James Hotson

Being an officiant for my sis was the most rewarding experience of my life

Dunno how @adcock_brett runs 4 companies... but its impressive

@sweatystartup watch the DOAC with Gary Brecka ... i added Methyl B12 and it has been a major unlock

My 6 yr old son has had behavior problems. A week ago I started: 2.5 mg of creatine 150 mg of magnesium glycinate 200 mg theanine 500 mg sodium 200 mg potassium I mix it all into 6 oz water with the electrolyte stick for flavor (salt of the earth) in the morning. It has been a massive success. Behavior way better.

@TAYVAY_ 'Big cashier's checks. Non-contingent offers.' 🫰

His Bel Air house dropped from $2.1M to $1.1M in three years. He owed $1.8M on it. Then his lawyer told him: "Go confront your creditors. Don't run from them." Richard didn't know it yet, but that one piece of advice would build 3,300 LA apartments. Deepak Richard Mehta is the co-founder of Xenon Investment Corp. and WESTSIDE HABITATS, LLC. 3,300 units across the Westside, Mid Wilshire, Koreatown, and the Valley. 65 employees. Over a $1.5B in real estate. But in the early 90s, he had nothing. He started with a little seed money from family and friends. Riots. Earthquake. Defense industry collapse. The RTC. He lost it all. The Bel Air house was the last domino. $2.1M purchase. $250K down. A $1.85M loan from First Los Angeles Bank. Three years later it was worth $1.1M. He stopped making the mortgage payment. The RTC packaged his loan into a pool and sold it to Berkeley Federal Savings Bank for pennies on the dollar. His lawyer gave him advice he still quotes 30 years later. "Go confront your creditors. Don't run from them. This is going to be the most valuable experience of your life." So Richard called the bank. They offered to sell him back his own loan. He flew to Palm Beach with a cashier's check for $580,000 and bought back the face value of $1.5M+. By the late 90s the market turned. His neighbor, who had started CNet, bought the house from him for $3.3M. $580K turned into $2.8M. That was the nest egg. Everything else built off it. What I took from the conversation: 1. Confront, don't run. The temptation to ghost a creditor is real. Picking up the phone is what creates the option. 2. Cycles are slow trains. "It comes down slowly and it goes back up slowly." If you see it early, you have time to act. 3. Cap rate is not the only language. "I never understood cap rate to be honest. I still don't today." He's used gross rent multiplier and price per square foot to buy 3,300 units. 4. Decisiveness is the moat. "I can't decide where to have dinner. I can't decide what to order. But I can decide what to buy." Big cashier's checks. Non-contingent offers. Answer the phone. 5. Location holds. The buildings he bought in the late 90s in better pockets are still the foundation of the portfolio today. Most people would have walked away from that Bel Air house and never come back. He bought his own loan back. That's the kind of move you only make once. But once is enough. Full episode live now.

My workflow lately: ✍️ write a prompt 🔨 while LLM is thinking/working, draft a new prompt + check back every 5 min to make sure its not stuck waiting for me 🫰good result, create/update prompts into a skill now a cascade of skills and crons run tasks daily for me

An single individual person is using $1.3M of tokens in 30 days... mind bending! (Yes its @steipete... but its still half a trillion tokens in a month!)

Been following along the Musk suit for $150B against OpenAI The case was dismissed today on a technicality… 3 year statue of limitations

@jtolks Gearing up to buy something big

@secoya Why sell?

Selling my condo in downtown seattle. It makes a lot of money on Airbnb. DM me if you want deets

@wordoid_com yo can you shoot me a DM please

Filtering out wordoids when .com domain is unavailable has been a highly requested and long anticipated feature. This simple thing is finally possible. Check it out: wordoid.com

@vitaliidodonov alpha

I’m launching Stanley (AI Head of Content) on June 1, 2026. Over the next 6-12 months, I'll grow it from $0 → $10M ARR. In public. (While running my $30M ARR business full time) I will also be using only AI employees to do it, so you can copy the playbook. I'll update this thread as I go. Bookmark it and follow along to hold me accountable 🤝 Comment "alpha" to get early access. My social media stats as of today:

Still have a lil bit of some somethin

@zanehkoch Love the analysis — Proof used to be “I swear to god” then it became “google it”… now it’s “here’s my GitHub”

at thanksgiving this year you can tell your crazy uncle that the cell phones are actually making him live longer full analysis + code: github.com/zanekoch/airpo… original paper (mice): #S9" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56452… original paper (rats): ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56173…

for a while i've had a slight fear that the bluetooth from my airpods could be frying my brain this weekend i pulled the raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation and reanalyzed it what i found was...not what I expected? 🧵

@damianplayer superconscious.agency - your AI concierge to integrate AI into your business

Mark Cubans advice on selling AI agents to SMBs is the MOST underrated clip on the internet right now. here’s the full play he didn’t break down (bookmark this): pick one vertical. learn the flows. become the AI team they never hired and wish they had. you really don’t need a CS degree or VC money. you need claude, a cold email sequence, and the willingness to learn one industry better than anyone. bonus, find an industry leader who knows nothing about AI but knows everything about their business. partner with them. bring AI into their operations. you increase EBITDA. you increase multiples. you own a piece of the upside. this is the business model of the decade.

When GPT-5 was released, some folks claimed AI progress was hitting a wall, whereas others said progress would continue. GPT-5.2 was released 2 months ago. GPT-5.3-Codex was released 2 days ago and is twice as token efficient for coding. It's clear who turned out to be correct.

@JonnyRoot_ Unfortunately every athlete is responsible for knowing the course

This is why the finish at the LA marathon was so close👇🏼 Michael Kamau of Kenya was not only impeded by a female holding a Kenya flag, but the motorcade led him the wrong way, causing American Nathan Martin to eventually catch up & win by .01 seconds

@SahilBloom On it. That’s what I’m building. Hit me up

There's an opportunity right now to build a $100k per month side hustle as an AI Concierge. And you don't even have to be *that* technical to do it. Just high agency. There are probably millions of people out there who see all of the latest AI innovations like Claude Cowork, want to take advantage of them, but have no idea how to actually do that. I know, because I'm one of those people... I had dinner last night with the CEO of a multi-billion dollar tech startup. He was telling me about the full digital assistant/employee he just hacked together over the weekend. All of the things it's doing, how it's been an unlock for his workflows and life. I told him I'd gladly pay him $5000 to come to my house and spend the day building me one using the same approach. He laughed that he'd happily do that (though obviously won't given his day job). There's a real, high cash flow opportunity for a hustler to launch a services business as an AI Concierge for the tech curious. Ideally they would physically show up and build out a tool (or suite) to help an individual leverage the latest for their business and life. I bet you could charge $5-10k for the initial upfront work and then some low ongoing service fee to keep the thing up to date (if the person wants that and needs help with it). 5-10 clients per month and you have a meaningful cash flow engine. All comes down to the quality of what you deliver long term, but my guess is people would see a Month 1 positive ROI on the investment and referrals to their friends would drive the entire business. Just a thought...

Launched a website in its first week its getting 200 visits per day from Google All SEO is done with AI!!!!!! I’ll share the super workflow with anyone who likes, comments, retweets, and follows I’ll even help implement with first 10 people to engage

My AI agent almost gave me a heart attack yesterday. 💀 It autonomously drafted 21 emails to high-profile investors without asking for final permission. The emails were surprisingly good. The risk was not. I realized that to run in "Founder Mode" with AI, you can't just give them permission; you have to give them a conscience. The Solution: @TaskletAI Architect 1. I built a custom Skill for Claude Code that acts as a "Safety Compiler" for autonomous agents. 2. I give a natural language goal: "Build an agent to find leads and contact them." 3. The Architect scans the intent for risks: Spending Money or External Comms. 4. It automatically injects a "Safety Constitution" into the agent's system instructions. It hard-codes "Permission Gates" for any high-stakes action. Now, if my agent tries to spend $1 or email a stranger, it is code-locked into a "Draft & Wait" protocol. I’m open-sourcing the Constitution and the Architect Skill today. If you are building autonomous agents, steal this. gist.github.com/seabass011/e9b… (S/o @startupandrew and @jonnydimond for building extremely good AI agents)

@dabit3 this is magical

System Prompt Leaks is a collection of ~100 system prompts from the most used chatbots like Opus, Perplexity, Gemini, GPT, etc... Reading through these taught me a lot about how to create powerful prompts + how these tools actually function. github.com/asgeirtj/syste…