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@Jason I’m not sure replicant is the right term to coin. A replicant has physical form.

asked my replicant to give me the top five stores every day with each word linked to a great source... interesting start

@SethJamesDeMoor I just saw the video of your brother on the job- very cool!

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@michaeljburry The reason for canning the X and S is that both were single digit contributors to volume. It makes sense to clear the assembly line capacity for more popular models to come.

Say what you want, but I'm right. CNN: Tesla scraps Model S and Model X to build robots "Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, who turned an upstart electric vehicle maker into an industry-changing powerhouse, is pulling the plug on the two models that helped get him there, as he struggles with another quarter of declining profits and car sales. He announced the end of production of two models – the Model S and Model X, among the company’s most expensive models, on a Wednesday earnings call. Instead, the company will use that factory space to build humanoid robots instead." Foundations: The Tragic Algebra of Stock-Based Compensation open.substack.com/pub/michaeljbu…

@levelsio That is insane! There won’t be an AI apocalypse, instead the machines are playing the long game. People will fall in love with virtual beings and stop making human babies. The end of humanity in a couple of generations without firing a shot!

The era of fake e-girl influencers has started

@marclou @levelsio I had a similar list when my family left Canggu in 2017! We first moved to Portland, OR but the city didn’t do well post-Covid, so we moved to a small ski town.

Why I'm leaving Bali after 6 years: - Far from everything - Not cheap anymore - Air is polluted - Food chain is polluted - Ocean is polluted - Not walkable - Too hot all year - Wife gets catcalled often I want mild weather, walkable areas, organic shops, clean air, tax-friendly, and young vibes. It's a utopia, of course, but I'll choose the place that ticks the most boxes.

@levelsio @AOL This is great! Another thing AOL is famous for is the dubious accounting scheme where it capitalized CAC!

✨ Three months ago, @AOL officially shut down its dial up internet service after 40 years! America Online was one of the first internet providers (ISPs) and existed even before the world wide web Many Americans know it especially for its walled garden type internet access where you'd open the AOL app, and your news, mail, chat and message boards were all in there Most ISPs back then were like that, but in the end not the AOL walled garden, but the open internet won, where anyone could make a website, start an online business, just by registering a domain name and putting up a website. Without asking AOL for permission What's interesting here that this "open web" was only for a short time from about 1995 to 2010 when social media platforms took over and the walled gardens came back Anyway to bring that back @SiliconForested reverse engineered the AOL servers so you can experience America Online how it was in 1995 but today > pieter.com < I've installed it above, so all you do is boot, then open AOL and click Sign On as guest, then login with username pieter and password pieter I already made a working AOL Instant Messenger so this is a nice addition! 🌐 KEEP AOL ALIVE!!!

@twistartups @Jason @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN Hiroshi Mikitani, Founder/CEO of Rakuten

We're doing a week of shows in TOKYO, JAPAN! Who do YOU think we should try to book as guests? (Yes, @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN, but so far he won't return my calls. Who else?)

@levelsio The knee injuries usually result from people starting with too many miles and running too fast. The muscles above their knee aren’t developed and that causes instability which leads to knee injuries. With patience & slow progression, running can be a fantastic form of exercise.

This is why I avoid running like the plague personally High odds you position your feet wrong and then running on asphalt makes it worse because it doesn't bounce like running on sand or grass would I can't count how many people I know who have knee injuries from running, it's not worth it for me I do cardio on a Concept2 bicycle in my gym and have never had any injury in my life

@levelsio @lavenderleaf86 @manchatz This is great! Takes me back to the mid 90’s when my company ordered an ISDN line, but the phone company screwed up and gave us a T1 connection almost free. We were able to download Netscape (around 4MB) in, like, 2 seconds! I later worked at Netscape. An amazing time & place.

IT WORKS!!! WINDOWS 95 IN THE BROWSER 🤯👌 THANK YOU @lavenderleaf86 + @manchatz for helping me to figure it out!!! I had to type > boot -l c instead of > c: > boot It booted Windows 95 in the browser now, display is stuck to 16 colors and low reso but it works! Now next is get dial up working Also it crashed when I tried to run DOOM 2 so I need to see how to fix that pieter.com/index_win95.php

@levelsio I believe Israel (population 10M) ranks #3 worldwide for number of startups. Maybe they should be added to your map?

I just realized the only 2 countries left with actual substantial startup activity now are literally only the US and China The rest of the world can't really do startups, doesn't have the funding, can't grow them and it's more like performative hobby projects for their governments Which might tell us where the future wealth will be concentrated in the world

@levelsio Netscape ran on Windows 3.1

Internet works on Windows 95!!!!! Can visit websites now with MSIE 3 Just had to set the network card IRQ to 10 and I/O base to 300 Yeehawwwww 🤠

@dcrainmakerblog Cool- it’s retroactive! With some stratified random sampling, someone could easily calculate the device market share by brand. 😀

Strava Rolls Out Garmin Attribution Prior to Deadline: This marks a bit of a bookend to all of the drama over not just the last month, but really the last 12 months. Dig in: dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/strava…

@levelsio That $120K per year is pretty close to the median income for Asian & white Americans in the 24-35 age bracket. How does that age/race demo compare to American digital nomads? I’d guess that the venn diagram would be largely overlapping??

It might have been true a few decades ago, but now it's kind of an outdated belief and cope The average digital nomad on nomads.com makes over $120,000/year, over 3x the average American income Majority is full-time employed and 18% run their own startup Over half have a university degree, one third have a Master's degree Majority is fit and active, 49% do fitness I don't think any of that would classify digital nomads as losers compared to the baseline population of the countries they're from Quite the opposite!

@jrdnmix @ShaanVP On is there too.

@ShaanVP Talent density is real Another example: Nike, Adidas, UnderArmour - all within 30 mins

"Why did Chipotle (and 11 other restaurant chains) ALL start in Colorado?" I'll tell you the answer, but first, a story. (hint - it's the same reason movies come from hollywood and big tech companies are in silicon valley. ) I'll explain with a quick story. When I was 21, my first business idea was to create the "Chipotle of Sushi". we didn't know anything about the restaurant business - so we just did something so dumb, that it was smart (the midwit meme). I asked, "if we're building the chipotle of sushi, why don't we launch where chipotle launched?" quick google -- denver colorado. Random right? Maybe not. Turns out that a sh*tload of restaurant chains started in colorado. Qdoba, Quiznos, Noodles & Company, Smashburger, Madgreens, Larkburger, all started in colorado. And other chains like Einstein's bagels, Boston Market, and the one and only Macaroni Grill all have their headquarters in Colorado. Because that's where all the fast-casual talent is. This is because of a concept called: "Talent Density". It's very simple, but often overlooked. By moving to denver: - our lawyer was the same lawyer who setup Chipotle's franchise agreements - our real estate agent helped them roll out their first 200 locations - our menu designer was the same one that standardized their recipes They all live there. We didn't have to waste time figuring things out. We could steal 80% of their existing playbook, and change 20% for our specific needs. Same thing in Silicon Valley. Paypal birthed a group of talented people - who then went on to start SpaceX, Yelp, YouTube, LinkedIn, Tesla, etc.. Talent density is when a bunch of people who have super specific, unique skills (eg. movie production, coding apps, or investing in commodities) all live in one area. They get smarter, faster, and hop from "hot company" to hot company again and again, compounding their advantage. (sidebar: this is why it's idiotic when people move away from california to lower their tax rate. They save 13% on taxes but lose the talent density and 10X opportunities that come with it) @tonyrobbins says that "Proximity is Power". @JamesCurrier sat me down and told me: "you want to be as close to the white HOT CENTER of the network as possible." So the highest +EV decision you can make as a young, ambitious person is to move to the absolute GEOGRAPHIC CENTER of your field. And if you're building an empire, build it where the empire builders live, you'll recruit better talent, faster. For movies, go to hollywood. For finance, go to wall street. For tech, come to SF. But of course, there are outliers. (Rules exist so we can recognize when they are broken.) Warren Buffett built a $800 Billion dollar investment juggernaut out of Omaha, Nebraska. I was just at @MrBeast house in Greenville, NC. He's built a 100k sq ft studio, 100+ person production co, and become the #1 youtube creator on earth -- all from a town that's mostly cows & churches. @TheNotoriousMMA became the first double-champion in the UFC, training out of a small gym in Dublin, Ireland rather than moving to a talent dense gym to train with top sparring partners. They are the outliers and make for great stories. Outliers amongst outliers. It can be done...but in business, there are no bonus points for 'degree of difficulty'. If I was trying to build an empire, I want talent density in my favor. (ps. pic of me pitching our sushi thing on CNN Money. About 9 months later, I'd realize that the food business sucks, and tech is a way better field to play in. But that's a lesson for another day)

@levelsio Surprise, surprise- people who seek media attention can be narcissistic, disingenuous, and sometimes all-out fraudulent.

@SethJamesDeMoor Local help is here! 🖐️

Any math folks out there want to double-check some basic time computations for me? DM me or tag me and I'll send you a graphic to check. Would appreciate it if you have a few minutes. #chicagomarathon

@levelsio Malls developed in the 50s and 60s along the newly built, post WWII highways across America’s suburbs. To this day, most are dependent on car traffic. Conversely, the majority of Asia’s malls are connected to major train stations and grow with huge amounts of foot traffic.

Kinda crazy, literally NONE in Europe, only 3 in US

Interesting: Asia is now home to ALL of the top 10 biggest retail malls with 3 in Thailand and 3 in China #World's_largest_malls" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_…

@levelsio @elonmusk @DavidSacks I think we’re starting to see a bifurcation If an employee is truly an independent contributor, remote work continues to be ok. For everyone else, there will be some degree of return to office. The more leverage the employer has, the more days per week of RTO.

Very interesting to see public perception of remote work switch from bad (2013) to good (2021) to bad again (2023) The problem is remote work somehow got coopted by the SF commies/lefties and now gets rekt by ppl like @elonmusk and @davidsacks It’s not rly about the argument FOR remote work anymore, it’s about the risk of it becoming part of a subculture that’s now generally perceived as deeply uncool now Big big risk for the trend of remote work which I think rly does have so many benefits but if it’s not “cool” anymore who’s gonna do it?

@SageCanaday @Strava Relive.cc

Any @strava users out there? What's the best place to create a 3D video/map rendering animation of your activity/GPX file for video playback? 🏔 I've seen a variety and want to know the best for visuals of elevation and the adventure (it's actually for a youtube video)? Thanks!

@levelsio Fantastic! Exercise is great for alleviating stress/anxiety. The trick is to make it a lifelong habit. One suggestion is to find a sport that you can build goals around and use it as motivation.

🥩 🍃 Eating clean and 🏋️‍♀️ lifting weights / exercise has completely evaporated any depression or anxiety I had left And I used to have A LOT of anxiety and depression! Mostly I only eat this: - steak / chicken thigh / salmon (airfryer) - br sprouts / green leafy veg / vegetables (airfryer) - sometimes roasted potatoes - sparkling water + lemon - black v60 coffee - try avoid any processed food like bread, croissants, fast food, deep fried food, candy - avoid ANY added sugar full stop My gym 3x/week: - squats / deadlifts / overhead press - bicycle HIIT (fast and slow mix) - yoga (today 2nd time!) I am not super strict but try my best Maybe this helps somebody else