Pieces by deegeevince. Truths at a point in time — on what's in our control, and what's being reshaped around us.
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9 Days From Being Jobless
Same skills, same person — but no title, no company. The only question anyone knows how to ask is what do you do.
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When Butter Is Not Butter
I scraped every butter product on Woolworths. Less than half are real butter. Here's the full ingredient breakdown.
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10 Days From Being Jobless
I quit my job. I could easily find another one. But it would just really be the same thing.
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Aschenbrenner's Q1'26 13F — what it tells you about where the AI money is moving
Reading Leopold Aschenbrenner's Q1 2026 hedge fund filing alongside the worldview that produced it. Picks-and-shovels long the energy layer, broad puts on chips, and the framework underneath.
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Are you struggling with your children right now?
Five perspectives I keep coming back to on the harder days. Saving these for myself as much as anyone.
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Parenting advice is framed wrong — the real frame is control
I think most parenting advice is taught incorrectly, because the real truth is a much more difficult pill to swallow.
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She's not annoying — I'm annoyed
I find my daughter really annoying sometimes. But then I realized I was the problem.
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Disclosure cascade — five sentences
Read these five sentences, tell me which one you would or would not post.
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Week 3 stats reveal
13 days, 13 videos, these are my stats. 75 seconds was the average duration, and 281 views per video with a completion rate of 7%. Which also happens to be the most important metr…
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6 lessons from @zach_yadegari
His receipts aren't transferable. The doctrine is.
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AI is the ultimate sucker for attention
Every previous generation of attention-extraction tech competed for what you noticed. AI competes for what you decide.
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The box I drew around yes and no
I used to hate it when my daughter said no to trying new foods. Like — the food is delicious, just put it in your mouth, I'm not trying to trick you. Just try it first and then sa…
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why I am taking a risk, for my own good
The main reason why I've left the job security and the corporate world is because I think AI is doing more harm to society than it is doing good.
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Am I the problem? — spotlight of attention recursive loop
You ever lie in bed dreading some presentation you've got the next morning, so much that you feel it in your gut?
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if job searching has been hurting more than it should
I know what it feels like to be seen as jobless, because the thing you're losing isn't just a job. It's the answer to "what have you been up to?" from the same people that ask aga…
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Personal goals are personal
If you're setting yourself a personal goal and you're comparing yourself to creators who get up at 6am, hit the gym, eat three perfect meals a day, you're setting yourself up for…
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Put on a jumper — that's a me problem
I grew up in a household where my parents were very much command-style parenting. Eat more, practice piano, complete your studies.
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attention & memory: we can not ever choose to forget about something once we experience it. what you pay attention to matters.
Have you ever realized that once you see or hear something, you do not have the ability to forget about it?
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learnings, week 2 into tiktok
I am week two into shooting 100 videos by June 17 and these are my top three learnings.
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You can try to remember. You can't try to forget.
Once it's in, it shapes you. It's literally all about what information you let in.
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AI
Does anyone else feel like throwing up just a little bit every time they hear the word AI being mentioned?
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plastic plastic plastic
I've got three cats at home and one of them has been drinking out of the toilet directly from the toilet bowl
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2026-04-30-tiktok-genesis-three-reflections
Filmed and posted my first ever selfie video yesterday aimed at TikTok. Three reflections from someone who has never done this before.
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the one time where I find doing nothing is the most productive
The most effective thing you can do from the moment you wake up is to simply do nothing.
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Is there anything better to do?
I found myself scrolling through this application endlessly sometimes, and I'm sure you've found yourself in a similar situation before. It's just so damn good, right? It knows ex…
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Token cost is real cost
Token cost is real cost, however apply this level of thinking to real human cost and it's not so much different. Whether you're paying for a graduate or a senior engineer, you wou…
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Genesis — Day 1 of 100
Here's the most powerful thing I've found to actually get something done. I'm going to show you, by doing it.
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Privacy as Insurance Against AI
Three pressures. One underlying force. Attention comes first. Belief follows. Then capital moves.
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Close the Session
Terminal sprawl, context switching, and persistent workloads. A skill that closes the session so the next one picks up cleanly.
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Knowledge Doesn't Equal Action
We knew what the atomic bomb could do before 1945. It didn't become actionable until entire populations were wiped out.
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Signal Surfacing Needs a Lever
Before bringing any external signal to someone's attention, answer which lever it pulls. If none, don't surface. Filter is upstream, not downstream.
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Three Groups
The question isn't whether to use AI. It's which group you're in.
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Expo Bootstrap
Whole categories of "I'd never build that, too much setup" just stopped being true.
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Representation Collapse and the Attention Feed
The machine's failure and yours are the same failure. The only difference is yours arrived through a feed.
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Truth is First-Person
If AI-written framing gets laundered into your permanent record, the archive stops being a reliable record of who you are.
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Sovereignty Primitive
Your corpus is what differentiates you. The model commoditizes. The same LLM in front of two people gives the same answers, because it has the same nothing to work from.
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Remove the Ceiling
The single biggest thing you can do to unlock what AI actually offers right now is to remove yourself from the constraint of the pricing model.
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You Gave It
They didn't take your soul. You were just leasing it out for too cheap. Raise the rent.
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I Refuse to Believe There's Nothing I Can Do
The system is calibrated to take just enough of your energy to keep you showing up tomorrow. Not happy. Not miserable. Just enough.
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Presence Over Absence
What does someone do when they love something and the only option within their capability is nothing?
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Why I Left — The Honest Answer
Fear all the way up, dressed in better clothes. I pushed through every flavour of discomfort this job had to offer. The kind that signals growth, not the kind that wears you down.
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The Loop That Improves the Loop
Once the baseline loops exist, your attention stops going into doing the work. It goes into improving the system that does the work.
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The Last Hug
Nobody tells you when the last hug happens. There's no announcement. It just stops one day.
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What Are Our Kids Going to Do When They Grow Up?
Every stage of the funnel we followed now has a question mark over it.