Every public post from @alanpafka, kept here as a permanent copy — the words, the date, the images — with a link back to the original.
The world is healing. I hope Europe follows. https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/2109087794022732169
.@POTUS: "He should have an election... President Zelensky could've solved this war and he could've made a deal many times." https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/2108964817730158697
The world is healing ⚡️ https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/2108964287758639480
.@POTUS: We told Zelensky, 'You can do whatever you want to Russia, but don't hit the refineries because that's a world problem.' And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel. He better damn well stop.
The world is finally healing from the mind virus that you support @kajakallas ⚡️ https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/2109087794022732169
.@POTUS: "He should have an election... President Zelensky could've solved this war and he could've made a deal many times." https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/2108964817730158697
this 3rd world country should not be allowed to be a part of the EU before this kidnapping of citizens by its governments stops @kajakallas https://twitter.com/havryshkomarta/status/2108177058987970815
Dear Ukrainian women, don't send your men out to walk the dogs.
It could literally be a matter of life and death.
Vinnytsia, Busification.
my life feels like this right now
yet i still believe ⚡️ https://twitter.com/tibo_maker/status/2108490225982775619
I keep coming back to this picture
it puts a lot of things into perspective for me
💫 https://twitter.com/thematrixwizard/status/2108498725916299753
@alanpafka 💙✨🤙🫶⚡️🕯️🔌🪔🌞
⚡️ https://twitter.com/smb_attorney/status/2107991877299364160
One of the most powerful things I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t seen this before, you need to stop and watch it. This is everything.
I am genuinely happy for this merge ⚡️ https://twitter.com/dhh/status/2108127662120014285
Thrilled to welcome @SpaceXAI as a Founding Corporate Patron for the Omacom Foundation. That's $1,500,000 in @grok tokens for the maintenance and development of Omarchy. Maybe soon they'll be beamed straight from orbit? Let's go 🚀🌕 https://omarchy.org/news/2026/10/spacexai-joins-as-founding-corporate-patron/
One thing is this ancient hate for Russians.
As humans we need to dump our negativity somewhere.
What boggles my mind more is that there are certain European countries with gay leaders making decisions how families with children must live.
Upside down world. https://twitter.com/olgabazova/status/2108054212533956655
Somewhere in the EU.
Welcome to the mainstrwam media.
Read it too much and you’ll be believing bs & living in fear ⚡️ https://twitter.com/nordmarksweden/status/2107893099183603969
281 gånger var Putin på Aftonbladets löpsedlar under 303 dagar 2022. Nästan ett om dagen. Fake hot för att hålla rädslan vid liv och fåren🐑 köper fortfarande skiten. Covid försvann helt plötsligt och Putin tog över 🤣
⚡️ https://twitter.com/thematrixwizard/status/2107772834441515215
you’re the light of this world
The Swedes are also waking up @kajakallas & @vonderleyen ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ https://twitter.com/hanssonlife/status/2107917090472530239
I am Swedish. I would rather die through hanging than fight the globalist war against Russian soldiers.
Globalists fucked upp my country so i cant see how Putin could be worse.
🇸🇪❤️🇷🇺
Keep showing up ⚡️
I fear no evil.
I dominate it ⚡️
⚡️ https://twitter.com/thematrixwizard/status/2107828835680927829
the self vs no self debate is a trap
both sides of the same coin
two cheeks on the cosmic ass
yin and yang
everything is one
this is how you fckin heal you let it all out ⚡️ https://twitter.com/thematrixwizard/status/2107421201211511070
whoever can’t handle the energy might as well unfollow now ‘cause its going to get even more unhinged 😹
Think pretty.
Think beautifully.
Think what if everything will work out.
And everything will advance from there.
I've been struggling to commit to a project.
Mostly because family, health, and our pets eat the day before I ever get to the work. And then I'm already tired AF.
And the indecisiveness is the real black hole.
But I love this stuff. Spirituality. Consciousness. Energy. Movement through space and time. Psychology. Health, etc.
Not for the first time, I'm thinking about pouring all of that into one product.
Write. Speak on camera. Do the marketing properly.
And I'm equally fascinated by agents, coding, text editors and I just want to get deeper into that too.
I might be limiting myself but I must kind of just like go all in, maybe go all in on two projects and see which one surfaces.
Feeling heavy because I’ve been betrayed by my fanily.
Word ⚡️ https://twitter.com/fnthawar/status/2107045438990017003
To offend a strong man, tell him a lie, To offend a weak man, tell him the truth
— Marcus Aurelius
I was doing sauna and jumping into the cold Estonian sea.
And then it happened..
I saw my own inner sun!
looks awesome https://twitter.com/charliebcurran/status/2106506555072110644
The year is 2026. San Francisco tells the Vatican it has the power of God to put a soul in a computer program.
The last Crusade begins.
If I'll get the money I might just as well move to El Salvador or the USA.
Europe feels like it's screwed and fake as f. https://twitter.com/LinaSeiche/status/2106090811251364329
94% approval 🇸🇻 vs. 90% DISapproval 🇩🇪
Now guess which one they’re calling a dictatorship 😬
Seems about right ⚡️ https://twitter.com/babygravy9/status/2106419292413538704
Easily one of the most important 4Chan texts of all time.
When I see gay men, I always see little scared boys.
No matter the wealth. No matter the status.
They never had the courage to embody their masculinity wherever they stand.
There’s always a backdoor — pun intended — to weasel out when the pressure gets real and go “gay.”
These are men who stopped the cycle of life for lust of another man.
And if this was about Kundalini, you can raise that with a woman too.
This is coming from me, who thought he was gay because my mother repressed me.
Until I figured it out that being gay is a mind virus and a distortion in the field ⚡️
I experienced something along the lines here in Estonia by lhv bank.
I had over €10k on my account and then some random dude from the bank sends me an email telling me he is setting a limit for my transactions.
What? Crypto for the win ⚡️ https://twitter.com/bramk/status/2105780416141738076
Best Bitcoin commercial I’ve recently seen
The vibe is such indeed! https://twitter.com/Polymarket/status/2105751480150225230
JUST IN: Elon Musk declares, "Instagram is for girls."
I am the incarnation of Chinggis Khan.
I solo climbed his Burkhan Khaldun mountian on psiocybin and cannabis.
The vision for which I caught in an ayahuasca journey in the Brazilian rainforest.
My grandmother was a tatar from Russia so that’s why I thought I should get closer to my roots.
"I am the reincarnation of Alexander the Great"
-Elon Musk https://twitter.com/nic_munoz/status/2105510280344064303
I fckin love this mindset! And it’s a 100% true!
Once I start thinking how I will
cut my day between myself, my family, kids, pets.
The circle ends with me pleasing everyone and dropping to bed dead tired without accomplishing any of my professional objectives.
Be ruthlessly selfish. Get enough for myself and pet it trickle down to others.
This goes for makers of all shapes. https://twitter.com/ben_issen/status/2105755713603784733
Ice Baths Are Childs Play Compared to Winter Sea
I’m a big fan of campfires.
I just love hanging out there around the campfire, barefoot, even during winter.
It connects me to earth. Connects my body to the spirit.
I’ve also found that the campfires ignite something within us.
Connecting us to the inner fire within. Sparking memories and connecting us to our soul.
Why is this important? Well it’s actually all frequency and vibration. And there are people and energies that pull you in directions.
Either trying to destroy you by pulling you down.
That’s why it’s important to meditate where you came from.
So you don’t get pulled away by the thoughts and manifestations of the world and ill meaning people.
Stay and meditate around the campfires. Hit the sauna and the cold sea during winter.
Stay connected to yourself.
The ukranian flag is in so many places in Estonia, that you might as well change it to the natuonal Estonian flag @kajakallas
Prophets aren’t recognized nor welcome in their own town.
Think of Jesus.
Quoting Napoleon: “In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.”
But he lost the war. And it’s a quote degrading everyones effort because everyone put in the effort.
But the baghavad gita conveys the same idea.
and all of us know alexander, jesus, chinggis khan, buddha, krishna, churchill, etc.
we don’t know the millions of followers and fighters.
so in a sense that quote carries weight.
Getting no likes on my post but I like them myself and idgaf ⚡️
Imitating me is a form of flattery 😊
Hate will remain in small minds and small hearts.
Don’t try to prove them wrong. Let them be and keep on winning! ⚡️
I am obsessed about plants that change your consciousness.
Be it cannabis, ayahuasca or amanita muscaria.
The latter, which is easily accessible to pick from
the forests of Estonia right now!
I have two decades of playing with my payche and the time and space around us.
And I’m not going to stop now!
My father was a Russian from
Siberia.
He wasn’t a good husband or a father.
Yet I’m still proud of
my roots.
Even more so when there’s so much aggression towards Russia.
This guy is like a an African warlord high on drugs 😅 https://twitter.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/2102509676671754448
Cocaine is one hell of a drug...
Strong quote.
Reminds me of my redhead neighbor who threw an apple at my cat. https://twitter.com/IvoTONIUT/status/2102598238528237616
Whenever you hear Zelensky and his Western puppet masters speak, keep these words of Isaac Asimov firmly in mind: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2102535580831649865
Wild that @israel and @idf are allowed to do this and the world supports it. https://twitter.com/bitcoins1stlady/status/2099885888209588463
The Everyday Life of Palestinians in Palestine.
I was a big fan and user of cannabis.
Not so much anymore.
One caveat though. If I would legally be able to grow my own plant I would still use this plant in moderation.
But the search for it illegally and intertwining myself with all that nonsense is bad vibes ⚡️
lots of people who sound smart and mix smart looking sentences together
but in truth are yapping pessimistic idiocracy
I was proud of my meager follower account until I realizes 90% are bots and dead accounts 😅
Battling myself to say no to buying WoW Forever 😅
Accelerate ⚡️
Cool! https://twitter.com/gugi263/status/2101206563684065478
Back in 2003, a German film crew filming in the Gobi Desert captured an incredibly moving moment: after a tough two-day birth, a mother camel rejected her newborn. A nomadic family then performed the ancient Hoos singing ritual passed down for generations. Once the song ended, the camel shed tears and finally accepted her baby. This powerful scene became one of the most memorable parts of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Story of the Weeping Camel.
I'm going to write more often until I figure it out!
My mission is to bring awareness to the energies running our psyche and the unconscious.
Not to make anyone look bad.
I have a Jewish mother. Just like Michael Moritz. For a long time she could still find fault in everything I did and not one ounce of praise. It took years to learn to value myself.
That work was constant learning about myself and psychology, and the help of the plants to see deeper into the subconscious.
Michael Moritz is successful on the outside. What stuck with me is this: he never feels finished. There is always more to do. Which is not a bad thing in itself. But it's important to know what really drives him.
When he talks about his mother he laughs and plays with his hands. That is coping. Underneath it is pain. The heavy breathing is a body that is not at ease.
These are the people and the energies that run our society. Patterns pass on. You can end up with a psyche that never rests.
This is where my two decades of plant medicine and psychology come in.
I was like this. The solution is to rewire yourself. Psychedelics — ayahuasca, mushrooms, peyote, DMT, cannabis used with intention — helped me work through what was passed on to me.
The reward: a loving and loyal family - wife, kids, pets. As well as confidence and the ability to read people and the room.
The tradeoff: All on my mother’s side still hate me for naming what I saw. They think I’m a drug addict. I can live with that. You never get the boy out of the man — unless you do the work.
Clip from @patrick_oshag’s conversation with Michael Moritz.
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Michael Moritz built Sequoia and still can’t feel finished.
Listen to how he talks about his mother. The laugh is coping. The body is not at ease.
These energies run the people who run our world. https://twitter.com/patrick_oshag/status/2100213636706795949
My conversation with Michael Moritz, one of the great venture investors of the last 40 years.
Michael joined Sequoia in 1986 and co-led the firm with Doug Leone (@dougleone) from 1995 to 2012. His investments include Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Stripe.
His new book, Ausländer, traces his parents' escape from Nazi Germany and helps explain his lifelong interest in what shapes exceptional people.
We discuss:
- The infamous Steve Jobs profile
- Why Don Valentine hired him
- The question he finds most revealing when interviewing people
- Monomania and the cost of greatness
- Why he has never felt good at anything
- Writing, journalism and AI
- What he learned about himself writing AusländerI'd recommend watching this one if you can. Michael was incredibly thoughtful and reflective throughout, particularly when talking about his parents, childhood, and the more difficult parts of his personal story.
Enjoy!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:53 Family History & Identity
7:03 Survival & Outsider Instinct
18:53 Studying Exceptional People
33:50 Self-Doubt & Success
41:17 Steve Jobs & Obsession
52:50 Joining Sequoia
1:03:22 Leadership & Alex Ferguson
1:08:25 Elon Musk & AI
1:17:12 Becoming Who You Are
I was having a joint in the forest one day.
I was thinking whether I should pursue writing and teaching about spirituality and mysticism.
How plant medicines helped me see, learn and heal.
Cannabis simply helps me connect with my intuition if used consciously.
Or whether I should pursue a technical direction.
My conclusion was, I should just start walking the technical path just as I started walking the plant medicine path two decades ago.
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intuition is high level ancient technology.
I vouch for this 😂 https://twitter.com/ZssBecker/status/2099729987276267632
Me : Life is going amazing.
Blizzard : Hey would you like to get back into Heroin?
Me : I mean... I do have a bit of free time...
I remember a Peyotero once told me to start the morning with music.
Awesome energy and vibes for the AM ⚡️
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In this clip from REWORK: start a business, not a startup.
Alan reads DHH and Jason Fried on the tech-world “startup”: expenses are someone else’s problem, revenue is never an issue, and you spend other people’s money until you figure out how to make your own — a place where the laws of business physics don’t apply. Their line lands hard: a business without a path to profit isn’t a business; it’s a hobby. Actual businesses deal with bills and payroll. Alan adds his own tension — he grew up without speaking the language of money, ambition dulled, and he’s only now learning the value of a dollar. Whatever you build, get paid for the work.
Founder translation: don’t confuse fundraising theater with a company. If your plan only works while someone else covers the burn, you don’t have a business yet — you have a hobby with a pitch deck. Charge. Ship. Cover the bills. Control stays with the people who take revenue seriously.
Start a business. Not a startup that postpones reality.
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In this clip from Don Juan: the mentor email you never send.
Alan recounts Derek Sivers’ move: when a hard problem shows up, write an email to your mentors — situation, options, thinking. Don’t send it. Ask what they would say. Rewrite for those imagined replies. After a few rounds the answer is obvious and you don’t need to bother them. Most of those “mentors” don’t even know they are mentors — one doesn’t know he exists.
Founder translation: you already have more judgment than you use. Before you ping advisors, investors, or group chat for a product fork, write the decision as if they will reply. Force the tradeoffs onto the page. Most “I need advice” is unfinished thinking. Finish it alone first.
Write the email. Don’t send it. Ship the decision.
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In this clip from REWORK: scratch your own itch.
Fried and Hansson’s point: the easiest way to make a great product is to make something you want to use. Solving someone else’s problem is stabbing in the dark. Alan names the other plays too — bet the next 20 years like Musk, improve what’s proven like Dyson — then lands on the book’s closer: solve your own problem and you can fall in love with what you’re making, because you’ll be on it for years.
Founder translation: don’t invent a market you don’t live in. Build the tool you’d pay for this week. Dogfood it. CatalogMiner for creators with a dead archive, Weeklock for a week that won’t hold — same rule. If you won’t use it, don’t ship it.
Make something you want. Then stay long enough to love it.
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In this clip from Siddhartha: you can’t logic your way into an elephant you’ve never seen.
Hesse’s point (and Don Juan’s): real knowledge is experience. Inspiration is perishable — you have to act. Then the trap: Siddhartha becomes the rich merchant, the perfect lover, the gambler, and still feels empty. The persona is necessary to function. Believing it is you is the trap.
Founder translation: the LinkedIn founder, the “book-episode guy,” the polished operator — useful masks. If you marry the mask, you stop living the work. Prefer systems over goals. Stay in the worldly life you’re actually building.
Don’t confuse the role with the person doing the work.
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GM ⚡️
Accelerate 🚀⚡️
I never fell for the vaccination trap ⚡️
I’m gonna build a game.
That I’d want to play myself.
And devorr the next 5-10 years to it.
Or forever.
Hate towards a particular person unites people.
Experienced it first hand.
One of my favoyrite games. On par with Counter-Strike 2. But my focus is elsewhere now. https://twitter.com/warcraft/status/2098848599442661479
WoW: Forever launches November 4 with:
⛓️ New dungeons
👨👨👦👦 10 & 20-player raids
🪽 Skyborne playable race
🗺️ New & expanded zones
✅ Account-wide perks
💡 Updated world visuals & lighting
🧟 New race & class combos
❗ 1000+ new questsJoin the Beta September 17!
I love Chinese tea.
In this clip I’m quitting the book-episode format.
Emerson: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” I could have pushed through — keep reading, keep shipping recaps, stay consistent with the channel I started. The data said otherwise. Energy off. Rut. And I’m not going to out-Senra David Senra.
Founder translation: the format that got you started is not a vow. If you’re protecting a content persona while the real work (product, craft, technical path) waits, stop. Keep teaching. Drop the container.
Consistency isn’t commitment. Don’t marry the wrong format.
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Episode 9 - Foolish Consistency Is The Hobgoblin of Small Minds
0:00 — Welcome; ring / spiritual protection aside; filming on phone today
1:00 — Stopping book episodes; Emerson “foolish consistency”
2:04 — Bhagavad Gita editions; Peter Thiel book in the backpack
3:17 — Value of Senra / not competing; spiritual double-down temptation
4:08 — Why not ceremonies/healer; ~17 years on that path
5:39 — Mechatronics for 2 years (EE, ME, math, physics); technical calling
6:31 — Not the Tony Robbins path; God pointing to technical work
7:28 — AI, coding, agents, products; helping founders vs selfishness tension
8:24 — Studied spirituality for himself (dad, mother); money / independence / infinite games
9:18 — Likes talking on camera; body of work, off-script
9:48 — Mechatronics opens a door (atoms over bits); life was in the unseen
11:45 — No more book summaries; build instead; Bending Spoons / Tiny / Buffett model
13:08 — Commoditized markets; novelty + one basket; healing as unused hedge
15:03 — Mechatronics as optionality; consumer tech inspiration (Valve, Basecamp, Mailchimp, Dyson) without hardware conviction
16:02 — Building with Grok Bot / agents (research, cuts, timestamps, posts)
17:16 — Crypto fan (not trading); LHV spend-cap story; want to build on blockchain / Polymarket-style
18:52 — Close
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Episode 9 - Foolish Consistency Is The Hobgoblin of Small Minds
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In this clip I’m in The Almanack of Naval Ravikant on specific knowledge.
Naval: specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion — not whatever is hot right now. Hot markets pull people into other people’s games. Curiosity pulls you into the one only you can play for a long time.
Founder translation: AI is hot. That doesn’t mean your company should be an AI costume. Alan’s point in the clip is he sold himself short for years — interested in startups and coding, but waiting on developers instead of building. The eyes lighting up at the IDE is the signal. Follow that, then ship a product from it.
Pursue curiosity. Don’t chase what’s hot.
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Jung: the persona is not the self.
You build working identities — father, founder, CEO. He calls them masks. You need them to function. The danger is believing that is you.
Here's the founder + family cut of that: the shadow isn't a mood board. It's the failure mechanism.
What you won't own at home shows up as the partner you fight, the kid you can't reach, the mood that ends the evening.
What you won't own in the company shows up as the hire you resent, the customer you ghost, the product you keep "improving" instead of shipping.
Same pattern. Different room.
Meet the mask. Then meet what the mask excluded.
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Some days I feel like this ⚡️
Me yesterday ⚡️
If all tools and services get commoditized in the age of AI, what else is there left to build?
Well here’s how I’m thinking about it.
First, the famous words of @davidsenra - is this something that is your last company?
Second, is this a craft you want to develop?
For me personally I’m going to be studying mechatroncis for 2 years. Just because I want to enlighten myself in electrical and mechanical engineering.
I get to study for free and my living costs are covered by my family.
Third. Where’s the excitement?For me I am excited about studying mechatronics! As well as building with AI and agents. As well as creating content around all of this!
I also have almost 2 decades worth of experience with psychedelics aka plant medicines and shamans. Studying and working through my family dynamics, karma and all other stuff that needed healing! In short spiritual energy stuff.
I know I can be of value with that to others. But I’m less excited about it. But it’s a wedge I have and should use. So maybe I’ll use that knowledge to add into my content as well.
This is the path I’m on now. I should choose a specific project to pursue while I study.
In this clip I’m reading Rework on throwing less at the problem.
Jason Fried and DHH: failing restaurants put thirty dishes on the menu thinking more options will broaden appeal. It makes the food worse. Gordon Ramsay’s first move is almost always to trim the menu — usually from thirty to ten. When things aren’t working, the natural move is more people, more time, more money. That makes the problem bigger. The right move is the opposite. Cut back. Do less.
Founder translation: most stuck weeks get “fixed” by adding scope — another feature, another hire, another tool. That spreads the same weak attention thinner. Trim the menu. Pick the one dish you can actually cook well this week and ship that. Adding budget and pushing deadlines forever is how you never finish.
Throw less at the problem.
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I hit the electricity limit of AI.
I was bombarding @Grok, ChatGPT and Claude with questions. All at once.
Eventually two of them would stop responding. My internet would disappear.
It only came back when I switched to the third app.
In this clip I’m reading Rework on constraints.
Jason Fried and DHH: stop whining that you don’t have enough time, money, or people. Less is a good thing. Constraints are advantages in disguise. Limited resources force you to make do with what you’ve got — no room for waste, and that forces you to be creative. Southwest flew one plane type so every pilot and crew member could work any flight. Even with more resources than ever, 37signals still puts one or two people on a product at a time.
Founder translation: scarcity isn’t the blocker. It’s the editor. Don’t wait for the round, the hire, or the perfect setup. Ship with what’s in your hands. Constraints are advantages in disguise.
Full episode:
https://youtu.be/GQlZY2jGlTo
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In this clip I’m in The Teachings of Don Juan — Castaneda’s four enemies of a person of knowledge.
Fear comes first. Then clarity. Then power. Knowledge starts producing results: people listen, influence shows up, money and status follow. Don Juan’s warning is that power is safest in the hands of someone who doesn’t need it. The last enemy isn’t a birthday. It’s old age as exhaustion and comfort — the quiet “I’ve done enough,” when curiosity fades and the warrior wants to rest forever.
Founder translation: the dangerous stretch isn’t the scared beginning. It’s after the first real win. You ship, customers pay, the feed works — and the temptation is to protect the status instead of keep building. Bootstrap rule: keep learning and acting until the end. In a world where time is the hunter, there isn’t room for endless doubt. There’s only time for decisions.
There’s only time for decisions.
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Pretty stoked for my mechatronics degree!
I will be learning:
> material science
> electrical engineering
> mechanical engineering
> maths
> physics
I will also be building with AI, agents, blockchain and wherever this will take me.
The goal is to build a company that is my life's work.
LFG ⚡️
In this clip I’m reading the Bhagavad Gita on action without attachment.
Arjuna has a duty he doesn’t want to perform. He’s emotionally attached to the outcome. Krishna’s answer: do your work, but don’t make your psychological well-being dependent on the result. You have the right to work, never to the fruit of work. And don’t twist that into an excuse for inaction — still try. Don’t attach to the fruit, and don’t attach to not acting. Yoga here isn’t the stretches; it’s evenness of mind in success and failure. Detached from the outcome, you’re finally free to act.
Founder translation: stop letting metrics, praise, and fear of a miss own your week. Ship the product, post the lesson, talk to the customer — then release the scoreboard. Clinging to the fruit freezes you. Quitting because the fruit isn’t guaranteed is the same freeze. Do the work that is yours.
Do the work. Don’t marry the outcome.
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Your right is to work, but never to the fruit of work.
Renunciation is quitting attachment to the fruit — not quitting the work.
Do the work. Release the outcome. Stay even in success and defeat.
From today’s Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran):
https://youtu.be/Ufs0uop5h5A
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The Awakened One ✨
LFG
Productivity Through Renunciation — The Bhagavad Gita for Founders
Arjuna freezes. Krishna doesn’t say quit — he says do the work, release the fruit, and see the one source behind everything.
0:00 Opening — Why I’m talking about the Bhagavad Gita
2:29 Conflict, uncertainty, and the real question
4:58 Krishna as teacher
7:31 Devotion and surrender (not just study)
9:57 One divine source behind everything
12:30 Divine qualities in people
14:59 Remembrance beyond ritual
17:29 Seeing the sacred in ordinary life
19:58 Power, light, consciousness, order
22:31 Nature and cosmos as contemplation
25:00 Virtues and excellence as gifts, not ego
27:29 Making the teaching concrete
29:59 The list is never complete
32:28 The universe and what sustains it
35:01 Awe, beauty, and excellence
37:30 From ego and attachment to gratitude
40:00 Practice during normal activities
42:29 Closing — one source behind diversity
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In this clip I’m reading Naval on leverage — from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.
Code and media are permissionless leverage. They’re the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep. No boss to ask. No gatekeeper to approve the post.
Founder translation: renting your hours doesn’t compound. A product and a body of public work do. I used to buy stacks of books and never finish them because reading without shipping felt like progress. These videos force the opposite — finish the book, say what I learned, leave an asset that keeps working.
Build something that works while you sleep.
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In this clip I’m reading Rework on how small companies win attention.
Jason Fried and DHH: when you build an audience, you don’t buy people’s attention. They give it to you. Speak, write, blog, tweet, make videos — share something useful and they come back on their own.
The unfair move isn’t outspend, outsell, or outsponsor. It’s out-teach. Most businesses never think of teaching. They sell. They service. Teaching doesn’t occur to them. Big companies can buy a Super Bowl ad and sit on secrets. You can’t buy the ad. You can teach.
Founder translation: stop renting attention for a product nobody asked to learn from. Publish the craft in public. My book videos are that experiment — teaching, not ads. Same rule for a bootstrapped company: teach what you know, keep the product simple, let the audience find you.
Don’t outspend them. Out-teach them.
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Hey @bot I’ve been having this issue for the last 12 hours 🤷🏼♂️
Once you start striving for virtues and seeing through people.
Most people turn out to be garbage humans.
Hard truth that feels painful to say.
Repetition, repetition, repetition and one more time REPETITION.
I keep coming back to @davidsenra and his @FoundersPodcast weekly!
I journal. I talk to myself while journaling. It programs me. Just like these podcasts educate me.
I feel like we lose ourselves in daily lives through our own lack of wisdom and all these engineers stealing our attention.
Great podcast! Thank you :)
My conversation with @ZachBDell, co-founder of @basepowerco.
0:00 Energy Abundance & the Power Demands of AI
6:15 How Batteries Make the Grid More Efficient
9:09 Early Ventures & the Insight Behind Base
15:34 We Don't Sell Batteries. We Sell Electricity.
22:25 How Base Works With Utilities & Competes for Customers
30:44 Learning From Michael Dell: The "Dad Terminal"
32:22 Vertical Integration & Lessons From SpaceX
39:34 Writing Clearly & Making Time to Think
44:53 North Stars, Turtles & Relentless Execution
53:55 Learning From Great Founders & Building a Beloved Brand
56:27 What's Your Constraint?
1:06:26 Base Core & Taking Control of Manufacturing
1:11:02 A Lifelong Mission & the Last Company He'll BuildIncludes paid partnerships.
Opened a small founders room.
Not a course. Not 1:1 coaching.
A quiet place to connect with other builders while you ship — monthly AMA, peer sessions, private Slack.
$99/month.
My MacBook was running out of storage space.
I asked GrokBot to make space.
It helped me delete apps, cache's, etc.
Awesome!
In this clip I’m walking through Castaneda’s four enemies of a person of knowledge, starting with the first one: fear.
Fear whispers what if I fail, I’m not good enough, people will judge me, this is too risky. Don Juan’s line is blunt — if you run from fear, you’ve already been defeated by the first enemy. The only way through is to keep going. Effort and work without clinging to the outcome.
After you push through, clarity shows up and you feel like you’ve figured it out. That confidence is useful — and also the next trap, because you stop asking questions.
Founder translation: the product, the post, the launch you keep delaying isn’t waiting on a better plan. It’s waiting on you to stop negotiating with fear. Ship imperfectly. Keep going. Then don’t freeze when the first win makes you feel finished — stay curious enough to keep learning.
Keep going through fear. Don’t stop at clarity.
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I often think about this.
I am building https://www.elolyte.com as an experiment.
But it's sincerely a product I would use myself, daily, if I get the highest quality ingredients for the drink.
Certainly feels like there is a collective consciousness and / or God, who wants to see you win.
In this clip Im reading Siddhartha and catching myself in the exact trap Hesse names.
The seeker only sees the thing he’s hunting. Because hes obsessed with the goal, he cant absorb what’s already under his nose. Seeking means having a goal. Finding means being free enough to receive.
I say out loud: I want a business idea — what do I build? Then I look at the AI agent I already made to mine connections from books I’ve read, and I still ask: is that it? I want to build something else.
Founder translation: the hunt for the perfect product idea keeps you blind to the work already in your hands. You keep seeking the next pitch while the real company is the thing you’ve already started shipping — if youd stop treating it like a temporary experiment.
Stop seeking the idea. Build the thing under your nose.
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There’s evil in the air.
I can smell it.
It’s coming from
my neighbour 🤣
In this clip I’m picking between two crafts.
One is spirituality, healing, plant medicines — work I’m already good at and could polish into better videos. The other is technical: code, agents, Cursor, mechatronics. While I was reading Don Juan I kept hearing the same line: you have to get technical. Theres no other way. Just go start building something. Just go start walking that path.
That’s the whole episode in one beat. Craft isn’t what you’re gifted at. It’s the path you actually walk.
Founder translation: most of us stay in the craft that already feels like identity — the talk, the brand, the ceremony we know how to run. The hard move is walking into the craft that still feels unfinished. Building. Shipping. Getting technical when the comfortable skill would keep paying the ego.
I say in the clip that I want to build something there. That was the choice.
Walk the unfinished craft.
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In this clip I’m reading Naval on judgment.
He says wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions. Then the harder line: what you work on, and with who, matters more than how hard you work. You still have to put in the time. But judgment is more important. Direction beats speed — especially once you have leverage. Picking the right direction for each decision matters more than how much force you apply. Just pick the direction and start walking.
That’s from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. Naval’s whole wealth section is built on this: specific knowledge, accountability, leverage — and then judgment on top, so the leverage doesn’t amplify the wrong thing.
Founder translation: most of us try to fix a stuck company by pushing harder. More hours. More features. More force. Naval’s point is the opposite. First ask whether you’re pointed at the right problem, with the right people. Force without direction is expensive theater. Force with the wrong direction is how you burn a year.
I say in the clip that this reading-and-building project finally felt like one of the most correct paths I’d taken. That was judgment catching up with effort.
Direction first. Then walk.
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pretty excited to study mechatronics
this will open my world up to machines
and i feel like i received an extra rooting!
Rework: outside money is plan Z.
Spending other people's money sounds great. There's a noose attached.
You give up control. Cashing out starts to beat building something good. Customers move down the totem pole. Raising money is incredibly distracting.
Mailchimp bootstrapped. Dyson kept control. Same rule I'm on — fund it myself until customers pay.
Take on as little outside cash as you can.
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Louis Armstrong smoked cannabis through most of his career.
He called it medicine. He still played around 300 concerts a year. Extraordinary discipline. One of the greatest musicians in history.
The stereotype says if you use it, you don't do anything.
Reality is more nuanced than that.
Episode 3, from Smoke Signals, 14:08.
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Gaza viewpoint.
I was in Israel for 30 hours.
Prayed at the Wailing Wall, swem in the Dead Sea and visited the viewpoint to see Gaza.
My heart goes out to the people suffering in Gaza.
Wild experience. Felt a lot of saddness.
Jim DeKorne's shamanic map is simple.
Higher worlds. Lower worlds. Middle world — the one you live in when you are not journeying.
You don't enter them by looking at the sky. You enter through a center inside yourself. A vertical axis. Worlds inside worlds, like a matryoshka doll.
I keep forgetting that when I build. I look sideways for the next move. The map that matters runs up and down from the inside.
Episode 8, from 0:55.
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Berkshires Annual Newsletters has been one of the best episode I've enjoyed from @davidsenra
https://www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/88-warren-buffetts-shareholder-letters-all-of-them
Don Juan asks one question: does this path have a heart?
All paths lead nowhere. Through the bush, into the bush. You can walk a long way and not be anywhere.
If it has a heart, the path is good. If it doesn't, it's of no use. One makes for a joyful journey. You are one with it. The other makes you curse your life. One makes you strong. The other weakens you.
That's the filter for a company. Two products can both go nowhere on a five-year plan. One you are one with on a Tuesday. The other you curse by week four. Pick the craft that makes you stronger while you walk it. Not the one that looks like a unicorn from far away.
All paths lead nowhere. Ask if this one has a heart.
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I’ve been experimenting with grokbot to mine my content and then post for me.
I’d say it’s a good way to find good ideas from my already existing body of work.
The writing that Grok attaches to the video feels very AI, which it is.
I enjoy that it saves time but I feel I should still write myself.
I emailed DHH. Founder of Basecamp, 37signals, HEY. I asked him how I should learn to code.
A lot of respect — the dude replied. I probably wouldn't have. He pointed me at Learn Enough to Be Dangerous, the Ruby on Rails program they taught. I put a lot of effort into it.
That's the whole lesson. The people whose products you actually use will sometimes write back. The email is not the win. Opening the editor is.
After I did the work I realized: my foot is already in this technical world. I want to go deeper.
You don't get a career from one reply. You get a first step. DHH didn't give me a map. He gave me enough to be dangerous. Then you walk.
Learn enough to be dangerous. Your foot is already in.
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I read Siddhartha right after Jung.
Jung asks: who am I under the identities.
Hesse asks the next question: once you know you cannot inherit someone else’s path, how do you actually live your own.
Siddhartha goes through every teacher (Brahmins, Samanas, the Buddha, the merchant life) and lands on something simple and hard. Knowledge can be taught. Wisdom has to be lived.
I recognized that. I followed shamans. I found answers. I still have to live my own path. Same for a company. You can study someone else’s map. You cannot copy their wisdom into your product.
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Opening of Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.
Internet companies hire compulsively, spend wildly, fail spectacularly. They're small, frugal, and profitable. Critics call it a fluke. They don't understand how a company can reject growth, meetings, budgets, boards, advertising — and still thrive.
They say sell to the Fortune 500. Screw that. Sell to the Fortune 5 million.
Profitable from day one. No outside investors. They kept control. That's what I aspire to do.
That is the book saying the bootstrap rule before you raise a round: keep the company, serve the many small customers, ignore the Fortune 500 script.
Screw the Fortune 500. Sell to the Fortune 5 million.
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Torsten's advice on aggressiveness is gold!
Especially to a European.
Inspiring to see someone built something so awesome from Europe.
Also, amazing work from Senra with his podcasts!
I've learned a lot! https://twitter.com/davidsenra/status/2093752765226889260
“You just need a few very aggressive companies that point out that everyone else is basically mailing it in, and I think a lot of people are." https://twitter.com/davidsenra/status/2093170027390222611
I finished Jim DeKorne’s Psychedelic Shamanism today.
The episode is out, space opened up, and I’m not excited about the next book.
I’d rather build. But I will probably order the Baghavad Gita.
This is CatalogMiner, mechatronics, a reply from DHH, and a few stories I already told once and still can’t leave alone: Acre, Yawá, the journals I burned, and a cannabis joint that got me a full scholarship at @TimDraper 's Draper University.
It's pretty nice. Enjoy!
Timestamps.
0:00 Finishing DeKorne; space opens
1:35 Not excited about the next book
2:41 Plant ceremonies later; books feel empty
4:06 Building a brand and CatalogMiner
5:50 Grok Bot does it better
7:09 Studying mechatronics; asking the AIs
10:00 X is permissionless; mine your own value
10:49 Craft vs spiritual-book business vs going technical
13:51 Skipping the next book; I'd rather build
15:07 Emailing DHH
16:47 Acre rainforest / self-love
19:13 “No one will hug you harder than yourself”
19:57 Yawá, 106, dancing in the forest
21:19 After dad died: peyote, a month with Yawá
22:15 Japan: the day Yawá passed
22:53 Burning the journals
24:17 Peyote Pete
24:47 Midnight Bloomberg / Tim Draper
26:04 Close: school in two days, keep building
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Jim DeKorne - Psychedelic Shamanism
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Jung’s memoir asks one question: who am I beneath these identities, projections, and unconscious material?
Siddhartha is the next step. Once you realize you cannot simply inherit someone else’s path, how do you actually live your own?
You cannot borrow another person’s wisdom. He moves through teachers and systems (the Brahmans, the Samanas, the Buddha, the merchant life) and then understands something simple and difficult.
Knowledge can be taught. Wisdom has to be lived.
Founders copy playbooks. Pricing from a company that already won. A stack. A 12-week plan. That is knowledge. It transfers.
The company you actually ship does not. You still have to walk through the teachers, drop the ones that are not yours, and live the work. There is no inherited path.
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Jung dreamed he was walking into a wind, cupping a tiny light that could go out at any moment, a giant black figure behind him. When he woke, the giant was his own shadow.
Most founders spend the week feeding the giant (the persona, the raise, looking like a real company) and let the only real work flicker. Keep the light alive. The giant is you.
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I’m proud of myself for working out every day for over a year now.
The amount of x posts and agentic building DHH does is inspiring.
The momentum is contagious! https://twitter.com/dhh/status/2093067257773482007
"The standard pace is for chumps" has been echoing in my head all week. It's unbelievable how fast you can move when you just decide to push the pedal all the way. https://sive.rs/kimo
Fear is the mind killer.
I shall not fear.
To get that magical 10-100x with agents, you have to work on it yourself.
You can't delegate it to another human.
It's just not fast enough.
This is also the problem I had with my book reading and summary project. I felt that it was just too damn slow!
For this exact reason.
Here's my conversation with @DHH. He is back for round 2! It was an epic fun 5 hour conversation about the future of programming, AI, Linux, and human civilization.
It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).
Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:27 - Introduction
2:56 - Programming with AI agents
18:14 - How software will change
27:30 - AI impact on open source
37:21 - Building Omarchy Linux distro
47:05 - Vibe coding vs agentic engineering
1:00:06 - The end of manual programming
1:10:24 - Advice for programmers
1:22:30 - Surviving Internet Hate
1:31:46 - Programming setup for AI Agents
1:44:11 - Obsessing about speed
2:07:06 - Voice prompting vs typing
2:21:05 - Best AI coding models
2:37:55 - Best AI coding harnesses
2:50:57 - AI video generation and filmmaking
3:10:28 - Fatherhood
3:38:35 - Linux will win the desktop
3:49:51 - PewDiePie
3:59:24 - Future of programming
4:22:17 - Politics and immigration
4:53:54 - Longevity, over-optimization, and fear of death
5:05:38 - Eternal recurrence and future of human civization
Cursor is writing code for me while I'm listening to @DHH and @lexfridman latest podcast.
Wild and exciting times!
giving grok bot my stripe secret keys and hoping the keys don't get leaked 😬
I’m a library of ancestral wisdom that even @elonmusk would find unique and beneficial.
Levels that my shaman mentors wish they knew.
⚡️💚
following my curiosity
Currently reading Psychedelic Shamanism by Jim DeKorne.
Estonian version. Found it among other books in my library. Maybe was gifted by someone.
30 pages in and experiencing synchronicities. The author mentions Carlos Castaneda and Carl Jungs books that I’ve read.
Will make an episode on this.
I'm struggling choosing between paths.
On the one hand I have thousands of ceremonies with different power plants behind me.
Experience with Ayahuasca, Peyote, Cannabis, Magic Mushrooms, DMT, etc.
Skills, knowledge and wisdom I could pair with writing and video.
For leverage to educate and connect with people.
On the other hand I am extremely interested in technology to the extent that I am willing to study mechatronics for 2 years.
It combines mechanical and electrical engineering with robots, sensors, etc.
While also building with AI and agents.
While being a family man who takes care of his health.
I know I need to focus. Become a monopoly of one.
I don't know which path is correct but might get the answer if I just keep pushing and keep these systems alive.
Chime in @jackmoses777 if you can 🙏⚡️
lots of people talking about mindset
yet they miss a part of the puzzle
places hold energy
no matter your mindset
some places drain you no matter how positive you are
Excited to study mechatronics while building my own projects.
One of these projects is http://www.catalogminer.com
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good morning.
just woke up and excited for life.
if you want more energy, you should intermittent fast.
i've been intermittent fasting for the past 3 days, living on one meal a day.
working out daily.
i have more clarity and more energy.
We're living in a simulation.
I was thinking of a founder I know whose name I have forgotten.
That was yesterday.
Today he popped up on my X feed. I wasn't following him..
What?!
i have been having beautiful synchronicities and alignments lately.
but i have also had the biggest resistance and hate i've ever felt. but it's also fun to see the haters faces being angry for not seeing me go down.
anyway. i'm starting school in less than 2 weeks - mechatronics
and i'm building 2 products as an experiment that both organically emerged from http://www.alanpafka.com book project.
fasting
that's the tweet.
i like mark pincus’ advice on proven, better, new
i also like dhh’s scratch your own itch.
i also like elon musks thinking of building what will be very important in 10-20 years.
i am thinking of building but i still find myself indecisive
pretty cool how epic games partners with famous brands for fortnite.
keeps it novel and keeps it timely
Jung: keep the little light. Siddhartha: knowledge can be taught, wisdom has to be lived. You cannot inherit Naval, Don Juan, or Basecamp. You walk. Think, wait, fast, and let the goal pull you like a stone through water.
This is a vlog discussing my daily life and how I am deciding between choosing craft.
"See you in touch" :D
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my gut is telling me to go deeper into spacexai, cursor, figma, blockchain / Crypto.
i see myself building something like a basecamp / valve / mailchimp and if i one day have more finances and knowledge after finishing my mechatronics studies maybe i would also go into physical stuff like dyson, spacex, tesla
until then i stay healthy, share moments with my wife and children, build my first business / product.
figuring out what to post about and posting high quality info is a skill in itself
keeping up with ai and its new tools is a full time job
I just connected my github repo to cursor origin.
First time building with an agent like this to connect my homepage https://alanpafka.com to x posts.
So that every time I post on here on X it automatically creates a link to this post on my homepage too.
Starting to read the Estonian translation of Psychedelic Shamanism by Jim DeKorne.
Curious to find socual media credentials of the author and hoping to find him
on @X
Considering how important it is to have a 1on1 conversation with your fans.
Unfortunately he is nowhere to found on the global town square.
Does Omarchy run Cursor @DHH? https://twitter.com/cursor_ai/status/2089399057659596847
Origin, our code hosting platform, is now live.
It's fast, easy to use, and deeply integrated with Cursor.
Get started by syncing your repos from GitHub.
ChatGPT and Grok giving me completely different replies.
Super excited about studying mechatronics, interning at a robotics company all the while I play with AI, agents with the goal of building something of my own.
😂 https://twitter.com/NoCatsNoLife_m/status/2088475518186471477
🐱: My training is complete. Witness my kung fu kick.
full house cleaning today
will continue tomorrow
fresh energy
After Jung: What Siddhartha Actually Means to Me Now
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siddartha - herman hesse
especially after juat finishing carl jung
i think this is a great book and a symbolic moment
i myself just got accepted to mechatronics studies
which includes a robotics internship
i will be studying the evenings
the mornings are for pursuing my curiosity in woth the constraints if actually building somethinng interesting and monetizeable like my own project with ai and agents, blockchain, games product building. i actually have something in mind. will need to experiment.
an interesting trajectory. the study of mechatronics will open a door into a world i otherwise would have not had the access to nor ever will to do it later
of course there is a limitless way of approaching our goals and dreams.
goals vs systems.
and this is a great system of learning business, building, content, while also studying the foundations of engineering through mechatronics
great path to building something bigger in the future
An amgle from ChatGPT which I alone have might not have arrived to:
You’re not necessarily saying:
“I want to become a mechatronics engineer and that’s my career.”
You’re saying:
“I want to develop a serious technical foundation so that I can eventually build things that most people cannot.”
That’s different.
And I think that is potentially a very good long game for you.
Carl Jung called the identity we present to the world the "persona".
Being a founder, father, CEO, successful person—or even a “spiritual person”—isn't the problem.
The danger begins when you mistake the mask for who you actually are. https://twitter.com/alanpafka/status/2087300454514413886
I finished Carl Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections and recorded an episode about the idea that stayed with me most: How do you become who you actually are?
I explore the shadow, persona, individuation, dreams, synchronicity, meaning, and Jung’s idea of carrying the light of consciousness into the darkness.
Chapters
00:00 - Jung's Dream: Carrying the Light
01:11 - My Dream and the Shadow
04:50 - How Do You Become Who You Actually Are? 06:41 - The Life Trying to Emerge Through You
08:51 - My Thoughts on Jung's Memoir
10:37 - The Persona Is Not the Self
12:28 - Becoming Yourself Requires Meeting Your Shadow
13:56 - Jung's Break With Freud and Individuation
15:46 - Individuation Is Integration
16:52 - Projection: What Other People Reveal About You 17:58 - Anima, Animus and the Psyche
18:38 - Meaning Matters More Than Happiness
20:26 - Individuation Does Not Mean Isolation
21:30 - Jung, Death, Dreams and Synchronicity
24:31 - Jung's Experiences With Darkness
26:02 - Courage, Faith and God
29:01 - Carrying the Light of Consciousness
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I finished Carl Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections and recorded an episode about the idea that stayed with me most: How do you become who you actually are?
I explore the shadow, persona, individuation, dreams, synchronicity, meaning, and Jung’s idea of carrying the light of consciousness into the darkness.
Chapters
00:00 - Jung's Dream: Carrying the Light
01:11 - My Dream and the Shadow
04:50 - How Do You Become Who You Actually Are? 06:41 - The Life Trying to Emerge Through You
08:51 - My Thoughts on Jung's Memoir
10:37 - The Persona Is Not the Self
12:28 - Becoming Yourself Requires Meeting Your Shadow
13:56 - Jung's Break With Freud and Individuation
15:46 - Individuation Is Integration
16:52 - Projection: What Other People Reveal About You 17:58 - Anima, Animus and the Psyche
18:38 - Meaning Matters More Than Happiness
20:26 - Individuation Does Not Mean Isolation
21:30 - Jung, Death, Dreams and Synchronicity
24:31 - Jung's Experiences With Darkness
26:02 - Courage, Faith and God
29:01 - Carrying the Light of Consciousness
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You don't need another breakthrough.
You need to integrate the last one.
I spent years having extraordinary experiences with psychedelics and plant medicines.
Eventually I realized intensity isn't a foundation.
An insight only becomes valuable when it changes how you live.
How can a man of God even utter this? https://twitter.com/Parodyjeffx/status/2086476386202419263
Hey @grok
Did this Jewish Rabbi really say this?
Private, high-trust work on the inner patterns shaping how you build, lead, decide, and live.
DM "WIN" to work with me.
What I’m Working On.
Chapters
00:00 - Weekly Updates
00:20 - Carl Jung's Autobiography
01:12 - Work With Me One on One
01:56 - Manifesting Work Energy
02:15 - Building A Product
02:40 - Experimenting
03:10 - God and Synchronicities
03:30 - Mechatronics and Robotics Studies
04:10 - AI & Agents.
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Heavy energy.
Just makes my resolve stronger.
Win or die.
AI & Agents for my own project http://www.alanpafka.com
I'm excited!
This is my build at 38 as a husband, father and custodian of 4 pets 😅
Working out DAILY approximately for 30 min. Consistency matters.
I lift weights, do yoga, stretch, kundalini exercises, etc.
Consistency matters. I try to never miss a day but rarely it does happen. Next day I'm certainly back at it!
I eat whatever I want. Mostly healthy: red meat, chicken, fish, eggs, greens, carrots, goat cheese, feta, raw milk, kefir, bone broth, etc.
I don’t guilt myself when in a hurry and grab a fast food burrito or a KFC chicken cheeseburger.
It’s all protein and energy anyways.
There’s a vibe shift!
The good is winning!
⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
Three ways to choose what to build:
> solve a problem one personally feels;
> ask what will become necessary in the future;
> enter a validated category with something proven, better, and new.
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If I continue on this path of mastery and craft I'm unstoppable.
I feel as if a shift already happened.
Currently building a system with agents for my content so that I can turn it into a machine and automate a big part of it.
Exciting, new, and just awesome. I don't know what happened but I really feel aligning lately and it happened all at once.
Really cool and grateful!
Play long-term games with long-term people. ⚡️
The feeling of having a Product / Founder fit! ⚡️
Sometimes I feel guilty spending 20 minutes playing guitar, for my family and myself, instead of working.
Then I remember that hobbies aren’t a distraction—they’re fuel.
Reading books sharpens my mind. Writing sharpens my craft. Playing guitar reminds me why I’m doing any of it in the first place.
The goal isn’t to become a machine.
It’s to build a life worth living.
Back to recording the next episode. 🎸📚
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I’m driving Uber as a cab driver and reading books at red lights for my project http://www.alanpafka.com
I’ve never enjoyed work more.
the sun is our father ⚡️🍓
Started reading Carl Jung’s autobiography for my next book episode.
In the first chapter I reached Jungs description of the “anima” - The anima is the inner feminine voice within a man that shapes how he relates to himself, women, and his inner world.
In my psyche I started thinking about my inner life and my connection to my wife @JenniferPafka
I came to an instant realization that I am at peace with my partner. I have no subconscious thoughts or feelings about other women.
I have a perfect partner with whom we can grow even more if I put in the effort ⚡️
Sometimes I get a burst of inspiration and I've 10 things lined up that I want to do.
Feels so overwhelming and yet I still want to do these things:
- read a book and make an episode
- study
- learn ai tools and build a tool myself
- etc
Sometimes I start doubting myself, how is all of this possible.
Then I notice myself telling myself to just get them done.
Different energy and I usually get the things done.
been making content - read books & summarize
conclusion - really passionate about plant medicines & consciousness
People tell you to aim for the stars.
Yes!
But keep your mind on the sun!
It’s our closest star and will keep you grounded.
It's all energy.
It feels and looks like I'm at the apex.
And they want to climb up and pull me down.
Or twist me into submission.
All defeat is psychological.
Until I win.
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My fourth episode is based on REWORK by @jasonfried and @dhh
Reread the book and made the episode in less than 24 hours.
Chapters
00:00 - Don't be a startup
03:25 - Balance planning and action
04:10 - Long-term planning advice from Senra and Steve Jobs
05:00 - Purpose and great work
06:46 - Yawa and spirituality
07:15 - Scratching my own itch vs what will be necessary in the future vs proven, better, new.
09:00 - Start making stuff!
10:25 - "No time" is not an excuse!
11:00 - Have a backbone!
13:30 - Retaining control of your business
15:30 - Revenue matters!
17:05 - Playing infinite games and life's work
18:05 - Embracing constraints
18:45 - Keeping things simple
19:20 - Decide & move forward
20:00 - Throwing less at the problem and simplifying
21:45 - Focus on what won't change
22:18 - Questions for reasons to stop
24:40 - Deep work
25:50 - Momentum and quick wins
28:00 - Put yourself into the product
30:27 - PIU!!!!
30:30 - Ayahuasca, Peyote, Cannabis and thousands of ceremonies + solo trips
32:10 - Building an audience
33:10 - Shadow work
33:50 - Teach your fans and customers
34:48 - Hire the best writers
35:25 - You are a culture
36:15 - Inspiration
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Thinking of going back to school to study mechatronics.
ChatGPT kind of gives off the feeling of too much of a "yes man."
Coincidence or not?
I'm disliked by a lot in the village I live in.
Some people are warm.
Today the village hosts "Cafe Days" and some houses set up a bar and snacks in front of their house.
One neighbor has seen through the illusion and been nice.
I went to buy from him.
The exact moment I handed him the money a huge gust of wind blew stuff off the table.
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😅 https://twitter.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2083410489137086937
Mientras la BBC dice que la culpa del cambio climático es tuya por respirar, el millonario Mark Zuckerberg, dueño de Meta, compró un yate de 100 millones para que navegue al lado de su otro megayate de 300 millones, usa 2 yates a la vez.
Usa el yate de 100 millones para transportar "juguetes" acuáticos como submarinos, lanchas y helicópteros, mientras usa su otro yate de 300 millones como mansión flotante llena de lujo.
El buque de apoyo de 100 millones tiene un helipuerto, gimnasio, sauna, spa y una cancha de baloncesto en la cubierta de proa pero lo usa como garaje de su otro megayate Launchpad, de 300 millones de dólares.
Esto es lo que estamos permitiendo mientra la prensa dice que debes evitar poner el aire acondicionado o ducharte en 2 minutos para salvar el planeta. 😂
If string theory is real and I believe it is, then we're all connected, which we obviously are.
I feel like I am in the middle of it and every time I move an inch, it pulls someone.
It also goes the other way around.
“To escape from unbearable pressure you need hashish,” Nietzsche wrote.
The Sanskrit root word for ganja meant “knowledge.”
Excerpts Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana by Martin Lee
Chapters:
- George Washington, Nietzsche & Alexander Dumas on Cannabis
- Contemplation on this project
- A Sacrament and a Healing Plant
- A Plant for Knowledge & Draper University & Marriage
- Rosa Maria
- Childbirth and Cannabis
- The benefits of cannabis to newborn babies and their mothers
- The Endocannabinoid System
- Illegality
- Louis Armstrongs work ethic - 300 concerts a year with cannabis
- Hemp products
- Thoughts on legalizing cannabis in Estonia
- Work outs and sex on cannabis
- Smoking cannabis and benefits
- Books
- Feminine energy
- Social clubs and growing
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Currently reading Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational & Scientific.
“Marijuana has always lived a double life.”
Long book, lots of history. I’ll do an episode on it.
Reading this and The Teachings of Don Juan made me really aware of my passion for medicinal and psychedelic plants as well as spirituality and the occult.
oh @idf the “moral” ones 😅 https://twitter.com/CensoredHumans/status/2081762976605077726
🇵🇸🇮🇱Israeli occupation forces push disabled Palestinian off his wheelchair and slam him into the ground, then proceed to attack the crowd attempting to come to his aid.
This is the daily reality for millions of Palestinians who endure abuse at the hands of Israeli.
Don Juan and Carlos Castaneda on agency:
“In a world where death is the hunter, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.” https://twitter.com/alanpafka/status/2081734868195475657
The Teachings of Don Juan Changed My Life
After nearly two decades of sorcery this book really feels like tying it all together.
Apologies for the mediocre audio quality.
Chapters:
00:00 - Knowing your heart
01:50 - Confidence being on the right path
02:30 - Momentum
04:00 - A white man as a shaman in Brazil
05:00 - Transcending levels of awareness
07:00 - Does this path have a heart?
11:00 - Figuring things out for yourself
13:50 - The four enemies of a man of knowledge - Fear, Clarity, Power, Old Age
17:30 - How power plants advise us?
20:00 - Difference between God and entities?
21:30 - Passing on the wisdom to an apprentice
23:00 - Bypassing the ego and looking outside yourself
24:00 - Plant allies
27:00 - The devils weed
29:10 - Keeping the power plants in pure and clean energy and space
31:15 - Power from the plants
33:20 - Tobacco snuff and coca leaves
34:30 - Not getting angry at people anymore
35:20 - Order in the universe
36:00 - Craft and skills
36:30 - Man of knowledge
37:15 - Until death defeat is only psychological
38:30 - Mescalito & Kayumari and asking the spirit for answers while under the force
40:30 - You have to put in the effort and energy exchange
43:20 - Flying like a crow
44:30 - Different plants give different insight
46:30 - Responsibility of men and living in one world
The four enemies every person faces on the path to mastery:
• Fear
• Clarity
• Power
• Old Age
Lessons from Don Juan and Carlos Castaneda. https://twitter.com/alanpafka/status/2081734868195475657
The Teachings of Don Juan Changed My Life
After nearly two decades of sorcery this book really feels like tying it all together.
Apologies for the mediocre audio quality.
Chapters:
00:00 - Knowing your heart
01:50 - Confidence being on the right path
02:30 - Momentum
04:00 - A white man as a shaman in Brazil
05:00 - Transcending levels of awareness
07:00 - Does this path have a heart?
11:00 - Figuring things out for yourself
13:50 - The four enemies of a man of knowledge - Fear, Clarity, Power, Old Age
17:30 - How power plants advise us?
20:00 - Difference between God and entities?
21:30 - Passing on the wisdom to an apprentice
23:00 - Bypassing the ego and looking outside yourself
24:00 - Plant allies
27:00 - The devils weed
29:10 - Keeping the power plants in pure and clean energy and space
31:15 - Power from the plants
33:20 - Tobacco snuff and coca leaves
34:30 - Not getting angry at people anymore
35:20 - Order in the universe
36:00 - Craft and skills
36:30 - Man of knowledge
37:15 - Until death defeat is only psychological
38:30 - Mescalito & Kayumari and asking the spirit for answers while under the force
40:30 - You have to put in the effort and energy exchange
43:20 - Flying like a crow
44:30 - Different plants give different insight
46:30 - Responsibility of men and living in one world
The Teachings of Don Juan Changed My Life
After nearly two decades of sorcery this book really feels like tying it all together.
Apologies for the mediocre audio quality.
Chapters:
00:00 - Knowing your heart
01:50 - Confidence being on the right path
02:30 - Momentum
04:00 - A white man as a shaman in Brazil
05:00 - Transcending levels of awareness
07:00 - Does this path have a heart?
11:00 - Figuring things out for yourself
13:50 - The four enemies of a man of knowledge - Fear, Clarity, Power, Old Age
17:30 - How power plants advise us?
20:00 - Difference between God and entities?
21:30 - Passing on the wisdom to an apprentice
23:00 - Bypassing the ego and looking outside yourself
24:00 - Plant allies
27:00 - The devils weed
29:10 - Keeping the power plants in pure and clean energy and space
31:15 - Power from the plants
33:20 - Tobacco snuff and coca leaves
34:30 - Not getting angry at people anymore
35:20 - Order in the universe
36:00 - Craft and skills
36:30 - Man of knowledge
37:15 - Until death defeat is only psychological
38:30 - Mescalito & Kayumari and asking the spirit for answers while under the force
40:30 - You have to put in the effort and energy exchange
43:20 - Flying like a crow
44:30 - Different plants give different insight
46:30 - Responsibility of men and living in one world
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Psychedelics & The Almanack of @Naval Ravikant @EricJorgenson
“Build specific knowledge, own equity in scalable assets, cultivate inner peace, and play long-term games with long-term people to become both wealthy and happy." - Naval Ravikant
This is my first jab at sharing what I know through books and life.
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The hologram we live in will constantly spin out the energy around you at what level you're at.
It'll feel your vibration and your level. Just like in a game. If you're level 10, it'll spawn level 10 monsters.
lol https://twitter.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/2075875324697493847
Due to hoeflation, one good girl is now worth 5,000 b*tches
Having your own place in nature is priceless!
I took my family to my land on Hiiumaa.
We can’t build here because it’s protected land because eagles nest here.
So we just have a small trailer here.
But I’ve been feeling really good for the past 48 hours.
Aligning, healing and just being filled with energy.
I really feel my nervous system just calming down.
I usually live in my mothers house with whom we don’t get along. Feels like that place just drains energy.
I’m more convinced than ever what I need to do next.
Get yourself a place in nature!
i constantly am reminded by god / the creator of his guidance
i’m grateful
but half of the times my ego just gets in the way and i forget 😭
Controversial take.
"Let go and trust god" is woke.
Yeah, the creator has a higher plan.
Jeff Bezos put it neatly:
"The world wants you to be typical – in a thousand ways, it pulls at you. Don't let it happen.
You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness, and it's worth it...
The world will always try to make Amazon more typical – to bring us into equilibrium with our environment. It will take continuous effort, but we can and must be better than that."
Auramaxxing 😁
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You wanna be liked or you wanna win?!
I think the people supporting @israel and other powerful jews don't have the spine be honest what the leading powers did to the people of Gaza.
I think you're spineless cowards. Trying to look good instead of doing good.
Living in the country side and living like a hermit.
I’ve had a great morning:
- woke up
- puttered around
- listened to young Alex Karp talk about Palantir
- walked dog
- physical work out
- hung out with wife & kids
- had breakfast
- did some posts on X
Why, because I actually slowed down today.
Anyway more writing next to choose and double down on a project.
I have a strong feeling that the tech bros who are actually making money or building something awesome.
Their posts are way more laid back and short and playful.
While there’s a bunch of us trying to sell you something and we write these long beautiful posts portraying how we have some expertise.
Getting better at listening to our subconscious. Our inner voice. Our soul.
It’s subtle but it’s also clear and usually the reply is instant. You can hear a yes or a no real fast.
I would override it. Thinking that it’s my power and I can do that.
But it’s important to keep in mind the words of Aldous Huxley: to tread lightly, lightly my friend.
So instead of pushing real hard, tread lightly.
And if that doesn’t work, use a handwritten journal to get clear on your thoughts.
Your intuition will speak to you louder on paper once your thoughts have crystallized.
To anyone reading this post whom I knew before my transformation and awakening.
I saw your hidden negative intentions and feelings towards me. I moved on. I’m better off this way. Sometimes I miss my “friends” but it wasn’t real. I wish you well.
Good vibes, good intentions, good energy. Onwards and upwards towards the sun.
🙏🏼🚀💙🌞
Bad therapy explains why modern adults still behave like kids📕
Great to understand and improve my own parenting techniques as well as shine light on corners of my own psyche.
Also makes it easier to cope why a lot of people are, lack of a better word, “idiots.” 🤷🏼♂️
Beautiful evening drive
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#Estonia today
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#Estonia today 🇪🇪🌨️💨🌊🔥
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Law of the universe.
I just really enjoy writing at times. I enjoy writing out my plans, goals and my thoughts. Can I make this a career? 😃
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I have nearly 400 followers. I wonder how many people see my posts. Who are all of you? Are you real? Would like to connect. Much love to ya'll.
I realize my dream life includes living somewhere warm and sunny. Good for health and great to raise children outdoors. The dark and cold winters of Estonia force to spend most of the days inside. Not great.
So the way to solve this problem is to build a business, community and friendships online and see them often.
Makes me think of Sorelle Amore and even Mr. Beast. If you put yourself out there, you'll connect with like minded people.
Definitely should create more video content too.
Breakfast of champions 🤌🏼💯🚀👨👩👧👦
🌞
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Snack.
I love @Apple products but I'm seriously considering switching to Android or Microsoft because I don't vibe with their CEO promoting nonsense like changing Easter to some kind of woke trans visibility day.
I've been working with plant medicines and shamans for close to 2 decades. I've never seen any gay or transgender people in the villages of indigenous peoples.
Old friends 🐈🐕😃💙
Enjoying raw milk with my bro.
Morning run, chasing life force 🐕✨
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Instead of getting paid in fiat, I'd rather be paid in $DOGE!
$DOGE 🚀
I must confess.
I’ve been feeding separatism and hate by participating in unfriendly threads.
Lessons learned: it feels good but it’s wrong and unproductive!
Good Morning World 🌞
Taking off to Hiiumaa to investigate potential property 🚢🏝️
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So today I woke up, chased my doggo around the village and tried to find him with a drone, found him, then did some writing with the help of pomodoro technique, worked out with a 24 kilogram kettle bell, hit the sauna and cold plunged in the sea 4x - water is around 0.5 celsius today, listened to a podcast with @MrBeast, played some guitar and hung out with family.
Onwards & upwards!
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Looking for a good text editor to practice my coding skills or even build some really cool things!
I’ve been doing this for 3 or 4 years now. Just a little bit every day.
I haven’t put any effort to learn anything new for the last 2 years.
I simply play because it makes me happy and the chants are equivalent to prayers.
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For the last few months my focus has been off. So now I'm going through all the notes and ideas I've gathered to decide on what to work on.
I've been enjoying the sauna and dipping into the sea.
It feels good and it's healthy!
Yes!
Best quote of the day by my wife
“Take care of her, without her you would be no one on @x.”
Having a conversation my new phone.
🤣
Sometimes I feel like I have nothing smart to say on this app.
Feels like I’m pushing it for no reason.
Just asked my food courier to download @MyDogeOfficial so I can tip him in $DOGE 🚀
I just realized the only reason I'm paying my €25 / monthly premium subscription on X is because I'm Elon's "superfan."
If @x would be owned by Bezos or Zuck, I wouldn't have paid.
first time tweeting from my tesla browser
meta
Pray for clean waters ✨
I have the power and strength to manifest my dreams <3
Sitting at the carwash thinking of being under the sun somewhere in CR or Thailand eating those mangoes 🥭☀️👨👩👧👦
What’s this colourful lane holder? 🤔 @Tesla
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Circle K chargers are pretty fast < 1000km/h
Meditating
What are you willing to do, buy or sell with ONE Thousand $DOGE?
Answer that resonates the most, wins.
Pics welcome 👌🤣
👑
I installed a fireplace and went off grid 🔥
Goals ⚡️
I have a big tribe 👨👩👧👦🐕🐕🐈
All rivers lead to one water.
🐕
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I wish I could explain how enligthenment felt.
I still gotta eat and use the toilet though.
DOGE EGOD
I’ve lost 20 followers over the past few days.
Good to see bots amd fake accounts fly out the window.
The world is pretty big actually.
Happy Valentine’s Day 💚
There are all these things I want to have, be and do. I just don't know how to get from point A to point B.
I feel like writing helps. I'm going to get back to my notebook to journal.
I'm energized by writing and talking on camera.
I'm thinking of doing some sort of spiritual coaching videos or readings on people who are super successful in one part of their lives but could level up on another level that could make them 10x more successful. Kinda make videos like the dude Coffeezilla.
After 1.5 decades of plant medicines, I'm still working through everything I thought I was and everything I am.
I'm feeling nostalgic, sad but also excited and full faith for the future.
💙
GM
Every moment is unique and sacred.
Every moment is one to cherish and to be grateful for.
No moment comes around for a second time.
Once your time is up, your time is up.
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Where my followers at?