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May 27 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Investing in your health doesn't have to be expensive.
You can get healthier than most without spending thousands of dollars.
Here's the ultimate list of 10 best health purchases under $100.
1. Pre-Meal Tablespoon of Olive Oil 🧵
Extra virgin olive oil, the Mediterranean elixir is one of the secrets behind Blue Zones—areas with the most centenerians in the world.
Before every meal, take 1 tbsp of olive oil. It can keep your blood sugar levels in check while reducing inflammation.
Price: $10-$50
May 25 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
You only feel motivated when your body has a dopamine level above normal.
But because you always have a high level of phone-dopamine, it's hard to get a 'higher' spike; which is needed to feel motivated.
Huberman's Dopamine-Control Protocol to raise your motivation 🧵
This might be the most important 2-minute clip in the history of Huberman Lab
The quote that stuck with me:
"Your experience of life and your level of motivation and drive depends on how much dopamine you have relative to your recent experience."
May 20 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
This guy fled Vietnam with nothing in his pockets.
Today, he has become the first hot sauce billionaire of America.
His company Huy Fong's Sriracha does an annual revenue of $150M without any advertisements or sales team.
Here's the story 🧵
Huy Fong's Sriracha:
- has been on the International Space Station
- sells over 20M bottles every year
- was named "Ingredient of the Year" by Bon Appétit
- has never raised its wholesale price since the early 80s
May 19 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
OYO's Billionaire Founder Ritesh Aggarwal didn't know EBITDA while raising his first million.
NASDAQ provides a A-Z Glossary of 1200 Business Terms.
If a fellow founder is struggling, share with these 7 Basic Nuances of business 🧵
Google encourages employees to spend 20% of their work hours exploring new ideas that interest them and address real problems.
This process is known as 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
It helps with:
• thinking of fresh concepts.
• discovering answers to problems
May 7 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Jeff Bezos built a $200 Billion empire using his ruthless decision-making framework.
It's how he conquered retail, cloud computing, and space.
The 4-step decision-making process Jeff used to outsmart everyone: 🧵
Watch this video where Jeff explains why most companies aren't great at decision-making:
May 4 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Joe Rogan's latest guest dropped a bombshell:
“The US has recovered alien spacecraft...
and trained psychic soldiers to locate them.”
Sounds insane, right?
But this came from Hal Puthoff, a physicist funded by the CIA and Pentagon.
Let’s break it down: the weird truth behind this story 🧵
Hal Puthoff isn’t a conspiracy theorist.
He’s a legit physicist—PhD from Stanford, former NSA engineer, worked on classified programs with the CIA and DARPA.
He was one of the scientists behind Project Stargate, the real-life psychic spy program.
May 3 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
In 2012, Brothers of Italy was a fringe party with neo-fascist roots, polling at just 2%.
Ten years later, Giorgia Meloni became Italy's first female prime minister, winning 26% of the vote with the same party.
Here's how she rebranded extremism as mainstream politics: 🧵
To understand Meloni's rise, we must first examine her political origins.
At 15, she joined the youth wing of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a party founded by Mussolini supporters after WWII.
By 21, she won her first local election, and at 31 became Italy's youngest minister in Berlusconi's 2008 government.
May 1 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Look at these chairs.
$350M worth of these Herman Miller Aeron chairs have been sold.
They're dubbed ‘the finest chair that modern engineering can produce’.
In the story of its development, you will learn a simple truth about all great companies 🧵:
Herman Miller:
• Was ranked as the most admired company in the furniture world 23 times
• Have been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
• 100s of books have been written about the company and its design principles
Apr 30 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
He spent $32 billion to give away his product for FREE.
His competitors called him crazy.
The media predicted disaster.
Investors questioned his sanity.
6 months later, his competitors lost $23 billion in market value.
Here's how one billionaire's "insane" strategy became the most ruthless market takeover in history: 🧵
Facing entrenched competitors with 80% market share, Reliance Jio made what seemed like business suicide:
• Free voice calls for LIFE
• Zero-cost data for 3 months
• Data at ⅕ the market rate afterward
Competitors laughed. Then panicked.
Apr 27 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
The most powerful weapon in America's arsenal isn't a nuke.
It's not even in the military.
It's a banking cooperative in Belgium that can destroy entire economies in days.
In 2022, they used it on Russia, and the results were devastating.
Here's the untold story of SWIFT 🧵
In 1973, 239 banks from 15 countries created SWIFT to solve a simple problem:
How to communicate securely about cross-border payments.
What began as a technical solution would eventually become the world's most devastating economic weapon - one few people understand.
Apr 26 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
In 2015, Angela Merkel made the most controversial decision of her 16-year rule:
Opening Germany's borders to 1 MILLION Syrian refugees.
Her popularity collapsed overnight. Far-right parties surged.
But 7 years later, the UN gave her their highest honor.
Here's what REALLY happened: 🧵
In 2015, Europe faced its greatest refugee crisis since World War II.
Millions fled the brutal Syrian civil war, and thousands were dying in dangerous Mediterranean crossings.
But three key moments would push Merkel to make a decision that shocked the continent:
Apr 23 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
In 2014, Wagner Group was just a small band of mercenaries.
Today, they're a shadow army of 50,000 operators in 27 countries.
Here's how Russia built its mercenary empire: 🧵
To understand Wagner's rise, we must first examine its origins.
Founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin (Putin's former chef) and Dmitry Utkin (an ex-Russian intelligence officer), Wagner emerged during Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea,
It supportied separatist forces in Ukraine's Donbas region.
Apr 20 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
This restaurant in Saudi Arabia is called the copycat of KFC.
People drive for 10 hours just to eat chicken from here and even sell it online for double the price.
Their chicken is so delicious that it's been dubbed a "reward from God."
This is the story for Al Baik 🧵
The Al Baik story began in 1974 in the city of Jeddah.
Initially, the business was slow and they served less than 100 customers per day.
Currently, they have 150 locations in 3 countries with a revenue of more than $3.2B.
Apr 18 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
In 2002, Turkey was a struggling nation in crisis
- $3,600 GDP per capita
- Triple-digit inflation
- Political instability
- 20% poverty rate
Then Recep Tayyip Erdogan took charge and transformed Turkey into a regional powerhouse.
Here's how he did it: 🧵
When his Justice and Development Party (AKP) won elections in 2002, Turkey was recovering from one of its worst economic collapses.
Erdogan promised to break with decades of mismanagement that had haunted Turkey's economy.
Apr 17 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
They called it "the perfect sabotage."
Russia controlled Europe's energy supply for decades.
Then underwater explosions ripped through the Baltic Sea's most critical pipelines...
And NATO's entire security doctrine transformed in just 28 days.
Here's how it happened: 🧵
In 2022, the Baltic Sea was Europe's energy lifeline where Russian gas flowed freely to Germany and beyond.
The region had the largest underwater pipeline network in Europe.
But three key moments would soon change the fate of not just the Baltic, but Europe's entire security landscape:
Apr 16 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Two companies control 40% of the $65 billion art market by charging BOTH buyers AND sellers fees.
Their profit margins would make even Apple blush.
Here's how this 250-year-old duopoly manipulates prices and crushes competitors: 🧵
Founded in the 1700s, Sotheby's (1744) and Christie's (1766) have dominated the auction world for over 250 years.
But their modern stranglehold began with one brilliant move:
Introducing the "buyer's premium" - making both sellers AND buyers pay them commissions.
Apr 15 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
De Beers controlled the world's diamond supply for 100 years.
They rewrote our culture, convinced us engagement = diamonds, and built a $90B empire.
Then they lost it all to a technological breakthrough they tried to suppress for 70 years.
Here's what happened 🧵
When Cecil Rhodes founded De Beers in 1888, he began buying every diamond mine he could find.
By the 1980s, De Beers controlled 90% of all diamonds worldwide - the most successful cartel in modern history.
The monopoly wasn't just about owning mines...
Apr 8 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Akio Morita's obsession with making Japanese products known for their quality made Sony produce the Walkman, PlayStation, and TV.
He inspired Toyota, Honda & cemented the reputation of 'Made in Japan' as 'high quality'.
Steve Jobs wanted to be the Akio of the West.
A thread 🧵
Steve built Apple on the same principles that Morita built Sony on:
1. Don't ship until it's perfect 2. People don't know what they want until you give it to them 3. Recruit people who teach you what you don't already know
Let's understand how Morita changed Sony forever 👇
Apr 6 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
People are sleeping on the ridiculous fact that Mr. Beast has 350M subscribers (~US population).
One viral hit could be luck, but 100M views on 50 videos repeatedly means he knew something the rest didn't
Their leaked document is a guide to build an attention factory🧵
Here's a sneak into MrBeast's behind-the-scenes production.
Look at the massive scale involved for just one video, with a large team monitoring numerous screens and server racks.
Here's what he does to make it a success 👇
Apr 5 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Taco Bell is the undisputed KING of Mexican food.
It makes $5M every single day and is the 4th largest restaurant brand in the U.S.
Here's how Taco Bell went from a hot dog stand to serve billions of customers every day 🧵
Taco Bell is part of Yum! Brands, which also owns KFC and Pizza Hut.
- Operates a total of 8,564 restaurants in 32 different countries
- Has a global revenue of more than $2 billion.
- Makes more than $5 Million a day.
Let's dive into it 👇
Apr 3 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Starbucks is actually a BANK.
In 2022 alone, it held onto $1.6B of customer deposits.
This amount surpasses the holdings of 85% of banks in the United States alone.
This is what's happening behind the scenes 🧵
Starbucks has:
- 38K stores in 80 countries
- $27.4M Starbucks rewards members in the US alone
- 31 million active app users
- $1.6B in customer deposits
This is a money mill that has gotten Korean banks worried.