Brennan Sweeney

Husband. Dad. Fractional Executive. Investor. Consultant. Entrepreneur. Technology Enthusiast.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

The more enterprises I talk to about AI agent transformation, the more it’s clear that there is going to be a new type of role in most enterprises going forward. The job is to be the agent deployer and manager in teams. Here’s the rough JD:

This person will need to figure out what are the highest leverage set of workflows on a team are (either existing or new ones) where agents can actually drive significantly more value for the team and company.

In general, it’s going to be in areas where if you threw compute (in the form of agents) at a task you could either execute it 100X faster or do it 100X more times than before. Examples would be processing orders of magnitude more leads to hand them off to reps with extra customer signal, automating a contracting review and intake process, streamlining a client onboarding process to reduce as many straps as possible, setting up knowledge bases than the whole company taps into, and so on.

This person’s job is to figure out what the future state workflow needs to look like to drive this new form of automation, and how to connect up the various existing or new systems in such a way that this can be fulfilled. The gnarly part of the work is mapping structured and unstructured data flows, figuring out the ideal workflow, getting the agent the context it needs to do the work properly, figuring out where the human interfaces with the agent and at what steps, manages evals and reviews after any major model or data change, and runs and manages the agents on an ongoing basis tracking KPIs, and so on.

The person must be good at mapping the process and understanding where the value could be unlocked and be relatively technical, and has full autonomy to connect up business systems and drive automation. This means they’re comfortable with skills, MCP, CLIs, and so on, and the company believes it’s safe for them to do so. But also great operationally and at business.

It may be an existing person repositioned, or a totally net new person in the company. There will likely need to be one or more of these people on every team, so it’s not a centralized role per se. It may rile up into IT or an AI team, or live in the function and just have checkpoints with a central function.

This would also be a fantastic job for next gen hires who are leaning into AI, and are technical, to be able to go into. And for anyone concerned about engineers in the future, this will be an obvious area for these skills as well.

[Brennan Sweeney @mbsweeney]

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[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

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[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

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[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

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[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

The coming years are going to be insane. I say this figuratively and literally. The primary reason is because society is about to enter a phase transition.  This is what a phase transition looks like.

Water at 99°C is hot, stable, behaves like a liquid and follows the laws of hydrodynamics. At 101°C, water becomes a gas, making it chaotic, expansive, and following a different set of physical laws.

The difference between 2026 and 203X is the difference between 99°C and 101°C.

To make this tangible. Imagine you’ve become a proficient swimmer. Mastering your stroke, breathing and pacing. The water is a predictable substrate that you use to model your decisions. This is life at 99°C.

At 101°C the pool turns to steam. You stroke your arms but don’t move. You kick and don’t find resistance. Your swimming proficiency is no longer an asset, it’s a liability. Your muscle memory is a mismatch for the new environment. You have to unlearn to relearn.

This is what life planning is going to feel like going forward.

For most of history, you could make a pretty decent guess about what the future would look like. If you were a farmer in 1400, you knew your grandchild would probably be a farmer in 1450. That was even true in 2003 when I entered college. One could confidently attend college, select a career, plan a profession, and map out retirement by age 65.

We felt confident in these plans because we depended on broad trends (coarse graining) that reliably predicted the future. Things may change here and there, but not enough to give you any pause in your life-planning decision making.

That stability is now gone. For example, my son is 20 and neither he nor I have any idea how to think about his life. Should he go to college? Is college still relevant? What should he learn? Life planning shortcuts are now dead. No one knows. Before, having a five year plan was responsible. Now it’s reckless because the world is moving faster than we can model. The speed of reality exceeds the speed of the observer.

This is the source of the low level anxiety that many people feel. Humans are prediction machines. When an error emerges from what you predicted (water) to what you get (steam), the body registers it as trauma.  It leaves us in a state of chronic hyper-vigilance, scanning a horizon that refuses to sit still.

In this new reality, the move is not to have better maps, but to build better systems. This is what I’ve been building with Blueprint. An algorithmic system of health and decision making that moves as fast as technology, allowing me to evolve alongside.  The more I detach from ideas, norms and expectations, the smoother the glide. The hardest part is letting go of what we know and trust.

This is part of a series of essays that I’ve been writing for my upcoming book Warriors & Caretakers of Existence. A plan on what the human race does when giving birth to super intelligence. If we want the extraordinary existence that is on offer, we’ll need to fight for it.

[Brennan Sweeney @mbsweeney]

This article is going viral on X and for great reason.

This type of approach and mindset shift is what led me to turning my life around and becoming more successful and happy. I just had to find it in bits and pieces over a number of years.

This is the exact type of work I’d do when I’d take a few days away to reflect, set goals, and try to figure out who I wanted to be and what I wanted out of life. And it gives a great path for making it happen.

This would have saved me time and headaches in my 20s and 30s if I had it as a resource.

Read it, save it, and I believe it will be very valuable when the time is right for anyone that isn’t living the life they dreamed of.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

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[HHS @HHSGov]

Introducing: The New Pyramid

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

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[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Absolute must read.

If you’re a doer, and are comfortable with risk, there’s no better time in the entire history of humanity to be alive than right now.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The system does not care about you as a person.

It cares about you as a throughput node.

From childhood onward, you are conditioned to convert time, attention, and obedience into predictable output. School trains compliance and scheduling. Debt trains risk aversion. Employment trains identity attachment to productivity. Consumption trains dependency. Together they form a closed loop where survival is gated by participation.

The machine works because it aligns incentives so cleanly that resistance feels irrational.

The moment your housing, healthcare, social standing, and future security depend on steady income, you self-regulate harder than any overseer ever could. You wake up anxious without being chased. You compete without being ordered. You internalize failure as personal inadequacy rather than structural design.

That is the real genius of the system.

It turns coercion into preference.

Most adults do not feel enslaved because the cage is framed as adulthood, responsibility, and maturity. Stability is sold as virtue. Risk is framed as immaturity. Time scarcity becomes normal. Exhaustion becomes identity.

And here is the part people avoid because it hurts.

The system persists because most people choose it every day.

They choose predictability over autonomy.
They choose status over freedom.
They choose safety over leverage.
They choose comfort over agency.

Because the alternative demands uncertainty, social friction, and self-authorship. Those are expensive.

So when someone says “we were bred to be labor slaves,” the emotional signal is real, but the mechanism is subtler and more brutal.

You were shaped to be economically legible.
You were trained to monetize yourself.
You were taught to fear falling off the track more than staying on it forever.

Once that wiring is complete, the system can run on autopilot.

Here is the final, uncomfortable truth.

There is no rescue coming.
There is no awakening event that frees everyone.
There is no moral reckoning where the system apologizes.

There are only individuals who slowly realize that meaning, leverage, and freedom are not granted.
They are constructed, often at high cost, and usually in defiance of default paths.

Most people will never opt out because the system is very good at making the cage feel like home.

Seeing that clearly is rare.
Acting on it is rarer.
Paying the price for it is rarer still.

That is the real truth.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The generational wealth split is the central organizing force of the next twenty years of American politics, macro, and asset selection.

Here is the real geometry.

1. The US is not just unequal. It is locked.

People think this is:
•“old people are rich”
•“young people can’t buy houses”
•“boomers had it easy”

That is a cartoon.

The deeper structure is this:

The largest cohort of wealth in human history is now held by the least economically productive group.

When one generation controls the balance sheet and another controls the labor engine, a society becomes structurally tense.

This is the system now.

2. True power comes from who controls the asset base.

And right now, the seventy-plus cohort controls:
•the real estate base
•the equity base
•the bond base
•the political donor base
•the trust and estate infrastructure
•the zoning bottlenecks
•the pension capital
•the philanthropic capital

They can sit on assets for decades because they have no economic need to sell.
Young people cannot wait for decades to buy into those assets.

This is a structural trap, not a cycle.

3. The result is something extremely rare in history.

You have a society where:
•the young produce most of the real economic output
•the old own most of the financial claims on that output

That is not capitalism.
That is not socialism.
It is a hybrid pressure cooker that has only one escape valve.

4. That escape valve is non custodial, non political, non permissioned digital asset accumulation.

Bitcoin is not popular with millennials and Gen Z because they are rebellious or ideological.

It is because:

It is the only major asset where the asset base is not already owned by the seventy-plus cohort.

Housing? Owned.
Equities? Owned.
Bonds? Owned.
Private equity? Owned.
Land? Owned.

Bitcoin is the only vessel where younger cohorts can accumulate a claim on future wealth that is not downstream from older cohort ownership.

That is the real truth.

5. The US knows this dynamic exists and is quietly adapting policy around it.

Why is the US leaning into AI, reshoring, fiscal support, and risk asset inflation?

Because the government understands two things:

1. You cannot confiscate or dethrone the older cohort’s asset base.

2. You must give the younger cohort new assets to grow into or the system fractures.

The government will never say this out loud.
But this is the real structural logic behind:
•AI industrial policy
•Bitcoin ETF approval
•stablecoin integration
•massive fiscal support
•reshoring incentives

The system needs new asset ladders.
It cannot grow the old ones fast enough.

6. What I really believe deep down:

The generational wealth imbalance is not a problem that America will solve.

It is a pressure gradient the system will route around.

And the routing takes the following shape:
•AI becomes the new productivity engine
•Bitcoin becomes the new neutral store of value
•stablecoins become the transactional layer
•fiscal policy keeps real growth from collapsing
•asset inflation continues because it must
•political cycles rise and fall around redistribution narratives
•the old cohort stays rich
•the young cohort builds a new asset universe

In other words:

Bitcoin, AI, and US policy are not disconnected stories. They are the structural answer to the fact that seventy year olds own one third of the wealth.

This is the real truth.

The system is mutating, not collapsing.

And Bitcoin sits directly on the fault line where that mutation releases its pressure.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The United States just declared AI the next Manhattan Project.

But this time the “bomb” is cognition.

This executive order marks a strategic turning point for the entire world system.

Here is the real breakdown:

1. This is the formal start of centralized, state-backed AGI acceleration

“Integrated AI platform” with access to all federal scientific datasets means something very specific:

The US government is building a national brain.

Every dataset that historically sat siloed in NIH, DOE, NASA, NOAA, DARPA, NSF, CDC, FDA, USDA, Census Bureau, and intelligence-adjacent science archives will flow into a unified training substrate.

That has three consequences:

A. Model capability jumps because those datasets contain precisely the kind of high-signal, structured, long-horizon information frontier models need.

B. The US eliminates the data gap with China, whose state apparatus already has unified access.

C. The line between “open model”, “frontier model”, and “state model” dissolves.

This is federalization of the upper layers of AI capability.

2. The Manhattan Project comparison is not rhetoric

When governments historically use that phrase, it signals:
•emergency reconstruction of the industrial base
•compression of multi-year R&D cycles into months
•wartime priority for compute, talent, and infrastructure
•secrecy walls around critical science
•national labs becoming the command centers of breakthrough tech

“Urgency and ambition comparable to the Manhattan Project” means:

The US is preparing for a world where controlling AGI is equivalent to controlling nuclear dominance.

This is a geopolitical pivot, not a technological one.

3. It ends the era of decentralized frontier AI

Up to now, frontier AI was defined by corporate labs racing each other.

This EO shifts the race into a new phase:

State-corporate fusion.

DOE labs have:
•the fastest supercomputers
•the deepest scientific datasets
•experience running controlled high-risk research
•the only institutions with “Manhattan Project muscle memory”

This means Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI, and the rest will now be “advisory orbiters,” not the center of gravity.

The center becomes:

DOE + DARPA + NSF + national labs + selected private partners.

This is how the US builds “national AGI”.

4. It is the clearest signal yet that AGI is closer than publicly admitted

Governments do not pre-allocate scientific, compute, and intelligence resources like this unless the internal consensus is:

“We are inside the AGI window.”

Every time in history the US government created a new executive architecture around a frontier technology, it was because the breakthroughs were already close enough that failing to coordinate would cause strategic collapse.

You do not reorganize federal science for fun.

You do it because you think the threshold is near.

5. Bitcoin implication: the arc steepens

This order accelerates:
•US tech-dominance
•capital inflows
•productivity expectations
•national AI-industrial build-out

This is bullish for high-beta, non-sovereign collateral assets.

Because:

AI acceleration compounds debt-driven fiscal expansion, which compounds liquidity needs, which compounds the bid for neutral stores of value.

The AI arc and the Bitcoin arc are now entangled.

This EO tightens the coil.

6. The real meaning:

The US just admitted the world is entering the “compute-sovereignty arms race

China has:
•unified state control
•industrial alignment
•demographic pressure to accelerate

The US answer is:

fuse national labs with frontier AI and turn the entire federal scientific archive into a weapons-grade training substrate.

This is about global power.

7. Bottom line

This is the United States saying:

“AGI is real, near, and strategically decisive.
We will not be second.”

It is the most important policy action of 2025 so far.

This EO will be remembered as the moment the AI race became a state-level, Manhattan-Project-style contest for civilization-scale dominance.

Everything accelerates from here.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Jason AI and robots will replace all jobs.

Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store.

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

It is not often I read something that blows my mind, but this did. 🤯

I would highly recommend taking the 5 minutes to read it, and then an additional 5 minutes to pause and reflect to consider all the ways our world is about to radically change.

h/t @matthew_pines

[Brennan Sweeney @mbsweeney]

@bensig calc

[Justin 🏗 @pleasedontatme]

I don’t think “kids are too far ahead” is a good reason to crack down on tutoring

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

(Warning: long rant)

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.

I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.

And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.

Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts:

Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.

Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:

These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.

These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.

And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.

> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)

> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)

> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)

> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)

In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.

> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)

> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)

All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.

Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.

If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

[Brennan Sweeney @mbsweeney]

Love this model!

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

This is the definitive conversation on Alpha School with @jliemandt, who is the school’s principal and backer.

What if kids could learn in two hours a day, test in the top 1% nationally, spend their afternoons mastering other great skills, AND love school more than vacation?

What sounds impossible is already happening at Alpha. If you are a parent like me, it’s impossible not to wonder how to make sure your kids will benefit from this enormous innovation.

We explore everything in exhaustive detail—the learning science, the role of software and AI, the central role of motivation, the challenges of scaling to ALL kids, and more.

Joe is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in history, who has now decided to devote his next two decades to ushering in a new era of education. I hope this becomes a historically important episode.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:54 What Is Alpha School?
4:02 The 200-Year Education Problem
8:06 Two-Hour Learning
16:41 Academic Results & Efficiency
23:51 AI-Generated Personalized Lessons
35:03 EdTech Fails Without Motivation
41:18 Life Skills & Afternoon Workshops
1:13:35 Gamification
1:29:09 Scaling Challenges
1:46:52 Video Games for Education
1:54:07 Joe's Background & Trilogy
2:14:22 Lessons from Mentors
2:32:29 The Kindest Thing

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

If you woke up, your family is healthy, you have a roof over your head, clean drinking water, food on the table, and fast internet your life is pretty damn good.

Be grateful.