With every new archaeological discovery, historians and archaeologists owe @Graham__Hancock a bigger apology.
Years ago, when we first met, he told me: "The Amazon is a man-made garden that once hosted large, advanced, and highly organized societies."
And here we have evidence now of a 2,500-year-old society whose peak population has been estimated at 1.25–3 million people - comparable to, or even larger than, ancient Rome.
As technologies like LiDAR, satellite imaging, AI, and advanced genomics continue to transform archaeology, I believe we'll end up rewriting significant parts of human history.
Kudos to Graham for challenging conventional thinking long before many of these discoveries were made.
🇯🇵 It's been 81 years since Hiroshima was destroyed by a nuclear weapon. Although people post pictures of the devastation, let's look at what Hiroshima looks like today.
Instead of crying, we decided to rebuild. I hope others will learn from us.
Here is my AI investing guide.
Sitting here August 2026, my current best thoughts are as follows:
1. LPS (Land Power Shell) is still the most obvious and fastest path to cash on cash returns. Lots of value can be assembled and traded quickly at this layer. And as data centers get more pushback, energized land can explode in value. Very bullish here.
I’ve stepped into this layer very aggressively. My partner @anitavlallian and I have acquired almost 6GW coming online in a ramp from today thru 2029 of grid power and behind the meter.
2. Silicon - I helped get @GroqInc off the ground in 2015 and we licensed it to @nvidia for $20B Dec2025. I won’t invest or incubate anything in this layer now. The perf demands of the chips are too high, manufacturing precision is too complex and supply chain influence to get adjacent components like memory isn’t possible for a startup anymore. Lots of capital will be wasted here chasing Groq and Cerebras’ success. Note that both startups made sense a decade ago when these constraints were much more modest.
3. Clouds - Clouds are very very lucrative but very hard to build and very expensive and technically complicated to maintain. And as alignment becomes a more important issue, I expect the clouds will be asked to build robust KYC and attest to it. This makes the risk:reward ratio skewed. I don’t want to be responsible when the USG says a cloud allowed a bad actor to do something bad because of poor KYC.
4. Models are complicated. The big open question is how much of the revenue being generated by them today is because of tokenmaxxing and poor model behavior. If it’s a lot, then the annualized revenues will diminish meaningfully even as token consumption inflects upwards. This is the big economic question at this layer.
5. Harnesses are where the action is and why I started @8090solutions two years ago. In a nutshell, the harness helps enterprises owns their proprietary context (what Alex Karp calls their ‘alpha’). This is an enterprise’s data, workflows, evals, and business rules. A harness that gives this to an enterprise is what creates very low model-agnostic switching costs, which further reinforces my views of #4 above.
6. Applications will be another long term winner along with harnesses. This is where the differentiation between “off the shelf” and “custom time and materials” melts away. Every company, with the right harness, can now imbue their alpha into the software that runs their company. I expect this to mean that “off the shelf” is largely replaced with custom software creating a huge opportunity to write these solutions for companies. Build once and sell repeatedly is a laggard GTM motion for a SaaS world that isn’t needed here. Think custom by design, alpha embedded, proprietary by nature.
Fin.
Good luck to all the players!
“We demand results & the Senate does not deserve a 5-week — 37-day paid vacation.
Let’s be honest: if these Senators go back to their home respective states,
they’re going to do more damage — not having passed the SAVE America Act — than if they stay in DC, show the American people that they actually care about us, work through weekends, & do everything within their power to give us photo voter ID & proof of citizenship.”
This is honestly one of the best things Hegseth has done. For Native Americans, this will be a really big deal.
This will have a similar effect on morale that bringing back the wearing of the kilt for Scottish soldiers had.
Turns out I was throttled in 2020 for opinions AGREEING with the bias of 10/12 scientists; Fauci and his ilk believe in different rules for the elites versus the rest of us.
This SHOULD open the eyes of many who were “shocked” that I and @elonmusk et al “rudely” attacked Fauci.
This is hard to read.
Hard to imagine there are people like this who walk around our cities.
Even hard to imagine the authorities hid it.
But most difficult is what the 250,00+ girls went through over the decades and no one stood with them.
So long, America🫡🇺🇸
49 days ago we landed in the USA to follow our country at the World Cup. We had no idea it would turn into the trip of a lifetime.
Thank you to everyone who followed along, and to all the people we met who made this journey even more special. We honestly don’t have the words to express how grateful we are for everything you did for us.
This trip exceeded every expectation we had. We came here with an open mind, wanting to experience as much of the country as possible. I still remember telling my friends on the flight to Atlanta that I hoped we’d get to meet a few locals on this trip. Now we’re flying home with friends all across the USA.
Before we came, we heard so many stereotypes and warnings about America. People told us about safety concerns, that they might check our social media at the border, and all kinds of other things. None of it matched our experience. This was probably the most welcoming country we’ve ever visited.
So if you have the chance to travel, do it. The world isn’t nearly as bad as the media often makes it seem. 99% of people are awesome!
I heard this quote somewhere during the World Cup, and I think it sums up our experience perfectly:
“If you want to hate the world, watch the news. If you want to love it, travel it.”
Thank you, America ❤️🇺🇸
I never imagined I’d see this so soon but GPT-5.6 now produces health answers that are rated more highly than those from human doctors in blinded tests on medical benchmarks. All while similar models like it are being integrated into apps such as Instagram and WhatsApp, giving them the potential to reach billions of people.
Since no one’s said it yet, I’ll say it
Kudos to America! 🇺🇸🏆
You absolutely crushed the organization of this World Cup
Flawless machine, zero hiccups, world-class venues, everything executed to perfection
But… you can’t host them all, right?
Just asking ⚽️
I promise to help defeat ANY Republican Senator that blocks the SAVE America Act.
If Senate Majority Leader Thune DOES not do his job to caucus his Republican majority to pass the SAVE America Act,
he will have a Texas-sized primary in 2028.
Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.
-Wilderness Whisper
Our administration owes a debt of gratitude to Nick Shirley for exposing one of the most egregious cases of fraud this country has ever seen.
If the media was worth their salt, they would take notes from Nick and other citizen journalists who care about investigating stories that affect the American people instead of trying to silence them.