Robotics is sort of happening in our peripheral vision now. In the 2020s, we’re going to see more actual robots in the field. That’s going to come pretty quickly, because once a robot can do something, you’ve turned labor into capital.

“Dollowers” (dollar-weighted followers) are an important part of the future. Normal followers are nonpaying commenters, and subscribers are quiet paying supporters. But dollowers are engaged and pay creators. They often support individuals rather than institutions.

Doing more than one thing is very hard. You can do one big thing, and you can attach lots of subroutines to that. But if you’re trying to do more than one big thing, you have to decide every single moment of the day, am I spending time on A or B?

You have 168 hours per week, ~112 awake. Substitute capital for time, technology for both. Avoid travel. Cancel meetings. Focus on doing.

If you are what you eat, then you think what you see.

The ideal is you are a full-stack engineer and full-stack creator. That’s using both your right brain and left brain.

Over the last few decades, a significant part of the value of being physically present in America has been digitized. COVID-19 and remote work accelerated digital life and further reduced the value of the physical. The cloud is becoming primary, the land secondary.

Here is my ranking of types of leaders: socialist < nationalist < capitalist < technologist.

Infotainment should be filtered out of your information diet. Returning to the analogy between your nutritional diet and your information diet…having a cookie from time to time is fine, but if you’re eating only cookies and you’re not eating healthy food, your health is going to be messed up. Your life is going to get worse.