Stephen McBride
@DisruptionHedge
Chief storyteller: http://rationaloptimistsociety.com CIO: http://riskhedge.com
I was raised in inner-city Dublin and never met my dad. One St. Patrick’s Day my neighbor was drunkenly killed with a golf club. It’s a miracle I got out of that place. Technology—the internet—saved my life, almost literally. I want to make the world more rationally…
Interested in dipping into the exciting world of crypto? I'm talking beyond the big ones: $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, $XRP (don't invest in the latter)... Read today's entry for more, and to get 3 recommended names:
Great businesses often dominate their industries. Think Google $GOOG, which controls 90% of the search market. Or Visa $V, which owns 60% of the US credit card market. GE Vernova $GEV fits that bill too. It’s made over half of all gas turbines in operation around the world. ⬇️
After watching @DisruptionHedge's chat w/ @hsu_steve, this is the least flummoxed I've ever been about quantum computing >> youtube.com/watch?v=s_jdTH…
The number of stablecoins in circulation has gone from zero to $250 billion in a few short years. Tokenization will make trading Apple as fast and easy as sending a text message, 24/7, from anywhere in the world.
The UAE government recently gave every citizen a free ChatGPT subscription, turning the entire nation into an AI-literate society overnight. My kids won’t just hear about AI; they’ll grow up with it as a core part of their education.
If you don’t think we are in a productivity boom consider this from @DisruptionHedge . The age of robotics is here! “Case in point: starting in the 1960s, the largest US automaker, General Motors, steadily transformed its production lines. Today, they incorporate over 30,000…
Texas energy maxi 🙌
It is hard to get your head around how stupendously large an electricity user a 2-5 gigawatt data center represents. A 5 gigawatt data center consumes on the order of 40 million megawatt-hours of electricity per year, as much electricity as the ENTIRE STATE of Nevada or Kansas!
The best way to profit from Phase 1 of tokenization is… ⬇️From @DisruptionHedge ⬇️: "Invest in quality crypto businesses building the pipes of this new financial system. Think about the best way to make money from the artificial intelligence boom over the past three years:…
Here's another one! Thanks @dan_steinhart at the @RationalOptSoc for reaching out and taking an interest in me and my story🤙 youtube.com/watch?v=TDvIji… rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/neuralinks-f…
As an aside, I’ve never cast a vote in any election, ever. Politics is a waste of time. I believe the ultimate expression of your conviction is to vote with your feet. That’s what I’m doing. I find it strange that while there are zero taxes, the UAE’s government is far more…
I’m moving my family, my wife, and our three children from Ireland to Abu Dhabi next month. I’ll walk you through why I made the decision below It comes down to a simple, powerful conviction: Where a child grows up shapes who they become 🧵
Fellow rational optimist @dwgalland just published an excellent deep dive on the near future of robotics @RationalOptSoc ⬇️
Neuralink is the most important startup of the next decade
We successfully completed both P8 and P9 this weekend, our first time performing two surgeries in one day. Both participants are recovering well and in great spirits. We are looking forward to supporting them on their Neuralink journey.
The real disruptive power of blockchain is that it cuts out middlemen. It’s banking without the bankers. We’ve already seen this happen with crypto’s “killer use case”—stablecoins. They’re the only way to send $10,000 to a friend halfway around the world in seconds, from your…
