The second you reach for the words “ban,” “stop,” or “eliminate” as your policy, you're on the wrong side of history.  Shape the technology toward the goal, don't try to outlaw the future.

Steel Pulse's True Democracy is easily the best reggae album of all time...

Winning an SBIR is step one. Avoiding the "matching fund" trap is step two. State-level requirements can be a compliance minefield if you aren’t prepared. OpenGrants tracks these complexities so you focus on the tech, not the footnotes.

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did. And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves. One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults. Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life. If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever. Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen. Alternatively There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all. To start - If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers. It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail) Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability. Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up But They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

Every revolution follows the same pattern. First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

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Doing what I can to inspire ANYONE to take action as we go through the most amazing time in human history.

For everyone whining about VCs: you’re asking someone who doesn’t know you for millions in cash. Don’t get mad when they turn you down, whatever the reason or however they do it. Just move on. Also: don’t get mad when a 10 ghosts you. Same logic applies.

We are in the middle of the singularity. The most interesting period in human history. And most people are too busy to care.

Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina. Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes: - zero regulation on AI development, - a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability -a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules. The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.

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The interesting question isn't "will AI replace this job." It's: "does cheaper delivery expand the market, or shrink the team?" Elastic demand (most underserved sectors) → more roles. Fixed demand → fewer. That's the entire macro story.

Framework for any "AI employee" pitch: - Hours displaced per month (most teams underestimate by 30-50%) - Loaded $/hr (≈1.5-2x base after payroll, benefits, tooling) - Subscription cost If payback isn't under 30 days, the pitch or the scope is wrong.

86% of AI roll-up investors now say margin uplift is the biggest value-creation lever. Multiple expansion sits at 46%. The old model was financial engineering. The new one is operational redesign with capital attached. Not investment advice.

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GSA's draft AI procurement clause (552.239-7001) makes contractors responsible for any "Service Provider" in the stack — including third parties that aren't subcontractors. For small AI vendors selling federal, supply-chain visibility just became a competitive moat.

This mood will pass. This sentence will pass. The hand that writes it, the room it is written in, the century it is written in — all passing. To remember this is not to despair. It is to stop gripping so tightly things that were never meant to stay.

The most expensive part of an AI agent isn't the tokens. In every services-business cost audit I've seen, tokens are 1-4% of total cost. The rest is human review-minutes. If you're not measuring that, you're not pricing the work.