Ex-Quantitative Trader | Co-founder AI Startup | The only metric of success is happiness

Joined February 2021
This is the hardest thing I’ve ever written It’s long, read it or not I don’t really give a shit, this post is for me to say what I’ve been wanting to say for years but was too much of a coward to follow through I’ve been getting DMs these last few months asking me how I did it How I “made it” What the blueprint is (I didn’t even make it, or at least prob not by your definition) And the truth is.. I’ve been lying And I feel dirty So tonight, I’m going to be honest for the first time Short answer: You can’t copy what I did I’m not the result of some fucking morning routine or discipline hack or whatever the fuck people sell you on this app As bad as it sounds, I am just the result of trauma Of nurture, not nature I said I’d be honest, so I will be as much as I can, and the only reason I am doing so is because I have teenagers in my dms and I just can’t sleep at night knowing I am saying shit that’s, at least in my case, irreproducible Shit happened to me so bad it rewired my brain, literally speaking, see for yourself. I won’t mention details because it’s still too painful My own parents don’t know what I’ll share below Anyways… Here’s my official report, translated word for word, from the head of psychiatry at one of the best hospitals in Switzerland: ICD-10 F.62: Enduring personality change after a catastrophic experience. The patient presents with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder characterized by acute affective numbing, emotional detachment, recurrent nightmares, resulting in a lasting inability to experience feelings, whether positive or negative, as well as a strong survivor’s guilt. (Btw that’s common with kids who grew up in war torn countries, feel free to make conclusions about what happens when they grow up) Now you know the real beni, not the “social media life is always pretty” beni Trust me it’s no fucking badge of honor It’s just my reality And as sick as it sounds, or like my mom used to say “there is a positive in everything if you keep an open mind” Yes, it’s my edge My biggest edge comes from being born with a rare genetic disorder and getting hospitalized for like 1/3 of my life from birth to 10yo Most of the emotions I’ve shown online the last 4 years? Faked My biggest fear growing up was that people would think I am a psychopath So I wore a mask I only actually feel emotions, especially empathy, towards people who helped me or help kids in situations I was in as a child, and weirdly enough I feel loads of empathy for sick kids, so much so that I can’t enter a pediatric hospital I’m really just numb Have been since I am around 10 years old, they told me that the mind can only take so much until it’s breaking point Then it finds a coping mechanism Mine instead of depression or anxiety or whatever else, became some sort of extreme self imposed stoicism It’s fantastic for business I can take unlimited rejection, unlimited “no sorry, you’re not good enough.” Not because “I’m built different” or whatever dumb shit influencers sell you, but because my brain literally doesn’t process 99% of emotions Sounds like a superpower, and yeah in trading or business it is But in reality, it’s not so easy Every other night, even 20y+ later, I see dead kids in my dreams, the ones I grew up next to in hospitals, asking me why I survived and they didn’t, asking why I stole their spot on earth, asking why I deserved to live and they didn’t To all the ones that say they want to be where I am, you still want to swap places with me? If so be my guest, I’ll happily give it up I’ve been taking meds and nootropics that could sedate a horse for the past decade, just so I would feel something I’m lucky I live in a country where I can test everything monthly, lucky that I can afford the 5-fig a year it costs But don’t let anyone tell you this is “sustainable” It isn’t, work is literally my coping mechanism, idgaf about your opinion, it just how it is 1/4
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I want to make sure I don’t close any opened doors before finalizing everything so : If any one of you knows VCs who bring more than just capital and are well connected in the tech world, feel free to send me their contacts I’ll take calls with whoever doesnt matter if they’re not from large funds I don’t care about borrowed reputation or any of that nonsense at this point But I do care about their willingness to work as partners instead of just being a piggy bank
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This feels worse than when your mom would turn off your PS2 before you saved your progress Rugged so hard
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I wrote a prompt that was the length of the old testament and Chrome decided to shut down and update randomly
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Gonna try to run this back Wish me luck Need to do my 2 favorite things Research + email cold outreach This is my definition of peak 1:30 am Sunday activities
I just had the most productive night I’ve had all year Pure flow state from 1 am to an hour ago Got a haircut and a coffee I feel good I look even better Run it back until tonight 10pm now Don’t tag me in shit I got stuff to do
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If you As a grown man In 2025 Are posting Instagram stories Just know that when your name comes up in conversations I refer to you as “she” Being gay isn’t even in the top 50 gayest thing you can do But posting insta stories is top 10 material Shame on you
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I just got in an argument with my best friend from childhood so this is really important What cartoon character made you realize as a kid that you did indeed like girls Or guys if that’s your thing Post pictures I’ll start
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Is there a way to find out how many people have blocked you I don’t think anyone on ct has been blocked more than me if you account for the amount of followers It must be 300+ Every time I open a comment section there is at least 1-2 guys I can’t interact with lmao
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It’s actually so insane that some of you are choosing to believe that ZEC is superior in fucking 2025
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ilikeblocks retweeted
Once I thought I had everything done perfectly Literally went over it 50 times I was like « This is art, the Louvre will ask to display this code right here » Then, perhaps 7 nanoseconds after going in prod with the GDP of Nicaragua, I realized that I had swapped the number of tokens for the USD value I market longed like 120k of some dogshit it wicked so high it hurt my neck when I opened the TradingView chart -31k in slippage in well… 7 nanoseconds
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I just had the most productive night I’ve had all year Pure flow state from 1 am to an hour ago Got a haircut and a coffee I feel good I look even better Run it back until tonight 10pm now Don’t tag me in shit I got stuff to do
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Retweet this it’s probably the best sales post I ever made not enough people realize this
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Pro tip for sales If you are scared that your counterparty will ask you a specific question because there is no good answer to it Don’t spend your time trying to find a good rebuttal Instead, eliminate the possibility for them to ask said question Think of it like the juries in court basically Sales is just psychology The above is the equivalent of your opposition submitting a piece of evidence that you have no good answer for Instead of letting them use the evidence and try to find a good rebuttal youd goal should be to make sure that evidence never gets shared for XYZ reasons Even if the judge says disregard what just transpired, the jury, or in this case, your counterparty, is human hence it’s very difficult for them to purposefully omit facts from their minds It’s much easier to take their mind elsewhere even if that elsewhere isn’t perfect either Your goal as a salesman should be to never be caught with a question you don’t have the answer to The best way to do that is to feed the questions to your counterparty Alright enough free knowledge I should make you pay for this this is real good stuff
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Humanity currently severely underestimates the absolute magnitude of whats coming in the field of medicine It’s easier for me to realize it since I have Hemophilia and benefited immensely in the last decade alone But had my mom given birth to me in 1991 instead of 2001 and I would’ve been long dead My injections went from daily from age 1-4 to every 48h from 4-23 and since it’s once a week They told my parents that I’d be sick for all my life and to expect my life expectancy to be impacted Now I would make markets and price hemophilia being cured by 2050 at 90/10 It’s not all good though because we’ll have other issues to deal with because of that but it’s certainly a net positive Long live bio research
Banger is overused now but this one’s a banger
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Is there seriously no native way on macOS to copy multiple things without losing the last one? I swear to god I’m losing my fucking mind juggling 3 windows and 2 spreadsheets If you have a tool to recommend that can do that + keep my copy history so I can access it at any times If you would be so kind, for my sanity's sake, please share your recommendations below Free/paid don’t care It just needs to be FAST
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**but doesn’t work for all the DEX option market makers that copys deribit OB and just slap on a spread You guys deserve to get run over and I’ll be the first to celebrate when you inevitably get latency arbed
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HALLELUJIAH MY SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN ARRIVED BYE NERDS BACK TO WORK NOW
Uber eats is taking ages That’s my karma
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Picture of text:
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Help me check something out FYI the guy is 100% human so don’t try to guess just look at the text Sorry for the horrible formatting it looks ugly but it does the work In your opinion, does the text in the picture (check tweet below for pic) look like it was :
35% Written by an Human
50% Written by an LLM
15% Idk bro
324 votes • Final results
35% Written by an Human
50% Written by an LLM
15% Idk bro
324 votes • Final results
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Been an hour since I made the order Man I said I’ll go on twitter until it arrives and then I put it down and get back to work Now I wasted an hour on here Everyone not named sasuke the rest of that tweet is irrelevant for you @sasuke___420 see I am technically not procrastinating boss Here is the situation: Right approach Wrong execution Jokes aside I am grinding tonight to catch up yesterday anyways Dunno why I am not messaging you privately to say that but my discord is asking for 2FA and I am on mobile sitting on the stairs outside waiting for the DAMN DELIVERY DRIVER I may or may not have spent the 4h A/B testing details that won’t be necessary for at least a few weeks In a way I am like the opposite of a procrastinator right? Kk nvm
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