The thought that every single one of us has an invisible clock counting down and nobody knows when it hits zero. I didn't get this until age 35. Before that, time felt infinite. You waste entire years on the wrong thing. The wrong person. The wrong company. Then one random Tuesday you realize you might be halfway done. Maybe more. No one knows. Your high school friends are having their second kids. Your parents' friends are dying. That feature you shipped five years ago, well, the entire company doesn't exist anymore. We all walk around pretending we have time. But the guy who cut you off in traffic this morning....his clock might run out tomorrow. The founder grinding 80-hour weeks...maybe has 40 years left. Maybe 4. The weird part is knowing this changes everything. Once you see the clock, you can't unsee it. So you stop optimizing for someday. Start shipping today. Text the friend. Build the thing. Take the risk. The clock's ticking anyway. Might as well make it count. That's what I realized at 35. Not that time is short. But that knowing time is short is actually the unlock. It fires me up, maybe you too.

How I changed my life 1. I started writing online, even when no one was reading. 2. I started using the internet like a lab testing ideas, aesthetics, and workflows to see what clicked. 3. I began treating every conversation as either energy-giving or energy-draining, then designed my life around the givers. 4. I started screenshotting things that sparked curiosity and treating them like startup seeds. 5. I stopped hanging out with people who rolled their eyes at my ideas and started surrounding myself with builders who said "you should ship that." 6. I realized no one was coming to save my ideas or hand me opportunities. So I picked myself, grabbed my laptop, and kept building until something stuck. 7. I stopped asking “Is this good?” and started asking “Did this create motion?”. 8. I began saying no to everything that felt like should and yes to everything that felt like curiosity. 9. I built things I wanted to exist, then let strangers on the internet shape them. 10. I stopped treating social media like entertainment and started using it like distributionI started naming my projects like brands, even when they were just docs. 11. I began creating systems that worked while I slept. I started valuing quiet ambition over loud mediocrity. 12. I started showing up like it mattered and eventually, it did. 13. I started building things that worked without me, then using that freedom to build bigger things. 14. I started treating my brain like a search engine feeding it better inputs so it could generate better outputs. 15. I realized that building wealth and building happiness use the same playbook: compound what works, eliminate what doesn't, and stay in the game long enough for magic to happen.

My friend @PJaccetturo cracked 100M+ AI video views using a weird twist Google VEO3 + ChatGPT + Capcut + Final Cut Pro. I summarized his playbook in under 1 minute (copy this workflow):

THE BIGGEST HACK TO FINDING STARTUP IDEAS USING AI AND AI AGENTS IS HERE (6 min tutorial with @ideabrowser launch)

BILLIONS ARE UP FOR GRABS WITH THIS AI WAVE When I was 23, I watched fortunes get minted in the App Store gold rush in Silicon Valley because a handful of founders locked themselves in a room, ignored every shiny distraction, and got absurdly good at one thing...ranking on a brand-new leaderboard. Same playbook today, except the leaderboard updates every sunrise. A new model, a fresh agent, an API nobody saw coming drops daily, and it’s easy to drown in release notes. Treat that overwhelm as proof you’re early. The only way out is to learn and ship your ideas at the same time. Pick a single wedge in the AI stack, go six inches wide and a mile deep, and treat every experiment like a speed-run. Run 30-day cycles: build a micro-agent, thread it through the FYP, measure the spike, double down on what hits, kill everything else. Learn the tools, models, and workflows while you’re shipping...become an experimentation machine that levels up mid-sprint. Keep score in happy customers, not VCs reaching out. Energy matters while the window is cracked open, but focus compounds when it closes. The people who stay rich in the next cycle will be the ones who built distribution and product in the same keystroke, then said “no” 99 times out of 100. Calendar-block four-hour deep-work slabs, stack tiny launches, and let the market whisper which direction to sprint. I'm here to tell you... 1. In five years we’ll call this chapter obvious. Right now it’s pure arbitrage. 2. Like all arbitrage, this window will close. I raised $2M to build a mobile app in 2018. It was too late. It made it 100x more difficult than launching in 2009. 3. There's a reason why Uber, Instagram and most of the mobile app success stories launched in the early app store era not post-covid. 4. you dont need co-founders or a seed round to get started 5. what you build this weekend could be worth millions by next year. new models + new platforms + new use cases = unlimited surface area for innovation. 6. the people who win aren't waiting for permission. they're shipping products and learning the tools simultaneously, treating each launch as data collection. 7. the window is temporary, but the wealth created during it will be permanent. the next Instagram, Uber, and Airbnb equivalents are being built right now with AI at their core. 8. there is a huge unfair advantage in knowing how to prompt, finding new workflows, seeking out new tools 9. the obvious AI use cases (content creation, coding assistance) are already saturated and extremely VC funded. the non-obvious ones (AI for physical world problems, niche industry applications) are wide open. 10. There is millions of dollars up for grabs just wrapping agents and selling them as work. 11. I will be sharing this stuff for free. i want to see you steal my ideas, my workflows, the tools I use and get absurdly wealthy, quit your 9-5, create happy customers and have fun. 12. THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER.

Email from Fiverr CEO to his team about AI ($1b company):

how to get "lucky" as a founder right now: do everything you can to build an app so undeniably useful that people can't stop talking about it and then do everything you can to make sure chatgpt, grok, claude, and gemini can't stop talking about it either.

INTRODUCTION TO "VIBE MARKETING" (23 minute tutorial/demo explained simply)

this is the MOST permissionless moment in history. 10 years ago, you needed investors, cofounders, an office, and 6 months of burn just to start a startup. not anymore: 1. you want a startup idea → go mining on reddit, app store reviews etc 2. you want customers → build an audience 3. you want a beautiful software product → learn bolt, cursor, replit, lovable etc 4. you want to charge → stripe link. done. 5. you want distribution without using your face → partner with a niche creator. their trust is your launchpad. 6. you want ops → string together GPT-4o + Claude + Gumloop/Lindy/n8n agents 7. you want an office → kitchen table + noise-canceling headphones 8. you want exceptional advisors → binge 1000 hours of podcasts + you can DM anyone on the planet 9. you want momentum → ship something small today. the rest figures itself out. no gatekeepers. no resumes. no permission needed. you need consistency, taste, and internet access. the startup school is open 24/7. enrollment is free. but shipping is the tuition. there are no excuses anymore.