I've got AI agents doing real work for me. Research. Digging up sources. Watching queues while I'm on a call. Sorting and tagging the mess so I can actually find things later. Not chatting for fun. Getting the busywork off my plate. Here's what that looks like day to day. I hand them a job. Pull the background on this. Compare these options. Keep an eye on that queue and ping me if something breaks. They come back with something I can use. I check it, fix what needs fixing, and keep moving. The assembly work shrinks. The decisions stay mine. That used to eat half a morning. Now a lot of it is already sitting there when I sit down. Sources lined up. Options side by side. A first look at ops that doesn't need me staring at the dashboard the whole time. That's what I admire about this tech. Not the speeches. Not the AGI countdown clocks. The fact that it's already useful on a normal workday if you put it on real tasks and hold it to results. I spent years in startups where tools promised leverage and mostly made more meetings. This feels different because I can see the hours come back. Less babysitting every click. More time on the call that actually matters. I think it gets better from here. Cleaner handoffs. Fewer loops where you redo everything yourself. Better judgment on the first look. Same person, more finished work, less grinding through the glue tasks. If you're still only using chat like a smarter search box, you're missing the part that matters. Agents that research, monitor, compare, and keep score while you do something else. That's the advance I can already feel. And it's early.

We are entering a golden age of art, music, film, and shared prosperity. The walls of pessimism will crumble. We will make ordinary what our grandparents thought impossible. We’ve spent enough time preparing for the worst. Choose to dream the extraordinary.

Good evening everyone. Slow down. Read a book. Indulge in a hobby. Take a fall afternoon nap. And have a great weekend.

Door at 29 avenue Rapp, Paris.

Beastie Boys “Shadrach” Reseda Country Club, California, 1989 Off the legendary Paul’s Boutique. Ad-Rock, MCA, and Mike D tearing it up live. Still untouchable!

Optimistically, he's got one round. Pessimistically, the chamber is empty 👀 Carry accordingly... #fail #nope #whoops #edc #ConcealedCarry

Pyramids stack higher in Sudan than Egypt, with Nubian kings who once flipped the throne. Yet the photos and flights still route to Giza. The gap between what’s actually there and what gets shown says more about the tour script than the sand.

1958 Chevrolet Corvette C1. One would think it was AI meshing together the 1950s with the 1960s.

This Australian Cattle Dog was bred to move stock all day without a pep talk, and that stare is the whole performance review.

The loudest fight over gold and silver is usually on screens. The quieter one is whether the metal is there when someone asks for it. That second part is harder to spin.

Books lasted centuries until certain AIs decided the spines were in the way. Buy by the ton, scan, shred. The pattern keeps repeating with fresh warehouses and quiet logistics. Hard to call it progress when the originals that built our knowledge base keep disappearing for good. Do better.

Power has already shifted! The mere fact that regular folks can directly own & self-custody their financial assets WAS the huge shift. People can now walk with their feet! Most will still rely on service providers but the key is that they don’t have to — it’s now their choice. 🙏

Now, more than ever, you should make sure your internet-connected devices remain up-to-date with security patches. This includes your phone, laptop, desktop, router, modem, television, surveillance system, smart watch, smart speaker, smart mattress, smart refrigerator...

That Philly bank is a museum now. New rails are supposed to do the same thing to the next marble halls. The open question is whether power actually spreads or just changes zip codes. Either way, deep gratitude to the work done by @CaitlinLong_ 🫡

This Delamarche orrery from around 1785 is a clockwork solar system, and when you drive the mechanism the planets move on their paths so you can watch a year happen without waiting for one.

They put a cookie under the cheese and called it lunch. It exists because it films. Hard to say if anyone orders it twice when the camera’s off 🤢

While everyone keeps selling me AI as a software boom, today’s Brookings paper puts the physical buildout at about $10.3 trillion through 2032, roughly 3.6% of U.S. GDP a year.

Structure of the human brain.

Don’t outsource the wanting. Outsource the doing. Never the keys.

While prior Starship flights stayed intentionally short of orbit, @SpaceX has Ship 41 stacked on B21 for Flight 14's first real try at staying up, and those 26 Starlink V3 sats only count if they do.

Non-Newtonian fluids turn into solids when pressure is applied. 📽: UChicago