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Comments are from an unemployed pontificator which are unscientific, unreasonable, illogical unacademic, nonevidentiary perspective

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Paul Portesi

2 months

All right I'm going to take a little break from X(Twitter). Try to look through things from another lens. Recalibrate the perspective.. Coach used to say, "deliberately throw your body out of balance to get a predetermined goal". It's all good. See you in a few.

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@PaulPortesi

Paul Portesi

6 months

Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His ideas simply cracked something open inside of me. You have these feelings about how the world work but you could not articulate it. His books, lectures, interviews, video explanations, podcast etc etc did that for me.

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@PaulPortesi Paul, who is the single biggest inspiration for your ideas?

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Great example of why you can't explain risk to people in multi-dimensional spaces. Even if they see it coming, they don't assess or manage the risk properly. Real risk is not seen; it's felt. Most risk is from incalculable, unknown, future interactions.

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5 months

Don't be proud of what you own; be proud of what doesn't own you. That's real wealth.

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9 months

Don't maximize your intelligence; minimize your stupidity.

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6 months

I don't need to be more organized. I need less. I don't need to be more informed. I need less. I don't need to be more focused. I need to be less. I don't need to be more information. I need less. You don't need more it's less. The more is always in less. More of less.

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2 years

If you're not saying what you truly think. There's nothing ever said. Even if you say something.

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1 year

People ask the "what would you say to your younger self". Likely your younger self would not listen. Would not understand information you're trying to convey. Information becomes relevant because of your experiences. Many can't see information cuz they're just not there yet.

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Most of life is about surviving the losses to be available for the wins.

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1 year

Don't play their game. Spend life finding yours. It's not winning the game, it's finding the game that you want to play. Play that game. Not theirs.

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4 months

Do the best you can do. Don't explain yourself, let go of the guilt, and make no apologies for it.

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2 years

What really wears you out isn't the work. It's doing what you don't want to be doing. That will really wear you out.

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Paul Portesi

11 months

Wisdom is about accumulating errors that don't take you out.

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Paul Portesi

10 months

We simply know too much. It takes the joy out of life.

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2 years

There's no crime in nature.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

Making money is not about making money, it's about not losing it. Being happy isn't about happiness it's about not being miserable. Intelligence isn't about being smart it's about not doing dumb s***. If you're trying to get good, remove being bad. It's removal, not addition.

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1 year

Hard work keeps you in the game. You need to be in the game to benefit from random variations. You need to be in the game to be lucky. Hard work keeps you in the game luck gives you convexity. You need to be in the game to get lucky. Keep working hard to stay in the game.

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5 months

You will never fully convince someone that they are wrong. Only reality can. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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1 year

I've said this before. My grandfather was a locksmith. He used to say "locks keep honest people honest". "Criminals want in they're getting in". This is also true with laws. They just keep honest people honest. Criminals are going to commit crimes. Regardless of the laws.

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1 year

Macro guys are missing with Silicon Valley Bank is... Second largest bank to collapse in history. You didn't hear word one until it was over. More importantly the velocity of collapse. 2 days game over. It's second order effects that are accelerating. That's the alarm bell.

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2 years

If you slightly adjust the lens you look and evaluate life through, so instead of successes and failures simply just experiences. As long as you survive you've always won. Because you got an experience on your path. Your path; not theirs.

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2 years

The wave starts long before, You see it hit the shore.

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5 months

The smartest kid in class is never in class. The real world is never in class.

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Paul Portesi

11 months

Real wealth is never being forced to play a game you don't want to play. The system is designed to force people into a game the system wants you to play. Best game to play is the game that you can walk away from. If you can't walk away, you're playing their game not yours.

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8 months

Every missed chance in life was an opportunity to behave well, every missed chance in life was an opportunity to learn something, and that your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. Charlie Munger

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6 months

Sometimes you're forced to start over. It's a gift not a curse.

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2 years

You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can. NNT

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Paul Portesi

10 months

You can't learn how to ride a bike by reading a book. You can't learn how to swim by standing on the shore. We've convinced most that academia is the only way to learn. It's an industry. Real life is understanding the multiplicative multi-dimensional interactions from doing.

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4 months

You never should need to focus. If you need to force focus, you'll never be focused. If it's something truly natural, your focus will come from within & you won't be able to focus on anything else. The focus is emotional drive. If you can't focus, that tells you everything.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

Don't try to maximize happiness. Minimize misery. And you'll be happy.

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Paul Portesi

8 months

As a regularly do, I'm going to take a Twitter fast. Literally until next year. Take care. When it becomes too easy, it's time to step away.

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Paul Portesi

1 year

Take advice from people that don't give it.

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Paul Portesi

11 months

Sometimes the greatest gift is when something's taken from you. Time just hasn't unwrapped it for you yet.

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6 months

The moment you need to prove your point. Realize it's a trap. Mostly doesn't matter how much evidence, data, information you have to prove your point. Likely it won't change how they think. You make your point by not trying to convince others of your point. See the point.

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Paul Portesi

11 months

Play dumb. It's the smartest thing to do. Play them.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

I'm more interested in the other 5,000 that didn't become CEO. Let's look at their path.

@brandon

Brandon Arvanaghi 🐱

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Today, he's the CEO of a $1.8 trillion company. In 1993, he was just another middle manager doing Excel demos. Satya Nadella worked at Microsoft for 22 years. He climbed the ladder. And is worth ~$700 million today. There are many ways to win.

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If we can't argue, we can't be friends.

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6 months

The moment you get the respect you've been been looking from others you realize you don't need it from them. They can never give you something that you've always had. You just had to find it within yourself where it's always been. Most of life is finding what you already have.

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Paul Portesi

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Perfect. Truly captures to never change who you are to fit into others expectations. Life is about finding what emotionally drives you. The true search. Buffett beautifully articulates this with regards to Charlie Munger. Kid's question is brilliant.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

Rich is about needing money. Wealth is about not needing to be rich. Smart is about needing knowledge. Intelligence is about not needing to be smart. Wealth and intelligence is about the not needing; not the needing. Life is about what you don't need; not what you need.

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Paul Portesi

11 months

If you need evidence to make decisions, you're not making decisions. If there's evidence, the decisions already been made. That's not you making decisions. You make decisions before the evidence not after. There's more to making decisions than following evidence. Evidently.

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1 year

Dream job is an oxymoron. Time just hasn't shown it to you. Yet.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. Machiavelli Niccolo

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Paul Portesi

2 years

For all the young adults. You only understand your parents after you become a parent. Then it becomes apparent.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

Give "it's a private company" argument a rest. This was not an independent company acting alone within its own organization. These private companies were being pressured by the US government to impose mandates on speech. If that doesn't concern you. I can't explain it to you

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19. Inevitably, dissident yet legitimate content was labeled as misinformation, and the accounts of doctors and others were suspended both for tweeting opinions and demonstrably true information.

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If you're going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you. Oscar Wilde

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Paul Portesi

5 months

I'm not upset that you lied to me. I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. Friedrich Nietzsche

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Paul Portesi

6 months

When somebody says, " I'm never doing that again" They'll do it again. It's only when they stop saying they're never going to do it again. Doing real work is never needing to say it. The real announcement is in not needing to announce. Listen for the non-announcement.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

Don't blame the system when you lose unless you're willing to blame it when you win.

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Paul Portesi

1 year

If you take your shot and miss. Be thankful that you had an opportunity. It's not making the shot, it's the opportunity to take it. Life isn't winning. Life is being able to play. If you miss a shot, at least you were here on Earth to take it. You made it even if you miss.

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Paul Portesi

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An academic applying their progressive theories in the real world. Then... The real world response.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

You cannot convince or talk your way into being confident. Confidence isn't about being egotistical; it's about being comfortable with outcomes. Most think it's being assured or trying to be perfect. Confidence is acceptance. Like most things, it's never what you think.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

Twitter is like a world wide bar. Had to go to rehab.

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Paul Portesi

10 months

A free lunch is the most expensive meal on the menu. Because the real cost is off the menu.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

Announce your humiliating losses; celebrate your victories in silence.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

Win by attrition. That's how most people win in life. It's not by being first or the best but by just surviving. Staying in the game is winning the game. That's really the game of life. Who's ever standing last stands best. Just keep standing. Stay in the standings.

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Paul Portesi

6 months

The moment you don't have to convince others you're smart. That's smart.

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Paul Portesi

10 months

"We all stand with" as long as it's at a distance.

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Paul Portesi

1 year

You don't need to be smart. You just have to not do dumb s***. And most of the time when you do dumb s*** it's because you think you're smart.

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Paul Portesi

3 months

Never try to show how smart you are. Let them show you how smart they are. More information in getting answers than there's in giving it. More entropy in getting information than there's in giving it. Let them be smart with their answers. You be smart with their information

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2 years

One of the saddest things in life is a life that goes according to plan.

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Paul Portesi

3 months

As NNT with via negativa, remove to gain. Most modern life is always about adding or accumulation of something. Adding a medicine to solve a health issue. Accumulating wealth. System is always adding entropy to you. So. Remove. Don't acquire. ABR. Always Be Reducing.

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2 years

Most don't realize but in life, you're brought to your knees before you can truly stand up.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

When you undermine the family unit you undermine the system. You need the family structure as a safety net. If you undermine the family structure, you lose an important safety net. I don't think we appreciate how important the family structure is. We are taking it for granted

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Paul Portesi

9 months

The real work is to not have an opinion. To have facts, details and information and not form an opinion. To maintain intellectual integrity is to not get emotionally attached to a particular subject. It's harder than you think. The academic system forces you into an opinion.

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Paul Portesi

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In life, where you think you're going, is seldom where you end up.

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Don't focus on the maximization of happiness. Just manage the minimization of misery. Happiness always takes care of itself. Misery takes care of you by taking you out. Manage the misery.

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Paul Portesi

8 months

The best resume is not needing one.

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2 years

Most people think success is about arriving. It's not. It's about surviving.

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Paul Portesi

10 months

Sadly we rely on sports, gambling and games to inject an artificial randomness that we naturally need back into our modern linearized lives. We have over optimized our lives. This is inherently unnatural.

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Paul Portesi

10 months

Mathematics is a man-made tool to give us an infinitesimal glimpse into what God has created.

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Paul Portesi

1 year

Most people lose trying to win. The real strategy is wim by not losing. Most real life games are games of attrition. The last person standing is the winner by not losing. Optimization is a maximization strategy. Risk management is a minimization strategy. Win by not losing.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. Seneca

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2 years

Strangely lack of focus makes you smarter. Paradoxically when you're focused you linearize your thinking. Optimization. Reduce minimize entropy. People that are hyperfocused can't see the big picture. Easily blindsided. They can only see what they are focused and optimized on.

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Paul Portesi

3 months

Don't measure good days or bad days. You're either here or you're not. Be thankful for the bad days. You're here to feel it.

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Paul Portesi

5 months

True wealth is never exhibiting your wealth.

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Paul Portesi

5 months

People don't want the truth. What they want is something to validate how something makes them feel. That's why most discussions or debates never really resolve anything. Even for the audience. Minds don't get changed with reason & logic. Only time has that powerful ability.

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Paul Portesi

8 months

You'll never find God through reason and logic.

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Paul Portesi

10 months

I can't believe this is happening. Well. That's the problem. Your belief system. Your belief system isn't matching the happenings of reality. Believe that.

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Paul Portesi

5 months

Real respect is never announced. It's shown with silence.

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Paul Portesi

10 months

The name of the game is to get you to play their game. Perfect schools Perfect grades Perfect job Perfect spouse Perfect house Perfect kids Perfect wealth They want you in the game. Perfectly. In the end, you're the one that gets gamed. The perfect game ain't so perfect.

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10 months

We've optimized kids for academia. That's not a life.

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2 years

If you want what they have. They have you.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

In life, path matters. How you get there. Matters. To you. The arrival is for them. Take the path that you want to take. Be cautious of taking their path. It's optimized for them. Not you.

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Paul Portesi

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The hardest thing in life isn't finding the right answer. The hardest thing in life is not needing one.

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Paul Portesi

1 year

Real wealth in life isn't what you own. Real wealth in life is what doesn't own you. Invert the ownership. True ownership is not being owned. And no. It ain't about the money. Be careful what you own because it may own you.

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Paul Portesi

2 years

Again, this is worth repeating. The smartest kid in the class ain't in class.

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Paul Portesi

4 months

We just cannot isolate any causal relationship in a complex system. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Paul Portesi

9 months

No matter how righteous something starts it always gets hijacked. Wikipedia Academia Religion Science Medicine Add Openai to the list. Its now closed. That's what the money's for. Ultimately anything man-made will get weaponized by an oligarchy proclaiming righteousness.

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Paul Portesi

1 year

Don't rush through life. It comes at its own pace.

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Paul Portesi

1 year

You never get credit for the catastrophes you avoided. You don't get credit for being the hero of the averted accident. Fundamental problem with verifiable observable evidence. People start to optimize what you get credit for. You don't get credit for it not happening. 1/2

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Paul Portesi

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What most people can't seem to wrap their head around. Sometimes winning is knowing when to take a loss. In life, winning isn't a straight line neither is losing. Sometimes the name of the game is to stay in the game even if you need to lose a game. To keep playing the game.

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Most people don't remember what you say. They remember how you made them feel.

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Modern wealth has been maximizing accumulation. Wealth going forward will be non-accumulation minimization. Less is more. The wealth will be found inside not out. Remember, if they want you to have it or to attain it; it's for their benefit. Find your wealth not theirs.

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Name one person that sends back pictures of them losing at casino. No one brags about losing. No evidence of losing. But we know people lose. The focus is on observable winners. No one sends pictures of them losing. That tells you everything. There are no losing selfies.

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2 years

The last 3 years have been the longest 20 years of my life.

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People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures. F. M. Alexander

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8 months

Sometimes you lose a hand just to see how they play.

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2 years

As long as you have an option and can make another mistake, you won. Winning is about maintaining optionality.

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Paul Portesi

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When you have nothing to lose. Everything is a win. Even the losses.

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If they're forcing you to pick a side, it ain't about the side you pick. It's about the force.

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