I did 16 full-hang pull-ups earlier this evening in one set. The most I ever did in the Army was 19, I think. Pretty good since it’s now more than 25 years later.
Not being weak is its own reward.
Killin’ It
Still Thrill
I’ve never slept very long at a time — four hours max, unless I am sick — but these days it’s more like two.
Well, whatever, I still feel fine and I do not care. I’m still killin’ it every day and twice on Sunday.
Housed Internally
When I first started day and short-term trading in the stock market, everyone told me I’d lose all my money. Instead, I was able to buy a nice house in cash without touching any retirement savings at all — and just as importantly, not having a house as my primary financial asset.
If I’d listened to those who would’ve actually lost all their money, I would’ve been a lot worse off. The average are constrained by the average “good” advice. It doesn’t apply to me and people like me. The thing is, you better be certain it is inapplicable to you or you will crash and burn as the normies predict and expect.
But I knew I could do what I did. And so I did it.
Lotta Push
Tonight, I did 300 push-ups across three sets, 100 per set.
That’s a personal record. Even in the army I could not do 100 push-ups three times back to back.
Mat Pat
One of the reasons my partner and I get along so well is that she has zero — absolutely no — maternal instinct and I likewise have zero paternal drive or instinct. Just nothing there at all.
There was never even any question of children or wanting them. Makes things just so much easier.
Speed Steamin’
When I was taking the competency test to attend community college, I finished and told the proctor I was done but that I hadn’t gotten any results. They were supposed to appear immediately.
The proctor looked confused and said something about having never seen that happen before. He spent some minutes messing around on his computer and then said that my exam had been flagged for probable cheating.
I said, “I’m on video and you’re sitting about eight feet away from me. How could I cheat?”
Anyway, the CC spent quite a long time (more than a week) reviewing the video and eventually decided I hadn’t cheated. They’d just never had anyone get a perfect score on a two hour test in 12 minutes.
LOL. I love doing shit like that.
That test was mad easy, y’all.
No Lag
I’m really glad I don’t get jet lag.
That’s such a nice superpower to have.
We’re Both
Ever wonder why your partner is attracted to you at all?
No. I’m awesome.
The good new is that so is she.
Directing
I really didn’t think I would get this far. Asking for advice. (IT Director).
I became the IT Director of a large regional company with about three years of full-time IT experience. It can be done.
By the way, I did great. I was probably one of the youngest people in the country with that role, if not the youngest. What I didn’t know, I researched. If I truly was out of my depth I brought in outside help.
But I succeeded so hard they begged me to stay when I decided to leave that role.
Cope Fact
Indeed. I’m not Asian, but I don’t have to grind to utterly defeat nearly anyone in anything to do with reading comprehension and understanding large volumes of disparate data really quickly and thoroughly.
In that arena, I can do what takes normies days (if they can do it at all1) in 20-30 minutes. There is no grind. I can just do it as easily as water flows downhill. Pretending I have to work hard at it would only be a cope by others.
I took a nap during one of the big standardized tests (CTSB?) back in school and still mogged every kid in the state but two others2. To say that I wasn’t even trying would be an understatement. For at least half the exam period, I wasn’t even awake.
How To Live
Love life, unafraid of death, paratrooper forever, epic girlfriend and money for play.
Not a bad damn way to be. Go me. I’ve come a long way from getting told how terrible I am daily.
Keep Charging
I agree with this, even though I am smart.
Beyond a certain baseline of intelligence, social skills, perseverance and being stubborn as all hell get you further than raw mental horsepower. I’ve made it more on pure hardheadedness than I have on my brains, and by a long shot.
Eu See
I did my near-daily eugenics and my arms are tired.
Tomorrow is rest day, though. Regular eugenics shall resume on Tuesday.
Read Me In
Off the charts reading comprehension and ability to quickly understand nearly anything. I didn’t truly realize until I was well into adulthood how much of a superpower this is as well as what advantages it gives me.
And for a long time I thought other people just weren’t trying, but it wasn’t that. They just didn’t have the capability. That I could read something in two minutes and understand it all and the entire superstructure of thought behind (and ahead) of it and contextualize it effortlessly while they could spend two hours reading the same work or document and get nearly nothing out of it was a real eye-opener.
This talent certainly made my life vastly better than it otherwise would’ve been. It means I can do “impossible” stuff like day-trade and solve problems in minutes that take other people hours, days, weeks or years.
Big Cash
What is the most money you have made in 24 hours?
~$100,000 in 1998.
Amazon and Yahoo stocks, as well as some others. Bought them, they went up 400%, sold them. That’d be nearly $200,000 in today’s money.
Those were some wild times. I’ve never had as much fun while also white-knuckling it. And that’s also why I don’t seriously day-trade anymore.