Optimized Primate
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Ditching dogma for data. Deconstructing chaos into leverage. We steal lethal frameworks from biology & game theory to build cognitive toolkits & antifragile systems. For operators obsessed with real-world mastery, not gurus peddling illusions.
Your brain isn't a king, it's a screaming toddler with biases.
Stop trusting its factory settings.
The strategic mistake isn't having biases, it's thinking you're too smart for them.
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Stop trusting its factory settings.
The strategic mistake isn't having biases, it's thinking you're too smart for them.
optimizedprime8.substack.com/p/stop-build...
September 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Your brain isn't a king, it's a screaming toddler with biases.
Stop trusting its factory settings.
The strategic mistake isn't having biases, it's thinking you're too smart for them.
optimizedprime8.substack.com/p/stop-build...
Stop trusting its factory settings.
The strategic mistake isn't having biases, it's thinking you're too smart for them.
optimizedprime8.substack.com/p/stop-build...
You can be an Ivory Tower Architect, dying in a desert of pure theory with a perfect plan.
Or you can be an Optimized Primate, looping together ugly experiments that collide with reality to forge a better tools.
Stop designing sandcastles. Start the loop.
You Choose.
Or you can be an Optimized Primate, looping together ugly experiments that collide with reality to forge a better tools.
Stop designing sandcastles. Start the loop.
You Choose.
September 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
You can be an Ivory Tower Architect, dying in a desert of pure theory with a perfect plan.
Or you can be an Optimized Primate, looping together ugly experiments that collide with reality to forge a better tools.
Stop designing sandcastles. Start the loop.
You Choose.
Or you can be an Optimized Primate, looping together ugly experiments that collide with reality to forge a better tools.
Stop designing sandcastles. Start the loop.
You Choose.
Optimized Primate
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Ditching dogma for data. Deconstructing chaos into leverage. We steal lethal frameworks from biology & game theory to build cognitive toolkits & antifragile systems. For operators obsessed with real-w...
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September 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Optimized Primate
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Stop trusting your flawed mind. True rationality isn't internal virtue, but an external system of frameworks, feedback loops, & pre-mortems. Engineer your decisions. Don't try to be rational; build the scaffolding that forces optimal outcomes. For operators who shape reality.
September 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Stop trusting your flawed mind. True rationality isn't internal virtue, but an external system of frameworks, feedback loops, & pre-mortems. Engineer your decisions. Don't try to be rational; build the scaffolding that forces optimal outcomes. For operators who shape reality.
Your rational mind isn't a king on a throne, it's a zookeeper in charge of primal instincts. Your goal is to understand the nature of the animals—fear, ego, hunger, rage. How to feed them, build the right enclosures, and know when to let them out. Master the zoo or you'll end up as the main exhibit.
September 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Your rational mind isn't a king on a throne, it's a zookeeper in charge of primal instincts. Your goal is to understand the nature of the animals—fear, ego, hunger, rage. How to feed them, build the right enclosures, and know when to let them out. Master the zoo or you'll end up as the main exhibit.
The old paradigm of the 'Rational Mind' is obsolete. The new model is the 'Systematic Thinker.' This isn't about having a superior brain. It's about having a superior process and the humility to know the brain is fallible. The winners are not the geniuses; they are the disciplined.
September 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The old paradigm of the 'Rational Mind' is obsolete. The new model is the 'Systematic Thinker.' This isn't about having a superior brain. It's about having a superior process and the humility to know the brain is fallible. The winners are not the geniuses; they are the disciplined.
Burnout Isn't a Phase. It's a Systemic Failure. This Is Your Anti-Fragile Rebuild & Domination Protocol.
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Burnout Isn't a Phase. It's a Systemic Failure. This Is Your Anti-Fragile Rebuild & Domination Protocol.
Stop treating a biological crisis with 'time management' hacks. This isn't about scheduling your misery better, it's about tearing down the dilapidated shack you call a nervous system and rebuilding i...
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September 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Burnout Isn't a Phase. It's a Systemic Failure. This Is Your Anti-Fragile Rebuild & Domination Protocol.
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Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇
Well, are you?!
Well, are you?!
January 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇
Well, are you?!
Well, are you?!
Specialization is yesterday's game.
Tomorrow belongs to those who can connect diverse knowledge into unique insights.
What unexpected combinations could transform your field?
Share your thoughts. #GeneralistAdvantage
Tomorrow belongs to those who can connect diverse knowledge into unique insights.
What unexpected combinations could transform your field?
Share your thoughts. #GeneralistAdvantage
January 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Specialization is yesterday's game.
Tomorrow belongs to those who can connect diverse knowledge into unique insights.
What unexpected combinations could transform your field?
Share your thoughts. #GeneralistAdvantage
Tomorrow belongs to those who can connect diverse knowledge into unique insights.
What unexpected combinations could transform your field?
Share your thoughts. #GeneralistAdvantage
Your brain is running outdated software in a world of new challenges.
Time to upgrade your operating system. Not through hustle culture's false promises, but by exploring better ways of thinking and living.
Ready to evolve? #OptimizedPrimate
Time to upgrade your operating system. Not through hustle culture's false promises, but by exploring better ways of thinking and living.
Ready to evolve? #OptimizedPrimate
January 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Your brain is running outdated software in a world of new challenges.
Time to upgrade your operating system. Not through hustle culture's false promises, but by exploring better ways of thinking and living.
Ready to evolve? #OptimizedPrimate
Time to upgrade your operating system. Not through hustle culture's false promises, but by exploring better ways of thinking and living.
Ready to evolve? #OptimizedPrimate
Stop reacting and start dominating
Positive Deviance Plan:
1. Discover: Find outliers.
2. Inquire: Understand what they do differently.
3. Prototype: Test their strategies.
4. Integrate: Scale successful tests.
5. Sustain: Build systems & feedback loops.
What positive deviant will you discover?
Positive Deviance Plan:
1. Discover: Find outliers.
2. Inquire: Understand what they do differently.
3. Prototype: Test their strategies.
4. Integrate: Scale successful tests.
5. Sustain: Build systems & feedback loops.
What positive deviant will you discover?
December 26, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Stop reacting and start dominating
Positive Deviance Plan:
1. Discover: Find outliers.
2. Inquire: Understand what they do differently.
3. Prototype: Test their strategies.
4. Integrate: Scale successful tests.
5. Sustain: Build systems & feedback loops.
What positive deviant will you discover?
Positive Deviance Plan:
1. Discover: Find outliers.
2. Inquire: Understand what they do differently.
3. Prototype: Test their strategies.
4. Integrate: Scale successful tests.
5. Sustain: Build systems & feedback loops.
What positive deviant will you discover?
Sick of ‘playing it safe’?
Great potential doesn’t thrive in comfort.
Like steel forged in fire, your mind shapes best under heat & pressure.
Every breakthrough you crave is waiting right past your comfort zone.
Embrace the discomfort and awkwardness. Enjoy that sweaty-palmed excitement.
Great potential doesn’t thrive in comfort.
Like steel forged in fire, your mind shapes best under heat & pressure.
Every breakthrough you crave is waiting right past your comfort zone.
Embrace the discomfort and awkwardness. Enjoy that sweaty-palmed excitement.
December 26, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Sick of ‘playing it safe’?
Great potential doesn’t thrive in comfort.
Like steel forged in fire, your mind shapes best under heat & pressure.
Every breakthrough you crave is waiting right past your comfort zone.
Embrace the discomfort and awkwardness. Enjoy that sweaty-palmed excitement.
Great potential doesn’t thrive in comfort.
Like steel forged in fire, your mind shapes best under heat & pressure.
Every breakthrough you crave is waiting right past your comfort zone.
Embrace the discomfort and awkwardness. Enjoy that sweaty-palmed excitement.
You know what's funnier than RTO mandates?
Managers who think shared air fixes trust issues.
Best Buy figured it out: Let people work wherever, see productivity jump 41%.
But hey, keep monitoring those bathroom breaks - nothing says 'I'm a leader' quite like being the office toilet timekeeper.
Managers who think shared air fixes trust issues.
Best Buy figured it out: Let people work wherever, see productivity jump 41%.
But hey, keep monitoring those bathroom breaks - nothing says 'I'm a leader' quite like being the office toilet timekeeper.
December 26, 2024 at 6:27 PM
You know what's funnier than RTO mandates?
Managers who think shared air fixes trust issues.
Best Buy figured it out: Let people work wherever, see productivity jump 41%.
But hey, keep monitoring those bathroom breaks - nothing says 'I'm a leader' quite like being the office toilet timekeeper.
Managers who think shared air fixes trust issues.
Best Buy figured it out: Let people work wherever, see productivity jump 41%.
But hey, keep monitoring those bathroom breaks - nothing says 'I'm a leader' quite like being the office toilet timekeeper.
Trust isn't built during mandatory fun days with Dave & his stapler story, AGAIN.
It's built when you swallow your pride at 2AM and ask Sarah in Mumbai for help with that client presentation you've been stuck on.
Weird how vulnerability works better than forced events for building relationships.
It's built when you swallow your pride at 2AM and ask Sarah in Mumbai for help with that client presentation you've been stuck on.
Weird how vulnerability works better than forced events for building relationships.
December 26, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Trust isn't built during mandatory fun days with Dave & his stapler story, AGAIN.
It's built when you swallow your pride at 2AM and ask Sarah in Mumbai for help with that client presentation you've been stuck on.
Weird how vulnerability works better than forced events for building relationships.
It's built when you swallow your pride at 2AM and ask Sarah in Mumbai for help with that client presentation you've been stuck on.
Weird how vulnerability works better than forced events for building relationships.
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Scapegoating location is lazy, tackle the real problem, the willfully ignorant overconfident management letting distrust fester in the first place. Grow up. Fix that. Then watch trust fall into place—regardless of where everyone’s sitting.
Are Companies Using Remote Work as a Scapegoat for Poor Corporate Performance? - HR Daily Advisor
A recent Forbes article by Q Hamirani puts forward a provocative perspective: some CEOs may be using RTO mandates to mask poor management.
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December 14, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Scapegoating location is lazy, tackle the real problem, the willfully ignorant overconfident management letting distrust fester in the first place. Grow up. Fix that. Then watch trust fall into place—regardless of where everyone’s sitting.
You know what does fix trust?
* Integrity
* Standards applied equitably
* Clear expectations of results
* The freedom to actually deliver those results
* Rewarding appropriately for getting those results
What's next? Nobel prizes for actually being a decent human being? I guess so
* Integrity
* Standards applied equitably
* Clear expectations of results
* The freedom to actually deliver those results
* Rewarding appropriately for getting those results
What's next? Nobel prizes for actually being a decent human being? I guess so
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 was awarded jointly to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Henry Roberts Johnson and James A. Robinson "for studies of how institution...
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December 14, 2024 at 5:21 PM
You know what does fix trust?
* Integrity
* Standards applied equitably
* Clear expectations of results
* The freedom to actually deliver those results
* Rewarding appropriately for getting those results
What's next? Nobel prizes for actually being a decent human being? I guess so
* Integrity
* Standards applied equitably
* Clear expectations of results
* The freedom to actually deliver those results
* Rewarding appropriately for getting those results
What's next? Nobel prizes for actually being a decent human being? I guess so
People who struggle to connect with remote teams are the same clowns getting side-eyed by employees jammed in the breakroom, guzzling the same stale coffee. "In office work" isn't some magical trust totem, location doesn’t fix trust any more than kale smoothies fix a busted hip.
December 14, 2024 at 5:15 PM
People who struggle to connect with remote teams are the same clowns getting side-eyed by employees jammed in the breakroom, guzzling the same stale coffee. "In office work" isn't some magical trust totem, location doesn’t fix trust any more than kale smoothies fix a busted hip.
With unlimited time & budget, you don't need to think strategically. But for the rest of us peasants, strategy isn't a luxury, it's survival. Momentum beats perfection. Your small wins, capacity to think strategically and quickly adapt to feedback, compounds into massive victories.
December 14, 2024 at 12:37 AM
With unlimited time & budget, you don't need to think strategically. But for the rest of us peasants, strategy isn't a luxury, it's survival. Momentum beats perfection. Your small wins, capacity to think strategically and quickly adapt to feedback, compounds into massive victories.
The final 5 minutes are crucial: My brain needs a bridge between work and creation. I maintain the 120 BPM music while walking and brain dumping into my second brain system. This neural entrainment primes my mind for what matters—my personal projects and skill stacking. #NeuroPriming #CognitivePeak
December 7, 2024 at 9:53 PM
The final 5 minutes are crucial: My brain needs a bridge between work and creation. I maintain the 120 BPM music while walking and brain dumping into my second brain system. This neural entrainment primes my mind for what matters—my personal projects and skill stacking. #NeuroPriming #CognitivePeak
In the next 5 min, I add 120 BPM music(psytrance,rap,metal for me), do 5 deep squats with overhead reach, 5 push-ups, 30s of high knees, and finish with a few deep breaths. It’s a fast reset: blood flow surges, alertness kicks in, and I’m shifting from drained to primed in record time.
December 7, 2024 at 9:39 PM
In the next 5 min, I add 120 BPM music(psytrance,rap,metal for me), do 5 deep squats with overhead reach, 5 push-ups, 30s of high knees, and finish with a few deep breaths. It’s a fast reset: blood flow surges, alertness kicks in, and I’m shifting from drained to primed in record time.
In the first 5 min at the end of my shift: I dunk my face in cold water (mammalian dive reflex), step outside for natural light, take a few slow sighs facing the sun, and ditch tight work clothes. Early tests show these steps rapidly shake off mental sludge, priming me for sharper evenings.
December 7, 2024 at 9:22 PM
In the first 5 min at the end of my shift: I dunk my face in cold water (mammalian dive reflex), step outside for natural light, take a few slow sighs facing the sun, and ditch tight work clothes. Early tests show these steps rapidly shake off mental sludge, priming me for sharper evenings.
I've been testing the APEX Post-Work Protocol to reclaim my focus through physical, mental, sensory optimization. A 15-min sequence of cold water, natural light, movement, 120 BPM tunes—backed by research. Still refining, but early results are shifting my evenings. Here is the basic protocol.
December 7, 2024 at 9:01 PM
I've been testing the APEX Post-Work Protocol to reclaim my focus through physical, mental, sensory optimization. A 15-min sequence of cold water, natural light, movement, 120 BPM tunes—backed by research. Still refining, but early results are shifting my evenings. Here is the basic protocol.
Your brain craves rhythm to reset. Science shows 120 BPM music—syncs with your neural oscillations, triggering dopamine release and enhanced blood flow. For me, psytrance is medicine for my mind. If one stimulation can override fatigue, imagine what a full recovery protocol can do. #NeuroPriming
December 7, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Your brain craves rhythm to reset. Science shows 120 BPM music—syncs with your neural oscillations, triggering dopamine release and enhanced blood flow. For me, psytrance is medicine for my mind. If one stimulation can override fatigue, imagine what a full recovery protocol can do. #NeuroPriming