Force your will on the world, or hold your position until the world shifts in your favor.
Survive in case you get lucky
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Americans are experiencing a profound shift in priorities, traditional sources of meaning like patriotism, religion, community, and family have collapsed and have been replaced by a singular focus on money and economic survival.
Oct 1, 2025 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
We aren’t living in a culture of literacy anymore, we’re back in oral culture.
From that lens, everything makes sense: short attention spans, virality, popularity, who makes money, even populist politics all follow orality
Lets study the oral rules
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Books are great, they can change your life. But people are not reading books anymore. They are ways for an author to get speaking fees or appear on podcasts to get famous. They are business cards of the intellectual class
Aug 28, 2025 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
The future happens in Japan first.
They experience social trends a decade before others.
In the 90s, Japanese tourists flooded the globe, and then stopped. Japanese travelers got bored.
Prescriptions for Ozempic are up nearly 600% over six years. It works. People are losing weight.
But that's not the whole story.
We see unexpected changes with reduced pleasure-seeking and risk-taking behaviors.
It modifies your personality
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These drugs are being tested at a massive scale right now. Turns out people have lost interest in their previous interests, like gambling or drinking alcohol or sex drive.
We don't really know what's going on. These were unexpected side effects
Jun 16, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The Art of Not Getting Fired
If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued.
Useful employees are susceptible to being fired depending on company health.
That's an entirely different set of metrics for determining value.
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The useful vs value frame belongs in the classic workplace text library alongside Parkinsons law, peter principle, the gervais principle and the 4HL
Nov 13, 2024 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Today, we’re often advised that true health requires intense self-reflection and therapy, with an emphasis on looking back. But this perspective is actually quite modern.
That's become we sacrificed stability for mobility
our shoulders evolved to throw. Not to swing from branches
Sep 17, 2024 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Relationships Have Changed A Lot Recently
1) Marriage is now the final step instead of the first step in life
2) Men and women increasingly pair within similar socio-economic and intellectual backgrounds.
But one thing hasn't changed. The Charming Man
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Marriage rates have dropped but that's because it's not the same thing as it once was. It's the final step, not the first step. So of course it's going to be less people doing it.
We still don't know the consequences of assortative mating yet
Jul 19, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"our hostages"
There is a big attempt at merging America and Israel into one country. It suits the Israelis since it gives them an empire with unlimited money and military arms.
Does it suit the USA? I'm not sure. But it's really weird. I've never seen anything like this before.
This is the logical endpoint to a situation that started decades ago
It just seems to be accelerating toward an explicit union after the Gaza war.
Jun 6, 2024 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
The World is Divided into Nations with Thin Cultures and Thick Cultures.
Moving from a Thick Culture to a Thin Culture was ultimately what the Sopranos was about.
Doing Hard Things is Fun When You Have a Safety Net
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When you don't grow up with money you wonder why people who do have a lot of family money tend to do hard things. Like becoming a doctor. Or grinding in various other jobs
He says that his creative process is about making art that he likes. That’s the objective. Then, as a by-product (or side-effect), the art that he likes could be something that an audience likes too.
But a funny thing happens if you just get up at 5am every day. it's an entirely different world
Jan 3, 2024 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
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The Future Could be Buddhist
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If you travel all around the world, you'll notice the same religious iconography in every AirBnb. There is no bible, no cross, no Quran, no Baghavad Gita
But there are Buddhas everywhere
Nov 3, 2023 • 46 tweets • 15 min read
I have a theory that most major sports leagues have been figured out. NFL, Tennis, NHL, etc. They are optimized now. Most fans don't see it. But the game has been solved. Take the NBA for example. It is mostly played at the perimeter or up close.
The same thing happened with Baseball. The game began just being all about strikeouts and home-runs. So the game spiraled into 3-4 hour play time and fans started to hate it.
So they introduced a pitching clock. And it worked. the game finishes quicker. But that doesn't mean the gameplay is not optimized.
If we look at the stats, it is the same game as last year or the year before with the same amount of strikeouts, home runs and hits. It's still optimized. But the game finishes faster.
Take a look at Strike outs, Home Runs and Batting Average this year. It is exactly the same as last year.
Once a game is optimized. Once it is "figured out" it becomes very, very difficult to change the style of play
You're going to have to introduce new rules.
It's going to be this way forever unless you change the game.
Oct 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There is this notion that passports or travel documents are a recent thing. That isn't true. They've been around for over a thousand years
He mentions Lord Byron here. Byron had a passport and even complained about passports in his poetry
In Rome only citizens were allowed to roam freely. How did they know you were a citizen? Travel passports
Sep 26, 2023 • 23 tweets • 10 min read
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I'm worried about the future of Chicago
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Chicago has participated in the great American Urbanism revival of the last 20 years. I was born in the city and grew up there. I can see the positive changes
It is truly a great American city with New York City as it's only peer. Even though coastal elites disrespect it
Sep 9, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Vulgar Wave.
A period of 17 years(1990-2007) when pop culture catered exclusively to men 18-30.
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One of the defining features of our current age is declining fertility rates. Once society achieves a certain threshold of economic well-being the society than begins to have a lot less children.
Large swathes of the planet is under replacement including China, The US, Europe,… https://t.co/H8CJkZvcKOtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Take a look at Strike outs, Home Runs and Batting Average this year. It is exactly the same as last year. 
In Rome only citizens were allowed to roam freely. How did they know you were a citizen? Travel passports
