This Harvard plastic surgeon made a terrifying discovery.

After performing 10,000 plastic surgeries, he discovered that most of them had their lives improve rapidly and became happier

But the other 20% stayed miserable.

Here's his disturbing discovery:🧵
The stats were brutal.

Same surgeon. Same techniques.
Even same physical outcomes.

Yet some of them transformed their lives along with their looks, while others remained miserable.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz was confused... until he realised something disturbing.

I made my first $3 million in poker.

Then I walked away from it to chase spirituality.

But instead of finding enlightenment, I saw friends lose their minds.

Here's the dark side of going all-in on spirituality that people ignore: 🧵 I was an "all or nothing" kind of person.

When my poker career took off, I made my first $3 million.

Then, I got bored and dropped my $1M+/yr income to chase deeper meaning.

Within months, my reality flipped 360 degrees.

Every 5 years, I go all-in on something.

Now, it's AI agents. I'm obsessing about it 200 hours a month.

Here are 7 thoughts about AI agents:

1/ There's tremendous incentive for AI agent builders to collaborate. My agents can work with yours and we can win together. 2/ Not only can our agents work together, we can copy and paste our agents and share them with each other.

Those who team up will go faster than those who don't.

I'm Singaporean.

Singapore is known for being high-tech.

But our tech is NOTHING compared to what I saw on a 15-day China trip in March.

From DeepSeek Sex Dolls to Electric Airships to Drones for traffic incidents...

Here's 9 shocking tech in China now:
Before we begin, here's a side note:

I speak Chinese and used their social media apps when I was there - To experience "the real China".

Here' are the 9 shocking high-tech things:

Everyone's talking about AI agents.

But I bet you less than 10% of people have deployed an AI agent that is creating value for their business.

So if you deploy ONE, you're instantly ahead of 90% of users.

Here's how beginners can learn n8n and build AI Agents in 7-days: 🧵 Day 1:
• Watch their beginner course on YouTube by searching for n8n Beginner Course
• Sign-up for an account and play around by creating ONE workflow.
• Stop here - Don't overwhelm yourself.

The Illuminati of 2025.

The most prestigious of all prestigious clubs: The Executive Branch.

$500K membership. Referrals only.

A thread on Executive Branch and it's founding members: 🧵 The $500k/yr club started because "We just wanted a place to hang-out" and "not have fake news reporters at the bar".

Founding Member No. 1, David Sacks explains why they launched Executive Branch:

BREAKING: After Apple loses to Epic again...

Stripe immediately starts showing devs how to kill the 30% App Store fee with a 2.9% alternative.

Billions are shifting. Deep dive: 🧵 Apple finally blinked.

Facing court battles and relentless global regulators, Apple reluctantly allowed U.S. devs to include external payment links in apps.

That 30% "Apple tax" instantly
dropped to zero for external payments.

I'm Singaporean.

Everyone credits Lee Kuan Yew for Singapore’s success.

But in every great nation, there's also a real genius behind the scenes person - The "COO of the nation".

Here's the story of the greatest right-hand man (and lessons you can learn): 🧵 While Lee Kuan Yew got the headlines, Dr Goh Keng Swee was the mastermind behind the economic miracle:

• Co-founded Singapore’s ruling party
• Led as the government’s chief strategist
• Nicknamed: "the greatest politician you've never heard about"

Chinese spies are next level cunning.

In 1983, Shi Pei Pu was caught.

The strangest thing... For 20 years, the French diplomat who "fathered her child" didn't know she was A GUY.

Here's the true story of the most cunning spy of all time: 🧵 Shi Pei Pu was a legendary Beijing opera singer.

Operatically trained male performers were known for their haunting portrayals of female roles (“dan”).

Shi weaponized this ancient artform - convincing French diplomat Bernard Boursicot he was female for TWO DECADES.

On the recent All-in Pod, Chamath talked about how China's Hu Jintao gave an incredible speech in 2003.

In that speech, Hu spoke about "10 boxes" - Areas China was gonna create national champions around.

In case you're curious too, here are the 10 areas (+surrounding facts): 🧵 First off - Don't wanna start from Uranus... But(t)...

Hu Jintao became the *General Secretary* in 2002 and *President* in 2003 and not the *Premier* (aka. ranked #1 and #2).

Wen Jiabao was the Premier "#3".

Yep - CCP ranks are confusing.

🚨 The DOJ wants to break up Google.
A high-stakes hearing is coming on April 21.

Since I've spent $1M+ of my own dime on Google Ads, I’ve followed this case for years.

Here are 7 shocking ways Google rigged the ad game (with proof)...

And what this means moving forward: 🧵
1/ They admitted jacking up ad prices by 5–20%

Check out their codenames:
• "Code Yellow" = Call For More Revenue
• “Gamma Yellow” = 20% price hike on mobile ads
• “Momiji” = internal tool for price surges

No disclosures. Just price increases.

Why? So that they could...

Tomorrow, I turn 35.

But instead of celebrating, I'm crying.

8 days ago, a close friend from my poker days took his own life.

Before he made 8-figures and retired, he was one of the toughest guys I knew.

Here's the story and a journal entry with lessons to myself: 🧵 For the privacy of everyone close to my friend, I left out some details like names, locations, etc.

If you know who he is, I kindly request that you don't say it.

If you suspect you know who it is and want more info, feel free to DM me.

(Yes, I'm really crying.)

Naval Ravikant and Marc Andreessen said:
The future of all warfare is drones.

So I asked a simple question:
Who’s winning the drone war?

The answer didn’t surprise me. But the details did - 1M kamikaze drones by 2026?!

A tiny thread on China's drones:🧵 While America is throwing shit at the greatest entrepreneur of our life time...

China is building.

• 50+ drone types in active dev
• 1M+ kamikaze drones in production
• Hypersonic drones already operational

10,000 drones. 1 computer. Watch this light display:

I'm Singaporean.

Everyone knows and respects our founding father, Lee Kuan Yew.

But LKY himself looked up to one man above all.

After digging into that man's teachings, I found 7 principles that eerily mirror what Elon Musk is doing today: 🧵 First, who was this man?

His name is Deng Xiaoping - the architect of modern China.

After Mao's Cultural Revolution left the country in ruins, Deng quietly stepped in and rewrote the playbook of power.

Here's LKY explaining why he respected Deng so much:

There's a guru couple in India:

Preethaji & Krishnaji.

Celebrities like Tony Robbins and Usher learned from them.

Ridiculous $100,000 price tags... But awesome teachings. In my 21-days there, I had 10+ out-of-body experiences.

Here's 7 of their best pieces of wisdom: 🧵 Before we start, I attach the stories of my out-of-body experiences at the end.

If they can teach you out to experience transcendental states, they can teach you a lot too.

So here are the 7 teachings that impacted me the most:

In 2020, Toyota announced:

They're building an entire city from scratch, as a living laboratory with 2,000 inventors.

And... It's here in 2025.

Here’s the story of Woven City (the most ambitious urban experiment of our time): 🧵 In 2021, the construction of Woven City started.

A 175-acre, fully autonomous, AI-powered, hydrogen-fueled smart city at the base of Mt. Fuji.

This year, residents will begin moving in.

Toyota calls it a "living laboratory" — where real people live inside a tech experiment.

In 2019, Jan Oberhauser was stretched thin:

One startup. One part-time job. One side project.

At the same time.

That side project? It’s now a €250M company called n8n.

Here’s how he did it - and 5 wild use cases (#5 might be illegal): 🧵 Jan spent years in the visual effects industry.

His job? Help artists work faster by automating painful, repetitive tasks.

But there was a problem:

The people feeling the pain couldn’t fix it.

They had to wait for engineers.

It's 2030.

AI has eaten all computer work.

The two groups of people who captured most of the value are:
1. System Thinkers
2. People with discernment and good taste

Want to be top 1% in both?

25 books to read in 2025: 🧵 1/ Thinking in Systems – Donella Meadows

The bible of systems thinking. Teaches you how to see the hidden forces behind outcomes.

One read = permanent lens shift.

I'm Singaporean.

Singapore is famous for being advanced.

But it's NOTHING compared to what I just saw in my 15-day China trip.

Here's 7 shocking technology I saw in China this month:
Before we begin, here's a side note:

I speak Chinese - So I got to use the Chinese apps and see the "Real China".

There were countless things that blew my mind, but here are 7 that were most shocking to me:

BREAKING: Terrence Howard claims to have solved the Three Body Problem.

Since Newton's time in the 1700s, this has been an unsolved problem.

Watch Terrence's IG video attached and read his solution: 🧵 1/ Introduction and Motivation

This is Sichuan.

The king of branding.

While most states fail to differentiate in one way, Sichuan cracked the brand code for THREE competitive niches:
• Pandas
• Spicy hotpot
• Prettiest girls in China

Here's how they did it (and lessons for anyone building a brand): Ancient Chinese texts, like the Han Dynasty's "Records of the Historian" mention pandas. This dates back 4,000 years.

But by the late 20th century, there were all but 1,000 pandas left.

Then Sichuan stepped up - investing big in their competitive advantage: pandas.