Remind me Often

Now that I know that I will always live the experience of the books I am writing about, I will tell you (and the cheeky universe) that the title of the next one has to be: “ How to Handle Large, Unexpected Amounts of Money That Land in Your Bank Account, and the Fabulous Travel and Retirement Plans that Result from This Windfall .”

This is not new. Rockefeller bought senators. The railroad barons owned state legislatures outright. JP Morgan personally bailed out the U.S. Treasury in 1895 and dictated the terms. The East India Company ran foreign policy for the British Empire. The mechanism—money buying influence over rule-writing—is identical across every institutional... See more

Don’t challenge beliefs, exchange them .

Every major digital scenius to date formed on captured infrastructure. Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, crypto Twitter. The pattern repeats: a scene forms, generates cultural and cognitive surplus, the platform extracts it, then enforces legibility through metrics, feeds, and incentives. Thinkability collapses into optimization. The scene disperses or... See more