Kate Wiggert Johnson

Former Integrated Marketing Commercial Brand Lead in the CPG space by day, an equestrian by night (& weekends too!). My views, my tweets...

[Kate Wiggert Johnson @K8Johnson]

You know what they say about all work and no play… 🤪

[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

You only had a 2.7% chance of being born an American.

If you were lucky enough to be a native born American, you already won at life.

🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy 250th Birthday, USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

be the third donkey 😂😂

[New York Post @nypost]

Fans can't believe WNBA excluded Caitlin Clark from 30th anniversary poster https://t.co/7G5Z6Pwjww

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

Who else supports Sophie Cunningham triggering an entire basketball team by pointing at them ?

I LOVE THIS ❤️

[JD Vance @JDVance]

She bought a $50 dress for $8.75. America: meet your next director of the federal budget!

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING UPDATE: Wisconsin teacher who complained that the shooter missed Trump has been FIRED

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Back in January, on our Predictions show, my Most Contrarian Take for 2026 was that AI would create more white-collar jobs, rather than destroying them. This week Goldman Sachs’ CEO, Sam and even Dario seemed to agree. The consensus is shifting.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?

A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.

AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.

We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.

Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

A cat fell from a stadium roof and was caught by a fan flag.

Best use of team merchandise ever 👏

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Life advice nobody taught you in school:

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Your greatest growth comes from your lowest moments.

“It is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life.

The only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.” — BeautyOfSaas

[Kate Wiggert Johnson @K8Johnson]

✅ Life advice, now live it!

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

An underrated cheat code in life: being incredibly reliable. Show up on time. Do what you say you will. Own your mistakes. It goes so much further than you think.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major life hack: Don't complain, ever. Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, you’re just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Life advice nobody told you: Always default to praise of people who aren't in the room. The way you talk about someone who isn't in the room is one of the loudest signals about the energy you carry. An observation about the most impressive, magnetic people I've been around: They never speak badly about people who aren't there. They never use underhanded or discrediting comments. They glow about them, or they say nothing. If everyone is speaking negatively about someone, it's perfectly reasonable to opt out and say nothing. It shifts the entire power balance of the conversation in your favor. It shows a level of stoic awareness and calm that stands out. We all silently catalogue how others speak about people who aren't in the room, because we know that we may be the topic of that conversation as soon as we leave. Those who default to praise command the room and silently set a standard of safety that everyone else can feed off of.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Incentives drive outcomes

[Kate Wiggert Johnson @K8Johnson]

A smart discussion on the future. @friedberg has his finger on the pulse so worth a listen!!

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

What will the future actually look like?
@friedberg and I sat down to discuss.

0:00 Why we fear the future
0:39 The fertilizer crisis solved
2:01 Life is getting better
4:04 East vs. West mindset
6:20 AI centralizes power differently
7:08 Technology always diffuses outward
9:30 CAR-T therapy case study
11:31 Token costs falling 1000x
12:25 The moon explained
13:50 Everyone owning a robot
16:11 Which jobs AI hits first
17:47 Who buys the robots?
19:20 TikTok proves latent entrepreneurship
21:30 Moon as staging ground
23:54 The 9km rail gun
25:46 Self-replicating robots on Mars
27:06 Fusion energy explained
29:04 How the sun works
32:13 AI cracking plasma stability
37:20 Who owns the moon?
44:33 How far is age reversal?
48:38 Yamanaka factors discovered
54:11 Longevity escape velocity
56:15 Careers in a 120-year life
1:00:07 Transhumanism and brain interfaces
1:05:05 Embryo selection and CRISPR
1:10:53 Making X-Men: transgenic humans
1:26:30 David's seed company explained
1:36:25 California's collapse
1:40:47 Unfunded pension crisis
1:41:08 The billionaire tax threat
1:42:59 Origin of the income tax
1:46:17 Wealth tax kills property rights
1:52:29 Why people vote socialist
1:54:43 Government vs. free market prices
2:02:38 The food stamp explosion
2:05:23 AOC as 2028 frontrunner
2:07:02 Tomorrowland's optimism shift

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