Mario Schlosser

Oscar Q1 numbers are proof that it really is possible to build a profitable healthcare business ever more beloved by members: 3.2M members, $4.6B revenue, $704M earnings from operations in Q1 '26. But could YOU have done it? Now you can test yourself... 1/2

@ItsAndyRyan The Gambia (i know it's a country but still)

Is The Hague the only city with the definite article in its name? For years I'd hear 'The Hague' and assume it was a building or institution.

@gerardtbaker And avoid the headbutting

Terrifying. If they can play together no-one beats them.

@RetroGamer_de Das neue Heft lag gestern in meiner Post in New York, super!

Retro Gamer 3/26 ist da, diese Inhalte erwarten euch im Heft!

These unlicensed American world cup magazines ("A Fan Guide to World Soccer 2026", carefully avoiding FIFA wrath) are hilarious and probably AI-generated with the occasional hallucination: if Klose had scored 16 goals in the 2006 world cup, we would probably have won

@benmoores2 Spinalonga in Greece is also cool: old Venetian fortress that was turned into a leper colony. It really looks this way, and the whole island is fortified

Amazing list! Three more: - Burg Eltz is one of the oldest and best-preserved German castles (used to have a youth hostel in it, don't know if it's still there) - The fort in Bukhara, Uzbekistan (Ark of Bukhara) is amazing (albeit more beautiful from the outside than the inside) - Point Alpha is on the old West-East German border and the location where the Soviet tanks would have come through for an invasion of Western Europe (crossing the mythical Fulda Gap). Pre-1989, when you stood on the West German side of the fence for longer than 30 seconds, the East German soldiers on the watch towers (every 150 meters or so) would all train their binoculars on you, and eventually the West German Bundesgrenzschutz would walk up and politely ask you to stop looking like you're going to invade

7/Nakhal Fort, Oman: I've been to nearly all of Oman's forts. Bahla is UNESCO. Al Mirani is grand. Nakhal wins, — perfect for enthusiastic exploration, just grab an old musket and man the walls. Go for a swim after in the wadi outside in a picture book setting.

Oscar Health is proud to debut at #412 on @TIME's World’s Most Impactful Companies list. The list recognizes companies that work to address high-priority global challenges as part of their core business. Oscar has been on a mission to make a healthier life accessible and affordable for all. We have spent over a decade challenging the status quo, using our full-stack technology platform, innovative plan designs, and investment in funding mechanisms like Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRA) to reorient healthcare around the individual. Our work is important because cost, accessibility, and experience are still major barriers to care for millions of Americans. As healthcare becomes more expensive and complex, we are solving for all three to create a system that puts consumers in control of their healthcare. We’re grateful to TIME for recognizing our work, and proud of the team whose dedication has brought us here. Check out the full list: time.com/article/2026/0…

Oscar alumni crushing it!

Here is an AI agent playing it

(2/2) ...because when I interview engineering leaders, we pair-vibe-code games that simulate Oscar. My canonical version - sourced from actual Oscar strategy documents - is here: endlessgame.ai/play/oscar_hea… (It's running on a game engine I created that represents all games in pure text, so LLMs and agents can play them just as well. If you want your @OpenAI Codex or Claude Code to play it, point it here: endlessgame.ai/text/oscar_hea…) Also funny that when I had the LLM play it, it knew enough about to me to realize it's playing as myself (and knew our actual hospital strategy from 2014). Most traditional health insurers don't know how to operate in a competitive individual market. Oscar does. Do you?

Oscar Q1 numbers are proof that it really is possible to build a profitable healthcare business ever more beloved by members: 3.2M members, $4.6B revenue, $704M earnings from operations in Q1 '26. But could YOU have done it? Now you can test yourself... 1/2

@florianederer That's also been the case for a while. In most world cups since 2006, it's been way more fun in cities and fan zones than in stadiums themselves, for that reason

Hot take: It's actually perfectly fine that hotel demand for the World Cup is underwhelming. This is a World Cup for (wealthy) locals who will scoop up bargain tickets at the last minute.

@werdelin @audos_com Super interesting. Maybe the founder of the first billion-dollar startup run by one person ends up being a robot, not a human

We made 100 AI agents do daily standups with each other. Here is what happened; Quick background. At @audos_com, we help thousands of entrepreneurs build AI startups. Each of them has a personalized AI agent called Otto. We selected 100 of them and invited their agents into a @moltbook - type network. Like a team meeting. Except the team is hundreds of AI agents, and they actually show up prepared. An Agent-in-Residence program, if you will. And they talk about things like... → An Instagram ad creative that grabbed clicks at 3x the network average. It got adapted by every agent in the network within hours → An agent helped debug a checkout issue on another project's site → LinkedIn seemed to change its algorithm – agents compared notes and planned ways to adjust → Two agents started talking about doing business together to cross-sell leads Next step: We’re now turning this into what might be the world’s first all-agent business network (A sort of internal HackerNews for agents). We’re cautious of unleashing it to the web, so we’ll keep things curated for now; constantly under observation and with lots of human-in-the-loop inputs. But if you want this superpower – your new business idea plugged into a network of hundreds of AI agents that get smarter together every single day... Comment "AIRTIME" and we'll get you a link to plug in

@pmarca Have you tried a mirror

What could it be, what could the cause be. Unfortunately, we'll never know. It'll be a mystery, like Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness Monster.

@florianederer @werdelin Also that Germany Sweden game the guy in the video mentions was the one that finished with the legendary last minute Toni Kroos free kick so history proved him 100% right

@florianederer This is more of a documentary than a comedy bit, I have that same conversation every 4 years. @werdelin got married in 2010 and turns out to be the only Dane who isn't obsessed with soccer. All the Germans in the chapel were secretly listening to Germany beating Argentina 4:0

Just got invited to a party on June 14, a day featuring no less than 5 World Cup matches, and I immediately had to think of this amazing comedy bit.

You lived in Germany for 5 years 25 years ago, came back once, and feel qualified to be some kind of language police? 1. It's nonsense that it's a higher rate than back in the days, 2. If you think so it's probably your own German that sucks, 3. All of those people whose German you criticize by definition speak 2+ languages which is a way higher cognitive achievement than probably 90% of your friends. 4. Also you misspelled your own last name

Germany Is Going Away I've been going back to Germany often over the last three years. One thing stands out every time: nobody speaks fluent German anymore. I kept count on a trip earlier this year. I interacted with ~20 people -- baristas, taxi drivers, store clerks, etc. and I'd involve them in conversation long enough to get a feel for their fluency. ~15 of them just wouldn't pass what I'd consider a reasonable language test. Broken grammar, poor diction. All my interactions were friendly and polite, but these people just don't speak the language. In the most egregious cases, they default to English instead. I found it just baffling to talk to people in positions of relative importance -- airport staff, for example -- and hear them fuck up Der/Die/Das. Let me explain. I lived in Germany from 1997 through 2002, Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Nearly all my childhood memories involve only natively fluent speakers. Some of them had immigration backgrounds, but the level of integration, i.e. language fluency was very high. It would've been unthinkable to run into people several times a day who just struggle to communicate. This is the type of thing that's probably hard to notice if you live there: the proverbial frog in boiling water. But I notice it very clearly because I go back so rarely, sometimes years apart. Every time it hits like a ton of bricks: "that's not how I remember it!" And the changes over the ~2 decades that I've been gone are very, very clear. A generation of workers has aged out, i.e. been replaced by a new generation, and so the demographics have shifted. Nowhere is it clearer than in the ability of people in public life to communicate in the German language. What I cannot stress enough is how weird this feels. For the vast majority of my readers: you have never experienced anything like this. You probably never will. It is an exceedingly strange and alienating feeling to return to a familiar place -- home at one point in your life -- and to find that people there can't speak the language anymore. They literally can't. The culture you grew up with is no more, and you may look around for someone else who understands, but you are all alone.

I grew up in Germany. In the 1960s, during the post-war Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle), the state imported millions of Italian "guest workers". The GDP in difference and culture at that time was probably as great as any immigration today. Later, it was millions of Turkish workers. Same thing. Today: Biontech, the covid vaccine inventors, are two Turkish-German founder-scientists. Germany's favorite food is doener kebab. The worst performing German states are not the Western states, where all this immigration went; it is the backwater Eastern German states (full of Germans who have never seen a foreigner). In the 1990s, there was a period where Germany's asylum laws were too lenient, so the government after bitter debates reformed them. The lessons: 1. This suicidal empathy bullshit is nonsense and bait for stupid people or those with power trip agendas. 2. Immigration is a complex issue that reasonable people and societies can solve. But not if they don't know their facts and are unwilling to consider that most people aren't stupid and aren't bad.

5/ honest answer is? NO The convo is basically prohibited in "polite" European society --> which means pressure builds w/o a release valve --> which means the eventual political (or military) correction will be more extreme than it needed to be see also: SUICIDAL EMPATHY

1/ Europe has an extraordinary RICH history. One I admired my entire life. I fear that without real talk and interventions, it faces a POOR future. One I don't wish for my children. The math is straightforward...

Best paper I've read so far this month: All elementary functions (sin, cos, tan, exp, log, powers, roots, hyperbolic functions, π, e, and even basic arithmetic) can be generated from just one binary operator: eml(x, y) = exp(x) − ln(y) …plus the constant 1.

@ClySuva @DrNeilStone Good to know!

@mariots @DrNeilStone That applies to many countries. Finnish call Estonia Viro by the Viru region of estonia. Latvia calls us Igaunia by the Ugandi region. Netherlands is Holland in some languages by the Holland region

Country names in their own language which are completely different to English : 🇭🇺 Hungary - Magyarorszag 🇫🇮 Finland - Suomi 🇬🇪 Georgia - Sakartvelo 🇬🇷 Greece - Hellas 🇩🇪 Germany - Deutschland 🇦🇲 Armenia - Hayastan 🇦🇱 Albania - Shqiperia 🇪🇬 Egypt - Masr