Never miss a chance to exercise good leverage: making introductions, setting up a friend, well timed gifts, etc But most easily you can always try to be more cheerful and charming to everyone around you, strangers especially.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung, no other way is like yours

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Having the ability to wait and not jump on any opportunity feels like the biggest leverage anyone can have. Every bad decision (jobs, projects, purchases etc) begets more bad decisions. Take the wrong role, work at the wrong company, all compounds until that’s all you can get.

See previous tweet. Be able to wait it out, be able to earn on your own etc

Wouldn’t actually be that expensive to do this on ryanair now.

As many people scrolling Instagram as looking at the paintings.

Increasingly the only business model, not just for the long tail.

This is it. Take more risk.

Corporate kayfabe open.substack.com/pub/thestillwa… Elijah

Worthy of a daily reminder

New York 🇺🇸 Such an office room

Feels like these deals are driven mostly to reduce risk rather than any big bets on what the future of entertainment actually looks like. "at least this way we're not totally fucked"

AI discourse in 2026.