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Big money and freedom begin where your routine ends.

Many people confuse daily grind with efficiency. They take pride in controlling every step: posting content themselves, dealing with clients or partners themselves, manually crunching spreadsheets themselves. That's not "control," that's literally being enslaved by your own micromanagement.

The Matrix is when you yourself become a cog in the algorithm that was supposed to work for you.

The whole difference between a craftsman and a founder is that the first sells his time, while the second builds a conveyor belt. If a process can be programmed, it must be automated. After that, it's a question of scale.

As Tinkov said: "Real business is when you can leave for the other end of the world for six months, turn off your phone, and when you come back — not only is everything still running, it has grown without you. If everything falls apart — it's not a business, you just created a job for yourself."

Overthinking. The most effective yet underrated tool against stress and anxiety was articulated two thousand years ago by Jesus Christ:

"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

Thousands of years later, Bezos translated the same idea into an entrepreneur's language:

Stress doesn't come from hard work. It primarily comes from not taking action on something you can control. Stress comes from ignoring things you shouldn't be ignoring.

We get anxious when we channel today's energy into fear of a tomorrow that hasn't come and isn't guaranteed to anyone. We run through dozens of scenarios, worry about consequences, but never make that one call, never send the email, never make the decision.

Not worrying about tomorrow doesn't mean giving up on plans, responsibility, and the future. Quite the opposite. It means thinking about the future through the lens of today's actions.

Make the call. Send the email. Make the decision. Start solving the problem, even if you can't close it out fully today.

As long as you stay stuck in your head, you're helpless against your own anxiety. The moment you start acting, you take back control. The problem may not be solved yet, but the feeling of helplessness is already giving way to a sense of motion and progress.

Focus not on what was or what might happen, but on what you're capable of doing today.

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I've already written about this project before. The platform will be super useful for entrepreneurs, as well as for those who run a tg channel or want to attract users via their referral link to a bot or miniapp.

I want to kick off the work week with the words of Professor Jiang Xueqin: Don't chase pussy.

📉 The Russian stock market is tumbling amid UAV strikes on Ozon and Wildberries warehouses.

Don’t chase pussy.

Stripe is buying OpenRouter for roughly $8B. Back in spring the startup was valued at $1.3B, and now its price has grown 5–6x in literally a few months.

OpenRouter launched in 2023, but has already become a single entry point to 400+ AI models for 8M developers and companies. Around 25 trillion tokens flow through the platform every week.

But here's what really matters: Stripe isn't buying just another neural net. They're buying the infrastructure layer between business and all the models at once (an aggregator business model, a SuperApp if you will): routing, picking the optimal model by price and quality, fallback providers, and cost control.

In AI, huge money will be made not only by model creators. For example, Perplexity with Syntx AI, and Higgsfield along with Cursor, are examples of such businesses that turned from startups into unicorns in literally a couple of years.

Funny thing — OpenRouter used to be called "the Stripe for AI." In the end, Stripe itself bought it. Ironic, isn't it 👀