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Was talking to someone who went broke and he asked how to rebuild. I've seen this happen before, and people hate my answer. They feel like I'm being glib or dismissive. I'm not. The answer is you have to become obsessed with business. Read every business book. I told him don't ask me for recommendations. Start reading them all. Almost all of them suck. So what?
The purpose isn't the information, although you'll find that even one idea could change how you do things. It's to tune your antenna. To always have it thinking about your company, or if you don't have a biz, about starting one. Even the slop books (99%) are effective because your mind will rebel against the inaneness, and this itself leads to insight. Kind of like when someone is doing something so terribly that you get fed up and go, "FINE! I'll do this myself!"
The spiritual problem is that you may become infested with the demon of greed. Making money is like eating. You have to eat to live and you need money to live. Obsessing over how to make more money can lead to demonic influence.
Of course, having a business fail invites the demons as well. You become full of despair. That's why you still have to go to church or whatever your religion is, and once you start doing better, you need to part with your money or it will stick to you like tar. I've seen that happen. Money can ruin people as much or more so as failure. A
t least if you have spiritual problems with money, there's optionality. You can give it away, and if it hurts to give, that's a sign that the demons have their hooks in much deeper than you're consciously aware of. If you're dead broke, not much you can do, you'll be bummed out (the demons feed off of this).
In a perfect world you won't have any of these problems. Good luck with that.
But it does start with understanding that "success" is as much about where you direct your focus and attention. Navel gazing about your problems is the antithesis of this. Focusing outward is where you open yourself up to possibilities.
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Phillip Mullin has become the first child in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease ksla.com/2026/10/24/alexandr…
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There’s an FDA-approved peptide that targets cancer cells and delivers radiation to destroy them.
It’s called Lutathera. In a Phase 3 trial, it reduced the risk of tumor progression or death by 79%.
Here's the breakdown: (1/14)
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I love when toddlers start telling you stories. The details might be questionable, but the enthusiasm is unmatched. 😂
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An uncomfortable truth for a lot of people is that a lot of the most successful people in any industry are wicked smart. We apply stereotypes based on the loudest people, but its not representative of norms. Most are crazy smart and got to where they are because of it.
I grew up in LA, one of my parents was a TV producer, my wife was an actor, many friends "in the industry." I've been constantly surrounded by it, and some of the stupidest seeming people (cause its their bit) are actually insanely smart and strategic in private. It sometimes is just beneficial for various reasons to... not show that side of you.
My favorite anecdote was when a friend (a model) was dating a phD in physics and a very rude person made some off the cuff degrading comment to model friend about it without realizing model friend has their own phD in math lol. You wouldn't know from their instagram though!
For the quoted video, I don't know Ben Affleck. I don't know how deep his knowledge goes. He's almost certainly not going to be more knowledgable than someone who professionally does this area of work full time, but he also to me on the surface sounds like someone who knows a LOT more than the average person and possibly even the average software engineer (on this topic).
Anyways, this applies to tech too. I see it constantly.
Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models
“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.
“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.
“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.
“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’
“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”
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Reading is a very underrated skill
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too much writing, too much thinking, too much planning, too much analysis. your pencils are sharp enough. theres not much time left now, its best if you get going.
