This guy rented an entire storage complex just to show up and scroll videos all day This is who you are competing against

Don’t underestimate the positive vibes of NYC summer translating into strong asset performance for the next few months. Human nature is undefeated and good vibes make people take more risk.

Feels like momentum is going towards Darius Acuff being a Brooklyn Net. I’ll tell you one thing, Nets hoops would become much more interesting.

I can’t tell you how sad it makes me feel when someone reduces all of my work to an “Aliexpress case”. When you call me a larper and an embarrassment, you’re not insulting a marketing department or some huge corporation. You’re directly insulting me. I’ve always been transparent about the parts I use, how much they cost, and the fact that some of them come from China. Not Aliexpress, but factories that manufacture watch components. I don’t think that should invalidate every prototype, every sketch, every failed attempt, every jig, and all of the work that goes into the things I do beyond the case itself. I’m a one-man band, just a guy doing his best to achieve his dream of making watches. All of my dials are cut on my own laser machine, hand-drilled, hand-sanded, and hand-painted under a microscope. Sometimes it takes days to finish a single dial, and I am incredibly lucky to have found people who appreciate that work. If everything were as simple as you say, everybody would be doing it. Creating a worthwhile physical product is difficult. It takes years of learning, thousands of mistakes, and a level of commitment that most people never see. To top it all off, you mention how you want to do the same, and how you: “just need a garage, a lathe, and a pad printing machine so I can finally free myself from the shackles of other people’s taste in this matter” I’m 24, still immature in many ways, but old enough to understand how difficult it is to create something with your own hands. Whether I like a person’s work or not, I know how much effort, sacrifice, and vulnerability goes into putting it out into the world. It took everything in me to get where I am today. Years of saving to afford more than €20,000 worth of equipment, years of tinkering, starting from absolutely nothing, not to mention all the sleepless nights and stress that went into creating something like this. You don’t have to like it, but you don’t need to belittle it either. It’s very hard to gain confidence by tearing down the work of other people, but getting shit done is something else entirely. (I’ll use this day to post more about the costs, how much I make exactly per watch, how much money I made so far, and how I’m still about 11000€ short to just pay off my gear, let alone all the time sunk into this black hole of a hobby, it’s far from glamorous, so I’m excited to share)

If you want to understand power, read The Power Broker by Robert Caro. Robert Moses was an unelected city official who shaped New York more than any elected leader ever did. -Jones Beach State Park -Lincoln Center -The UN headquarters site -600 miles of parkways and expressways -Triborough, Verrazzano, and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges -Shea Stadium and the 1964 World’s Fair site -650 NYC playgrounds -Orchard Beach and Jacob Riis Park -Co-op City -Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and so much more… He started as a reformer and became a power-hungry mogul. This book is 1,300 pages and honestly worth every one of them. If you’re an owner, operator, politician, or developer, this is the clearest X-ray into how power actually works that’s ever been written. In my upcoming book All the Wrong Moves I write about what I call “the money point of view of history.” Moses followed the money better than almost anyone. Go get “The Power Broker” today.

Staggering the number of you guys that worship outlier lives of great accomplishment, but are completely disgusted by what true outlying behavior looks like

the thing about buying a flex watch is you have to really flex with it so the $10-15k rolexes are a waste of money because everyone in your circle should have that amount liquid to drop on a watch if they wanted to but then above $25k you end up with the same couple models that everyone else has (gay) plus, you can start getting watches that are cooler than a rolex… but if you’re going to own an exotic and niche $35k watch, you have to get a few to rotate between otherwise you’re the guy who owns one really nice watch and wears it all the time okay so now you’re $100k into this just to flex on some dudes who don’t care if you live or die just buy the seiko bro.

Henry Ford was generally a racist and a bad person, but he understood something our current broligarchs have completely forgotten. He said: I have to pay my workers enough to afford the products they’re building. Give them a house, decent schools, reasonable healthcare. If I do that, they’re not descending on my Dearborn mansion with pitchforks while I eat my caviar. We’ve lost that plot entirely. We have broligarchs who want to be trillionaires and they’re missing the lesson that a deeply flawed man figured out a hundred years ago. Capitalism works, but only if people believe the game is worth playing. Right now they don’t and history is very clear about what comes next.

Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. A trillion dollars is so much money it is nearly impossible to comprehend. I asked Claude to give me some visuals of how this would look if stacked as 100 dollar bills. Truly stunning... $1 million in $100 bills = about 3.6 feet tall. Roughly chest-high on a person. $1 billion = about 3,580 feet, or 0.68 miles. That's taller than any building on the planet, and roughly 2.5 Empire State Buildings stacked tip to tip. $1 trillion = about 680 miles or 11 times higher than the edge of outer space. The International Space Station orbits at around 250 miles up, so your stack would punch past it and keep going nearly three times higher. If you stacked Musk's trillion dollars as $100 bills and started climbing it at highway speed, 60 mph, it would take you over 11 hours of nonstop driving straight up to reach the top. 🤯🤯🤯

Michael Burry added to $PYPL, saying the market has been “attending PayPal’s wake for years” while the company buys back stock “hand over fist.” He also added to $ADBE calling Adobe a “clear deep-value opportunity” with gross margins near all-time highs.