Handy glossary: - Racially charged = Racist - Politically charged = Fascist - Criminally charged = Trump

We fetishize the 22-year-old founder and the 30-under-30 list. But the masterpiece that made Kurt Vonnegut came at 47. The truth is, you've still got time. New from me on YouTube →

The irony of Trump: Resistance is costly, but it pays. Submission is cheap, but it compounds. Disney folded to a tantrum; Kimmel took the hit. History already knows who won. https://www.theindex.media/p/donald-trump-can-t-make-cowards-of-us-all

In 1999: “Don’t meet strangers from the internet.” In 2025: “Get in the car with a stranger from the internet and live in their house.”

The myth: if you haven’t made it by 30, you’re finished. The truth: you still have decades to do your best work.

Westenberg.

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

The Long Apprenticeship

The real productivity hack is accepting that most tasks aren't worth optimizing and just doing them badly

Many such cases (we just haven’t found them yet)

I don't network. I write. A thread 🧵 1/17

The real reason people hate self-checkout isn’t the loss of human contact it’s that you pay the same price but do more work, violating our intuitions about fair exchange. It’s like if restaurants charged full price but you had to bus your own table

The generation born between 1946 and 1964 achieved the greatest coup in financial history: they conceived and raised their own exit liquidity