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Monday, May 26, 2025

The Browser Wars Are A Departure To Something New

The AI-Era Browser Is Not a Browser—It’s the Beginning of a New Operating System https://t.co/7mxgwdAe1I
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

The AI-Era Browser Is Not a Browser—It’s the Beginning of a New Operating System https://t.co/7mxgwdAe1I https://t.co/kxSR2vnbpb
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

Rethinking Trade: A Blueprint for a Just and Thriving Global Economy
The $500 Billion Pivot: How the India-US Alliance Can Reshape Global Trade
Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
Formula For Peace In Ukraine
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Velocity Money: Crypto, Karma, and the End of Traditional Economics
The Next Decade of Biotech: Convergence, Innovation, and Transformation
Beyond Motion: How Robots Will Redefine The Art Of Movement
ChatGPT For Business: A Workbook
Becoming an AI-First Organization
Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

The AI-Era Browser Is Not a Browser—It’s the Beginning of a New Operating System https://t.co/7mxgwdAe1I
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

Strange, because I feel like most reasonably observant people have understood what they're doing for a long time.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) May 26, 2025

Today, my little one-person business crossed $10M in total revenue.

It took 2,119 days, I ran zero ads & I operate at a ~89% margin.

Here are the 23 steps of my wild & strange journey:

Hope they are helpful to someone ↓
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 26, 2025

I think you have direct access to them. Talk to them.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

7/ Kept my eyes and ears open

Something really interesting happened.

In an attempt to find common problems to productize, I started rereading my LinkedIn DMs.

I had some repetitive questions about SaaS sales, but I also had an inbox jammed with questions about LinkedIn itself.
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 26, 2025

9/ Made my first product $$

I put the product for sale on Gumroad on April 16th, 2020.

In the first month, I made $10,482.

I was shocked.

I now had my first digital product, but it was in a totally different niche than my service business.

Honestly, this confused me.
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 26, 2025

13/ I began creating an army

At the halfway point of my course, people are encouraged to leave a testimonial & sign up for an affiliate program.

I built the same automation at the conclusion of the course.

I now have 3,247 affiliates that have generated $600,000+ in revenue.
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 26, 2025

16/ Reinvested my time

With way more free time now, I decided to start writing on Twitter (now X).

Using what I knew about growing on LinkedIn, I was able to hit 480k followers in less than 2.5 years.

This provided a new channel to build more stuff.

So I did.
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 26, 2025

17/ Created a 2nd digital course

I was doing a podcast with @dickiebush and @nicolascole77 about how I built a system for writing content.

The 500+ people on the call seemed to be amazed by it.

That led to my 2nd course, The Content Operating System.
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 26, 2025

19/ Started a newsletter

In January of 2022, I launched my newsletter, The Saturday Solopreneur.

I was determined to deliver one piece of actionable advice each Saturday AM that could be read in 4 minutes or less.

In the last 40 months, I've grown it to 185K+ subs, while…
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 26, 2025

20/ Added sponsorships

With over 185K subs, I can charge for each issue to be sponsored.

I have 2 slots per issue, per week, that sell for $2,500.

Now each weekly newsletter is paying $5,000, and people are getting their brand and business in front of a ton of readers.
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 26, 2025

21/ Built a New Product

In 2023, I started working on my new flagship product, The Creator MBA.

111 lessons and 19 hours of instructional video to help creators build their online business using lessons I've learned.

But I wanted to do something different this time...
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 26, 2025

22/ Personalized Launch Plan

With a lot of help from @brennandunn I put together an 18-week, personalized launch plan.

And when the course launched on January 16th, 2024?

It sold $1.6M in 6 days.

All of the work and personalization paid off.
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 26, 2025

23/ Rebuilt a membership

As I neared $10M in revenue, I got itchy to begin focusing on creative writing.

So, 2 weeks ago, I started a Substack with a membership attached.

Weekly essays, chat, Q&A, workshops, and in-person networking events.

Since launching, it's become an… pic.twitter.com/zOk8mRkxks
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 26, 2025

So Substack is your Mount Everest, eh? I have decided to start at the top. Going to launch a Substack right now. Exploring the End Times.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

T 5390 (iii)
अग्निवीर ज़िंदाबाद 🇮🇳 !!
भारत माता की जय 🇮🇳🇮🇳 !!
जय हिन्द 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/m1exbcvp93
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) May 25, 2025

New kinda magnet?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

Apple and Tesla are on the chopping block. https://t.co/Tl7Cgs4imM https://t.co/Fd6aa8dgTK Size does not matter. Apple is on its way to irrelevance in five years if it stays on its current path. It is not failing. It is fading.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

“I'm not happy with what Putin is doing. He's killing a lot of people and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin.” - Trump

We can all tell you.

pic.twitter.com/Lk6QvrOkab
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 25, 2025

Parts of newly inaugurated Acharya Atre Chowk underground metro station on Mumbai’s Aqua Line 3 found submerged due to incessant overnight rainfall. The station, which began operations on May 10th (two weeeks ago) serves as a vital connector between Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC)… pic.twitter.com/QPxiPpPehH
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) May 26, 2025

Welcome to Beijing. https://t.co/dQwMQdN9Mh
— Ambassador Chen Song (@PRCAmbNepal) May 26, 2025

Nice pic.twitter.com/mhSQlnYqIe
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 26, 2025

Our portco @SarvamAI got a lot of global eyeballs this week - we appreciate the attention and also understand the responsibility. What is clear is (1) most folks really don't understand what strategy we are going for and what matters in that strategy (2) when the timing is right…
— Hemant Mohapatra (@MohapatraHemant) May 26, 2025

This is DeepSeek level and beyond.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish

Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) May 26, 2025

@paraschopra Strange logic. Makes no sense.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

Launch a startup.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

The UAE just became the first country with nationwide ChatGPT access. Universal Basic AI? pic.twitter.com/afs86pwPzu
— Tanay Jaipuria (@tanayj) May 25, 2025

Explain this. What's going on?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

Latest technology. https://t.co/qYu6XfBnlr
— Ambassador Chen Song (@PRCAmbNepal) May 26, 2025

Put your money where your mouth is ..... run!
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism https://t.co/OFT21hoLmW
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

🚨 *TRUMP: I AGREED TO EXTEND EU 50% TARIFF DEADLINE TO JULY 9

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 25, 2025

There are no deadlines.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

Rethinking Trade: A Blueprint for a Just and Thriving Global Economy https://t.co/8aGH1Vh2WL
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

Just being consistently optimistic and having a positive outlook is 90% of the battle when building a startup.

The kind where everything’s on fire and you still say “we're just getting started”. Because most founders lose because they burn out, stop believing, and stop giving it…
— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) May 26, 2025

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, just made a bold prediction:

"The application layer is collapsing into agents."

Translation? Your apps are obsolete.

In a recent interview, he revealed the ONE shift that will redefine AI’s future...

Here's everything you need to know:🧵 pic.twitter.com/cywoZvjTOw
— anarchy.build (@anarchy_build) May 25, 2025

More than the application layer is collapsing. And it is no a collapse. It is like the whole thing is getting liquefied with AI.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

India now officially the 4th largest GDP in the world, surpassing UK and Japan.

Projected to be 3rd largest within 3 years, surpassing Germany.

The growth is there, it’s visible all around. 🇮🇳
— Ash Arora (@asharoraa) May 26, 2025

Depends on how much you are paying.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

An interesting stat:

We estimate we’ll catch about 1000 tons of pure clean plastic per year in the Cisadane river. There are 5 million people living in this river’s catchment area. That’s 200 grams of ocean plastic pollution per person.

The Rhine has about 60 million people… https://t.co/GsZLkd7MR9
— Boyan Slat (@BoyanSlat) May 26, 2025

I've been experimenting with @bryan_johnson's approach of moving the last meal of the day backwards to track the impact on sleep.

I'm now eating my last meal at around 12 PM, and it's incredible how big of an impact this has on my resting HR much later in the day for my bedtime…
— Simon Høiberg (@SimonHoiberg) May 26, 2025

"What happened in 1971?" update. HT @MargRev pic.twitter.com/on8RfiMpc5
— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) May 25, 2025

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) says the Big Beautiful Bill is immoral, will bankrupt America, and he has the votes to derail it in the Senate.

Wow.

pic.twitter.com/Fgcj65iIr6
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 26, 2025

Your 9-5 isn’t killing your dreams.
Wasting your 5-9 is. pic.twitter.com/atSwVuuaCM
— Alex Hormozi (@AlexHormozi) May 26, 2025

Hello from Midland, TX. Did not realize you were in Austin. Meet some day?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 26, 2025

days after president trump spent two hours on the phone with putin calling for an immediate ceasefire: https://t.co/AwEuiWrRjC
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) May 25, 2025

Friday's EU tariff announcement lasted nearly the whole weekend, or 18% of a Scaramucci. pic.twitter.com/gosDLJECDa
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) May 25, 2025

What an Exciting Time to Be Boring

The most exciting founders I know are solving the most boring problems.

They’re not pitching AGI. They’re fixing the inbox. Cleaning up permissions. Rebuilding internal tools everyone tolerates but nobody actually likes.

And they’re onto…
— Hiten Shah (@hnshah) May 26, 2025

The revolution in organ transplants is here thanks to gene editing.

A 62-year-old man on dialysis needed a new kidney. Doctors implanted him with a pig's kidney that had been given 69 edits to be human-compatible.

He immediately stopped needing dialysis. pic.twitter.com/T455ZD1Kht
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) May 25, 2025

I’ve lived in 6 countries & 4 continents, & so far, Africans are my favorite kinda people - the way they pursue life, handle stress, manage grief or communicate, I find them incredibly enjoyable. If you haven’t spent time in Africa, I’d encourage you to go! Start with Zanzibar!
— Aditi Shekar (@aditishekar) May 26, 2025

First road caving in/potholes/ as monsoon hits Mumbai early. This at a main arterial road on Kemps Corner. A great city has to be built on world class infrastructure: we once had dreams of Mumbai as Shanghai. Not as a city that struggles to cope with the monsoon year after year… pic.twitter.com/UhaSQyadwO
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) May 26, 2025

Self-Driving Showdown: Tesla vs BYD vs Waymo — Who’s Winning the Autonomy Race?

Self-Driving Showdown: Tesla vs BYD vs Waymo — Who’s Winning the Autonomy Race?

The race to full self-driving (FSD) is one of the most transformative technological battles of our era. It’s not just about who builds the smartest car, but who redefines transportation itself. Among the frontrunners, three giants stand out: Tesla, BYD, and Waymo (Google). Each brings a different philosophy, tech stack, and roadmap to the table. But who’s ahead, and is FSD even achievable?

Tesla: The Vision-First Maverick

Approach: Tesla’s strategy is bold: achieve full autonomy using just cameras (vision) and AI, skipping LIDAR entirely. Tesla believes that if a human can drive with eyes and a brain, a machine can too—with better precision, memory, and reaction speed.

Strengths:

Huge fleet data advantage: millions of Teslas worldwide feeding back real-world driving data.
Fast software iteration via over-the-air (OTA) updates.
Arguably the best AI training infrastructure in the industry (Dojo).

Weaknesses:

Current FSD Beta (v12) is not truly autonomous—it still requires driver supervision.
Lacks redundancy; no LIDAR or high-definition mapping.

Current Status: Level 2 autonomy with strong aspirations for Level 4+.

Bottom Line: Ambitious, risky, and very much still in testing. Elon Musk claims it's close—but we’ve heard that for years.

Waymo (Google): The Cautious Scientist

Approach: Waymo uses a sensor fusion approach—LIDAR, radar, cameras, and HD maps—to build a “belt-and-suspenders” system. It’s methodical, safety-first, and geofenced.

Strengths:

Operates driverless taxis in Phoenix and San Francisco, without a human in the car.
Emphasizes safety and real-world deployment over hype.
Has logged millions of miles fully autonomously.

Weaknesses:

Slow rollout. Operational only in select urban zones.
Heavily dependent on pre-mapped environments, which limits scalability.

Current Status: Level 4 autonomy in geofenced areas. Commercial service operational.

Bottom Line: The most proven, safest, but least scalable—so far.

BYD: The Quiet Challenger

Approach: BYD is rapidly advancing, but focuses more on ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) than true autonomy—for now. It partners with Nvidia, Huawei, and Baidu for autonomy R&D.

Strengths:

Massive production scale gives it deployment potential.
Deep partnerships with top AI and chip companies in China.
Strong government backing and access to Chinese roads/data.

Weaknesses:

Currently lags behind Tesla and Waymo in autonomy.
More focused on electrification and cost-efficiency than cutting-edge autonomy—for now.

Current Status: Level 2+ (highway assist, lane keep, adaptive cruise), working toward Level 3.

Bottom Line: Not leading the self-driving race yet, but could surge quickly with Chinese regulatory and tech tailwinds.

Other Key Players

Cruise (GM): Level 4 in cities like San Francisco, paused after safety incidents. Risk of overreach.
Apple: Still stealthy, unclear roadmap, reportedly scaled back.
Nvidia / Mobileye / Baidu / Pony.ai: Providing backbone tech for others. Powering the ecosystem, not leading consumer brands.

So Who’s Winning?

Company	Autonomy Level (Max Deployed)	Safety Record	Scalability	Tech Stack	Overall Score
Waymo	Level 4 (geofenced)	✅ Safest	❌ Limited	✅ Sensor-rich	8/10
Tesla	Level 2+ (Beta testing L4)	⚠️ Riskier	✅ Scalable	⚡ AI-only	7.5/10
BYD	Level 2+ (Basic ADAS)	✅ Conservative	✅ Scale potential	🧩 Partner-led	6/10

Is Full Self-Driving (FSD) Even Possible?

That depends on what you mean by “FSD.”

Level 3: Driver must take over when required. Possible today, but rare.
Level 4: No driver needed within geofenced areas. Waymo and Cruise are here already.
Level 5: No driver, anywhere, anytime. The holy grail—and we’re not there yet.

Tesla aims to brute-force Level 5 with vision and data. Waymo is building it brick-by-brick with sensors and maps. But neither has cracked true Level 5 in the wild.

When Will We Get There?

Most experts now say true Level 5 autonomy is still 5–10 years away, despite the marketing hype. Why?

Edge case complexity: Deer, snowstorms, construction zones, unpredictable human behavior.
Legal and regulatory frameworks are not ready.
Machine common sense is still primitive.

The Real Future: FSD + Connected Car Infrastructure?

A truly autonomous world may require:

100% of vehicles to be FSD,
All cars to communicate with each other (V2V),
Smart infrastructure (traffic lights, signage),
And possibly, removal of human drivers altogether in urban zones.

This is closer to a “smart mobility ecosystem” than just smarter cars. It’s theoretically doable, but would require:

Global coordination,
Billions in infrastructure upgrades,
And time.

Final Verdict

Best Right Now: Waymo, for safety and real-world deployment.
Most Ambitious: Tesla, for its “data eats sensors” vision.
Sleeper to Watch: BYD, especially if China makes an autonomy leap.

Is FSD possible? Yes, but not alone. It won’t be one company or one technology. It will be a systems-level achievement, fusing AI, hardware, regulation, and infrastructure.

Until then, keep your hands on the wheel—and your eyes on the road ahead. The race is far from over.

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Monday, May 26, 2025

The Browser Wars Are A Departure To Something New

Self-Driving Showdown: Tesla vs BYD vs Waymo — Who’s Winning the Autonomy Race?

Tesla: The Vision-First Maverick

Waymo (Google): The Cautious Scientist

BYD: The Quiet Challenger

Other Key Players

So Who’s Winning?

Is Full Self-Driving (FSD) Even Possible?

When Will We Get There?

The Real Future: FSD + Connected Car Infrastructure?

Final Verdict