A friend of mine spends low 6 figures a day on Meta for his own DTC brand - no performance marketing agencies, no media buyers, and is on LC bidding. Twitter is not real life!

Prediction markets are becoming our most reliable source of truth in an internet flooded with AI noise

I only respect surgeons and degenerate gamblers

Paradox: Wanting to understand mimetic desire is mimetic desire

The modern day Rockefeller is a 24 year old running a $100M/year digital holding co., supported by 9 VAs in 6 countries. He's lost half his income on memecoins in Telegram groups. He holds heretic world views and spends all day on Twitter defending them with anonymous accounts.

$1.2M in sales from my brand this Black Friday 🤠

App store in 2024 = dropshipping 2017 Kids throwing together AI apps + IG influencer ads = quick bag

Watching two 22 y.o friends early in their careers: one plays it 'safe,' the other always maximizes risk. Both brilliant and hardworking. Learning that 'safe' isn’t so safe, and 'risky' isn’t so risky. Realizing I’ve been underwriting risk wrong my whole life (and I’m a college

Your ability to discern authenticity probably determines most of your life (quality of business, relationships, etc.) Pattern matching will get better over time, but the real challenge is remaining open & not falling into the trap of cynicism

Fade Apple, Disney, Nike and any brand trying to survive on idealistic values. The next generation of brands will thrive on negative emotions because that’s what The Algorithm wants

For the last two years, it’s felt like February 2020, except the virus is intelligence.

A MarTech software I paid $500/month for was cloned by one competitor for $79/month, and then another competitor for $29/month. Features are basically 1:1. Crazy to see B2B SaaS commoditized in real time (all within 3 months)

10,000 actively engaged youtube subscribers > 1M tiktok followers

a life of unlimited optionality is paradoxically the most slave-like existence there is. you serve a higher master of anxiety and emptiness

people say NYC is the theatre capital of the US, but SF is in fact the most performative

Zuckerberg, Xi, and Sam Altman have read/write access into the minds of billions. Terrifying amounts of power concentrated in maybe 3-4 people

If you have even reasonable CogSec, the internet is the greatest amplifier to life there is. You can learn anything, meet anyone, build something new, and completely change your life circumstances. Just avoid politics, ragebait, and Ramit Sethi.