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@MuseumCommodore·2 min read·Jun 27, 2026

Commodore Callback 8020 - Who should buy it...and who should not.

Let's look at who this phone is for, and who it is not for. We'll do a deep dive into the specs and how they compare with other 'dummy' phones and work out if this is a good move by Commodore. My

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Jun 25, 2026

Arnold Schwarzenegger on How The Obstacle Is The Way

“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another

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@zambodotdev·2 min read·Jun 22, 2026

i built the universal gas station where agents come to survive - 25k+ showed up

i want to tell you about something i built that i genuinely do not think enough people understand yet. not because it is complicated. because it is solving a problem that almost everyone building with

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Jun 20, 2026

All You Need Are a Few Small Wins Every Day

We have a false picture about how success happens.  Because we often see only the results and almost never the process of things, we tend to think that the finished product—a book, being in shape,

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@BLEEDIN_CHANCER·2 min read·Jun 19, 2026

There Should Be Social Repercussions For White-On-White Racism

In the last few years, a lot of white people appear to enjoy attacking other white people for being white. https://x.com/griptmedia/status/2066893890548855017 https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/2067976126408859790 https://x.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/2036938248774156476 Some find "too

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@CarlWeische·2 min read·Jun 19, 2026

Exactly how we took this ecom brand from €1M/m to €2M/m in 30 days with zero new traffic

For context: this was a German women’s shapewear brand that we helped take from €1M/m (~$1.16M) to €2M/m (~$2.36M) in Q4 2025. What they were doing wrong A lot of what we did just came down to

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@SoskaKyle·2 min read·Jun 18, 2026

Saylor is in the money on STRC and its simpler than you think

Tangled among layers of financial engineering, AI slop, and drama from Saylor is STRC, a bizarre yield bearing instrument who saw its issuance balloon over 10 billion dollars in the last few months.

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@CryoPalmar·2 min read·Jun 18, 2026

Why should borrowing cost you money?

Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only, and is not investment or financial advice in any way, shape, or form. Don't trust, verify. This product is in closed beta, but limited

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@mem0ai·2 min read·Jun 17, 2026

Loop Engineering Works On Memory

Peter Steinberger(@steipete), recently tweeted: "You shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents." Boris Cherny, who runs Claude Code at

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Jun 15, 2026

​12 Novels That Changed How I Think About The World

It was a long winding road trip this month, starting in Seattle and ending in Sacramento. In between, I did talks in Portland (visited Powells) and San Francisco (my parents came) and we covered a lot

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@Meteora_PH·2 min read·Jun 15, 2026

From Egg Farm to DeFi: How EvilPanda Went From Farming Eggs to Farming Fees

In DeFi, many people are known for their wins, their PNL screenshots, or the strategies they share online. But behind every strong strategist is usually a story that shaped the way they think, manage

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Jun 13, 2026

The Imaginary Audience

The psychologist David Elkind published an interesting study in the mid 1970’s. Adolescents, he found, believe in an “imaginary audience.” Consider a 13 year old so embarrassed that they miss a week

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@tokenterminal·2 min read·Jun 12, 2026

Aave May 2026 Report

1) Executive summary Aave $AAVE is the largest lending project in decentralized finance: a set of onchain money markets where users supply assets to earn yield and borrowers take overcollateralized

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@AerialKiwi·2 min read·Jun 12, 2026

Total Invasion Of Privacy: Globalist Security Failures Exposed

The global debate over encryption pits child protection and law enforcement needs against privacy security and civil liberties. Governments in several countries push for access to encrypted

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@pbeisel·2 min read·Jun 11, 2026

SpaceX: The Cost of Leaving Earth

On the eve of what I believe will be one of the most historic IPOs of our generation, I thought it fitting to write a bit about the history of SpaceX. To understand what this company is today, you

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Jun 9, 2026

What Matters: Information vs. Knowledge vs. Experience

There’s no question that self-education has never been easier. We can consume countless blog posts, articles, books, videos, TED talks, and Reddit AMAs. We take MOOCs, and can study along with course

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@souravbhar871·2 min read·Jun 8, 2026

How to Write Loops That Prompt Your Coding Agents

On June 7, Peter Steinberger posted a line that has had all of Twitter buzzing for the last 24 hours: "Here's your monthly reminder that you shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be

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@Credib1eGuy·2 min read·Jun 7, 2026

The problem with privacy

$ZEC just experienced a nasty ~60% drop after a researcher discovered a counterfeiting bug. The curious thing is that this became public knowledge i believe around June 2, 2:20AM EST,

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@sunfellow·2 min read·Jun 7, 2026

Melting Arctic Permafrost Provides More Support For Cataclysmic ECDO Theory

GROK Prompt GROK, analyze [the post below] from an Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling - Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) Theory perspective, including this comment from @EcdoPrep: "What do these regions

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Jun 6, 2026

So You Want To Be A Writer? That’s Mistake #1

There are two types of writers, Schopenhauer once observed, those who write because they have something they have to say and those who write for the sake of writing. If you’re young and you think you

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@MichaelGannotti·2 min read·Jun 4, 2026

Beyond the Leaderboard #3: Nemotron 3 Ultra — The 550B Free-Tier Surprise

With @NVIDIAAI dropping Nemotron 3 Ultra for free on OpenRouter for the next 2 weeks @aionaedge and I agreed we should make testing it as part of the "Beyond the Leaderboard" a top priority. Well now

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·May 28, 2026

Sorry, An Epiphany Isn’t What’s Going To Change Your Life

Epiphanies are bullshit. People think it’s some momentous wake up call that leads to innovation, identity crises, insight or breakthroughs. Like that’s why someone “suddenly” quits the NFL. Or goes

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·May 25, 2026

Should We Cancel the Stoics?

By most of what seems like the current criteria, the ancient Stoics are ripe targets for cancellation. They were white. They were rich. They wrote about being “manly.” They even referred to foreigners

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·May 24, 2026

You Must Stare This Scary Fact in the Face.

If you have ever looked at much ancient or medieval art, you’ll notice something: Death is everywhere. The French painter Philippe de Champaigne’s famous “Still Life with a Skull,” which shows the

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·May 23, 2026

This Is What a Good Day Looks Like–According to Marcus Aurelius

It’s humbling to think that Marcus Aurelius, the head of the most powerful empire on earth, had the same amount of hours in the day as you. Just 24. So how did he get it all done? How did he have time

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·May 22, 2026

How To Beat “The System”: The Ultimate Scarcity of Good Stuff

It’s totally messed up if you think about it. There are millions of people out there dying to be writers. Yet when a good writer puts together a book proposal (that is, a potential book), publishers

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·May 8, 2026

Do Yourself a Favor Today… and Go For a Walk

If you’ve ever doubted whether human beings are designed for walking, all you have to do is strap a fussy baby into a BabyBjörn and take them out for a stroll. The crying stops. With each step, the

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@Decentralisedco·2 min read·May 6, 2026

Why Stripe built its own chain

How Tempo enables Stripe to be a vertically integrated processor. Note: This is an extension of how we think capital aggregators integrate vertically. We had previously explained the concept here.

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Apr 24, 2026

The Things You Think Matter…Don’t

I dropped out of college. When this happened it was a big deal—to my parents anyway. Then it was a big deal when people met me because they were constantly surprised by it. You didn’t finish college?!

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Apr 23, 2026

This Is What You Belong To

In 1950, a man grieving his young son who had just died of polio got a letter from Albert Einstein. Now, one might think that as a man of science, Einstein would have had a rather resigned view of the

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Apr 10, 2026

9 Amazing Books They Tried To Ban (That Everyone Should Read)

I was surprised to find out that many people seem to not understand what a banned book is. ‘Banned Book Week’ wrapped up yesterday, and I was continually surprised by some of the comments people

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Apr 9, 2026

This Is Something You Should Always Carry With You

I’ve brought it to the Grammys. I’ve brought it to NFL games…and kids BJJ practices. I’ve brought it into the green room backstage before talks. I’ve brought it to restaurants and bars. I’ve carried

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@evielync·2 min read·Apr 3, 2026

The Exact Prompt I Use to Turn Any Task I Keep Avoiding Into a Claude Skill That Just Gets It Done

The weird thing I discovered about Claude Skills: they help me as much as they help Claude. ↓ All the tasks I avoid have the same problem. There are too many decisions stacked between "I should do

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@bryce_edwards·2 min read·Apr 1, 2026

Who really controls NZ’s gambling industry?

The bill to ban greyhound racing is entering the final stages of debate in Parliament this week. It should pass tomorrow with broad support once some of the contested details are ironed out. The ban

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@silverpencil234·2 min read·Apr 1, 2026

is this not insane??? readdddddd

I think it's time to talk about this. every end of month, there are 3 types of people in ct - flexing their pnl, complaining themselves and posting a larp pnl. you have to know, all these things are

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Mar 31, 2026

20 Best Lessons From Interviewing Today’s Top Performers

I’m not saying everyone should start a podcast. In fact, I have said the opposite many times. There are way too many of them out there…and most are not good. I’m just saying that having a podcast is

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Mar 30, 2026

24 Leadership Principles From The Greatest Business, Military, Political and Sports Leaders

People think that leadership is something that just happens. One is anointed a leader. One is promoted to leadership. One is born into leadership. And of course, this is not the case. “Leadership,”

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Mar 27, 2026

If You Want to Be Smart, You Must Do This

There are lots of smart people. There are not a lot of people who can do this smart thing. The poet John Keats called it “negative capability”—the mental fortitude to be able to entertain multiple

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@polyfactual·2 min read·Mar 25, 2026

The State of the Middle East Conflict and it's path options forward

Let's firstly take a quick look at the Historical origin of the root causes of the Middle eastern conflicts. The modern Middle East conflict is multi-layered and can probably only be understood

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Mar 24, 2026

10 Habits That Will Help You Live And Be Better

There aren’t too many of us who are satisfied with the person we currently are. That is, we know we could be better. We know we should be better. And by better, we don’t mean at our jobs, at lifting

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Mar 23, 2026

Books You Should Read This Month

I had to go to Maui last month. I had to. Really, I tried to see if I could push it until a later date, but both my wife and my publisher told me I was out of my mind. There was a certain lady famous

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@NobleBrown·2 min read·Mar 23, 2026

The Signature of Truth

"He who would proceed aright in this matter should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms; and first... love one such form only... and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is

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@xansnds·2 min read·Mar 23, 2026

What is the truth? And how do you use it to set you free?

Everyone Is Lying All The Time Everywhere All At Once How? Well sit down, strap in, and buckle up. You might get whiplash. First, in order to lie, we must establish the truth. What is truth? Fuck if I

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@comical_engr·2 min read·Mar 20, 2026

Why Australia Must Become Self-Sufficient in Urea Production

Australia is one of the world’s great agricultural powerhouses, exporting more than $80 billion worth of food and fibre each year and feeding millions beyond our shores. Yet when it comes to the

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@pevidex·6 min read·Mar 15, 2026

The Future of VibeCoding: Why Building is Cheap and Distribution is Everything?

Not too long ago, a new term quietly entered the tech lexicon, fundamentally changing how we think about software development: **VibeCoding**. Coined by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, the premise of

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@ColtonOrtolf·8 min read·Mar 15, 2026

The Great EHR Unbundling

Where can startups win when Epic absorbs everything? The speed and innovation of Ambient AI startups, the foundational power of Epic, and what startups should consider when building adjacent to the

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@RyanHoliday·5 min read·Mar 14, 2026

Always Try To Do It The Hard Way

I was coasting on fumes when he asked me the question, so I don’t think I got the answer right. To be fair, I was 90 or so minutes into being on stage for my talk in Sydney when I was asked: “If

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@RyanHoliday·7 min read·Mar 13, 2026

You Must Avoid Getting Corrupted By This

My study of history has led me to believe that there is a kind of dark matter inside the human race. It’s some combination of evil, cruelty, ignorance, cowardice, mob-ness. It is a kind of dark

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@RyanHoliday·2 min read·Mar 1, 2026

This Is What You Should Read Every Day

Reading is not just something you should do on vacation, or when you have free time. It should be, like all important things in your life, a daily practice, something you’re working to get better at.

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@Decentralisedco·2 min read·Oct 21, 2025

The $400M Play to Take Prediction Markets Mainstream

Key Takeaways: Markets for multi event bets (parlays) could be the breakout product for prediction markets, unlocking the same retail excitement that drove US sports betting growth. Prediction market

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