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shray @shray_js

not a recursive self improvement system. i swear. i also write on @substack. prev @quantinuumqc (nasdaq: qnt) @alchemy @ycombinator (-backed startup)

Joined December 2020
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most accomplished people feel just as behind in their careers as you perhaps do in this moment. don't worry and carry on
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the public market today can only be described in the following terms: a total bloodbath
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May 31
reputation tied to social presence depreciates, whereas reputation tied to specific work appreciates and is more durable
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May 27
beware, there is always an agenda
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May 27
losing is a pretty common experience. most people are losers. there's usually one winner
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May 26
fiction is cheap. truth is expensive.
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May 26
never ceases to surprise me: passively consuming content is good, but you'll retain 10x more information by actually doing
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May 25
i recall being in a conference room where ceo of a frontier tech firm proclaimed in highfalutin language that randomness is the new oil, not data. all execs in the room nodded their heads, perhaps deferent or fearful, but has to be one of the most debased takes i'd heard
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May 25
# of people who glamorize the act of reading >> # of people who grab a book and just start reading (for leisure or work). if some part of our reasoning abilities are downstream of info consumption, then it's clear which camp to be in. simple adage but rarely executed
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May 16
what if i told you that what you're looking for is on the other side of one cold email. send it.
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hey @eladgil! recently tuned into your chat with @tferriss on his pod and was wondering when we'll be able to pre-order your upcoming book? thanks and excited to read it in due course
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2 Dec 2025
Most people never get to see how brilliant they can be. It’s just a matter of being impatient and doing things before you’re ready just to make them exist. The version you’ve been wanting to become can wait no longer. Literally just do things.
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20 Nov 2025
During especially bad economic times, B2B = back to banking and B2C = back to consulting. I don't make the rules but just an observation
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12 Nov 2025
if I received a dollar for every time a VC provided me with unsolicited advice, that in itself would be a major liquidity event
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17 Oct 2025
the fear of things going wrong prevent (most) people from doing things that could go right
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17 Oct 2025
serendipity only works when you give it space to show up
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13 Sep 2025
The less seriously I take myself, the more comfortable I am and so are those that I'm with
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13 Sep 2025
If your soul aches to produce, then you must or continue on a doom loop until the pain becomes too unbearable and dramatic choices ensue
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14 Aug 2025
When you write down your problems, you can contain them within the bounds of your words, miniaturize their enormity, and reduce their fearsome character. Objectively, you’ve defined and characterized them. But when you let them run wild in your unbounded imagination, these problems don’t just persist but thrive. They grow unchecked to become more vicious, larger, and seemingly uncontainable, before consuming your mental real estate night and day.
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