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# ![@oprydai Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1165233803176095745.png) @oprydai Mustafa

Mustafa posts on X about math, if you, systems, future the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1165233803176095745/interactions)
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- X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXXX +3,334%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +655%

### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1165233803176095745/posts_active)
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- X Week XX -XX%
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- X Months XXX +2,318%
- X Year XXXXX +1,290%

### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1165233803176095745/followers)
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- X Week XXXXXX +2.50%
- X Month XXXXXX +16%
- X Months XXXXXX +498%
- X Year XXXXXX +730%

### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1165233803176095745/influencer_rank)
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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  X% [stocks](/list/stocks)  X% [finance](/list/finance)  X% [products](/list/products)  X% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  X% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  X%

**Social topic influence**
[math](/topic/math) #443, [if you](/topic/if-you) #3849, [systems](/topic/systems) #347, [future](/topic/future) #859, [not for](/topic/not-for) #173, [intuition](/topic/intuition) #92, [the world](/topic/the-world) #2177, [theory](/topic/theory) #1054, [art](/topic/art) 3%, [lives of](/topic/lives-of) #264

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"yeah a macbook is cool; but always keep an ubuntu machine as backup; just in case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999533051051643076)  2025-12-12T17:33Z 45.2K followers, 6984 engagements


"disappear. do math. study physics learn to code. come back stronger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000592653608763420)  2025-12-15T15:43Z 45.2K followers, 73.7K engagements


"any sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from art"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1982844655248314768)  2025-10-27T16:19Z 45.2K followers, 854.2K engagements


"if youre in software pivot to electronics. because the next decade isnt about writing apps. its about wiring intelligence into matter. software is saturated. electronics is starving for talent. chips sensors power electronics motor drivers RF embedded systems PCB design; these are the foundations of every real-world intelligent machine being built right now. the future is physical: robots drones autonomous vehicles industrial automation medical devices energy systems wearables smart infrastructure. every one of them needs people who understand electrons not just abstractions. software gives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1992567851769819613)  2025-11-23T12:16Z 45.2K followers, 589.2K engagements


"if i had to revise mathematics for the modern age i'd rebuild it for engineers not for exam rooms. start from operations not abstractions. start from systems not symbols. start from behavior not proofs. the new sequence: numerical intuition numbers as compressed descriptions of reality. scaling. orders of magnitude. approximation over exactness. functions as machines inputs transformations outputs. no f(x) worship. treat functions as modular components in a pipeline. calculus as dynamics derivatives as sensitivity. integrals as accumulation. everything rooted in motion feedback energy and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1993335137015414856)  2025-11-25T15:05Z 45.2K followers, 830K engagements


"the fastest way to become useful: pick one hard domain and tear it apart until the pieces feel obvious. you dont need talent. you need immersion. bury yourself in the primitives. understand the lowest-level units of the craft so deeply that higher layers become trivial. every real skill is built this way: circuits hardware intuition calculus control systems mechanics robotics algorithms systems design once the primitives click complexity collapses. most people run from difficulty. they jump to frameworks shortcuts abstractions. then wonder why they never become dangerous. stop stacking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1997276243532914872)  2025-12-06T12:05Z 45.2K followers, 110.2K engagements


"a direct walk through how modern chips actually operate from transistors to billion-unit architectures; this book is the clearest bridge between semiconductor physics and real hardware design"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1997939456842834003)  2025-12-08T08:01Z 45.2K followers, 2622 engagements


"how to start in robotics; the only way that actually works: with your hands in the hardware. not courses. not playlists. not frameworks. hardware. the path is blunt and linear: step 1: buy a microcontroller. any. arduino esp32 stm32. step 2: blink an led. step 3: read sensors. imu ultrasonic encoder whatever you can afford. step 4: drive actuators. dc motor servo stepper. make something move with code you wrote. step 5: close the loop. add feedback. make the movement precise repeatable predictable. step 6: build small robots. line follower balancing bot rover whatever forces you to merge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999125422685008061)  2025-12-11T14:33Z 45.2K followers, 60.5K engagements


"traces the lives of historys greatest multi-talented thinkers. this book explores how figures from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag combined skills knowledge and curiosity to reshape their worlds; essential reading for anyone who refuses to fit in one lane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000553955315896751)  2025-12-15T13:10Z 45.2K followers, 34.2K engagements


"the engineering of a mecha bonsai tree; it looks like art. it is pure engineering discipline. a bonsai is constraint made visible. a mecha bonsai is constraint quantified. structure every branch is a load path problem. cantilevered elements bending moments fatigue at joints. nothing decorative survives gravity without math. kinematics branches articulate with limited degrees of freedom. rotation ranges chosen to look organic not optimal. engineering that hides its equations. actuation micro servos tendons or cable drives routed like muscles. torque where growth would naturally thicken."  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000981311193014543)  2025-12-16T17:28Z 45.2K followers, 5401 engagements


"The pursuit of "being cracked""  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1930167702733074600)  2025-06-04T07:40Z 45.2K followers, 287.6K engagements


"how to research; properly. most people google and scroll. real researchers hunt map and build. heres the generalized approach that actually works; in any field: X. start with a question not a topic. how can we make small drones navigate indoors is better than indoor drones. questions focus your search; topics scatter it. X. map the landscape. read abstracts skim tables of contents note recurring keywords. youre not reading; youre building a mental map of what exists and whos leading it. X. find the frontier. where do papers start saying future work includes thats where the frontier lives."  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1984263500085301379)  2025-10-31T14:17Z 45.2K followers, 89K engagements


"patterns in the lives of great people if you study enough biographies documentaries interviews; you start to see repeating structures. different lives same architecture. heres the blueprint almost all great people share: X. a period of intense isolation they disappear for years. you think they fell off; but thats when theyre cooking. deep work. obsession. long lonely nights. they resurface with something that changes the game. X. an early spark some childhood moment that burns into their brain. a teacher a machine a failure a movie a sound. something that makes them go I want to understand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1984659590475366916)  2025-11-01T16:31Z 45.2K followers, 383K engagements


"ROS is free Gazebo is free Isaac Sim is free RViz is free MoveIt is free PX4 and ArduPilot are free OpenCV is free PCL is free TensorFlow and PyTorch are free KiCad is free Fusion360 is free for hobbyists Linux is free a laptop an internet connection and an obsession with robots; thats enough to start building machines that move in the real world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1995354226600603996)  2025-12-01T04:48Z 45.2K followers, 51K engagements


"if you are in electronics pivot to mechanical engineering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1996664467267244267)  2025-12-04T19:34Z 45.2K followers, 22.3K engagements


"if you are in electronics pivot to robotics;"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1997608611892408615)  2025-12-07T10:06Z 45.2K followers, 14.6K engagements


"physics gives you read access to the universe engineering gives you write access"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1998627979761782897)  2025-12-10T05:36Z 45.2K followers, 60.6K engagements


"theres a strange pattern I keep seeing in high-leverage people: they all have a secret project theyve been quietly building for years. not for money. not for clout. not for pitches. something irrational. obsessive. technically impossible on paper. a folder full of weird experiments. a notebook of diagrams that dont look like anything mainstream. a prototype nobody has seen. a system that shouldnt work but somehow does. every breakthrough you admire started as one of these private delusions' the kind people would mock if they ever saw them too early. the kind you only build when nobody is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1998712220050436150)  2025-12-10T11:11Z 45.2K followers, 73.5K engagements


"one of your 2026 goals should be a home-lab;"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1998772127164764424)  2025-12-10T15:09Z 45.2K followers, 53.3K engagements


"be a modern polymath; not the romantic version. the functional one. stack domains until they fuse into leverage. learn code so you can automate. learn electronics so you can build. learn mechanics so you can design. learn physics so you can reason. learn math so you can model. learn systems thinking so you can integrate. learn history so you can see patterns. learn finance so you can fund your ideas. learn writing so you can transmit your mind with precision. the goal isnt to know everything. the goal is cross-domain mobility. the ability to move from software to hardware to strategy to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999500477374046268)  2025-12-12T15:23Z 45.2K followers, 107.5K engagements


"the art of computational lithography at ASML"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999523907536121877)  2025-12-12T16:57Z 45.2K followers, 4007 engagements


"how to get your hands dirty in CAD modeling step by step: X. pick a real object not a tutorial part. not a cube. pick something you can touch: a lamp hinge phone stand clamp bracket. X. measure it brutally use calipers. ruler. eyeballing when needed. learn where precision matters and where it doesnt. this is engineering taste. X. choose one CAD tool and stay fusion. solidworks. onshape. doesnt matter. tool hopping kills depth. mastery comes from repetition. X. start with primitives only sketch rectangles circles lines. extrude. cut. fillet. chamfer. no fancy features. fundamentals first. 5."  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000515622346866796)  2025-12-15T10:37Z 45.2K followers, 96.1K engagements


"study math. not for grades. not for exams. but because math rewires how you think. it teaches you precision in chaos. how to see structure where others see noise. how to break a giant messy problem into clean solvable chunks. every great engineer physicist and builder; whether they admit it or not; stands on mathematical intuition. math sharpens your reasoning. it builds pattern recognition. it gives you the language of reality. if you can think mathematically you can think about anything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000539572317598006)  2025-12-15T12:12Z 45.2K followers, 94.7K engagements


"to master anything you must become three people. the artist. you feel the thing. you develop taste. you notice whats elegant whats ugly whats off. you care about form intuition and expression. without the artist your work is correct but dead. the scientist. you break the thing apart. you test measure falsify. you build models run experiments accept when youre wrong. without the scientist your work is pretty but fragile. the lover. you stay. you obsess. you return even when its boring painful or slow. you protect the craft from shortcuts. without the lover you quit the moment novelty fades."  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000605692672315560)  2025-12-15T16:35Z 45.2K followers, 59.8K engagements


"the principles behind steve jobs vision: start with taste not technology; technology was never the point. taste was. jobs believed most people dont know what they want until you show it to them. vision comes from cultivated judgment not surveys. end to end control: hardware software interface distribution. own the whole stack. integration beats optimization. elegance emerges when one mind is responsible for the entire experience. simplicity is ruthless subtraction: simplicity is not minimalism. it is saying no to a thousand good ideas. clarity is achieved by removing not adding. reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000979478869381201)  2025-12-16T17:20Z 45.2K followers, 30.7K engagements


"NASA has a Pinterest page and i want you to explore it;"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2001197516088295548)  2025-12-17T07:47Z 45.2K followers, 1376 engagements


"key engineering principles that apply everywhere: - conservation: nothings free. every action costs energy time or complexity. - feedback: everything that runs without feedback eventually fails. loops keep systems alive. - redundancy: failure is not if but when. design for graceful degradation. - modularity: divide to understand. recombine to create. every complex thing is built from simpler parts. - tolerance: perfection breaks under noise. robust systems allow for variation. - optimization vs robustness: faster is usually more fragile. balance both. - interfaces: clarity at the boundaries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2001349070418518375)  2025-12-17T17:49Z 45.2K followers, 4012 engagements


"i don't know what it means to have a bangers badge. I have one now but I'm more curious about the implications and the genuine value it will bring to my audience or me. seems like none just a title"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1988060069737755115)  2025-11-11T01:43Z 44.9K followers, 103.6K engagements


"if youre diving into: robotics fundamentals actuators motors gears drivetrains sensors: IMUs encoders cameras LiDAR kinematics: forward inverse Jacobians dynamics & control: PID LQR MPC ROS2 rviz2 gazebo full middleware stacks motion planning: A* RRT* optimization-based planners SLAM: lidar visual inertial fusion drones and aerial autonomy complete autonomy pipelines: perception mapping planning control embedded systems MCUs real-time firmware power systems batteries BMS CAD mechanical design tolerances supply chain manufacturing DFM/DFA product design from prototype production software"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1991016250605191428)  2025-11-19T05:30Z 44.9K followers, 48.8K engagements


"engineers who design anything tangible need this this book lays out the visual thinking modeling discipline and geometric fundamentals behind real-world design work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1996588864928985161)  2025-12-04T14:34Z 44.7K followers, 12.7K engagements


"study physics. not for grades. not for a job. not for prestige. study it because it rewires your brain into a precision instrument. you learn how the world actually works not how you wish it worked. forces energy momentum fields signals feedback invariants. the core patterns that everything else in engineering copies. you stop thinking in vibes and start thinking in constraints. you stop thinking in opinions and start thinking in equations. you stop thinking in stories and start thinking in systems. physics becomes the mental operating system that lets you handle robotics hardware batteries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1997690545750286707)  2025-12-07T15:31Z 45.1K followers, 29K engagements


"engineering is beautiful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1997710635199771018)  2025-12-07T16:51Z 44.9K followers, 194.3K engagements


"study photolithography. if you care about hardware chips robotics autonomy national power future industry; this is one domain you cant ignore; one introductory book. cover to cover. finish it. youll learn how the modern world is actually manufactured. how patterns shrink. how alignment works. how masks resists etching deposition and process windows define the limits of computation itself. understanding photolithography means understanding the real bottleneck of civilization. the thing every advanecd technology standss on. the constraint nobody escapes. read one book. absorb the fundamentals."  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1997935986282574315)  2025-12-08T07:47Z 44.9K followers, 8490 engagements


"engineering is beautiful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1998358543255368033)  2025-12-09T11:46Z 44.8K followers, 9756 engagements


"robotics sits on physics. robots move because of physics. control theory is physics. autonomy is physics. dynamics is physics. kinematics is physics. sensors are physics. actuators are physics. force torque momentum; pure physics. perception depends on physics. SLAM is geometry + physics. drones fly because of physics. arms hold position because of physics. legged robots balance because of physics. your entire robotics stack survives on physics. youre still asking if you need physics for robotics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1998435098199544044)  2025-12-09T16:50Z 45.1K followers, 19.7K engagements


"engineering is beautiful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999098494909571208)  2025-12-11T12:46Z 44.7K followers, 7300 engagements


"a look at how Alex Karp and Palantir turned data into geopolitical leverage. it exposes the philosophy power structures and surveillance machinery behind one of the most influential tech companies of the century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999325507935207477)  2025-12-12T03:48Z 44.9K followers, 2830 engagements


"learn chinese"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999494499874275366)  2025-12-12T15:00Z 44.9K followers, 7489 engagements


"@grok summarize the replies; what are some valid reasons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999746034394931586)  2025-12-13T07:39Z 45.1K followers, 8483 engagements


"@grok @grok do it again; summarize the replies; and enlist all the valid reasons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000094079418548706)  2025-12-14T06:42Z 45.2K followers, XXX engagements


"WTH it blew up. 12M 😳"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1980182240186540295)  2025-10-20T08:00Z 45.2K followers, 1.1M engagements


"aight 25m 🙂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1980301487940174070)  2025-10-20T15:54Z 45.2K followers, 762.9K engagements


"how to study and learn really difficult subjects: X. dont panic. hard just means dense. its not impossible its just packed. unwrap it slowly. X. get a map before diving in. watch an overview video read the table of contents or skim the wikipedia page. you need context first. X. use multiple sources. one book will confuse you two will clarify three will enlighten. X. build intuition not memory. visualize it. simulate it. code it. teach it to a friend or a wall. X. tolerate confusion. youll feel dumb XX% of the time; thats the price of learning something that rewires your brain. X. connect it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1982093964909117797)  2025-10-25T14:36Z 45.2K followers, 718.4K engagements


"learn trigonometry its the math of motion rotation and waves; the hidden geometry behind everything that moves or oscillates. robots use it to walk. drones use it to stabilize. signals use it to transmit. light sound and mechanics; all obey sine and cosine. once you understand trig you stop memorizing formulas and start seeing relationships; how angles become distances how rotation becomes translation. if you ever want to truly understand engineering control physics or even computer graphics; start here. study trigonometry like its sacred geometry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1984114356624240751)  2025-10-31T04:25Z 45.2K followers, 1.7M engagements


"become a modern polymath study maths. lift weights. build robots. write code. read physics. design systems. learn AI. draw what you imagine. fix your mind. get your body strong. think deeply. build wealth. understand nature. master engineering philosophy and yourself. do it because you love building; not because you want applause"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1977960691651793400)  2025-10-14T04:52Z 45.2K followers, 1.4M engagements


"how a mathematician sees the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1979612933715120332)  2025-10-18T18:17Z 45.2K followers, 202.9M engagements


"theres a strange pattern you notice once youve built enough things: the world isnt held together by geniuses. its held together by obsessed people who picked one weird corner of reality and refused to look away. someone decided gears should mesh smoother. someone decided antennas should be smaller. someone decided metals should bend differently. someone decided flight controllers shouldnt drift. someone decided compilers should stop being stupid. someone decided batteries shouldnt explode. every normal object around you is a fossilized obsession. a decade-long tunnel vision from some engineer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999035773321109899)  2025-12-11T08:37Z 45.2K followers, 26.7K engagements


"when i get rich there will be signs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999493875300466869)  2025-12-12T14:57Z 45.2K followers, 15.2K engagements


"be a modern polymath. not the romantic version. the real one. the type built on stacked disciplines brutal rigor and cross-domain synthesis. learn physics so you can reason from first principles. learn mathematics so you can think in abstractions. learn software so you can build at scale. learn hardware so you can touch reality. learn economics so you understand incentives. learn history so you recognize patterns. learn biology so you see systems. learn design so your ideas interface with humans. a modern polymath isnt someone who knows a bit of everything. its someone who builds mental"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000556950862594502)  2025-12-15T13:22Z 45.2K followers, 8996 engagements


"phases of learning robotics: phase X curiosity you see a robot online think this is magic phase X basics arduino sensors motors. everything feels clunky but exciting. phase X reality check math hits you. kinematics dynamics control theory. you wonder if youre cut out for this. phase X systems thinking you stop seeing parts and start seeing the robot as a whole: hardware + software + electronics + math. phase X building your prototypes break. often. but each rebuild sharpens your instincts. phase X mastery you move past tutorials. you start creating your own architectures your own designs your"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000627834000400709)  2025-12-15T18:03Z 45.2K followers, 35.8K engagements


"high-iq minds share one trait: intellectual promiscuity. they flirt with ideas. they date concepts. they never marry one. they can read marx and nietzsche in the same afternoon quote the quran and quantum physics in the same breath build a circuit board while questioning metaphysics. true intelligence isnt loyal. it betrays beliefs the second better evidence appears. it doesnt believe in ideas; it plays with them. tests them. breaks them. recombines them. low-iq minds arent dumb; theyre just addicted to certainty. they need a single framework to feel safe. one ideology to belong to. but the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000977161331859932)  2025-12-16T17:11Z 45.2K followers, 84.1K engagements


"is this the cure to male depression"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2001178212592697431)  2025-12-17T06:30Z 45.2K followers, 5772 engagements


"everyones obsessed with humanoid robots right now; and for good reason. the humanoid form isnt about copying humans its about compatibility with a world built for humans. doors stairs shelves tools; everything is designed around our dimensions. if a robot can move balance and manipulate like us it can work where we work. thats why every major robotics company is chasing this: tesla optimus figure XX agibot unitree apptronik; all different hardware same endgame. once humanoids reach cost-efficiency and reliability the entire labor system changes. theyll start in factories move to logistics and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1980303449997852864)  2025-10-20T16:01Z 45.2K followers, 144.3K engagements


"dont overthink robotics. learn the primitives that actually make machines intelligent: learn kinematics (forward + inverse) learn dynamics (forces torques energy flow) learn control theory (PID LQR MPC) learn estimation (Kalman filters sensor fusion) learn SLAM (mapping + localization) learn perception (stereo depth point clouds) learn motion planning (RRT A* trajectory optimization) learn grasping & manipulation (contact mechanics) learn real-time systems (ROS2 middleware RTOS) learn hardware fundamentals (motors drivers actuators) robots arent magic. theyre layers of math control and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1992140969727406241)  2025-11-22T07:59Z 45.2K followers, 135.8K engagements


"if youre in software pivot to hardware. now is the window. the world is being rebuilt in atoms not just bits. energy grids batteries robotics autonomy manufacturing materials; all undergoing phase-change. software alone is saturated. hardware is starving for talent. the tooling is cheaper. the docs are everywhere. the components are accessible. the ecosystems are open. the demand is insane. every major frontier today has a hardware bottleneck. robots need actuators. ai needs sensors. grids need controllers. batteries need bms. factories need automation. cities need devices. software guys who"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1995349023616803094)  2025-12-01T04:27Z 45.2K followers, 63.3K engagements


"get in debt if you must but build a home-lab; your children will thank you for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1996257146674217039)  2025-12-03T16:36Z 45.2K followers, 67.9K engagements


"common patterns in the lives of the greats exist. you see them everywhere once you know what to look for. name them. track them. copy them. the monastic block long uninterrupted stretches of isolation where they think build write design solve. deep work as a lifestyle not a tactic. the obsession loop they pick one domain and loop through it endlessly: study build test refine repeat. years disappear inside a single problem set. the subtraction principle removing noise. removing people. removing commitments. removing anything that slows the rate of learning. the apprenticeship phase intense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1997013603506180147)  2025-12-05T18:42Z 45.2K followers, 67.9K engagements


"study quantum computing. stop treating it like some mythical domain reserved for prodigies. read one introductory book cover to cover. thats it. not a phd. not a specialization. one book. because the value isnt in becoming a quantum researcher. the value is in expanding the shape of your mind. you learn to think in amplitudes probabilities superpositions. you learn why information behaves differently at the edge of physics. you learn what computation looks like when classical limits collapse. and once your mind stretches to that scale everything else feels simpler. classical algorithms."  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1997338504368697414)  2025-12-06T16:13Z 45.2K followers, 46.7K engagements


"you simply can't beat the aesthetics of transparent design"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1998045803747934523)  2025-12-08T15:03Z 45.2K followers, 51.5K engagements


"engineering is beautiful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1998288596043010283)  2025-12-09T07:08Z 45.2K followers, 24.1K engagements


"this is all you need to get started in hardware"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999488859361657189)  2025-12-12T14:37Z 45.2K followers, 53.3K engagements


"what's stopping you from becoming an engineer like him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/1999692802335342637)  2025-12-13T04:08Z 45.2K followers, 61.3K engagements


"build a hardware home lab. your future self will thank you. a desk with a laptop teaches theory. a bench with tools teaches reality. when you have parts around you ideas turn physical. you stop arguing online and start testing. you learn tolerances noise heat failure friction. you learn why datasheets lie and why systems break at the edges. a hardware lab changes how you think. you design with constraints. you debug with your hands. you respect manufacturing supply chains and time. it doesnt need to be fancy. a power supply. a scope. a multimeter. motors. sensors. microcontrollers. fasteners."  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000078665636630673)  2025-12-14T05:41Z 45.2K followers, 13.7K engagements


"dont die with a notebook full of ideas. ideas are cheap. notebooks are full. graves are too. an idea that never leaves paper never meets reality. never gets punched by constraints. never earns the right to exist. execution is where ideas become honest. where weak ones die fast. where strong ones grow teeth. build the ugly first version. show it to people. let it fail publicly. iterate until it works or teaches you why it wont. the world doesnt reward thinkers. it rewards builders who think while building. ship something. anything. a bad prototype beats a perfect idea every time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000134559963230387)  2025-12-14T09:23Z 45.2K followers, 9032 engagements


"most people dont fail because theyre stupid. they fail because they live in demo mode. they read. they watch. they save tabs. they nod along. nothing ever compiles. nothing ever ships. the brain rewards recognition the same way it rewards achievement. so people confuse understanding with progress. real learning hurts. real building breaks things. real thinking forces you to admit you were wrong yesterday. thats why most people stay theoretical forever. theory never humiliates you. execution does. and humiliation is the tuition fee for competence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000242283875381440)  2025-12-14T16:31Z 45.2K followers, 44.6K engagements


"if you want to future-proof your career; stop chasing hype and start building in the foundations that the future literally runs on. heres where the real action will be for the next XX years: advanced manufacturing artificial intelligence autonomous robots battery storage edge computing distributed energy secure communication quantum computing nanomaterials & microelectronics space launch & spacecraft critical minerals & components grid resilience 6G nuclear energy cybersecurity command & control systems these are not buzzwords; theyre national power levers. theyll define which countries stay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000540096328544515)  2025-12-15T12:15Z 45.2K followers, 314K engagements


"everyone hides behind titles. im a generalist. im a specialist. thats usually a polite way of opting out of real understanding. what actually scales is polymathy. a polymath isnt someone who knows everything. its someone who can pick up any field to the 80/20 level fast enough to make correct trade-offs. that ability doesnt come from sampling opinions. it comes from studying theories with maximum reach. physics is the highest-leverage one. physics teaches how reality behaves when you stop negotiating with it. no narratives. no vibes. no moral shortcuts. youre wrong or the experiment works."  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000611040934203798)  2025-12-15T16:56Z 45.2K followers, 10.7K engagements


"i had this friend back in college; brilliant guy. hed spend nights building random games writing weird algorithms just because he could. never for grades never for recognition; just pure obsession with building. he was the smartest person i knew. the kind who didnt even need to try. everyone knew he was the class topper; but he only had two friends. me and one other guy. he never went out. never talked to anyone. just sat in his room building stuff no one ever saw. fast forward a few years; hes at a stable job now quiet low profile doing okay. but every time i talk to him i can hear it; that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2000974213218492686)  2025-12-16T17:00Z 45.2K followers, 143.2K engagements


"pro tip: have late night coffee with the boyzz once in a while"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2001012136924086596)  2025-12-16T19:30Z 45.2K followers, 2098 engagements


"taste in engineering. you can teach someone to code wire or design circuits. you cant teach taste. taste is when you can look at a system and just feel its elegant. you know when a mechanism is overdesigned. you know when a PCB layout flows well. you know when an algorithm is beautiful; not just functional. its that quiet sense that tells you: this is good engineering. not because its complex; but because its clean efficient inevitable. taste comes from building breaking rebuilding reading datasheets staring at other peoples designs and realizing why they made certain tradeoffs. most"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2001346648040181982)  2025-12-17T17:39Z 45.2K followers, 6048 engagements


"math as a way of seeing patterns not a talent youre born with. this book trains critical and logical thinking for people who think they arent math people and proves that belief wrong;"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oprydai/status/2001350891455287442)  2025-12-17T17:56Z 45.2K followers, 2830 engagements