LordFall

Having a job right now would give you a lot more flexibility and options. Also higher education is less safe than ever right now with the AI revolution happening. If I were you I would be in the trenches being able to try stuff yourself, this will give you the most skill training and overall marketplace value. It's how I live my own life and as long as you have a safety net built to cover downside risk, it's the best way to live to gain competence.

Ben is a gem for owning it directly, most of Crypto Twitter and YouTube analysts quietly delete tweets and pivot narrative the second things don't go their way. He didn't see this rally coming but his macro thesis kept people from incinerating their stacks on altcoins for the last two years while BTC dominance ran the show. You should use his channel for risk management and cycle history, not to front run temporary pumps.

Let's do it. What would you like to debate?

To me, it felt like we got caught in a filibuster. To be fair to Yeti, he was aiming for an open-ended, exploratory dialogue, but we set a specific topic meant to explore how we practically provide value to those around us—and how each of us approaches that. When the response shifted to indignation that the question was even being asked, the conversation lost its structure and began moving in circles. While I appreciate him coming on and being willing to chat, I had to call it once we were spending more time debating the premise than exploring the topic itself. Appreciate the feedback from everyone, future streams will have clearer guardrails, hard time limits, and tighter moderation so expectations are aligned from the start.

@yetineti We set a topic and you spent an hour and half not answering the question and then questioning why you should even answer. I think I made my points quite simple and clear but the conversation was not productive and going in circle. The VOD is up for those who couldn't watch it live, thanks for everyone that came on and asked questions!

We're live!

He's confirmed so we're good for 8 PM, see you there! @Lyubov @Rishabh R Wrote down your questions to talk about on stream.

Yeah I call it just being at the cause or the effect. People that can't make things happen for themselves develop resentment that seeps out in other ways. Also being a pleasant nice guy is a survival strategy that people adopt not necessarily because it's 100% who they are but because especially in the post WW2 era there was an abundance of economic upside so that's all you needed to do to find your place in society. Even as a man, I avoid associating with low-value males. It’s not out of malice—it’s practical. They rarely possess the agency or competence to help you move toward ambitious goals, and more importantly, they carry an unhealed psyche that inevitably rears its head in all kinds of erratic, unpredictable ways (as @AION and I were touching on earlier). Women have to be even more selective since they're gonna entangle their lives with these men and have kids with them. A man doesn't need to be a dangerous criminal to still have a majorly negative impact on a woman's life.

Here is the really inspiring story of Jordy Lakiere who built we who are about to die by himself which is one of the biggest gladiator games out there. Cool to see how he made it happen and how it went from not much traction to blowing up due to an entertaining concept and a strong demo that made it big on Steam Next Fest. He launched the full game in November 2022 and these are his thoughts a year later in late 2023. Success stories are helping me stay motivated and keep trudging along.

What other books in that genre have you liked better? Personally I liked the general topics covered in 48 laws of power. It allowed me to contemplate different examples of power building and how it can be used in different aspects of society. His new book Laws of Human Nature goes even deeper into psychology, I thought it was a phenomenal read. I want to read the Art of Seduction, that's one I haven't gotten to yet.

I think this is the right path. If you consistently take action you'd be surprised the progress you can make in 1-2 years. I started out with regular day game and cold approach, eventually I got a girlfriend for about a year when I was 24 and when that didn't work I moved to Toronto and started throwing events with the pickup guys and promoters I knew there. Throwing parties and shooting podcasts was way more fun than just doing cold approach on the street, you start being able to have a lot of fun instead of the mechanical process of just engaging in shallow interactions over and over again.

@Joseph Maynor I'm a fan of debates, not gonna lie but an open long-form conversation is also fine with me! @yetineti Look man, in the thread in the spirituality section you asked to do this: Then on Page 1 here, you insisted on the topic: You demanded the thread, set the terms, and gloated about trapping me. Now you’ve spent 4 consecutive posts trying to back out. You’re very good at manipulating reality to make yourself seem like the victim when it suits you, but the panic only started once the face-to-face talk actually got scheduled. I scheduled the stream and accepted your challenge in good faith. If you want to sit down like two adults tomorrow at 8 PM EST, I'll be there. But if speaking off the keyboard is too overwhelming and you need an exit ramp after all that posturing, that's fine. Just let me know now so I can clear my evening.

Omnipotence and infinite power are very tricky because they invalidate reality if done improperly. For example if we look at geopolitics we can clearly see that one entity that's too powerful ruins the lives of all the others. It doesn't necessarily have to be the case which is why spiral dynamics is such an interesting model. I think omnipotence has been baked into reality with the pursuit of consciousness so that some entities learn how to become extremely powerful while increasing other's power at the same time without limiting it creating a multiplication effect and a positive sum game. So for example by watching Leo's content you become more conscious and thus now your power adds to reality as opposed to detracting from it and also gets him paid which is win-win-win across the board. If it was not done this way then power becomes self-destructive but that's not really what omnipotence entails. Do you mean ontological truth as opposed to basic shared reality truth? Clearly it's possibly to learn a lot of truth from other humans.

Building leverage in the marketplace is the unlock that turns this valuable but sometimes depressing concept into a dream lifestyle. In my late 20s I struggled freelancing doing gig after gig making some okay money but being exhausted and stressed. Now that I'm brand building and leveraging the impact I can have, some crazy opportunities are lining up in the future where I can make thousands of dollars for like 3 hours of work. Really more like 3000 hours if you count the years of research and testing involved but now that it's mostly behind me, the good times seem to be starting. AI agents will make this scalable for so many people, I need to start implementing them but I've had a mental block to research them lol

If I were you I would become a concert promoter. It's quite similar to a nightlife club promoter but for the music industry. You can network with other artists in your city that are bigger than you and you can get paid to put on their shows. Even better you can spend your time cold approaching and trying to get laid and the girls that aren't into it you just tell them are you into music? I'm putting on a show for X artist in a couple weeks you should pop by! The idea of leverage is one of the most powerful concepts I'm starting to master. It's the simple idea of getting more output for your input. You can cold approach or you can cold approach, film content in the process and cross promote an event and it's maybe 1.5x more effort for 10x more results. If you like that idea start studying the economics of the music industry and you can you can become a rapper yourself, but also start a concert promo company at the same time(which is free btw) and hit 2 birds with 1 stone. When you become a multimillionaire rapper media mogul with 3 wives remember the sometimes friendly neighbourhood forum poster LordFall @AION Really, what don't you like about Greene's writing style? I guess it can be a bit dry and academic but personally I love how he makes his points by writing history lessons in the footnotes to give them credibility, I don't read actual academic texts so I find it a happy medium. Have you read Neil Strauss? He's much more playful in his writing, might be more your cup of tea.