Business Economics and AI
Think back. How useful has Rubber been in your life? Think way back.
Little did I know—or care, frankly—but I’ve lived amongst rubber tree groves for years in various places, and I’m well acquainted with how the stuff is processed. Curiously enough, and I love curious people, the rubber tree sap flows out as that white goo you see in the title picture. It only flows in the…
Read MoreExterior Design: Crazy Fun or Rastafarian?
Well, my last post, arguing that what the world needs now is war—sweet war—in my judgment, fell on completely deaf ears. I got no signals whatsoever that it was well received. Just one stupid comment on it from some moron who thinks Catholicism is a cult. I know that kind of idiocy from way back…
Read MoreShould X Become a New Full-Fledged 24/7 Media Company?
Thinking Out Loud From Thailand: Another 30-Day X Block, Spanking Kids, and Why X Should Become a Real Media Company Good morning from Thailand. This is a thinking-out-loud post. Use your own judgment. Push back if you wish. I’m on day four of a 30-day block from X. Second one this year. The first, back…
Read MoreX is Neither a Truth nor Quality Seeking Platform
All right, here I am heading out again. Heading to a little market, get a few things in my truck. Thought it would be an okay time to do one of my videos. This is something that’s been on my mind for a while. Think back to when Elon bought Twitter. A lot of people…
Read MoreThe AI Doomsday. Be Scared. Very Scared.
So, been a while. Greetings from my as-yet-under-construction man cave here in rural Thailand. Plenty of videos detailing that process. What I wanted to discuss this morning is the laughable proliferation of the AI-doomsday thing. I’m gratified because I see huge numbers of people saying, “Oh, here comes the fear scam again.” Some even harkening…
Read MoreNoah Revoy and I discuss AI’s effect on Society and Geoarbitrage
When AI meets the borderless economy, the rules of wealth shift. I’ve been doing these discussions now and then—sometimes a year or two in between—since late 2018 with Noah Revoy. Here’s a helpful search link to find past recordings if interested. Here’s the latest one we recorded last night. Noah is a highly competent personal…
Read MoreAmericans Can Feel Great, Again
Don’t you just love the livery of the new Air Force 1 747? Boeing is so goddamn pathetic now they can’t deliver new presidential jets in years upon years upon years. This shit goes back to Trump’s first term over six years ago, and the planes still haven’t been delivered. Meanwhile, Qatar—an Arab nation—gifted President…
Read MoreIs X Really “Maximally Truth-Seeking?”
When everyone claims to chase truth, who’s actually catching it? In a world where “truth-seeking” has become a badge of honor, the question isn’t who says they’re doing it—it’s who really is. This post takes aim at the self-proclaimed rationalists, skeptics, and thinkers who wear epistemic virtue like armor. Are they pursuing truth or protecting…
Read MoreElon Musk: First Trillionaire, Biggest Target
I loathe stupid people and fucktards. So I knew the news was coming, but I saw it today while scrolling through Elon Musk’s platform X. Everyone moaning about his trillionaire status is posting there—how ironic is that? I figured I’d do a post. It’s Sunday, so it’d be members-only, paywalled. I scrolled down and something…...
From Squalor to Luxury
Yeah, that’s been a lot of my life for weeks now—going on two months. I’ve abided and sustained because I have this vision of a great tropical homestead, and I’m doing what it takes to make that happen. So I sit there and think and write and interact, but underneath it all I’m thinking about…
Read MoreGetting Buttholes Out of Your Life
I’m going to begin this post with this very short, funny clip from a stand-up routine I saw on X yesterday. Yes, the internet over the last few decades has resulted in abject morons clustering together. Just go read Facebook comment threads sometimes. Most of them are completely mindless in over 90% of moron commenters.…
Read MorePersonal Future Reflections on Money and Business
Since revealing here about a week ago that personal finances are “set for life,” no worries, it has been a week of adjusting to that reality. I’ve had money before, but keeping it required lots of work, and much of that was work I disliked or even hated. Much of that wealth got culled in…
Read MoreMassaman Beef Pub Style
Get a load of this. That’s all for now. A guy from the pool just dumped a couple million bucks in my bank account, so I have designs on stuff and things going forward. As of yesterday, my life has been completely transformed. Be nice to the right people. It can pay off.
Read MoreGrok 4, AI Hype, and the Raw Truth
Reference: https://x.com/rnikoley/status/1943778566027849991 It’s a discussion with a long-time, very smart friend dating back to the mid-90s and then later, IRL encounters and even some business dealings. I plugged it all into Grok 4 (latest and greatest) as a sort of test. Until now, I dictate and have AI polish it up. This is a departure,…
Read MoreWhat Do You Really Need to Know?
The eternal question: What do you really need to know? Back in the day—I’m talking caveman times, or hell, even a couple hundred years ago—you didn’t have the luxury of pondering this shit endlessly. Life was simple, brutal, and straightforward. You had a handful of options: hunt, gather, farm, fight, or fuck off and die.…
Read MoreProblems Create Opportunities: A Journey of Openness and Serendipity
I’ve always had quirky thoughts, ideas that don’t quite fit the mold. One I’ve kicked around for decades, even gave a business conference presentation on years ago, was called “The Virtue of Procrastination.” Now, don’t get me wrong—it’s hyperbole, a way to grab attention and make people think. What I mean is, when you’re entrepreneurial,…
Read MoreInternational Banker Sean Ring Says Everything
But who cares? Most people don’t give a flying fuck about watching an hour-long video like this. They’d rather waste two hours on some mindless Netflix recommendation than invest time in something that might actually make them think. That’s just the lay of the land, and I’m not just talking about the casual scrollers out…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence is Proving The Existence of God
— And it’s the farthest thing from what you think Something happened the other day that changed everything, and solidified some of the thoughts I’ve been wrestling with about artificial intelligence for a couple of years now. I’ve been deep in the AI game since I jumped on the bandwagon, and like everyone else who’s…...
Tariffs, Trump, and the Art of Not Being a Fucktard
It should be too stupid to comment on … A little admin message, first. I have forever done away with monthly membership. For those of you on them, existing monthly memberships are good for as long as you want to keep them, but Quarterly or Annual is much better for price, and you only get…...
Podcast: Artificial Intelligence at the Intersection of Everything
My take is unique Some months back, I was contacted by one of the worker bees for the Be Mythical website. Bex, her name, has been a jewel in arranging for me to chat with Lian, a joyful soul and engaging person. I was rather surprised as, knowing me, you’d rightly guess that this sorta…
Read More