Your brain releases dopamine before you get the reward, not after. Studies on reward prediction error show this clearly. The brain computes the difference between what you expected and what you got, then adjusts your motivation accordingly. The more certain you are that effort leads to an outcome, the more dopamine you release during the effort itself. This is why assigning a finite number to your goal changes everything at a biological level. You convert an unpredictable reward schedule into a predictable countdown. Your prefrontal cortex now has a map. The dopamine system responds to that clarity by releasing more dopamine with each step forward, including the painful ones. The default loop most people run: rejection → uncertainty about whether this will ever work → cortisol elevation → avoidance behavior → quit. The rewired loop: rejection → “93 left” → progress signal → dopamine release → increased drive toward next attempt. The people who sustain effort through rejection have attached the reward signal to the process of attempting rather than the outcome of any single attempt. When you expect the process itself to be rewarding, each step generates its own neurochemical reinforcement. The effort becomes self-sustaining. This works because it gives your brain something it desperately wants: a denominator. Uncertainty kills motivation at the level of neurochemistry. Certainty of eventual reward, even through discomfort, sustains it.

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Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.

SAM BANKMAN FRIED PICKED EVERY WINNER OF THE 2020s AND HIS LAWYERS SOLD THEM ALL AT THE BOTTOM. If the FTX estate hadn't panic-sold its assets during bankruptcy, SBF would be sitting on a $114 billion empire today. Instead, he is watching the greatest trades of the decade from a prison cell. The data is almost impossible to believe: - Anthropic: $82.3 billion (165x) SBF bought an 8% stake for $500M. The estate sold it for $1.3B in 2024. Today, that stake would be worth over $80B. - SpaceX:$15 billion (75x) A massive stake liquidated early to pay creditors. - Solana: $5.1 billion (27x) SBF was an early backer at $8. The estate offloaded a massive chunk at $64. - Robinhood: $4.9 billion (8x) - Genesis Digital: $3.5 billion (3x) The Latest "Missed" Fortune: CURSOR In 2022, Alameda Research wrote a tiny $200,000 check for a 5% stake in the AI startup Cursor. In April 2023, the bankruptcy estate sold that entire stake back for exactly what they paid: $200,000. Yesterday, SpaceX announced a deal to buy Cursor for $60 billion. That "worthless" 5% stake would be worth $3 billion today. That is a 15,000x return that vanished because the lawyers wanted a quick exit. SBF was a genius at picking generational winners and a criminal at managing their money. The lawyers recovered $18 billion for users. If they had just held, they would be sitting on $114 billion and the most valuable venture portfolio in history.

Pep Guardiola on @rayan_cherki: “What a goal, right? But I like to push him. He was extraordinary. What I like most is the difficulties, 1-0, 0-0, down, always he makes a step forward. But sometimes when we're 2-0, 3-0, he's not involved anymore. "He makes an incredible goal, but after - maybe for the way we play - we didn't find him much. And I want him more, and that action he's done, I want five of them! Not [always] finishing with a goal, but more actions to pass, and it didn't happen. And sometimes in the last games, he is... not disappeared, but he's not… He has the biggest attribute when it’s 0-0, going down, we found him more. But I think it's part of the process. "How old is he? So young! As much as you want to learn or this sense of being incredibly competitive, he’ll become a top player because the goal he has scored is Rayan Cherki. This cannot be taught, it's just his amazing talent..." [via @HaytersTV]

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This is so true. I have discovered that most of my problems, especially those that appear insurmountable on the surface, eventually dissolve when I do the painstaking work of thinking. People do not like to think deeply, and I do not mean the kind of thinking that comes dressed as anxiety—that restless, frantic movement of the mind driven by worry. No, I mean the discipline of sitting still and working your mind until it yields something clear. When thinking is tied to anxiety, it rushes. It fragments. It circles without arriving. But when it is stripped of that urgency, when it becomes the honest act of sitting with yourself and trying to make sense of things, to give yourself meaning, to confront what is before you without panic, then it becomes something else entirely. It flows. It settles. It even begins to feel, in its own strange way, beautiful.

King Von tells the youth to put down the guns

Apple CEO Tim Cook is begging people to stop “doomscrolling” “People need to spend more time in nature”