I'm still locked out of my Twitter account, but it looks as if the spam posts have been removed, and that's step one.

The person who hacked into the account decided he'd pretend to be me and have me be selling MacBook Pros.

I thought this was such an obvious sign the account had been hacked that nobody would fall for it, but evidently a handful did.

I'm hopeful that I'll be back into the account before too long.

This whole ordeal, however, serves as a reminder of something I'll be teaching (by implication at least, and perhaps even explicitly) tomorrow: the crucial thing if you're going to make technology bend to your will, as opposed to letting it make a slave out of you, is that you need to build something you own and control.

I see people who build empires on YouTube or TikTok or whatever else. You can be banned from there for any reason or no reason, and then all that empire building was for naught.

If you had described to your 1990 self (if you were alive then) the tech we have at our fingertips today, you would have been sure it would be an extraordinary boon, and that it would give you a more leisurely life as well as financial independence. How could it not?

And yet for most people that cell phone is just a way to keep them half at work all the time.

Your 1990 self was right, but the issue is this: it's not obvious what to do. I can explain it to you, though, which is what I'll be doing in my encore presentation tomorrow night.

You can bend the technology in your pocket to your will, you can AI-proof yourself, you can make that device do something other than keep you tethered to work all day, and even if you're an absolute beginner you can use this technology to build something you can be proud of that also pays the bills.
 

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Tom Woods