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Published January 13, 2026
Who's gonna make it, who's not?
The ones who are going to make it are the ones who are able to let go of the past so they can embrace the future. Those unable to let the past go will not.
What is time?
Time is an index of observed changes. Our perception of time is based on what we are observing and what changes we are able to recognize.
How do we handle alignment when disproportionate power is held by people incentivized towards misalignment?
We take advantage of the fact that the ability to change reality is speeding up. The people in power have to deal with a lag in their ability to perceive changes because they ignore the changes happening to the people they don't care about. This means we can cultivate power in people (power in the sense of the ability to enact change) before those currently in positions of power (where the changes that can be enacted are dependent on the system providing leverage as a function of the network) can recognize that their power is fading.
I'm so tired all the time these days. Are you tired? How do you stay so productive?
Most of my productivity is avoidance. I'm learning how to do less, because I've created so much leverage for myself I can make jumps that others don't recognize. This is problematic because I end up breaking trust with people in weird ways and I'm exhausted by trying to get people to trust me. But I also have to figure out how to develop enough trust that people pay me to help them with their issues, as opposed to only getting enough insight from me to jump them further ahead than they realize and then me doing something that tries to rush monetization because of the whole "needing money to survive" thing. My goal for this year is to do as little as possible myself because my biggest value add is teaching others how to do more with less. But I need to figure out how to get out from behind the screen in order to do so because the internet is broken.
What scares you? What gives you hope?
For a long time, I was scared that I wouldn't be able to get people to see what was in my head. But I realized that others are discovering bits and pieces and putting them together and that the patterns I've seen have been discovered over and over throughout history. And that's what ultimately gives me hope. I don't matter in the scheme of things except as a local accelerator of my network. It's incredibly freeing and empowering at the same time, and I have managed to let go of most of my fears.