🇬🇧 British people are now the 2nd most miserable people in the world

Previous happiness studies are based on income, wealth and healthcare quality, simply putting Western countries on top always, very very biased

The new Mental State of the World report…

🌏 This all ties into kind of a natural global conspiracy regarding DATA SETS that I noticed for years:

Western researchers love pumping Western countries in data sets

Human Development Index, World Happiness Report, lots of data sets like this always will…

The biggest startups during the digital nomad boom from 2014 look like a graveyard now:

Selina, coliving
- lost 97% of their value, almost bankrupt

Remote Year, travel group
- acq'd in 2020 by Selina which is almost bankrupt

We Work, coworking
- lost 99%…

Middle class everywhere are the most miserable people

Rich people find ways to avoid/reduce taxes, keep money in company, have easy lives

Poor get free money from the government

Middle class? They work their ass off for average pay, while paying the most…

The British "high standards"

https://youtu.be/_U0wQPMwvVc?si=dDBbsIzG1oqeIMts

↘️ Quoting Marco Troisi (@MarcoTroisi)

Feels like a very strange and subjective kind of poll.

Brits love to complain, and self-deprecation is basically a national sport.
…

Jensen Huang told me to clean toilets

↘️ Quoting Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla)

NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, on leadership:

“No task is beneath me — because, remember: I used to wash dishes. I used to clean toilets. I cleaned a LOT of toilets. I’ve cleaned…

🍞 I love bread

But my gut feeling is nobody is really good at processing it and it's not natural at all

And bread and baked goods are the causes of many underlying issues many people have

I turned out to be intolerant to gluten, wheat, yeast etc. The intolerance…

the unemployed friend at 2pm on a monday

So I met @JeffBezos at breakfast this morning

Tulum increasingly feels like a no-go

↘️ Quoting RealEstateDude (@realestatedude0)

Tulum, Mexico has been largest tourist attraction within last few years. Insane traffic. Was speaking to one of my co workers in his mid 30s. He was at taboo beach club.…

Netherlands has no real competitive industries except ASML

Banking isn't competitive

No real startups except Adyen

Companies there are to avoid tax (see IKEA etc)

Unambitious conformist population

Trying to kill of their agricultural sector

↘️ Quoting…

I'm convinced not a single person understands how to use the faucet in airplane toilets

Because they're ALWAYS set to very hot

Which implies people first try to open the water by twisting them which then changes the temperature to hot

Then they try press…

Preparing for a post-AGI and post-commercial fusion world where the cost/price of all goods go to near-zero

Does it make sense to starting buying up land?

One of the few scarse resources actually necessary then is land?

X team working hard to make Articles a proper feature here

I already solely write all my blog posts on here

Would be amazing to be able to import all my old blog posts as X Articles historically timestamped

I have about 10 years of travel and startup blogs…

Get this to 1K RTs and we prove the world the future is techno-optimist

↘️ Quoting @levelsio (@levelsio)

I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc)

I love Europeans on here perceive me as an American cause of my tweets

I was born and grew up outside Amsterdam in Nijmegen, then went to school there and in Arnhem, studied in Utrecht, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Organized night club events in The Hague

I…

software devs: ai WiLL NEVer bE goOD EnoUGh to RePLAce SoFtWARe DEVElOPeRs, we are SpeCIAl!!!111

devin: hallo 🫡

↘️ Quoting Cognition (@cognition_labs)

Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.

Devin is the new state-of-the…

This means there REALLY is no reason to remain a 9-to-5 NPC drone anymore because you'll be unemployed in the next 5 years

If anything you should be starting a business right now and get out of the system of servitude that will just spit you out once AI…

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This reminds me a lot of when Napster got big in 1999

It took the music industry fighting MP3 file sharing for a decade before embracing it and coming up with a digital alternative to CDs which was Spotify (and yes it's owned by the music industry)

Here…

Nomad List emails stopped working today because spammers attacked my sign up box and the abandoned cart email then sent them an email

Which created a hard bounce getting my bounce rate to 30% and then Postmark suspending further emails

I already have reCAPTCHA…