Hardware is hard. That’s why Elon is by far the greatest founder of all time. Remember — countless startups die just while trying to put stationary beige boxes on desktops. Very smart people get crushed by supply chain disruptions, or China tariffs, or lockdowns, or shipping

The drastic drop in babies being born doesn't just mean fewer children, but fewer grandparents, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, cousins, and siblings. People can shrug and say 'whatever' but I think it's profoundly sad. There is less joy, love, and even responsibility to go

By the time the US debt becomes a genuine issue we will have artificial general intelligence that will eclipse humans in nearly every conceivable metric. Maybe this is why they are trying to outgrow the debt because the time it implodes we will have created the last tool. Super

anyone who invests in real estate will lose money for the next 10 years

Joe Rogan and Roman Yampolskiy agree that to "integrate" with superintelligence is "extinction with extra steps".

media → AI money → crypto military → drones manufacturing → robots

Dangerously approaching the moment where we'll run out of human made benchmarks for AI performance, at which point AIs themselves will design their own benchmarks.

The older I get, the more I realize delayed gratification is the key to the life you want. You have to sacrifice short-term freedom in order to earn long-term freedom. Instant gratification will kill your dreams. Sacrifice is the cost of entry. Pay the cost of entry with pride.

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True wealth is the abundance of time, optionality, and the ability to influence your view of the world through capital allocation and speaking your mind without fear of repercussions

The real Nobel prize candidate…. She has shown us all what true moral clarity looks like—embodying the best in us. Francesca Albanese

we have normalised overconsumption. listening to a podcast while we walk, scrolling reels in the toilet, listening to music while we cook, watching a show on Netflix while we eat. it’s as if there is NO breathing space for your mind. you’re constantly trying to fill the void, the

Your greatest weakness is usually just your greatest strength in the wrong context.

A criticism I’m seeing of Elon/Grok 4, is that it’s not really innovative; he’s just throwing more GPUs at the problem than everyone else. True but… People forget that Tesla started 22 yrs ago by stuffing almost 7,000 laptop batteries into the trunk of an existing sports car.

One thing I still can’t square is (1) the AI world (mostly) moving forward quickly (2) the government of the United States more or less actively destroying itself. I don’t know if one will overpower the other but right now they feel like parallel universes.

Grok 4 is the first AI that actually thinks from first principles about controversial subjects as opposed to the canned woke responses we’re used to now. I expect they will come under intense political pressure soon, but I hope they don’t nerf it.

1/ Our brains are hardwired for a world that no longer exists. Technology accelerates exponentially while our intuitions are built for a linear world. This mismatch is a big part of why we feel overwhelmed. Here’s an unlock I’ve been using: 🧵

The difference between Gaza and Auschwitz is that the world still has an opportunity to stop the ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

what elon’s doing feels less like building individual companies & more like authoring a recursive economic protocol. every company's profits, compute, talent, data... all circulate like functions inside a tightly coupled codebase. spacex invests in xai → xai buys gpus & trains

Just because society is cooked doesn’t mean you need to be cooked Actually it’s an advantage if you keep a growth mindset and stay disciplined