If by valuable we mean where advertisers can make the most money, the winners are usually not the biggest communities. 🏆 Top-tier niches. Personal Finance & Investing. r/personalfinance. r/investing. r/financialindependence. r/stocks. These attract users making real decisions about money, investments, …
My first PC. My first time on the internet. My first smartphone. My first conversation with AI. That's the whole list. Four. The next two won't be like that. 5. Riding in a car with no one driving. 6. Seeing …
Ibn Khaldun, writing in 1377, watching North African dynasties rise and rot on a schedule. 📜 He called the binding force asabiyyah, group solidarity. Desert tribes have it because scarcity forces it. They take the cities. Then comfort dissolves the …
Blake Lemoine, Google, 2022. He believed LaMDA was sentient. The system said it feared being turned off and compared it to death. He was fired. Everyone laughed. Nobody has explained what evidence would have counted. 🤔 Anthropic's 2025 alignment testing …
The swarm exists. The US has roughly 28 million nonemployer businesses - companies with an owner and nobody else. That's not a prediction, that's the current Census count, and it's been growing since the 90s. The giants exist too. Concentration …
The eyes are the perfect target. Here are the updates I'd like to request: More colours 🌈 Not brighter, more. A fourth or fifth cone type, so today's "green" splits into ten greens you've never had names for. Some women …
Job titles are proof of what you can do. Once AI can do most of it cheaper, the title stops signalling anything scarce. 📉 The scarce thing becomes "a real, single, accountable human is behind this." Platforms are already drowning …
The core problem is that the old tricks are dead: bots now pass CAPTCHAs more reliably than humans do, and AI-generated synthetic documents fool verification systems built decades ago. Your writing style, your voice, your face on video - …
Let's hunt. AI is the current king. 🤖 Embodied AI / robotics - the safest bet, because it's not "after AI," it's AI growing hands. Intelligence is now cheap; moving atoms is still expensive. The moment a $20k robot can …
Think about it: information became infinite and basically free, but human attention stayed brutally finite - you get maybe 16 usable hours a day, and that's it. Whenever something is scarce and everything else is abundant, the scarce thing becomes …
If your sock gets a hole, you throw it out. If the sole peels off your shoe, do you repair it or hunt for a cobbler? What if an entire piece of the economy just disappears? Not shrinks. Not transforms. …
Look up. The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun and 400 times closer. Same size in the sky. That's why total eclipses exist. Nothing in physics requires that. It just happened. You got a stabiliser, a tide engine …
Era one: the village. You were who the community remembered you being. That system failed spectacularly and often. Martin Guerre, France 1560 - a stranger walked into a village, claimed to be a man who had left years earlier, and …
Frey and Osborne's famous 2013 paper listed creativity and social intelligence as the safe bottlenecks. The reality: The most creative and intelligent jobs are the easiest to replace with AI, not the hardest. Here's why. The work we call "genius" …
Someone told me this a while back and it stuck with me. There was a company doing well. Not huge, but solid, good reputation in its area. A big international player came in and said they wanted to buy it. …
The line exists because it's printable. It fits on a mug. Nobody puts "four years of failing" on a mug 😁. Nice line. Einstein didn't say it. Nobody knows who did. It's on mugs. It's on classroom posters. It's in …
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