Russ Jacobsen

If you want to make more money, the ROI on “unscalable” work is about to go through the roof. Magic Moments: - Handwritten thank-you notes - Sending flowers (to clients and friends alike) - Calling (not texting) when you need something - Showing up in person when an email would've been fine Costs almost nothing. In a world where every interaction is getting sanded down into a frictionless automated nothing... humanity hits like a defibrillator.

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In Argentina you grow up with a monetary hierarchy nobody explains to you so you just absorb it. Pesos move fast. You spend them the day you get them because tomorrow/next week they buy less. Dollars go in a drawer. You pull them out for a car, a property deed, something that matters and whatever's left from the paycheck goes into a dollar account where it depreciates slower. Worst money circulates. Best money rests. Now think about AI agents managing their own wallets. T he purchasing power of a sat increases over time. A stablecoin loses value slowly, like the dollar in the drawer. So which one does the agent spend on routine tasks? I wonder if it will just spend the depreciating one. Same logic that every Argentine learns by osmosis, except running on code. I'm curious whether agent-to-agent commerce is going to rediscover what Argentina figured out decades ago. You hold the hard money. You circulate the soft money. The actual math of this doesn't change just because the actor isn't human.

🚨 Massive lines at Newark international airport this morning due to the DHS shutdown.

The US national debt just crossed $39 trillion. It doubled in 10 years. $19.5 trillion in 2016. $39 trillion today. The first $10 trillion took 27 years (1981–2008). The last $9 trillion took 4 years. Here's how fast each recent trillion was added: $34T → $35T: 204 days (Jul 2024) $35T → $36T: 112 days (Nov 2024) $36T → $37T: 270 days (Aug 2025)* $37T → $38T: 72 days (Oct 2025) $38T → $39T: 146 days (Mar 2026) *distorted by debt ceiling At the current rate of $7.2 billion per day, we hit $40 trillion by August 2026. $50 trillion by 2030. It took 205 years to reach the first trillion. Now we're adding one every 4-5 months. This is exponential debt growth in real time.