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Jul 13 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
The biggest financial scam:
Buy Now, Pay Later.
It's not helping you afford things, it's engineered to create long-term debt dependency.
Here's how Buy Now Pay Later companies profit from your spending habits (& why we've been measuring debt risk completely wrong): 🧵
The psychology is simple.
When you see a $400 purchase split into "4 easy payments of $100," your brain doesn't process it as $400.
It processes it as $100.
This is weaponized behavioral science.
Jun 27 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
The way Warren Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway is insane:
Only 25 people manage almost 400,000 employees in the middle of nowhere.
Buffett created and scaled a very unconventional model that 99% of people never heard of.
Here's how it works: (thread) 🧵
Most trillion-dollar companies have massive headquarters, armies of middle managers, and endless meetings.
Berkshire Hathaway has 24 people in Omaha running 60+ subsidiaries worth $1.1 trillion.
But here's the crazy part...
Jun 23 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
SHOCKING: University of Exeter completed the largest AI creativity study ever.
Turns out, AI makes individuals MORE creative but society LESS creative overall.
Here's what 900 participants revealed:
(hint: we're accidentally creating a creativity monoculture)
The experiment was straightforward:
300 writers split into 3 groups. 600 judges evaluating their work.
Group 1: No AI assistance
Group 2: One ChatGPT-generated idea
Group 3: Up to 5 AI-generated starting points
Each wrote 8-sentence stories targeting young adults.
Jun 19 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Poor Charlie's Almanack is one of the most powerful book that exists.
But the deepest lessons often hide in plain sight.
I’ve collected 8 of them that completely shifted my perspective.
Be prepared to have your mind blown... (thread) 🧵 1/ Think Like a Psychologist
Wall Street analyzes Coke's financials.
Munger sees a machine for creating conditioned reflexes.
Every ad links Coke to happiness and fun. After decades, just seeing the logo triggers positive emotions.
Jun 11 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
90% of founders waste years building products nobody wants.
They all skip the ONE question that matters most.
Answering it is how I got strangers on Reddit to pay me for an 'AI' startup before even having a product.
The "reverse launch" method—get paid first, build second: 🧵
May 2023. My co-founder Kyler and I had an idea.
Real estate investors pay people to "drive for dollars", literally driving around neighborhoods looking for deteriorated properties to buy.
We thought: "What if AI could do this using street view images?"