Tim Swindle

@SahilBloom A basic home gym. Nothing fancy but 3x’d my workouts by not having to leave the house

What is the single best health investment you’ve ever made?

@goldstein2002 As a small business owner I rely heavily on agencies and outside consultants/independent contractors. We’ve seen real savings with our partners as their costs have come down dramatically by implementing AI into their process and workflow. Or we’ve switched to partners that have.

Almost every large-company CEO I know is genuinely fired up about AI and trying to deploy it everywhere. But in private? Most can't clearly point to meaningful revenue lift or real cost reduction yet. The one exception: coding tools. Those are actually delivering efficiency that shows up in the numbers. That's a pretty significant gap from what's being declared publicly. @darioamodei just said "50% of all tech jobs, entry-level lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within 1–5 years." That's a serious prediction from someone building this technology. It's just not what companies are actually experiencing on the ground right now. Which connects to something @pmarca has been saying: historically, inventors almost never accurately foresee where their inventions actually go. Second and third-order effects are genuinely unpredictable — even for the people building the thing. AI will change a lot. What exactly, when, and how? Nobody knows. Including the people building it. What I do know: optimize your workflows now, push your teams to experiment, and stay genuinely optimistic. The companies building that muscle today will have the edge when the wave actually hits. #AI #FutureOfWork #FinTech #Leadership

@Skratch Good for Fitzy. Such a flex

The sheer satisfaction of dropping a winning 13-footer followed by the "I can't hear you" has to be off the charts.

@nickkokonas @MorePerfectUS Please stop Nick. You’re making too much sense for these people

@MorePerfectUS beyond that, it is illiquid and literally, unrealized... meaning the gains mean nothing and cannot be utilized until they are sold -- at which time they are taxed as cap gains already. If taxed before that, they force sales and the true value is lost to society.

NEW: Google co-founder Sergey Brin spent $45 million to stop a California wealth tax. He's worth $222 billion, and doesn't want to 5% of that going to fund health care in his state. Right now he has a powerful ally — Gavin Newsom. But the people of California feel differently.

@Just_DrAnya @SahilBloom This just rocked my world. I put oat milk in my coffee every day. Not necessarily bc I think it’s healthy. I like the taste and think regular milk is “bad”. I need to reevaluate

Commercial oat milk. It has a massive health halo, but biologically, it is essentially a glass of liquid glucose (maltose) emulsified with inflammatory seed oils. Because the oat starch is enzymatically broken down during processing, it spikes your blood sugar and fasting insulin just as aggressively as a soda. You are getting zero bioavailable protein and a massive glycemic load, usually right at the start of your day. Don't fall for the marketing; stick to black coffee or high-quality, full-fat dairy if you tolerate it.

What's something most people think is healthy that's actually not?

@united This is brilliant

The entire row is alllllll yours. Welcome to United Relax Row, three adjacent United Economy seats with adjustable leg rests that can each be raised or lowered to create a cozy lie-flat space for stretching out... You'll also get a mattress pad, blanket and two pillows. If you’re traveling with kids, a plushie too! United Relax Row will be available starting next year on more than 200 of our 787s and 777s, each with up to 12 of these brand-new rows. united.com/Elevated

@litnewsnet @litcapital At no point did I expect the next word

BREAKING: A professional cornhole player with no arms or legs has been arrested for allegedly murdering a man over an argument. Dayton Webber shot his friend in his Tesla, drove away with the body, and later dumped it in a yard.

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

@jasonfried I just stayed at a new hotel with my family in Miami. They put sensors on all the lights in the bedrooms and bathrooms. So if you get up in the night to pee (like my wife does), the whole room lights up. I had to get maintenance to come “unhook” all the sensors 🤦🏻‍♂️

THE BIG REGRESSION My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby. It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up with state of the art systems. The ones with touchscreens of various sizes, IoT appliances, and interfaces that try too hard. And it’s terrible. What a regression. The lights are powered by Control4. And require a demo to understand how to use the switches, understand which ones control what, and to be sure not to hit THAT ONE because it’ll turn off all the lights in the house when you didn’t mean to. Worse. The TV is the latest Samsung which has a baffling UI just to watch CNN. My parents aren’t idiots, but definitely feel like they’re missing something obvious. They aren’t — TVs have simply gotten worse. You don’t turn them on anymore, you boot them up. The Miele dishwasher is hidden flush with the counters. That part is fine, but here’s what isn’t: It wouldn’t even operate the first time without connecting it to an app. This meant another call to the house manager to have them install an app they didn’t know they needed either. An app to clean some peanut butter off a plate? For serious? Worse. Thermostats... Nest would have been an upgrade, but these other propriety ones from some other company trying to be nest-like are baffling. Round touchscreens that take you into a dark labyrinth of options just to be sure it’s set at 68. Or is it 68 now? Or is that what we want it at, but it’s at 72? Wait... What? Which number is this? Worse. The alarm system is essentially a 10” iPad bolted to the wall that has the fucking weather forecast on it. And it’s bright! I’m sure there’s a way to turn that off, but then the screen would be so barren that it would be filled with the news instead. Why can’t the alarm panel just be an alarm panel? Worse. And the lag. Lag everywhere. Everything feels a beat or two behind. Everything. Lag is the giveaway that the system is working too hard for too little. Real-time must be the hardest problem. Now look... I’m no luddite. But this experience is close to conversion therapy. Tech can make things better, but I simply can’t see in these cases. I’ve heard the pitches too — you can set up scenes and one button can change EVERYTHING. Not buying it. It actually feels primitive, like we haven’t figured out how to make things easy yet. That some breakthrough will eventually come when you can simply knock a switch up or down and it’ll all makes sense. But that's at least 20 years down the road. It’s really the contrast that makes it alarming. We just got back from a vacation in Montana. Rented a house there. They did have a fancy TV — seems those can’t be avoided these days — but everything else was old school and clear. Physical up/down light switches in the right places. Appliances without the internet. Buttons with depth and physically-confirmed state change rather than surfaces that don’t obviously register your choice. More traditional round rotating Honeywell thermostats that are just clear and obvious. No tours, no instructions, no questions, no fearing you’re going to do something wrong, no wondering how something works. Useful and universally clear. That’s human, that’s modern.

@ForePlayPod Beating up the amateurs

Rahmbo gets the win at LIV Hong Kong 🏆

@johnarnold @PGHNewLiberals Didn’t happen *yet*. I’m on the ground as one of the companies/people impacted dramatically by the tariffs. The tariffs are bleeding companies like us and will lead to inevitable bankruptcies for tens of thousands of small businesses.

@PGHNewLiberals might be counter expectations but all the bad things that economists warned us about didnt happen and I think it has benefits w/r/t onshoring and jobs and revenue etc. Tradeoffs exist with any policy goal and the costs of tariffs have shown to be much lower than some predicted.

I'm supportive of across the board 15% tariffs. There, I said it.

@MikeCalcara Hey Mike, I’ve enjoyed following you and hope to use your services one day. Im curious what is your business model? ie how do you get paid?

Been posting about car buying for two years now, and I just realized I've never really shared how I got into all this. The story is probably going to surprise some of you, so let me take you back. The day I got my welcome package from Silicon Valley Bank, they collapsed. I had just left my banking job to join their team, and it was gone in 24 hours. I spent 13 years in financial services and consulting. Built my career solving complex problems for banks and corporations, managed $100 million projects, and was finally ready to make a move to SVB. Then it disappeared overnight. I had an SVB tumbler, a t-shirt, and no job. I remember sitting there thinking: what now? I could go find another banking role. Play it safe, rebuild the corporate ladder. Or I could do the thing I'd been helping friends with on the side for months. I was helping them navigate car deals because they were sick of going to dealerships. In that moment, I had nothing to lose. The corporate safety net I thought I was jumping into didn't exist anymore. So I started The Driveway Concierge, which is now Motosaic. If SVB hadn't collapsed, I'd still be in a conference room somewhere analyzing someone else's business. Instead, I get to build my own. Sometimes you don't choose the jump. The floor just disappears.

@hansenjames FWIW, I’m a small business owner and I paid a substantial amount in tariffs without passing costs on to customers. It impacted my ability to hire people from working families. Not opposed to a refund for working families, but saying companies didn’t pay anything isn’t accurate.

Supreme Court rules that Trump's sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal. cnn.it/4bZtaLo

@altcap Call it something else and I’m in

On this President’s Day - if you have a child under 18, take 2 mins to claim their life long investment account! The Invest America Act - every child forevermore a direct shareholder in the grt companies of America! 🇺🇸🚀trumpaccounts.gov

Before kids, never sick. After kids, sick every few weeks with something minor but still extremely annoying.

@RepThomasMassie @paulg Get ‘em Thomas

Lutnick went to the island and was in business deals with Epstein, long after Lutnick says he parted ways and even after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes. What else is Lutnick covering up with respect to his association with Epstein? thehill.com/homenews/house…

@preston_holland Whatever it takes to get @miketirico back in the announcers chair I guess. The absolute best in the business.

This is sick!!

@TheFlowHorse No. It’s classless and disgusting

Could you have imagined a sitting President posting this ever, if we had a normal and decent society?

Golden advice on Selling