Journal Entry
2026/06/15

It’s unsettling when anonymous accounts with cryptic messages and future predictions randomly appear on your feed. Then, after digging through their posts, comparing dates to real-world events, and seeing how often their predictions align with reality, the feeling only grows stronger.

My proceeds from PayPal were $180m.

I put $100m in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla and $10m in Solar City.

I had to borrow money for rent.

—Elon Musk (photo from 2008 after the third consecutive failure of his Falcon 1 rocket)

At an AI conference, a speaker argued that image generation models should produce more diverse outputs.

My first thought was: build it.

We live in an age where the tools to create, fine-tune, and deploy AI models are becoming available to anyone with enough curiosity and determination.

Instead of waiting for a handful of companies to perfectly represent every culture, community, language, and worldview, perhaps the future is millions of specialized models built by the people who understand those communities best.