1999 was the peak of modern culture and progress.

This clip from the Matrix explains:

Why was 1999 selected as “the peak of your civilization”?

“Because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization.”

A thread written by a GenX'er 🧵 The USA had won the cold war and 9/11 had not happened yet.

Capitalism and democracy had won. Decisively.

Terrorism and the surveillance state that it brought with it had not yet occured.

Stone Temple Pilots performing August 2001, man we had no idea what was coming....

The entry-level job market is getting nuked by AI.

• 500+ online applicants
• 90% auto-rejected by AI
• Big Tech cut new grad hires 25% last year

The game is rigged against you digitally.

Tilt the odds in your favor by exploiting the analog loophole.

🧵 Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, predicts AI could wipe out 50% of white-collar junior roles in 1-5 years.

In 2024, new grads were just 7% of Big Tech hires.

That's a 25% drop on 2023 and down 50% from 2019 (SignalFire)

Friends at Mag7s say they're freezing juniors due to AI.

My friend’s 10 year old daughter killed herself after being relentlessly bullied.

She was a classmate of my niece in Roanoke.

It is heartbreaking and unbelievable. 10 years old.

The Bushman family wants to get this message out to help others.

Cyber bullying is now 24/7.

I was talking to another friend from high school yesterday who was also friends with the Bushman’s, and he said his ten year old daughter was similarly targeted.

Some girls made a “fuck [daughters name]” text group, added her to it, and showered her with abuse.

Her mom approached the ringleader’s mother, and she shrugged it off and said the kids need to work it out amongst themselves.

I think most of us are probably not aware to watch for this at such a young age. But as parents we must.

If you give them a screen, lock it down, monitor the hell out of it, and be direct and demanding with other parents and the school.

Chamath is riding high these days. Popular podcast host. Cozying up to Trump and Elon.

But he has never been held accountable or apologized for his INSANE grifting streak over 5 years.

It was predatory, and it was wrong.

A thread on @chamath the "SPAC King" 🧵

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1893225864378060989

1. Virgin Galactic

• Chamath took $SPCE public via SPAC in 2019, hyping it as the future of space tourism

• Retail piled in, driving stock to $60+ in 2021

• Chamath dumped ALL his personal shares for $213M in 2021, right before the stock crashed

• Today SPCE is under $2.

I was a member of different entrepreneurial groups like EO for years.

Now I am a member of a few groups and friend circles of folks that have built companies and had successful exits. Many are Ultra high net worth people.

I would like to share a few observations. 🧵 All anyone ever talks about is health, marriage, family.

Because thats all that fucking matters.

Yeah we talk some business. But not much.

These groups are mainly support groups. Because founding and running businesses is scary and lonely.

We own 550 acres along the Shenandoah River. The property is zoned timber (i.e. “in land use”) and has very low property taxes.

This property is also one of the larger parcels with no conservation easements - we can do what we like.

If you can find a similar property with low carrying costs and flexible zoning, it gives you tons of optionality. You can enjoy it in its natural state as we do, you can develop it, you can hold onto for generations without spending a ton of cash to keep it.

My kids always ask “will we own this one day?” And I say yes.
People are vibeing on this post so I will take you on a little tour.

We have built a number of things on this property over the years.

First was an orchard with apples, pears, cherries, mulberry, plums, hops, grapes, and a bunch of other stuff.

8ft deer fence.

2/n

We call the farm “Kingdom Come” due to this inscription on a ruin.

A short thread on the odd link to my property and the first book to sell 1 million copies in the US (other than the Bible) 1/n This ruin (since restored by me) sits on a beautiful limestone cliff high overlooking a bend on the Shenandoah River. The inscription on the chimney reads “Kingdom Come - 1924 - WCM - EFM”

I recently bought a property that includes a historic mill ruin. Question: what do I do with it?? One issue is…it’s dangerous as it is. That rear wall is huuuge, and cracked in the middle. More than a foot thick. Need to stabilize it.

I think I only have one mental gift that gives me an edge, and that is reading comprehension. I can read a lot of material, quickly, and retain a good amount of info.

And it was 100% taught to me as a child by a “reading remediation therapist” named Betty Price. 1/n When I entered elementary school I had a number of behavior issues. The public school actually had my mom get my IQ tested to see if I was mentally challenged.

I was rebellious and bored. And I didn’t care to learn how to read.