Episode #172: 28 September 2025

This episode tracks 11 threads across tech, policy, markets, and culture. Alex Hormozi argues wealth comes from long, boring volume, echoing grit research. A sharp backlash meets the UK push for mandatory digital IDs, with privacy and scope creep worries across parties. Bun shifts its docs to markdown for agent use, cutting token load and hinting at emerging agent-friendly web norms. Solana brands itself the app store for finance, while critics cite rug pull risk and thin consumer protections. A proposal suggests RL for X with a Kardashev reward. Anthropic is framed as pursuing coding-first models to speed research and revenue, not leaderboard wins. On design, a subway display gripe spotlights poor wayfinding and mounting vandalism costs. Live Nation claims tickets are underpriced as regulators probe fees and market power. Founder life gets a sober readout of sleep loss, stress, and doubt. A newly unemployed voice notes tight grocery budgets, sleep helps but does not cure, and shifts away from feeling-avoidant habits. Finally, claims of a moral panic around short video meet mixed evidence on attention and harm.