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There’s a distance even physics can’t conquer.
My friend is in love with a woman thousands of miles away.
"The most disturbing distance in the universe isn't the physical one," he said. "At least physical distance isn't time distance. 2,000 miles is nothing compared to falling in love with someone who lived 2,000 years ago. Now that would be a pain in the ass."
He's right. In physics, space isn't the only distance, and it's certainly not the hardest one to conquer.
"But you know what the most disturbing distance is?" he asked me.
"There's a distance even harder to conquer than time?"
"Yes."
"What is it?"
"The distance between two minds."
Technology will bring two people together across space. Maybe one day, even across time.
But if you have to change her mind to close that last distance, would she still be the same she?
In 1894, Mahler was stuck. He’d been working on his Second Symphony for years and couldn’t find the ending.
Then he went to the funeral of Hans von BĂĽlow, a famous conductor who had never liked his music.
At the service, a choir sang a hymn called “Aufersteh’n.” Rise again.
Mahler later wrote that it struck him like lightning. He had his ending.
That’s what you’re hearing here. A choir rising out of silence. Then the full orchestra, the organ, the bells, and a line he wrote himself:
“Sterben werd’ ich, um zu leben!”
I will die, so that I may live.
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I’m Acun, a startup founder from San Diego.
I post short stories and reflections that people don’t usually encounter in everyday life — about faith, life, and the people I meet.
Let’s connect.
Acun Kaya retweeted
A priest once told me the greatest tragedy isn’t that a man has sinned, but that he refuses to face his sins.
He once knew a man who had an affair with a married woman. She got pregnant. The child was his, but her husband never knew. So another man raised his son, loved him, and called him his own. He watched from a distance, unable to say a word.
The man said nothing for three years, not to the husband, not to the boy, not to God. He believed he had already betrayed Him.
When he came to confess, the priest gave him a Psalm: “A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” Then he told him the hard part. Confession doesn’t undo anything. The truth may tear a family apart; silence lets another man live a lie; and there’s a child who never asked for any of this.
“I can’t promise it turns out well,” he said. “But whatever you choose, you carry it.”
Then he turned to me,
“Acun, every boat has holes. Water finds its way in. You can sit there blaming the boat, or pretend you don’t see the water because you’re ashamed. The water still rises. Or you get a bucket, bail it out, and repair what you can. Some holes are harder to fix. Some leave a mark. God never promised a perfect boat, but you never need one.”
Be honest, what’s the point of going to a mediocre college?
There are about 3,700 two- and four-year degree-granting colleges in the US.
A new forecast says 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private nonprofit four-year colleges, with 670,000 students combined, are at risk of closing or merging within the next 10 years. More than 120 are at the very highest risk.
And it’s not just outsiders saying it. 86% of college leaders say they’re worried about their own school’s long-term finances.
Imagine taking on years of debt for a degree from a school that might not exist by the time you’re 30.
Here’s the honest answer. The name on the diploma matters less every year. What matters is what you walk out with: skills, people, proof you can build something.
If a mediocre college gives you that at a fair price, go.
If it’s just four expensive years of waiting, you’re not buying an education. You’re buying a story you tell yourself.
I’m Acun. Startup founder.
I write short stories and reflections on technology, faith, life, and the people I meet.
I’m interested in the stories people carry but rarely tell.
Let’s connect!
A priest once told me the greatest tragedy isn’t that a man has sinned, but that he refuses to face his sins.
He once knew a man who had an affair with a married woman. She got pregnant. The child was his, but her husband never knew. So another man raised his son, loved him, and called him his own. He watched from a distance, unable to say a word.
The man said nothing for three years, not to the husband, not to the boy, not to God. He believed he had already betrayed Him.
When he came to confess, the priest gave him a Psalm: “A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” Then he told him the hard part. Confession doesn’t undo anything. The truth may tear a family apart; silence lets another man live a lie; and there’s a child who never asked for any of this.
“I can’t promise it turns out well,” he said. “But whatever you choose, you carry it.”
Then he turned to me,
“Acun, every boat has holes. Water finds its way in. You can sit there blaming the boat, or pretend you don’t see the water because you’re ashamed. The water still rises. Or you get a bucket, bail it out, and repair what you can. Some holes are harder to fix. Some leave a mark. God never promised a perfect boat, but you never need one.”
Acun Kaya retweeted
X ALGORITHM UPDATE 🚨
X just stopped cutting new posts first, and that should help small accounts (I check it daily with Claude and share updates worth sharing with you)
tl;dr:
- X can only check 2,800 posts each time you open your feed
- new posts used to be last in line, so they got cut first
- now everything gets cut equally, new posts included
- posts labeled low quality or misinfo now show a warning, and people can't like, reply or share them
- no score changes this time
lesson learned: your new posts now get a fair chance to be seen. Your first 2 hours still matter most.
full details:
- How it worked until this week
Every time someone opens For You, X collects around 3,700 posts it could show them: posts from people they follow, popular posts, posts liked by similar people, and brand new posts.
But X only has time to check 2,800 of them.
So it just took the first 2,800 in line. Brand new posts were at the back of the line. When there were too many, they were the ones left out... and a post that never gets checked can't be shown.
- What changed
Now everything gets cut by the same amount. 25% too many? Every type of post loses 25%, new posts included. Nobody goes first.
- Why small accounts should care
Those brand new posts are under 2 hours old, with under 8 likes and under 500 views. That's where most posts from smaller accounts are.
My read: they now get a fair chance instead of being cut first. How often X actually hits the 2,800 limit isn't in the code, so I can't tell you how big the difference is.
- Low quality and misinfo posts now show a warning
If X labels your post as low quality or misinformation, people who don't follow you see a warning on it, and they can't like, reply, repost, bookmark or share it. The code doesn't say what gets a post that label.
Here's a recap of what you should be doing:
- a new post gets its extra push only in its first 2 hours and first 200 views, so post when your people are online
- likes carry more weight than ever at 0.66 each
- people sticking around pays, the time-spent score is 50% higher than two weeks ago
- a read of 10+ seconds after someone opens your post adds 0.4
- the boost favors the post with the best like rate from its first viewers
- accounts up to 50K can get one fresh original lifted to roughly 16th
- nothing beats a copy link share, it scores 20
- replies, quotes and DM shares each score 5
- talk with your mutuals, replies between you score 20 instead of 5
- originals are the only posts that travel outside your follower base
- the 1st and the 32nd like each open a new route to strangers
- your 2nd post in the same feed is worth 62% of the first, so pick your best one
- videos still need 10+ seconds to qualify for the video lists
- earning a follow adds 4
- a pinned post with a bad link can flag the account for 7 days, worth a quick check
What you should NOT be doing:
- posts that get labeled low quality or misinfo now carry a warning, and nobody outside your followers can like or share them
- video alone won't carry you, an open counts 0.02 and the watch 0
- hide-worthy posts cost more, "not interested" sits at -52.27
- a post at 3am burns its 2 hour window before anyone sees it
- a tap that turns into a bounce is worth only 0.3
- replies and reposts don't get past your followers
- insults get your post hidden from anyone who doesn't follow you
- adult media in 3 of your last 5 posts puts a label on your account
- disguised content in videos gets checked from 64 likes, harder at 512
- self-reply chains under big accounts risk being zeroed
- one account label and non-followers stop seeing you entirely
- low-rated links don't belong in your pinned post
- recycled wording can get tagged as copypasta spam
- strangers tagged plus a low quality link is a pattern X flags
- engagement bait has no size exemption
- several posts in a row end up competing with each other
- hashtag stacks add nothing
- bookmarks are still worth 0
- 48 hours in, For You is finished with a post
Acun Kaya retweeted
God might be the world's first vibe coder.
Genesis 1:3: And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
No code, just a prompt.
He shipped the whole universe in six days. Looked at the output and saw that it was good, then took one day off.
He built humans in his own image and gave them free will, and we are still arguing whether this is a bug or a feature.
Acun Kaya retweeted
On a flight back to San Diego, I sat next to a middle-aged guy; he was a bit chubby, with blond hair, and had two bags of chips and a Diet Coke on his tray.
He was scrolling LinkedIn, and his feed was full of models and gymnasts. Yes -- LinkedIn.
I asked him what he does for a living.
“I’m a CEO,” he told me.
He was flying to San Diego on vacation with his wife. I looked around. Where’s his wife?
Business class. Up front.
He didn’t care. “It’s a four-hour flight. Whatever’s affordable.”
I asked him what matters most in business.
“Relentless and reckless.”
Most people I know are the opposite, super cautious about everything. The seat, the image, the feed. Every move approved by an imaginary board in their head.
This dude didn’t give a crap how anything looked. Not his snacks, not his seat, not his LinkedIn feed. He let his wife fly business, and decided to fly econ with his chips.
We live in a world full of performers. Everyone’s on stage, playing to an audience. But within those performers, there are people who stop caring who's watching. Most people are reckless with their money and careful with their image. They’ll fly business to look successful and post only what the imaginary board approves.
This dude was the opposite. Careful with money; reckless with his image.
That can make you relentless. It can also make your LinkedIn look like that.
Acun Kaya retweeted
Do something that makes you feel like this:
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” -- Albert Camus
He wrote that after WWII, he went back to a seaside town in French Algeria where he’d been happy as a young man. The world around him had gone cold, yet something inside him hadn’t.
Not the things that pay, nor the things that make you look good, but the things that keep you warm even when the world is cold.
People wait for summer to come; Camus found one inside his heart.
Winter will come anyway. Bring your own summer.
Acun Kaya retweeted
I was on a date once with a girl in the bio field.
I asked her: if we could multiply stem cells or lengthen our telomeres, couldn’t we live for hundreds of years?
She looked me in the eye. “Yes. But I don’t think we should ever do it.”
“Why?”
“Old people don’t change their minds. A world full of them would get more and more rigid.”
She’s not alone. Max Planck -- yes, the Planck -- once basically said, Science advances one funeral at a time.
I disagreed. And the first person who came to mind was my great-grandfather.
He was a bridge engineer. Ten years ago, right before he passed away, he was still teaching himself German. And philosophy.
He had no exam to pass, nor did he have a career to work for. He was learning for its own sake even until the very end.
So the question isn’t whether we should live longer.
It’s whether we’d spend the extra years the way he spent his last ones.
Acun Kaya retweeted
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Acun Kaya retweeted
BREAKING: Anthropic has publicly filed its S-1 investment prospectus, giving investors a look at the company's most important financial information ahead of its initial public offering.
The company, which will trade under the ticker symbol ANT, said it generated $16.3 billion in revenue in the six-month period that ended in June, more than the $4.6 billion the company saw in all of 2025.
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I was on a date once with a girl in the bio field.
I asked her: if we could multiply stem cells or lengthen our telomeres, couldn’t we live for hundreds of years?
She looked me in the eye. “Yes. But I don’t think we should ever do it.”
“Why?”
“Old people don’t change their minds. A world full of them would get more and more rigid.”
She’s not alone. Max Planck -- yes, the Planck -- once basically said, Science advances one funeral at a time.
I disagreed. And the first person who came to mind was my great-grandfather.
He was a bridge engineer. Ten years ago, right before he passed away, he was still teaching himself German. And philosophy.
He had no exam to pass, nor did he have a career to work for. He was learning for its own sake even until the very end.
So the question isn’t whether we should live longer.
It’s whether we’d spend the extra years the way he spent his last ones.
