It's okay to just be fucked up and miserable right now [amid COVID-19]—that's the natural human reaction. It's like that for smart people, entrepreneurs, hustlers, and all these people who'll go on to eventually do great things. It's perfectly reasonable to be self-destructively unhealthy and fucking panicked right now.

I just have no fucking time for that. Like, that idea I told you about over the weekend where we were talking to our team and I was like, okay, I appreciate all your input but we're fucking doing it. And they're like okay, Q1? Q2? And I'm like, no, Q-Friday.

You also asked, who is someone I looked up to in a mentor? ... Right now, I have few if zero of them because I started realizing... anytime I put somebody on a pedestal, I realized it holds them to a universal purity test across everything.

Donald Trump is an example of what happens when someone is raised without anyone ever saying no to them.

I think that's one of the most damaging things that any of us can do, whether it's in trading, business, etc.—assume that all the upside is causal, and we created it, and all the downside is outside of our control.

We reinvented cigarettes, fentanyl-laced cigarettes, when we started social media with all the best intentions.

That is one of the major flaws of the Democratic party—it's you either sign up to everything they believe in or fuck you, you're out.

I think the biggest danger of raising kids with privileges that they turn out to be assholes.

For the last four years, I've been quietly—and only in the last couple of months taking the covers off it—investing aggressively in both for- and nonprofit climate solutions. This just gets me excited. The ability to dramatically impact the planet and get rich again has been pretty fascinating.

I don't think you have to, like, work yourself into a state of unhealthiness anymore. But I also think you can't fucking phone this in, and I'm sick of apologizing for it.

When I quit Twitter in November of 2022, I lost 11 pounds in 6 weeks with no lifestyle changes. I had just been eating the cortisol of my mentions for years.

I always had a hustle. I always had a little bit of a side business. I mean, from the time I was six-years-old, I was going around the neighborhood selling walnuts that I poked holes in and called air fresheners or rocks that I found in a parking lot. I was literally going door-to-door.

Everyone thinks the cost of building a house is the amount of money you put into it. That's real. At the same time, it's the amount of time and crazy and bullshit and like shit breaks all the time that you put into it.

Your inbox is a to-do list to which anyone else can add an action item.

To everybody out there who's feeling freaked out right now [amid COVID-19], you're not alone, and that is a natural feeling, so hang in there.

You ask me, what's changed since I was 30 or 40? I am way less patient. It's harder to work for me as a result.

We have a generation of young people who cannot tell when they're being bullshitted, because Mom and Dad were helicopter and snowplow parenting for them.

Nothing about About what's happening in America is surprising. I don't love it, but it doesn't shock me.