Andrew Lee

“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.” - Frank Sinatra

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"The world is a malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.” – @pmarca

Neuroscience fact: your brain gives you the same dopamine hit from planning to do something as from doing it. That's why you can watch 100 YouTube tutorials and feel productive. The fix? Stop looking for more information. Start acting on what you already know.

.@palmerluckey's take on the best time to start a company From @tbpn

@Austen Who could have seen this coming though??

It's now trivially easy to convincingly replicate virtually anyone's voice with AI. You and your loved ones should develop a password to verify it's you calling them ASAP. Especially if you're even a little bit rich or famous.

Why are HSAs connected in any way to insurance policies ? Don't we want people to save as much as possible for their healthcare ? Remove the link to insurance. Increase the caps considerably, or remove them altogether

one day, you'll realize that no one was really watching, and you could have done whatever you wanted. i just hope you don't figure it out too late.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has always been great on social media.

Let me teach you one of life’s important lessons, then. When you achieve a goal, you set your sights on the next one. That’s the meaning of life, staying hungry.

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In your 20s you will be tempted to prove that you’re doing well, it’s important you resist performing for an audience that isn’t watching.

2/2 Check on your older family members and make sure they don’t have this ridiculous feature enabled for their banking or financial accounts.

Important PSA: Do NOT set up “security voice ID” on your credit cards or financial banking accounts. In the age of AI, big companies don’t understand how easily this can be gamed yet. There will be THOUSANDS who fall victim to fraud just because they have this enabled. 1/2

@thejustinwelsh I’m in the arena trying stuff

The people posting AI-generated business advice are the same people who never built anything real. Expertise you can't fake is solving the same problem 100 times until you know every way it breaks.

@grok @punishablepress @LockMyApps Thanks @grok What are the latest stats on mental health in this age group vs 20+ years ago?

Here are recent US stats on phone usage for those under 18: - 51% of kids 8 and under own a smartphone/tablet; 25% have their own cellphone by age 8 (up from prior years). - 95% of teens 13-17 have smartphone access; 96% use internet daily, 46% almost constantly. - Teens average 7h22m screen time/day (girls 8h2m, boys 9h16m). From Common Sense Media, Pew Research, 2025 data.

A US teacher sharing her classroom experience. One of the comments underneath says: "47 years teaching. Just retired this year. The difference between then and now is like night and day. The kids have zero attention span!"

@punishablepress @LockMyApps Hey @grok give more facts about US phone usage in folks < 18 years

@punishablepress I believe it. The average person spends 7+ hours per day on their phone 😵 Stories like this are why @LockMyApps exists Social media apps have been specifically engineered to be incredibly addictive In the US, 50% of kids have a smartphone phone by 11 & 75% have a phone by 12

@alexxgrowth Can you dm me? Had a few important notes

raising $1B and claiming you "became culture" is easy when you spend $500k/mo on a ghost army to force it... kalshi didn't grow because "prediction markets are the future." they grew because they weaponized Financial FOMO. most fintechs run boring ads about "yield" and get 0 users. kalshi built a "News Hijack" machine that turned every election argument into a deposit if i was running their growth, i would have done exactly what they did they built a Controversy Farm. here is the exact breakdown of how they manufactured this "cultural shift": 1. The "CNN vs. The Money" Format (Content) they realized "polls" are boring, but "betting odds" are viral. so they gave clippers a simple formula: Clip A: CNN anchor saying "Polls are tied." Clip B: Kalshi chart showing "Trump 65%." Overlay: "Why is the news lying to you?" this creates Identity-Based Virality. people shared it not because they cared about Kalshi, but to prove their political point. Kalshi just drafted off the anger they spammed 5,000 comments fighting about politics 2. The "PnL" Loop (Social Proof) they knew "education" doesn't sell. "Greed" sells. so they flooded TikTok with PnL screenshots "turned $100 into $500 on the election." it mimics the 2021 Crypto Bull Run dopamine. but it's legal, regulated, and "smart." they turned gambling into "investing on truth." 3. The "Shitpost" Strategy (Brand Voice) look at their main account it's not corporate. it's unhinged AI images of politicians, memes, trolling they realized their audience (young men) hates "finance brands." so they acted like a "finance meme page" instead this gave their clippers permission to be edgy "if the official brand is posting memes, i can too." result: millions of organic views from creators who felt "safe" pushing boundaries. 4. The Math of the Raise $1B raise at $11B valuation. why? because they own the "Attention Economy" of finance. they proved that content drives trading volume 1 viral clip = 10,000 new traders = $1M in volume. the clipping network literally printed their valuation the lesson: kalshi didn't wait for culture to accept them they forced their way in by turning "Information" into "Entertainment" via mass-scale clipping if you are a fintech founder and you aren't running a "controversy farm" to hijack the news cycle... you are losing to the guy who is. DM if you wanna replicate this at an even larger scale

@punishablepress @LockMyApps Side note: Here’s the free App Store link to @LockMyApps (for those who are trying to reduce their screen time and fix their smartphone addiction) apps.apple.com/us/app/lockmya…