Brad Buss

Gentleman farmer / happy husband / Dad to 3 young men / lifetime learner

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

For the better part of 20,000 centuries of human history, not much happened. We spent about 19,960 of those making slightly different variations of one tool before figuring out the metal thing

And stuff only really took off 2 centuries ago. That we can sort of keep up is amazing

[Travis Kling @Travis_Kling]

You can't help but laugh at the irony-

1) Trump elected as the crypto president.

2) Trump pulls in $1.4 BILLION in crypto profits in 2025 from grift/scams/bribes.

3) Crypto legislature gets to the 1-yard line in Senate.

4) Dems are so pissed at how egregious the Trump grift/scams/bribes are, they want real teeth in the ethics provisions of the bill.

5) Trump refuses. Only agrees to super light ethics provisions.

6) Bill can't pass. Crypto legislature dies on the floor.

The "crypto president" clears $1.4bn in crypto grift/scams/bribes (in year 1) and doesn't pass a crypto bill.

Honestly exactly what the crypto industry deserves.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It's only "dystopian" for OpenAI and Anthropic shareholders.

For the rest of us, the dystopia would be a world where the only AI models we can use are those from closed-source US labs that are increasingly part and parcel of the US security state.

[Brad Buss @bgbuss]

@ianbremmer You're dreaming if you think drone and missile defense is improving in the next five years especially with the exquisite focused US defense contractor system

[Brad Buss @bgbuss]

@ianbremmer Why has the world debased itself like a soap opera?

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation

Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.

Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.”

For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again.

The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.

To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump!

If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made.

[Brad Buss @bgbuss]

@ianbremmer How many Chinese manufactured vehicles in the US?

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

🇨🇦 The True North, Strong and Free 🇨🇦
Happy Canada Day! Bonne fête du Canada!
Canada is exactly 159 years old today - better and stronger than ever.
Our huge country from space: #radarsat @csa_asc

[Brad Buss @bgbuss]

@tyleryaremchuk This is gonna end in tears

[Brad Buss @bgbuss]

@LynAldenContact Hi Lyn, subscriber here. What are your thoughts (Not FIA) on $ACN

[Brad Buss @bgbuss]

@dvaux2dvaux @jekavanagh Bingo.

[Brad Buss @bgbuss]

@PenelopePsauce @PatsKam @OculiVirides Suggesting Toronto is more dangerous than NOLA is a wild take. @PatsKam you're used to New Orleans, Toronto will be a breeze. Enjoy and welcome!

[Brad Buss @bgbuss]

@JemRobson01 how do you expect anything to get done in the government when the clock ticks the instant the prime minister shows up?

[Brad Buss @bgbuss]

@ianbremmer There's a reason they're called politicians

[Jen Zhu @jenzhuscott]

Massive output uptick due to agentic AI. Complete flat adoption.

[Brad Buss @bgbuss]

@JemRobson01 Yep, but with age comes wisdom, and we have to think like the young uns now!

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

Software roaring back after the market realizes 20-something make money online bros would never go through the 1,000 steps necessary to actually build and sell software into enterprises, and B2B SaaS is not as easy as asking a chatbot to "make no mistakes"

[Alex Reimer @AlexReimer1]

I love this trick from baby boomers. Make things insanely unaffordable and do not raise workers’ wages. Then, complain that young people spend too much money on frivolous activities like eating lunch.

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

The Commonwealth Prize response to the AI-written story (and the fact that they still don't realize that there are at least 2 AI-written prize winning stories!) is a great example of the wide gaps in AI literacy across sectors. Now apply this to managerial decisions...