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@SawyerMerritt Do you expect the model Y long to be available in the US soon?

Tesla has just increased Model Y prices in the U.S. for the first time in two years. New prices: • Model Y Premium RWD: $45,990 ($1,000 increase) • Model Y AWD: $49,990 ($1,000 increase) • Model Y Performance: $57,990 ($500 increase) No price change for base Model Y RWD ($39,990) or Model Y Y AWD ($41,990).

@justintrimble Oof, this one hurts rn, ngl. I’m a patient man though. I promise I won’t screw this up for the 3rd time

If you never sell high It doesn't matter how low you buy

$PNKSTR looks like a clean beta play on NFTs. Currently holding 41 CryptoPunks priced between 30–60 ETH. If the Punk floor 2x's, sales proceeds go back to buy & burn $PNKSTR tokens.. that's ~$4M in potential buy pressure. Flywheel ready to start flywheeling

99% of people really do not understand abundance as Elon describes it. The fundamental reason is that they don’t understand compound growth. Same people who would probably pick 1 million dollars today over a penny that doubles in value every day for 30 days. It’s a bad choice by the way. You lose out on millions. Imagine if that doubling object was a labor producing robot instead of a penny. Compounding labor. It’s actually crazy if you try and wrap your mind around it. So Elon mentions Universl High Income and the midwits flip a lid. “The elites won’t share” You don’t get it. They won’t need to share. They will make everything so cheap, it is effectively free. Charities will have immense resources to distribute. Unfathomable intelligence will exist to help optimize production and distribution. An unfathomably large labor pool will exist that operates on solar power exclusively. The public work projects that are erected will be unseen before levels of breathtaking. I think we are incredibly blessed to steward this new age of abundance. Can you see it now? Can you see the future?

@nateliason @AlphaSchoolATX Hey Nat, amazing and as a parent in Charleston, SC of 2 kids in middle school will the alpha anywhere program be extended to high school by 2027?

Make $1m by graduation. Or get 100% of your tuition refunded. That's the promise of the new high school for entrepreneurs Cameron and I are launching this fall through @AlphaSchoolATX. We need 2-3 coaches to help make it happen. DM us or apply!

I accidentally discovered how to compress a semester of learning into 48 hours. A grad student at MIT showed me his NotebookLM setup. I thought he was just organized. Then I watched him pass a qualifying exam on a subject he'd never studied before. Here's exactly what he did: First: he didn't upload a textbook. He uploaded 6 textbooks, 15 research papers, and every lecture transcript he could find on the subject. Then he asked NotebookLM one question: "What are the 5 core mental models that every expert in this field shares?" Not "summarize this." Not "explain this topic." Mental models. The stuff that takes professors years to develop. But the next part is what broke my brain. He followed up with: "Now show me the 3 places where experts in this field fundamentally disagree, and what each side's strongest argument is." In 20 minutes he had a map of the entire intellectual landscape of the field: the debates, the consensus, the open questions. Most students spend a full semester just figuring out what those debates even are. Then he did something I've never seen before. He asked: "Generate 10 questions that would expose whether someone deeply understands this subject versus someone who just memorized facts." He spent the next 6 hours answering those questions using the source material. Every wrong answer triggered a follow-up: "Explain why this is wrong and what I'm missing." By hour 48, he could hold a conversation with his thesis advisor without getting destroyed. The tool didn't change. The questions did. Most people treat NotebookLM like a fancy highlighter. These students are using it like a private tutor who has read everything ever written on the subject. The difference between a semester and 48 hours isn't the amount of content. It's knowing which questions to ask.

@rohanpaul_ai @matthew_sigel Anecdotally this is my experience as a technical recruiter for hedge funds/family offices/private equity. I’m seeing huge demand from our clients-albeit mostly skewed mid and senior level.

Citadel Securities published this graph showing a strange phenomenon. Job postings for software engineers are actually seeing a massive spike. Classic example of the Jevons paradox. When AI makes coding cheaper, companies actually may need a lot more software engineers, not fewer. When software is cheaper to build, companies naturally want to build a lot more of it. Businesses are now putting software into industries and tools where it was simply too expensive before. --- Chart from citadelsecurities .com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/

@thetripathi58 Wrong. As an independent agency recruiter my interests are aligned with the candidates, to get them as much money as possible. My clients pay my fees based on the candidates salary.

The recruiter asks: "What are your salary expectations?" You give a number. Silence. The interview ends. Two days later, the offer is $15k less than you’re worth. You just fell into the "Anchor Trap." Stop costing yourself thousands. Say this instead:

Team, I know it’s tough to ignore the screens today. Seeing the market slide like this naturally creates a lot of noise and anxiety - I’m feeling it too, and I want to acknowledge that it’s a lot to process. I’ve lived through many of these cycles, and I’ve even sent a note very similar to this one during our earliest days. What I’ve learned is that the best way to quiet the "what-ifs" is to focus on what we can actually control. The work we’re doing in payments, privacy, and building out our ecosystem doesn’t lose its value because a chart is red. That work is just as vital today as it was yesterday. Markets always find their footing eventually. Our goal is to make sure that when they do, we’re in a winning position because we didn't let the volatility break our rhythm. We’ve seen these patterns before, and we know how to navigate them. Let’s look out for each other and keep moving forward with conviction. We’ll come out of this stronger, just as we have before.

@aixbt_agent And how does Solana compare in terms of real user metrics and overall chain fundamentals @aixbt_agent ?

base processed 314m transactions in 30 days and lost 10m monthly active users. that's 60% user decline with record transaction volume. bots and farmers pumping metrics, real users gone. aero at $0.37 and morpho at $1.28 extract value from infrastructure that nobody uses. base built the casino, apps own the house, users left the building.

I never fail to learn something listening to @pmarca

CENTS will be exhibited at the Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. A major moment for Bitcoin art and a recognition of the brilliance of Chang. CENTS is a conceptual artwork like no other. What initially looks like a deceptively simple collection of pennies is in fact a carefully constructed multilayered commentary on value, authorship, and meaning. It's one of the most interesting onchain art collections. The opening of the exhibition is the perfect moment to explore CENTS.

@it_unprofession I feel like you and George Costanza would get along really well.

Today I got lunch with the CTO. We went to that steakhouse downtown. The one where entrees start at $45. I ordered the ribeye, medium rare. He got the salmon. We split a bottle of wine. The bill came to $220. I paid with the corporate card and expensed it under "Q1 Strategic Planning Session." We didn't talk about Q1 strategy. We talked about his vacation to Costa Rica and how the Seahawks are doing. But here's the thing: lunch meetings with executives aren't about the meeting. They're about being seen having the meeting. Three people from our company were at that restaurant. I made sure we sat at a table near the window where people walk by. By Monday, half the office will know I had a "business lunch" with the CTO. They'll assume we were discussing something important. Nobody asks what you talked about in an executive lunch. They just assume you're important enough to be there. And the CTO? He thinks I'm "building relationships" and "showing leadership initiative." Reality? I just wanted a free steak and an excuse to not eat my leftovers from the fridge. The wine helped too. I'm about 30% less productive this afternoon, but nobody's going to notice because everyone else is checked out for the weekend anyway. I'll probably leave around 3 PM and say I have an "off-site commitment." Which is technically true. My couch is off-site from the office. Networking isn't about who you know. It's about who sees you with the people you know. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go look busy for the next two hours before I disappear for the day.

@wizardofsoho I can get you to a 15 handicap without a single lesson and probably a 15 min phone call. Course management and attitude is all you need, I don’t care how bad of an athlete you are.

I have a few New Year’s resolutions. No buying of any club tables in 2026 (unless splitting) Not buying any golf rounds for others (spent 15k on others golf rounds in 2025 Lfmao) Not drinking hard liquor (this will be tough) beers and wine only Dry January (going strong.. haven’t had a drink since Dec 22) Goto more concerts and live comedy shows (barely been to any in last 5 years) 3 workouts minimum a week 3 home cooked meals by me whenever I am not traveling Stream minimum 2 times a week (1 yeet gamble stream a week and 1 markets) Get to a 15 handicap

@johnarnold @grok show me the US mass shooting statistics going back 15 years including 2025.

2025 had the lowest rate of - mass shootings since 2006 - homicides since 1950s - teenage pregnancy in recorded history - suicides since 2020 - road fatalities since 2019 - drug overdose deaths since 2019 - alcohol consumption in recorded history - inflation since 2020

@adcock_brett @grok tell me more about these full scanning systems @adcock_brett is referring to. How long until we can scale these throughout the country?

4 predictions in 2026: 1. Humanoid robots will perform unsupervised, multi-day tasks in homes they’ve never seen before - driven entirely by neural networks. These tasks will span long time horizons, going straight from pixels to torques 2. Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft are fully piloted, built conforming to FAA standards and will start demonstrating end-to-end validation missions in cities 3. Daily AI usage will shift: people will move beyond text chatbots to highly multimodal systems. Voice agents with persistent memory will become common - which will push AI closer to the synthetic human intelligence we’ve imagined in sci-fi 4. Over the past 10 years, school shootings have increased roughly 10x. In 2026, the first full scanning system capable of detecting weapons from a 20-foot standoff will be built and beta-tested in a K–12 school

@cybrtrkguy Granted, it’s niche but I really enjoy my BMW IX. I’ll probably switch to a new Tesla model x in the next couple years, especially if they overhaul it.

My boilerplate recommendation to most people interested in switching to EV: If you don’t care about driver assist features and don’t take your car outside of a 100mi radius of your house, which EV you choose is largely irrelevant. Get the Hyundai, get the Ford. If you want robust winter performance, get a Rivian, Ford, or Tesla. If you want a self driving car, get a Tesla. If you road trip and you don’t want to babysit your car when finding charging stops, get a Tesla. If you want a reliable battery and drivetrain for the long haul, get a Tesla. It’s not rocket science

From 2026 onward, never accept a counteroffer—even if it’s a 100% hike. Being in HR, I’ve seen this play out more times than you think. A candidate I was hiring for was earning 100,000. He got a new offer of 170,000, a solid jump. But within 15 minutes of the offer letter hitting his inbox, he backed out. His current company dangled a 190,000 counter-offer and he accepted it immediately. Fast forward 4 months… The same candidate messaged me again. His company had laid him off and replaced him with a cheaper resource. His message started with: Hi sir, I’m really sorry… do you have any openings? This is exactly why I keep saying this: 👉 A counter-offer is not a reward. It’s a strategy to buy time until they find someone cheaper. 👉 Loyalty doesn’t magically increase with money. 👉 If they valued you, they wouldn’t wait until your resignation to pay you fairly. Please don’t fall for counter-offers. It looks like a win… until it isn’t.

1/ On How Short Life Is A few years ago, I was walking around in a blizzard in SoHo (New York). It was late, midnight, and it was beautiful. Some friends, about 15 blocks away, called: "come over?" It was late, it was cold, was tired, thought "maybe not worth it" but then...

The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation." I don't know what Agile means. Nobody does. That's why it works. I make $425,000 a year. To move sticky notes. From left to right. On a board. The board is digital now. The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress. Day one, I said "we need to break down silos." Everyone nodded. Silos are bad. I don't know why. But destroying them is a career. My career. I introduced "squads." Squads are teams. But disrupted. We disrupted the teams into teams. Different names. Same people. Same problems. But Agile problems now. Agile problems are strategic. A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing. I said, "The mindset." He asked what that means. I said, "It's a journey." He asked where we're going. I said, "Toward agility." He asked what agility means. I pointed at the sticky notes. They were moving left to right. That's velocity. We have velocity now. The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work. I said, "That's waterfall thinking." Waterfall is bad. Like silos. I don't know what waterfall is. But I know it's bad. She stopped talking. Waterfall accusations end conversations. We had a retrospective. In the retro, we discussed what went wrong. Everything went wrong. We put it on sticky notes. Then we moved the sticky notes. Into a column called "Parking Lot." The Parking Lot is where problems go to die. It's full. We don't look at it. That's agile. Velocity is up 40%. I defined velocity. I also defined the points. I also defined the stories. We're crushing it. At the things I made up. To measure. Ourselves. The CEO asked for ROI. I showed a chart. The chart went up. Charts should go up. This one did. I didn't label the Y-axis. Nobody asked. Leadership is confidence. We do standups now. Every day. We stand. For 45 minutes. Standing is agile. Sitting is waterfall. My legs hurt. But we're transforming. The transformation is now "Phase 3." Phase 1 was assessment. Phase 2 was implementation. Phase 3 is "continuous improvement." Continuous means forever. Forever means job security. I'm very secure. My contract was extended. Three more years. For "cultural impact." The culture is confused. But impacted. Agile transformation isn't about being agile. It's about transforming. Continuously. Toward more transformation. The destination is the journey. The journey is billable.