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BECAUSE IT ISN'T A MYTH. LOS ANEGELES ISN'T A MYTH. 80-100 years ago Americans were building cities with Sears Catalogue homes they had shipped to them. This 10 BEDROOM HOUSE ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION WAS 70 GRAND. ITS THE COST OF A NEW VOLVO. The cheapest smallest cottages

“Move Fast and Break Things” vs “Move Slow and Forge Things” “Move fast and break things” was a something we invented at Facebook to get a bunch of entitled Ivy League kids to grind for us. It worked. Then, all of Silicon Valley mistakenly confused correlation with causation

This is a wild piece

I don’t post about permit friction to complain. I post because the real driver of high housing costs isn’t BlackRock buying homes, it’s a permitting system that burns months, bleeds families, and chokes supply. Most people never touch the process. They only feel the downstream

The same is true, or can be true for housing. Something we are working on at NOMAD

This is what you are missing If the economy gets worse, this chart gets worse, rates become artificially depressed + increased QE, and we need to debase the currency to “reprice” our debt roughly along this trajectory. Forever.

The homebuilding capital of America!

The minutes, days, hours, and weeks fly by. Your body will start to fail you. Your kids will grow up and leave the house. Your parents will age and pass away. If you aren’t deliberate and thoughtful, 10 years will go by in a flash, and you’ll still be working the same dead-end

As you age, the lesson of “start now” becomes more prescient. Nothing is gained by waiting, by hesitation, by procrastination. You will not do it eventually, you will NOT have more time in the future, only less Every impressive person you meet with a track record success

Just ordered 21 kitchens for one of our NOMAD villages and saved $21,000 (plus other Black Friday discounts) I don’t understand how big box retailers make money on Black Friday sales. My assumption is that they don’t.

The secret to investing is to invest in unstoppable people building inevitable things.

The EU imposes impossible rules so it can punish tech firms that refuse to silently censor free speech. We saw the same in France: a baseless “criminal investigation”, then intelligence services offering to help with it if Telegram Messenger quietly censored speech in Romania and Moldova.

2026 is really going to be rude awakening for a lot of people

Like all transformative inventions, AI is neither salvation nor doom in itself; it is a mirror. It reflects the intentions of those who wield it, and it is we who determine whether it serves destruction or human flourishing.

Someone else said "America is a socialist country pretending to be capitalist. China is a capitalist country pretending to be socialist"