This is Brooklyn. I might even have walked that street. Netizen: Beehiiv: The Infrastructure Behind the Modern Newsletter Economy https://t.co/wx7f13QCmL
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 31, 2025

whatever happened to perplexity?

at one point I thought it would dethrone google, now I have no idea what they're up to
— mert | helius (@mert) December 30, 2025

Six Weeks From Zero (novel)
The Dawn Beyond Currency (Part 1) (novel)
The Dawn Beyond Currency (Part 2) (novel)
The Great Subcontinent Uprising (Part 1) (novel)
The Great Subcontinent Uprising (Part 2) (novel)
The Great Subcontinent Uprising (novel)
The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
The Protocol of Greatness (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Garden Of Last Debates (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

Tesla: Three Weeks From Zero (Short Story) https://t.co/7DcW85z0Qy
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 31, 2025

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 30, 2025

The progress in robotic hands is moving incredibly fast.

Here, ALLEX's 15-DOF hands perform micro-pick and fastening with high accuracy. Capable of detecting forces as small as 100 grams for fine manipulation, and maintains safe human-robot interaction.pic.twitter.com/Bybfype5GD
— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) December 30, 2025

This feels like a watershed moment. When the best engineers in the world are no longer writing a single line of code, and barely even looking at the code that's being generated.

This would have sounded insane just a year ago.

Hard to fathom what happens when the stuff @bcherny… https://t.co/DBKuwZUXjX pic.twitter.com/hMwiItwm03
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) December 30, 2025

The Twitter algorithm is tricking your consciousness.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 31, 2025

Bring down the costs. Compete with BYD on costs. Then we are talking.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 31, 2025

My advice to students is to chase the biggest and most prestigious logo early in your career

Harvard opens more doors than you can imagine. Having Goldman or Google on your resume as a first job can set you up for rest of your life

Do not fall for anyone telling you otherwise
— Boring_Business (@BoringBiz_) December 30, 2025

....... “the experience of being a small business owner leads people to adopt conservative views on government regulation.” So small business owners supported Trump in the belief that he would get the government off their backs. ........ High tariffs have been a body blow to the many small businesses that rely, one way or another, on imported goods. Mass arrests of immigrants have also been highly disruptive for businesses, such as construction contractors, that depend on foreign-born workers. ........... one unanticipated result of the Trump tariffs has been much more thorough exploitation of the rules of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, the agreement formerly known as NAFTA. It turns out that until this past spring, there were many goods produced in Mexico and Canada that were legally entitled to enter the U.S. duty free — but as long as tariffs were low, many importers chose not to pay the legal fees or fill out the paperwork needed to claim these exemptions. When Trump went on his tariff spree, the incentives changed, and many companies decided that the cost of the extra paperwork was worth it, after all: ........... under Trump the United States has moved rapidly toward crony capitalism, a situation in which businesses with strong political connections get favorable treatment. Under this system, big businesses can in effect buy themselves a privileged position. Small businesses can’t. ............ Apple has so far dodged most of the negative impact of Trump’s tariffs. Over the summer Trump imposed punitive tariffs on India, which is where most iPhones sold in the United States are produced. But for some reason smartphones were exempted from Trump’s India tariffs. What’s the logic behind this exemption? Might it have something to do with the fact that Apple is helping to pay for the construction of the grotesque ballroom that Trump is building to replace the demolished East Wing of the White House? ...........

2025 was a difficult year for many businesses not benefiting from the AI boom, but it was especially hard on small business.

Hate 2.0 The defining ideology of Trump 2.0 .............

If one word could summarize the ideology of the second Trump regime, it would be “hate.”

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BREAKING: GROK is working on MEMORIES!

Grok will soon remember details about you to personalize your experience!

You'll be able to delete the individual memories too! pic.twitter.com/f4vMwgTAR5
— Nima Owji (@nima_owji) December 30, 2025

i'm convinced the most interesting software of the next 5 years won't come from engineers

it'll come from designers and artists who finally have the tools to ship

the creative artisan arc is here. still early.

new project with @anthropicai on @claudeai 🧡 pic.twitter.com/48XboSst8c
— cole (@covacut) December 30, 2025

Any early stage founders want to do an early New Year’s lunch tomorrow at noon with @JaiRelan and I?

We can find a chill lunch spot in Dogpatch and just hang out.

Will give priority to ones that have recently moved.

DM please - will limit to 8 folks - and confirm in the am!
— Nikunj Kothari (@nikunj) December 30, 2025

Someone educate me.

- OpenAI
- Claude
- Manus
- Gemini

How do you determine when to use each one?
— Ryan Clogg (@RyanClogg) December 29, 2025

That day, when we heard ChatGPT was launching an agent product, I might have been the happiest person on earth. Many investors asked the same question: “What if ChatGPT builds the same thing?”

Honestly, we couldn’t really answer—because by the time people ask that, they already… https://t.co/oWj89TzAQK
— hidecloud (@hidecloud) December 30, 2025

The more I learn about China’s VC strategy, the more I think they’re running another race outside of AI where they have structural advantages to owning the generation of tech winners 2040 and beyond.

See China’s decision to mandate 70% of its new $21B National Venture Capital…
— Jason Shuman (@JasonrShuman) December 30, 2025

CES 2026 theme: the robots are coming.

Will get to as many as I can. https://t.co/jr0U90WaPY
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) December 30, 2025

When a buyer calls your codebase "messy" during due diligence.

Selling your startup is emotional. No way around it.

You’ve spent years bleeding for the business with late nights, zero salary, the works.

Then a buyer comes in and looks at your "baby" and starts nitpicking every… pic.twitter.com/gcAw0eKaDD
— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) December 30, 2025

Lou Gerstner was one of the great American businessman, and someone I learned a lot from. He died two days ago, and after turning around IBM (a historic feat) became the Chair of the Broad Institute (I followed him in that role). He had great business skills of course but his…
— Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt) December 30, 2025

This is the 1997 moment because building AI agents still feel complicated and awkward.

And that's why it's a wonderful time to be building AI agents in 2026. https://t.co/KIQBx6YZLE
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) December 29, 2025

Every $100B co turned down many acquisition offers at $1B snd $10B to stand on its own https://t.co/qSsgYCQf4U
— Garry Tan (@garrytan) December 30, 2025

if you're Amazon, you need your Manus
if you're Shopify, you need your Manus
if you're Bookings, you need your Manus

if you're a big consumer/commerce brand, and don't own a major LLM, you need to build/acquire an agent because consumer *intent* is going away from consumer apps
— Matt Turck (@mattturck) December 30, 2025

GPT-5.2 Pro is very strong for science and mathematics.

From the FrontierMath site, solving Tier 4 "would provide evidence that AI can perform the complex reasoning needed for scientific breakthroughs in technical domains."

Getting very close! https://t.co/1DjJ1hHWIi
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) December 31, 2025

Here’s an insight about building consumer products after working at TikTok and now Manus:

Sometimes the best features are soooo obvious in hindsight, but to be able to come up with features as a solution to a super niche problem requires an immense understanding of the product.…
— Natalie (@gr00vyfairy) December 31, 2025

2025 wrapped 🧵:

- Launched 2 B2C apps → 350K+ users
- Made $250K+ total revenue and now $21K/month (All organic without paid ads)
- Quit my boring 9–5.
- Hit 45.5K followers on X.
- Bought my first car at 26
- Cracked TikTok marketing: 100M+ views across 40 accounts.
- Shipped…
— Alex Nguyen (@alexcooldev) December 30, 2025

I've got friends who now use voice AI to make multiple phone enquires in parallel and book the best option.

This is going to immediately DDOS businesses, right?
— Tom Blomfield (@t_blom) December 30, 2025

Founder mode is so 2024… 😜

2026 is all Founder code!

Vision → strategy → roadmap → OKR → product spec → design → eng lead → team → implementation → PR review → deploy.

By the time intent hits production, it’s been through ten games of telephone.

Founder code…
— Sebastian Siemiatkowski (@klarnaseb) December 30, 2025

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Split the shares. So Elon keeps the voting power since he needs to run a company, but the wealth goes to .... schools, hospitals, social housing, direct cash transfers.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 31, 2025

What kind of billionaire will abandon California just because he is having to pay a little more in taxes? What does that tell you about California? They are already never there. They are in Colorado on vacation.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 31, 2025

I fixed a bug my wife spotted in my app by chatting with Amp for a couple minutes.

In a previous life, I would've had to:

1. Create a ticket
2. Chat to my dev team
3. Loop in a PM and a designer
4. Review the fix

The whole thing would've taken at least a week.

I still…
— Ryan Carson (@ryancarson) December 30, 2025

This is an exciting day to be a creator on 𝕏

If you’re mostly a consumer on 𝕏, it’s not too late.

Just s tart by sharing what you’re most passionate about and try packaging it as best as you can

Then listen to your audience and make daily improvements

It’s that easy! https://t.co/yuMdVG3bD4
— Dan (@KettlebellDan) December 30, 2025

The Twitter algorithms have become so much better compared to say three years ago.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 31, 2025

There’s a strength training method called
Progressive Overload:

It’s a slow increase in the load placed on the body over time. You add a tiny amount of weight each week.

It’s very boring—but also very effective for long-term growth.

This isn’t a tweet about strength training.
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) December 30, 2025

SoftBank will make so much money when OpenAI goes public. Masa struck an awesome deal to have a delayed draw to fund. https://t.co/CGyyRqJtZ9
— Geoffrey Woo (@geoffreywoo) December 30, 2025

Pay me.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 31, 2025

Most people will not understand this but if you do, it will make you dollars.

Instead of making content that’s got 10 nuggets with 1 reason to do them.

You want to make content that has 1 nugget and 10 reasons to do it.

Don’t just give tactics. Sell them.
— Alex Hormozi (@AlexHormozi) December 30, 2025

Start from scratch. Neither looks that good.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 31, 2025

Just because your company's name is lemon does not mean your logo needs to look lemon.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 31, 2025

Sam Altman explained why focus is the ultimate force multiplier for success: pic.twitter.com/k2WYoCgBb4
— Jaynit (@jaynitx) December 30, 2025

Instead of politicians with higher ambitions trying to destroy tech for virtue signal points, maybe we need to help American tech win

And it’s not going well, possibly only worse from here if we don’t get leaders who understand and foster American technology https://t.co/54OkRrUh77
— Garry Tan (@garrytan) December 30, 2025

-2024 Democratic Party presidential nominee was from California
-2024 Democratic vice-presidential nominee was from Minnesota
-The leading contender for the 2028 Democratic Party presidential nomination is from California

Now remind me, which states have billions in fraud?
— Cameron Winklevoss (@cameron) December 30, 2025

This is partly why data centers in space will become cheaper than on Earth. They will be standalone entities made 100% in factories. No site prep. No brick and mortar construction. No utility hookups. No water systems for cooling. Those non-factory costs will become dominant. https://t.co/RytGtfbX9N
— Phil Metzger (@DrPhiltill) December 30, 2025

2026 career advice

Warren Buffett:

"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks".

As you approach 2026, realistically evaluate the boat you're on and ensure…
— Gokul Rajaram (@gokulr) December 30, 2025

Feature of the year: Articles on X are coming dangerously close to making this often hellish app intelligent again.
— Matt Turck (@mattturck) December 30, 2025

We are not going to see many of these names in the $100M+ ARR column go public next year … but we are basically expecting MOST of the $1B + ARR group to try and go public over the next 1-2 years.

Meanwhile, literally ANYTHING approaching or growing fast toward $100M + ARR in… pic.twitter.com/ZnHmJwqXge
— JJ (@JosephJacks_) December 30, 2025

looking to hire an intern for the summer to hit enter when claude code asks if it can run a command
— parth (@parthsareen) December 30, 2025

JUST IN: Elon Musk tells X to increase creator payouts to compete with YouTube. pic.twitter.com/J3B4z1n4mD
— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) December 30, 2025

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30: Zelensky

2025 was a difficult year for many businesses not benefiting from the AI boom, but it was especially hard on small business.

If one word could summarize the ideology of the second Trump regime, it would be “hate.”

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