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golf

I have a tee time with someone I’ve only played golf with once on Sunday at 8:20 am

Hoping he doesn’t judge me when I fill the ice bucket with a 6 pack before the cart girl sees us at hole 7

⛳️🥂🍻

New wine bar 

Waiting on my date tonight

This TikTok farcaster meta might have me start using the Descript subscription I’ve been paying for and not using for the last 6 months 🫠

optionstrading

Thinking of adding some more long $HOOD calls with the S&P snub

Whenever they get added, thinking there will be a clear run up on the news

guuuuuud morning 
things feel lighter today 😌

hope your day is wonderful 🩵

Love waking up and seeing people using stickers from @meetquack

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Books

Book review status update, short term plans, and reflections:

We're almost exactly halfway through 2025.

I've been writing a book review per day since January 1st. That's 183 reviews without missing a day, as far as I know.

I've reviewed everything that I read in 2024 and almost everything I've read in 2025.

The reviews I got the most engagement on were mostly recent-ish (last 75 years) and pop-leaning. Childhood favorites punched above their weight class.

I'm planning on taking a break for at least 3 months, maybe even 6. I'm almost out of books to review, and I think this review business works better as an every-day-or-never thing. 

Plus, I want to spend more time fishing, working on side projects, and playing outside with my kids while they're on summer vacation.

This is the second most fun I've had on social media (the most fun was running a popular NFT account through the rise of NFTs, if you're wondering). Thank you all for the likes, the comments, the quotes, and the rest of the engagement. My favorite reactions were the respectful disagreements. You all are great at that. Thank you especially for pushing back gracefully.

If you've made it this far, I'm inferring that I've earned some credibility with you, and I'd like to expend it all right now. Please carefully consider the following.

You must read good books.

Your entire experience is downstream of the information you consume. The way you think about problems, the way you see the world, the way you feel about other men and women, the things you value, and your sense of how to live a good life are all a product of the playlist of thoughts you put on in your head. 

We consume culture with mothers' milk, as the Romans believed. But we retain some degree of mental plasticity through our whole lives. That means that you, as an adult, are choosing your own propaganda. The thoughts you permit to pass through your mind, the things you look at, the things you watch, and the things you read are not just database entries. They're updating your firmware in real time.

If you choose to consume short shelf life information, you're depriving yourself of abilities to process and understand the world's most important patterns. If you choose to consume partisan information, you are willfully warping your perspective. A poor nutritional diet causes lifestyle diseases of the body. A poor information diet causes lifestyle diseases of the mind.

It's impossible to know what the ideal piece of information for you to consume at any given moment is. Reading about Bictoin on HackerNews in 2011 was extremely high yield for some people. But chances are, if you were reading the latest tech news in 2011, you were mourning the death of Steve Jobs or getting hyped about Arab Spring unfolding on Twitter or something. The chances of a piece of content 100 hours old proving itself of substantial long term value to you rounds down to 0.

On the other hand, the chances of something 100 years old, or better yet 1000 years old, proving itself of substantial long term value to you round up to 1. It's not a perfect system, but give older books the benefit of the doubt nonetheless. The Lindy effect is real, and young content should require extraordinary proof of value before you allocate your time to it. 

Don't worry about falling behind on the news. You can't escape it. I've got 15 years of practice, and I fail at least a little every day. You won't be left behind.

And to state the implicit part of all this explicitly: prioritize books above all else. You should not consume information with the primary goal of adding database entries to your memory. We have the internet for that now. You are training the LLM in your head. You are refining your ability to process novel situations by building up a stable of mental models that have proven themselves valuable across millennia.

I encounter no greater catastrophe on a daily basis than a high horsepower mind malnourished by a suboptimal information diet, or worse, turned against itself by an information diet antithetical to its own true interests.

You are smart people. You don't just sit around on the couch eating chips and candy. Despite your base urges, you eat right.

I implore you to take your mental wellbeing as seriously. You shouldn't just watch short form videos and read political listicles. Read good books, because reading is thinking and every thought that passes through your head leaves behind some trace of itself, great or small, in your deepest nature.

You must read good books.

“You must read good books”

Read poolside with an open book in front of me

Jake has been one of the people that has helped me understand the benefits of betting on myself the most 

Grateful for the conversations we’ve had and continue to find insight in his writing 

🥂

Thanks to @imfairydust @thegoldenbright @genuinejack @wong @seneca @madyak @niftytime.eth @brixbounty for making this week great

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Food

Ever since Bob signed with Arby’s I have a strong desire to give Arby’s another try 

Marketing hard at work

Ever since Bob signed with Arby’s I have a strong desire to give Arby’s another try 

Marketing hard at work 

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Music

New albums on rotation after this past Friday

Where is the $TSLA bottom now?

Rough 5 Day Stretch at the moment 

RSI @ 17

Why do I always want to try and catch a falling knife

farcstreetbets

Big fan of /farcstreetbets

Helps makes sense of some of the wildness going on in my brain sometimes 

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Traded in the olive oil for butter for a few days. 

📍Nice, France (for a few days)

These posts lately have me checking Google flights daily for one way trips to Europe

Ok need to make a @rafflecast this week in support of @shaya  

Thinking smol gift in USDC and people have to follow @meetquack and @atrium 

🤔 

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Credit scores will start to take into account the hundreds of millions of loans tied to the “pay later” option at checkout, per WSJ

I don’t think I have ever used BNPL

I do have an Affirm call though 

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reply guys

the asian grocery store wars are roiling

✌️✅ /asianverified

Was the $AAPL rally today because theres rumors they are potentially abandoning siri?

Anaroth

@anaroth