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Turpentine and @eriktorenberg are crushing the podcast content game. • 21 shows • 250K monthly views • Interviewed giants like @balajis, @austin_rief, and @gregisenberg Now they are expanding their business to newsletters. But they have a few leaks in their funnel costing them $$$. Problem - Social Traffic + Newsletter = Weak Opt-In - Current “Hook,” headlines, problems, and benefits could be stronger & more specific - Too many steps to subscribe - Welcoming email is weak - No intro video - Does not prime reader about next email - Does not tell reader how to remove email out of spam Solution Customized Educational Email Courses - Capture more emails, allowing you to attract more customers/clients/users - Establish trust with customers/clients/users on autopilot - Think of it as "The 5 biggest mistakes CFOs make in budgeting" vs. the vague "subscribe to our newsletter here" The goal here is to move your audience from social media ATTENTION to email-based RETENTION and CONVERSION. Erik, I sent you an email if you want to chat.

i quit alcohol for two years. and introduced it back a few months. what you call: "When you drink again after a long break, the hangover is a signal." is not factually correct. in fact, i feel healthier because i only drink with intention (social gatherings, with friends), and 1-2 drink max. And still have sharp mornings and more clarity. I also have to say I workout 3 times a week, meditate/pray for the 1st hour in the morning, eat healthy, etc... my point i am trying to alcohol with friends is healthy when done in moderation and it includes a healthy lifestyle.

When you stop drinking, something happens that most people never get to experience: You find out what good health actually feels like. You have sharper mornings, better energy, and a body that talks to you instead of screaming at you. When you drink again after a long break, the hangover is a signal. You’re feeling the real cost for the first time because your standard of health has elevated. Everyone is dunking on Steven for “being soft” but he’s just found a new ceiling for his health and he wants to keep it.

@DanBilzerian he forgot anthropic, by dario amodei wh is jewish also ;)

Who controls the media? Meta owns: Facebook Instagram WhatsApp Messenger Threads Oculus / Meta Quest VR Meta AI Meta is controlled by Mark Zuckerberg who is jewish Alphabet owns: Google YouTube Android Gmail Chrome Pixel phones Nest smart home devices Fitbit (acquired in 2021) DeepMind Gemini AI assistant/model family Waymo — self-driving cars Verily — health technology Calico — longevity research Wing — drone delivery Alphabet is controlled by Larry Page and Sergey Brin who are both jewish Tic Tok U.S. algorithm, cybersecurity and infrastructure is controlled by Oracle Oracle is controlled by Larry Ellison and he’s jewish Hookup Apps Match Group owns: Tinder Hinge OkCupid Match.com Plenty of Fish Meetic The League BLK Archer OurTime Was founded by Barry Diller who is jewish Grindr Was founded by Joel Simkhai who is jewish Bumble Was founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd who is jewish Porn Onlyfans Owned by Leonid Radvinsky who is jewish Vixen Media Group owns: Blacked Blacked Raw Vixen Tushy Deeper Founded by Greg Lansky who is jewish Aylo/MindGeek Owns/owned: Pornhub YouPorn RedTube Brazzers Reality Kings Digital Playground Men.com Sean Cody Tube8 Solomon Friedman is the owner of Aylo and he’s jewish Gamma Entertainment owns/operates: Adult Time Pure Taboo Wicked Girlsway many affiliate studios/platforms Founded by Karl Bernard who is jewish Movies/TV/News Warner Brothers Discovery owns: Warner Bros. Pictures HBO CNN DC Studios Cartoon Network Discovery Channel TNT TBS Max (formerly HBO Max) Adult Swim HGTV Food Network Animal Planet Warner Brothers is run by David Zaslav who is jewish Disney owns: ESPN ABC Marvel Studios Lucasfilm Pixar 20th Century Studios Disney+ Hulu (major controlling stake) National Geographic Disney is run by Bob Iger who is jewish Paramount Global owns: Broadcast & News CBS CBS News CBS Sports Local CBS stations Film Studios Paramount Pictures Paramount Animation Paramount Players Cable Networks MTV Nickelodeon Comedy Central BET VH1 CMT TV Land Smithsonian Channel Logo TV Pop TV Streaming & Premium Paramount+ Showtime Pluto TV Major franchises/IP Top Gun Mission: Impossible Star Trek South Park (licensing/streaming arrangements) SpongeBob SquarePants Transformers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Paramount Global is controlled by Sheri Redstone, who is jewish Comcast owns: * NBCUniversal * NBC * Universal Pictures * Peacock * MSNBC * CNBC * Telemundo * Sky (Europe) * DreamWorks Animation * Xfinity Comcast is controlled by Roberts family who is Jewish AI/Data Centers OpenAI/ChatGPT Run by Sam Altman who is jewish Palentir provides advanced data integration, surveillance, AI, and analytics infrastructure used by military, intelligence, law enforcement, and major corporations. Its platforms help organizations combine massive amounts of fragmented data into real-time operational intelligence for warfare, policing, logistics, cybersecurity, manufacturing, and decision-making, making it one of the most strategically influential data and defense technology companies in the world. Owned and operated by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp both jewish Oracle owns: Oracle Database Java MySQL NetSuite Cerner Sun Microsystems technologies It’s important because it owns core infrastructure software that powers governments, banks, hospitals, corporations, and large parts of the internet. Its control of technologies like Oracle Database, Java, MySQL, and Cerner gives it enormous influence over the backend systems modern society depends on. Owned by Larry Ellison who is jewish

@ShaisTaub have not deliberately consumed p*rn in 4 years. bh your talks and eli nash helped me in this area a lot. feel more chiyus in my life.

For whoever needs to hear this: yes, it is a normal thing that a man does not consume any pornography at all ever. It occurs to me that it may be helpful to normalize this as an assumption and expectation.

@GregMartinLive @chamath i also enjoyed the pop collapse deep dive. the idea that having children is "celebrated" is certain cultures translates to higher fertility rates like in israel was mind blowing. what was your most insightful part?

@chamath Most helpful for me overall: Your post on “5 Primary Themes”. I put each Deep Dive into 1 of 5 “buckets” as they come out. See attached. Top Deep Dives: 1. Population Collapse 2. China Part 1-3 3. Media Landscape Sense Making 2.0 or Defense 2.0

Over the last few years, my team and I have written many Deep Dives - fundamental research that I use to learn, guide my thinking and refine my decision making. We started publishing these Deep Dives once per month. We now have a team and process that allows us to publish once per week. The topics are bangers - you can see a table below in the picture. We call this service Learn with Me. It costs $1,000/yr. We charge $1000/yr as a quality signal. I wanted to find a price that a) signaled when people made an important decision to subscribe to Learn with Me but also b) by staying or churning, signal to me how good the Deep Dives were. We have many thousands of people in the Learn with Me community and it grows a lot each month. The goal of Learn with Me will never change: explain important topics from the ground up, show why they matter now, and share the insights we use to understand the world and make better decisions (operational, organization, investment). Over time, I will invest the capital that this creates into building a full knowledge base (starting with the Deep Dives but growing from there), giving access to some of my agents (my portfolio composer, my negotiation agent, my org design agent, my strategy consulting agent) and many other exciting ideas. It's all new but we will learn together. In other words, more is coming for folks that are a part of the community. If you are curious about any of this you can sign up for it here: chamath.substack.com

@yoniChanowitz @ShaisTaub and people say kaddish and the minian is patient and stays

@yoniChanowitz @ShaisTaub you think the kotel is the only place to find a miniam chabibi? There are a bunch of shtibelachs that have miniami every 30 minute all over jerusalem

Woke up at 7am, couldn't find a minyan, had to go to work it's 12 hrs later, now I missed a bunch of kadeishim Reality is funny in a sad way

@ShaisTaub @yoniChanowitz move to eretz israel! problem solved :)

@yoniChanowitz One thing I discovered last year saying kaddish for my father and this year saying kaddish for my father is that minyanim are not as easy to find as I used to think.

@SahilBloom underrated spiritual hack, post less pictures of yourself online

Underrated health hack: I recently started doing 10 minutes of mobility work every day. Wish I started years ago. Have noticed a dramatic improvement in how I feel and move. Got an app called Pliability that gives me a custom daily program. No affiliation, but it's great.

sometimes i feel sam altman and dario amodei created gpt and claude so the rest of the world feel how they feel inside

@SahilBloom food sensitivity test are not so acceptable in the medical field

Health stuff I spend money on that’s 100% worth it: - High-quality mattress - Blackout shades - Sauna - Quarterly blood panels - Wild Roman skincare - Food sensitivity test - Non-toxic cookwear - White noise machine - Bright desk lamp Simple investments with asymmetric returns.

Never has public awareness around population collapse been higher. CC @elonmusk

I remember seeing @elonmusk tweet about it and be like wtf? x.com/elonmusk/statu… Great analysis. As a single male, slide 25 - The Rising Trend of Sexual Inactivity in Young Men hit hard. Which illustrates how shocking the data really is . Reading this deep dive gave me awareness of this challenge and how it is a personal responsibility for each individual (if that's a value) to have more children. A MUST READ for every single male out there to take responsibility and procreate chabibis! This is the best deep dive yet because it touches on the struggle of millions, few dare to articulate. Thank you Chamath and LWM for sharing your wisdom.

@chamath hey @grok give me a sentiment of the comments here

@PBDsPodcast @patrickbetdavid lol. you are an foolish pbd. we will be fine. God is in our side and his name is not trump... Look at history, the Assyrian, the Persians, the Greeks etc tried to destroyed us. But we are still here.

🚨@patrickbetdavid says Israel is SCREWED if Trump walks away from Iran war. "If Trump walks out of this and says, We did our part, we're squared away, one country is screwed... Israel. Trump's a data guy. He's looking at the markets, the midterms…”

@FrumTikTok That is so demasculating

A Frum couple in Lakewood dressed up as, "My wife's an aspiring influencer," for Purim. 😂

@bryan_johnson hey @grok, So according to Bryan, sauna reduces microplastics that are in this body? Can you explain how? just sweat out the microplastics? heat destroys microplastics?

I eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate. Nov 2024: 165 particles/mL July 2025: 20 particles/mL Nearly identical drop in my blood same time period: Oct 2024: 70 particles/mL May 2025: 10 particles/mL Important as a meta-analysis of 36 studies reveals that microplastics induce oxidative stress in the male reproductive system, leading to testicular inflammation, cell death, and reduced testosterone levels, sperm production, and motility. Two studies last year showed that microplastics were detected in every human testicular and semen samples tested. The therapy we think most responsible for this reduction is sauna as it also eliminated most environmental toxins in my body, including those linked to various plastics (200 F, 20 min daily w/ ice on the boys). I also avoid the big no-no’s like microwaving in plastic, plastic cutting board, and having a reverse osmosis water system. To our knowledge, this is the first report of any correlation (esp in the same person over two timepoints) between blood and semen microplastic levels, demonstrating successful microplastic detoxification in the semen following that in the blood.

@chamath Hey @grok analyze the comments from this post and give me an alasys of the sentiment of the comments. Did they like the deep dive? what are their taekaways? did they think it was weak?

@DBashIdeas i went to YU 5 years ago. This was a blind spots my friends and I spoke about a lot and we brought it up to the YU counsil. They did nothing about the matter. Im brokehearted this happened but the writing was in the wall. May Hashem protect our children in that area.

Boy went to public school and came to YU for its Jewish life. Attack happened around 7PM at the 181st 1 Train station—a train I have taken more times than I can count. There’s a blind spot on the staircase leading down to the trains. 6-8 assailants wore masks. Boy is recovering in the hospital.

A Yeshiva University student was violently assaulted tonight by a gang of masked thugs. Done in the blind spot of the subway station where there are no police or security cameras. This is beyond frightening for a visibly Jewish community in NYC. Unacceptable.

@DBashIdeas wait until he finds out who Havdalah, Aliyah, and Yom Tif are.... (more racists than Birkat Hamazon)

Sometimes it’s ok to laugh at ignorance. 😂🫣

bad bunny does not represent our culture (im colombian) our real music does not have such dirty choice of lyrics. but i understand americans like it because they are enamored with rap music. he is an americanized musician who speaks spanish. if you want to hear REAL latin music look for fonseca, carlos vives, diego torres. People who speak about life, love, and growth in a clean way.

I started listening to Bad Bunny when I moved to Miami a few years ago. It was always playing in the gym. I started to learn the songs, which started teaching me words in Spanish. Then some of the Dominican trainers at the gym and I became friends, and they started speaking Spanish with me. It gave me a small taste of what it must be like for immigrants who don’t speak English to come to America and turn to movies, TV shows, and music to learn the language. And how quickly you can become friends with someone even when you only share a few words in common. IMO that’s what Bad Bunny’s halftime show captured creatively. Latin culture is special. And you don’t need to speak the language to be invited to the party, dance, and experience community & connection. I’m glad he didn’t sing a single word in English. It’s his party. And I appreciate him inviting all of us, fluent or not, to be part of it.