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Arvid Kahl
@arvidkahl · 209.1K followers
Best of 2024 · 85.8K likes
“lol”
Peak year 2024, two years ago. 25 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2024. 2025 produced 13. The best work is behind the account, so far.
Orange Book 🍊📖
@orangebook · 558K followers
@arvidkahl
Biggest post of 2026 · 23 likes · Sep 3, 2026
First thing this morning, pre-coffee, btw, I just yapped this prompt into my Claude Code session. 20 minutes later, after running a few diagnostic SQL queries on a prod replica, a 15min+ query is now running in 375ms. H…
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@orangebook
@arvidkahl
No post framed as earnings among the 14 posts read.
@orangebook
No post framed as earnings among the 377 posts read.
Give a smart entrepreneur $1 million. Give a government $1 million. Give them five years to create value. The difference is called skin in the game.
Read the postEvery line is a post by the account itself that names a dollar figure, newest first, linked so you can read it in place. ShipRatio checks that the post exists, not the number. A figure framed as revenue, MRR, profit, or sales is marked earned; a price, a raise, or someone else’s number is a mention.
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top post points at @orangebook · 1 quote · 414 likes
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of 100 top posts point at @arvidkahl
One way. @arvidkahl’s best posts point at @orangebook; none of @orangebook’s top posts point at @arvidkahl. Counted from each account’s top posts, where a quote, a reply, or a mention each count one post. Likes, follows, and replies received are not visible in this data and are not claimed.
| Measure | @arvidkahl | @orangebook |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 and the GitHub side | ||
| Top posts from 2026 so far | 50 | 50 |
| Likes on 2026’s ten best | — | 31K |
| GitHub days in 2026 | 231 | — |
| GitHub days · last 90 | 87 | — |
| GitHub streak · days in a row | 75 | — |
| Ships · share of the last 365 days | 92% | — |
Best of 2022 · 11.9K likes
“You don’t fix anxiety, you fix your finances, your diet, your habits, your relationships, your sense of purpose, then anxiety goes away.”
Peak year 2022, four years ago. 35 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2022. 2025 produced 9. The best work is behind the account, so far.
Biggest post of 2026 · 10.8K likes · Apr 9, 2026
Once you experience, at least once in your life, being very right when the rest of the world was telling you that you were very wrong, then you become immune to groupthink and herd mentality, as you've learned firsthand…
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This year is shown, not ranked: likes accumulate with age, so 2026 is always undercounted against completed years. The GitHub side counts days with any activity, public or private, from the contribution calendar.
| Private share of that activity | 100% | — |
| The record |
| Peak year | 2024 | 2022 |
| Top posts from the peak | 25 | 35 |
| Top posts counted | 100 | 100 |
| Likes across the sample | 314.5K | 563.8K |
| Best post | 156.3K | 36.7K |
| Median likes | 362 | 4.5K |
| Years in a row with a top post | 7 | 7 |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | ×0.2 | ×0.3 |
| Followers | 209.1K | 558K |