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Sep 16, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
@TtvJokester 1. Great question. Here's what I would do today if I were 18.
@TtvJokester 2. I would finish college as quickly as possible and in the most economical way possible. This means community college and then transfer to a top tier school. I'd study computer science, or economics + learn to code on the side. Work every summer and try to graduate debt free.
@TtvJokester 3. Open a ROTH IRA as soon as possible and contribute $6,000 to it every year in something like $ARKK or $TSLA for at least 6 years. Contribute as much as you can to a ROTH IRA. By age 59 1/2, this could be worth millions, and it's 100% tax free.
@TtvJokester 4. Read as much as you can, and learn as many skills as you can. In the business world, there are only two real skills: building things and selling things. Work your way up to being able to build complex software programs. Learn how to use persuasion effectively in all forms.
@TtvJokester 5. Learn basic cooking, eat right, and take care of your body. Eat blueberries before exams to increase cognitive function. Understand gut health so you can stay focused with high energy: read the book "Fiber Fueled". Don't waste time trying to get jacked. Pushups. Pullups. Run.
@TtvJokester 6. Be very selective with your friends. Make sure you surround yourself with people that are successful, smart, creative, and positive. They should have similar goals to you. Cut off relationships with toxic people, many of whom you probably went to high school with.
@TtvJokester This is @naval

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Jun 23, 2024
A $400 suicide drone designed and assembled by a Ukrainian engineering student can take out a $10 million dollar Russian tank (Russia has even more drones).

Apparently both Ukraine and Russia go through tens of thousands of drones per month.

I’m surprised I’m not seeing a lot of coverage of the dramatic shift away from traditional military equipment like tanks and attack helicopters in Ukraine, and a rapid adoption of FPV (first person view) drones.

We’ve all seen horrifying footage of these drones taking out individual soldiers (very depressing), but there’s been very little talk about the strategic shift going on and what it means.

The implications of this massive paradigm shift are significant.

It appears to be as big of a shift as the move away from horse calvary in WW1 to mechanized warfare (tanks, airplanes, machine guns, submarines, gas, etc), and we are in the very early stages.

Ukraine has apparently stopped asking the US for tanks and other expensive traditional military equipment and wants supplies for suicide drones and loitering munitions.

We could see swarms of millions of suicidal drones wiping out hundreds of military targets (including aircraft carriers) in a single morning. A 21st century version of D-Day.

Imagine AI doing most of the work of identifying and locating a target, then phoning home to a drone operator to pull the trigger. Drone operators will shift away from “flying” drones and locating targets, and instead will be preoccupied with switching to various drone screens on ready to attack targets dozens of time throughout the day.

And because hard targets like tanks will increasingly become sitting ducks (even with sophisticated jamming that can be overcome by “signal boosting drones”) there will eventually be far fewer hard targets on the battlefield to attack. The primary targets will be humans.
Yes this issue is being discussed, but it deserves a lot more discussion. Whoever can mass produce the most drones and leverage AI to automate them most effectively will not only dominate the battlefield, but also the world.
Consumer FPV drone and AI tech are so disruptive to the military industrial complex that I don’t see congress going all in on drone technology until they have no other choice. This probably means a major, future military loss of some kind as a result of inadequate FPV drone defenses (currently limited to jamming). There’s simply too much money in the defense industry to abandon 20th century technology.
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Jan 8, 2023
I look at other competitors cars, and I’m constantly reminded of the 2012 Fisker Karma, one of the first “Tesla killers”. Competitors aren’t laser focused on manufacturability at scale. It’s not about bells and whistles, it’s about manufacturing efficiency and lowering costs.
Every piece of trim you see, every knob, every gimmick or flashy feature that doesn’t have a very very clear added benefit to the vehicle owner will dramatically slow manufacturing and lower margins on their cars. Low margins means no pricing power, and no scaling potential.
Just apply first principles thinking. We know that Tesla makes cars extremely efficiently, and they’re only getting better. Auto demand is extremely elastic (price goes down, demand way up). Why would competitors overtake Tesla when they make cars the same way legacy auto does?
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Jun 2, 2021
1/ The biggest Industry ripe for disruption isn’t energy, transportation, finance, or healthcare.

It’s education, and it’s not even close.

We are wasting a good part of the first 22 years of people’s lives, all around the world.

Tests, memorization, obedience, rule following
2/ Emphasis should be placed on understanding and the importance of adding value over memorization and maintaining the status quo.

Teach basics like reading/writing/math, then how to effectively use the internet for research.

Kids should immediately start creating/building.
3/ Schools migrate away from being prison like to being more like startup incubators, art cooperatives, and social/sports clubs.

My high school was literally designed by someone who designed prisons. It felt like and was run like a prison.
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