Armand Ruiz

Director Data Science & AI Elite

Leading the Product Management org for the AI Portfolio of products focused on Generative AI and Traditional ML. Products include: watsonx.ai and watsonx.gov

Vice President of AI Platform

I am building the world's largest team of 𝐀𝐈 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 by

- Recruiting hundreds of new engineers around the globe
- Reskilling our existing talent
- Offering them top-quality training in new-generation AI

Responsible for Pre-Sales Generative AI Pilots with the new IBM watsonx.ai Platform.

Director watsonx team - Client Engineering

Director of the group IBM Data Science Elite team. We prove the value of IBM Watson solutions by co-creating pilots with our customers. I managed a team of 90+ data scientists that worked on 100s of complex AI implementations.

Director Data Science

I manage a rockstar team of Product Managers leading the product portfolio of IBM Watson AI products.

Product Director - Product Management, Watson Studio and Machine Learning

Leading new Data Science products for IBM

Lead Product Manager - IBM Data Science and Watson Machine Learning

Bring Open Source data science tech to IBM stack

Product Manager for Data Science Open Source Extensibility 

In charge of Data Science projects in EMEA

Data Science Advocate - IBM Data Science & Machine Learning

Support sales in Data Science opportunities

Technical Seller Data Science & Smarter Cities

Internship to bring new innovations to IBM

Intern - Technical Software Engineer, Extreme Blue

Vodafone

Optimize 3G network coverage using Data Science

Data scientist - Radio Optimization Engineering

Federació Catalana de Tennis

Tennis Coach

VP of Product - AI Platform @IBM

As the Director of AI Engineering at IBM, I lead the watsonx team, a global group of over 1,000 AI Engineers who work on cutting-edge Generative AI solutions for various industries. With more than 12 years of experience in AI, I have a passion for democratizing practical AI skills and empowering professionals to leverage AI to transform their business.

Previously, I managed IBM's Data Science and AI Elite, delivering complex AI implementations for hundreds of clients. 

I also led the product management of IBM Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning, an AI platform used by hundreds of customers and SaaS apps powered by AI. I hold a Master of Science in Telecommunications from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and speak three languages: Spanish, Catalan, French, and English.

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"It is kind of fun to do the impossible"
All opinions are my own and don't represent my employer.

Called it. 🎯 The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is officially moving to the Linux Foundation under the new Agentic AI Foundation.

I’ve been saying for a while that open governance is the only viable path forward for AI infrastructure. Today’s news proves it.

This brings Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and others under one neutral banner. 

10,000+ active servers. 
97M+ SDK downloads. 
Zero vendor lock-in.

If you want an ecosystem to flourish, you have to open it up. The era of Agentic AI just got a serious upgrade.

Read the news here: https://lnkd.in/g7vy5-x2

At NeurIPS2025, Google presented Titans, a new architecture that combines the speed of RNNs with the performance of Transformers. 

The trade-off between infinite context and computational cost is the biggest hurdle in AI right now.

While Transformers are accurate but expensive to scale, and linear models are fast but lose detail, Titans delivers the best of both worlds by introducing Test-Time Memorization.

The Core Innovation: Instead of a static state, Titans uses a deep neural memory module that actively updates while running, utilizing a "Surprise Metric":
- Low Surprise: Routine data is processed efficiently without clogging memory.
- High Surprise: Anomalies and key details are instantly integrated into long-term memory.

The Results:
- Scales effectively to 2M+ token context windows.
- Outperforms larger models (including GPT-4) on extreme long-context reasoning benchmarks.
- Generalizes beyond text to genomics and time-series.

This is a move from passive processing to active, efficient learning.

Jensen just dropped a masterclass on the future of AI. 

It was great to hear from him in a long-format podcast conversation. 

Three key insights he shared:

1/ Human language is the new syntax: The "tech divide" is closing. You won't need C++ to code the future; you just need to speak.

2/ The "30-Day" Mindset: Nvidia operates like they are always 30 days from bankruptcy. This paranoia fuels their innovation and resilience.

3/ Safety is an engineering problem: Forget the sci-fi movie plots. AI safety is just like cybersecurity—as capabilities rise, so do the guardrails.

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Current mood: "Joining a new company is akin to an organ transplant - and you're the new organ. If you're not thoughtful in adapting to the new situation, you could end up being attacked by the organizational immune system and rejected."

Learning fast, exploring the culture, and pushing myself to bring out the best work I’ve ever done. 

Loving the challenge. 🤩

As a leader, your job is to run a tight ship.

That doesn’t mean control. It means precision.

Clear goals. 
Clear roles. 
Clear standards.

In fast-moving teams, especially in AI, ambiguity is expensive and confusion kills momentum.  Alignment compounds it.

Gemini 3 is here and it isn’t just another model release. It’s Google firing on every AI cylinder: infra, research, product, and distribution.

A few things stand out:

1.	Full-stack advantage, finally realized.
Gemini 3 is the first model shipped into Google Search on day one. That’s not just marketing ; it’s how you put frontier AI in front of billions.

2.	The agent era is no longer theoretical.
With Deep Think mode, long context, multimodal understanding, and real-time planning, Gemini 3 moves beyond chat. It’s not a chatbot. It’s a problem-solver.

3.	AI is getting better at “reading the room.”
It reflects a core shift: models are starting to grasp intent and nuance and not just data.

Benchmarks back it up: topping LMArena, solving “Humanity’s Last Exam”, setting a new bar in math and science tasks. But that’s the sideshow.

More info here: https://lnkd.in/gWeXGwhC

I cannot wait to try it out

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building AI systems

𝗔𝗜 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝟭𝟬𝟭

Current AI is often described as a "statistical correlation machine." It predicts the next word or pixel based on patterns it has seen before. World Models represent a shift toward causal understanding—giving machines a way to simulate the future.

What is a World Model? Think of it as an internal flight simulator. Instead of just recognizing an environment, the AI builds a mental model of how that environment works. It uses this model to test hypotheses ("If I drop this glass, it will break") without needing to actually perform the action.

The "𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝘆" Example Imagine training a robot to fold clothes.

- 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹: The robot must physically interact with the clothes millions of times, learning through endless trial and error.

- 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹: The robot simulates the physics of the fabric in its head. It plans the fold internally, predicts the outcome, and only moves its arm when it is confident. This results in safer, faster, and more generalizable learning.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀: While Large Language Models (LLMs) are masters of syntax and semantics, they often struggle with physical causality. World Models differ because:

𝟭. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹: They don't just retrieve information; they run mental experiments.

𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘀, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀: They infer the physics of their environment from data rather than being hand-coded.

𝟯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲: They predict "what happens next" in a state-space, not just a token-space.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗽: The next frontier is the convergence of these technologies. By combining the reasoning of LLMs with the grounding of World Models, we move closer to Embodied Intelligence—software that can read, watch, plan, and act in the physical world.

Scaling laws in AI are nowhere near finished. The latest Gemini 3 results show it clearly.

Pre-training: Many believed progress had plateaued. Yet the jump from 2.5 to 3.0 is one of the biggest leaps we have seen. When you improve data, architecture, and compute together, you keep breaking ceilings. No walls in sight.

Post-training: This might be the real frontier. We are still early in how we align, steer, and specialize models. The innovation curve here is just beginning, and the gains on 3.0 prove it.

Good insights from Deepmind engineers this week.

Better models are not coming slowly. They are coming faster.

Plan for continuous capability jumps, not incremental upgrades. The disruption curve is steepening.

it is very cool to work everyday with people in person. i think  product innovation and magic really happens with real human interaction

AI is making 10X engineers 1000X, and 1X engineers 0.1X 

stealing this quote from Shadi Copty 🙃

Fortusight, Founder | AI advisor | Ex-Dir of Llama @Meta & Ex-VP of Watson @IBM

AI Evals Explainer

Generated with Nano Banana Pro

It’s insane how many hours I’ve seen senior technical leaders burn on architecture charts. 

All that time spent polishing pixels... now you just describe it in plain English and boom and nano banana AI handles the rest.

By the way, this is a solid, modern and agile AI stack. To build at x10 speed you need to have the right building blocks.

Fortusight's AI stack

A lot of people ask me this question, I'll start with the absolute core:
1. I use Agno for multi-agent framework, they're fast, elegant and robust.
2. Exa for web grounding, I consider Exa a bigger booster than LLM choice for my use case.
3. FMP for premium, clean, reliable financial data turned into tailored tools.

For LLMs, I use O3 for multi-agent orchestration and planning, GPT 4.1 for digesting web content and supporting my A1Facts flow; Flash2.5 for structured extraction and Gemini 3 pro for synthesizing investment thesis.

I constantly progress the choices of LLMs prioritizing quality over price.

For tools, I use Cursor with Opus 4.5 (recently replacing Gemini 2.5 pro); and Figma make - which I absolutely love.

For internal ops agents, (1) managing coverage requests (2) digesting user feedback (3) analyzing product analytics (4) writing my weekly newsletter -- all built with Agno and Gemini 3 pro.

Less exciting but just as critical :-) Streamlit for front end [being replaced with react], and Firebase for database/auth/analytics -- both choices have been really critical for prototyping rapidly with my users.

The "secret sauce" is secret (lol), but I will say solving factuality in evolving market dynamics is a significant effort, and using expert-system techniques and simulations augments LLMs where they are critically weak.

Happy to share more if you have any questions -- and obviously here's the link if you want to try it out (https://lnkd.in/g7eR86dr)

Introducing SAM 3D: Powerful 3D Reconstruction for Physical World Images

and it’s not your typical 3D reconstruction tool.

It does what previous models couldn’t:
- Reconstruct real-world objects and scenes from a single image.
- Handle occlusion, indirect views, and cluttered backgrounds.
- Estimate human pose and shape with surprising accuracy.

Why does this matter?
Because for the first time, we’re seeing 3D perception at the scale, quality, and accessibility of today’s 2D models.

The architecture behind SAM 3D borrows from LLMs: pre-training on synthetic data, followed by post-training on real-world images using a human-in-the-loop ranking engine. The result is a feedback loop that continuously improves both the data and the model.

The implications stretch far beyond creative media. Robotics. E-commerce. Sports medicine. Interactive avatars. You name it.

And the best part? 

It's fast. 
Real-time fast.

Meta’s already using SAM 3D to power a “View in Room” feature in Facebook Marketplace; turning static listings into immersive experiences.

The gap between virtual and physical is shrinking. SAM 3D is a serious leap forward.

Learn more:
- 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: https://lnkd.in/g8w6dvAB
- 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗔𝗠 𝟯𝗗 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿: https://lnkd.in/gd_HQE9c
- 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗔𝗠 𝟯𝗗 𝗕𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿: https://lnkd.in/gp3p9jaf
- 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝗔𝗠 𝟯𝗗 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀: https://lnkd.in/gfwmcKGK
- 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝗔𝗠 𝟯𝗗 𝗕𝗼𝗱𝘆: https://lnkd.in/g9CPHEXJ
- 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: https://lnkd.in/guSDTnU3

A sharp, modern AI tech stack for building a serious startup.

Fortusight from Shadi Copty lays out a blueprint that actually reflects where the industry is going:

multi-agent architectures, real-time grounding, premium data, and a diversified LLM strategy tuned to specific jobs rather than brand loyalty.

1/ Agno for agent frameworks.
2/ Exa for grounding.
3/  FMP for clean financial data.
4/ A portfolio of models (O3, GPT-4.1, Flash2.5, Gemini 3) each picked for its superpower.

Cursor + Opus 4.5, Figma Make, Firebase, and Streamlit/React for fast product loops.

And a layer of expert systems + simulation to fix factuality where LLMs keep failing.

This is the kind of stack that lets a small team punch far above its weight.

🚀

Open article: Financial Analysis App by fortusight.streamlit.app

Exciting project for you all to check! I tried an earlier prototype and it was very impressive

Startup life, here I come :-)

Thrilled to share with you my new adventure, Fortusight - a project I've labored on nights and weekends for the last 2 years.

It's a tool for the serious investor that wants to deeply understand a company before buying and holding for 5-10 years.

It uses AI Agents to read through filings, earning calls, analyst reports, news, press-releases - forms an opinion on a company's competitive position, management's friendliness to shareholders, and creates bull/base/bear scenarios for valuation.

To quote a friendly hedge fund manager "I used to have 5 people doing all of this" - each company is analyzed for 192 different perspectives, with A1Facts to ensure factuality for high stakes decisions.

Here's how you try it: https://lnkd.in/g7eR86dr

Let's go 🚀 🚀 🚀

🚨 Stop scrolling. The math on this is barely real.

Get a $799/mo institutional AI research platform for just $50/mo.

The catch: Only 10 spots open. 

RIAs & Fund Managers—this is a complete no-brainer. 👇

https://fortusight.ai/

I need your help 🙏

I'm looking for design partners for my baby startup that just got pre-seed funded.

If you know a wealth fund manager, a small RIA, a family office that wants to reduce their equity research costs from ~$75K to less than what they pay for starbucks coffee - share this link with them: https://fortusight.ai  

For 10 design partners, I'm giving away Fortusight for $50/month instead of $800/month for a year in exchange for feedback to help guide the product's development.

The beta with our users has been incredibly successful, with recurring usage of our equity deep dives.

This will propel the company forward, and one day I will find ways to repay your kindness - many thanks ❤️

Jeremy Prasetyo

TRUSTBYTES (Techstars Web3 '25)

Smart Treasury for Internet Capital Markets (ICM)

TRUSTBYTES turns behavioural analytics into capital efficiency for wallet-based businesses.
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☑ Capture opportunities
☑ Comply effortlessly
☑ Command your crypto treasury operations

We believe that internet/institutional capital markets (ICM) should be proactive, not reactive.
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In 24/7 crypto markets, your treasury, compliance and operation teams can't be awake around the clock fighting fires.
While traditional finance sleeps, crypto never does.
Why losing money on idle capital, failing compliance checks, and burning out their teams with manual processes, when there is a different way?
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The cost of inaction is measured in Billions per month.

We replace static rules with intelligent, dynamic policies.

Instead of threshold-based systems that trigger alerts at 3:11 AM, we use predictive intelligence to:

☑ Anticipate liquidity needs before they become urgent
☑ Automatically rebalance wallets during the most optimal time windows
☑ Maintain compliance ratios proactively, not reactively
☑ Transform your existing wallet infrastructure into a smart, learning system 

TRUSTBYTES works 24/7 so your team doesn't have to.

CEO & Co-Founder

QUIP - Quantum Technologies at Fraunhofer ITWM

Mentor

Keynote Speaker to National and International Audiences

Jeremy is able to tailor short talks, long presentations or workshops for any specific audience whether the focus is to inspire to perform and outperform, break patterns to innovate, empower leadership, increase sales or overall business. As a high-performance trainer, he presents his ideas extracted from interviews and individual coachings with industry icons, world champions and thought leaders of multiple disciplines with eye-opening facts, humor and easy-to-follow, practical concepts and applications that any audience member can immediately apply and achieve results.

Personal and Professional Performance Specialist

Diverse Organizations, incl. NobleProg, Innolea, Letuja, DOSB, DTV, ADTV, Masai, etc.

Trainings and Workshops on Artificial Intelligence, Business Applications, Cybersecurity, Leadership, Communication, Sales & Marketing

Independent Trainer

AI Strategy Consulting 

Innolea Institute

Mentor for post-graduate studies “Certified AI Consultant”

LETUJA GmbH

Linkfluence - a Meltwater company

AI-enabled consumer intelligence for global brands

+ Enterprise AI SaaS solution used by 200+ global brands for Trend Detection, Consumer Tribes segmentation/profiling or Brand Equity tracking in Real-time.
Key customers include Nike, Danone, General Mills, Estée Lauder, Kering, LVMH, Porsche, Toyota,...

+ Built and managed a team of professionals including Key Account Management, Business Development, Marketing, and Demand Generation to successfully meet and exceed sales targets and corporate goals

+ Designed and owned a strategic plan to grow the account portfolio and acquire new logos aligned with the company’s vision and roadmap

+ Collaborated with product, insights, and solution teams to improve customer experience
Developed and implemented a comprehensive demand generation strategy including Account-Based-Marketing, resulting in acquiring new global enterprise organizations

+ Conducted market research and developed a comprehensive competitive intelligence strategy to fuel repositioning with a new Go-To-Market

Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Blockpool

Business advisory for Blockchain Startups

European Blockchain Expert

E-Learning Startup

Our company is a next-generation ecosystem made up of a leading education platform for people in AI, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, combined with a powerful marketing platform with a comprehensive set of tools for independent business owners.
The ecosystem is continuously expanding, subsuming new technologies, products and services in order to offer a one-stop space for those dedicated to learning and growing.

Jeremy's philosophy of education and self-empowerment is woven into the fabric of the company. As CEO and co-founder, Jeremy was taking the start-up from a compelling idea to a truly global company. Serving over 32,000 entrepreneurs, and powered by Blockchain and AI technology, it is enabling a new generation of learners and independent business owners within a single ecosystem of EdTech Platform and integrated Apps.

CEO and Co-Founder

World Champion turned Cyberpreneur | Building an AI SaaS company to $1M ARR and sharing my insights along the way | Co-Founder & CEO, TRUSTBYTES

While everyone's talking about AI, the Agentic Web and Web3,
few understand how to turn them into competitive advantage, 
even fewer into institutional advantage.
That's where I come in.

I'm a former World Champion turned Tech Founder and Emerging Technology Strategist who decodes tomorrow's tech for today's leaders. 
Through my unique ability to break down complex technologies into actionable strategies, I help organizations transform uncertainty into opportunity.

As CEO of TRUSTBYTES and an internationally recognized keynote speaker, I bridge the gap between cutting-edge innovation and real-world implementation. 

My expertise spans:

→ Emerging Tech Translation
- Transforming AI and blockchain complexities into clear strategic advantages
- Converting technological uncertainty into market-leading opportunities
- Building innovation flywheels that compound over time

→ Leadership Acceleration
- Mentoring the next generation of tech-savvy leaders
- Guiding institutional transformation with practical frameworks
- Creating bridges between legacy systems and emerging technologies

→ Strategic Innovation
- Designing AI-driven business flywheels that scale
- Developing institutional-grade technology strategies
- Engineering frameworks for sustainable growth

Through high-impact keynotes, executive mentorship, and hands-on leadership, I empower decision-makers to turn technological complexity into market dominance. 

My approach merges deep technical insight with battle-tested business acumen, helping organizations thrive in rapid change.

Tech moves fast.
Markets move faster.
But institutional transformation?
That's where most leaders get stuck.
I'm here to change the game.

Follow me for actionable insights on emerging tech, leadership, and exponential growth. 

Let's build tomorrow's advantages today.

FIGHTING CYBERCRIME LIKE IT'S 2030
Find more bugs in less time while saving up to 80% of cybersecurity resources.

HOW IT WORKS
TRUSTBYTES secures exponential technologies like Web 3.0, AI or Quantum TECH with its advanced AI that delivers unparalleled accuracy. By deploying self-learning AI agent swarms that adapt to evolving threats we protect systems with superior vulnerability detection and mitigation.

THE PROBLEM
$8 Trillion in Damages
Cybercrime Damages did cost the world $8 trillion USD in 2023.
Until now, global cybercrime costs grew by 15 percent each year.
But this number will grow exponentially, as hackers start using AI or even Quantum TECH.

Threat to Humanity
Warren Buffett calls cybercrime the biggest problem facing humanity - a threat exceeding nuclear weapons.
The answer lies in fighting fire with fire through AI counterforce.
TRUSTBYTES is that enabler for CISOs - an advanced AI system augmenting human experts to proactively remediate cyber threats before damage occurs.

OUR SOLUTION - SECURING EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES

➝ Web 3.0 - Smart Contract Auditing Suite

➝ Securing AI Systems

➝ Securing the Quantum TECH era


For more details visit: trustbytes.io

Life moves fast. Most people notice too late.⤵


We spend years chasing what looks good,
then regret ignoring what truly mattered.

The real cost of success?
Sacrificing your health and relationships for metrics that don’t last.

It’s St. Nick’s Day - time to show up where it counts.


1/
➠ Life doesn’t wait

➝ You chase - and end up alone
➝ You grind - your health is shot
➝ You blink - the kids are gone

Time moves fast.
Priorities drift quietly.


2/
➠ Burnout isn’t a badge

➝ Dollars don’t hug
➝ Likes don’t heal
➝ Hustle is glorified nonsense

Burnout isn’t success.
It’s exhaustion with a PR team.


3/
➠ Rewind doesn’t exist

➝ Priorities slip quietly
➝ Regret compounds
➝ Time doesn’t refund

You don’t get to hit reset.
And regret always shows up late.


4/
➠ Two things matter most

➝ Everything else? Temporary
➝ Your relationships
➝ Your health

Lose either,
and nothing else will matter.


5/
➠ Stop chasing. Start choosing.

➝ That’s the real metric
➝ Check your people
➝ Check your body

You don’t need balance.
You need better priorities.


You’re not too busy.
You’re just distracted by things that won’t matter when it’s over.

▶ What if the validation isn’t real?
▶ What happens when your success isolates you?
▶ What’s worth sacrificing your health for?


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Unpopular opinion:
Work should fit into Life - not consume it.
⤵

You’ve been sold a lie.
"Work harder. Hustle longer. Sacrifice now."

But here’s the truth:
You don’t get a trophy for burning out.

Work is a tool - not your identity.
It belongs inside your life, not wrapped around it.

 
1/
➠ When Work Becomes Life

When work takes over, life gets boxed in.
➝ Rest feels wrong
↳ You see it as lazy

➝ Loved ones feel intrusive
↳ You call it "distractions"

➝ Joy gets postponed
↳ Always chasing the next win

You’re not fulfilled.
You’re just drained.


2/
➠ When Life Is Bigger Than Work

Now flip it.
Make life the frame. Let work sit inside it.

➝ You still care about work
↳ But not at life’s expense

➝ You rest, recharge
↳ And show up sharper

➝ You celebrate wins
↳ With people who matter

You’re no longer sacrificing.
You’re thriving with clarity.


3/
➠ Why This Matters More Than Ever

Everything changes fast.
Your title isn’t forever. Your wellbeing should be.

➝ Careers shift
↳ Roles vanish

➝ Companies change
↳ Titles fade

➝ Health, peace, love
↳ That’s the real legacy

Invest in what actually lasts.


4/
➠ Two Simple Power Moves

Don't overthink balance.
Build it into your daily routine.

➝ Guard your "Life anchors"
↳ Treat them as sacred meetings

➝ Create a daily work stop
↳ Define your off switch

Discipline in boundaries
creates freedom in life.


Final Thought:
Work is part of your life.
Not the point of your life.

If your life is a circle,
Make sure work isn’t the whole thing.

▶ What if burnout is self-inflicted?
▶ What if rest is the cheat code?
▶ What if “balance” isn’t soft, but strategic?

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Growth happens in the space between who you are
and the person you were meant to be.
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Before anything else, here’s the angle most people miss:

You’re not competing with the world.
You’re competing with the next version of you.

And that competitor never gets tired...

That’s why the chase matters more than the milestone.

That's what Matthew McConaughey knew well an led to more than "just" an Oscar win:


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➠ The future self that never stops moving

 ➝ Your hero stays ten years ahead
 ↳ Always further
 ↳ Always better
 ↳ Always out of reach

We start here because this is the foundation: the future version of you isn’t a trophy. It’s a target that refuses to stand still.


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➠ Time reshapes who you want to become

 ➝ Growth shifts your definition of “ideal”
 ↳ New standards
 ↳ New clarity
 ↳ New goals

And as time moves, so do you.
Your definition of “better” evolves because you evolve.


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➠ Self-reflection keeps you honest

 ➝ Checking progress reveals the truth
 ↳ What’s working
 ↳ What’s missing
 ↳ What’s next

This is where the internal audit comes in.
No sugar-coating. 
No excuses. 
Just a clear view of where you stand.


4/
➠ The unattainable target is the useful one

 ➝ You’re not meant to catch your hero
 ↳ It stretches you
 ↳ It humbles you
 ↳ It disciplines you

The point isn’t arrival.
The point is pursuit.
The chase creates the growth.


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➠ Who you chase shapes who you become

 ➝ Aim at a version worth becoming
 ↳ More aligned
 ↳ More intentional
 ↳ More fulfilled

Because in the end, the future you becomes the architect of your present decisions.
And that’s where real transformation happens.


The standards of your future self
slowly become the standards of your current life.

If the person you were meant to be is still ahead of you,
what does that demand from you today?


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8 Small Shifts That Will Solve 80% Of Your Problems
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Sometimes, we look for big solutions when it’s the small tweaks that unlock the biggest doors.


These shifts aren’t radical. 
They’re practical. 
And that’s why they work.


Let’s break them down - one shift at a time:


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➠ Assume People Have Good Intentions
➝ You can’t read minds
↳ So stop acting like you can

➝ Bad assumptions drain peace
↳ Good ones open connection

➝ Choose belief over suspicion
↳ It hurts less


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➠ Avoid Using Negative Words
➝ “I can’t” is mental trash
↳ Stop repeating failure

➝ Language programs mindset
↳ Every word counts

➝ Talk trash - live trash
↳ You’re better than that


3/
➠ Celebrate More Frequently
➝ Wins deserve space
↳ Big or small

➝ Acknowledge before you rush
↳ Growth needs pause

➝ Clap for yourself
↳ Even quietly


4/
➠ Decide You Must Achieve Your Goals
➝ “I’ll try” gives you a backdoor
↳ Close it

➝ Use “I must” instead
↳ Power lives there

➝ Remove wriggle space
↳ Clarity follows


5/
➠ Define “Failure” as “Failing to Take Action”
➝ No action = real failure
↳ Movement matters

➝ You control effort
↳ Not outcome

➝ Stop fearing results
↳ Start moving


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➠ Don’t Waste Energy on Hate
➝ Hate is self-harm
↳ Drains your life

➝ Fix it or drop it
↳ No middle

➝ Forgive. Forget. Move.
↳ Heal faster


7/
➠ Don’t Take Yourself So Seriously
➝ Laugh at yourself
↳ Or others will

➝ Humor builds influence
↳ People follow lightness

➝ Lighten up
↳ Power lives here


8/
➠ Don’t Try to Win Every Argument
➝ Not every battle is worth it
↳ Let some go

➝ “Winning” is ego
↳ Choose strategy

➝ Ask what’s next
↳ Then lead


Big shifts start small.
Start here. Start now.


▶ What shift have you avoided the longest?
▶ What would change if you only applied one?
▶ What would happen if you applied all eight?


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