Andre Relvas

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

@steveonomics The point of man is to build, create, and improve the lives of others.

The number on the screen is not relevant.

[Andre Relvas @AndreRelvas]

Humans will need purpose in a world of abundance.

Offline, in-person work will be a fundamental piece of finding purpose.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🎒After a decade, I have made https://t.co/HGCLKS5BD6 free for everyone now!

Well almost free, it's $1 to sign up to avoid getting lots of spam

The reason is
1) I have made enough money (from it)
2) charging for a community artificially limits the size, if you put the price at $299 you get 50 new members per month, at $99 you get 200 people, at $29 you get 400 people, etc.

And this always annoyed me, I don't want to put a limit but I had to, to be able to make money from it, so it's free now

I want it to be it the biggest community for digital nomads, world travelers, sovereign thinkers and network state type people

For years it has has a great sponsor with @SafetyWing and I think that's maybe a better model for the future, get much more people in and then just add more sponsors

Right now for the record it has 43,252 paid members (so about 300/mo for 12 years!), so it will be interesting to see what it can grow too

I think now that AGI is on the horizon (or some say already here), online and offline (IRL) communities will become really important. People are talking more to AI now than to humans, and there was already a loneliness epidemic before AI

Making new friends and dating is not so easy for people now. And with remote work and entrepreneurship, people lack a space like an office where people would usually make friends or meet partners

I made most of the friends I have now through traveling and living around the world for the last 10+ years (and many via my site too), and I also met my girlfriend through those friends! So I think communities can have a real role in that post-AGI

Post-AGI business wise, communities also have a moat where many of my SaaS apps do not. So there is some urgency I feel to make Nomads in to the best community there is for those people. But that's why I have to remove any limitations to its growth now

So in a way after 12 years I am switching to the subsidized VC model a bit, but still 100% bootstrapped, kinda like "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

Having enough money now I can afford to do these things and figure out the business model later, which I think will be more sponsors

Enjoy and please sign up and tell me what to improve!!! 😊

[Rian Apolo @rianvilares]

https://t.co/UNJfMLq7TO

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

If the EU built Claude

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Never quit as a founder. I’m begging you.

It’s 0 for longer than you’ll ever expect. No momentum. Soul-crushing doubts. Nobody seems to care. Even when it looks like it’s working, it’s not. You keep trying new things. You don’t lose hope.

Then it snaps to 100. You finally find the one thing that resonates. You wake up with more customers than you can handle. Everything is breaking. Momentum keeps building even when you’re not pushing. Something changed.

You didn’t get lucky, you just didn’t leave.

[Tiago Antunes @tiagomanel]

With https://t.co/lAxValp45d, you can follow public contracts at municipality level, see where the money is flowing, and explore the network behind it through connected entities and contracts.

It's a simpler way to understand who is contracting with whom, where public money is going, and how local spending moves across the network.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If only we’d trained Grok on just these 2 books, we’d be done already!

[a16z @a16z]

Anish Acharya: We're going to see a "YouTube moment for software":

"If you think about YouTube 20 years ago—we had lots of video and lots of television, and it was high production quality, and it wasn't clear that we needed more and 20 years later, YouTube's a $550 billion enterprise that would be one of the biggest companies in the world if it was independent."

"I think the same thing is going to happen for software. People want to make software, and for the first time they can—and they can distribute it and they can consume it."

"Sometimes it's going to be important software. Sometimes it's going to be totally trivial. It's going to be software for a bachelor party weekend, software for a joke, software for a prompt. We have this sort of seriousness about software that we had about video and television 20 years ago."

"Now it's like—I just took a video on my phone. It's going to be like—I just made an app on my phone. Same energy."

@illscience on BILLIONS with @GuillaumeMbh

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Barbell!

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Finished a seven day social media fast. It feels like the most effective longevity therapy I've done.

Everything got better: mood, sleep, energy, presence, judgment, relationships, and optimism.

Evidence shows a seven day fast produces a reduction of anxiety (16%), depression (25%) and insomnia (15%). The effects felt bigger.

Conversely, dipping back in, I can viscerally feel that my body metabolizes social media similarly to a fast food meal, corrosive relationship, hangover, and sleep deprivation. My body hates it.

After the previous fasts (40/hr and 70hr), I wrote that social media is pollution.  Not a vice or guilty pleasure. It’s closer to water toxins, air pollution and microplastics.

This time, the major insight was that social media is a form of intoxication.

Alcohol is honest intoxication. It clearly tells you what it's taking from you. Social media on the other hand does not disclose itself as an intoxicant.

It produces the sensation of being informed, engaged, and connected while quietly evacuating your capacity for depth and independent thought.

You don’t feel drunk, you feel current. But evidence shows that it causes your brain to shrink. The impairment is real by you can't feel it. Making it the more dangerous type.

If you haven't tried it, I strongly encourage you to try a social media fast. Even if for one day.

[Andre Relvas @AndreRelvas]

With the automation of administrative work, in-person sales will be of the utmost importance.

[Andre Relvas @AndreRelvas]

Real world, real things >>>>>>

[Naval @naval]

Pure software is rapidly becoming un-investable.

[Sean Frank @Seanfrank]

France is investing $30,000,000 in this new ai initiative

That’s how much Google will spend in 90 minutes.

No joke. Every 90 minutes Google will spend $30 million on capex this year.

One company.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Now that I've been through being a kid, growing up, and then having kids, it's clear that the main thing that differentiates people is simply whether they make an effort. Whether they're content to drift along with the current, or whether they try to swim.

[Balaji @balajis]

Much of any digital job is now preparing context for AI models.

Organizing files in folders, naming everything correctly, introducing things in the right order, and only then asking the AI to do something in clear written English.

[Lawrence Yeo @moretothat]

https://t.co/AfysAwBOHl

[Naval @naval]

The solution to anxiety is action.

[jack @jack]

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