In 2019, I challenged myself to meditate for 1000 hours.

It was hard. I dozed off many times
and nearly gave up on my goal...
But things suddenly got CRAZY.

Without substances, I started
having Out-of-Body Experiences.

Here are 9 lessons for those who want to meditate: 1/ There's no “best” meditation

From guided app meditations and Transcendental Meditation...

To sitting in silence and staring at a flame...

Every technique suits different people at different times.

Don’t feel pressured to pick “the best one.”

Today is Singapore's National Day 🇸🇬

I was at Starbucks and saw not ONE but TWO tables like this.

Laptops at the table...

While students went for lunch.

7 more interesting things about Singapore you won't read in the news: 0/ Yes - it's not a one-off incident. Lots of students and adults leave their belongings at public spaces.

Easy to appreciate as trivial if you're from Singapore.

Hard to believe if you're from elsewhere.

2 weeks ago, I did a keynote at SuperAI.

The topic was "AI Content Creation: How to create signal instead of noise."

If you use AI to create content, I got 7 good tips for you in this thread: 🧵 Before we start, SuperAI isn't just any conference, it had:

• 10,000 attendees
• AI experts from around the globe
• 1,500 AI Companies (CEOs + Investors)

In this keynote, I share secrets I used to speedrun growing my X audience with AI (that has my stories + my voice)

7 years ago, I spent $100,000+
to learn from Tony Robbins.

Yes there's a lot of that jumping up and down crap...

But also a ton of wisdom.

Here are 9 of his insights that transformed my life (and will do the same for you): 1/ Your life is controlled by 2 invisible forces:

Your STATE and your STORY.

• State = your moment-to-moment emotions
• Story = the meaning you give to events

"Change your story, change your life. But first, master your state. No one makes good decisions in a bad state."

Wow.

This new Chinese phenomenon is crazy.

Instead of loud protests, Chinese youths are identifying as "mouse people" and quietly carving out hidden worlds.

A thread on China's post-subcultural phenomenon of "autonomous escape" and "active hiding": 🧵 In the West, rebellion is loud - think protests in the '60s and '70s.

But in China, youth are adopting quiet fatalism.

Calling themselves "Mouse People," they're resigned, ironic, and deeply cynical about society.

As a Singaporean, my country is supposedly high-tech.

But when I scroll Chinese Social Media, I see CRAZY tech that shocks me.

Here are 9 shocking technologies in China's smart cities that made my jaw drop: 🧵
1. Smart Toilets

China's "toiletomics" tech passively analyses your poop & urine in real-time, detecting disease instantly.

Yes - there's even "anus recognition" biometrics for personalised health checks.

I bet @bryan_johnson approves.

I'm Singaporean.

In 1965, my country was forced out of Malaysia.

No army. No resources. No fresh water.

Just a tiny island with 2M people living in poverty.

Then ONE man's vision built the modern world's greatest City-State. Here's the story and 7 lessons worth learning:

🧵 It's a bit hard to believe this...

But in 1965, Lee Kuan Yew said:

"For me, it is a moment of anguish because all my life, you see, the whole of my adult life, I have believed in Malaysian merger and the unity of these two territories."

Watch Lee tear up as he explain:

One man destroyed entire governments.

Just to sell more bananas.

He also convinced millions of women that cigarettes were "freedom" - just to increase corporate sales.

And rewired how every brand manipulates your brain today.

Meet the father of modern propaganda: 🧵
Edward Bernays wasn’t your average adman.

Born in 1891 in Vienna, he was the nephew of Sigmund Freud - yes, THAT Freud.

Bernays took Freud’s theories of the unconscious mind and applied them to public persuasion, revolutionizing marketing forever.

Last year, TikTok's founder moved his family office to Singapore.

20 Chinese billionaires made the same move.

And so did Sergey Brin, James Dyson and Ray Dalio - Because they all saw something others didn't.

Here's 7 reasons why the ultra-wealthy want their money here: 🧵
First, some context:

On August 9, 1965, Malaysia's PM Tunku Abdul Rahman announced Singapore's expulsion from the federation.

Lee Kuan Yew cried on national TV...

7 years ago, Tony Robbins said that God exists and I laughed.

I asked: "How do you know?"

But Tony was right.
And I was wrong.

A story on the 10 breakthrough moments which made me change my mind: 🧵 I grew up as a free thinker.

My uncle's family were staunch Christians who preached their beliefs at me.

I hated it.

It was frustrating hearing them talk about something they couldn't prove.

I was a non-believer in God.

Futurists laughed at Ray Kurzweil.

But his predictions so far are ~86% accurate.

Now his shocking forecasts are arriving EARLY and we're not ready.

• Digital immortality
• 'Conscious' AI by 2029
• Human-machine merger

Here's are 5 interesting predictions (and why): 🧵
First - If you don't know him, Kurzweil is not just some random futurist.

13 years ago, Larry Page personally invited Kurzweil to join google as their Director of Engineering.

He's invented the first text-to-speech machine, and was an advisor to three US Presidents.

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.