BREAKING NEWS 🚨: Grok Bot can now be your $50,000 a year travel agent, and if it gets a booking wrong, Elon says SpaceX will pay you back.
Tell your Bot where you want to go and use these 7 prompts:
Elon's comment to spin up Amazon competitor isn't a fluke... Amazon has major problems...
Amazon has become a Chinese flea market operating inside an American distribution empire... 55.9% of its top 10,000 sellers are now China based, while American entrepreneurs invest in developing products, building brands, proving demand and creating the very markets that overseas competitors move in to capture...
The pattern is well documented... an American inventor develops something successful, Chinese knockoffs flood the marketplace, prices collapse, original listings get hijacked, and fraudulent intellectual property complaints can even force legitimate sellers offline...
Forearm Forklift watched revenue and American jobs disappear, Drop Stop fought Chinese made patent infringement, PopSockets took its counterfeit problems to Congress, and federal investigations have exposed fraudulent takedowns and insiders manipulating seller accounts...
All inside a marketplace where Amazon controls visibility, advertising, enforcement and access to the customer, collecting $172 billion in seller services and another $68 billion in advertising revenue annually...
Now Elon Musk suggests building an Amazon competitor after reports of Amazon blocking Grok purchasing bots... and suddenly this connects directly into the larger architecture I've been mapping around American manufacturing, tariffs, the elimination of de minimis exemptions, autonomous logistics, alternative financial rails and Super Intelligence (SI)...
Imagine verified American manufacturers connected directly to consumers through intelligent purchasing agents that authenticate product origins, protect intellectual property, compare actual value and bypass the machinery that allows innovators to be displaced inside their own marketplace...
With X potentially providing discovery, Grok providing intelligence and an entirely new commerce network connecting production, payments and delivery...
The implications reach far beyond Amazon... China has leveraged America's retail infrastructure to reach American consumers at extraordinary scale, while American innovators have become increasingly dependent on the same platform that exposes them to imitation and marketplace abuse...
I've been mapping the rebuilding of America's sovereign industrial stack from production through distribution... Musk's comment opens another potential front, connecting that machinery directly to the American household...
America creates the product... the next battle is over who controls the marketplace, the purchasing decision and ultimately the economic value of American innovation...
Things you will never, under any circumstances, hear come out of an actual Floridian’s mouth:
"Man, I really need to plan a vacation to New Jersey."
"Do you have an extra mask I can borrow to go to Publix?"
"My eight-year-old child currently identifies as..."
"Honey, have you seen where I left my socks to go with my orthopedic sandals?"
"I proudly voted for Kamala Harris."
"Don’t throw away those empty Busch Light cans, save them so I can drive to the supermarket and claim my ten-cent refund."
"Our governor sucks" (enjoy that one while it lasts, because come January we are all going to be screaming it daily). 😡
"What color Subaru should I get?"
"I think a state income tax would really help our infrastructure."
"Has anyone seen my tuck-friendly underwear?"
"Honestly, the food is just so much better up north."
"Let me check my calendar so I can schedule my 18th booster appointment."
"I really enjoy watching women's sports."
"I feel so much safer knowing the HOA restricts American flags to designated holidays."
"This storm is already a Category 2, maybe we should evacuate to Georgia just to be safe."
"I just ordered a brand new service vest for my purse Chihuahua."
"Fly Eagles Fly!"
"I think Gavin Newsom is doing a fantastic job running California."
"Excuse me, is this entire restaurant gluten-free?"
"You know who is a real man’s man? Harry Sisson."
"My pronouns are..."
"Honestly, New York tap water just hits completely different."
If any of these phrases ever slip past your lips, turn in your sunglasses, pack your bags, and head straight back to
the terminal you originated from. 🌴☀️🚫
If you've got some suggestions to add to the list, drop them in the comments below...
I'm a brain surgeon, and I'm gonna show you how to operate your brain the way it's designed, to help you heal the wounds you’ve been carrying; the ones from childhood, from broken relationships, from things said that can’t be unsaid, and from things done that can’t be undone. This is part two, make sure you watch part one also. Let's scrub in and get it done.
Unhealed Wounds Get Rehearsed, Not Just Remembered
Every time you replay a painful memory in anger or self-pity instead of truth, you’re not just remembering it, you’re practicing it. And practice strengthens whatever pathway you’re using.
Neuroscience nugget: Neurons that fire together wire together. Rehearsing a wound with bitterness deepens the very neural pathway that keeps the pain alive, making the hurt easier to access and harder to escape. Don’t violate the 1st commandment of self-brain surgery (No self-malpractice) by letting neuroplasticity work against you.
Remember the 9th commandment of self-brain surgery (”What I’m doing, I’m getting better at”), and rehearse the healing rather than the hurt.
Self-Brain Surgery Procedure:
Catch yourself the next time you start replaying an old hurt for the hundredth time. Stop mid-rehearsal and say, “I will not practice this pain today.”
Replace it with one true, hopeful thought and hold that instead.
Scripture: “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable... think about such things.” Philippians 4:8, NIV
This is self-brain surgery. Hard and holy work.
Follow me to connect neuroscience and scripture every day. Save this to help when you need to heal. Share it with a friend who's hurting.
Click the link in my bio to learn more about Self-Brain Surgery.
Note: this is not medical or mental health advice. See your provider if you're having trouble.
I posted the 20 best foods on earth a while back. Many people saw it. The reply section exploded.
The carnivores said I included too many vegetables. The plant-based crowd said I included too much meat. Someone told me spinach was poisoning people. Someone else told me I should be in jail for recommending beef liver.
I listened to all of it. Went back to the data. This is Version 2. 40 foods. Updated.
Spinach is gone. Fermented foods are in. Organ meats expanded. Every plant on this list is low-oxalate or cooked to reduce antinutrients.
No tribe won. The science won. 🧵