# If you can't get a job... BUILD ONE! The cost of starting a company has collapsed orders of magnitudes. --- ## On my birthday, we’re celebrating optimists By Tyler D Honored to be working on the Moonshots Gathering with [Peter H. Diamandis](https://substack.com/profile/379412535-peter-h-diamandis) — and it just happens to be in my birthday. Come celebrate optimists with us. Over $5M in prizes awarded live thanks to XPRIZE. --- ## The thing nobody tells you about exponential change It feels like nothing is happening right up until the moment everything happens at once. --- ## Terrorism deaths at lowest level since 2007 The number of people killed in terrorism dropped by 28% globally in 2025. Most people’s negativity bias has them believe otherwise. --- ## A single ChatGPT query uses 10x the energy of a Google search (2.9Wh vs 0.3Wh). AI data centers will soon consume as much power as two-thirds of all American homes. This is why I keep saying: energy is the bottleneck. Solve energy, solve everything. --- ## If you're a parent Please encourage your kids to think entrepreneurially. Get on your favorite AI model. Say: "These are my passions. What company could I start?" --- ## AI will transform everything On my recent trip to Morocco, our tour guide asked ChatGPT and invented a novel career for himself. We have 8 billion handsets on the planet, and I'm hopeful that AI will spread to every one of them. --- ## Two things are driving social unrest right now Young people can't see a path to a job, a home, or a future. And Hollywood keeps teaching us that AI ends in killer robots and collapse. Am I missing anything? --- ## Don't procrastinate (I know it's hard). The golden era of human-AI entrepreneurship is NOW. Every day you wait is a day you don't get back. BUILD BUILD BUILD! --- ## 50% of US data centers are being delayed or canceled 17% are uncertain. Only 33% are actually being built. This is what's driving AI compute into orbit. --- ## To put Elon's space compute vision into perspective 1 TW of compute in orbit. That's 10 million tons to orbit each year. That's 100,000 launches a year, almost one every 5 minutes. In the airline business that's normal! --- ## Google DeepMind winning again Just dropped TurboQuant, reducing AI memory usage by 6x and attention computation by 8x without any accuracy loss. Cheaper AI = more AI experiments = faster iteration = better models = cheaper AI. It's a compounding loop... And we're entering the acceleration phase. --- ## There's a certain kind of person who runs TOWARD the fire instead of away from it They see opportunity when others see chaos. That's what builds extraordinary things. Which direction are you running? --- ## Hey, I’ll do an AMA soon for my paid subs What questions do you have for me? --- ## Elon's world ecosystem looks like it will lap NVIDIA By one or two orders of magnitude... This may be the biggest and most important company on AND off the planet. A civilization-building engine. --- ## We’re going back to the moon But this time we’re going to stay there! --- ## A filmmaker about to become a father Sat down with AI leaders and asked one question: _What kind of world is my child going to grow up in?_ My response was: _What if that world could ACTUALLY be extraordinary?_ --- ### The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist Is now playing in theaters nationwide. Get your tickets today at: [focusfeatures.com](http://focusfeatures.com/) The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist From the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. --- ## Stories shape our future Storytellers manifest our destiny. Someone, somewhere, is writing an epic screenplay that is more Star Trek than Terminator. A vision of a compelling and optimistic tomorrow that will shape humanity’s next few decades. --- ## Announcing: $3.5M+ Future Vision XPRIZE In 2016, a woman in rural Rwanda was hemorrhaging during childbirth. A hospital texted for blood. Minutes later, a Zipline drone launched. 10 minutes after that, it parachuted type O negative to the landing zone. The mother and baby both survived. That system now supplies 75% of Rwanda's blood and has cut maternal mortality by 51%. --- ## Data centers in space are the stepping stone to everything Mars, O'Neill colonies, Dyson swarms. It all starts with compute in orbit.