Daniel

You’ll be 10x more successful if you stay far away from those who celebrate when people lose. Only losers pile on when someone tries and fails.

It is a necessary progression for businesses at every level (even service providers) to systematize their knowledge and process in preparation for the inevitable robotic future.

Young people under 35 with MBAs are facing the highest unemployment levels in nearly 20 years. Now there’s a fire sale on MBAs. A decade ago, only 32% of universities offered MBA scholarships. Today? It’s 49%. The market is dictating demand for MBA’s.

La plupart des grandes boîtes sont des organisations zombies. Voici pourquoi. Dans League of Legends, ton rang n'est pas un titre. C'est une mesure continue. Tu es Master parce que tu joues comme un Master cette semaine. Si tu arrêtes de bosser, tu redescends. Diamond. Platine. Gold. Le système ne te doit rien : ton rang reflète ta compétence à l'instant T, pas celle d'il y a trois ans. Maintenant regarde une entreprise classique du S&P 500. Un type devient VP parce qu'il a été excellent à 35 ans. À 50 ans, il est toujours VP. Entre-temps, il a peut-être arrêté de produire, arrêté d'apprendre, arrêté de challenger ses modèles mentaux. Aucune importance : le titre est acquis. La hiérarchie pyramidale fonctionne comme un cliquet — tu montes, tu ne redescends pas. Ton elo organisationnel est gelé au pic de ta carrière. C'est une aberration darwinienne. Ces structures distribuent l'autorité selon la compétence passée, et la compétence passée est un très mauvais prédicteur de la compétence présente — surtout dans un monde qui change vite. Les jeux compétitifs ont résolu ce problème il y a vingt ans. Le elo se recalcule à chaque partie. La hiérarchie reflète la performance réelle, pas le souvenir d'une performance. C'est brutal, et c'est précisément pour ça que ça marche : les meilleurs joueurs sont vraiment les meilleurs joueurs, pas ceux qui ont été bons en 2008. L'IA rend cette aberration létale. Quand une équipe de 12 personnes avec les bons outils peut produire ce que produisait un département de 200, le coût d'un VP qui ne produit plus n'est plus seulement son salaire — c'est le delta entre ce qu'il bloque et ce qu'une organisation méritocratique débloquerait. Ce delta explose chaque mois. Regardez le marché. Le S&P 500 n'existe plus vraiment. Il y a le S&P 7 (Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta, Tesla) qui capte la quasi-totalité de la création de valeur, et 493 zombies qui maintiennent leur cap par inertie comptable. Les zombies partagent une caractéristique : la compétence n'y circule pas. Elle s'y cristallise en titres, en territoires, en process de protection. Les boîtes qui vont émerger dans les dix prochaines années auront une propriété structurelle nouvelle : l'autorité y sera révocable en continu. La compétence présente sera la seule monnaie. Plus de rentes de titre. Plus de comités. Plus de "j'ai mérité ma position en 2015". Tu produis maintenant ou tu sors du ladder. C'est pas une question d'idéologie. C'est juste que dans un environnement où l'IA divise par 50 le coût d'exécution, les organisations qui protègent l'incompétence acquise se font oblitérer par celles qui ne la protègent pas. Tout est à réinventer. Et c'est exactement ce qui rend le moment fascinant.

In 2026, residents of every major city should understand this simple truth: Crime and squalor are choices. Policies exist that can both be compassionate but put the rights and quality of life of the tax paying and law abiding above everything and everyone else. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.

The Nobel prize means nothing if people inventing things like this don’t immediately get the recognition they deserve. We need a new recognition system that actually deserves prestige

There is nothing more powerful than well-informed optimism. It has to be well-informed though. The "everything will be fine" type of optimism may also be somewhat useful, but it's not as useful as the "Hmm, what if we tried x?" kind.

You'll find early in your career forgiveness is not actually a virtue. If someone betrays you don’t forgive and forget, they will do it again. You'd do better to have real consequences to their actions. Doormats do not win.

This is equivalent to trying to sell a cop drugs while he’s in uniform in his police car.

Fascinating conversation about biometrics technology

Friedrich Hayek’s concept of spontaneous order is one of the most profound insights in social science. It explains how complex, functional social institutions emerge without any central designer or planner. As Hayek put it, spontaneous order is “the result of human action but not of human design”. In a free society, millions of individuals pursue their own purposes, each guided only by local knowledge, prices and simple rules of conduct (property, contract, honesty). Out of this uncoordinated activity arises an orderly pattern far more intricate and efficient than any mind or committee could devise. The price system is the classic example: no one plans the global allocation of resources, yet markets continuously coordinate supply and demand across continents. Language, common law, money and even moral norms evolved in exactly the same way - through trial, error, imitation and selection over generations. Hayek sharply contrasted this “grown order” (cosmos) with the artificial “made order” (taxis) of central planning. The latter, he argued, can never match the knowledge dispersed among individuals and inevitably collapses under its own information burden. Spontaneous order is the decisive argument against socialism and heavy-handed intervention. It shows that the greatest achievements of civilisation - prosperity, innovation, and peaceful cooperation - are not the product of top-down control but of human freedom. When governments try to impose order by decree, they do not improve the spontaneous order; they distort and ultimately destroy it.

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” — Thomas Sowell

@SebGorka @FBI Never in my life have I seen so many actual criminals get bagged and tagged. Me gusta mucho. This is wtf I pay taxes for if I’m going to pay. Premium USA sub

Do you know what happened in the last 24 hours? 1. Late on Thursday night @FBI agents landed at New York Stewart International Airport with Mohammad al Saadi in handcuffs. Al Saadi, the leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi terror group is allegedly responsible for more than 20 attacks across Europe and Canada and for planning attacks in the U.S.. 2. Jose Enrique Martinez Flores, who goes by “Chuqui," the highest ranking Tren de Aragua leader to be extradited to the U.S., also just landed in the U.S. in shackles. Flores allegedly oversaw TdA’s drug trafficking, extortion rackets, prostitution rings and murder operations. Then, last night, in an operation that makes any fictional representation look amateurish, American operators, working with local Nigerian forces, killed Abu-Bilal-al-Minuki, the second in command for ISIS global operations, a man with the blood of countless innocents on his hands, including many Christians. This is just one day in the Counterterrorism operations of President @realDonaldTrump. We salute the intelligence professionals, Law Enforcement Officers, Diplomats, Military operators and support personnel who make these operations possible 24/7. @WhiteHouse @DeptofWar @TheJusticeDept @StateDept

This is the longform version of the master plan to remake America’s government, a plan I’ve outlined in pieces across various threads. The protests and foreign-policy interventions are all moving toward the same end: a transformed American system of governance designed to prevent another Trump from ever taking power again. In effect, the United States has become its own democratic-transition project. We are living through a color revolution. Read more below.

Switzerland built the world's most prosperous society by doing exactly what every government expert told them not to do: staying neutral, keeping taxes low, and letting markets work. While the EU suffocates its members with 170,000 pages of regulations, Switzerland maintains bilateral trade agreements that preserve sovereignty. Swiss GDP per capita hits $94,000 versus Germany's $51,000 and France's $45,000. The Swiss franc remains one of the world's strongest currencies because the Swiss National Bank can't print money to fund Brussels bureaucrats. Meanwhile, EU nations surrender monetary policy to unelected technocrats who inflate away savings to finance welfare states. The regulatory contrast is staggering. Switzerland ranks 4th globally in economic freedom while EU heavyweights like Germany (16th) and France (64th) plummet under Brussels' command-and-control apparatus. Swiss unemployment sits at 2.1% compared to the eurozone's 6.4%. Swiss labor markets remain flexible while EU employment laws make hiring workers feel like adopting teenagers forever. Brussels promises prosperity through harmonization, but delivers stagnation through standardization. Every EU directive removes another price signal from the market, replacing voluntary exchange with political allocation. Swiss neutrality isn't just about avoiding wars (though that 200-year peace dividend helps). Economic neutrality means staying out of supranational central planning schemes that turn dynamic economies into managed decline. The EU's answer to Switzerland's success? Punitive measures and threats to cut off market access unless the Swiss submit to Brussels rule. Nothing exposes the coercive nature of the European project quite like watching bureaucrats demand that free people abandon the policies that made them rich.

Its easy to forget that when you make downstream upgrades you have to travel way upstream back to root and optimize.

The future doesn't belong to the fearful or the reckless, but to the informed optimists who see the risks clearly and build anyway.

Revolutionary

If you’re high agency type of person who loves high performance, the only thing you can do is entrepreneurship or you’ll lose your mind. Everything else just feels like a joke. It’s the only path that lets you exploit your talents, act like a psychopath, and run things how you want without being told what to do. The more you try to continue being an employee the more depressed you become. You just know. You’ve always known. You have this fire in your eyes no one can put out and every minute you avoid it feels like death. Some of us are born to solve problems and change the world in some small way. And we must take risks to feel alive. Only entrepreneurship can give you that. There are downsides though such as uncertainty, more stress, and inconsistent income. But life is too f*cking short to work a boring job. Stop avoiding the one path that’ll make you come alive.

Most of the llm’s don’t like working together. But if you can out-code their personality related aversions, it can be done.