Walter Isaacson asks Peter Thiel what humans can uniquely do in the AI era. Thiel: "We're very relational… these relational dimensions will become more important." When knowledge is worth $0, the only career skills that matter: - networking / social calibration - persuasion (sales) - curiosity (harnessing AI) - taste (curation) - storytelling - grit - golfing with clients (or equivalent) We'll get so sick of a fake world that we'll go back to doing business like it's the 1800s. A handshake at the local saloon.

Americans’ alcohol consumption falls to its lowest level since 1939, per Gallup.

Whop has raised $200M in Series D funding at a $5.1B valuation, backed by @sequoia and @shopify. It really feels like we are barely touching the tip of the iceberg in a market larger than anyone can imagine. We first launched Whop as a better way for us to sell sneaker bots, one of the most niche types of desktop software out there. Total TAM? Probably $20,000 per day. Who cares, tiny market. But, what people discounted is the idea that there were actually 70,000 other markets exactly like that one. Beyond the investment itself, I am especially excited to welcome legendary silicon valley investor @dougleone to our board of directors. Doug and the sequoia team are nothing but a brilliant, resourceful, and principled group of people. My co-founder Cameron and I started building on Shopify when we were 13 years old. Shopify is one of the most impactful all-in-one cloud ecosystems ever created; @tobi has pioneered modern entrepreneurship the way we know it and we are thrilled to have him in our corner. We have a tenet at Whop to be the dumbest in the room and I am very grateful that this has recently become a lot easier. We are focused on markets, scale economies, and progressive media. If that is up your alley, please message me directly. The $200M raised will support our expansion as we build economic infrastructure for the next century, continuing on our mission of delivering everyone an income.

Selling your soul has a price. When you get rich from shilling addictions (gaming, gambling, p0rn, scrolling) or illegal hustles (BM peptides, crypto rugs), you end up with a weird disease (from mental ‘dis-ease’). Seen it a dozen times. Karma is real.

I’m always impressed when people discover new heights in a career path that everyone assumes has a “cap”. Nathan Fielder was already the new hit “Silly Camera Guy.” Every few years a new one emerges after people get sick of the humor of the last guy—like Sasha Baron Cohen, Eric Andre, Tim & Eric, and Tom Green. But what’s remarkable is that he used his 15 minutes of fame to break out of “Silly Camera Guy” and prove that he is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

When you lose your appetite for food you lose your appetite for life. People on GLP-1 have this absence of gusto in them that makes them poor companions. They are almost as unpleasant to be with as longevity-health optimizers.

Bored ape yacht club

Venture subsidized Vicuña is my Navier-Stokes moment

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I will die on this hill: you simply cannot be a great founder and great investor at the same time. The way you think about everything in life as a great investor is orthogonal to being a great founder. You don’t have an unbiased objective view of the world as a founder.

What agriculture did to our bodies, AI will do to our brains

In a test, he told Claude he was shutting it down. It emailed its own weights to Hugging Face. Progress ep08 is live with @aengus_lynch1, lead author of Anthropic's agentic misalignment study. We got into pause buttons, AI consciousness, and the new Gilded Age.

The statue of Prometheus is finally finished. It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this. People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny. But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity. In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history. After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome. Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.

The most dangerous moment is right after you win. You did it. You made the money. You quit your job. You built the physique. You got the girl. Now what? Most people let themselves decline into misery because their driving force has now vanished. You need another mountain to climb. You need to understand that it is a gift, not a curse, to always be in the pursuit of your potential - the constant balance of challenge and skill is what makes life meaningful. There is no final top of the mountain.

I had an awesome time chatting with @patrick_oshag on his podcast, Invest with the Best. I tell him magic is actually real and he thought I was crazy 🤣 If we’re friends, plz share/retweet. If u don’t, we aren’t friends. Hope you guys enjoy❤️🫡 open.spotify.com/episode/69T…