What I learned from having a video go viral:

1. Guess which of the following social networks shadowbanned the video: Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok?

(this is a thread)

https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart/status/1771858094030565756

It was Tiktok!

My allegedly "pro-china" video got shadowbanned on the allgedly "pro-china" app lol

Even though I submitted an appeal and it got approved that video is now dead.

I posted on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Tiktok...how did each do?

WE ARE GOING TO CHANGE THE CULTURE.

Our generation was deceived into believing that children were an unnecessary burden that meant the end of independence and an enjoyable personal life.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Here are 365 reasons to have kids, 1 per day: REASON #1 TO HAVE KIDS:

You know that hole you have?

The one you tried to fill with money, sex, relationships, alcohol, or drugs?

Kids fill it.

I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blogpost.

Now, their lawyers are trying to ruin me.

This is a thread on:

1. What I said about Amazon
2. How Amazon's lawyers have retaliated
3. Why it matters to Amazon customers, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Four years ago, I wrote an article.

It had a simple message:

1. Amazon doesn't allow sellers to price their products for less off-Amazon.

2. If they do, Amazon hides their products.

3. This keeps prices off-Amazon high, which is bad for consumers.

medium.com/swlh/amazon-ne…

I never thought I’d get dragged for this 😂

1. We paid over $25,000 in trucking bills in the past 2 weeks.

2. I let every single trucker use our bathrooms free of charge including whoever put paper towels in the toilet causing the warehouse to be flooded

(Continued)

https://twitter.com/molson_hart/status/1636533447928737792

3. We paid a ton of money to build this warehouse and pour this concrete and we let that guy stay but he is actually blocking other trucks from docking. How would you like it if I parked a truck in front of your driveway?

I don't buy stocks.

I basically hoard cash and buy real estate.

I will teach you how to avoid getting fucked in bank run contagion now: Government guarantees $250k worth of deposits.

Nerd Wallet lists all the banks with the highest yield savings accounts.

This is not a sponsored post in any way. I have no affiliation with them.

nerdwallet.com/best/banking/h…

Last time I tweeted something like this I was wrongfully suspended from Twitter but I think the following is smart.

In the 1800s surgeons did surgeries without washing their hands, going from patient to patient, sharing disease.

That is until this guy: Believe or not, a lot of people were resistant to washing their hands.

So what’s my point?

Based on my reading of studies and some common sense, I bet we could greatly reduce disease transmission by encouraging people to gargle and nasal spray after likely disease exposures.

If you think IQ is really important, then you're probably not that smart.

Sorry, but it's true.

@hsu_steve has an IQ of over 160 but can't even win a twitter fight against me and my 88 iq

https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart/status/1626230829818204162

The point is that IQ misses so many different things in its measurement that make people effective.

https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart/status/1591542447573958656?s=20

Some predictions that I’m probably not qualified to have but that I think will be right anyways:

1. Amazon’s aws is going to get a lot less profitable. Their early lead is dissipating and the market everywhere is getting more competitive and with GPT transitioning from one cloud provider to another will be easier than ever
2. SEA and Latin America are going to massacre these companies’ capital. US is at a disadvantage for this stuff because of the foreign corrupt practices act, which other countries do not have (it prevents foreign bribes).

This is how Tesla’s Giga Texas Austin facility moves its cars all across North America

🧵 on Austin industrial: Another angle

I have tried to avoid discussing this publicly but as the risks to world war 3 increase, seemingly by the week, I feel compelled to say something:

Western Europe and the US need to stop supplying Ukraine with military equipment and need to negotiate a losing peace treaty. Why I believe a losing peace treaty needs to be negotiated:

1. Russia is winning this war
2. Russia is going to win this war
3. 10,000s of people are dying by the month
4. The country of Ukraine is being totally destroyed

My first China trip:

1. Nyc airport
2. Massive snowstorm delays flight for 15+ hours
3. Layover in Moscow (iirc)
4. Fly to Beijing
5. Arrive at 3 am
6. Take a fake cab accidentally

(Continued)

https://twitter.com/michaelpatron0/status/1623307925170036736

7. Get ripped off by fake cab and dropped off in a construction site
8. Find real cab
9. Find hotel. Now 4 am.
10. Decide to tie my baggage to my legs and sleep in lobby to save hotel bill for night
11. Go to Beijing big train station
12. Impossible to buy a ticket but do it

You can read my old tweets to confirm, but I’ve been saying for a while now that inflation is far from done. If anything, the worst is probably ahead of us. Anyways, one of the reasons why I think that is what Covid did in China. It killed old workers. That’s inflationary. More kids => more demand, no change in supply => inflationary

Less workers => supply falls more than demand => inflationary

There are many inputs into inflation and you never know which will overpower another, but identifying the cause effect still feels useful.

I’m finding that if you have dietary restrictions it’s highly unlikely that you will have a positive experience at anything but the most boutique high-end restaurants.

That sounds elitist, but it’s just a practical observation based on my experience.

1/4 From mcdonald’s to Buffalo Wild Wings to red lobster to even capital grille, there’s just too high a chance that they get it wrong.

- Cross-contamination
- miscommunication between waiter and kitchen
- not realizing, for example, that garlic powder is garlic

If you are not competing differently, you are not going to make any money.

Amazon is our competitor.

What can Amazon not do?

Wholesale.

Amazon's fulfillment operations (and fee structure) are not set up for large quantities of multiple SKUs.

🧵👇 So we're doing what Amazon cannot and offering big buyers ($200+ at wholesale prices) nice discounts at wholesaleeducationaltoys.com

If you’re a founder it doesn’t make sense to own public market stocks.

Why own stocks that aren’t your company?

To diversify? For that to work it needs to be outside your industry, which implies that you’re outside your area of competence.

Because you’ll get better returns? Then you should sell your company and just buy more stock.

Because you own the index and that’s diversified? Then your business must be countercyclical for that to work. What business performs well when the market drops 30%?

Because it’s more interesting than you business?

I am American and I am concerned.

I have not had power for two straight days because some branches fell on some power lines after an ice storm whose ice melted after one day.

Our supply chains are brittle and we lack willing trained people to fix these types of problems. This is a complete embarrassment for the biggest economy in the world and this type of event is going from a “huh that’s weird” to an increasingly regular occurrence.

One of my team members told me that he was worried that he was "being a Karen".

I explained to him that, while no one wants to be rejected by others/society, labels are usually nonsense and are oftentimes used to control other peoples' behavior.

1/4 In my personal experience, the people who accuse others of being:

- a "karen"
- racist
- unpatriotic
- a creep
- weird

etc.

tend to share many of the characteristics of those labels themselves, especially in action, not words (talk is cheap).

2/4

One of the reasons why public train transportation fails in the United States is the necessity of a car once you arrive.

And if you’re going to need a car when you get there, you might as well drive.

Here’s an idea that reduces carbon emissions, frustration, and time wasted: The California high speed rail between Palmdale and Merced/Gilroy shouldn’t only take people as passengers.

It should take cars.

It’ll be decades before california can build from those endpoints into the semi-walkable cities so those tracks will never get used without this.

How to make a baby in your 30s: Kids rock and many people in their 30s struggle to make them.

I figured it’d be helpful if I listed some tips and tricks to make it easier, since it’s an awkward topic that is difficult to get information on.

I am not a doctor but I think I can be helpful anyways.

I am disturbed by what happened in Monterrey, California.

There are two main types of gun violence in the US.

For this type, we could greatly reduce it with a palatable to all parties law that requires purchase of high capacity magazines/firearms to have two responsible people. In other words, you could greatly reduce this type of gun violence without banning high capacity magazines/firearms but requiring that not one but two separate people are jointly and severally responsible for what is done with the gun/ammo.

What determines the value of a currency?

It’s not the government’s promise to redeem it for gold.

It’s not “backed by men with guns”.

It’s not even the threat of imprisonment for non-payment of taxes in said currency.

It’s the currency’s perceived future convertibility. Think about it.

You’ll accept dollars because you, with high confidence, can trade those dollars for everything from an iPhone to a hamburger to Euros to a SAAS product.

They’re accepted everywhere by everyone and that’s why everyone likes dollars!