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Alright, let me post something that gets no attention.
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You'll get the EPUB and PDF file.
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USD 4000/month for a 1 bedroom in SF in 2026.
I paid ZAR 1900/month for my first 1 bedroom apartment in 2008.
In Strand, South Africa.
SF rent has gone crazy.
My tiny 1 bedroom was $4000/month 2 years ago. It’s relisted for $6000 after I moved out. Rented instantly.
A friend pays $5K for a sf studio without a dishwasher.
How do CS new grads afford SF now?
Welcome to the AI economy.
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Whole lotta people about to come up against the greatest Chesterton’s Fence of all time
AI tech bros crashing out about the basics reminds me of something I say each year to prospective Catholics when we get around to moral theology, and that is: The Catholic Church has thought about this stuff so deeply that she knows why you disagree with her better than you do.
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The most valuable skills by 2030 won’t be technical.
They’ll be human.
Sharing great insights from Jeroen Kraaijenbrink and the World Economic Forum.
The people who thrive will be able to:
Think clearly.
Adapt quickly.
Lead effectively.
The highest-impact skills include:
A) Systems thinking
B) Creative thinking
C) Analytical thinking
D) Self-awareness & motivation
E) Leadership & influence
F) Resilience & adaptability
G) Curiosity & lifelong learning
These skills are becoming essential.
AI will keep getting better.
But tools don’t make decisions.
People do.
The real advantage in 2030 will come from:
Better decisions.
Faster execution.
Stronger leadership.
That’s what will separate top performers from everyone else.
P.S. Which of these skills are you working on right now?
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This is by far the most African thing Trump has ever done. Welcome to the third world, America 😂
BREAKING: President Trump says he will now give a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” to every US citizen if Republicans win the midterms, rather than just US adults.
On September 9th, President Trump said that only US adults would qualify for the $5,000 payment.
There are ~316 million US citizens, meaning the payments would total ~$1.58 trillion.
That is +$350 billion more than the previous proposal.
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Unfortunately this makes a huge amount of sense, because most people would absolutely blame Apple for failing to foresee this exact problem.
We’re back to the pre-antivirus days, where a poisoned skill file can do just as much damage. A whole new generation has to learn.
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That Netflix threw away their carefully-designed recommendation algorithm in favor of just yeeting watch history into an LLM just proves the argument I haven’t been making frequently enough here on X: AI is the Final Information Technology.
We’ve done it. And we’re still here.
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Oh nice, we’re gonna test the efficient market hypothesis again!
SITUATION DETECTED: McDonald’s is using an AI “pricing engine” to analyze millions of daily transactions across 14,000 U.S. restaurants, estimate each area’s willingness to pay, and then generate what it calls “the optimal price” for every menu item at each store, per Reuters.
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Funding not secured 😭
Naspers, which used to be South Africa’s largest company, has lost R420 billion in value over the last year.
newsday.co.za/business/28393…
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After two decades of aggregation and playing to Google and Meta's rules, suddenly having your own website makes sense again. Wild 😂
"How did you hear about us? Was it deep research, AI, or someone else?"
"Yeah, it was deep research."
"Yes, we hear this a lot."
My recent conversation with an insurance broker. Kind of wild how quickly discovery of these small businesses went from Google to AI agents and AIO (AI optimization, similar to SEO but ofc for AI) starts mattering very much for them...
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Gonna absolutely blow the personal assistant industry away when they realize that shopping has been gamified for years now - the experience of adding stuff to a cart *is* the fun part. Abstracting that away is a B2B use-case, not a consumer use-case.
there are so many everyday demos that could make ai, personal agents, & agents in general feel insanely powerful to normal ppl & yet ai companies keep choosing things like booking flights, planning travel, or god forbid planning a god damn wedding.
these are not everyday problems. they’re relatively rare events & worse for a lot of ppl they’re actually part of the joys of life. the best demo should make someone feel pain they already are familiar with disappearing. almost every company gets this wrong. they optimize for spectacle instead of relief which is fine in some cases but it doesn’t last.
one of my favorite historical examples is a product called head on.
the ad showed someone with a headache, then showed them applying the product directly to their forehead while repeating:
“head on. apply directly to the forehead.”
beautifully simple. you instantly understood the product, the problem, & the value. ai companies should be doing the same thing.
show me the annoying thing i deal with every single day then make it disappear. it’s not sexy, i guarantee it will work. when jobs demo’ed the iphone he picked universal simple problems that the iphone did better than anything else on the fucking planet.
anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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