Hot take: new MacBook Pro with XDR looks good! I expected much worse on pricing. Much better display for +$400 not bad when you’re already in for $7,800! I personally don’t care about touch and I think it’s a dumb feature. But the display specs beyond touch are worth $400. Also the normal m5 laptop prices are untouched, so that’s good! I’d get the 4TB storage, 128GB memory with nano-texture if you’re an AI pro.

Might be a hot take, but I think we're overly infantilizing "retail traders" in general, but especially regarding the whole options UI/UX debate In an age of agentic trading and increasingly sophisticated retail traders, dumbing things down isn't the same as making options trading easier or more accessible. A big point to make here is that the on chain options sector as a whole, and particularly @DeriveXYZ here, actually benefits quite a bit more from builder codes and 3rd party front ends than perps platforms do. Perps UI/UX is largely solved imo. You can't really get much better than @HyperliquidX or @Lighter_xyz. Alternative front ends are cool for distribution, but the actual UI/UX is largely the same, and nobody really wants that to change much. Conversely, the "ideal" front end UI/UX for options is highly subjective. I love seeing the order book and I glean information from it. You might find it to be information overload and seizure inducing. I like a certain style of visual payoff simulator, you might prefer a written description. I've talked to a half dozen different teams who are building on top of @DeriveXYZ V3, and the opportunity for real differentiation and growing the pie is massive. Some are focusing on simpler UI/UX, some are looking at a more modular one, others are building prepackaged payoffs and structured products where the user doesn't even entirely know they're using options. A huge part of my @DeriveXYZ bull case is that a lot of you seem to think traders are too dumb to use options, without taking into account the rise of LLM idea generation with agentic execution and the alternative front end boom that's about to happen.

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In 2000 I graduated college and went to work for a very well known and prestigious management consulting firm. My colleagues and I would go out to lunch every day and debate politics. We did it almost every day. There was a large group of us and I was the only conservative in it. In 2001 I was working with many of those people on a project in Atlanta. When September 11th happened, we were on one of the top floors of a building downtown, watching the events unfold on TV. The next day a bunch of us met up in Olympic Park. We were all confused and fearful, trying to figure out what had happened and what are travel plans were since none of us lived in Atlanta. I sat in the park on a massive blanket with a bunch of Ivy League graduates, listening to them talk about how they hoped that the terrorist attacks would not cause people to discriminate against Muslims. The buildings were still burning. This was Wednesday. They did the Norm Macdonald post perfectly. The park was full of people. Some had even had brought American flags. I remember vividly thinking to myself "why am I not over there with those people?" One of my coworkers told the group that he would "call out" any TSA workers for singling out Muslims to be patted down and searched. Everyone except myself agreed with him and even cheered him on. At that point I couldn't take the foolishness anymore. I told them they were the dumbest fucking people I had ever been around and then I walked back to the Westin hotel. I lasted seven years in that industry. I didn't particularly enjoy it and truly despised the time they make you waste, but clients liked me so my company kept promoting me. I stayed until I couldn't take it any longer. Left and never set foot in corporate America again. That feeling I had on the blanket, being surrounded by suicidally empathetic dumb fucking people, it's the same feeling I had before the midterms, watching Democrats rally around people like Abdul El-Sayed. It's why I devoted so much time and energy to posting videos of El-Sayed telling everyone over the years, in his own words, who he really is. I didn't make one dime off of those posts or the time spent researching. Perhaps it was a complete waste of time. Maybe so. I'm seeing all this talk on this site now about conservatives getting paid to post. How nice for them. I have never accepted money to post. I've been offered many times from conservative companies, groups and individuals, more than ever over the past year. My answer is always the same. I told people long ago that I would never post for money, so I will never post for money. All my posts come directly from me. Many emotions, feelings, and memories have faded over the years as I have grown older. That feeling of contempt for people ushering their own demise is still strong as ever.

Financial freedom doesn’t come from playing it safe. For me, it came from taking the risk to bet on myself. Time is the ultimate currency. $ matters, of course, but what it really gives you is control over your time. And for me, investing in Tesla, SpaceX, 𝕏, and xAI changed my life because it gave me that freedom. I still remember working at Apple, pulling my hair out late at night, thinking, “There is no way this is supposed to be my life until I’m 65," despite making more $ than all my peers. Apple was great, I was on the fast track, joining early at the age of 23... it taught me a lot. But deep down, I knew I wasn’t meant to spend my whole life building someone else’s dream, counting vacation days, waiting decades to finally live. Now I’m 37, looking out at this view from my hotel in Portland, and I can’t help but think about how different my life would be if I had listened to all the haters, doubters, and people who told me I was crazy for backing Elon and going all in on what I believed in. People said I would go bankrupt. People said I would lose everything. People said FSD would kill me. People said I was dumb for betting on and backing Elon. People laughed at the things I believed in. But here I am. And honestly, I would rather be financially free, doing what I love, spending my time with the people I love, and living a life that actually feels fulfilling, than be “successful” on paper but trapped at a desk, working for someone else’s dream until 65. Tesla is changing transportation and autonomy. SpaceX is changing access to space and global internet. 𝕏 is changing how information moves, the world's town square. xAI is building the next layer of intelligence. To a lot of people, these were just “stocks” or “companies”... to me, they were missions I believed in and a future I wanted to be a part of, before the world fully understood them. Use me as proof that betting on yourself can change your life. But it definitely will not happen overnight. Not without pain. Not without people doubting you. Not without the haters, criticizing your every move. Everyone sees the win... they don’t see the stress, the sacrifice, the lonely decisions, the sleepless nights, or the high pressure it took to get here. But days like this remind me why it was all worth it. I’m financially free. I’m with the people I love. I’m doing what I love. And I truly feel like the luckiest man alive.