I just saw this @ycombinator's batch literally only has harness startups or hardware startups
So the proof is in the pudding
In the most early adopting tech pioneering place that's Silicon Valley new startups aren't even building software anymore
And it's debatable if anyone will actually need a custom harness or it won't just be generically offered by the AI frontier companies
So software is mostly dead and hardware it is
𝕏 @daveg: https://x.com/daveg/status/2099093890137575928
𝕏 @goodhartproof: https://x.com/goodhartproof/status/2098523476189745314
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So the proof is in the pudding
In the most early adopting tech pioneering place that's Silicon Valley new startups aren't even building software anymore
And it's debatable if anyone will actually need a custom harness or it won't just be generically offered by the AI frontier companies
So software is mostly dead and hardware it is
𝕏 @daveg: https://x.com/daveg/status/2099093890137575928
𝕏 @goodhartproof: https://x.com/goodhartproof/status/2098523476189745314
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Self driving will be the 4th wave of nomadism I think
𝕏 @AIScottAdams: https://x.com/AIScottAdams/status/2098546906779500949
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𝕏 @AIScottAdams: https://x.com/AIScottAdams/status/2098546906779500949
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🇪🇺 Great data and actually I think we should use this kinds of data to completely turn around Europe's immigration policy:
- We should have super easy inflow for immigrants from countries whose previous immigrants have shown low crime rates
You're from Japan? Just fly here and you can stay forever
- We should then almost completely ban any inflow from countries whose previous immigrants have shown high crime rates with instant deportations
You're on the top of that list? You're not coming in, sorry. We have to keep Europeans safe first!
Then you can add special exceptions for people in those worst rated countries for high quality talent, think AI engineers, neurosurgeons, high IQ people, with no crime records. But that process will take a little bit longer than just flying into Europe
Then every year you check the data and you adjust the policy based on last 5 or 10 years of criminal history of immigrants from those places
I think this is the most common sense policy and it'll make Europe much safer
𝕏 @tomaspueyo: https://x.com/tomaspueyo/status/2099900501680701530
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- We should have super easy inflow for immigrants from countries whose previous immigrants have shown low crime rates
You're from Japan? Just fly here and you can stay forever
- We should then almost completely ban any inflow from countries whose previous immigrants have shown high crime rates with instant deportations
You're on the top of that list? You're not coming in, sorry. We have to keep Europeans safe first!
Then you can add special exceptions for people in those worst rated countries for high quality talent, think AI engineers, neurosurgeons, high IQ people, with no crime records. But that process will take a little bit longer than just flying into Europe
Then every year you check the data and you adjust the policy based on last 5 or 10 years of criminal history of immigrants from those places
I think this is the most common sense policy and it'll make Europe much safer
𝕏 @tomaspueyo: https://x.com/tomaspueyo/status/2099900501680701530
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This is why I never have and never will do calls
𝕏 @apaji_x: https://x.com/apaji_x/status/2100641366195806335
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𝕏 @apaji_x: https://x.com/apaji_x/status/2100641366195806335
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Same with this article from yesterday
Gay acceptance is now rapidly dropping in the Netherlands
The real reason is Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) immigrants are extremely against homosexuality
But media isn't allowed or won't ever write that
It's ironic that the gay acceptance we fought for for decades in the Netherlands is being destroyed by progressive policies that keep continously importing low quality immigrants from cultures that are completely opposed to us
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2101978657254244858
Being gay is illegal in most MENA countries like Morocco
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Gay acceptance is now rapidly dropping in the Netherlands
The real reason is Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) immigrants are extremely against homosexuality
But media isn't allowed or won't ever write that
It's ironic that the gay acceptance we fought for for decades in the Netherlands is being destroyed by progressive policies that keep continously importing low quality immigrants from cultures that are completely opposed to us
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2101978657254244858
Being gay is illegal in most MENA countries like Morocco
Read on levels.io →
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💰 Passed $10M/y in revenue + investment gains this year
I've always been aggressively increasing my profit margins to as high as possible, especially the last few years, and especially this year where I've reduced my SaaS dependencies to just a handful of companies by vibecoding my own replacements
It's now about 94.5% profit!
Spend less -> lower costs -> more profit -> more money saved -> more money to invest -> more % returns on investments
And at some point that investment return starts to pass by your business revenue which it has for me for about a year now
Most of my investments have been simple ETFs like Vanguard S&P500, but also a few lucky stock and startup bets that worked out:
Back in 2022, I couldn't get any available GPUs, so I thought it might be smart to buy Nvidia if there's such a shortage and that was a good bet too
Then back in 2023 @dannypostma recommended me to invest in the companies we used for our AI inference for our photo AI apps, so I did that too. First I invested in @replicate and then also @FAL
From then I just asked every app/service I used if I could invest, like @cursor_ai in 2025 which then got acquired by @spacex recently!
My business revenue has remained very stable at about $200K-$250K/mo, but even with that investment returns have now surpassed that
Investments fluctuate a lot so some years it's up some years it might be down a lot (who isn't expecting a big crash at some point?), and most investment gains are unrealized (I never sell!), so keep that with a big grain of salt!
I keep my revenue/gains together with my profit margin and my sleep score in my situation monitor dashboard, as those are equally important :D
Many people in the last decade told me to spend all my money, either personally or with my business to grow it, we don't know how that would have ended up, maybe my companies would be bigger, but I'm happy I did it in my own lean profitable healthy way and it ended up great I think! 🙏😊
Here's how my situation monitor (or part of it) looks 😂
Sleep score mixed with revenue and profit margin and last work out
Read on levels.io →
I've always been aggressively increasing my profit margins to as high as possible, especially the last few years, and especially this year where I've reduced my SaaS dependencies to just a handful of companies by vibecoding my own replacements
It's now about 94.5% profit!
Spend less -> lower costs -> more profit -> more money saved -> more money to invest -> more % returns on investments
And at some point that investment return starts to pass by your business revenue which it has for me for about a year now
Most of my investments have been simple ETFs like Vanguard S&P500, but also a few lucky stock and startup bets that worked out:
Back in 2022, I couldn't get any available GPUs, so I thought it might be smart to buy Nvidia if there's such a shortage and that was a good bet too
Then back in 2023 @dannypostma recommended me to invest in the companies we used for our AI inference for our photo AI apps, so I did that too. First I invested in @replicate and then also @FAL
From then I just asked every app/service I used if I could invest, like @cursor_ai in 2025 which then got acquired by @spacex recently!
My business revenue has remained very stable at about $200K-$250K/mo, but even with that investment returns have now surpassed that
Investments fluctuate a lot so some years it's up some years it might be down a lot (who isn't expecting a big crash at some point?), and most investment gains are unrealized (I never sell!), so keep that with a big grain of salt!
I keep my revenue/gains together with my profit margin and my sleep score in my situation monitor dashboard, as those are equally important :D
Many people in the last decade told me to spend all my money, either personally or with my business to grow it, we don't know how that would have ended up, maybe my companies would be bigger, but I'm happy I did it in my own lean profitable healthy way and it ended up great I think! 🙏😊
Here's how my situation monitor (or part of it) looks 😂
Sleep score mixed with revenue and profit margin and last work out
Read on levels.io →
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Today I tried to make my own electrolyte drink for the gym
It's just sparkling water, with a squeezed lemon and 1/8th teaspoon of salt!
Apparently even better if I add some honey and maybe 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
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It's just sparkling water, with a squeezed lemon and 1/8th teaspoon of salt!
Apparently even better if I add some honey and maybe 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Read on levels.io →
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It's really crazy how strongly wealth inverse correlates with regulatory burden
If you make it easy for people to start and run businesses and don't get in their way too much, everyone gets wealthier
If you make it hard for people to start and run businesses and get in their way constantly, everyone gets poorer
You can see the effect clearly within the EU:
Countries with low regulatory burden like Switzerland and Ireland have much higher incomes than places like Spain or Hungary where its regulatory burden is high
https://nomads.com/europe/chart?chart_x=regulatory_quality&chart_y=gdp_per_capita_in_usd&show_labels=true&show_population_as_bubble_size=true
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2103162912701563383
Regulatory burden data source is:
- World Bank's Regulatory Quality, combined with
- US's Cato Institute data on "Regulatory Policy" to get state level data
In US, you have the opposite effect
Which is partly because California is where all the tech is, but also because US as a whole already has quite pro-business regulation so it's easy to build a business there
So possibly a little more regulation there helps while in EU we definitely need less
𝕏 @JeremyNoronha: https://x.com/JeremyNoronha/status/2103860923295281612
Read on levels.io →
If you make it easy for people to start and run businesses and don't get in their way too much, everyone gets wealthier
If you make it hard for people to start and run businesses and get in their way constantly, everyone gets poorer
You can see the effect clearly within the EU:
Countries with low regulatory burden like Switzerland and Ireland have much higher incomes than places like Spain or Hungary where its regulatory burden is high
https://nomads.com/europe/chart?chart_x=regulatory_quality&chart_y=gdp_per_capita_in_usd&show_labels=true&show_population_as_bubble_size=true
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2103162912701563383
Regulatory burden data source is:
- World Bank's Regulatory Quality, combined with
- US's Cato Institute data on "Regulatory Policy" to get state level data
In US, you have the opposite effect
Which is partly because California is where all the tech is, but also because US as a whole already has quite pro-business regulation so it's easy to build a business there
So possibly a little more regulation there helps while in EU we definitely need less
𝕏 @JeremyNoronha: https://x.com/JeremyNoronha/status/2103860923295281612
Read on levels.io →
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I think every time AI can do something equally good or better than humans it stops being valuable or special
Marketing videos used to take lots of work of editing and motion graphics and a big budget
Now with Opus 5.5 etc it costs $0 to make one as good or better
That means ANYONE can make a marketing video now, so the timeline gets flooded with these videos (as you see happening now) and people stop caring about them, stop watching them and they stop grabbing attention
The response then to still grab attention is be different and that probably means IRL marketing videos that are original and unique and maybe personal
It's the grim reaper meme where AI keeps commoditizing another media format and bringing the cost down to close to $0
It already did so for graphic design (2023), last year with Nano Banana for photography (2025), this year with Seedance 2.5 it did it for video (2026) and this and next year motion graphics
𝕏 @sporadica: https://x.com/sporadica/status/2104424072717435064
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Marketing videos used to take lots of work of editing and motion graphics and a big budget
Now with Opus 5.5 etc it costs $0 to make one as good or better
That means ANYONE can make a marketing video now, so the timeline gets flooded with these videos (as you see happening now) and people stop caring about them, stop watching them and they stop grabbing attention
The response then to still grab attention is be different and that probably means IRL marketing videos that are original and unique and maybe personal
It's the grim reaper meme where AI keeps commoditizing another media format and bringing the cost down to close to $0
It already did so for graphic design (2023), last year with Nano Banana for photography (2025), this year with Seedance 2.5 it did it for video (2026) and this and next year motion graphics
𝕏 @sporadica: https://x.com/sporadica/status/2104424072717435064
Read on levels.io →
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I've been actively fighting almost guaranteed age-related loneliness for years, studies show after age 30 you start seeing friends less and when you get older especially men don't have any social life left!
It's preventable, but it takes effort and initiative
We've now organized 70 weekly coworking days where we meet with friends and work together, do show and tell, and try help each other make things (also hardware stuff more recently)
We've also started organizing movie nights, art nights, barbecues, we watched the World Cup final on a projector screen in the garden with friends
We did a collage night the other day where we bought cheap gossip magazines, colored paper, and Pritt glue, and gave everyone scissors to make their own art, I think nobody spent time on their phone for at least 4 hours, making things puts you in a flow state and it's fun to do it in a group because you talk about different stuff while making things than you would for ex having a dinner
Movie nights are nice too but less popular I think cause everyone prefers to watch movies alone and also you can't really talk during a movie
Coworkings range from having sometimes 20 people to sometimes just 2 people, people have their own lives, but me and @rameerez still try to organize them weekly
One thing I realized is that we are usually the ones organizing stuff, but that's not a bad thing, there's even studies about this, there's usually a few people in a group who organize most of the events
If nobody in your group organizes stuff, it doesn't mean nobody wants to do stuff, but you have to take the initiative to bring people together which isn't easy in a time where phones and apps and the internet are simply easier and cheaper dopamine than driving to a friends house for a party
You can start with a coworking day, everyone brings their laptop, and you provide WiFi and coffee, then later you can try more types of events
Having an active social life is just as important or in some studies even more important for health than physical fitness
After a nice party I feel tired but satisfied, I had fun and didn't spend time on my phone or computer but instead talked and laughed with friends etc.
We don't drink alcohol with very few exceptions and nor do our friends, so it's mostly just having really nice food and sparkling water or kombucha etc, and we don't really need alcohol, after a few hours it gets fun enough anyway!
So I recommend everyone, take initiative, and organize something and get people together, it'll be fun! 😊
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2105087277206737029
Organizing can be cheap or if you want to spend more money on it not so cheap, you can also ask people to bring food to save on costs
@theannalux tracks the nights we organized and we've spent about $5K on it in food for 26 nights (ex coworkings)
𝕏 @theannalux: https://x.com/theannalux/status/2105293992355037621
Read on levels.io →
It's preventable, but it takes effort and initiative
We've now organized 70 weekly coworking days where we meet with friends and work together, do show and tell, and try help each other make things (also hardware stuff more recently)
We've also started organizing movie nights, art nights, barbecues, we watched the World Cup final on a projector screen in the garden with friends
We did a collage night the other day where we bought cheap gossip magazines, colored paper, and Pritt glue, and gave everyone scissors to make their own art, I think nobody spent time on their phone for at least 4 hours, making things puts you in a flow state and it's fun to do it in a group because you talk about different stuff while making things than you would for ex having a dinner
Movie nights are nice too but less popular I think cause everyone prefers to watch movies alone and also you can't really talk during a movie
Coworkings range from having sometimes 20 people to sometimes just 2 people, people have their own lives, but me and @rameerez still try to organize them weekly
One thing I realized is that we are usually the ones organizing stuff, but that's not a bad thing, there's even studies about this, there's usually a few people in a group who organize most of the events
If nobody in your group organizes stuff, it doesn't mean nobody wants to do stuff, but you have to take the initiative to bring people together which isn't easy in a time where phones and apps and the internet are simply easier and cheaper dopamine than driving to a friends house for a party
You can start with a coworking day, everyone brings their laptop, and you provide WiFi and coffee, then later you can try more types of events
Having an active social life is just as important or in some studies even more important for health than physical fitness
After a nice party I feel tired but satisfied, I had fun and didn't spend time on my phone or computer but instead talked and laughed with friends etc.
We don't drink alcohol with very few exceptions and nor do our friends, so it's mostly just having really nice food and sparkling water or kombucha etc, and we don't really need alcohol, after a few hours it gets fun enough anyway!
So I recommend everyone, take initiative, and organize something and get people together, it'll be fun! 😊
𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2105087277206737029
Organizing can be cheap or if you want to spend more money on it not so cheap, you can also ask people to bring food to save on costs
@theannalux tracks the nights we organized and we've spent about $5K on it in food for 26 nights (ex coworkings)
𝕏 @theannalux: https://x.com/theannalux/status/2105293992355037621
Read on levels.io →
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