this week i quit everything no more stimulants no coffee no nicotine (i had 1 cigar but it was chill) no nootropics deload week for working out and trading much less (less dopamine) im exhausted, i have heavy brain fog, and im just lagging overall. but im so grateful because this period of rest showed me how hard i had been going this year. constantly redlining everywhere in my life. it felt sustainable but something in my mind/body told me i needed to intentionally rest or maybe something could break. or id just get sick and be forced to chill. feeling a lot better, sleeping enough, eating right and healing. don’t think people talk about it enough. we’re born in hustle culture and the truth is a lot more people need to work harder and smarter. but we need to be just as intense with recovery. it’s the other half. for our whole. yin and yang.

This is unreal. Qwen 3.8 27b running locally on my RTX 5090 BEATS Opus 4.8 in my benchmarks (funny enough slightly loses to Opus 4.6 lol) Speeds are just as good if not sometimes MUCH better. Got up to 200 tk/s in some tests We live in a new world. Unlimited, free super intelligence on our desks No internet, subscription, or APIs required Just 6 months ago you needed 500gb of VRAM to get a quarter of this performance Now I'm getting Opus 4.8 level intelligence on a single RTX 5090. Don't even need a Spark I now have the model powering a Hermes agent that is doing work for me 24/7 around the clock for free I have ZERO doubt that by this time next year we will have models more powerful than Fable running on Mac Minis. ZERO doubt. If you listened to me earlier this year when I demanded you start buying hardware, you are absolutely eating right now. The future isn't around the corner. It's here.