Tom Bilyeu
By Leo Gura - May 30, 2025
The second half of this video is especially good and practical.
Tom Bilyeu is pure pragmatism — which then becomes his biggest bottleneck. Pragmatism is not fundamental enough to understand reality, since pragmatism conflates survival with reality.
What he said towards the end about first principles thinking is so correct. And if you apply first principles thinking to epistemology, ontology, and philosophy — and you avoid all self-deception — what you end up with is Infinity. That’s the basis for all my work. I do the most fundamental first principles thinking of any intellectual in the world. My thinking is so first principles that it transcends human sanity because sanity is not a first principle. Rationality is not fundamental enough to understand reality. The reason I know that is because I questioned absolutely everything. I questioned spirituality so deeply that I discovered entirely new categories of Awakening.
Actuaized.org is a monument to the power of first principles thinking. That’s what I teach because it’s the only way to understand God. God cannot be understood through any kind of social consensus or incremental thinking. This is why even something like Buddhism or nonduality is not enough to understand reality.
Infinity will outrun any attempt your mind makes to capture it. You can’t capture God in a bottle like a firefly.
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