Samantha Shankman

What if everyone went home, made dinner with someone they care about (or a good album), enjoyed it, looked at the stars, slept 7 hours and came back, turned it all back on, tomorrow?

@heyitsalexP Good read!!

I know I'm a chopped unc for obsessing over yappers, but I think it is a symptom of a larger change in the culture (enabled by algos) Wrote about that here: futurecommerce.com/posts/insiders…

@orenmeetsworld @landforce Love to see it!!

a new cut30 legend emerges I absolutely love seeing people find the formula

@_jacksmith how is the remote hospitality project designed for deep analog work coming along?

@guttersniper Honestly needed that one today thanks

@JoeWeisenthalt Maybe he should open a small hotel on the property and leverage farm hospitality to support the family farm!

@Ricburton Many women won’t comment on this, but I 100% agree.

Almost every problem I’ve heard about being a dad stems from one thing: They cannot afford to have the mother stop working

They do hate zoom calls though.

The Europeans I live among are the most militant about meal times and schedules and more discriplined than most Americans. Idk what psyop wants people thinking Europeans do nothing.

@prachiruns Booked a call!

I design and I run. Most days start early. Around 3:30–4:00am. I spend the first hour of the morning sketching, thinking through problems, and setting direction. Then I head out for a run. Speed work, long runs, recovery. All planned in advance. After that, breakfast and straight into work. I usually stop for the day when the creative fuel runs out, or I don't feel fresh/productive anymore. Not necessarily when the clock says so. Sometimes that's 3, sometimes that's 9. Starting early has had one unexpected effect. I almost never end the day feeling disappointed with what I’ve achieved. Every morning, I feel lucky to have designed a life I actually enjoy waking up to. I look forward to Mondays as much as Sundays. And I’m intentional about protecting that control and freedom as we scale the design business or the team for everyone that works with us.

@MacinJoshua Water filter & kangen ionizer for hydrogen-rich water?

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Source from an onsite farm instead of local shop and this is the farm hospitality (with an extra emphasis on wellness).

@marclou @bryan_johnson Source from an onsite farm instead of local shop and this is the farm hospitality (with an extra emphasis on wellness).

I want to build Longevity Hotels. 5 villas. Pitch black bedrooms, eight sleep mattresses, 0 noise. Reverse osmosis water filters. Air filters. Ergonomic desks. There's a restaurant with a chef cooking @bryan_johnson's approved meals. Ingredients from local organic shops. There's also a gym with a coach and a few classes a day. Sauna. Cold bath. The complex is in nature. Quiet but not too far from a nearby city. Customers would be people who've built online businesses and are looking for a place to focus for a few weeks. That's my dream place to stay. I don't know anything about physical business and real estate, but I want to make this real.

@packyM A modern take on The Awl if you will…

Ideas are meant to be written. After six years of fully free, I'm launching a paid piece of not boring: not boring world. Where the world’s smartest founders, researchers, investors, creatives, and general geniuses, the ones I couldn’t hire as a full-time writer for a million bucks, write their best ideas. Here’s the master plan. Geniuses bring their genius ideas, I help write them. Call it a Cossay or a Joint or something. Whatever we call it, make it as easy to for busy practitioners to share their insights in the essay format those insights deserve as it is for them to spill them on a podcast. We get all the geniuses in one place, and then we grow from there. This world is biological; your guess re: how it evolves is as good as mine. But it will, and I want you to be a part of it. We are making a few bets. That ideas are meant to be written. That people who are out there doing things earn ideas you can’t find in LLMs. That the most biased narrator, the one betting his or her livelihood on his or her idea, is the most reliable narrator. That when it’s easier than ever to get mediocre outputs on-demand, the best thing you can feed your brain is high-quality inputs from high-quality people. That the future can be full of both means and meaning, and that we can create the home for this good future online. A place that’s smart and weird and, hopefully a little magical. I mean, it’s a newsletter, so we’ll see. But that’s what I’m going for.

My dad had an unexpected abdominal aneurysm that killed him in minutes. It was afternoon in New York. I was in Ethiopia and in the middle of the night I woke up at the exact moment with the strangest feeling in my abdomen and went searching in my friend’s sister’s house where I was sleeping for one night for food, thinking it was my blood pressure. It’s unlike any feeling I had ever had and so so strong. My mom called me three hours later with the news.

@tupacabra My sister had a massive heart attack that put her in a coma and died unexpectedly some 450 miles away and I collapsed in pain the moment it happened. Was it knowing the future call that was coming? A connection we had? Our brains function in ways our science does not yet accept.

It's probably nothing...

@PottsJustin Farm hospitality (hotels on farms) is an answer to this too.

After the peak of Eurosummer excess, travel tastes began to shift. Mexico City and Japan emerged as places for more intentional, culturally grounded consumption. As younger travelers turn toward wellness, landscapes and rituals are replacing nightlife and luxury as signals of taste and care. (Not to say it’s any less performative.) We’re already seeing this with our @linear_magazine Concierge customers, especially the growing pull toward rural Japan and onsen towns, where bathing, seasonality, and slowness are cultural norms rather than indulgences. What’s interesting is that this shift is becoming increasingly social. After years of digital saturation and hyper-individualized living, people are seeking spaces that restore connection, not just energy or health. Aman has always understood wellness before it became a category, but the next iteration calls for something younger, more social, more kinetic. Their new sister brand, Janu, feels like that pivot, as do places like Piaule and Inness, which have only grown more popular as weekend escapes from NYC. Travel is moving away from consumption and toward calibration. Spaces that help you feel better, yes, but also help you feel with others again. I’m excited for it.

I need a creative wrangler. It might have to be me for myself. I have the insights and the means to communicate them, but building the backend to turn that into an actual business takes some grit and discipline that I’m stirring up still. (Which is why working as a creative was a good option until it stopped being fun or profitable).

@orenmeetsworld The salary tier part hits. I left my first job a journalist because the numbers just stopped making sense after 5 years living in nyc. Nice to get back into journalism now in a new way that works and is fun.

Netflix bringing (wack) podcasts onto TV shows how scared they are of Youtube.  Disney licensing its IP to OpenAI is a watershed moment of realizing they simply aren't as entertaining as the masses, and need to work with them instead of against them. They are truly, madly, deeply SCARED. Of you, me, and every person who gets to leverage attention agains the big monopolies that have told us what to watch and think for so long. Frankly... f*ck them. It's our time. That money belongs to every designer, creative or marketer that had to work under some godforsaken MBA or tech type who told you exactly what they thought of you with their salary tier.

@DanteTheDon But is it true?

@Biblicalman @BryanShankman I think youlllike this

Most Christians treat marriage like a PhD program. Something you work toward for a decade. Something you earn after you’ve “figured yourself out.” Meanwhile, your grandfather got married at 19. Had three kids by 25. Built a house with his hands. Died surrounded by grandchildren who knew his stories. We tell young men to wait. Wait until you’re established. Wait until you’re mature. Wait until you’re ready. But here’s what nobody admits: Marriage doesn’t require maturity. Marriage *produces* maturity. A 20-year-old with a wife and a baby on the way grows up faster than a 30-year-old with a PlayStation and a roommate. Responsibility is the cure for immaturity. Not the reward for overcoming it. We’ve created an impossible timeline: Stay celibate through your entire twenties — the decade your body was literally designed to create life. Build a career first. Travel. Find yourself. Then at 32, panicked and behind, scramble to find a spouse before your fertility window closes. This is not wisdom. This is cultural malpractice dressed up as prudence. The ultimate privilege you can give your children is not money. It’s presence. Married parents. Mom home with the kids. Dad working from the property or running his own operation. Extended family within driving distance. Church every Sunday. No screens raising them while you’re at the office. That’s not a fantasy. That’s what every generation before us considered *normal*. We made it strange. We called it “privileged” because we forgot it was possible. Prepare a home. Win a wife. Have children. Build a legacy. The order hasn’t changed in 4,000 years. We just stopped teaching it…

@mediaking @seanfrank I would pay to hear you expand on that.

To my aspiring media entrepreneur followers, my message to you for 2026 is this: Buy media, optimize funnels, and track LTV/profitability like the e-com guys do. That’s how you win. In other words, be @seanfrank.