Easter lunch with the family got me thinking.
Most people default to London, Barcelona, or Amsterdam for their kids. Great cities. Also: €2,500/month for a 3BR in Amsterdam. £15K/year school fees in London. Per child.
A friend of mine, well-known author, just moved his family from Lisbon to Genoa. Nobody saw that coming. His reason: the food, the proximity to France, one of Europe's best pediatric hospitals.
That conversation sent me down a rabbit hole.
7 cities where your family will actually thrive, usually not that considered, that I'd opt in for myself.
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Niccolò Machiaveli :
"To ally with great powers to defeat your neighbor is a strategic trap; if you win, you become the slave of the greater power; if the allied power is defeated, you remain alone and defenseless against the angry neighbor, and you are destroyed."
[The Prince]
i've actually come to realise that regret is a cruel storyteller. It rewrites the past with the wisdom of the present, convinces you that you should have known better when you actually had no way of knowing at all.
Nobody hired you to have a vision for their organisation. They hired you to execute theirs. The day you confused your job description with a leadership mandate you didn't have, that was the day the politics started. And you never saw it coming.
R.I.P. GOOGLE FLIGHTS IN 2026.
R.I.P. BOOKING COM IN 2026.
R.I.P. SKYSCANNER IN 2026.
$1,190 flight. I paid $159.
Use these 7 prompts before booking your next trip :
This is long.
But it is a helluva piece of journalism.
The Epstein story is definitely the most important story in the history of modern America.
And possibly ever.
I asked Claude: I have $1,000. Where do I put it to make the most money in 30 days?
Expected the usual. Index funds. High yield savings. Maybe stocks.
Instead Claude said something I wasn't ready for.
Find a prediction market bot on GitHub that buys events priced under 3 cents. Deploy it with $1,000. Let it run for 30 days. Most bets will lose. The ones that hit will pay 500x.
I laughed. Then Claude added one line:
Someone is already doing this. Search planktonXD.
I searched.
planktonXD. $98,241 profit. 72,533 predictions. Joined February 2025. Bio: having fun.
→ Wallet: https://t.co/dV4s4m7olX
Starting capital: just over $1,000. Same number Claude told me to start with.
$15.05 on zero earthquakes worldwide. Payout: $1,330. ROI: 8,742%.
72,533 bets. $5 to $25 each. Most go to zero. But when one hits at 0.2 cents it pays 500x.
Claude explained the math:
$15 on 100 events at 1 cent. 99 die. You lose $1,485. One hits. Pays $1,500. Break even. Two hit? You double. Three? Triple.
planktonXD found more than three. $1,000 → $98,241.
I asked Claude: Should I copy this?
Claude: I can't give financial advice. But mathematically the edge exists as long as the crowd overprices fear and underprices chaos.
I put in $100 that night. Copied 12 positions under 2 cents. Went to sleep.
Woke up. One hit. $100 → $673.
I didn't ask Claude for stock picks. I asked where $1,000 goes the furthest. It pointed me to a wallet that turned that exact amount into $98K.
53,700 people are watching. The bot is still running. Bio still says having fun.
I asked Claude one more thing: What would you name this strategy?
Claude: Buying lottery tickets where the math is on your side.