Men haven't changed much. They've been liberated for a long time. There's nothing interesting happening with men.
The real modern change is the complete emancipation and liberation of women. That's what's interesting because now you're seeing behaviors that never existed before with that gender.
The problem with reputation is you don’t own it. It lives in other people’s minds and can be destroyed overnight
Ideally, we’d have integrity. But few people do
Consistency is the practical substitute. If you can’t be good, just be the same everywhere
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The Epstein emails are from the 2010s but sound very modern. His network was a decade ahead of everyone else at the time. These were people who built a great reputation to get his attention.
Dec 11, 2025 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
There are two ways to rise in the world.
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in priorities, traditional sources of meaning like patriotism, religion, community, and family have collapsed and have been replaced by a singular focus on money and economic survival.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
For most of history people drank the same amount of water every day, which wasn't much. A cup or a sip from the fountain.
Then in the late 90s/00s people switched to drinking large amounts of water. They worried about dehydration and bottled water consumption became normal.
All of a sudden people started to look younger. A 25 year old today looks like 16/17 from decades ago
constant consumption of water has an effect on aging.
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.
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