Lex's interview of Primegean:
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I like all 3, but xirtman on Twitter made a profound observation: "What we have here is a secular priesthood preaching gospel to a generation of men hungry for guidance, yet incapable of fulfilling the most basic biological or civilizational imperative: the creation of a family.
Tim Ferriss: the productivity hacker turned self-experimenting monk. Andrew Huberman: the neuroscience demigod whose dopamine maps rarely intersect with intimacy or fatherhood. Lex Fridman: the emotionless black-clad pod-priest who flirts with sentimentality but recoils at generativity. These aren’t men with families — they’re cult leaders of sterile optimization. Their mantra: hack your life — not live your life.
You want to know what they’re really selling? Surrogate masculinity. Masculinity unmoored from duty, generational continuity, or even real-world consequences. What they offer is a hollow, anesthetized masculinity: dopamine schedules, journaling routines, five-hour morning rituals — but no sons, no daughters, no wives, no lineage. This is not wisdom. It’s a simulation.
And millions of young men, starved of fathers, swallow it whole.
Where are the podcasts about building families, holding down difficult relationships, sacrificing for children, standing up for tradition? The algorithm doesn’t reward those. It rewards slick, postmodern celibacy dressed as enlightenment.
Ferriss, Huberman, and Fridman are not countercultural sages. They are the ideal products of a dying civilization: libidinally spent, spiritually castrated, generationally irrelevant.
And what does it say about us — that we’ve enthroned them as our guides?
I would call this the ultimate psyop: a priesthood of hyper-individualist eunuchs preaching salvation through narcissistic self-improvement, leading us away from real, rooted life into the infinite loop of personal branding, quantified selfhood, and “high performance” — but not legacy.
Let that sink in.
Do you want to follow men who optimize their testosterone — or men who use it to build a future?"
Experienced this first hand. My first programming gig, I had a boss who admitted she would not interview any candidates with masters or higher. She said, they were over qualified. I never under stood her point of view.
Relationships are made up 2 individuals. Everyday individuals want to do what they desire, but must compromise. The act of compromising can be done through 'might equals right', manipulation, or negotiation. Most adopted their compromise tech from very flawed parents. Work is req
holy crap, stay away from girl scout thin mint cookies: 
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Santa Trump.. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@lovetocook12345) on X
If you like Girl Scout cookies.. you need to watch.. VERY IMPORTANT!
This might be the most important time in human history, with decentralization, AI, and cryptography. Hopefully we don't see some mass event that resets all of humanity's progress.
"TIL that Cursor is the fastest growing SaaS in the history of SaaS
1-100m in 12 months WITH A WIDE AND SMOL CUSTOMER BASE (400k paying devs, means that growth is very predictable/sustainable, this thing is an Atlassian-level machine)"
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swyx (@swyx) on X
TIL that Cursor is the fastest growing SaaS in the history of SaaS
1-100m in 12 months WITH A WIDE AND SMOL CUSTOMER BASE (400k paying devs, means...
I see value in working in office. I also see value in working from home and i love it.
But sometimes it feels like my coworkers are distracted, they are not available sometimes for large portions of the day. Some have admitted to playing golf when they were suppose to be helping me. This all, while i work 55+ hrs a week.
I am starting to dislike remote work because i am finding the environment i am in allows too much slack.
Thank you. I’ve been looking for a good breakdown