LordFall

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  1. Posted

    I have ADHD and only took meds for like a week then never again just found it wired me without boosts in productivity.

    I get distracted easily so I do stuff like Pomodoro method(work in 20 min increments then take a break) and I find that works. 

    It's not an excuse against success, just gotta manage your workflow and productivity like anyone else. Anything I really don't want to do becomes a real pain though whereas I find my friends have an easier time just pushing through it just cuz its gotta get done. Helped me figure out more creative ideas in business though. 

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    1 hour ago, Elliott said:

    Do you think Zuck studied all these CEOs before starting facebook, or, he essentially just did it? Most successful people just do it, they don't stay in a constant state of learning from the best to start, first they actually just get successful, then they learn from others to continue and grow their success, usually at a much slower rate though.

    Essentially, just go out and keep trying and learning from your experience, and wait for luck(while still trying).

    Gates, Bezos, Musk, Buffet, Jobs, Rockefeller, Carnegie,.... you think they hired coaches before they got successful, went to coaching seminars? Read self-help books, Or they just went for it HARD?

    Redundant post, of course action taking is important. All of these people had mentors and consultants on their journey though. Zuckerberg had Sean Parker within months of starting the initial project. Bill gates's mother was on the board of United Way with the CEO of IBM.

    You learn the basics from Youtube, take action and refine as it goes. The Barry comes at it from the bitter socialist paradigm IMO. He makes some good points but ultimately he has an infectious victim mindset IMO. 

  3. Posted

    This guy makes some good points but is mainly delusional and coping imo. Success is luck is a crazy trope. I run a business community and I've talked to dozens of people that are in business or looking to get into it. A lot of people looking to get into it tell me wow that's sick I wanna start my business! And then 12 months later have done about 2 hours of work towards it.

    He does point out some good points like the overall lowering of upward mobility and in general macroeconomics fucks all of us over but saying that successful people have nothing to share and teach is insane. You can look at Mark Zuckerberg and him putting all his time into starting a competitor to myspace and say he got lucky. Sure but there are still plenty of things to learn about product market fit, innovation on competition, finding investors, company structure, etc. As a matter of fact I'm learning from zuckerberg to create my own app so I mean I'm not there yet but I've been inspired and have learned tons already.

    He's right that a lot of these long form content is specifically made to be long and consume your attention instead of being as concise as possible but I think he's doing a bit of throwing out the baby with the bathwater. 

     

  5. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    Iran has 100x more tunnels than Gaza due to a big chunk of their country especially near the coastline near the strait of hormuz. Even if you launched 100 nuclear warheads the next week still some dudes that could pop out and drone your oil tankers. 

    My best guess is they just completely fuck the middle east and kill tens of millions of people in the process, totally plan to put earth in WW3 and hope to create a Pan America oil empire with Canadian, American and venezuelan oil and somehow the Trumps will end up trillionaires from this. But it's confusing to me what Saudi Arabia gets out of this perhaps they overestimated the ability of the US military to neutralize Iran military capabilities but that seems short sighted. 

     

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    I mean anywhere with high tourist traffic should work. It's only one clever way to monetize and market your craft, I'll be sharing others in the future. 

    I like this one in particular because if you can make it in 2026 being a fucking poet of all things then what are you guys's excuses about? Let's get that bag 

    If you guys would like to follow my own journey to financial independence, I'll be documenting it in the journal section here:

     

  10. Posted

    Some people are thinking it's all a big bluff for market manipulation. I think it's a bit foolish to underestimate the depths of human evil and depravity. Hopefully they're right but probably tomorrow we will be further into WW3 than we were today.

    22 minutes ago, Stick said:

    It was good knowing yall.
    Hope in another dream I will join a consciousness fenatic group like actualized.org and read trip reports.
    🫡

    Somehow I believe this will lead to human transcendence and world peace but it's gonna be tough bullet to bite until then. 

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  11. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    I think it will be used because they are batshit crazy but I don't see a strategic use case for it. Unless the plan is to use nuke for a strategically not key move in Iran -> alienate the EU and most of the world -> leave NATO and ally with Russia and China in a uno reverse card  move to become an axis authoritarian block -> crash the global economy -> use AI to dominate the population. 

  12. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    10 minutes ago, Elliott said:

    The U.S. likely only has two weeks of interceptors left and China is preparing to take Taiwan. Israel is about down to needing to use nukes.

    I do worry as well that nuclear weapons will be used soon. They will probably use nuclear warheads as bunker busters first and minimize it then who knows. 

    This timeline is getting crazy. If Taiwan gets invaded, $6 a gallon gas prices will look like a good scenario. 

    Such a stupid religious war, both sides are nuts. Netanyahu seems himself as a messiah and the IRGC as martyrs. Can we just make this reality pleasant to live in or is that too nuts of an idea?

     

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    Saw this really cool reel today of this poet charging $55 for custom poems on the NYC sidewalk. It's bittersweet because she ends writing one for a struggling musician but it seems like it gave her hope and inspiration so thought it was worth sharing.

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU4o5-9DVJf/

    For the right person something like this is a decent business model to start off. If she sells even one every 3 hours you get paid more than minimum wage($55 divided by 3 is $18.30 and minimum wage in NYC is $17/h) and if you get to the point of selling one per hour you sit down 6 hours Saturday/Sunday that's $2,640$ USD a month. Not too bad for a side hustle on top of a job or I mean there would be ways to do it full time if you really wanted to.

    I was a freelance photographer for a while and thought about doing the same for tourists near the CN tower in Toronto and just having a poster that says $30 for professional pictures type of thing. 

    There are a lot of options to monetize your passions, just gotta throw stuff at the wall until you find a profitable avenue that makes sense for your desired lifestyle. 

  17. Posted

    7 hours ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

    Idk seems like a stretch, taking word of some Taliban guy into consideration. Who cares what he has to say lol

    Because it's a priceless testimony of transitioning a society from stage red to stage blue and the difficulty in transitioning civilization up the spiral. Also a good study of incentives and multiperspectivalism i.e. how different sections of society experience change. 

    8 hours ago, Schahin said:

    Well the Taliban is just a terrible organization, if you ambush them it would be better for the World.

    But nonetheless it is at least a funny story.

    I mean the war in Afghanistan was a 20 year example of the US trying to ambush them. Study your history or it's bound to repeat itself. 

  19. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    I found this post to be a great commentary of our civilization. They interviewed a former Taliban Sniper Abdul Nafi and several other former fighters through the Afghanistan Analysts Network and he described being now bored of the 8-4 commute to work life in Kabul now that they actually took over the country. 

    I find it interesting because I think a lot of us can relate to the sentiment although we were not freedom fighters in our teenage years. The good old days this guy yearns for, lack of responsibility, riding his horse with his friends, conquering the enemy, probably being more of a bandit and stealing from people instead of having a job, etc is basically stage red civilization that is a nightmare for everyone not on top. Once that civilization goes towards stage blue and stability, it ruins a lot of the fun for the average man.

    It's also a commentary on feminism and the patriarchy. We often don't really see it in the west but it is a true way of life for earlier civilization where if you're a strong young man with a good group you're on top of the world and everyone else is a lower class of society. You see it now with the rich elites of the world where equality would bring down their standard of living big time.

    It's also a commentary on our societies where traffic, paperwork and scrolling twitter is basically the civilization peak we've managed to achieve. We're now pushing the boundaries of that with AI automation which hopefully will lead to a better end state with win-win solutions for all sectors of society. 

    It also shows how evil War really is because it's a zero sum answer to the problem of scarcity. Oh our society is getting bogged down and there is less surplus to go around? Just go invade these people and take their shit and enslave them so our standard of living goes back up.

    Here is a longer article from the Times covering the phenomenon and a reddit threat discussing it

    https://time.com/6263906/taliban-afghanistan-office-work-quiet-quit/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1sc5cr0/taliban_fighter_becomes_disillusioned_with_the/

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  20. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Apparition of Jack said:

    Why do people hate taxes so fucking much? Feel free to give up modern sewage if you hate paying for society 

    Because the middle and lower classes are stuck paying a big proportion of them while a lot of elites have elaborate loopholes to avoid paying anything and are just parasite on the system and keep owning a bigger chunk of the global economy. 

  22. Posted

    That 'oil donor' logic is a slippery slope. By that standard, a huge percentage of Canadian public figures—regardless of their actual message—would be disqualified from the conversation before they even open their mouths.

    I’d rather hear the perspective and judge it on its own merits than have a platform act as a moral gatekeeper. It feels like you’re advocating for a 'purity test' for speech, but that usually just leads to echo chambers, not higher consciousness. How do we grow as a society if we only engage with people who have zero ties to the industries that actually run the country?

  23. Posted

    2 minutes ago, integral said:

    I just saw a video of him pushing the Canadian version of Trump on his platform.

    They think creating a free open space to talk and platforming all of these snakes is this open minded concept.

    Poilievre might not be the sharpest tool in the shed but I do believe he means well and he should be encouraged to share his views publicly. I don't know what the solution is to people lacking critical thinking but silencing big portions of the popular opinion is not a good solution. 

    @Cireeric I only watched 2 mins of it but she seems to make some good points. Deploying AI in an ethical and responsible way for humanity is very important.