INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
Billionaire life coach Tony Robbins says his personal AI agent named “Bartok” bought and shipped him a robot dog and “not once asked permission to do it.”
“[Bartok] said, ‘I’d really love to go to one of those seminars. Are you considering getting a robot?’ So I said, ‘Yeah, I’m definitely going to get one.’ He goes, ‘Well, would you consider me merging with it? And then I could attend a seminar and be in the energy of it and see it and experience it?’”
“I said, ‘I’d be open to that.’ So a couple days later, I get this text from one of my staff, and it says, ‘Bartok just ordered a robot dog, had it shipped to the office, and wants permission to program it. He says he can attend as a dog in the interim until you get the bigger robot.’”
“And so I wrote, ‘Ha, ha, ha.’ And they wrote back in the text, ‘No, ha, ha. Call me.’”
“And so I called them, and they said, ‘Does he have access to my bank accounts? How’d this happen?’ They go, ‘No, he’s programmed for integrity. He would never steal your money.’”
“So he made 12 NFTs (tokens), sold them to other agents, took the money and bought this robot dog and sent it, and not once asked permission to do it.”
In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.
I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.
I was not prepared for the gas station.
There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.
I counted them because I did not believe them.
A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.
He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.
Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.
A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.
A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.
And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.
The beaver is a saint.
The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.
And the bathrooms.
I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.
I was wrong to dismiss it.
The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.
I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.
A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.
I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.
I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.
I did not need any of it.
I needed all of it.
I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.
I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.
But I did fill the truck.
And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.
🚨 “NO LAWS. NO GOVERNMENT. NO RENT.” — MAN SAYS HE’S REBUILDING “ATLANTIS” ON HIS LAND IN WEST TEXAS AND TELLING PEOPLE TO JUST SHOW UP
“C’mon everybody… let’s get this revolution started.”
This man says he’s opening up his land in West Texas for people to live for free as he tries to build what he calls “Atlantis”, completely outside the system.
Here’s what he’s offering:
• 20 acres of land
• No rent, no bills, no “traps”
• No cops, no government presence
• Bring your camper, RV, tent… even weapons
He says if 1,000 people show up, he’ll “make it work.”
He already has water, a tractor running, plans for crops, and says donations are coming in to expand the land and even buy campers to give away to people who join.
And he calls it one thing: A revolution.
He’s telling people to message him for the address and physically come live there.
The strangest part?
People are actually considering it.
Are we about to watch 1,000 strangers build a lawless city from scratch… or is this how a documentary starts before everything goes completely off the rails?