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Followers
136.5K
Posts
10.1K
Following
505
Account age
19 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$764 – $1.2K / sponsored post
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📊 Post performance
475.7K
Avg views / post
3.5×
Reach vs followers
Mar 2007
On X since
🔥 Top post: We crave experts for the new thing but almost all experts are ex · 1.1M views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.03 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 5 image · 13 text.
Follower / following
270×
Follows 505 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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Recent posts
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Additional new bits of advice I wished I had known earlier (not in my book), as my gift on my 73 birthday:
• The best way to criticize something is to make something better.
• Admitting that “I don’t know” at least once a day will ma…
I occasionally get to hang around people with real wealth, and those on their way to real wealth. I've notice there is a rising scale of how wealth is experienced. As your income gains more zeros, you ascend through this scale.
An unexpected benefit of AIs is to translate the millions of ancient texts no human experts will ever get to. History will deepen, if not shift.
Long-term thinking: When I was 17, I planted an acorn in my backyard hoping that 50 years later I might return to see a huge oak tree. Here it is 55 years later (center). The best time to plant a tree is yesterday.
I just turned 70. Here is my advice which I wish I had known earlier.
A bicycle school bus is such an awesome idea:
It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you.
"Everything we do before a pandemic will seem alarmist. Everything we do after will seem inadequate" -M. Leavitt, DHHS
Anyone can accidentally kill a bicyclist by opening your car door at the wrong time. Learn the "dutch reach" way to open your door (taught in Holland for 50 years) and save a life.
Kelly's Law: Old technology fails frequently, but in a reliable way: new technology fails less often, but when it fails, it fails in an unexpectedly new way we are not prepared for.
The scary AI future is not Terminator where the AIs kill us or take our jobs. The scary future is one where AIs run all the bureaucracies, they can’t explain their decisions, and there is no appeal to humans.
I occasionally get to hang around people with real wealth, and those on their way to real wealth. I've notice there is a rising scale of how wealth is experienced. As your income gains more zeros, you ascend through this scale.
An unexpected benefit of AIs is to translate the millions of ancient texts no human experts will ever get to. History will deepen, if not shift.
Long-term thinking: When I was 17, I planted an acorn in my backyard hoping that 50 years later I might return to see a huge oak tree. Here it is 55 years later (center). The best time to plant a tree is yesterday.
I just turned 70. Here is my advice which I wish I had known earlier.
A bicycle school bus is such an awesome idea:
It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you.
"Everything we do before a pandemic will seem alarmist. Everything we do after will seem inadequate" -M. Leavitt, DHHS
Anyone can accidentally kill a bicyclist by opening your car door at the wrong time. Learn the "dutch reach" way to open your door (taught in Holland for 50 years) and save a life.
Kelly's Law: Old technology fails frequently, but in a reliable way: new technology fails less often, but when it fails, it fails in an unexpectedly new way we are not prepared for.
The scary AI future is not Terminator where the AIs kill us or take our jobs. The scary future is one where AIs run all the bureaucracies, they can’t explain their decisions, and there is no appeal to humans.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2007 — 19 years ago.
👁️Averages 475.7K views per post.
📤Posts about 0× per week.
💬3.07% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated83/100
Excellent
Credibility score
93%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 93% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~3.5× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (19+ years old).
- 3.07% engagement — below the ~14.4% typical for this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Senior Maverick at Wired, author of bestseller book, The Inevitable. Also Cool Tool maven, Recomendo chief, and radical optimist.
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