Tweets I think about
A collection of tweet/posts on X that I sometimes come back to.
About this list/À propos de cette liste
This list is non-exhaustive and is continuously updated. Obviously these are out of context, and I do not endorse everything the people behind the quotes have done. If you can’t recognize/accept this, you are at best an ape, at worse a barbarian, and above all: an idiot with the intellectual range of a doorstop.
Cette liste est continuellement mise à jour et non exhaustive. Évidemment, les citations ci-présentes sont hors contexte, et je n’approuve pas toutes ces personnes ni toutes les actions. Si vous n’arrivez pas à comprendre/accepter ceci ou à faire la différence, vous êtes au mieux un singe, au pire, un barbare, mais avant tout : un idiot avec la gamme intellectuelle d’un tiroir.
you’re trying to be 2 steps ahead of me and then you notice i’m 4 steps behind you. i wasn’t going that way, bitch, keep up
the problem with startup culture is that there are IQ130 ivy grads aspiring to build calorie trackers and ai to-do lists. as tech culture is becoming more famous, we are seeing it being diluted with non-ambitious, low-risk people building chill startups. the whole intellectual resource of Ivy league grads and autismmaxxers is being spent building chrome extensions, calorie trackers, and ubers. there’s a serious lack of focus on defense tech, robotics, energy, and other civilization-grade systems. ambitious people have far less competition than they think, which is good on a personal level, but not so great for humanity.
if you pay attention you’ll notice that tail success is always generated by messy emergent functions… all the obvious playstyles that can be grinded out get immediately priced in
parallel universe Elon Musk that doesn’t crash out every other week and didn’t spend half his life hours doomscrolling and instead stuck to a healthy grinder & wellness schedule is probably still clerking out in Toronto at scotiabank or something
what I’m trying to say is that the recently emergent consensus that “you always know your optimal protocol” and that the only thing keeping you from success is your inability to stick to it is extremely incorrect… a more correct mentalmodel is as usual the lindy one — which is that you should just do what you feel like doing and Destiny will reward you as it sees fit (Destiny rly hates optimizers (you can’t optimize for complex functions))