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))
There are people that drive to work. They have faces, names. Every day, they knowingly work on something that poisons every child in the world. They run A/B tests and rat trap kids, using their company’s monopoly on information. Be careful what you work on, commits are forever
hot person: wow everyone here is so nice
“banger” yeah I know that’s why I tweeted it
As noted, entry-level QA, junior analyst roles, and “grunt work” weren’t inefficiencies — they were discovery mechanisms. They let firms observe curiosity, resilience, judgment, and learning velocity under real conditions. Automating them removes the lowest rung of the ladder, not just the cost center.
The danger isn’t that AI replaces junior work. It’s that we eliminate the environments where raw talent proves itself.
L’Italie, les Flandres, puis l’Allemagne rhénane, la Suisse ou les Pays-Bas ont pu tenir tête à la France, même quand nous étions plus peuplés et plus puissants, parce qu’ils avaient des capitaux à foison grâce à une classe marchande ancienne, dense, endogène, souvent d’origine française, là où la France, elle, ne sait produire que des marchands sous tutelle, dépendants de l’État, perfusés, régulés, subventionnés et donc structurellement fragiles.
Et tant que la France refusera de traiter sa maladie originelle - son incapacité chronique à tolérer une classe marchande libre, puissante, durable et surtout alignée avec les intérêts du pays - nous continuerons à courir après la richesse au lieu de la laisser s’installer.
We want humans to supervise the loops from a leveraged point, not be in them. Once context is consolidated and work is verifiable, billions of workers will go from pedaling to driving, and then from driving to self-driving.
AI is steel for organizations. It has the potential to maintain context across workflows and surface decisions when needed without the noise. Human communication no longer has to be the load-bearing wall. The weekly two-hour alignment meeting becomes a five-minute async review. The executive decision that required three levels of approval might soon happen in minutes. Companies can scale, truly scale, without the degradation we’ve accepted as inevitable.
When AI agents come online at scale, we’ll be building Tokyos. Organizations that span thousands of agents and humans. Workflows that run continuously, across time zones, without waiting for someone to wake up. Decisions synthesized with just the right amount of human in the loop.
We are still in the waterwheel phase of AI, bolting chatbots onto workflows designed for humans. We need to stop asking AI to be merely our copilots. We need to imagine what knowledge work could look like when human organizations are reinforced with steel, when busywork is delegated to minds that never sleep.
Tracking macros, tracking charts, tracking steps, how about you put an Apple watch in between your buttcheeks and track how many times your ass is getting clapped per day by thinking.
If you think about doing something, you are not doing anything. Thinking is very tiring, so you distract yourself from thinking by doing something that was not the thing you were thinking about doing in the first place. What a pickle. The solution is to Retardmaxx
The colony represents the Last Man: content, loud, driven only by the banal biological imperatives of breeding and feeding, trapped in the safety of the herd. To remain there is the true death. The “deranged” penguin is not fleeing life. He is rejecting the aesthetic stagnation of mere survival.
By turning his back on the ocean and marching toward the mountains, a landscape of pure indifference and certain mortality. He is not committing suicide. He is engaging in the ultimate act of self-overcoming. He is asserting his agency against the tyranny of instinct. He creates his own meaning in a void that offers none.
The cost of delay is what smart people consistently underestimate. They think the cost is zero because research “feels productive.” It’s not zero. Markets move. Opportunities close. Capital sits idle.
Diversifying protects you when you DON’T have edge. If you’re randomly picking stocks, yeah, spread your bets. You’re basically admitting you don’t know what’s going to happen. But when you DO have edge - when you’ve genuinely identified a mispriced opportunity - it kills your returns. Because you’re diluting your best idea with your mediocre ideas.