If you’re in college and watching 3 hours of Netflix every night, stop saying you’re “too busy.”
You have time.
You’re just spending it being entertained instead of becoming valuable.
Advice to 20-year-olds:
Stop optimizing your life around a job.
The ability to move countries, switch industries, meet ambitious people, and chase asymmetric opportunities is worth more than a slightly higher salary.
South Korea just gave everyone a brutal reminder of what leverage actually does.
Margin debt doesn’t create conviction.
It creates forced sellers.
Everything looks liquid until everyone needs liquidity at the same time.
Google’s €13B/$15.1B Finland investment announced today includes a 22-year agreement for up to half the output of a Finnish nuclear plant. The hook turns an AI headline into a scarce-resource thesis.
The internet gave LLMs nearly unlimited training data.
Robots don’t have that luxury.
Someone has to physically generate billions of examples of picking, folding, walking, failing and trying again.
Robot data might become a massive industry on its own.
China exporting AI hardware at the same time the West is pouring trillions into AI infrastructure is an interesting setup.
The companies nobody knows making the boring parts might end up making an absurd amount of money.
Korea says it may need another 25–30GW of power for AI, chips and electrification.
Everyone wants to invest in AI.
I’m starting to think the better trade is figuring out what AI physically can’t exist without.
The robotics race won’t be won by whoever makes the coolest humanoid.
It’ll be won by whoever figures out how to put 100,000 robots to work without the customer having to think about the robots.
Deployment is the real product.
Same playbook that built their battery and EV lead.
Makes me wonder if the West is still polishing demos
while China is already accumulating the real-world data that will decide who wins.