BurnerAcc @_complexCarbon

How John D. Rockefeller gets stuff done: “Rockefeller adhered to a fixed schedule, moving through the day in a frictionless manner. He never wasted time on frivolities. Even his daily breaks, the midmorning snack of crackers and milk and the postprandial nap, were designed to conserve energy and help him to strike an ideal balance between his physical and mental forces." As he remarked, "It is not good to keep all the forces at tension all the time." "There was a clockwork regularity about Rockefeller’s life that made it seem mechanical to outsiders but that he found soothing. He didn’t seem to require time to indulge normal human idleness, much less illicit passion." "In his rigidly compartmentalized life, each hour was tightly budgeted, whether for business, religion, family, or exercise. Perhaps these daily rituals helped him to deal with underlying tensions that might otherwise have become ungovernable, for although he tried to project an air of unhurried calm, he was under terrific strain." Bottom line: Rockefeller was a simple guy. He stuck to a simple effective schedule. And he held that simple schedule consistently.

Nic Munoz @nic_munoz

4 days ago

I did a deep dive on the top performers of history: The List Includes: John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, JP Morgan, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos. These are the 8 Work Principles I've found that apply to all of them: 00:00 Intro 00:41

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— Žižek, on not obsessing with psychoanalyzing oneself all the time

Ray Bradbury's timeless advice on rebuilding your attention span

Anthropic engineer: "You're not supposed to watch Claude Code work. You're supposed to wake up and review what it shipped." In 22 minutes she builds the entire workflow live on camera. Most people close their terminal and everything stops. This setup keeps shipping while you sleep. Watch the video, then save the exact setup below👇

darkzodchi @zodchiii

7 days ago

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A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken. If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day: 1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.

@bhairavum @suryakane @sreemoytalukdar Our TFR are nose diving as well wait for forever delayed consensus to come. In terms of degeneracy we aren’t falling short of western world on the contrary we have our extraordinary dehat as well

@Pivot2Centre Bro is it worth it to pursue MBA from top 3 colleges of Canada in this economy

I'm a firm believer that everything always works out as long as you stay in motion. You don't even have to know what you're doing. You often won't. Just avoid spending the majority of your time in your head Go out and talk to people. Tinker with shiny objects that stoke your curiosity. Follow excitement without judgement. Collect a story to tell. Don't label and categorize activities or wonder if you're being productive or not. Simply do things because you can and be engaged with whatever you're doing If you can end each day having gained a bit more interestingness, absorbed a bit more inspiration, or experienced a bit more life, all is well. Embodying this feeling is all that's required for you to rest easy knowing you got ahead, because forward progress is measured by the energy you radiate rather than the outcomes you see Now it's merely a simple matter of continuing to get ahead. Light on your feet, surrendering to the flow of reality. The path will appear in front of you. Lucky breaks, unpredictable blessings, lightbulb moments abound. Not a matter of if, but when. Trust yourself. Enjoy the journey. God will never lead you astray

your brain is always becoming better at whatever you repeatedly do. that’s why repetition changes people more than motivation ever will. if you spend every day stressing, overthinking, comparing yourself to strangers online, replaying old mistakes, and expecting the worst, your brain slowly starts treating those patterns like home. it begins scanning the world for more proof that you’re not enough, that life is against you, that things won’t work out. the scary part is your brain doesn’t care if the pattern is helping you or destroying you. it only cares about what gets repeated. but the same thing works in your favor too. when you repeatedly choose discipline, growth, gratitude, focus, and belief in yourself, your brain slowly reshapes around those things as well. at first it feels unnatural because your old patterns are louder, but over time your perspective changes. challenges stop feeling like signs to quit and start feeling like part of the process. your mind becomes whatever it practices most. so be careful what you keep giving your attention to because eventually, your thoughts become your reality.

Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano

4 months ago

Repetitive negative thinking is associated with cognitive decline. Repetition rewires the brain.

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Jane Street pays $750k/ year for quants who can answer how to use Stochastic Process and Markov Chains in quant trading. This 1-hour MIT lecture on probability gives you the same insights quants get paid $60K/month for. Bookmark & watch today. Then read the article below.

Roan @RohOnChain

4 weeks ago

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@maakaput @DealsDhamaka abey saale

Instead of watching an hour movie, watch this. In 14 minutes, an Anthropic engineer who wrote Building Effective Agents will teach you more about building agents right than most developers figure out on their own in months.

@ActusDei global

Evil websites like Libgen, Z-library, and Sci-Hub had pirated millions of academic books and papers. They've been shut down, and rightly so. We shouldn't use them anyway. We should make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. Anyway, here's how to access these libraries: 🚨DO NOT DO THIS!

@swing_ka_sultan Its the imapct cost which is absolutely scary adding mtf risk over than will be too much. India is pathetic market to trade anyway

The Shadow of Enlightenment: Confronting Spiritual Narcissism There’s a version of spiritual awakening that says all the right things, it speaks all the right words, it can even move people and inspire people. But it’s pointing mainly at itself. It’s when the ego hijacks the spiritual journey to feel superior to others. We are calling it spiritual narcissism. Jung-inspired teacher Robert Moore called it “spiritual grandiosity.” We are not just talking about arrogance or self confidence. Spiritual narcissism is when the ego identifies with archetypal powers and believes it is God or the sole beholder of truth. It’s important to first clarify there is such a thing as “healthy narcissism”. Jung would call this a “healthy ego” and he considered it essential for individuation. A healthy ego is someone who feels confident in their ability to deal with life’s challenges. They can accept limitations in life, including their own. It includes the ability to observe oneself, examine ones shadow, confront ones pain, and the openness to psychological insight. A fragile ego tends to see challenges as something to avoid. They avoid inner work, they are dependent on external validation, and they suffer from chronic self doubt. They may seem confident on the surface, but they often need to put others down in order to feel good about themselves. Fragile egos are subject to what Jung called “archetypal inflation”. This is where spiritual narcissism comes in. This is when the ego identifies with something larger than itself and mistakes transpersonal energies for their personal greatness. It is someone who has an experience of the Divine Mother and then believes they are now that Divine Mother. Or someone who has an experience of Christ and now thinks they are a reincarnation of him. It is built around feeling superior to others, having access to a unique truth that others don’t. Jung called it “identifying with the archetypes”. It tends to be rigid, subject to dogmatic, black-and-white thinking, and lacking humility. Spiritual bypassing is present, and spiritual language is weaponized. Now, it’s easy to point the finger when realizing these topics. And it is important to be aware of it - within and without. But Robert Moore pointed out something very interesting. He pointed out that inflation and grandiosity are universal human tendencies that must be brought to awareness in all of us. The question is never “do I have this?” The question is always: “Where is it manifesting, and am I aware of it?” His cure for this is simple. Not just awareness of it, but relationships, prayer, and community. We pray to turn offload the archetypal energies and give them to God. You go to community for accountability, to know your limitations, and to ask for help. This helps you access genuine humility. And real relationships are the greatest antidote to narcissism because real people are difficult. They won’t idealize you forever. They resist your projections. They teach you to encounter others with empathy and to get out of your own bubble. The truth is, real spiritual development should not make you feel more special; it should make you more human. The deeper you go, the more you realize we all suffer in similar ways, we struggle with similar questions. There is no throne to occupy. There is only the work of “walking each other home” to who we truly are. To learn more, listen to our podcast about this topic here: veilofreality.com/2026/03/12/the…

GIFT City's active global funds are off to a rough start — and the data is hard to ignore. 🧵 1/ Every single active fund in GIFT is negative over the last 6 months. DSP Global Equity: -12.4%. PPFAS PMS Global Strategy: -5.6%. Marcellus GCP: -5.5%. Meanwhile, ACWI TRI was +0.7%. That's not a small miss. That's a different direction entirely. 2/ The "Since Inception" picture isn't prettier. DSP is -12.5% since Sept 2025. PPFAS is -2.6% since Aug 2025. The only funds with positive since-inception returns (Marcellus at 18.6%, Philip Int. at 7.7%) have multi-year head starts — and even they lagged ACWI TRI over 1 year. 3/ On a 1-year basis, Marcellus returned 8.9% vs ACWI TRI's 20.7%. Philip Int. Pioneer returned 21.9% — one of the few bright spots. Mirae? -11.1% vs benchmark's +20.7%. Brutal. 4/ Now let's talk tax. GIFT funds are structured as Category III AIFs. They pay tax at the fund level — ~42% STCG & 14.95% LTCG vs slab rate or 12.5% for an individual. 5/ If you instead bought a UCITS ETF (say, an Ireland-domiciled S&P 500 or ACWI fund) directly via the LRS route, capital gains tax kicks in only when YOU sell — and at your applicable slab rate or 12.5% for long-term. The fund itself pays zero Indian tax. 6/ So with GIFT active funds you get: ❌ Active underperformance vs benchmark ❌ Possible cash drag ❌ Fund-level tax leakage you can't control 7/ With a direct UCITS ETF investment: ✅ Near-zero tracking error to the index ✅ No fund-level tax — you control timing ✅ Lower cost, higher transparency 8/ The case for passive international investing has never been clearer. If GIFT funds can't beat ACWI TRI in a falling market (when stock-picking supposedly shines), when exactly will they? Story by @PosteAnil thefynprint.com/GBlfw8FDX

@nimit_vora @SahilKapoor @dspmf but not in usd terms i need that data as well

You’re not undisciplined, you’re badly architected. Every time you “fail” at a downstream decision (you check your phone, you eat the thing, you skip the workout) you blame your willpower. Your character. Your discipline. But the failure didn’t happen at the moment of the decision. It happened weeks ago when you designed the environment that made that decision inevitable. The phone is on your nightstand because you put it there. The chips are in the cupboard because you bought them. The workout didn’t happen because your gym is 30 minutes away and you chose that apartment. These aren’t discipline failures, they’re architecture failures.

Kpaxs @Kpaxs

3 months ago

Most people spend their energy on the downstream decisions: resisting the phone in bed, pushing away the chips, forcing themselves to start. This is the hard way. This is fighting the current. The upstream question is different: what one decision, made now, would make the

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