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economic Warfare continues as Canada
threatens to turn off our electricity
prompting Trump to say the tariffs will
continue until morale improves the
Department of Education got radically
defunded and Larry Fink begs Trump to
keep the illegals here to work the
fields Ukraine agrees to a ceasefire
deep seek rocks the AI world again by
proving Size Matters and despite what
you've heard smaller is better Google
robotics demo a bot that can pack a
lunch and do origami anthropic CEO says
99% of all code will be written by AI in
just 12 months and I offer solutions to
Modern dating prompting chat to pay a
lot of money to tell me I'm wrong okay
yeah go a and play it outperforms GPT 40
and Claude 3.5 which is interesting
because 3.7 is already out on math
benchmarks here it is running on a phone
completely offline tiny 1.5 billion AI
model that will run on almost any
hardware even without internet are you
getting it yet here's why I like that
this is going to free up a level of
innovation like I am hungry for this
right now literally right now I am
working with manufacturers to help us
build um a toy that can sync up with an
in-game character so that players can
have a relationship with an in-game
character that's driven by AI which by
the way David Kim the guy in the feed is
the guy that has deployed that character
for us um so the early stages it's still
trash it will get better anyway uh so
you've got an AI character in game an AI
toy out of game in real life and the to
what what we're trying to do is sync
them up it may not be possible yet I
guarantee it will be possible in the
near future but the big thing is how
much is this thing going to cost because
you want to make this as cheap for
people as possible to make the
experience awesome to get it in as many
hands as possible so you need a a very
effective AI to have a very small
footprint so that you can put it inside
of these toys for very cheap so that you
need a very small chip uh that doesn't
have to be super powerful to run this
very powerful brain and what we're
seeing is that one of the ways that you
can really innovate in the world of AI
is to make the level of um compression
better and better and so the reason this
is a big deal is they're showing that
these things can remain incredibly
powerful with a really highly compressed
data set and that is awesome that will
unleash a ton of human creativity not
the least of which will be here at
impact Theory so uh I'm very excited
about this copy okay and then I just
liked Eric the the Gemma three which is
that was the Google one and that is
their most capable model yet it can run
on a single GPU or
TPU yeah so same idea here these are
getting more and more efficient can you
click that graph on the right that kind
now what I hope the guy is meaning when
he says are you getting it yet is that
this is becoming very cheap very potent
very fast and the rate of change is the
thing that people are not they're just
not not grappling with yet so from the
time that I launched my manufacturing
search till now this is already upgraded
so fast that I have to now broaden my
scope of who might be able to supply
this to us which is absolutely
incredible but this is why I say
companies are going to get smaller
they're going to be more dextrous
because whoever pulls the trigger on
something because at some point you have
to pick a chip buy it at a certain
amount of scale and you're going to want
to keep that scale tight inherently Mak
your um options small like the number of
people that would be able to get it
small because you're not going to be
waiting a year to launch the next one
you're going to be launching the next
one like in a month two months and so it
creates this this is why people freak
out about deflation by the way because
it creates this impulse well I'm just
going to wait I'm just going to wait I'm
just going to wait and so
um you want to you now have to think
about doing small order quantities make
them very cheap so that you can get
around that impulse to wait and you
create that sense of well I'll just buy
that one and then I'll upgrade every 6
months or whatever because they're cheap
and so um I just want them to get better
and better and better and I want to be
able to take advantage of that and so
that is going to have consequences that
we can't yet anticipate but
proliferation is one of the most obvious
where now if I can have something as
good as um GPT 40 put into my fridge so
that my fridge can run a constant scan
of what's in my fridge what I need to
reorder use a gentic AI running in my
fridge to go actually place the orders
on Amazon or send me a text and be like
hey I'm about to place this order
because you're out confirm or deny dude
it's going to be awesome bias bias bias
I have a freakish bias towards
Innovation but that is thrilling to me
this is going to be fun this is going to
be fun the thing that really jumps me
for this is we were talking about deep
seek being a big deal and that was a
month and a half ago you would have
thought deep seek came out 6 weeks 6
months ago like it was something that
happened like
we were they just disrupted the market
and I'm using air quotes January 27th we
or something we released our video and
then now March 12 we have a model that's
just as powerful if not more powerful in
a fraction of that size now so
immediately the form factors are
changing and since it's a Sprint there's
seven different companies all innovating
in different levels on different ways
and those are just the ones you know
about yeah there there's some
14-year-old right now coming up with
some crazy compression algorithm that's
going to make AI even smaller even
faster we just don't even know they
exist yet that's why right mental model
for what's happening right now is that
this is 1999 internet bubble and nobody
knows whether uh are any of the players
that are going to be major players in 10
years are they even out yet so we all
think it's AI or we are uh open AI this
could all be net suite and Netscape and
all those like we haven't got to the
chromes the app store yet all that
that's a great analogy correct so uh we
are all going to benefit as the people
that get to build with this use these
things
uh it's going to be incredible but Act
of Faith is required admittedly all
right this was I think this is probably
the best walking robot I've seen so far
um it just seems so fluid and like it
actually has the mechanics under it it
doesn't seem like it's always about to
fall or thinking too
much interesting he looks still very
stilted but when I saw this stuff I was
like oh damn like this is a bot that
knows how to control what are those
things called hoverboards hoverboards
yeah that's pretty impressive riding a
bike very impressive
so now you don't need Bots that like are
a bike you can get bots that are able to
adjust to the world the way that it is
now which means that you don't have to
abruptly build new infrastructure for
the Bots to be useful that's the part
that I don't like if anybody's asking
themselves why are they working so hard
to make them humanoid aren't they going
to come in a bunch of other flavors yes
over time they certainly will but right
now you have you know however many years
of building infrastructure that assumes
that you're a human with two legs and
two arms and so now if you've got a bot
that can navigate that world you're in
much better shape somebody's dropped in
the Google Deep Mind robotics video uh
Eric I just liked that to you I didn't
realize Google had a
robot this was directly from their
Twitter page and it's based off of
Gemini 2.0 they bring cap capabilities
such as better reasoning interactivity
dexterity and generalization into the
physical world a new generation of
helpful
robots see what we got family of Gemini
models for robotics they're able to
understand the physical world in a lot
of detail understand motion and be able
to act in that physical world Gemini
robotics is our most advanced Vision
language action model for robotics that
means that it takes natural language
input and images and then outputs
actions they're really dextrous they're
doing some really intricate stuff like
folding origami or like packing lunch
there's this one task where we to put
the bread slice in like a zip lock you
can talk to them and physically move
stuff around as the robot is moving and
you can see them reacting to you my
favorite application is on the optronic
humanoid we have this task where the
robot is asked to spell a word with the
Scrabble tiles it's this cross-
embodiment dexterity reasoning they all
come together in this very cool task the
other model really enhanced the world
understanding of Gemini for robotics so
it will do things like detect all the
objects in 3D space or maybe even
identify parts of an object with
semantic key points okay so right now
this stuff feels really awkward and it
is admitted impressive but the right way
I think to look at this stuff is to you
have to project out 5 years but five
years of something very specific all of
these things are going to learn from all
of the other robots so when these sort
of really lame uh versions of Gemini
robot or uh Tesla Optimus whatever as
they get deployed as each one of them
does a task and gets human feedback
about whether that was good or bad
instantaneously all of the network Bots
learn from that think of that imagine
drew that I don't just learn from the
things that I research that I learn from
the things that you research that Lisa
researches that will researches Eric
everybody and now go out not 50 people
go out 100,000 people and in real time
I'm getting updated with everything that
they're learning every Improvement that
they have is now spread across the
network dude like that's where you get
into this superh human rate of
improvement that we're seeing in
self-driving cars where the cars are
just having to make so many decisions
and updating the entire network so that
on that road a Tesla has driven a
thousand times and they see oh the owner
had to take over here and they had to do
this and so it's just learning and
learning and learning and learning and
learning and the more that you get them
out there the more feedback that they're
giving within the network these things
will improve at a rate that is freakish
and so if people stop thinking about oh
that a year that's going to be super
lame and you start going what's it going
to be in 10 years MH it's going to be
insane dude in 20 years I'm old in 20
years I'm not even going to be 70 yet
I'm going to be in my 60s in 20 years so
it's like this stuff is going to be
extremely relevant to my old ass in 20
years what's it going to be for somebody
that right now is 10 they're only going
to be 30 and so they're going to live in
a world where the the world is just
proliferated by
robotics that's where all of this stuff
like when you start looking at it
through that lens you really start going
whoa this is going to be a world that my
current thinking has low predictive
validity on and so staying involved
understanding where this is going and
asking yourself one question over and
over and over and over and over how do I
today engage with that thing such that
I'm always a little bit ahead of
everybody else and I know people do not
like to think of this is a competition
let's just say you want to get ahead of
everybody else so you can be the one
that's most helpful great but
understanding that you want to learn
this stuff you want to be at The Cutting
Edge you want to be pushing your own
thinking your own engagement all of that
stuff you will deal with a period of
disruption far better than everybody
else who's freaked out who put their
head in the sand didn't pay attention to
this
stuff hold standing still pretending as
if it isn't happening is the only
mistake I've been kneed deep in a show
called May Kingstown also on Paramount
um that one's not as good it's a little
bit gritty I don't know if you'll be
into it this is Jeremy rener yeah it was
about like the prison complex and the
system and then we seen this link this
past week about the meta putting Quest
twos into California prisons for inmates
and salitary confinement cuz I think our
prison system is broken we talked about
it briefly earlier like private prisons
don't make sense to me but I think that
this is could be a positive way to
reprogram is the wrong word but kind of
help people rehabilitate themselves in a
cool way however it does look like a
brainwashing uh cutscene from like a
dystopian future of people like sitting
in solitary confinement with a headset
on like what's your take on VR in the
prison system it's all going to be stats
and the stats here are absolutely
incredible now this is very early and
who knows this is one person making a
claim but if these can be believed zoom
in a little bit because it says right
there um crazy part is that VR quote
unquote programming uh in with the VR
programming inmate infractions have
fallen
96% um to explain why I think this is so
powerful and is the kind of thing that
is very worth testing I don't know that
it'll play out well in the long run
everything is a hypothesis it's all
physics of progress uh State what's your
goal we want to reduce recidivism we
want to dramatically decrease um
violence of the inmates while they're in
prison as well Okay cool so let's say
that that's our end goal uh and our
hypothesis is that if we can transport
these people to a different world so
that they um don't feel so isolated that
they have like this opportunity to be
expansive all while we can influence the
way that their brain is working to get
them to make better choices a lot of
people uh that are in uh prison for
violent crimes have suffered brain
damage and so there's like all this
brain wiring stuff becomes a part of
this okay cool that's the hypothesis
that's the end goal we've got our kpis
uh recidivism and uh violent incursions
while they're in prison cool so now
we're going to pull the lever the reason
that I think that this probably will
yield tremendous outcomes
is the very first time I put on VR the
emotional reaction I had was why am I
pursuing wealth and I was like whoa that
is a very interesting insight into my
mind because I'd worked so hard uh cool
house had always been something that
drove me
and when I put VR on and realized wait a
second while I'm in VR I actually feel
that I'm looking at something real and
so the Vista of a mountain range or what
ever now feels real and so imagine a
world where either through VR AR glasses
or Holograms whatever you live in a tiny
apartment in Manhattan but when you look
at your windows which actually aren't
windows they're green screens uh they
are or you know something you can turn
on and off they're now showing you a
Vista so you're looking out your window
and you see outer space or you're
looking out your window and you see um
Paris whatever whatever you're thing is
and it feels real that that is going to
have a profound impact on somebody's
psychology and for the same reason that
you can get somebody to walk on a board
that's only two inches off the ground
but in VR they look like they're
standing on a really small metal beam
over a thousand foot drop their amygdala
lights up goes crazy and is screaming at
them you really are in danger so the
brain from an evolutionary standpoint is
designed to say I see it and it's real
and
therefore the amount of positive or
negative impact that we could have using
VR reprogramming I think is going to be
pretty extreme so if we can all admit
that them being in prison is an outcome
that we do not want then we have to do
something to reprogram them and so you
don't want that to be um something that
is worse for them you want it to be
something that is better for them but
yes I want to see people truly
rehabilitated in prison I want to see
them educated I want to see them as much
as we can um humanely address whatever
literal brain trauma they have that has
led them to that place anything that we
can do to uplift the human spirit so
that they are not they don't want to
return to a life of crime which I get
some people are just going to and that
just is what it is from a brain wiring
standpoint but yeah anything we can do
to help I think it would be awesome yeah
the weird thing about it though is like
the images that are on the VR set so
right now I'm hoping that it's positive
and they're only getting good things but
it can also get the range really quick
if they're like horror and they're like
torturing people or I'm thinking like
Minority Report that black G mirror
episode where like the VR image is now
manipulated to make that person suffer
as opposed to educate them yes that
would be God awful and that's why we
have rules against that kind of thing um
obviously I don't want to see people do
um cruel and unusual punishment uh I
don't want people tortured so whatever
the VR equivalent is of like they were
saying the Bots you would feed them
noise like I don't want them putting
them in VR in a way that's like horrible
like this is why you have to say what's
the end goal and so if the end goal is
punishment well then it's going to be a
very different VR but that's not the end
goal that I want for people um in fact
that's really interesting it's not quite
true there is a level of punishment but
if I could do a thing that I knew a 100%
guaranteed that that person would um
embody deep
remorse and
never do said bad thing again would I be
okay with it my immediate reaction is no
so there's something I would have to
process through uh because that's
probably a level of brain manipulation
that triggers not probably that's a
level of brain manipulation that
triggers my the unknown second and third
order consequences make me nervous yeah
uh and so I would tread into those
Waters slowly nice yeah things have to
withstand the test of time all right and
in other news anthropic CEO the founder
of Claude my AI talked about how coding
will reev AI will be the majority of
coding in the very near future yeah like
3 to six months um on one hand I think
comparative advantage is a very powerful
tool if I look at coding programming
which is one area where AI is making the
most progress um what we are finding is
we are not far from the world I think
we'll be there in three to six months
where AI is writing 90% of the code and
then in 12 months we may be in a world
where AI is writing essentially all of
the code all right so assume that he's
wrong about the timeline and it's really
in five years
um the fact that AI is getting so good
at writing code which does not surprise
me because this is a very defined
outcome unlike creative writing where
it's like uh I want you to make me feel
a certain way when I read it or when I
see it animated or whatever that's
really squishy that's going to be really
hard for AI to get good you just need a
ton of patterns um for AI to get good at
coding there's a known it needs to run
this it needs to do this thing and every
time you code and go in and adjust that
code the AI is looking at that and going
oh cool I see how to do this right I see
how to do it right ah um that it's going
to get very good very
fast I am surprised that people try to
brush off the level of disruption that
AI is going to bring to the job market
even though as an Act of Faith I choose
to believe that the future will be
better than the present I recognize we
will move through a period of massive
disruption and it will be very cold
comfort for a middle-of the road
programmer who right now can support
their family um they're going to get
replaced by
Ai and that's real and not having a
sense of what do we do about that this
is where it's going to catch people off
guard you're going to get that major
push back because the emotional response
that people will have is [ __ ] Ai and
then they're going to get very
aggressive and they're going to Rally
around the government to make changes
and if we're talking like if he's even
remotely close and this happens in the
next 18 months um dude people are going
to feel some kind of way about this you
do not want to sweep this under the rug
this is one that you want to say okay
what are we going to do here what are we
going to do about this because this
one's this one's going to be a wrecking
ball so here's what I think that we do
about it uh dear everybody you are going
to have to take control of your own life
you are going to have to figure out how
not to get left behind by AI uh
this is also part of the reason I want
to onshore manufacturing there has to be
an off-ramp for people that are not
going to be able to or have the desire
to keep up with um the white color jobs
that are going to rapidly race away from
them and we've got to have a way for
people to have dignity meaning and
purpose through a trade of some kind so
not everybody has to work in a factory
but if we have this idea of we need to
make things do things here in the US I
think it's orientationally more
advantageous now will those jobs also be
replaced by robots many of them will for
sure um and that moves us into where I
was going in the beginning which is you
need to take control of your life you
need to ask yourself how can I use AI to
make things that people want that I'm
not going to be able to fold myself into
a company in the way that we've been
able to do historically companies are
going to become much smaller in scope
from a Personnel perspective more people
are going to have to step into the role
of not necessarily like an entrepreneur
in the way that we think about it now
but you're going to be become a part of
a very small group that serves a very
Niche population I've talked about
dropping the the world right now um the
economic world that we have right now is
all these companies of all different
sizes from very small to very large
that's going to break and it's going to
be mostly a bunch of very small
companies and then very large companies
and I think that the number of big
companies that will that will shatter
into uh thousands of little pieces is
going to be very extreme
and so you need to uh bone up on not
being not needing somebody to tell you
what to do you need to focus on becoming
self-directed um to shake off the notion
of when the cat's away the mice will
play there's not going to be anybody
looking over your shoulder you're going
to have to decide what outcome you're
trying to achieve and you're going to
have to figure out how to get yourself
there and for an education system that
teaches people to be good cogs in the
machine this is going to be very
disruptive uh bang drum for educational
reform so that's where we're at nice uh
I feel like his timeline was off to be
quite Frank because I feel like you
saying five years I think the year is is
a better Mark by next year if
everybody's not using AI especially in
the software engineering world you're
just shooting yourself in your foot I
feel like so I think I I think it is
true that everybody overestimates what
you can do in a year and you
underestimate what you can do in three
um yes yeah there there's no doubt now I
will say that he's very close to the the
problem uh
so he's probably overly ambitious but I
if you're thinking is much Beyond 18 if
you're a coder and you're thinking as
much Beyond 18 months you're probably
making a mistake I would just right now
today man just do it now and look listen
I see this at impact Theory to the point
where the executive team is talking
almost daily how do we get you guys to
embrace AI now some people do but there
are other people in the the company that
clearly there's an anxiety over it there
is a desire to poo poo it and say but it
it doesn't do it today my job is so
nuanced AI is not going to be able to do
it it's like bro that is just I get it
as a writer I'm looking at it going okay
it doesn't get me all the way across the
finish line but I'm constantly pushing
okay but how close can it get me how how
much can it extend my abilities how much
can it speed me up rather than lamenting
I'm not going to be sitting down and
writing the way that I always thought I
was going to be as a kid that that
reality gone MH
um if I could get people to distrust
that anxiety and say the only path
forward is to embrace this incredible
tool and I'm going to learn how to use
it that that would be my ideal but it is
very hard to get people when they're
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to the show Lisa in the chat um Eric I
just slacked you a picture that's
hilarious Drew don't judge a Woman based
on her husband the funny thing is babe I
thought the exact same thing I was like
oh my poor wife so we um we're working
with a company or we were considering I
can't remember if this is the one that
we moved forward with but anyway there
was going to be a company that was going
to help Lisa uh and the first thing that
they said was you need to create
distance between you and your husband
because now that your husband talks
politics it is hurting your channel and
I was like my poor wife because because
of me uh she is getting drugged down
it's all too true it's all too true
don't judge a Woman by her husband
actually I lie judge a Woman by her
husband 100% it is true because I was
literally just talking to oh God I won't
say who I was talking to I am certain
they will hear this and they will
recognize themselves and I said uh if
your woman is not in your ear pushing
you to be a better more aggressive man
you need to replace her I did a
screenshot so it's EAS to pull it up
boys and girls that is how in fact
gentlemen out there I'm saying right now
uh if you are if you're with somebody
who's not making you better stronger
more aggressive it's time to it's time
to swap out that's just real talk now
that is my wife
hardcore was pushing me when we were
living in her mother's house that woman
was nonstop trying to motivate me to be
a better person and uh I will eternally
be grateful to her for
that um okay so Robert Zane uh reposted
what Lisa posted yesterday if we can
zoom in on that so Tom can see
it so for those listening posted this
this was lisais yeah Lisa posted yeah on
the left side what do you see in him and
it's a old picture of Lisa and Tom
there's the caption dirt P what is hear
unemployed not youre and then on the
right you're so luy hot successful
stylish he so smart and it just shows
you don't makes me emotional like I
am I'm not a crier but if something were
going to move me I literally see I
literally see like the gloss on the eyes
this is beautiful uh man I am so glad
that we got together when we literally
had nothing God I look terrible uh and
you're wearing a man bag by the way well
okay okay hold on hold
on that was to carry a dog in my defense
so yes I will MERS it uh for my dog
shout out to Batman who was our our
first dog uh yes so hiding in that bag
is a little dog that you can't see but
um my wife then
girlfriend was
extraordinarily good at making me feel
good about who I was
ly and making it abundantly clear that I
better get
better how you pull that off like that
is tough because she had to make me feel
good about who I was otherwise uh I'm
not here for somebody that's hanging me
yeah uh she had to make me feel good
about who I was but at the same time had
to be pushing me in a direction to be
better now the crazy thing is I don't
know how consciously she was doing it it
would actually be very interesting uh
next Monday Lisa is going to be um being
she's going to be here with me in the
the co-host seat so it'll be interesting
to Reas this question chat please remind
me um but I don't know how consciously
she was doing it but she was doing it
and if I can just talk really nakedly I
often speak in uh in an oblique way on
this
but women when you're in a romantic
relationship with somebody you have many
tools that other people don't have the
most important of them is sex and you
have to be careful because you want to
walk a fine line you don't want to be
sexually
manipulative but using sex like one
thing my wife could always do for me
that has always been so
powerful when I did something that was
powerful in the world um stood up for
myself pushed for more was aggressive
she would give give me that look of like
oh my God you're really turning me on
right now and then would richly reward
me for my very masculine drive for the
pursuit um to work harder to push
farther to stand up for myself like
because my journey has been one of
learning to be stronger tougher more
aggressive that was not my default
State and by rewarding me in the ways
that only a wife can it really put me
down a path uh that I have
that has yielded tremendous results in
the world and it's like I want that
thing for people I want people to
understand the dynamic in a romantic
relationship that has existed for all of
human history where when you reward
behavior that you want to see more of
and you people are going to hate this
language punish behaviors you want to
see less
of it will shape somebody and when
you're a unit and you have the unit's
best interests at heart now it's like I
want something that's good for us and so
I'm not pushing you like this to be a
[ __ ] I'm pushing you like this because
this is what I believe is good for the
unit given that we have a stated goal of
what we're trying to achieve these
behaviors are or are not going to take
us there and I want to reward those and
so I am so glad that I found
a in my
wife not somebody who
um not somebody who I want to get away
from or I look down on like I was never
the guy that was like I just want to be
with my boys and my girl thinks so dumb
ball and chain yeah I was like man I
don't understand that approach to life
so having a peer somebody who wanted
what was good for the unit which also
happened to be good for me and knew how
to reward me boy oh boy and there was uh
speaking of not being a crier one of the
times in my life where I legitimately
wept was this was long before cameras
were a part of the picture I could see
what she was doing I could see she was
making me a better
person and I really broke down one day
because I was getting credit for
something I don't even remember what M
uh and I said no one you're never going
to get the credit you deserve for the
man that I'm
becoming and
and I was like really devastated by that
because I was like [ __ ] I don't know how
to articulate this I don't know how to
um because at that time she was a
housewife and so I was like [ __ ] like I
don't know how to pull this into the
world and say like yo I fully recognize
that you are my peer I fully recognize
that I'm married to my equal and I don't
know how to get you credit for
everything you've ever done I couldn't
predict that I'd be on camera one day
and be able to get to you know say
things like this for the world to
see that's what I want for people it's
awesome that's beautiful you give me
hope Tom love is still out there love is
out there I feel like I'm like your
single friend in like a romcom and
you're just like oh I'm just like yeah
okay then I go home and like eat snacks
on my couch or something and eat a tub
of ice cream um okay you want to talk to
teris uh I kind of want to talk about
you eating the chips and the ice cream
uh let's just real fast close that Loop
because because the streets are trash
social media and dating apps have really
created
delusion I think we've talked about this
before but if I could do a PSA for a
second okay I think the following is the
primary
problem because there are so many other
fish in the
sea people are trying to optimize for
the perfect match off the Jump
like not even the perfect match the that
they meet the checklist perfectly
yeah that was one thing Lisa and I did
not fall prey to and so in the beginning
I'm sure despite the initial attraction
in fact not I'm sure let me be very
specific when I decided when I was
thinking seriously about propos
proposing to
Lisa I actually wrote a pros and cons
list and there were cons and there were
things about her that I not only didn't
like that I was very worried about on a
long enough timeline would be so
problematic that I should not move
forward with her wow uh the one that I
remember so clearly she gets sick a
lot and I was like I'm not a caretaker
That's Not My Vibe I just hey I'm glad
that there are some people and I respect
the [ __ ] out of people that are
caretakers I'm not one of them and I was
like am I really going to uh move
forward with somebody that
is that is sick frequently am I actually
going to be able to deal with that and
there were other things I actually don't
remember them I'm not being koi if I
remember them I just [ __ ] say them
uh but when I looked at the pros list I
was like the the exact I said to myself
at the end of that list was I'm either
never getting married or I'm marrying
this woman but I would say to her
face I bet there are there are other
people out there that I could marry and
I would have just as wonderful of a
life and so I don't want you to feel
like you have to constantly be looking
over your shoulder to make sure that
there's nobody better than you what this
is is commitment so I have a tattoo that
I got when we got married as a ritual IC
scarification I know it sounds silly
because everybody gets tattoos now but
that's how I approached it it is the
only tattoo that I have despite my wife
practically begging me to get more
tattoos because she [ __ ] finds it
sexy and my thing is no I wanted to do
something painful to be a different
person the day after getting married
than I was the day before so we got
married and then uh after our honeymoon
for reasons that don't matter I ended up
getting the tattoo as a way to remind
myself I'm now a different man and there
are only four words on it and one of
them is commitment and commitment is
saying I get that there are other fish
in the sea I get that there are more
beautiful women than you and that
doesn't matter to me I'm in a
relationship with you we have chosen
each other I am committed to making this
relationship work not a relationship
work this relationship that's good and
so I understand that you're not perfect
as I understand that I am not perfect
and so each of us have a pros and cons
list on the other person but we draw a
line and for me that was The Proposal
The Proposal was hard for me I was like
am I really going to do
this the marriage was easy because once
I made a decision that was that I was
ready to get the tattoo as a part of The
Proposal I didn't and I think it's
better in terms of Pomp and
Circumstances ceremony to do it around
the wedding but that to me was the line
was like once I propose that's the end
game and now we're in this social media
and dating
apps have given people the exact
opposite understanding of what a
relationship is there's always somebody
I can swipe to and get to the next
person get to the next person get to the
next person
um you're going to be with somebody
who's going to shape
you shape and be shaped want that don't
want this is them right from the jump
now I get it people are like oh this
[ __ ] wants to change me yeah that's
Evolution welcome to the party yeah and
it's interesting to say that because I'm
also I'm starting to realize that you
have to want that level of
accountability because it does take uh
understanding of self to say I am okay
with being changed I want to be changed
um me having like a child early I was
forced to handle responsibility in a
different way than some of my friends
so right after I had Lyn my senior year
in college so I didn't have that
transition of like o now I have a
full-time job and I have like
discretionary spending like I'm still
living as a college student but I'm
getting paid 80 grand let me go do some
things like it was a different kind of
level so I went right from school to
like domestic mode so I took one
responsibility on and kind of carried on
another so I never had that like [ __ ]
boy phase of just like out here spending
money or just out here like traveling
going on vacation taking a bunch of
Instagram pictures and I think that a
lot of times what I'm been running
against is that I would meet somebody
that likes who they are and it's to your
point of take me as I am but then with
me have always like that well you know
we got to do this and we got to do this
like we have to go to the next
responsibility that can sometimes be a
trigger for certain people and that's
something that I didn't I had to
acknowledge in myself as well like okay
not everybody wants to become a better
version of themselves not everybody
wants to get better not everybody has
that mindset um so it's interesting that
you kind of put that nail of like change
and be changed because some people are
resistant to change some people want to
just be like this and have somebody who
loves them like this and they want to
stay in this box and but you can also do
it in a [ __ ] way that's really [ __ ]
horrible and makes the guy want to
donkey punch you and get the [ __ ] out so
this is where and I do see the red light
will um this is where like it is a dance
and if my wife did not make me feel if
my girlfriend did not make me feel
better about who I was when I was with
her than when I wasn't she would never
have become my wife MH so it's like you
have to earn the right to shape Somebody
by letting them know I'm Into You right
now today and I can't wait to see who we
can become together that was the vibe
that was the energy now there were
definitely times where people have heard
me tell the story a million times it was
ultimately shame that pushed me to make
change and my then Fon was not impressed
that she had a job I did not she would
come home and I would just be at like
12:30 or something and I would just be
crawling out of bed and I only got out
of bed so I could make her a sandwich I
mean it's really crazy when I tell the
story that it was actually true it was
actually true uh and that my hair wasn't
done and I was wearing my pajamas still
and she was just like this isn't cool
she was just like you don't even do your
hair and so there was this element of
like what are you doing and so all of
that leads to change but then if I do my
hair and I show up you got to be like yo
I love this this is so cool like thank
you you can't be like well finally like
you did the thing like she was just like
oh my God I love it your hair looks so
great like this is fantastic thank you
so much like this really means a lot to
me that you're up and you're excited and
so it was there were rewards think of it
like a bank account you can make
withdrawals if you've made enough
deposits if you have not made enough
deposits you can't make a withdrawal
yeah it's good way to put it good way to
put it oh this is a good one here we go
all right criticism I'll even read this
one out loud will uh Tom you are such a
cuck which I'm guessing spelled weird
because otherwise you would get grabbed
uh women date across and up agreed uh
she would have left you long ago had
your performance not accelerated
okay are we saying that's bad uh they
want the winners at the Finish Line yes
uh out of touch or mating out of touch
on mating dating other wise I love your
content Jake thank you so first of all
guys I I have no problem with criticism
whatsoever so by all means uh bring it
because if you see something that I
don't you're only going to make me
smarter so Jake here is what I would say
to
that the whole point of shaping and
being shaped is that you want a better
version I've gotten a better version of
Lisa over time and if Lisa did not have
a growth mindset and Lisa were a problem
and Lisa were making this I did make you
broke Lisa that is for sure um for a
while I made up for it uh if Lisa became
a problem I would have left Lisa So Lisa
and I have been very clear with each
other that this is not um unconditional
love that there are lines that can't be
crossed and if Lisa were making me
miserable and this were a Loveless
marriage and she didn't have a growth
mindset and she was dragging me down
then I wouldn't stay in that
relationship either so 100% if she were
still the same person that I married I
would have zero interest if I were still
the same person that she married I
assume she would have zero interest so
this is about having a shared goal that
you um have articulated and then you're
moving towards that goal now in Lisa's
defense she actually at one point really
pushed me to make a decision that was
financially terrible uh I came home one
day and she said okay you are now
damaging our marriage she didn't say in
the pursuit of wealth but that was the
thing hiding
I had become so unhappy at my job
because I was just showing up every day
trying to get rich trying to prove that
my father-in-law was wrong um I want to
read that comment from Lisa hold on uh
and she said look I don't care about the
money I want you to be happy and so she
has earned her stripes in that she has
proven when it really mattered she was
like we we were going to move to a small
town in Greece where we could rent like
a small little place and I could write a
screenplay because she believed one she
believed that I would be good enough at
that that we'd then be able to come back
to Hollywood and take it over so there
was still ambition hiding in all of that
she wasn't like yeah surrender your life
but she was like do do a thing that
you're fun to be around do a thing that
makes you happy she was like you used to
be so alive and she was like you're so
unhappy and you will come home and
you'll say literally don't ask me about
my day I I don't want to think about it
I don't want to talk about it when I
would drive into the office it was like
driving into a place with storm clouds
over it drew for years I couldn't go to
Marina del Rey without feeling like I
was going into that Darkness because
that period of my life was so dark and
my wife who wanted to see me do better
make more money be the guy that crosses
the Finish Line was like your happiness
and our shared love of day-to-day life
is so important to me I don't give a
[ __ ] if you have to step backwards I
don't care if we've got to be even
poorer for an unknown number of years MH
I want to be happy I want to enjoy today
now again this was still in pursuit of
being ambitious and going and doing the
thing that I loved and all of that but
she had a chance to be like [ __ ] you I'm
going to go find somebody else and
instead said I want you to be happy all
right uh Lisa Billy says Jake is seeing
it from his own lens of course as we all
do because it's so not true that I worry
why he thinks that in the first place so
In fairness to Jake the streets really
do strike me as trash right now and I
think that there is massive dysfunction
in the frame of reference of people who
always want to swipe Left Right which
one says uh right right right is I want
to find somebody else oh left left I
don't like right I'm I'm into it got it
so they want to swipe left to find
somebody else always more more swiping
left even on their own person
uh I get why people want to do that but
it is a mistake ultimately you're going
to realize that nobody is perfect and
that you are going to um either be alone
or a string of relationships or you're
going to find somebody who is as
imperfect as you and you're going to
find a way to navigate this life a
little better because you have somebody
that removes some of your blind spots
with the Department of educ
I would say look at the outcome of a
policies this is why I'm like you have
to
understand uh you need to State what
your goal is you need to say what the
kpi is that represents that goal and
then you say this is the thing that
we're going to try to do to affect this
so take the Department of Education
we're trying to uh move our standing in
the global rankings okay that would be a
very simple way to track this
uh since the Department of
Education got came into existence we
have held uh flat or moved backwards I
think there are very few places where
we've actually made very minor
improvements and so given that I would
say it has failed to do its job now is
getting rid of it the answer or do you
have to go in and make adjustments that
I will say we're about to find out
because they're I think they're going to
try to abolish it so 50% already cut
really yeah they got emails last night
that by Tuesday morning they have to
have their Tuesday evening they have to
have their stuff packed up uh what did
they use as the method of determining
what 50% to cut o that's a thing that we
need to go deeper on yeah so that'll be
interesting but I if you if we can't
agree that as of today the Department of
Education has failed to achieve its
goals now we're in trouble but if we can
agree that the Department of Education
has failed to achieve its goals then
it's like okay
what changes do we need to make in order
to get the outcomes that we want now I
think a lot of people believe that the
Department of Education is going to be
cut and then it's just like well good
luck um all of the things that are being
done are shifting off to other
departments um I've heard a breakdown I
don't have it memorized but we'd have to
look it up but it's like things are
going to be shifted over into different
departments to make sure that um for
instance I think the Department of
Justice is going to handle whether
um different communities are being
treated differently so like Racial
equality that's going to go through the
Department of Justice so the things that
we want the Department of Education to
do will be handed off to different
institutions it's right
now self-evident to me that we are not
achieving our goals and therefore we
have to do something different so the
definition of insanity is to do the same
thing and expect a different outcome now
what Eric Weinstein thinks about this I
have no idea I've not heard him talk
about it so uh if somebody wants to pull
up a tweet that he's done uh although he
does tend on the long side of tweets uh
so it might have to review for the next
one um but I'd be very interested to
know how they determined what 50% to uh
Slash because if they're doing that
poorly then you're not going to get any
positive outcome from all of
this and there it is there it is um
pulling it up right now the focus is to
reallocate the resources to the students
parents and the teachers and cutting
some of these extra programs it's
similar to the Dei roll back that been
doing across the government um that
still feels vague what does that mean
what do you know does it list what
programs were actually cut it's just
that the staff of 4100 is going to be
cut in half and that's with layoffs and
the buyouts that they did earlier in in
his administration got it so if it
follows that then it's basically who are
the people that will voluntarily go yeah
um who are the newest people hired so
it's a blunt instrument I don't expect
that to yield fantastic results it will
lower the cost of the Department of
Education that is not going to
automatically increase the output of the
Department of Education meaning that we
move up in stature in language and
Mathematics and all of that stuff um so
that makes me very sad now when I'm
advising business owners I always say is
there somebody that has done this well
before if it is go audit them figure out
what they did um I always round
everything to Kip schools and so forgive
me if it isn't specifically kip but
there are charter schools that are
absolutely crushing it and so looking at
the um Charter Schools I think it be a
very good way I will shorthand what I
have learned at my um surface enough
level of
analysis uh but it goes something like
this you have to hold kids accountable
to a very aggressive standard you have
to set expectations so from the moment
they come into a school uh charter
school students are told you are going
to college you are going to graduate um
and they have teachers that are held
accountable to the results of the
students in their class and if those
teachers are not able to deliver the
results those teachers are replaced uh
so you have evolutionary pressures on
the teacher you have evolutionary
pressures on the students uh you set the
expectation you hold people accountable
to a high standard we've really gotten
um into a weird place in America where
we think that holding a kid to a
standard is mean because not all kids
are going to be able to make the
standard but that that's just the
reality so for instance I was unable to
get into the advanced program when I was
in Middle School I managed to pull it
off when I got into high school but I
wasn't able to do it in middle school
was that mean I would say not if I
wasn't ready for it I wasn't ready for
it and that's just that so um it put me
in a position where I wanted to work
harder so that I could