Ilija Tozija

🎓 Reading MSc Major Programme Management (Oxford) • 🎓 PGDip Strategy & Innovation • 🎓 MBA Finance (WU Wien) • Contrarian/Oxonian 🇲🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🇦🇹

[Ilija Tozija @Tozija]

The "loyalty test" is one of civilization’s oldest failure modes.
Every organization needs loyalty. But when loyalty becomes the test, decline begins.
First, loyalty becomes more valuable than truth.
Second, disagreement becomes betrayal.
Third, reality becomes the enemy.
Now, technology will just make reality arrive faster.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Here’s how books, and learning about the great men of history, guided Napoleon’s every move… https://t.co/v1fYl74KvV

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

Nice.

[Woj Kulikowski @wojkuli]

Show this chart in every European parliament tomorrow

[Ilija Tozija @Tozija]

#Nevergiveaninch
@mikepompeo

[Praxis @praxisnation]

Praxis is building a new city in Uruguay.

Construction has begun. Residents move in 2027.

Thank you for joining us for the beginning of our long journey. More in @NYTimes.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

“The best people in our company have some damage, some chip on their shoulder. There are individuals in our company that you can't compete with. They're not giving up. They have something to prove. They got something f*cked up in their childhood. There's one kid in our team, he's going to die before he fails. And those are the most powerful people who you want to organize around.”

@PeterRahal on recruiting people who have something to prove:

[FT Economics @fteconomics]

‘Greek finance minister encourages Germany to implement reforms’ https://t.co/iBGN6mkq7V

[dnap @dnapway]

President Trump calls Jensen mid-interview at the All-In Summit to say AI taking over the world is a hoax

Jensen: "Mr. President? I've got to tell you something. If it wasn't because of you calling, I would... I'm on stage with the besties."

Trump: "You see, the great thing about life is that Jensen can develop the most complex computer chip in the world that nobody can copy for 10 years, but he can't figure out how to put me on speaker."

"So, the AI, it's almost a conspiracy, and the happiest group is China, they're very happy."

"I'm telling you, it's all a hoax. The data centers are great and they make people wealthy and they make states wealthy and it's the oil of the next 20, 25 years. It's bigger than the Internet."

"The robots are not going to be taking over the world and that's not going to happen. The AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax."

"Now, with that, we have to be a little bit careful, but that doesn't mean we're going to stop an industry. So I'm with you all the way."

[Ilija Tozija @Tozija]

@bcherny @EliseMorgan__ Work harder 😂

[Ilija Tozija @Tozija]

@XFreeze @XFreeze tell you grokbot to send me the notes

[Amit @amitdvl]

PETER THIEL CALLED IT.

The Antichrist wouldn’t build the doomsday machine.
This clip aged terrifyingly well.

Peter Thiel predicted in June, 26, 2025 exactly what is happening right now with Anthropic, Coxon and the AI-safety landscape.

“The way the Antichrist would take over the world is you talk about Armageddon non-stop, you talk about existential risk non-stop.”

The 'Antichrist' wouldn’t seize power by creating an AI apocalypse, but by CONVINCING everyone that the apocalypse was coming and then offering safety in exchange for CONTROL.

A must watch.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

343 years ago today the Winged Hussars Arrived

The Battle of Vienna. To save Christendom from the Ottoman horde, led by the King of Poland

The largest cavalry charge in human history

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Anthropic’s latest economic report warns that coders may need to learn to plumb toilets.

[NATO @NATO]

Repost to join us in celebrating our Ally 🇲🇰 North Macedonia on their Independence Day!

#WeAreNATO 🤝 @MKmissionNATO

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Napoleon on luck:

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

A fun thing Tesla could do: map pot holes and generally measure road quality/ride smoothness.

Then rank municipalities on road quality and how quickly they fix potholes. Some good ol’ fashion competition might help make things better!

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Episode #432 The Mind of Napoleon:

0:00 — " This book gives you insight into the mind of a man who combined energy of thought and energy of action to an exceptional degree."

0:30 — "Work is my element. I am born and built for work. I have known the limitations of my legs, I have known the limitations of my eyes; I have never been able to know the limitations of my working capacity."

0:52 — "He knows that men have always been the same, that nothing can change their nature. It is from the past that he will draw his lessons in order to shape the present."

1:33 — "All my life I have sacrificed everything: comfort, self-interest, happiness, to my destiny. Destiny must be fulfilled that is my chief doctrine."

2:33 — "A consecutive series of great actions never is the result of chance and luck; it always is a product of planning and genius.

2:40 — "What is luck? The ability to exploit accidents: The vulgar would call this luck, but in fact it is the characteristic of genius."

3:30 — "Hesitation is fatal; once an action is begun, it must be followed through with the utmost exertion of the will."

3:44 — "If I have any ambition, it is so natural to me, so innate, so intimately linked with my existence, that it is like the blood that circulates in my veins, like the air that I breathe."

4:14 — "To have lived without glory, without leaving a trace of one's existence, is to have not lived at all."

6:25 — "Without great men, we have only mediocre men, and if there had never been anything but mediocre men, we would still be half apes."

7:20 — "The great majority of men attend to what is necessary only when they feel a need for it-the precise time when it is too late."

7:30 — "True character always pierces through in moments of crisis. There are sleepers whose awakening is terrifying."

9:11 — "Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions."

11:15 — "The truth is that everything around us is miracle."

15:18 — "Men of genius are meteors destined to be consumed in lighting up their century."

16:13 —  "A man must know himself. Until then, all endeavors are in vain and all schemes collapse."

17:53 — "All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything."

18:12 —  "What I am, I owe to strength of will, character, application, and daring."

19:27 — "Imagination rules the world."

20:58 — " History I conquered rather than studied. That is to say, I wanted from it, and retained of it, only what could add to my ideas. I spurned what was of no use, and I seized upon certain conclusions that pleased me."

26:01 — " It is better to eat than be eaten."

26:08 — "Appetite comes with eating."

 27:43 — "It may be possible to arrest the surge of progress or to throttle it, but not to destroy it."

29:01 — " I have read your letter. It is utterly worthless. There are too many words and not enough ideas."

31:08 —  "Without talent, without knowledge, there is no equality but the equality of misery and servitude."

33:46 — Napoleon to someone who hasn't studied history: " Speak as little as possible. Your knowledge is too limited, and your education has been too neglected for you to engage freely in discussions."

36:08 — "The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.”

36:44 — "If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity."

39:30 — "In war, men are nothing. One man is everything."

40:20 — "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day."

46:23 — "Conquest made me what I am. Conquest alone can keep me there."

46:34 — "Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me."

47:13 — "My soul is made of marble. Lightning has found no grip on it and had to slide off of it. I have no fear of becoming their victim. They will be biting into granite."

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

René Girard, the quote of our times

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Long live the sovereignty revolution!