My niece’s friend went to doctor with pain. Doctor checked, tested, said nothing wrong. Pain was getting worse. She asked ChatGPT with all symptoms, and it said high probability of cancer. She went back to doctor to run up blood tests for cancer. He reluctantly did it. Stage 3 cancer.

How does Yamaha sell $3 BILLION of musical instruments and another $17 BILLION of motorcycles? Dominating two completely unrelated markets. Quick thread on this amazing story. 👇

4x tariff revenue. Good or bad?

When you top off the last floor and realize there’s a clear view of the Statue of Liberty from the future roof deck.

Just learned that the Louis Vuitton “building” is not a building! That’s just a temporary scaffolding with a custom built construction cover. It’s so successful in terms of becoming a tourist attraction, I don’t know how they’re going to take that down after that kind of attention. Literally people put it on their travel plans to see it. And yes it is really impressive in person.

Around 2012 I had an entry-level employee who got completely obsessed about Bitcoin. His name was Matt. He’d talk about BTC non-stop. It was so bad he once cornered me in the bathroom at our company holiday party and to talk more about BTC. Literally the whole party that night I couldn’t get him to stop talking about BTC. One time in my office he told me “one day I want to be rich like you Val and if it happens, it’ll be because of Bitcoin”. He was putting every penny into BTC from what he told me. And was telling me I need to too. I thought he was nuts. Who’s nuts now? No idea what happened to Matt. He kinda deleted himself off the internet and is nowhere to be found online. Matt, if you follow me, hit me up. I hope you stuck to your obsession and living the life.

Selling creates opportunities. If you’re consistently selling, then you’re consistently creating opportunities. Those opportunities are not necessarily transactional. These same opportunities can create relationships, business and personal. And selling something for nothing is selling too. Many of my best relationships and opportunities came from giving something away, whether its time, advice, or even a service. So, don’t be afraid to ABC (always be selling).

hey Real Estate X, any feedback on Buildium vs Doorloop for property management software?

WSJ story “Done with tiptoeing around their kids' feelings, FAFO parents are back”. It’s about time.

Imagine spending $100 BILLION building a modern city for 700,000 people but it doesn’t sell and sits as a ghost town with population of just 9,000. That’s Forest City, Malaysia just across a river to Singapore which holds some of the most valuable real estate in the world.