A civilization isn’t measured by technology or by money. It’s measured by the absence of violence and fear of violence among the population. By that metric, we need to reconsider which countries are truly civilized.

I am having phone calls with guys who invested in commercial real estate - retail and multifamily They’re losing millions Fraud, deals going bad, tenants moving out, insurance skyrocketing It’s just a matter of time until it shows up everywhere Meanwhile influencers keep

Users are fed up with Microsoft’s irritating and incessant tactics and want to seek alternative desktop browsers — but Microsoft is making it difficult for them. Learn more.

I did office hours with a startup yesterday that I ended up advising to (a) decrease their growth rate and (b) spend the money they've raised faster by hiring more people and paying them high salaries. Possibly the first time I've ever told a startup this.

Warren Buffett Indicator hits an all-time high of 224%, the most expensive stock market valuation in history 🚨🚨

Tolerating a problem has the same consequences as failing to identify it. Whether you tolerate it because you believe it cannot be solved, because you don't care enough to solve it, or because you can't muster enough of whatever it takes to solve it, if you don't have the will to

For anyone watching heavy truck sales, it shouldn't come as a shock the U.S. lost 68,000 manufacturing jobs in 2025. We saw the same thing in 2020, 2008, 2001, etc.

🚨ADHD Isn't a Bug: It's a Suppressed Superpower On Whitney Cummings's appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, she made a point that deserves more attention than the headlines it'll get. What we call ADHD may not be a deficit at all. It may be a concentration system that only

Stop "looking for a job" and start receiving interview requests from companies. JJ didn't spend months applying; he used Fonzi’s Match Day to go straight from an interview request to a signed offer in just 3 weeks. No ghosting. No low-ball offers.

Papa Johns Pizza (2.3 miles from the Pentagon) is experiencing an extreme spike in activity, reaching 244% as of Saturday morning. DEFCON level is 4.

Exxon reportedly lobbied to maintain the oil sanctions on Venezuela, counting on a new regime to pay back the $1.6b the World Bank’s ICSID ruled Vz owes them for the Chavez expropriations. They don’t want to invest in PDVSA or to work with Delcy, they want a payout.

Here’s a crazy idea for PBS: put up a paywall for half your content and see if you provide enough value for 5% of viewers to pay.

Two business school professors from the University of Technology in Sydney have sounded the alarm on the declining quality of academic literature in a new publication titled “The junkification of research”. Drawing parallels to the “enshittification” of online platforms, they

Warren Buffett on why some people should NEVER own stocks… Save this video, this will come in handy.

Silicon Valley technologists exiting California should move to Starbase, Texas. Tech won 97.74% of the vote there. It’s populated by engineers. It’s what tech used to be. And Elon is the de facto mayor. This is how tech wins democratically. Voting with feet, wallet, and ballot.

If had the ear @JDVance @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr @GovRonDeSantis @LeaderJohnThune, I would ask them to take a trillion dollars (since trillions just get thrown around like millions now) and bypass all the protests and regulations and dot the whole country with small

Dropped a new substack post today...brief summary: Trump promised $100 billion in oil investments to rebuild Venezuela. On January 9th, he got oil executives in a room and got a reality check instead. ExxonMobil CEO to Trump's face: "Venezuela today is uninvestable."

A new drug in the middle of clinical trials just increased REM sleep by 90% without making people sleep longer! This is the first medication ever to specifically enhance REM only and the implications go far beyond seizure control. Here's what just happened. 🧵

we’re less than 10 years from decoding all animal communication and BCIs that let us talk back an entire kingdom of minds we’ve been ignoring for 300,000 years going to be really fun

What anyone who bothers to look will see. "Despite breathless headlines warning of a robot takeover in the workforce, a new research briefing from Oxford Economics casts doubt on the narrative that artificial intelligence is currently causing mass unemployment. According to the

Some people are concerned about what will happen to U.S. homeowners if home prices drop. But this shouldn't be a major concern. If home values drop 15%, U.S. homeowner equity would fall from $36 Trillion to $28 Trillion. That would be a 21% relative decline in equity, and

In 1976, 92% of high school seniors said that they had consumed alcohol in their lives. In 2022, that was 53%. Smoking cigarettes went from 76% to 17% during the same time period. Marijuana use is down by 26 pts. Oh, and teen pregnancy is down 75% since the early 1990s.

Why is the UK government so fascist?