NEW blog post is up! "Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future" My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing things. And LLMs sure are convenient for getting answers quickly. My team and I use Claude and other tools daily. But far fewer people have first-hand experience with the speed and intensity of disruption that’s happening. Not in a year, not in six months, but right now. So let me show you, using my own books as the cadaver on the table, what a fatality looks like. (Link below)

Which companies have the best incentives for health and wellness among employees? In other words, which companies are best at helping employees change diet/exercise behavior?

“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.” — Kurt Vonnegut

Recommended listen, for many reasons 👇🎧💙

Fascinating

Thanks @tferriss

The only truly wasted time is time spent wishing you were somewhere else.

This post is so interesting

I suspected this was the case based on my own n of 1 observations (and I knew AI would lead to this), but nice to see a much more robust datapoint! @tferriss tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-a…

Worth your time

Good thoughts, and (not so?) surprising data from @tferriss on how AI is impacting self-help and books more broadly. tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-a…

NEW blog post is up! "Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future" My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing things. And LLMs sure are convenient for getting answers quickly. My team and I use Claude and other tools daily. But far fewer people have first-hand experience with the speed and intensity of disruption that’s happening. Not in a year, not in six months, but right now. So let me show you, using my own books as the cadaver on the table, what a fatality looks like. (Link below)

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.

"The attempt to impress your mate on a daily basis is the secret to the best marriage." — Max Levchin (@mlevchin) Listen to my interview with Max Levchin: tim.blog/2026/06/10/max-levc…

“If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly.” — Colonel David Hackworth

Investors can now use Claude Super Carl’s MCP to find fresh founders emerging from major tech companies. Not just by searching the internet. By searching relationship graphs, warm intro paths, and real-world reachability. Example prompt: “Use Super Carl to find people who recently became founders after leaving a well-known tech company. I’m looking for ‘fresh founders’ — people who changed their title to Founder (or Co-founder / CEO) at a new company within roughly the last 6–12 months, and who came from a notable tech company beforehand (think the big platforms, top AI labs, or well-funded scale-ups).” And then it ranks: • Who’s most relevant • Who your network can actually reach • Who can make the intro This example uses illustrative scenarios/names for demonstration purposes, but the transcript itself is a real interaction between Claude and Super Carl. See the full transcript here: claude.ai/share/b7548eb9-8b2… @a16z @sequoia @benchmark @GreylockVC @Accel @lightspeedvp @IndexVentures Setup instructions in comments: 👇

"For example, one of the greatest kind of mental images I have from growing up in Soviet Union is if you went to a government-owned store and every store was, of course, owned by the government, you would very quickly notice that the people whose job was to sell you things from behind the counter were always very fat while everyone you knew in your life was always very skinny. 'This doesn't make any sense. How do these people who happen to work in food stores are always really well-fed?' 'Well, because they're stealing.'" @mlevchin