Analysis

2026
• 29 MayLuxury hotels are mathematically bad value 𝕏
• 17 MayBarcelona has drug dens and violent crime in El Raval that Google Maps won't show 𝕏
• 2 MayAirthings is the best air sensor after trying fakes and dodgy ones 𝕏
• 23 AprClaude was dumbified on March 4 exactly when we noticed 𝕏
• 18 AprMy sites get 4 billion requests a year but I only pay $2,932 to host them on my own VPS 𝕏
• 1 AprApril fool's pizzas in US are real pizzas in Brazil 𝕏
• 27 MarArgentinean meat is one of the worst in the world now 𝕏
• 12 JanWomen are most attracted to men who believe in astrology 𝕏
2025
• 23 DecI glued an AirTag to a yogurt box to track if recycling is real 𝕏
• 23 DecThe oceans are full of plastic exactly because you recycle 𝕏
• 17 DecI bought over $1M in Google because Sergey returned and they're winning AI 𝕏
• 13 DecChinese EVs are beating German cars with better software and innovation 𝕏
• 11 DecAdvice i give 5 minutes after meeting somebody new 𝕏
• 4 DecChinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen 𝕏
• 4 DecWestern double standards on China versus Japan city lights 𝕏
• 26 NovGot Alipay to work in China as proxy for Didi Meituan and Baidu 𝕏
• 10 NovSingapore too is now compromised by degrowthers 𝕏
• 23 OctEU AI factories have 500x less compute than xAI 𝕏
• 25 AugCorrelation between screen size and your importance in the company 𝕏
• 6 JulChinese pigs are treated better than the average European 𝕏
• 17 JunSouth Asian immigrants in Portugal game welfare for passports and EU access 𝕏
• 4 MarWhat's crazy when you read about Taiwan Semiconductors is you realize Nvidia are essentially dropshippers 𝕏
2024
• 29 DecThe only planes left with zero fatal accidents now 𝕏
• 19 DecRenting saves you money over buying if you own the house for less than 15 years 𝕏
• 9 DecI got 1 billion views on X in the last 12 months 𝕏
• 9 DecBoth a16z and YC's request for startups for 2025 just came out 𝕏
• 8 DecI put an AirTag in my plastic recycling to see if it actually gets recycled 𝕏
• 2 DecOnlyFans just hacked basic human biology 𝕏
• 24 NovEurope's end game might be to become like Japan a cheap tourist destination 𝕏
• 12 NovLift weights to grow neurons MIT study shows 𝕏
• 1 NovThe difference between free users and paying users is about 1000x from my experience 𝕏
• 1 NovWhat is happening to Google now is pretty much textbook of what happened to Xerox PARC, but worse 𝕏
• 1 NovSundar Pichai fumbled Google's AI head start and it'll be studied for decades 𝕏
• 6 OctMacron warns EU has only 2 or 3 years before total US and China dominance 𝕏
• 12 SepArresting Jack Ma was the dumbest thing China has ever done 𝕏
• 9 SepMy recommendations for mario draghi's EU competitiveness report 𝕏
• 5 SepGoogle APIs are the worst APIs on the web to work with 𝕏
• 24 AugThe web development industrial complex has lied to your face 𝕏
• 19 AugApple Maps vs Google Maps in 2024 𝕏
• 19 AugI made a deadlift ETF with CEOs that lift weights or fight sports outperforming the S&P 500 by 140% 𝕏
• 8 AugI only wear Alo Yoga shorts but they are made from polyester that disrupts your endocrine system 𝕏
• 6 AugEurope's governments made energy expensive on purpose to stop you from using it 𝕏
• 5 AugCould air conditioning explain why more top US companies were founded after 1950 than in the EU? 𝕏
• 5 AugIf you wanna get rich install AC 𝕏
• 30 JulAmazon is a showroom for Aliexpress which is a showroom for Taobao 𝕏
• 10 JulAll Airbus models made in the last 25 years have zero fatal crashes 𝕏
• 7 JulA majority of the worst ranked airports in the world are run by Da Vinci Airports 𝕏
• 30 JunI made luggage losers a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage 𝕏
• 24 JunEverything in Europe comes from Germany and everything in Germany comes from China 𝕏
• 14 JunGuy sells his $50k/mo business for $10m but it's just an acquihire 𝕏
• 13 JunSo many VC funded exits are actually massive failures 𝕏
• 5 JunUS proposes ban on DJI drones after it became world's biggest manufacturer 𝕏
• 19 MayUS bans Chinese companies after they become market leaders 𝕏
• 17 MayThe euro kinda destroyed southern Europe's economies 𝕏
• 14 MayEU company landscape is run by dinosaurs founded 50 years before US ones 𝕏
• 29 AprMost Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has become 𝕏
• 27 MarWayfair used my AI interior design tool to build their own 𝕏
• 21 MarGot scammed with the extra zero trick at Órale Juanito Palermo in Buenos Aires 𝕏
• 21 MarUber is completely useless in Argentina because of a hardcoded price check 𝕏
2023
• 22 DecAI generated images are 10000x cheaper than any human could charge 𝕏
• 6 DecNobody will build apps on Gemini because Google always shuts things down 𝕏
• 25 SepActionable marketing tactic to get tiktok videos about your app for $100-$300 𝕏
• 9 SepI asked GPT4 which countries you should invest in real estate 𝕏
• 7 SepUnbothered writing vanilla JavaScript while web dev Twitter fights over TypeScript 𝕏
• 6 SepWhy national postal services are so bad at delivering packages and Amazon is so good 𝕏
• 24 AugOffice trends cycle every 7 years from cubicles to open offices and back 𝕏
• 13 JulMacBook adaptor costs $220 in Brazil instead of $99 due to import taxes 𝕏
• 29 JunAspartame is proven to cause cancer in soda drinks 𝕏
• 22 JunAlmost nobody I know in Asia wants to move to America anymore 𝕏
• 4 JunDrinking alcohol negatively affects the liver and leads to fatty liver called cirrhosis 𝕏
• 20 MayThailand is a third world country 𝕏
• 6 AprBuenos Aires is now #1 on Nomad List thanks to cheap currency 𝕏
• 18 FebVC startup $100M exit nets 4 cofounders $47 per hour after dilution and taxes 𝕏
• 6 FebGoogle AI launches are all press releases without functioning products 𝕏
2022
• 29 DecAirbnb hosts with strict rules and deposits versus easy hotels 𝕏
• 10 DecThe real opportunity in AI for most people is building a front end around it 𝕏
• 10 OctAsking successful people about their tech stack is focusing on the wrong thing 𝕏
• 28 JulTodo.txt users sit at both ends of the IQ bell curve 𝕏
• 15 MayTop rising and falling destinations for remote workers in 2022 𝕏
• 16 AprFlying is so stressful it's not a luxury product anymore 𝕏
• 11 JanWhat advertising wants you to think makes you happy 𝕏
2021
• 15 DecIf you have $100,000 in savings you're losing $2,000 per month from inflation 𝕏
• 7 NovOnly 4 out of 70+ projects i ever did made money and grew 𝕏
• 13 OctBuilding a product in the dark without letting people use it early on is the best way to make something nobody wants 𝕏
• 13 SepLisbon is now the most visited city on Nomad List 𝕏
• 20 JulYou only need 26 customers paying you $99/mo to make an average U.S. income 𝕏
• 6 JunFastest growing remote work hubs Mexico Canary Islands Dubai Miami Medellin 𝕏
• 14 FebInflation Chart: the stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply
2020
• 5 NovBuilding Remotely Podcast: Will millions of remote workers become location independent in 2021?
• 2 NovOverengineering everything is the disease of modern day developers 𝕏
• 2 MayI added a fake Japanese city called Dorobō to Nomad List to catch data thieves 𝕏
• 20 MarAsia had SARS so they test and isolate but the west tries its own thing 𝕏
• 1 MarAir pollution before and after Corona 𝕏
• 11 JanTwitter giveaways can be hacked to win every time
2019
• 12 SepThe odds of getting a remote job are less than 1% (because everyone wants one)
• 28 AugThe only real validation is people paying for your product
• 19 JulThe 'work hard enough to succeed' myth is used by the ownership class to exploit the middle class 𝕏
• 7 JulTourist versus local maps for NYC, SF, Amsterdam and Tokyo 𝕏
• 30 MayIt took 4 years to reach $1m annual revenue with Nomad List and Remote OK 𝕏
• 16 MarHow my video went viral with 150,000 RTs and 10 million views but Facebook pages bait-and-switched me for $0 𝕏
2018
• 15 DecOdds of launching something successfully 𝕏
• 18 NovThe foundations of geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugin describes our current world with scary accuracy 𝕏
• 3 SepWalmart vs Google revenue and profit per employee 𝕏
• 2 SepThe more religious a country, the less productive it is 𝕏
• 18 AugWhy Europe can't do tech: low risk tolerance chart 𝕏
• 29 JulInternet speed vs murder rate 𝕏
• 14 JulThe first trillion dollar company is Norway's oil fund 𝕏
• 21 MarBuilding a startup: what people think vs reality 𝕏
2017
• 26 DecThe European Union's economy is shrinking as a share of the world market 𝕏
• 9 DecThe narrative of 20 year old founders is false most are over 36 𝕏
• 28 NovSpeak at a conference reach 1,000 people write a blog post reach 100,000 people build a product reach 1,000,000 people 𝕏
• 4 AugVC startups vs bootstrapped startups 𝕏
• 21 JulThe TL;DR MBA
• 3 AprI battled a 20-ppl million-dollar VC-funded team building the same product for 2 years 𝕏
• 23 MarRemote work is now the #1 thing people want when looking for a new job 𝕏
2016
• 13 AugHow I cured my anxiety (mostly)
• 5 JanMy 2015 revenue was $202,785 with one Linode server one MacBook no office no house hardly any expenses and $0 funding 𝕏
2015
• 20 NovThe myth that buying a house is a good idea: homes underperform investing in stock market indices over 10 - 25 years 𝕏
• 18 OctWhy doesn't Twitter just asks its users to pay?
• 1 SepWhy global roaming data solutions don't make any sense
• 7 MarHow technology is shaping our future: billions of self-employed makers and a few mega corporations
2014
• 1 DecIf you're always working you're not crushing it you're just highly inefficient 𝕏
• 1 DecThe total chaos that the dawn of the 21st century has become
• 14 OctThis is what happens when FlightFox copies your entire site without attribution
• 6 OctWhat i learnt from launching products is that the real work starts when everyone has stopped talking about you 𝕏
• 1 OctOn Thailand's immigration police targeting digital nomads
• 15 AugWhy does Generation Y feel so lost? And what's the cure?
• 22 JunHow to access anyone's Telegram messages without unlocking their phone
• 29 MayHow Go Fucking Do It raised $30,000+ in pledges in less than a month
• 2 AprHow Automation Left Us Feeling Empty
• 4 JanAll Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
2013
• 28 NovIt's practically impossible for regular people to buy Bitcoin
• 27 Nov2014 is the year techstep drum and bass makes its comeback
• 21 NovHow I predict Bitcoin's price by tracking Twitter mentions
• 19 OctWhat happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day
• 19 OctRemote working is the future
• 16 SepAutomation Will Free Us From the Endless Consumption/Production Cycle We're In
• 13 JunAdd HTTPS to NGINX for free and help make the world more secure
• 20 FebWhy overnight success is a myth
2012
• 5 JulWhy buying YouTube views is bad
• 1 JulAnybody can monetize their passion (now)
• 21 JunTEED - Blood Pressure