Eugene Lee

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

the bottleneck is increasingly knowing what you want

[riley. @lamxnt]

You can find these for $60k properly specced and have an objectively better car than 95% of cars on the road today

Pre face lift models had a 5.5 litre twin turbo V8

Absolute masterpiece, shame they discontinued them. Apparently Mercedes lost money on every one they sold because it took so much reengineering to turn it into a 2 door

Also the ivory interior is so clean

[signüll @signulll]

wait a minute, elon musk:

- basically rebuilt america’s space ambitions after the shuttle program got retired. i mean the only way america could send astronauts to space was through the fucking russians! could you imagine if that dependency was still there with the conflict that exists today?

- turned electric cars that no one even remotely touched into a desirable mass market product… this also resulted in vast amounts of competition & other infra development (like the super charger network). he also effectively inspired the chinese electric car industry after they basically stole all of tesla’s secrets.

- acquired twitter & reopened parts of public debate that a ton of gatekeepers preferred closed & off limits. ppl got banned for simply asking questions during humanity’s most critical event (covid).

- & is now saving the sheer incompetence of the american govt by building out an american semiconductor complex.

you can dislike his politics, personality, or methods. but any honest macro accounting has to admit that few individuals ever have done more to rebuild strategic american capacity across space, transportation, communication, & now semiconductors.

the american media judges him tweet by tweet while barely acknowledging the rockets, factories, & infrastructure being built that should’ve actually been the responsibility of the collective. this is shameful af.

[Sonya Huang 🐥 @sonyatweetybird]

the smartest young people in sf were working on agi/alignment 5-10y ago.

they are working on bci today.

naomi is a total star and is one of an explosion of young talent into the bci space recently. i’m very excited about what that means for the world in a decade. 🧠

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

i’m fully convinced AI + robotics will unleash the greatest aesthetic renaissance human civilization has ever seen

the cost of building beautiful things is about to collapse

we just need to care about beauty again.

[Mantas @stnkvcs]

I just clicked on 4 different ads in Gruns' library and each lead me to a different lander.

Meanwhile all of your ads point to the same PDP.

Lesson in there.

[Vsk @TheVsk_]

Spiderman kissed MJ and she didn’t recognize him, dapped his homie up once and he instantly knew the OG

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

Once you realize that the general public is retarded you stop caring about how crazy you look to them.

[kache @yacineMTB]

And just like that
Commoditized

[Dev Shah @0xDevShah]

anthropic: if we release this humanity might end.
qwen: here is god in a zip file please star our repo

[BowTiedCrake @bowtiedcrake]

Beautifully said and something that is rarely articulated in Singapore but is an Iron Truth.

Singapore is Singapore because of its Straits Chinese majority.

Saying this as a non-Chinese. It is meritocratic and heavy on racial/religious harmony but these values largely lie on the Chinese community honouring and enforcing them with the full power of the State and the supermajority support within the Chinese voter base.

The Singaporean Chinese are an enlightened and benevolent majority. I do not take this for granted and I cringe hard when individuals from minority groups act like this isn't so.

People who talk like the SG Chinese are some kind of oppressors are totally delulu and their opinions can be discarded. All alternatives are far worse.

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

A good entrepreneurship heuristic to exploit the value of your skills is to bring them to markets where you’re “the opposite” of the norm.

- Attractive female playing video games
- Attractive male cooking
- High-tech in low-tech industries
- Ads in markets that don’t run ads
- Etc

Changing the context around your skills is oftentimes more valuable (and easier) than improving your skills.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

As you get older, you accumulate a lifetime of pains and a lifetime of joys. Your life is as good as whichever you choose to focus on.

Everyone’s got shit. Shitty people just spend all day dwelling on it.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:

“The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.”

[Lee Roach @leevalueroach]

Japan is the canary. Nobody is listening.

For thirty years Japan ran the largest monetary experiment in human history. Zero rates. Yield curve control. A central bank that ended up owning roughly half its own government bond market. The theory was that a sovereign borrowing in its own currency faces no real constraint. For three decades the theory held, and every trader who bet against it got carried out on a stretcher. They called it the widowmaker.

The widowmaker is collecting now.

Debt above 200% of GDP. The 10 year JGB touched 2.91% last week, the highest in thirty years. The policy rate sits at 1%, a level last seen in 1995. Debt servicing in the fiscal 2026 budget hit 31.3 trillion yen, roughly a quarter of the entire national budget, and the Ministry of Finance now assumes a 3% bond rate, the highest assumption since 1997. Social security and interest payments together consume close to 60% of all government spending.

Six of every ten yen Tokyo spends now goes to promises made in the past. The remaining four have to cover defense, education, infrastructure, and everything else a modern state is supposed to do.

The yen sits at 163, a 40 year low. Japan burned roughly 11.7 trillion yen defending it and bought a few weeks of relief. This is the trap they built for themselves. Hike enough to defend the currency and the interest bill detonates. Hold rates to protect the fiscal position and the currency keeps bleeding out. Japan imports 90% of its energy and 60% of its calories, so every tick of depreciation lands directly on the grocery bill.

Now the part almost nobody models correctly. Hyperinflation is a distraction. Four percent for fifteen years cuts purchasing power roughly in half, and it arrives so slowly that no single year ever registers as a crisis. There are no wheelbarrow photographs from a 4% decade. There is a retiree in 2041 who did everything right and is poor anyway.

The Japanese saver pays for this twice. Thirty years of zero rates already moved wealth quietly out of household balance sheets and into the state's. Now the debt those zero rates financed gets inflated away in real terms while consumption taxes climb and benefits get quietly trimmed. A bond issued at 0.2% rolls at 3%, and the gap comes out of somebody's standard of living. Extraction, spread thin enough that nobody can point to the day it happened.

Now look west.

US publicly held debt is at 99% of GDP, the highest since 1946, and the CBO baseline puts it at 120% by 2036. Net interest runs from about 1 trillion this year to 2.1 trillion by 2036. The number that should keep you up: the primary deficit, excluding interest, actually declines over that window, from 2.6% of GDP to 2.1%. The entire deterioration is interest compounding on itself. CBO's own baseline has the average rate on the debt crossing above the growth rate around 2031, the threshold where the arithmetic stops correcting itself and starts feeding itself.

The 30 year is at its highest since 2007. The Fed just held with three members dissenting in favor of a hike. And Japan, sitting on 1.19 trillion of Treasuries as the largest foreign holder, sold nearly 30 billion in the first quarter alone. When domestic bonds pay 2.8% with no currency risk attached, Japanese insurers have no reason to own American paper. The most reliable marginal bidder in the world is packing up and going home.

Central planning dies slowly. It ends as a grinding transfer from everyone who saved to everyone who borrowed, administered by people who will call it stability the entire time it is happening.

Japan is fifteen years ahead of us on this road. Everything happening to them is a broadcast from our own future, running in real time, with the sound turned off.

[signüll @signulll]

dunking on ppl who have tried extraordinary things & then had a set back is lame.

[Sophie ☥ @sophiemeaden]

My gripe with Gad Saad is with him blaming White people for what’s happened to the West by calling it ‘suicidal empathy’.

The term shifts the blame from the people who have caused it onto the people who are having to deal with the situation.

His terminology is a way to pit White people against one another without blaming HIS ethnic group who are causing this.

What is really happening is more akin to ‘suicidal altruism’ - which has happened due to decades of State propaganda, BigPharma, MSM, lack of free speech, and several jewish ideologies (feminism, critical race theory, LGBT+) being forced onto Western populations.

Gad Saad is not an ally to White people. He’s pushing the reactionary omnicause to the progressive left. He’s also containment - as well as being a jew.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

reminder: "therapy" does not work if you have a higher IQ than the "therapist"

[signüll @signulll]

if you wanna grow a lot very quickly, you should start a company esp if you have something on your mind that you can’t dismiss easily. co building is one of the highest bandwidth ways to grow mainly cuz it compresses so many parts of life into a single endeavor.

i.e. you learn incentives, relationships, conflict, persuasion, leadership, hiring, failure, negotiation, power, trust, capital allocation, communication, & responsibility all in one fell swoop. almost every recurring dynamic in history eventually shows up in miniature inside a company.

this makes sense cuz a startup is essentially a simulator for human nature (both demand & supply). it forces you to confront what actually matters, strips away a lot of comforting abstractions (like a boss), & often gives you painful/brutal feedback when your model of the world is wrong which is what makes it such an extraordinary education.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked by an interviewer what he would tell a young person who wants to change the world.

He said "suffer."

Then he paused. Then he explained. He said the people who change the world are not the ones with the best ideas or the most money or the highest IQ. They are the ones with the highest tolerance for suffering. Because changing the world requires years of being told you're wrong, watching your money disappear, losing relationships, sacrificing health, and waking up every morning to do it again while most rational people would have stopped.

He said every young person he meets who wants to change the world wants the result. Nobody wants the process. The process is suffering. Extended, unromantic, lonely suffering that produces no visible results for years before anything works.

He said if someone hears "suffer" and their immediate response is to look for a more comfortable path, they've already answered the question of whether they'll change the world. They won't. Not because they're incapable. Because they're unwilling to pay the price. And the price is always suffering.

The audience wanted inspiration. He gave them a filter. One word that separates the people who will actually do something from the people who will spend their lives talking about doing something.

Most motivational advice makes people feel good. His made people feel uncomfortable. The discomfort was the point. If the word "suffer" makes you want to leave the room, leave the room. The door is there for a reason.