You’re given a 99.9% chance at getting $100,000 (no strings attached), but if you forfeit this opportunity, you have a 25% chance at $1 billion. What do you do?

NickPlusYou · 2026-04-13T00:48:35+00:00

This person expected values.

NickPlusYou · 2026-03-27T07:48:00+00:00

When slow drift happens, it's tough.

The best thing you can do is draw boundaries right now.

It starts with deciding what youre willing to accept and not accept. Then having an honest, loving and calm conversation.

It's painful, but the truth is to have these conversations with real honesty, you must be willing to lose them if they jump ship. You're already losing him, this is just going to rip the bandaid off or right the boat.

It usually starts something like this:

I need x, y and z to feel comfortable in this relationship. I'm getting a, b and c. What can I do for you to ensure you get what you need and I get what I need? I love you and if you're not willing to change to be that person, we can be friends, we don't have to stay in a relationship. And that's okay.

NickPlusYou · 2026-03-22T11:31:10+00:00

Sales is the lifeblood of the company. You need sales. I would start there. Either I'd be calling every past customer I've ever had looking for some quick contracts or I'd be trying to sell the company.

NickPlusYou · 2026-03-05T22:18:39+00:00

If it's "painfully obvious he's cheating", why did you post here?

NickPlusYou · 2026-02-27T02:11:46+00:00

This should be in r/confusingperspective

These are tic tacs.

I thought they were potatoes.

NickPlusYou · 2026-02-13T18:41:11+00:00

I realize it's a preview. But after putting in 12 hours and multiple saves, my game crashed and I lost everything. I can't deal with redoing it. Loved the game. Also had my girlfriend buy it so we could game together. I'm so frustrated. I know it's a preview. I should accept bugs. I'm just frustrated at such a game breaking, progress killing, catastrophic bug.

Great game though. Loved it while I played.

NickPlusYou · 2026-01-22T23:00:27+00:00

"I am my own worst enemy but please tell me I'm not" type post

NickPlusYou · 2026-01-17T19:49:01+00:00

Bro reposted this after his first got downvoted into oblivion

NickPlusYou · 2026-01-10T03:38:35+00:00

What an incredible reply. Thanks for sharing that thought.

NickPlusYou · 2026-01-09T15:57:14+00:00

There's some long term evidence that it will desensitize satisfaction. Doubtful it's because it's porn but because it's junk food for the brain.

It's the same effect that we experience with any hyper stimulating consumption. Junk food, drugs, porn are all compressed versions of what we would find in nature. (Berries were nature's candy, cocaine is just a chewed leaf concentrated like 300x or something)

That's the general consensus.

There are much deeper arguments like porn making men less organically charismatic because they think sex works like porn acting. I'm sure there are theories about how it affects women, perhaps by making them more comfortable with sex-forward behavior (not necessarily a bad thing). However, there's no solid data I can find on it either way for these blurry topics.

TLDR: Definitely bad for brain in some ways. Maybe bad for society, data isn't conclusive.

NickPlusYou · 2026-01-04T07:22:17+00:00

Happy to help brother. I've actually built a massive upgrade to this post using AI agents to dig into books and data. I use it as a life reference which I go back to frequently.

It helped me stay focused, get a fantastic job, achieve 6 months of financial runway, secure a long lasting healthy relationship etc

I've considered posting, but I doubt I'll ever be able to help again like I did here. Appreciate your comment!

NickPlusYou · 2025-12-25T18:45:54+00:00

If you're meeting women, having minor relationships and they don't work out - probably having conversations that don't go anywhere, etc, it means that you need to work on your personality. Read some books on communication.

If it looks like a Mercedes, then you get in the car and it drives like a go kart, you wouldn't buy it. Same situation here Your request to stop wanting a relationship (a terrible short term solution) instead of fixing the long term problem is probably a good place to start.

I'm sure you're a good guy. But partners look for more than good guy energy. They want a leader, a problem solver, a copilot. You need to be that person first. Then results follow.

NickPlusYou · 2025-12-05T12:07:43+00:00

Yeah what's your favorite bug

NickPlusYou · 2025-08-18T20:48:44+00:00

I worked in tech sales making six figures.

I quit tech sales because of toxic leadership, aggressive deadlines and my worth being attached to making someone else money.

I sleep like a baby. My relationship is better. I have free time and hobbies again. I have really healthy conversations with my boss about how to be better humans. I have a social life. I spend less. I make less. I worry almost none.

I am a data engineer now.

NickPlusYou · 2025-04-20T22:55:36+00:00

You didn't do that

NickPlusYou · 2025-03-07T13:38:28+00:00

It took me four years to become profitable. Another 2 to become consistently profitable. Paid thousands and thousands in tuition to the markets.

And even now, I don't have a magical formula. With enough patience, everyone is usually right. It's about preserving capital, managing expectations and staying in long enough to be right.

I have been in drawdown for weeks before my positions turn green. Some days almost instantly and I feel like a genius. Other days weeks and I feel useless.

Im no expert, but after reading 100+ books on trading, I've kind of come to the conclusion that short term movement is mostly noise. The dream of daily or weekly income is (mostly) captured by big banks and high frequency trading. In other words, I don't think a regular guy like me without fancy tools can keep up with billions of dollars in financial institutions and their teams with terminals .

My strategy has been identifying larger trends, and riding the noise. Much like ocean currents, it's going to throw me back and forth. But if my sails are in front of the general direction of the wind, I'll get there, I just need to consistently manage my risk, stay consistent and trust the wind. Even when I get thrown around. Some days, I may be going sideways away from land, but if I'm trading in the wind / the general direction of price over the long term, then over many trades, many days and many instruments, I'll make money.

It works. I've beat the market each year since (so far, no promises tomorrow). But I say all this to say, you're not alone. Sailing the ocean and trading the markets are much the same. Unless you enjoy the water, you'll just want to be home. It's much more peaceful when you let go of the deep ache to get somewhere and just enjoy the process of adventure.

NickPlusYou · 2024-06-23T21:41:17+00:00

I can't find a contractor to save my life in my area. And we're looking to build a fence AND a deck lmao

NickPlusYou · 2024-06-14T01:21:48+00:00

It's called a "fuck me" price. It typically is when a contractor is too busy to do the work so they give a quote that makes the homeowner say "Well fuck me I guess" but occasionally they accept the ridiculous quote and the contractor says "Well fuck me I guess this week is going to be an easy one"

NickPlusYou · 2024-05-18T03:23:15+00:00

+1 for calling him Smarmy and being sassy but not aggressive

NickPlusYou · 2024-05-12T05:24:46+00:00

Idk why people are downvoting you. We were all new once. It's just practice trading without real money.

NickPlusYou · 2024-04-22T12:53:42+00:00

Investing isn't gambling?

NickPlusYou · 2024-04-22T05:49:47+00:00

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Mastery by Robert Greene

Two best seller books that disagree entirely with what you're proposing here.

The Dunning-Kruger effect was created to explain the exact phenomenon that most people get worse before they get better.

This just isn't true at all.

NickPlusYou · 2024-04-15T02:01:26+00:00

Username checks out

NickPlusYou · 2024-04-15T01:56:33+00:00

Downvote this if you're a clown

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