Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

People don’t want you to be perfect, what they want is to feel connected to you.

Why are we the most therapized society in history but also the loneliest and most emotionally unwell? Because therapy culture centers the self. If we want fulfillment, meaning, and contentment, then we must transcend the self. Byung-Chul Han captures this perfectly in his book

Have you ever vibe coded 6 versions of same app at the same time using all of the best AI coding tools. Well I did it in this video: Tools used: Cursor Cursor Windsurf Windsurf Replit Replit ⠕ Bolt bolt.new Lovable Lovable v0 TimeStamps 00:00 -

Doom sells but we are really in a boom loop in society today: technology, commerce and rule of law gave us this gift

He deleted almost every app from his phone. Then he wrote 4 bestsellers in 9 years. Cal Newport's controversial take: Your phone is making you mediocre. His science-backed system for getting your brain back:

After 7 months of writing, I finished my essay! I think agency might be the most important idea of the 21st century highagency.com

Realisation after a health scare: You're already a billionaire.

Lifehack: Go for a walk with AirPods whilst talking out loud to a transcriber about a problem. Then upload the transcript to an LLM. Airpods mean you can walk around talking to yourself -- and people no longer assume you're mental. Fixes 70% of my problems.

Imagine tradcoding a SAAS app in 2025

ALEX OVECHKIN IS THE GREATEST GOALSCORER IN NHL HISTORY! 🚨🚨🚨 #Gr8ness

Alcatraz was built to be escape-proof. • Sharks in the water • Guards on every tower • Freezing currents no man could survive For years, no one made it out until June 11, 1962. The true story of the greatest prison break in history:

This is the greatest social experiment ever conducted: He created a fake restaurant on TripAdvisor. No food. No staff. No venue. Yet it became the #1 ranked restaurant in London... Here's how he pulled it off:

Gartner conference production is always impressive — I feel like a foreigner at a CFO conference (instead of a CIO/CTO one), but it feels very familiar with how tech-centric the conversations are #GartnerCFO

This is powerful to be reminded that navel gazing reflection/therapy without connection to other people, organizations, and/or God is empty

As I've mentioned previously, solemnization is a sociolegal tripwire to say "There are many situations in society and in business where you're Just Talking and up until this exact moment we have been Just Talking *and after this point* We Were Not Just Talking. Do you get it?"

Your 40s will destroy your happiness. You'll work 60-hour weeks while your kids need money and your parents need care. Ray Dalio calls this the "midlife squeeze" - and it breaks most people. His leverage strategy that changes everything:

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