a quick reminder since there are a fuck ton of new followers: this account is strictly for analyzing the incredibly rapid changes in culture at the intersection of hyper capitalism & proliferation of tech at scale—we are likely only at the beginnings of the profound implications of both on macro & micro aspects of society. buckle up.

please please please go to penalty kicks.

this mexico england game has been the most intense game of the world cup so far. absolutely electric. if every game was like this, maybe america would actually care about soccer outside of the world cup.

joey chestnut consumed: - 66 hot dogs - 19,800 calories - 46,200 mg of sodium - 990 grams of fat in just 10 minutes all while being on probation for assault. a true american icon & a hero. not to mention the most dominant athlete in us history.

if there is no story, there is no product. tokens are collapsing toward abundance. attention is compounding into scarcity.

the first iphone had no app store, no 3g, no gps, no video camera, no copy/paste, no push notifications, no mms, no real multitasking, no front camera, no facetime, no siri, no icloud, no imessage, no touch id, no apple pay, no retina display, no wireless charging, & no water resistance. & somehow everyone looked at it & immediately understood the future had arrived. except steve ballmer & this blogger.

act completely, care completely, but do not attach yourself to the fruits of what happens next. engage with the world as if it matters infinitely, while knowing it ultimately doesn’t.

if therapy was a walking session, meaning you walked & talked with your therapist it’d be 100x better instead of just sitting there. the mind opens up a lot when you’re moving & experiencing your visual senses light up. i think therapy is mostly garbage (esp week to week therapy) but i would enjoy this mechanic a lot more if i had to absolutely do it. i prefer walking meetings with everyone. they’re absolutely the best way for two humans to communicate (applies to both business & personal contexts).

god damn the meta glasses make me super uncomfortable in a way that i’ve never felt before. i cannot stand being around anyone wearing them. it is the weirdest kind of creepy i have experienced in person in a long long time.

my conspiracy theory is that taylor swift got married near july 4th so that whenever the divorce happens the album will be called independence day.

there are enough technology takes. e.g. what models will do, what businesses get built, what commodification/open weights means, what moats no longer exist, what your firms venture capital thesis is, etc. all kinda interesting, but increasingly overdone to hell. twitter has turned most of this stuff into pure hive mind territory. you can see this when you talk to ppl irl, they bring up the same damn talking points. but what there is not enough of is cultural analysis around technology. how does ai change taste? ambition? status? dating? creativity? work? loneliness? education? trust? identity? the model capability discourse matters. but the more interesting questions lie in what happens to ppl once those capabilities become widely distributed.

the problem with a ton of gen z is that they’re often unfunny & insanely regarded (way more than one should be). the problem with a ton of millennials is that they’re absolutely bitter & jaded esp in nyc. what a world to live in.

never ever say i told you so or any variation thereof to anyone. let the other party arrive at it naturally (& they absolutely will cuz the human mind loves to eventually connect the dots). arrival is the punishment & it feels 100x sweeter this way.

meeting someone once & wanting to meet them again is extremely rare.

the one thing ppl truly truly love is watching other ppl’s fireworks videos.

software was the era of instructions. intelligence is the era of intentions.

fable, i think, likely marks the end of software engineering as we knew it. it’s prolly the penultimate chapter, if not the end of that entire story.

the iphone made shopping with your wife/girlfriend amazing again. oh yeah babe, you look incredible in that. anyway, back to twitter.

love is less a feeling than a practice of attention. the feeling is unreliable as hell, highly mimetic, & mostly noise. but beneath it there’s a chosen orientation toward another person’s reality. in this realm a model can theoretically love something or someone as much as a human can.

happy birthday america. the greatest place ever invented. i’ll spare the cliche immigrant story or whatever but one thing i think about a lot is when i moved to london ppl would basically always tell me to tone it down (cuz i used words like awesome all the time) or ppl told me i was too optimistic or that would always be enthusiastic about something working. i had hard time doing this cuz i never learned any of this behavior, it was sorta just built into me. i found that to be strange & it took me a long time to realize they they were correcting all of my priors instead of simply correcting my vocab. that’s kinda the thing that is hard to explain until you leave. what makes this place so damn unique is ppl here are unusually willing to have an absurd dream & then attempt to make it real. it’s the greatest concentration of individuals on the planet who actually try to make stuff *real*. that instinct feels almost pre programmed into americans. “why not me?” is prolly the macro that separates this country from anywhere else. ppl love comparing here to other places using metrics like healthcare, trains, safety, etc. those things matter. but they are the outputs not inputs. the inputs matter way more. kinda like sports leagues trying to create the next generation of stars by investing in little league. the macro inputs of america are the belief that the future is not something that happens to you, but something you are allowed to build or change. & here, far more than anywhere else on earth requires almost zero permission to attempt it all.. without asking for any sort of cultural consent. that’s why all of the shit you see around the world is basically invented in america. what an astonishingly ridiculous beautiful country.

what a ridiculous summer in nyc so far: knicks world cup tswift wedding (only bad thing) america 250