a liberation from the grip of material attachments. The second level is the sacred, where war becomes a path to transcendence. Here Evola draws on the “Bhagavad Gita,” the supreme text of the Aryan warrior tradition. Arjuna, the warrior prince, faces two wars: the lesser war, the outer conflict against his enemies; and the greater war, the inner battle against fear, weakness, and the passions that bind man to the merely human. Krishna instructs him that those he must fight are already destined to fall, that his task is to fulfill his duty without attachment to personal feeling or outcome, and that in doing so he becomes the instrument of a higher will. This is the essence of karma yoga, the path of action in the ancient Indo-European tradition, wholly removed from the modern, commercialized idea of yoga as mere stretching or relaxation. In its original sense, it is the disciplined fulfillment of one’s duty as a means of overcoming the self. Evola stresses that the outer war cannot be won without first winning the inner one, and that the true warrior is defined above all by his mastery over himself. For Evola, a man who conquers himself may never take up arms and still be a warrior in the highest sense, while a man who fights without inner mastery may win battles yet fail as a man of Tradition. Physical combat remains, however, the supreme opportunity for transformation, because in the face of death all masks fall away and a man must stand wholly present in his being. In this moment, the fear of death can be overcome and replaced with an active ecstasy, a state in which the individual transcends the limits of his personality and participates in the eternal. From this understanding follows Evola’s vision for a new European order. Such an order cannot be founded upon bourgeois comfort, sentimental nationalism, or the reduction of race to biological factors alone. It requires men who have stripped themselves of vanity, personal grievance, and dependence on material ease. These men must see reality without distortion, live simply but with conscious force, and be wholly committed to principles that outlast their own lives. Evola speaks of such men as those who “come from afar,” men whose presence carries the dignity, clarity, and detachment of a warrior aristocracy. The essays that make up this volume, written between the 1930s and 1940s, were originally published individually in periodicals and only later collected and issued together as “Metaphysics of War” by Arktos. They reflect a time of immense political upheaval, when Evola saw possibilities for the restoration of Europe but believed such efforts required a deeper transformation. His alternative was what he called “super-fascism,” meaning a worldview that rose above the limitations and superficialities of conventional fascism. By this he did not mean a more rigid or oppressive authoritarianism, but a political form inseparable from an inner revolution, a regeneration of spirit that would awaken the imperial virtues, the heroic ethos, and the deep racial memory within Europeans. The essays in “Metaphysics of War” draw on the great warrior traditions of the Indo-European, Aryan world. The Aryan kshatriya bound to dharma, the medieval knight who fused martial skill with a code of chivalry, the Crusader who fought for a principle higher than any political allegiance, and the disciplined initiates of Mithraism all embody the same constants. The true warrior acts with courage and without hesitation. He possesses clarity unclouded by sentiment. He welcomes the trial of danger. He subordinates passion to principle. He chooses his comrades carefully, respecting only those who meet his standard. He holds to an instinctive sense of order and form. Above all, he practices detachment toward himself, toward possessions, and toward life itself, which grants him calm in uncertainty, the ability to begin anew after loss, and the indomitability to endure all trials. Evola places these virtues in the context of the Traditional doctrine of the four ages. The first age is ruled by the spiritual authority of the priestly caste. The second age is ruled by the warrior principle. The third age sees the dominance of the merchant, when the concept of the nation becomes material and democratic. The fourth is the age of the slave, the reign of quantity, when both priestly and warrior virtues are nearly extinct. This last age, the Kali Yuga, is the most degenerate, but for those capable of transformation it offers unique possibilities. The same forces that degrade the many can be used by the few to reach a higher state, if met with the right inner discipline. This is why Evola could still affirm the potential of modern warfare, despite condemning its mechanized and impersonal nature, a view shared in part by Ernst Jünger and others. In traditional combat, the warrior met his adversary face to face, and the contest contained both honor and the possibility of transcendence. Modern war, conducted by machines and managed by bureaucracies, robs combat of much of this. The soldier, significantly the soldier rather than the warrior, becomes an anonymous function within an industrial process. Yet for the man rightly prepared, even the disasters of modern conflict can strip life to its essentials, burn away the false, and reveal the unshakable core of the self. In our own time, politics has degenerated into managed disputes within mass democracy, and war is often waged by remote technology rather than by men in direct contest. The decisive battlefield has shifted. The total war of the modern age is fought within the soul of every man who would preserve his dignity, his form, and his identity in a world bent on dissolution. The enemy is not only the system that denies higher values, but the corrosion of will, clarity, and discipline that such a system fosters. “Metaphysics of War” is therefore not merely a historical or philosophical study, but a summons to all still capable of rising above the detritus of this broken world. It calls for the forging of a warrior aristocracy able to wage both the inner and the outer war. It affirms that the man of Tradition fights not for material gain, not from instinct, and not from compulsion, but as an act of fidelity to an order that stands above life and death. For such a man, combat is not the destruction of life, but its elevation into the eternal. The restoration of a Europe worthy of its inheritance depends upon the creation of such men, for no lesser foundation will endure.
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“The highest instrument of the inner awakening of race is combat, and war is its highest expression.” These words, from Julius Evola’s “Metaphysics of War,” express the core of what I regard as his most essential and enduring work. Nowhere else does Evola so fully unite the metaphysical principles of Tradition with the ethos of the warrior and the political destiny of Europe and the West. This book is not the romanticizing of bloodshed for its own sake, nor the crude militarism of modern ideology. It is the assertion that combat, rightly understood as contest, the agon, is the supreme path by which man may transcend his lower nature, awaken his inner race, and align himself with the eternal order that stands above the rise and fall of nations. Evola grounds this vision on two distinct but inseparable levels. The first is the profane, where war is the highest school of heroism, the most direct means of forming character. In war, men face the fact that everything they have, including possessions, comfort, and even life itself, can be taken in an instant. This confrontation with impermanence strips away illusions and forces detachment from all that is transient. It places life in its proper perspective, revealing the distance between what is temporary and what is timeless. For many, such moments of danger and loss bring a sudden awakening, a liberation from the grip of material attachments. The second level is the sacred, where war becomes a path to transcendence. Here Evola draws on the “Bhagavad Gita,” the supreme text of the Aryan warrior tradition. Arjuna, the warrior prince, faces two wars: the lesser war, the outer conflict against his enemies; and the greater war, the inner battle against fear, weakness, and the passions that bind man to the merely human. Krishna instructs him that those he must fight are already destined to fall, that his task is to fulfill his duty without attachment to personal feeling or outcome, and that in doing so he becomes the instrument of a higher will. This is the essence of karma yoga, the path of action in the ancient Indo-European tradition, wholly removed from the modern, commercialized idea of yoga as mere stretching or relaxation. In its original sense, it is the disciplined fulfillment of one’s duty as a means of overcoming the self. Evola stresses that the outer war cannot be won without first winning the inner one, and that the true warrior is defined above all by his mastery over himself. For Evola, a man who conquers himself may never take up arms and still be a warrior in the highest sense, while a man who fights without inner mastery may win battles yet fail as a man of Tradition. Physical combat remains, however, the supreme opportunity for transformation, because in the face of death all masks fall away and a man must stand wholly present in his being. In this moment, the fear of death can be overcome and replaced with an active ecstasy, a state in which the individual transcends the limits of his personality and participates in the eternal. From this understanding follows Evola’s vision for a new European order. Such an order cannot be founded upon bourgeois comfort, sentimental nationalism, or the reduction of race to biological factors alone. It requires men who have stripped themselves of vanity, personal grievance, and dependence on material ease. These men must see reality without distortion, live simply but with conscious force, and be wholly committed to principles that outlast their own lives. Evola speaks of such men as those who “come from afar,” men whose presence carries the dignity, clarity, and detachment of a warrior aristocracy. The essays that make up this volume, written between the 1930s and 1940s, were originally published individually in periodicals and only later collected and issued together as “Metaphysics of War” by Arktos. They reflect a time of immense political upheaval, when Evola saw possibilities for the restoration of Europe but believed such efforts required a deeper transformation. His alternative was what he called “super-fascism,” meaning a worldview that rose above the limitations and superficialities of conventional fascism. By this he did not mean a more rigid or oppressive authoritarianism, but a political form inseparable from an inner revolution, a regeneration of spirit that would awaken the imperial virtues, the heroic ethos, and the deep racial memory within Europeans. The essays in “Metaphysics of War” draw on the great warrior traditions of the Indo-European, Aryan world. The Aryan kshatriya bound to dharma, the medieval knight who fused martial skill with a code of chivalry, the Crusader who fought for a principle higher than any political allegiance, and the disciplined initiates of Mithraism all embody the same constants. The true warrior acts with courage and without hesitation. He possesses clarity unclouded by sentiment. He welcomes the trial of danger. He subordinates passion to principle. He chooses his comrades carefully, respecting only those who meet his standard. He holds to an instinctive sense of order and form. Above all, he practices detachment toward himself, toward possessions, and toward life itself, which grants him calm in uncertainty, the ability to begin anew after loss, and the indomitability to endure all trials. Evola places these virtues in the context of the Traditional doctrine of the four ages. The first age is ruled by the spiritual authority of the priestly caste. The second age is ruled by the warrior principle. The third age sees the dominance of the merchant, when the concept of the nation becomes material and democratic. The fourth is the age of the slave, the reign of quantity, when both priestly and warrior virtues are nearly extinct. This last age, the Kali Yuga, is the most degenerate, but for those capable of transformation it offers unique possibilities. The same forces that degrade the many can be used by the few to reach a higher state, if met with the right inner discipline. This is why Evola could still affirm the potential of modern warfare, despite condemning its mechanized and impersonal nature, a view shared in part by Ernst Jünger and others. In traditional combat, the warrior met his adversary face to face, and the contest contained both honor and the possibility of transcendence. Modern war, conducted by machines and managed by bureaucracies, robs combat of much of this. The soldier, significantly the soldier rather than the warrior, becomes an anonymous function within an industrial process. Yet for the man rightly prepared, even the disasters of modern conflict can strip life to its essentials, burn away the false, and reveal the unshakable core of the self. In our own time, politics has degenerated into managed disputes within mass democracy, and war is often waged by remote technology rather than by men in direct contest. The decisive battlefield has shifted. The total war of the modern age is fought within the soul of every man who would preserve his dignity, his form, and his identity in a world bent on dissolution. The enemy is not only the system that denies higher values, but the corrosion of will, clarity, and discipline that such a system fosters. “Metaphysics of War” is therefore not merely a historical or philosophical study, but a summons to all still capable of rising above the detritus of this broken world. It calls for the forging of a warrior aristocracy able to wage both the inner and the outer war. It affirms that the man of Tradition fights not for material gain, not from instinct, and not from compulsion, but as an act of fidelity to an order that stands above life and death. For such a man, combat is not the destruction of life, but its elevation into the eternal. The restoration of a Europe worthy of its inheritance depends upon the creation of such men, for no lesser foundation will endure.

Chad Crowley

30,479 views • 1 year ago

Here's why $NEAR is a no-brainer in 2025 👇 Everybody loves NEAR Protocol and there is a reason for that (or many). Near is well-positioned to be one of the leading blockchain ecosystems this year. Let’s explore the “whys”. TIMESTAMPS Quick Bio – 00:00:15 Inflation Reduction Proposal – 00:00:43 Technically Speaking – 00:02:40 Near Intents – 00:03:37 Chain Signatures and AI – 00:04:39 Decentralization and DeFi – 00:05:59 I have my Near account since March 2023, but it has been inactive for a while, as I was focused on other stuff. However, the recent inflation halving proposal by HOT DAO (HOT Protocol 🔥) and LiNEAR (LiNEAR Protocol) brought my eyes back to the project and I really like what I’m seeing. So, here’s my first point. If this proposal passes, NEAR could lead the way in what appears to be a market trend of improving the tokenomics, as more and more experts realize holders have been overpaying for these networks' security, with a too high supply inflation. Solana tried something similar, but the proposal was rejected. In my opinion, validators voting favorably to that show a commitment to the chain for the long term. On the other hand, voting against it signals a short-term vision focused on milking the emissions as much as possible, at the ecosystem’s expense. The voting currently goes with 28% “YEA” votes, needing 66.76% to pass. Most of the validators who already cast their votes went with the yes. 2pilot, avb, openshards, qbit, sicmundus, fox, and intear are, so far, the only seven who voted “NAY”. This proposal has the vocal support of most influential figures in the Near ecosystem, including the Near Foundation (NEAR Foundation), led by Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈), which makes me believe it will pass and show the power of the halving in getting the market’s attention and presenting a huge investment asymmetry for the native token right now. Is this everything I like about NEAR? Definitely not. This is just what got me looking at it again, just to discover a (very much) thriving ecosystem, full of interesting things happening at the same time. I’ll mention a few, but there is (much) more. Technically speaking, Near is a high-performance blockchain, with really low fees and one of the fastest finalities, with 600ms block time and approximately 1.8s finality. It also has my favorite architecture for internet-scale scalability, using sharding, while keeping a high decentralization standard. As a learning programmer, Near also has one of the best dev experiences (in my limited opinion). The documentation is clear, has a logical journey, presenting from the basic anatomy in details to more complex SDKs and tools. I’m also in love with the near-cli-rs. A command line interface program written in Rust for seamless interaction with the Near blockchain. Allowing wallet creation, chain query, sending transactions, staking, smart contract calls, and more. Near Intents. This was the second thing to get my attention, while studying the project again, and it sets a whole new standard for blockchain interactions, especially cross-chain. Basically, users can declare an intention (for example, swap Ethereum-USDT to Bitcoin) and a network of solvers, running on Near, will find the best path to accomplish this task. We recently saw an impressive 465k-worth swap happening in exactly this example, paying 0.55% of trading fees to thorswap.near and swapkit.near. According to a Dune Dashboard, the protocol accumulates nearly $400 million in volume since its launch not long ago, in November 2024. *obs.: half this volume was achieved in the last month. Massive! Near Intents is possible due to two other very interesting things: (i) Chain abstraction, and (ii) a solid AI infrastructure. Chain abstraction (via Chain Signatures) is a powerful interoperability feature, allowing Near to friendly connect different blockchains as if they were part of a single network. Users and devs benefit from wallet, address, fees, and cross-chain bridges abstractions - not even noticing they are interacting with multiple chains. One wallet that powers everything. Powered by Near. On AI, Near is just built differently. Not for the hype, but for the solution. The team has been looking for AI solutions much before the ChatGPT fever. Actually, they started as an AI company, pivoting to blockchain later. So, being one of the most promising networks for the growing AI economy was just the natural path to follow. There is an extensive and super complete research piece on that topic, recently published by Reflexivity Research (Reflexivity Research) on July 1st. It presents Near as an AI-optimized blockchain, covering AITP, Shade Agents, x402, Near Intents, and more. Definitely worth the reading. Wrapping up this content with one more aspect that really matters to me is how Near remains truthful to decentralization, data ownership, censorship-resistance and open-source primitives that have been increasingly abandoned by other key players. A simple example of that is how the Near Foundation decided to deprecate its public APIs, encouraging the surge of a more decentralized and competitive market of SaaS projects, with a highlight to Lava Network, that recently appeared in my timeline talking about that. DeFi is also huge on Near, leveraging all the previous properties I mentioned, creating a truly decentralized liquidity pool via Rhea Finance, connected with other chains like BTC, Ethereum, ZCash, and more. All that contributes to Near having the second-largest monthly active addresses, with nearly 50 million, only losing to Solana’s nearly 90 million. In the meantime, NEAR, the token, is not even at the 30rd position by market cap. Crazy stuff. To (finally) wrap it up, I also want to mention Near’s consensus decentralization. While having a low node-count, the network has a Nakamoto Coefficient of 11, which is not bad at all. Surely, there is still room for improvement, which is possible as becoming a validator is accessible staking and hardware-wise. If you liked this content, make sure to click the like bottom and share it around. Follow me on X or subscribe to my YouTube channel, both at vinibarbosabr. See ya!
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Here's why $NEAR is a no-brainer in 2025 👇 Everybody loves NEAR Protocol and there is a reason for that (or many). Near is well-positioned to be one of the leading blockchain ecosystems this year. Let’s explore the “whys”. TIMESTAMPS Quick Bio – 00:00:15 Inflation Reduction Proposal – 00:00:43 Technically Speaking – 00:02:40 Near Intents – 00:03:37 Chain Signatures and AI – 00:04:39 Decentralization and DeFi – 00:05:59 I have my Near account since March 2023, but it has been inactive for a while, as I was focused on other stuff. However, the recent inflation halving proposal by HOT DAO (HOT Protocol 🔥) and LiNEAR (LiNEAR Protocol) brought my eyes back to the project and I really like what I’m seeing. So, here’s my first point. If this proposal passes, NEAR could lead the way in what appears to be a market trend of improving the tokenomics, as more and more experts realize holders have been overpaying for these networks' security, with a too high supply inflation. Solana tried something similar, but the proposal was rejected. In my opinion, validators voting favorably to that show a commitment to the chain for the long term. On the other hand, voting against it signals a short-term vision focused on milking the emissions as much as possible, at the ecosystem’s expense. The voting currently goes with 28% “YEA” votes, needing 66.76% to pass. Most of the validators who already cast their votes went with the yes. 2pilot, avb, openshards, qbit, sicmundus, fox, and intear are, so far, the only seven who voted “NAY”. This proposal has the vocal support of most influential figures in the Near ecosystem, including the Near Foundation (NEAR Foundation), led by Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈), which makes me believe it will pass and show the power of the halving in getting the market’s attention and presenting a huge investment asymmetry for the native token right now. Is this everything I like about NEAR? Definitely not. This is just what got me looking at it again, just to discover a (very much) thriving ecosystem, full of interesting things happening at the same time. I’ll mention a few, but there is (much) more. Technically speaking, Near is a high-performance blockchain, with really low fees and one of the fastest finalities, with 600ms block time and approximately 1.8s finality. It also has my favorite architecture for internet-scale scalability, using sharding, while keeping a high decentralization standard. As a learning programmer, Near also has one of the best dev experiences (in my limited opinion). The documentation is clear, has a logical journey, presenting from the basic anatomy in details to more complex SDKs and tools. I’m also in love with the near-cli-rs. A command line interface program written in Rust for seamless interaction with the Near blockchain. Allowing wallet creation, chain query, sending transactions, staking, smart contract calls, and more. Near Intents. This was the second thing to get my attention, while studying the project again, and it sets a whole new standard for blockchain interactions, especially cross-chain. Basically, users can declare an intention (for example, swap Ethereum-USDT to Bitcoin) and a network of solvers, running on Near, will find the best path to accomplish this task. We recently saw an impressive 465k-worth swap happening in exactly this example, paying 0.55% of trading fees to thorswap.near and swapkit.near. According to a Dune Dashboard, the protocol accumulates nearly $400 million in volume since its launch not long ago, in November 2024. *obs.: half this volume was achieved in the last month. Massive! Near Intents is possible due to two other very interesting things: (i) Chain abstraction, and (ii) a solid AI infrastructure. Chain abstraction (via Chain Signatures) is a powerful interoperability feature, allowing Near to friendly connect different blockchains as if they were part of a single network. Users and devs benefit from wallet, address, fees, and cross-chain bridges abstractions - not even noticing they are interacting with multiple chains. One wallet that powers everything. Powered by Near. On AI, Near is just built differently. Not for the hype, but for the solution. The team has been looking for AI solutions much before the ChatGPT fever. Actually, they started as an AI company, pivoting to blockchain later. So, being one of the most promising networks for the growing AI economy was just the natural path to follow. There is an extensive and super complete research piece on that topic, recently published by Reflexivity Research (Reflexivity Research) on July 1st. It presents Near as an AI-optimized blockchain, covering AITP, Shade Agents, x402, Near Intents, and more. Definitely worth the reading. Wrapping up this content with one more aspect that really matters to me is how Near remains truthful to decentralization, data ownership, censorship-resistance and open-source primitives that have been increasingly abandoned by other key players. A simple example of that is how the Near Foundation decided to deprecate its public APIs, encouraging the surge of a more decentralized and competitive market of SaaS projects, with a highlight to Lava Network, that recently appeared in my timeline talking about that. DeFi is also huge on Near, leveraging all the previous properties I mentioned, creating a truly decentralized liquidity pool via Rhea Finance, connected with other chains like BTC, Ethereum, ZCash, and more. All that contributes to Near having the second-largest monthly active addresses, with nearly 50 million, only losing to Solana’s nearly 90 million. In the meantime, NEAR, the token, is not even at the 30rd position by market cap. Crazy stuff. To (finally) wrap it up, I also want to mention Near’s consensus decentralization. While having a low node-count, the network has a Nakamoto Coefficient of 11, which is not bad at all. Surely, there is still room for improvement, which is possible as becoming a validator is accessible staking and hardware-wise. If you liked this content, make sure to click the like bottom and share it around. Follow me on X or subscribe to my YouTube channel, both at vinibarbosabr. See ya!

Vini B |「 thecoding 」

40,183 views • 1 year ago

Ep. 15 Free The Money | Angel Pui: The Serial Entrepreneur Behind Brave Games I am joined by serial entrepreneur Angel, a builder who has successfully launched companies across fashion, marketplaces, digital health, NFTs, and now Web3 gaming. Angel’s journey starts in a family of engineers and inventors, where she learned to think in systems, solve problems aggressively, and analyze metrics from a young age. Instead of following the traditional engineering path, she chose design, eventually launching Weddingful, a marketplace that became the “Airbnb for weddings” and scaled to over 100,000 users before being acquired. From there, she pivoted into digital health, co-founding a company that helped match patients with clinical trials, accelerating access to potentially life-saving treatments. Along the way, she mastered forecasting, A/B testing, and data-driven growth. These skills she later applied to flipping Birkin bags on a massive scale (using Python scripts to identify arbitrage opportunities) and launching NFT projects with Fortune 500 brands. But the real focus of this conversation is her latest venture: Brave Games. Angel is now leading the development of Brave Games, the first ever reality-style, vault-heist competition built directly into the Brave browser. Instead of passively consuming content, users actively participate in a live, evolving game where alliances form, strategy matters, and outcomes aren’t producer controlled, but user driven. With over 100 million Brave users and tens of thousands already participating in early rounds, Brave Games represents a major shift in digital engagement, blending Web2 scale with Web3 incentives, privacy layers, NFTs, and community led gameplay. Angel explains the vision: turning browsers from passive tools into interactive entertainment platforms, potentially becoming the “Netflix of reality-style games.” If you’re interested in entrepreneurship, AI-driven business building, Web3 innovation, or the future of interactive entertainment, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss. Sign up for ITrustCapital with this link for $100 funding bonus. See why people are opening a tax-advantaged Crypto, Gold & Silver IRA for their future: 00:00 From Weddings to Web3: Angel’s Entrepreneur Blueprint 00:29 Angel Joins the Show 03:49 “Something Was Missing” → Product Design Mindset 06:16 Weddingful: Sewing Dresses → “Airbnb for Weddings” 08:41 Digital Health: Matching Patients to Clinical Trials 12:17 Metrics That Win: Forecasting, Testing, Scaling 15:28 Birkin Arbitrage: Python + 20–30% Margins 18:32 NFTs: From Collector to Fortune 500 Launches 24:04 AI Future: Agents, New Jobs, New Money 29:52 Brave Games: Reality-Style Vault Heist in Your Browser 39:17 Founder Advice: Use AI, Fail Fast, Learn Faster 41:25 Creator Growth Hack: Incentives + Mini-Games for Viewers
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Ep. 15 Free The Money | Angel Pui: The Serial Entrepreneur Behind Brave Games I am joined by serial entrepreneur Angel, a builder who has successfully launched companies across fashion, marketplaces, digital health, NFTs, and now Web3 gaming. Angel’s journey starts in a family of engineers and inventors, where she learned to think in systems, solve problems aggressively, and analyze metrics from a young age. Instead of following the traditional engineering path, she chose design, eventually launching Weddingful, a marketplace that became the “Airbnb for weddings” and scaled to over 100,000 users before being acquired. From there, she pivoted into digital health, co-founding a company that helped match patients with clinical trials, accelerating access to potentially life-saving treatments. Along the way, she mastered forecasting, A/B testing, and data-driven growth. These skills she later applied to flipping Birkin bags on a massive scale (using Python scripts to identify arbitrage opportunities) and launching NFT projects with Fortune 500 brands. But the real focus of this conversation is her latest venture: Brave Games. Angel is now leading the development of Brave Games, the first ever reality-style, vault-heist competition built directly into the Brave browser. Instead of passively consuming content, users actively participate in a live, evolving game where alliances form, strategy matters, and outcomes aren’t producer controlled, but user driven. With over 100 million Brave users and tens of thousands already participating in early rounds, Brave Games represents a major shift in digital engagement, blending Web2 scale with Web3 incentives, privacy layers, NFTs, and community led gameplay. Angel explains the vision: turning browsers from passive tools into interactive entertainment platforms, potentially becoming the “Netflix of reality-style games.” If you’re interested in entrepreneurship, AI-driven business building, Web3 innovation, or the future of interactive entertainment, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss. Sign up for ITrustCapital with this link for $100 funding bonus. See why people are opening a tax-advantaged Crypto, Gold & Silver IRA for their future: 00:00 From Weddings to Web3: Angel’s Entrepreneur Blueprint 00:29 Angel Joins the Show 03:49 “Something Was Missing” → Product Design Mindset 06:16 Weddingful: Sewing Dresses → “Airbnb for Weddings” 08:41 Digital Health: Matching Patients to Clinical Trials 12:17 Metrics That Win: Forecasting, Testing, Scaling 15:28 Birkin Arbitrage: Python + 20–30% Margins 18:32 NFTs: From Collector to Fortune 500 Launches 24:04 AI Future: Agents, New Jobs, New Money 29:52 Brave Games: Reality-Style Vault Heist in Your Browser 39:17 Founder Advice: Use AI, Fail Fast, Learn Faster 41:25 Creator Growth Hack: Incentives + Mini-Games for Viewers

Bri Teresi

46,264 views • 6 months ago

🚨 JAKE HOFFMAN EXPOSED: One Child Goes MISSING In Hoffman’s District Every 48 Hours — The REAL Reason Jake Hoffman Left The "Dept. Of Child Safety" LEADERLESS for 2 Years. While the mainstream media looks the other way, WolvesAndFinance just dropped a new video exposing Jake Hoffman and the seddy world of AZ politics; Uncovering a web of UPS store mailboxes, quid pro quo, multimillion-dollar payments from Turning Point, and a legislative record that raises the most disturbing questions imaginable. Here is the breakdown of the Arizona "Musical Chairs" and what it means for the most vulnerable. Turning Point reportedly sent millions of dollars to 1:10 LLC, a company operated by Jake Hoffman out of a UPS Store mailbox. When questioned about whether this was a bribe, Turning Point didn't just deny it—they sent a Cease and Desist specifically telling investigators to stop asking about that specific transaction. What are they hiding? Hoffman’s rise to power wasn’t an accident. It was a carefully orchestrated game of "political musical chairs" with Andy Biggs, Warren Petersen, and Eddie Farnsworth. In 2012, Hoffman dropped out of a race so Petersen and Farnsworth could run unopposed. In exchange, the machine cleared his path to the school board and eventually the State Senate. Warren Petersen (a land developer) sold Hoffman a home in Queen Creek at a $25,000 loss to the seller just in time for Hoffman to meet residency requirements for the Town Council. This was while Petersen had a massive lawsuit pending against the town—a lawsuit Hoffman would eventually be in a position to vote on. That is a MASSIVE conflict of interest. Hoffman represents Queen Creek, home to Canyon State Academy and Desert Lily Academy. These facilities house at-risk and foster youth—many sent from California. Between Jan 2024 and Dec 2025, 327 children went missing from these two campuses. That is one child going missing every two days. The QC police chief (hired by Hoffman) admitted these "runaways" often turn into sex trafficking and exploitation cases. In one instance, 31-year-old Wendell White was sentenced to 20 years for trafficking girls out of Desert Lily to a Phoenix hotbed known as "The Blade." When Governor Katie Hobbs tried to appoint Matthew Stewart—a man with a decade of hands-on experience in the Dept. of Child Safety—to fix the agency, Hoffman blocked him. Hoffman kept the Department of Child Safety in leaderless chaos for two years. He finally confirmed Catherine Patak, the agency's General Counsel, specifically because she promised "consistent and reliable operations." Translation: He wanted the status quo. He wanted the management that allowed a child to go missing every 48 hours to remain in power. Jake Hoffman is at the center of the Turning Point money machine. He has used his power to maintain a "status quo" in a district where children are being plucked from state care and sold on the streets of Phoenix. Is he a representative, or is he a gatekeeper for a much darker industry? This is just a piece of the much larger puzzl connecting these powerful politicians in AZ who all work together to mak sure homegrown child sexual exploitation continues. Be sure to go watch the FULL video from WolvesAndFinance linked below.
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🚨 JAKE HOFFMAN EXPOSED: One Child Goes MISSING In Hoffman’s District Every 48 Hours — The REAL Reason Jake Hoffman Left The "Dept. Of Child Safety" LEADERLESS for 2 Years. While the mainstream media looks the other way, WolvesAndFinance just dropped a new video exposing Jake Hoffman and the seddy world of AZ politics; Uncovering a web of UPS store mailboxes, quid pro quo, multimillion-dollar payments from Turning Point, and a legislative record that raises the most disturbing questions imaginable. Here is the breakdown of the Arizona "Musical Chairs" and what it means for the most vulnerable. Turning Point reportedly sent millions of dollars to 1:10 LLC, a company operated by Jake Hoffman out of a UPS Store mailbox. When questioned about whether this was a bribe, Turning Point didn't just deny it—they sent a Cease and Desist specifically telling investigators to stop asking about that specific transaction. What are they hiding? Hoffman’s rise to power wasn’t an accident. It was a carefully orchestrated game of "political musical chairs" with Andy Biggs, Warren Petersen, and Eddie Farnsworth. In 2012, Hoffman dropped out of a race so Petersen and Farnsworth could run unopposed. In exchange, the machine cleared his path to the school board and eventually the State Senate. Warren Petersen (a land developer) sold Hoffman a home in Queen Creek at a $25,000 loss to the seller just in time for Hoffman to meet residency requirements for the Town Council. This was while Petersen had a massive lawsuit pending against the town—a lawsuit Hoffman would eventually be in a position to vote on. That is a MASSIVE conflict of interest. Hoffman represents Queen Creek, home to Canyon State Academy and Desert Lily Academy. These facilities house at-risk and foster youth—many sent from California. Between Jan 2024 and Dec 2025, 327 children went missing from these two campuses. That is one child going missing every two days. The QC police chief (hired by Hoffman) admitted these "runaways" often turn into sex trafficking and exploitation cases. In one instance, 31-year-old Wendell White was sentenced to 20 years for trafficking girls out of Desert Lily to a Phoenix hotbed known as "The Blade." When Governor Katie Hobbs tried to appoint Matthew Stewart—a man with a decade of hands-on experience in the Dept. of Child Safety—to fix the agency, Hoffman blocked him. Hoffman kept the Department of Child Safety in leaderless chaos for two years. He finally confirmed Catherine Patak, the agency's General Counsel, specifically because she promised "consistent and reliable operations." Translation: He wanted the status quo. He wanted the management that allowed a child to go missing every 48 hours to remain in power. Jake Hoffman is at the center of the Turning Point money machine. He has used his power to maintain a "status quo" in a district where children are being plucked from state care and sold on the streets of Phoenix. Is he a representative, or is he a gatekeeper for a much darker industry? This is just a piece of the much larger puzzl connecting these powerful politicians in AZ who all work together to mak sure homegrown child sexual exploitation continues. Be sure to go watch the FULL video from WolvesAndFinance linked below.

Project Constitution

54,476 views • 5 months ago

⚡️🇷🇺New full length interview from Andrey Gregoriev callsign "Tuta", with even more crazy details, particularly about the second counterattack assault which came after Andrey had already eliminated the first Ukrainian in the now-famous death match: It's a total hell that Andrei went through. There's no movie like this. It turns out that the hand-to-hand fight was only the beginning of a heavy battle. Andrei thought he had killed the AFU soldier with a line from his house. He went out and came face to face with him. He was scared - they fell to the ground, fighting to the death. At the very beginning of the melee he cut his hand with his own knife. But he defeated the enemy, silently and as fast as he could - the territory was under the AFU, there would be no help for sure - the Russian units were 6 km away. He said goodbye to the dying Khokhl, threw him a grenade and then finished him off with a shot: “he was mumbling something”. He went down to the basement of the house - examined his wounds, rewrapped himself. The vest was torn at the straps, the helmet didn't fit over his head - his right ear was swollen. I got up and took the radio from the AFU soldier. On the other side they were preparing a counterattack of 6 storm troopers. The enemy knew and saw the fight - they even argued on the air whether he was a Tuvinian or a Yakut. Six of them came, actively started pelting him with grenades, calling whether he was alive or not. Andrei was silent. The AFU men argued who would go to check him - one of them went, ours put him down at once. Again grenades and smoke grenades to smoke him out. Andrei soaked his hat in water and breathed like that. Then they argued again and sent one to check him - he put him in 300, he shouted for help. They ran out of grenades and decided to burn Andrei - they threw a “lighter” and then decided that he was dead. It was already evening around 22 hours. At 7 a.m. another group of the enemy came... 00: 33 Details of the combat exit: a dead comrade, a drone attack and the first injuries 02: 07 Why did Vsushnik offer "Tute" to surrender 03: 28 Exclusive fight details 04: 48 How the enemy almost took possession of the knife "Tuta" 05: 20 In such battles, only one survives 05: 40 Why yakut fought without a sound 06: 37 The last seconds of the life of an AFU militant 07: 24 VSUshnik's walkie-talkie helped "Tuta" to find out about the counterattack of the APU and buy time 08: 33 How the enemies realized that they were dealing with Yakut 08: 48 The militants tried to throw grenades at "Tutu" and bring them to talk 09: 15 "Tuta" ambushed enemy intelligence 10: 03 How water saved the hero from gas 10: 51 Why Grigoriev didn't kill the three hundredth 12: 03 Exploding phone, surviving watch and drones – how "Tuta" managed to jump out of the trap while the militants went for an RPG 14: 18 Yakut hand-to-hand combatant on how he put the flag of the Russian Federation at the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 14: 50 What the fighter managed to do in 6 days in the enemy's territory 15: 34 "I should have done it myself" – why Grigoriev didn't burn the ammunition depot 18: 12 After the fight, the Yakut melee fighter repulsed four more APU attacks 20: 24 AFU militants were afraid of the help that allegedly came up 21: 07 Why did the first rollback attempt fail 22: 38 Vsushniki specially change into civilian clothes 23: 24 Enemies considered "Tutu" dead and it saved his life 25: 03 Chronicle of Yakut melee rescue 26: 59 Three prophetic dreams helped to get out to the Yakut melee fighter 28: 52 Why is it safer to go out on a postcard than through the forest 29: 50 How during the rollback "Tuta" helped our offensive 30: 41 Speed saved a fighter from death in a burnt-out MTLB 31: 22 Dead friends tried to warn Yakut about the drone strike 33: 18 How did the tasks of "Tuta" change in positions from flag setting to reconnaissance 33: 58 Family helped the fighter last 6 days 34: 22 Yakut melee destroyed a mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 35: 54 Why in the most difficult moment the ancestors do not leave 36: 16 How Grigoriev was able to avoid death under the fire of his colleagues 38: 02 Why the fighter didn't want to call for help 41: 40 How "Tuta" did not learn his native language when returning to his own 42: 24 Why the fighter was not ashamed of tears when meeting with his comrades 43: 04 How many opponents did the Yakut melee fighter destroy 43: 32 Why Yakut melee 4 days kept the last cigarette 45: 18 How many combat exits did Andrey Grigoriev have 47: 20 Why the third fight becomes decisive 49: 13 History and fate of the saving knife 50: 28 Yakut melee fighter could not finish watching the video of his fight
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⚡️🇷🇺New full length interview from Andrey Gregoriev callsign "Tuta", with even more crazy details, particularly about the second counterattack assault which came after Andrey had already eliminated the first Ukrainian in the now-famous death match: It's a total hell that Andrei went through. There's no movie like this. It turns out that the hand-to-hand fight was only the beginning of a heavy battle. Andrei thought he had killed the AFU soldier with a line from his house. He went out and came face to face with him. He was scared - they fell to the ground, fighting to the death. At the very beginning of the melee he cut his hand with his own knife. But he defeated the enemy, silently and as fast as he could - the territory was under the AFU, there would be no help for sure - the Russian units were 6 km away. He said goodbye to the dying Khokhl, threw him a grenade and then finished him off with a shot: “he was mumbling something”. He went down to the basement of the house - examined his wounds, rewrapped himself. The vest was torn at the straps, the helmet didn't fit over his head - his right ear was swollen. I got up and took the radio from the AFU soldier. On the other side they were preparing a counterattack of 6 storm troopers. The enemy knew and saw the fight - they even argued on the air whether he was a Tuvinian or a Yakut. Six of them came, actively started pelting him with grenades, calling whether he was alive or not. Andrei was silent. The AFU men argued who would go to check him - one of them went, ours put him down at once. Again grenades and smoke grenades to smoke him out. Andrei soaked his hat in water and breathed like that. Then they argued again and sent one to check him - he put him in 300, he shouted for help. They ran out of grenades and decided to burn Andrei - they threw a “lighter” and then decided that he was dead. It was already evening around 22 hours. At 7 a.m. another group of the enemy came... 00: 33 Details of the combat exit: a dead comrade, a drone attack and the first injuries 02: 07 Why did Vsushnik offer "Tute" to surrender 03: 28 Exclusive fight details 04: 48 How the enemy almost took possession of the knife "Tuta" 05: 20 In such battles, only one survives 05: 40 Why yakut fought without a sound 06: 37 The last seconds of the life of an AFU militant 07: 24 VSUshnik's walkie-talkie helped "Tuta" to find out about the counterattack of the APU and buy time 08: 33 How the enemies realized that they were dealing with Yakut 08: 48 The militants tried to throw grenades at "Tutu" and bring them to talk 09: 15 "Tuta" ambushed enemy intelligence 10: 03 How water saved the hero from gas 10: 51 Why Grigoriev didn't kill the three hundredth 12: 03 Exploding phone, surviving watch and drones – how "Tuta" managed to jump out of the trap while the militants went for an RPG 14: 18 Yakut hand-to-hand combatant on how he put the flag of the Russian Federation at the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 14: 50 What the fighter managed to do in 6 days in the enemy's territory 15: 34 "I should have done it myself" – why Grigoriev didn't burn the ammunition depot 18: 12 After the fight, the Yakut melee fighter repulsed four more APU attacks 20: 24 AFU militants were afraid of the help that allegedly came up 21: 07 Why did the first rollback attempt fail 22: 38 Vsushniki specially change into civilian clothes 23: 24 Enemies considered "Tutu" dead and it saved his life 25: 03 Chronicle of Yakut melee rescue 26: 59 Three prophetic dreams helped to get out to the Yakut melee fighter 28: 52 Why is it safer to go out on a postcard than through the forest 29: 50 How during the rollback "Tuta" helped our offensive 30: 41 Speed saved a fighter from death in a burnt-out MTLB 31: 22 Dead friends tried to warn Yakut about the drone strike 33: 18 How did the tasks of "Tuta" change in positions from flag setting to reconnaissance 33: 58 Family helped the fighter last 6 days 34: 22 Yakut melee destroyed a mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 35: 54 Why in the most difficult moment the ancestors do not leave 36: 16 How Grigoriev was able to avoid death under the fire of his colleagues 38: 02 Why the fighter didn't want to call for help 41: 40 How "Tuta" did not learn his native language when returning to his own 42: 24 Why the fighter was not ashamed of tears when meeting with his comrades 43: 04 How many opponents did the Yakut melee fighter destroy 43: 32 Why Yakut melee 4 days kept the last cigarette 45: 18 How many combat exits did Andrey Grigoriev have 47: 20 Why the third fight becomes decisive 49: 13 History and fate of the saving knife 50: 28 Yakut melee fighter could not finish watching the video of his fight

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314,932 views • 1 year ago

Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in 2020 I finally got to see it from the inside. Up close it was both amazing and terrible, like so many other companies and things in life. As someone with a maniacal sense of urgency built into me, Twitter often felt siloed and bureaucratic. Dumb power plays, reorgs and team name changes for the sake of someone’s ego were distractions that occurred too regularly. You couldn’t just be a builder — you also needed to be a politician. I was shocked by how old and bespoke the infrastructure was, but there was little will to think beyond quarterly earnings calls because we were all beholden to the masters of mDAU and revenue growth as a public company. It often felt like things were held together with duct tape and glue, and that many people had just accepted that a small product change could take months or quarters to build. Management had become bloated to accommodate career growth and the company culture felt too soft and entitled for my own taste. Healthy debate and criticism was replaced by a default refrain of “no, that can’t be done” or “another team owns that so don’t touch it”. Teams could spend months building a feature and then some last-minute kerfuffle meant it’d get killed for being too risky. Just talking directly to customers could turn into a turf war and create deadlocks between functions. I recall one such episode where a teammate spent a month trying to get clearance to reach out to some creators. He went through 3 layers of management and 6 different functional teams. In the end 4 executives were involved in the approval. It was insanity, and unfortunately I saw several top performers get burnt out and demoralized after exhausting experiences like that. Most people were good at their jobs but it was nearly impossible to fire poor performers — instead they got shuffled around to other teams because few managers had the will or resources to figure out how to get them out. A high performance culture pulls everyone up, but the opposite weighs everyone down. Twitter often felt like a place that kept squandering its own potential, which was sad and frustrating to see. The person who was best at cutting through the BS and inspiring a vision during my tenure was Kayvon Beykpour, but he wasn’t fully empowered to run the company since he wasn’t the CEO. Despite those real issues, I was lucky enough to work with some of the most talented people in the business at Twitter in product, design, engineering, research, legal, BD, trust & safety, marketing, PR and more. Often it was a small cross-functional team of intrinsically motivated people who made the biggest impact by challenging some core assumption. Those teams were very fun to be on but they felt like the exception rather than the rule. The months of waiting for the deal to close in 2022 were particularly slow and painful; it felt like leadership hid behind lawyers and legal language as all answers about the company’s future notoriously included the phrase “fiduciary duty”. Colleagues openly talked about how Twitter was being sold because leadership didn’t have conviction in their own plan or ability to fix longstanding problems. Although I didn’t know much about Elon I was cautiously optimistic – I saw him as the guy who built incredible and enduring companies like Tesla and SpaceX, so perhaps his private ownership could shake things up and breathe new life into the company. My take on what’s happened since then is full of lived nuance. When people ask why I stayed it’s easy to answer: optimism, curiosity, personal growth and money. From the beginning I saw that some changes Elon was going to make were smart and others were stupid, but when I’m on a team I uphold the philosophy of “praise in public and criticize in private”. I was far from a silent wallflower. I shared my opinions openly and pushed back often, both before and after the acquisition. I made peace with the fact that I didn’t have psychological safety at Twitter 2.0 and that meant I could be fired at any moment, and for no reason at all. I watched it happen repeatedly and saw how negatively it impacted team morale. Although I couldn’t change the situation I did my best to shine a light on folks who were doing important work while being an emotionally supportive leader for those who were struggling to adapt to the more brutalist and hardcore culture. In person Elon is oddly charming and he’s genuinely funny. He also has personality quirks like telling the same stories and jokes over and over. The challenge is his personality and demeanor can turn on a dime going from excited to angry. Since it was hard to read what mood he might be in and what his reaction would be to any given thing, people quickly became afraid of being called into meetings or having to share negative news with him. At times it felt like the inner circle was too zealous and fanatical in their unwavering support of everything he said. When individuals encouraged me to be careful about what I said I politely thanked them and said I would not be taking their advice. I had no interest in adding to a culture of fear or walking on eggshells around Elon. Either he would respect me for being real or he could fire me. Either outcome was okay. I quickly learned that product and business decisions were nearly always the result of him following his gut instinct, and he didn’t seem compelled to seek out or rely on a lot of data or expertise to inform it. That was particularly frustrating for me since I believed I had useful institutional knowledge that could help him make better decisions. Instead he'd poll Twitter, ask a friend, or even ask his biographer for product advice. At times it seemed he trusted random feedback more than the people in the room who spent their lives dedicated to tackling the problem at hand. I never figured out why and remain puzzled by it. I don’t think things had to be as difficult or dramatic as they turned out to be but I can’t say I’d bet against Elon or count him out. He’s smart and has enough money to make a lot of mistakes and then course correct when things go awry. As the largest shareholder he can tank the value in the short-term, but eventually he’ll need things to turn around. His focus on speed is incredible and he’s obviously not afraid of blowing things up, but now the real measure will be how it get reconstructed and if enough people want the new everything app he is building. I learned a ton from watching Elon up close – the good, the bad and the ugly. His boldness, passion and storytelling is inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful. Elon has an exceptional talent for tackling hard physics-based problems but products that facilitate human connection and communication require a different type of social-emotional intelligence. Social networks are hard to kill but they’re not immune from death spirals. Only time will tell what the outcome will be but I hope X finds its footing because competition is good for consumers. In the meantime, I have a lot of empathy for the employees who are working tirelessly behind the scenes, the advertisers who want a stable platform to sell their stuff on, and the customers who are experiencing chaotic updates. It’s been a madhouse. Twitter moved at the speed of molasses and suffered from bureaucracy but now X is run by a mercurial leader whose instinct is driven by the unique and undoubtedly weird experience of being the biggest voice on the platform. Many of you know me from the sleeping bag incident where I slept on a conference room floor, so I figure, let’s talk about that too. Going viral was an odd and interesting experience. I was attacked by people on the left and called a billionaire bootlicker, while simultaneously being attacked by people on the right for being a working mom who was demonized as an example of a woman choosing her career over her family. Thankfully I can laugh at myself and I don’t take armchair keyboard ideologues too seriously. Being the main character on the timeline, even for a few minutes, requires a thick skin and a strong sense of self. The real story is pretty simple. I was given a nearly impossible deadline for his first project and as the product lead I would never ask anyone to do anything I wasn’t willing to do myself. So I worked round the clock alongside an amazing team spanning many timezones, and we delivered it on schedule – truly against the odds. It was intense but also fun. Those first few months were wildly crazy but I wanted to be there and I have no regrets. Showing up and giving it your all should, in most cases, be celebrated. Obviously you can’t work at that pace forever but there are moments where bursts are mission critical. I’ve pulled many all-nighters in my career and also when I was a student for something that mattered to me. I don’t regret putting in long hours or being ambitious, and feel proud of how far I’ve come from where I started thanks in part to that type of work ethic. I think of life as a game, and being at Twitter after the acquisition was like playing life at Level 10 on Hard Mode. Since I like taking on difficult challenges I found it interesting and rewarding because I was growing and learning so rapidly. I realize our society today trends toward polarization but when it comes to this app, its owner, and its future, I am neither a fangirl nor a hater — I’m an optimistic pragmatist. This may really irritate the internet but you cannot pigeonhole me into some radical position of either loving or hating every change that’s occurred. I escaped my fundamentalist upbringing and am a free thinker these days. Everyone can be seen as both a hero or a villain, depending on who is telling what angle of the story. Elon doesn’t deserve to be venerated or vilified. He’s a complicated person with an unfathomable amount of financial and geopolitical power which is why humanity needs him to err on the side of goodness, rather than political divisiveness and pettiness. I disagree with many of his decisions and am surprised by his willingness to burn so much down, but with enough money and time, something new & innovative may emerge. I hope it does. Sometimes I get asked about how I felt when I got laid off, and the truth is it was the best gift I’ve ever received. Sure the headlines and punchlines wrote themselves but I was battle hardened by then. I knew that I’d worked in a way where I could walk out with my head held high. I have no bitterness about the Product Management team being dismantled, and it made sense for me to exit as nearly all of the remaining PMs were let go. Going on a sabbatical afterward has been exactly what I needed to decompress and I’m finally feeling rested and relaxed. I’m a creative and a builder, so sooner than later I’ll jump back into a high intensity company but I’m grateful for this season of thinking, reading, traveling and being with people I love. After having time to reflect I believe more than ever that the very best outcomes flow from great leadership that combines the head and the heart. I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that in all of this there is also a cautionary tale for anyone who succeeds at something — which is that the higher you climb, the smaller your world becomes. It’s a strange paradox but the richest and most powerful people are also some of the most isolated. I found myself frequently looking at Elon and seeing a person who seemed quite alone because his time and energy was so purely devoted to work, which is not the model of a life I want to live. Money and fame can create psychological prisons which may worsen mental health conditions. We’ve all seen high profile cases of celebrities who end up with some combination of depression, paranoia, delusions of grandeur, mania and/or erratic behavior. Living in an echo chamber is dangerous and being at the top makes a person even more susceptible to being surrounded by yes people when nearly everyone around you is on the payroll and somehow stands to benefit from being in your orbit. Figuring out how to keep “better angels” around in the form of family, friends, and teammates is critical to staying on the rails and enduring intense ups and downs. Everyone needs to hear hard truths sometimes and if you fire all the people who speak up then the reality distortion field may just turn into a vortex. I was drawn to Twitter because I’m obsessed with the problem of loneliness and connection between people. I find it fascinating & troubling that humans are getting lonelier as we simultaneously create a world that’s both safer and wealthier. I don’t believe that trade-off has to exist, which is why I keep returning to that theme in my personal and professional life. I realize this is too long of a tweet but Twitter was a weird and special place on the internet, and I’m grateful to have played a teeny tiny role in its story and evolution. I’m here for whatever comes next — on this app and in new places. Consumer social is very much alive and at a fascinating juncture, so I’ll be watching and participating and sharing hot takes because I don’t want to, and probably can’t, turn that part of me off. Perhaps X becomes a resounding success. Or it fails epically. Either way, I expect it will continue to be a very entertaining ride. 🫡
14:49

Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in 2020 I finally got to see it from the inside. Up close it was both amazing and terrible, like so many other companies and things in life. As someone with a maniacal sense of urgency built into me, Twitter often felt siloed and bureaucratic. Dumb power plays, reorgs and team name changes for the sake of someone’s ego were distractions that occurred too regularly. You couldn’t just be a builder — you also needed to be a politician. I was shocked by how old and bespoke the infrastructure was, but there was little will to think beyond quarterly earnings calls because we were all beholden to the masters of mDAU and revenue growth as a public company. It often felt like things were held together with duct tape and glue, and that many people had just accepted that a small product change could take months or quarters to build. Management had become bloated to accommodate career growth and the company culture felt too soft and entitled for my own taste. Healthy debate and criticism was replaced by a default refrain of “no, that can’t be done” or “another team owns that so don’t touch it”. Teams could spend months building a feature and then some last-minute kerfuffle meant it’d get killed for being too risky. Just talking directly to customers could turn into a turf war and create deadlocks between functions. I recall one such episode where a teammate spent a month trying to get clearance to reach out to some creators. He went through 3 layers of management and 6 different functional teams. In the end 4 executives were involved in the approval. It was insanity, and unfortunately I saw several top performers get burnt out and demoralized after exhausting experiences like that. Most people were good at their jobs but it was nearly impossible to fire poor performers — instead they got shuffled around to other teams because few managers had the will or resources to figure out how to get them out. A high performance culture pulls everyone up, but the opposite weighs everyone down. Twitter often felt like a place that kept squandering its own potential, which was sad and frustrating to see. The person who was best at cutting through the BS and inspiring a vision during my tenure was Kayvon Beykpour, but he wasn’t fully empowered to run the company since he wasn’t the CEO. Despite those real issues, I was lucky enough to work with some of the most talented people in the business at Twitter in product, design, engineering, research, legal, BD, trust & safety, marketing, PR and more. Often it was a small cross-functional team of intrinsically motivated people who made the biggest impact by challenging some core assumption. Those teams were very fun to be on but they felt like the exception rather than the rule. The months of waiting for the deal to close in 2022 were particularly slow and painful; it felt like leadership hid behind lawyers and legal language as all answers about the company’s future notoriously included the phrase “fiduciary duty”. Colleagues openly talked about how Twitter was being sold because leadership didn’t have conviction in their own plan or ability to fix longstanding problems. Although I didn’t know much about Elon I was cautiously optimistic – I saw him as the guy who built incredible and enduring companies like Tesla and SpaceX, so perhaps his private ownership could shake things up and breathe new life into the company. My take on what’s happened since then is full of lived nuance. When people ask why I stayed it’s easy to answer: optimism, curiosity, personal growth and money. From the beginning I saw that some changes Elon was going to make were smart and others were stupid, but when I’m on a team I uphold the philosophy of “praise in public and criticize in private”. I was far from a silent wallflower. I shared my opinions openly and pushed back often, both before and after the acquisition. I made peace with the fact that I didn’t have psychological safety at Twitter 2.0 and that meant I could be fired at any moment, and for no reason at all. I watched it happen repeatedly and saw how negatively it impacted team morale. Although I couldn’t change the situation I did my best to shine a light on folks who were doing important work while being an emotionally supportive leader for those who were struggling to adapt to the more brutalist and hardcore culture. In person Elon is oddly charming and he’s genuinely funny. He also has personality quirks like telling the same stories and jokes over and over. The challenge is his personality and demeanor can turn on a dime going from excited to angry. Since it was hard to read what mood he might be in and what his reaction would be to any given thing, people quickly became afraid of being called into meetings or having to share negative news with him. At times it felt like the inner circle was too zealous and fanatical in their unwavering support of everything he said. When individuals encouraged me to be careful about what I said I politely thanked them and said I would not be taking their advice. I had no interest in adding to a culture of fear or walking on eggshells around Elon. Either he would respect me for being real or he could fire me. Either outcome was okay. I quickly learned that product and business decisions were nearly always the result of him following his gut instinct, and he didn’t seem compelled to seek out or rely on a lot of data or expertise to inform it. That was particularly frustrating for me since I believed I had useful institutional knowledge that could help him make better decisions. Instead he'd poll Twitter, ask a friend, or even ask his biographer for product advice. At times it seemed he trusted random feedback more than the people in the room who spent their lives dedicated to tackling the problem at hand. I never figured out why and remain puzzled by it. I don’t think things had to be as difficult or dramatic as they turned out to be but I can’t say I’d bet against Elon or count him out. He’s smart and has enough money to make a lot of mistakes and then course correct when things go awry. As the largest shareholder he can tank the value in the short-term, but eventually he’ll need things to turn around. His focus on speed is incredible and he’s obviously not afraid of blowing things up, but now the real measure will be how it get reconstructed and if enough people want the new everything app he is building. I learned a ton from watching Elon up close – the good, the bad and the ugly. His boldness, passion and storytelling is inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful. Elon has an exceptional talent for tackling hard physics-based problems but products that facilitate human connection and communication require a different type of social-emotional intelligence. Social networks are hard to kill but they’re not immune from death spirals. Only time will tell what the outcome will be but I hope X finds its footing because competition is good for consumers. In the meantime, I have a lot of empathy for the employees who are working tirelessly behind the scenes, the advertisers who want a stable platform to sell their stuff on, and the customers who are experiencing chaotic updates. It’s been a madhouse. Twitter moved at the speed of molasses and suffered from bureaucracy but now X is run by a mercurial leader whose instinct is driven by the unique and undoubtedly weird experience of being the biggest voice on the platform. Many of you know me from the sleeping bag incident where I slept on a conference room floor, so I figure, let’s talk about that too. Going viral was an odd and interesting experience. I was attacked by people on the left and called a billionaire bootlicker, while simultaneously being attacked by people on the right for being a working mom who was demonized as an example of a woman choosing her career over her family. Thankfully I can laugh at myself and I don’t take armchair keyboard ideologues too seriously. Being the main character on the timeline, even for a few minutes, requires a thick skin and a strong sense of self. The real story is pretty simple. I was given a nearly impossible deadline for his first project and as the product lead I would never ask anyone to do anything I wasn’t willing to do myself. So I worked round the clock alongside an amazing team spanning many timezones, and we delivered it on schedule – truly against the odds. It was intense but also fun. Those first few months were wildly crazy but I wanted to be there and I have no regrets. Showing up and giving it your all should, in most cases, be celebrated. Obviously you can’t work at that pace forever but there are moments where bursts are mission critical. I’ve pulled many all-nighters in my career and also when I was a student for something that mattered to me. I don’t regret putting in long hours or being ambitious, and feel proud of how far I’ve come from where I started thanks in part to that type of work ethic. I think of life as a game, and being at Twitter after the acquisition was like playing life at Level 10 on Hard Mode. Since I like taking on difficult challenges I found it interesting and rewarding because I was growing and learning so rapidly. I realize our society today trends toward polarization but when it comes to this app, its owner, and its future, I am neither a fangirl nor a hater — I’m an optimistic pragmatist. This may really irritate the internet but you cannot pigeonhole me into some radical position of either loving or hating every change that’s occurred. I escaped my fundamentalist upbringing and am a free thinker these days. Everyone can be seen as both a hero or a villain, depending on who is telling what angle of the story. Elon doesn’t deserve to be venerated or vilified. He’s a complicated person with an unfathomable amount of financial and geopolitical power which is why humanity needs him to err on the side of goodness, rather than political divisiveness and pettiness. I disagree with many of his decisions and am surprised by his willingness to burn so much down, but with enough money and time, something new & innovative may emerge. I hope it does. Sometimes I get asked about how I felt when I got laid off, and the truth is it was the best gift I’ve ever received. Sure the headlines and punchlines wrote themselves but I was battle hardened by then. I knew that I’d worked in a way where I could walk out with my head held high. I have no bitterness about the Product Management team being dismantled, and it made sense for me to exit as nearly all of the remaining PMs were let go. Going on a sabbatical afterward has been exactly what I needed to decompress and I’m finally feeling rested and relaxed. I’m a creative and a builder, so sooner than later I’ll jump back into a high intensity company but I’m grateful for this season of thinking, reading, traveling and being with people I love. After having time to reflect I believe more than ever that the very best outcomes flow from great leadership that combines the head and the heart. I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that in all of this there is also a cautionary tale for anyone who succeeds at something — which is that the higher you climb, the smaller your world becomes. It’s a strange paradox but the richest and most powerful people are also some of the most isolated. I found myself frequently looking at Elon and seeing a person who seemed quite alone because his time and energy was so purely devoted to work, which is not the model of a life I want to live. Money and fame can create psychological prisons which may worsen mental health conditions. We’ve all seen high profile cases of celebrities who end up with some combination of depression, paranoia, delusions of grandeur, mania and/or erratic behavior. Living in an echo chamber is dangerous and being at the top makes a person even more susceptible to being surrounded by yes people when nearly everyone around you is on the payroll and somehow stands to benefit from being in your orbit. Figuring out how to keep “better angels” around in the form of family, friends, and teammates is critical to staying on the rails and enduring intense ups and downs. Everyone needs to hear hard truths sometimes and if you fire all the people who speak up then the reality distortion field may just turn into a vortex. I was drawn to Twitter because I’m obsessed with the problem of loneliness and connection between people. I find it fascinating & troubling that humans are getting lonelier as we simultaneously create a world that’s both safer and wealthier. I don’t believe that trade-off has to exist, which is why I keep returning to that theme in my personal and professional life. I realize this is too long of a tweet but Twitter was a weird and special place on the internet, and I’m grateful to have played a teeny tiny role in its story and evolution. I’m here for whatever comes next — on this app and in new places. Consumer social is very much alive and at a fascinating juncture, so I’ll be watching and participating and sharing hot takes because I don’t want to, and probably can’t, turn that part of me off. Perhaps X becomes a resounding success. Or it fails epically. Either way, I expect it will continue to be a very entertaining ride. 🫡

Esther Crawford ✨

5,501,971 views • 3 years ago

10 years ago, Tim Ferriss walked into Google & revealed exactly how to cage the monkey mind that is destroying your life every passing day: 1. The real training is in the small embarrassments. We do not rise to the level of our hopes. We fall to the level of our training. If you cannot handle small moments of public embarrassment you will not have the backbone to make big decisions under real pressure. 2. Seneca practiced poverty once a month. He would wear rough clothing, eat the simplest food, and ask himself is this the condition I so feared. Tim does one three day water fast every month and one seven to ten day fast every quarter for the same reason. Once you know the worst case is survivable you stop fearing it. 3. The monkey mind is not a dialogue. It is a stern and irritating roommate in your head that never shuts up. The morning journal is not about producing writing. It is about giving that roommate a two dimensional prison so it stops playing on repeat for the rest of the day. 4. The Five Minute Journal takes two and a half minutes in the morning and two and a half at night. The morning portion is a gratitude and planning exercise. The evening portion is a performance review. The ROI on those five minutes is higher than almost anything else Tim does. 5. Depression is an obsession with the past. Anxiety is an obsession with the future. High achievers almost always skew toward anxious future focus. Without a deliberate gratitude practice they hit goal after goal and feel nothing because they are already racing toward the next one. 6. The single biggest difference between the top quartile of performers and the top one percent is the degree to which they can identify their goals and maintain focus on them. Everything else is secondary to that one thing. 7. Humility does not require willpower. It requires designing the right environment. Every day Tim tries to be the weakest person in the room at something. At 15 in Japan he thought he was a judo star until a guy forty pounds lighter destroyed him in seven seconds. Then he trained at a school that produced Olympic gold medalists and got demolished by twelve year olds for months. He came out the other end completely transformed. 8. More than eighty percent of the world class performers Tim has interviewed across every field have a daily meditation practice. Some do not call it meditation but they all have something that functions the same way. Amelia Boone, the greatest female obstacle racer alive, sings the same song to herself on loop for hours. Arnold Schwarzenegger did transcendental meditation for a year and said the benefits persisted for decades after he stopped. 9. A high percentage of the successful men Tim has interviewed over fifty skip breakfast entirely. Pavel Tsatsouline, the man who brought kettlebells to America, answered what did you have for breakfast with a single word. Coffee. 10. What matters is not having a specific routine. It is having a routine. Whatever it is. The goal is to preserve your decision making and creativity for the things that actually require them. Steve Jobs wore the same thing every day. That was not a fashion choice. It was an energy allocation strategy. 11. Tim treats his entire life as two week experiments and six month projects. A reliable five year plan almost by definition requires you to set goals below your current capabilities. He is unwilling to do that so he does not plan that way. 12. The most successful people he has interviewed are not naive optimists. They budget for the downside. Richard Branson's real skill is figuring out the maximum he can lose and the maximum time he can lose before committing to anything. Once you realize the worst case is reversible the risk disappears. 13. The podcast succeeded because Tim knew he had a guaranteed audience of one. He was building something he could not find anywhere else. Every book came from the same place. When designing for a market things fail. When solving his own problem things work. 14. He committed to doing six podcast episodes before deciding whether to continue. If you only do one you will quit. The learning curve does not hockey stick until at least six. The survival of the project depended entirely on that pre-commitment. 15. Email is not a priority system it is other people's priority system for your time. Tim batches email offline so he is not doing whack-a-mole where sending two emails generates five back. He also uses if-then lines in every email he sends. It takes thirty extra seconds and eliminates twenty rounds of back and forth. 16. Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence or busyness. Holding a grudge about someone not replying means you are carrying imaginary shrapnel like acid in a vessel. You are the only one harmed by it. 17. For longevity Tim does regular extended fasting to purge precancerous cells combined with hyperbaric oxygen at two and a half atmospheres three times a week. By forty almost everyone has precancerous cells. The goal is not uncontrolled growth and fasting addresses the metabolic conditions that allow that. 18. For insomnia the two things that helped him most were morning meditation to quiet the machinery before the day starts and reading fiction before bed to shift from problem solving mode into story consuming mode. The monkey mind cannot solve problems it does not know it is supposed to be solving. Follow Yasmine Khosrowshahi for more ideas on thinking better, becoming clearer & building a more intentional life.
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10 years ago, Tim Ferriss walked into Google & revealed exactly how to cage the monkey mind that is destroying your life every passing day: 1. The real training is in the small embarrassments. We do not rise to the level of our hopes. We fall to the level of our training. If you cannot handle small moments of public embarrassment you will not have the backbone to make big decisions under real pressure. 2. Seneca practiced poverty once a month. He would wear rough clothing, eat the simplest food, and ask himself is this the condition I so feared. Tim does one three day water fast every month and one seven to ten day fast every quarter for the same reason. Once you know the worst case is survivable you stop fearing it. 3. The monkey mind is not a dialogue. It is a stern and irritating roommate in your head that never shuts up. The morning journal is not about producing writing. It is about giving that roommate a two dimensional prison so it stops playing on repeat for the rest of the day. 4. The Five Minute Journal takes two and a half minutes in the morning and two and a half at night. The morning portion is a gratitude and planning exercise. The evening portion is a performance review. The ROI on those five minutes is higher than almost anything else Tim does. 5. Depression is an obsession with the past. Anxiety is an obsession with the future. High achievers almost always skew toward anxious future focus. Without a deliberate gratitude practice they hit goal after goal and feel nothing because they are already racing toward the next one. 6. The single biggest difference between the top quartile of performers and the top one percent is the degree to which they can identify their goals and maintain focus on them. Everything else is secondary to that one thing. 7. Humility does not require willpower. It requires designing the right environment. Every day Tim tries to be the weakest person in the room at something. At 15 in Japan he thought he was a judo star until a guy forty pounds lighter destroyed him in seven seconds. Then he trained at a school that produced Olympic gold medalists and got demolished by twelve year olds for months. He came out the other end completely transformed. 8. More than eighty percent of the world class performers Tim has interviewed across every field have a daily meditation practice. Some do not call it meditation but they all have something that functions the same way. Amelia Boone, the greatest female obstacle racer alive, sings the same song to herself on loop for hours. Arnold Schwarzenegger did transcendental meditation for a year and said the benefits persisted for decades after he stopped. 9. A high percentage of the successful men Tim has interviewed over fifty skip breakfast entirely. Pavel Tsatsouline, the man who brought kettlebells to America, answered what did you have for breakfast with a single word. Coffee. 10. What matters is not having a specific routine. It is having a routine. Whatever it is. The goal is to preserve your decision making and creativity for the things that actually require them. Steve Jobs wore the same thing every day. That was not a fashion choice. It was an energy allocation strategy. 11. Tim treats his entire life as two week experiments and six month projects. A reliable five year plan almost by definition requires you to set goals below your current capabilities. He is unwilling to do that so he does not plan that way. 12. The most successful people he has interviewed are not naive optimists. They budget for the downside. Richard Branson's real skill is figuring out the maximum he can lose and the maximum time he can lose before committing to anything. Once you realize the worst case is reversible the risk disappears. 13. The podcast succeeded because Tim knew he had a guaranteed audience of one. He was building something he could not find anywhere else. Every book came from the same place. When designing for a market things fail. When solving his own problem things work. 14. He committed to doing six podcast episodes before deciding whether to continue. If you only do one you will quit. The learning curve does not hockey stick until at least six. The survival of the project depended entirely on that pre-commitment. 15. Email is not a priority system it is other people's priority system for your time. Tim batches email offline so he is not doing whack-a-mole where sending two emails generates five back. He also uses if-then lines in every email he sends. It takes thirty extra seconds and eliminates twenty rounds of back and forth. 16. Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence or busyness. Holding a grudge about someone not replying means you are carrying imaginary shrapnel like acid in a vessel. You are the only one harmed by it. 17. For longevity Tim does regular extended fasting to purge precancerous cells combined with hyperbaric oxygen at two and a half atmospheres three times a week. By forty almost everyone has precancerous cells. The goal is not uncontrolled growth and fasting addresses the metabolic conditions that allow that. 18. For insomnia the two things that helped him most were morning meditation to quiet the machinery before the day starts and reading fiction before bed to shift from problem solving mode into story consuming mode. The monkey mind cannot solve problems it does not know it is supposed to be solving. Follow Yasmine Khosrowshahi for more ideas on thinking better, becoming clearer & building a more intentional life.

Yasmine Khosrowshahi

193,796 views • 1 month ago

When Judge Napolitano asked me on his show how Syria ended up with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as its “president,” I could almost hear the cognitive dissonance on the other side of the screen. How does a man who was once the emir of al-Qaeda in Syria, a co-founder of ISIS by any reasonable historical reading of his trajectory, become Washington’s chosen man in Damascus? For me, the answer is not a mystery. It is the logical end of a dirty war that began not with Syrian protesters in 2011, but in an American-run prison camp in Iraq years earlier. And if anyone still suspected this was “just a conspiracy theory,” a former CIA officer – John Kiriakou, who went to prison for exposing CIA torture – has now said publicly what many of us have long argued: Jolani is, in all likelihood, a CIA asset. Let’s start with the timeline, because the timeline alone already screams “intelligence operation.” Abu Mohammed al-Jolani was in a CIA-run prison in Iraq – Camp Bucca – alongside another familiar name: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Both men were released in early 2011. “Coincidentally,” that is exactly when the regime-change war in Syria begins. Within weeks, Baghdadi goes on to lead what becomes ISIS, and Jolani crosses into Syria to found Jabhat al-Nusra – officially al-Qaeda’s franchise in my country. Washington designates Nusra a terrorist organization. The UN follows suit. On paper, Jolani is the enemy. The State Department even slaps a $10 million bounty on his head. But bounties are cheap. Cruise missiles are expensive. And for over a decade, while the US flattened cities in Iraq and Syria allegedly to fight “terrorism,” it somehow never found the time, or the coordinates, to seriously target Jolani or his core command structure, even though he controlled large swaths of Syrian territory from Aleppo countryside all the way to Idlib. Because Jolani and his men were fighting the one government Washington had already decided must go: the Syrian state under Bashar al-Assad. This is where Operation Timber Sycamore comes in: a multi-billion-dollar CIA covert program that funneled weapons, money, and training to so-called “rebels” in Syria. They were sold to Western audiences as “moderate opposition.” On the ground, those moderates were a disappearing species. What existed in reality were hardline Salafi-jihadist factions, with Nusra at the top of the food chain. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) was the mask, the logo on the paperwork, the brand name you could sell to Congress and CNN. The real muscle on the ground was Jolani’s men and other takfiri groups, who did the actual fighting, took the actual territory, and imposed their version of rule. Weapons went “to the moderates.” The moderates magically handed them to al-Qaeda. Everyone in Washington pretended to be surprised. No one stopped the pipeline. Over the years, the mask slipped. US officials themselves began to speak of Jolani as something more than just a former enemy. James Jeffrey, Washington’s former envoy to Syria, openly called Jolani “an asset” for US strategy – not my word, his. Robert Ford, the former US ambassador to Syria, has publicly admitted that he personally worked with Jolani to “take him out of the world of terrorism” and polish him into a politician. Think about what that means: the same US that claims to be fighting an endless war against al-Qaeda quietly devotes diplomatic energy to rehabilitating the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda into a partner, a useful strongman, a future head of state. I said on the show, and I repeat it here: I believe Jolani was recruited in Camp Bucca. The timeline makes no sense otherwise. You don’t walk out of an American-run prison and, weeks later, magically have the networks, the money, the arms, and the logistical capacity to found al-Qaeda in Syria, right at the moment when Washington and its allies need a battering ram against Damascus. Recently, former CIA director David Petraeus even sat with Jolani and told him, “Your success is our success.” What more do people need? A signed employment contract? But let’s assume, for a moment, that you still think this is a stretch. Enter John Kiriakou. Kiriakou is not a YouTuber chasing clicks. He is a former CIA officer who went to prison because he exposed the torture program and named the torturers. His loyalty is clearly not to the Agency’s PR department. Recently, on Unfettered Speech, he described the Jolani situation bluntly. Here is the essence of what he said, which Judge Napolitano played on air: -The “new president” of Syria is a former al-Qaeda member and a co-founder of ISIS. -This same man is welcomed at the White House. -Senior US officials, including the Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East, travel to meet him. -President Trump suddenly lifts sanctions on Syria as Jolani consolidates power, prompting Syrians – desperate and exhausted – to dance in the streets. The only thing that makes sense is that Jolani is a CIA asset, per Kiriakou’s. When a former CIA officer who has already sacrificed his career and freedom to tell the truth looks at the pattern and says, “This is our guy,” it is not a conspiracy theory anymore. Now, you may ask, why would the United States and its allies back such a man? The answer lies in what Syria used to be, and what it has now been turned into. Before this war, Syria, for all its flaws, was a horizontally integrated state. People identified themselves as Syrian first and then Armenian, Druze, Christian, Alawite, Sunni, Shi’a, Kurdish, and so on. The state’s foreign policy aligned with Iran and Hezbollah, supported Palestinian factions, and kept a real deterrent posture toward Israel. For Washington and Tel Aviv, this was unacceptable. The goal was not “democracy”; that word is just wrapping paper. The real objective was to remove a government allied with Iran and replace it with a fragmented landscape: a weak central authority in Damascus, surrounded by sectarian cantons and warlord enclaves, all dependent on foreign patrons. Jolani is perfect for this role. For Israel, he brings vertical division. A man with a long al-Qaeda pedigree ruling Syria is a nightmare for minorities: Christians, Druze, Alawites, Shi’a, many Kurds, and other smaller communities. They will not accept al-Qaeda rule. So they retreat into their own militias, their own cantons, their own de facto mini-states, exactly in line with old Israeli strategic doctrines like the Yinon Plan, which openly advocated fragmenting neighboring states along sectarian lines. On the ground, we already see it: -Druze militias running their own affairs in the south with quiet Israeli backing. -Kurdish forces in the northeast under US protection, managing their own autonomous zone. -Alawites discussing an autonomous coastal enclave. -Christians living in silence and fear. You don’t need formal borders on a map to balkanize a country. When I, as a Syrian of Armenian origin, stop thinking of myself as Syrian first and start thinking purely as Armenian, when I instinctively fear my neighbor because he is from another sect, the balkanization has already happened in the mind. For Washington, Jolani is equally “useful.” He has promised to normalize relations with Israel, to open Syria’s markets to Western capital, and to hand over the country’s resources from the hydrocarbons east of the Euphrates to the gas fields under the Mediterranean to American and allied companies. A 24-million-person country reduced to a reconstruction market: $300 billion worth of contracts, infrastructure projects, and “investments.” But for investors to feel safe, they need a strongman in Damascus who can project the illusion of stability while remaining utterly dependent on foreign protection. That strongman, in their design, is Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. But Jolani is not acting alone. Around him is a constellation of Western intelligence veterans and “conflict resolution” NGOs acting as intermediaries. British MI6 circles, under figures like Jonathan Powell – former chief of staff to Tony Blair – are central in managing this process. Powell runs an organization called Inter Mediate, which specializes in “talking to armed groups.” Behind the humanitarian language lies political engineering. One of Inter Mediate’s operatives, a woman named Clare Haigh, is now said to have an office inside the Syrian presidential palace, advising Jolani on how to talk, how to dress, how to handle journalists, how to sell himself as a reformed jihadist turned statesman. And then there is Qatar. Ahmed Zaidan – once Osama bin Laden’s favorite journalist, photographed sipping tea with him and broadcasting his tapes on Al Jazeera – is now a personal adviser to Jolani. Make it make sense. An al-Qaeda emir, handled by US and British intelligence veterans, advised by bin Laden’s favorite media man, massaged by Western PR consultants, welcomed in Washington, and crowned in Damascus as “president.” If you wrote this as fiction, an editor would tell you it’s too on the nose. Since Jolani took power through an international and regional deal that pushed Assad aside, over 11,000 people have been killed. Many of them are from the very minorities the West loves to mention in speeches but abandons in practice. Videos circulate of his fighters asking terrified villagers at gunpoint, “Are you Muslim or not?” and executing those who give the “wrong” answer, including Druze and Alawites who are not recognized as “true Muslims” by their extremist ideology. Christians, who had already suffered massive emigration between 2011 and 2024, are being squeezed further. They have no organized armed force, no foreign sponsor. They are expected either to live under the mercy of an al-Qaeda-bred regime or to leave the land of their ancestors. This is what Washington’s “asset management” looks like in human terms. If you are an American reading this, you might be tempted to say: “This cannot be. My government would never knowingly empower al-Qaeda.” But it already has, repeatedly. From Afghanistan in the 1980s, when US intelligence backed the Mujahideen (and, indirectly, their Arab foreign fighter allies), to Libya and Syria in the last decade, where jihadist factions were instrumentalized against secular or nationalist governments, the pattern is clear. The names and acronyms change. The logic does not. The same establishment that lectures the world on “democracy” and “human rights” is perfectly willing to install a man like Jolani as the ruler of one of the oldest civilizations on earth, as long as he delivers strategic gains: -breaking the Iran–Syria–Hezbollah axis; -fragmenting Syria into weak, controllable pieces; -opening its resources and markets to Western and Gulf capital; -and giving Israel unprecedented strategic depth and security. Everything else – the massacres, the ethnic cleansing, the collapse of national identity, the destruction of ancient communities – is treated as collateral damage. I am often asked what Syria will look like in five or ten years. I wish I could answer with optimism. Right now, the forces pushing to turn my country into a permanent vassal state – ruled by a former al-Qaeda emir, policed by foreign intelligence, exploited by foreign capital – are incredibly strong. But nothing in this region is permanent. People who come to power by cutting off other people’s heads often lose their own. If there are still sane voices left in Western politics – people like Tulsi Gabbard 🌺, whom I mentioned on air – they must at least recognize this insanity: backing an al-Qaeda emir as “our man in Damascus” is not just immoral; it is ultimately self-destructive. Syria does not need Jolani. The West does not need Jolani. There are Syrians who can have friendly relations with the United States without being former al-Qaeda commanders, without murdering their own people, without turning an ancient nation into a laboratory for extremist social engineering. The question is not whether such alternatives exist. They do. The question is whether Washington and its allies want a sovereign, stable Syria, or whether they prefer a shattered, cantonized carcass kept alive just enough for the next “asset” to feed on.
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When Judge Napolitano asked me on his show how Syria ended up with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as its “president,” I could almost hear the cognitive dissonance on the other side of the screen. How does a man who was once the emir of al-Qaeda in Syria, a co-founder of ISIS by any reasonable historical reading of his trajectory, become Washington’s chosen man in Damascus? For me, the answer is not a mystery. It is the logical end of a dirty war that began not with Syrian protesters in 2011, but in an American-run prison camp in Iraq years earlier. And if anyone still suspected this was “just a conspiracy theory,” a former CIA officer – John Kiriakou, who went to prison for exposing CIA torture – has now said publicly what many of us have long argued: Jolani is, in all likelihood, a CIA asset. Let’s start with the timeline, because the timeline alone already screams “intelligence operation.” Abu Mohammed al-Jolani was in a CIA-run prison in Iraq – Camp Bucca – alongside another familiar name: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Both men were released in early 2011. “Coincidentally,” that is exactly when the regime-change war in Syria begins. Within weeks, Baghdadi goes on to lead what becomes ISIS, and Jolani crosses into Syria to found Jabhat al-Nusra – officially al-Qaeda’s franchise in my country. Washington designates Nusra a terrorist organization. The UN follows suit. On paper, Jolani is the enemy. The State Department even slaps a $10 million bounty on his head. But bounties are cheap. Cruise missiles are expensive. And for over a decade, while the US flattened cities in Iraq and Syria allegedly to fight “terrorism,” it somehow never found the time, or the coordinates, to seriously target Jolani or his core command structure, even though he controlled large swaths of Syrian territory from Aleppo countryside all the way to Idlib. Because Jolani and his men were fighting the one government Washington had already decided must go: the Syrian state under Bashar al-Assad. This is where Operation Timber Sycamore comes in: a multi-billion-dollar CIA covert program that funneled weapons, money, and training to so-called “rebels” in Syria. They were sold to Western audiences as “moderate opposition.” On the ground, those moderates were a disappearing species. What existed in reality were hardline Salafi-jihadist factions, with Nusra at the top of the food chain. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) was the mask, the logo on the paperwork, the brand name you could sell to Congress and CNN. The real muscle on the ground was Jolani’s men and other takfiri groups, who did the actual fighting, took the actual territory, and imposed their version of rule. Weapons went “to the moderates.” The moderates magically handed them to al-Qaeda. Everyone in Washington pretended to be surprised. No one stopped the pipeline. Over the years, the mask slipped. US officials themselves began to speak of Jolani as something more than just a former enemy. James Jeffrey, Washington’s former envoy to Syria, openly called Jolani “an asset” for US strategy – not my word, his. Robert Ford, the former US ambassador to Syria, has publicly admitted that he personally worked with Jolani to “take him out of the world of terrorism” and polish him into a politician. Think about what that means: the same US that claims to be fighting an endless war against al-Qaeda quietly devotes diplomatic energy to rehabilitating the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda into a partner, a useful strongman, a future head of state. I said on the show, and I repeat it here: I believe Jolani was recruited in Camp Bucca. The timeline makes no sense otherwise. You don’t walk out of an American-run prison and, weeks later, magically have the networks, the money, the arms, and the logistical capacity to found al-Qaeda in Syria, right at the moment when Washington and its allies need a battering ram against Damascus. Recently, former CIA director David Petraeus even sat with Jolani and told him, “Your success is our success.” What more do people need? A signed employment contract? But let’s assume, for a moment, that you still think this is a stretch. Enter John Kiriakou. Kiriakou is not a YouTuber chasing clicks. He is a former CIA officer who went to prison because he exposed the torture program and named the torturers. His loyalty is clearly not to the Agency’s PR department. Recently, on Unfettered Speech, he described the Jolani situation bluntly. Here is the essence of what he said, which Judge Napolitano played on air: -The “new president” of Syria is a former al-Qaeda member and a co-founder of ISIS. -This same man is welcomed at the White House. -Senior US officials, including the Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East, travel to meet him. -President Trump suddenly lifts sanctions on Syria as Jolani consolidates power, prompting Syrians – desperate and exhausted – to dance in the streets. The only thing that makes sense is that Jolani is a CIA asset, per Kiriakou’s. When a former CIA officer who has already sacrificed his career and freedom to tell the truth looks at the pattern and says, “This is our guy,” it is not a conspiracy theory anymore. Now, you may ask, why would the United States and its allies back such a man? The answer lies in what Syria used to be, and what it has now been turned into. Before this war, Syria, for all its flaws, was a horizontally integrated state. People identified themselves as Syrian first and then Armenian, Druze, Christian, Alawite, Sunni, Shi’a, Kurdish, and so on. The state’s foreign policy aligned with Iran and Hezbollah, supported Palestinian factions, and kept a real deterrent posture toward Israel. For Washington and Tel Aviv, this was unacceptable. The goal was not “democracy”; that word is just wrapping paper. The real objective was to remove a government allied with Iran and replace it with a fragmented landscape: a weak central authority in Damascus, surrounded by sectarian cantons and warlord enclaves, all dependent on foreign patrons. Jolani is perfect for this role. For Israel, he brings vertical division. A man with a long al-Qaeda pedigree ruling Syria is a nightmare for minorities: Christians, Druze, Alawites, Shi’a, many Kurds, and other smaller communities. They will not accept al-Qaeda rule. So they retreat into their own militias, their own cantons, their own de facto mini-states, exactly in line with old Israeli strategic doctrines like the Yinon Plan, which openly advocated fragmenting neighboring states along sectarian lines. On the ground, we already see it: -Druze militias running their own affairs in the south with quiet Israeli backing. -Kurdish forces in the northeast under US protection, managing their own autonomous zone. -Alawites discussing an autonomous coastal enclave. -Christians living in silence and fear. You don’t need formal borders on a map to balkanize a country. When I, as a Syrian of Armenian origin, stop thinking of myself as Syrian first and start thinking purely as Armenian, when I instinctively fear my neighbor because he is from another sect, the balkanization has already happened in the mind. For Washington, Jolani is equally “useful.” He has promised to normalize relations with Israel, to open Syria’s markets to Western capital, and to hand over the country’s resources from the hydrocarbons east of the Euphrates to the gas fields under the Mediterranean to American and allied companies. A 24-million-person country reduced to a reconstruction market: $300 billion worth of contracts, infrastructure projects, and “investments.” But for investors to feel safe, they need a strongman in Damascus who can project the illusion of stability while remaining utterly dependent on foreign protection. That strongman, in their design, is Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. But Jolani is not acting alone. Around him is a constellation of Western intelligence veterans and “conflict resolution” NGOs acting as intermediaries. British MI6 circles, under figures like Jonathan Powell – former chief of staff to Tony Blair – are central in managing this process. Powell runs an organization called Inter Mediate, which specializes in “talking to armed groups.” Behind the humanitarian language lies political engineering. One of Inter Mediate’s operatives, a woman named Clare Haigh, is now said to have an office inside the Syrian presidential palace, advising Jolani on how to talk, how to dress, how to handle journalists, how to sell himself as a reformed jihadist turned statesman. And then there is Qatar. Ahmed Zaidan – once Osama bin Laden’s favorite journalist, photographed sipping tea with him and broadcasting his tapes on Al Jazeera – is now a personal adviser to Jolani. Make it make sense. An al-Qaeda emir, handled by US and British intelligence veterans, advised by bin Laden’s favorite media man, massaged by Western PR consultants, welcomed in Washington, and crowned in Damascus as “president.” If you wrote this as fiction, an editor would tell you it’s too on the nose. Since Jolani took power through an international and regional deal that pushed Assad aside, over 11,000 people have been killed. Many of them are from the very minorities the West loves to mention in speeches but abandons in practice. Videos circulate of his fighters asking terrified villagers at gunpoint, “Are you Muslim or not?” and executing those who give the “wrong” answer, including Druze and Alawites who are not recognized as “true Muslims” by their extremist ideology. Christians, who had already suffered massive emigration between 2011 and 2024, are being squeezed further. They have no organized armed force, no foreign sponsor. They are expected either to live under the mercy of an al-Qaeda-bred regime or to leave the land of their ancestors. This is what Washington’s “asset management” looks like in human terms. If you are an American reading this, you might be tempted to say: “This cannot be. My government would never knowingly empower al-Qaeda.” But it already has, repeatedly. From Afghanistan in the 1980s, when US intelligence backed the Mujahideen (and, indirectly, their Arab foreign fighter allies), to Libya and Syria in the last decade, where jihadist factions were instrumentalized against secular or nationalist governments, the pattern is clear. The names and acronyms change. The logic does not. The same establishment that lectures the world on “democracy” and “human rights” is perfectly willing to install a man like Jolani as the ruler of one of the oldest civilizations on earth, as long as he delivers strategic gains: -breaking the Iran–Syria–Hezbollah axis; -fragmenting Syria into weak, controllable pieces; -opening its resources and markets to Western and Gulf capital; -and giving Israel unprecedented strategic depth and security. Everything else – the massacres, the ethnic cleansing, the collapse of national identity, the destruction of ancient communities – is treated as collateral damage. I am often asked what Syria will look like in five or ten years. I wish I could answer with optimism. Right now, the forces pushing to turn my country into a permanent vassal state – ruled by a former al-Qaeda emir, policed by foreign intelligence, exploited by foreign capital – are incredibly strong. But nothing in this region is permanent. People who come to power by cutting off other people’s heads often lose their own. If there are still sane voices left in Western politics – people like Tulsi Gabbard 🌺, whom I mentioned on air – they must at least recognize this insanity: backing an al-Qaeda emir as “our man in Damascus” is not just immoral; it is ultimately self-destructive. Syria does not need Jolani. The West does not need Jolani. There are Syrians who can have friendly relations with the United States without being former al-Qaeda commanders, without murdering their own people, without turning an ancient nation into a laboratory for extremist social engineering. The question is not whether such alternatives exist. They do. The question is whether Washington and its allies want a sovereign, stable Syria, or whether they prefer a shattered, cantonized carcass kept alive just enough for the next “asset” to feed on.

Kevork Almassian

177,007 views • 8 months ago

this video is the CLEAREST explanation of how claude skills + AI agents work and how to use them most people set up an AI agent and wonder why it keeps disappointing them. the context window is everything context is what the model assembles before it takes any action. think of it like everything the agent needs to read before it does anything. the quality of what goes in determines the quality of what comes out. the models are genuinely really good right now. claude and gpt are exceptional. the variable is almost always the context you give them. 1. agent.md files are mostly unnecessary every single line you put in an agent.md file gets added to every single conversation you have with your agent. a 1000 line file is around 7000 tokens burning on every run. the model already knows to use react. it can read your codebase. save the agent.md for proprietary information specific to your company that the model genuinely cannot know on its own. 2. skills are the actual unlock a skill.md file works differently. what loads into context is only the name and description, around 50 tokens. the full instructions only appear when the agent recognizes it needs that skill. so instead of 7000 tokens on every run you have 50. and the agent stays sharp because the context window stays lean. the closer you get to filling the context window the worse the agent performs, same way you perform worse when someone dumps 10 things on you at once. 3. here is how to actually build a skill the right way most people identify a workflow and immediately try to write the skill. what you want to do instead is run the workflow by hand with the agent first. walk it through every single step. tell it what to check, what good looks like, what bad looks like. correct it in real time. once you have had a full successful run from start to finish, tell the agent to review everything it just did and write the skill itself. it writes a better skill than you will because it has the full context of what actually worked in practice not in theory. 4. recursively building skills is how you go from frustrated to reliable when the skill breaks, and it will break, ask the agent exactly why it failed. it will tell you specifically what went wrong. fix it together in that same conversation. then tell it to update the skill file so that failure mode never happens again. ross mike did this five times with his youtube report generator. it now pulls from eight different data sources and runs flawlessly every single time without him touching it. 5. sub agents are something you earn not something you set up on day one start with one agent. build one workflow. turn it into one skill. once that works add another. ross mike has five sub agents now covering marketing, business, personal and more. it took months to get there and every single one exists because a workflow proved it deserved to exist. the people who set up 15 sub agents on day one and wonder why nothing works skipped all the steps that make the thing actually run. 6. your workflow is the thing the model cannot get anywhere else the model has been trained on everything. it knows more than you about most things. what it does not have is your specific process, your taste, your way of doing things. that is what skills capture. that is what makes your agent actually useful versus a generic one. downloading someone else's skill means downloading their context onto your setup and it will not work the way you want it to because it was never built around how you work. this is the clearest explanation of how agents actually work i have heard. Micky runs this stuff every single day and the results show it. full episode is now live on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 where you get your pods people charge for this sorta stuff i give away the sauce for free i just want you to win watch
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this video is the CLEAREST explanation of how claude skills + AI agents work and how to use them most people set up an AI agent and wonder why it keeps disappointing them. the context window is everything context is what the model assembles before it takes any action. think of it like everything the agent needs to read before it does anything. the quality of what goes in determines the quality of what comes out. the models are genuinely really good right now. claude and gpt are exceptional. the variable is almost always the context you give them. 1. agent.md files are mostly unnecessary every single line you put in an agent.md file gets added to every single conversation you have with your agent. a 1000 line file is around 7000 tokens burning on every run. the model already knows to use react. it can read your codebase. save the agent.md for proprietary information specific to your company that the model genuinely cannot know on its own. 2. skills are the actual unlock a skill.md file works differently. what loads into context is only the name and description, around 50 tokens. the full instructions only appear when the agent recognizes it needs that skill. so instead of 7000 tokens on every run you have 50. and the agent stays sharp because the context window stays lean. the closer you get to filling the context window the worse the agent performs, same way you perform worse when someone dumps 10 things on you at once. 3. here is how to actually build a skill the right way most people identify a workflow and immediately try to write the skill. what you want to do instead is run the workflow by hand with the agent first. walk it through every single step. tell it what to check, what good looks like, what bad looks like. correct it in real time. once you have had a full successful run from start to finish, tell the agent to review everything it just did and write the skill itself. it writes a better skill than you will because it has the full context of what actually worked in practice not in theory. 4. recursively building skills is how you go from frustrated to reliable when the skill breaks, and it will break, ask the agent exactly why it failed. it will tell you specifically what went wrong. fix it together in that same conversation. then tell it to update the skill file so that failure mode never happens again. ross mike did this five times with his youtube report generator. it now pulls from eight different data sources and runs flawlessly every single time without him touching it. 5. sub agents are something you earn not something you set up on day one start with one agent. build one workflow. turn it into one skill. once that works add another. ross mike has five sub agents now covering marketing, business, personal and more. it took months to get there and every single one exists because a workflow proved it deserved to exist. the people who set up 15 sub agents on day one and wonder why nothing works skipped all the steps that make the thing actually run. 6. your workflow is the thing the model cannot get anywhere else the model has been trained on everything. it knows more than you about most things. what it does not have is your specific process, your taste, your way of doing things. that is what skills capture. that is what makes your agent actually useful versus a generic one. downloading someone else's skill means downloading their context onto your setup and it will not work the way you want it to because it was never built around how you work. this is the clearest explanation of how agents actually work i have heard. Micky runs this stuff every single day and the results show it. full episode is now live on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 where you get your pods people charge for this sorta stuff i give away the sauce for free i just want you to win watch

GREG ISENBERG

193,721 views • 4 months ago