Alex Hormozi just spent 4 hours dropping the most brutal truths of the year on Modern Wisdom.
One line broke me:
"Money loves speed. Wealth loves time. Poverty loves indecision."
If I wanted to stop wasting my life, I would do these 10 things he said in that room.
David Friedberg says the greatest lie of the 20th century was putting all your net worth in your home
"When you do that, then the only way to keep Americans wealthy and to keep the middle class stable is to keep the price of homes going up, because that’s the only asset."
“So if you want your net worth to go up every year, they need to have policies that drive the price of homes up every year. That ultimately leads to a point where we're at today where young people can’t afford those super expensive homes."
“Back in the day, 30, 40 years ago, you got a good job, you could buy a home. Today, because we made everyone put all of their net worth in their home and we had to keep home prices going up, people got screwed."
“So these are the fundamental issues, the mistakes that were made over the last couple of decades that lead to this great socialist wave that’s underway right now.”
This is one of the more important Anthropic pieces because it reframes the model from “giant statistical text machine” to “system with differentiated cognitive layers.” Not human. Not conscious in the moral sense. Not alive. But also not just autocomplete on steroids.
What Anthropic's models have is something like:
automatic processing
deliberate workspace
self-monitoring
hidden goal representation
internal reasoning
reportable thought
workspace-shaping potential
That makes AI more powerful, more useful, and more dangerous.
My takeaway is the frontier is moving from...
“What did the model say?”
to
“What was active inside the model before it said or did anything?”
That shift matters because the same principle applies to people:
Don’t trust the surface output.
Don’t over-focus on the behavior.
Find the hidden workspace.
Find the active story.
Intervene upstream.
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Interactive pages built from your session, like a PR walkthrough or a living project dashboard, shared with your team at a private link.
Available in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.
$60Billion.
This is the first, but not the last, big exit at the application layer of AI.
As product value accrues and accelerates upwards, the focus over the next few years will be firmly on the “control plane”:
What gives organizations who want to go all in on AI the governance, control, auditability and business continuity across models and across time that they will need to firmly make the leap.
This is the next big phase of AI value creation that the SpaceX/Cursor merger is highlighting.
Mike Brown was fired four times — twice by the same team.
He could have walked away bitter. Instead, he kept learning, kept showing up, and kept believing his story was not finished.
Now, he’s a champion.
Sometimes rejection is not the end of the road. It is preparation for the right opportunity. Your setback may simply be setting the stage for your comeback.
For everything we’ve seen about agents so far, it’s clear that they will make it far easier for people to get into previously extremely complicated fields. That will most certainly mean far more people will build software, explore creative work, research spaces they couldn’t do before, and so on.
Yet, equally, we’ve seen that people with experience in every one of those fields have a huge edge with the right judgment and historical context to leverage these tools in ways that exceed the output of the novices (if they choose to). They know when the agents are making catastrophic mistakes, can give the agents the right context to do the job better than they otherwise would have, and so on.
The combination of these two facts essentially means that we will continue to get the same lift as we’ve seen in any other technological revolution. More democratization, but similarly greater output from the experts. This then makes the experts continue to be in higher demand because over time our expectation for what we can get out of any field will just go up.
This is going to be true in essentially every important field. You’ll trust a lawyer using an agent for legal advice over someone who’s never had to experience how well a contract holds up. You’ll trust an engineer developing and running software over someone who’s never seen a production system. You’ll rely on the important instincts of a designer using agents over the average prompter.
The quality and volume of output we expect from these functions will certainly go up meaningfully, but the person with experience will always have a leg up, which is why the jobs don’t go away.
@KSimback I began w/OpenClaw and when everyone was reporting issues I chalked it up to lack of patience, user error, you name it. But then degradation in my OC started to compound. I switched to Hermes and it’s night & day. Faster, sharper & I’ve gone weeks without needing a fix or restart