Simon

Beside being an international award winning artist, Simon is also the ambassadors for the Chinese & Italian Art & Culture and International Peace by UNESCO

[Simon @SimonMa_io]

Art brings out the best of people, truly a friendship and partnership made in heaven.

Follow @DragoCavallo for more updates on my upcoming DC’s #NFTs launch! 🔥

#NFT #aaronkwok #dragocavallo #DCNFT

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

AI revenues are real, and accelerating.

Exponential View’s bottom-up, deduplicated analysis puts generative AI at $110B in trailing 12-month revenue (global ex-China, apps + models + hosting) as of mid-2026, with the current run rate already at $175B. That’s not double-counted hype or chip sales. It’s actual customer spend.

The 1.6x gap between trailing and run-rate numbers is the growth rate talking. This is scaling faster than the internet or mobile waves did at the same stage.
Demand is here. The harder question is whether these revenues will ultimately justify the extraordinary capital being poured into GPUs and data centers. That’s the real test still ahead.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Hard times don’t just test your resilience. They reveal your relationships.

Success attracts people.

Failure filters them.

When everything is going well, your career is thriving, your business is growing, and life is comfortable, it’s difficult to tell who is genuinely in your corner. Everyone enjoys being around success.

But life has a way of removing the noise.

Lose your job.
Face a business setback.
Go through a health crisis.
Experience personal heartbreak.

That’s when you discover who checks in without expecting anything in return. Who stays when there’s nothing to gain. Who quietly supports you instead of disappearing.

I’ve learned that adversity isn’t just painful, it can also be incredibly clarifying.

At the same time, difficult seasons teach us another lesson: don’t become bitter because some people leave. Not everyone is meant to walk every chapter of your journey. Some people are there for a season, while a precious few are there for a lifetime.

Treasure those who remain.

And when someone else is going through their own storm, be the person who stays. Your presence may mean more than you realize.

In the end, our greatest wealth isn’t measured by our title, bank account, or achievements.

It’s measured by the people who still choose to stand beside us when we have nothing left to offer except ourselves.

❤️ Tag someone who has stood by you through your toughest days. They deserve to know how much they matter.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Seven cents for a full playable 3D game prototype.

That’s not a typo. DeepSeek V4 Flash + Hermes Agent just did this in 32 minutes.

The cost efficiency here is wild. At $0.14 input / $0.28 output per million tokens, serious agentic work has basically become pocket-change territory. $2 can genuinely power a full day of building.

This is the real unlock: when intelligence gets this cheap, the limiting factor stops being money and becomes pure creativity. Indies and solo builders just got handed the same firepower the big labs used to guard.

The next 12 months at these prices are going to flood us with stuff we can’t even imagine yet.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Warren Buffett’s advice on the choice of a partner:

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Mind-blowing what open models can do now!

For $0.0005 you can generate a fully playable Flappy Bird game with solid physics, scoring, and UI.

That’s literally almost free!

Kimi and GLM deliver even more polish if you want it, but the fact that a complete mini-game costs less than a single gumball is wild.

The future of game prototyping is already here.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Four Stages of Elimination in Life

At 60, the workplace eliminates you. No matter how successful or powerful you were during your career, you'll return to being an ordinary person. So, don't cling to the mindset and sense of superiority from your past job, let go of your ego, or you might lose your sense of ease!

At 70, society gradually eliminates you. The friends and colleagues you used to meet and socialize with become fewer, and hardly anyone recognizes you at your former workplace. Don't say, "I used to be..." or "I was once..." because the younger generation won't know you, and you mustn't feel uncomfortable about it!

At 80, family slowly eliminates you. Even if you have many children and grandchildren, most of the time you'll be living with your spouse or by yourself. When your children visit occasionally, it's an expression of affection, so don't blame them for coming less often, as they're busy with their own lives!

At 90, the Earth wants to eliminate you. Some of the people you knew have already departed forever. At this point, don't be sad or mournful, because this is the way of life, and everyone will eventually follow this path!

Therefore, while our bodies are still capable, live life to the fullest! Eat what you want, drink what you desire, play and do the things you love.

Remember, the only thing that won't eliminate you is the your current families and friends. So, meet more, communicate more, say a hello, maintain your presence, be happy, and have no regrets!

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

I’m sorry for what happened to Jonathan and the hundreds of others hit by this Coldcard vulnerability. Losing $1.6 million or any meaningful amount of hard-earned Bitcoin through no fault of your own, especially after following cold storage best practices, is gut-wrenching. The fact that a years-old firmware flaw in seed generation reduced entropy enough for attackers to brute-force keys shows how even offline hardware isn’t automatically invincible.

This should be a clear warning to everyone holding digital assets: double-check your setup thoroughly. Confirm firmware versions against official advisories, prefer strong entropy methods like dice rolls where available, consider multisig, keep firmware updated, and never assume any single device or process is flawless. Move funds carefully if you’re affected or potentially at risk.

Crypto has real innovation and upside, but the space is full of risks, technical failures like this, outright scams, social engineering, and bad actors looking for any opening. Self-custody puts the responsibility and the danger squarely on the individual, and incidents like this remind us nothing is completely safe.

Stay vigilant, diversify protection methods, and only risk what you can afford to lose.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Even cold wallets can get wrecked!!

This COLDCARD seed-entropy disaster is the brutal reminder: air-gaps, secure elements, and “don’t trust, verify” still failed thousands of the most careful holders because of a 2021 build flaw that turned their supposedly random seeds into something an attacker could just regenerate and sweep.

Nearly 1,400 BTC gone. People who did everything right, hardware only, offline, no seed phrases ever typed online, still got cleaned out in minutes.

The crypto industry keeps proving it: the real threat isn’t always some phishing scammer. Sometimes it’s the very tools we trust the most that contain the fatal bug. Careful people are the ones paying the price right now.

And AI is making it worse. Scammers now use it to craft perfect deepfakes, hyper-personalized phishing, and faster vulnerability hunting, lowering the barrier for sophisticated attacks while flooding the space with more convincing fakes. Everyone needs to stay sharp on both the pros (better threat detection, smarter wallets) and the serious cons of AI in crypto.

Protect what you can:
- Split holdings across several independent wallets / devices (never one single seed)
- Use multisig where practical
- Diversify hardware brands and keep most funds truly cold
- Stay on top of device-specific security advisories and firmware notices

Security is never absolute. Not even on a Coldcard.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

The acceleration is real, and it’s not subtle.

AI industry revenue is compounding faster than the internet or mobile waves ever did. Time to add the next $1B has gone from months to under two days.

Fundamentals this strong make pure “bubble” talk harder to sustain. Not every company will win, valuations still matter, but the demand curve is moving like infrastructure, not just hype.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

China’s official line keeps painting itself as the country that will soon overtake America in AI.

Reality check from the latest numbers (June 2026):
🇺🇸 USA — 4,423
🇬🇧 UK — 555
🇩🇪 Germany — 523
🇫🇷 France — 394
🇨🇳 China — 369

China isn’t even No. 2. It’s fifth.

The US has more data centers than the next nine countries combined.

Data centers are the physical foundation of large-scale AI training and inference.

A gap this size isn’t a narrative problem, it’s an infrastructure fact.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Google’s product graveyard is one of the most underrated business lessons on the internet.

They’ve killed well over 200 products, services, and experiments. Still one of the most valuable companies on the planet.

Most people and most companies do the opposite: they keep funding the zombie because quitting feels like admitting they were wrong. That’s how mediocrity compounds and wealth doesn’t.

The real skill isn’t starting more things.
It’s ruthlessly ending the ones that aren’t working so the winners can actually scale.

You will be richer, when you stop doing what isn’t working.

Google killed more than two hundred of its products… and still worth billions.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

The job of a power line worker.
Suspended hundreds of feet up.
Walking live high-voltage lines.
Hanging over mountains and rivers like it’s nothing.

One slip ends everything.
They still show up.

After storms. In the heat. In the cold.
So the rest of us never have to sit in the dark.

This isn’t a job.
It’s quiet, insane courage keeping the world electrified.
Respect.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Best career advice: You should earn and learn!

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Anthropic at $965B edging out OpenAI at $852B is the clearest signal yet that private AI valuations have entered pure narrative territory.

The revenue ramps are real, the talent wars are brutal, and Databricks at $188B shows the enterprise layer still has gravity. But these numbers only work if the eventual public markets keep buying the story at the same multiple. Paper crowns don’t pay the GPU bills.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

“Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”
― Elon Musk

This hits harder than most motivational lines. Comfort feels good right up until the moment the ground disappears under it. In tech, energy, transport, or just life in general, staying still while the world moves is the actual risk. The ones who keep iterating, even when it’s messy and unpopular, are the ones who don’t get left behind.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Volkswagen pranked an entire cinema with one clever ad.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Amazing energy at @UltraWeb3Fest Day 2!

The convergence of AI + Web3 truly leveled up, sharp discussions, real innovation, and that electric networking vibe. One of the best events mixing future tech with actual substance.

Looking forward to the next Ultra Web event in 2027!

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Most projects don’t fail because of bad technology.

They fail because people weren’t prepared to change.

Change management isn’t overhead. It’s insurance.

Skip it, and you’ll pay for it later.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

This is a photo taken in 1950 on KLM. At the time, Martin M-130s, Lockheed Constellations, and Douglas DC-6s operated by airlines such as KLM and the now-defunct Trans World Airlines (TWA) had beds in both the upper and lower berths.

These beds featured mattresses, Pullman-style curtains for privacy, windows, reading lights, and even breakfast-in-bed service.

At the time, a round-trip economy airfare from New York to London on a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser cost about $580 (about $12,000 today).

The baggage racks as we know them today were phased out during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

You are what u read.