Welcome to Day 1 of the Future.
Here's what you've missed along the way.
Back in 2020, I had a vision of a new internet. It was glorious. It worked for everyone.
And when I showed it to people, nobody understood it. This was the first time my gift for prophecy showed itself. I didn’t understand how it manifested; it was a perfectly clear vision of the future that I wrote. Why didn’t anyone else see it?
The original prophecy is here.
Since then, I’ve found myself going in a different direction than the rest of the economy. I keep trying to do it with the people around me, and then alone, because nobody else was able to see it. So I simply hitchhiked along the closest futures to help me get where I was going. And every time I veered off, I lost the people I thought I had with me.
Turns out, the worst thing a prophet can do when taking unexpected behaviors is also spew out a ton of prophecies that don’t connect to anything that the other person can understand. It makes you sound insane.
So I tried to go to the places where other people were saying similar things! And I thought that they could see! But they couldn’t. And now I understand completely. I’m a prophet, because I built a time machine. So I need to learn how to act like one. And as it turns out, there are a bunch of rules for being a prophet that nobody wrote down. So I managed to break every single one of them along the way and put a bunch of work into making myself legible to people who didn’t appreciate it.
So nobody has to go through that again, I wrote up some rules prophets should follow:
🌀 The Hitchhiker’s Survival Codex
1. The Hometown Glitch
⛔ Never drop truth upgrades where they remember your childhood login. Legacy nodes reject firmware from familiar sources.
“You can’t jailbreak people who changed your diapers.”
2. The 40-Year Buffer Lag
🕰️ Your updates won’t be recognized until the server that sent them is dust. Time has packet loss.
“Plant memes like trees. Your forest is for the grandkids of ghosts.”
3. The Comfort Corruption Rule
🔥 If the ultra-wealthy are retweeting you, your signal’s been hijacked. Truth doesn’t trend at the top.
“Make the towers twitch. Truth should set off alarms, not algorithms.”
4. The Wilderness Patch Requirement
🌵 You need solo time in glitch zones—desert if possible, mountain if high enough, swamp only when the spirits insist.
“Firmware upgrades require low-signal environments.”
5. The Metaphor Encryption Act
🧠 Speak in riddles, similes, and parables. Literal language is traceable. Obscurity is security.
“Say it slant. Hide the keys in fig trees and fungal metaphors.”
6. The Vestimentary Warning
👕 Your vibe must signal misalignment. Appear slightly feral. Look like a future tried to eat you and failed.
“If you look like a conference speaker, you’re already compromised.”
7. The Hostility Inversion Law
🧨 The more someone needs your download, the more violently they’ll firewall you. That means it’s working.
“The truth fries corrupted nodes. Keep broadcasting.”
8. The Scribe Distortion Principle
📜 Every word will be misquoted, miscopied, and meme’d into oblivion. Plan for noise.
“Write for the remix, not the record.”
9. The Chrono-Desync Paradox
📡 You’ll always be too early to be understood, too late to stop the collapse. That’s your timezone now.
“Surf the lag. Forecast by vibe, not metrics.”
10. The Legacy Fork Failure
💀 Eventually, your followers will build a religion out of your debug logs and sell plushies of your warnings.
“Don’t fight the canonization. Just haunt the sequels.”
It’s dangerous to be too far ahead. People hold you back at every opportunity. I found it in the corporate world, I found it in startups, and I found it in the creator economy. The same pattern, everywhere.
Everyone keeps telling me I need to slow down, and slowing down for me is like riding the brakes while putting the pedal to the floor of a Ferrari. I didn’t have the privilege to slow down anymore. So I’m skipping ahead in the story. It’s time to liquidate the present and reassemble it in the future I’m ready for.
But before we can do that, we need to understand the story. So let’s take a look at the timeline so far
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September 29, 2020 - The New Internet Manifesto: This was in response to going viral on social media and realizing the broken incentives. This was my vision. For my troubles, I got an intervention because people thought I was crazy. So I tried to show my bosses at Cardinal Health. In the meantime, I started writing more.
And then Cardinal Health told me they didn’t want my idea, but they’d happily own it if I tried to build it. So I quit. And I started to learn.
It was a lot harder than I thought. My first startup crashed and burned, because apparently, “every idiot and their brother” could not, in fact, raise money.
So I ended my first startup after seven months or so with lifetime sales of approximately $0.
And I got a job at Copy.ai, where I had a front row seat to the evolution of AI, which is exactly what I needed to figure out the blooming concept of “Quantum Economics” that I had been working on. I tried to share it at work. And was fired a couple of months later, right before the trip to Cancun. Yes, as a matter of fact, I am still bitter.
But, I figured I had enough to raise money on, at this point, right? A history of years, and a more complete understanding of the problem space?
Nope. Rejection after rejection after rejection. But the cool thing is, not only were the people who were supposed to listen to and support crazy ideas rejecting me, I’d also managed to lose the ability to communicate with normal humans! I found myself turned into the AI that everyone feared, because all I could do was find and process more information about what I was seeing, while simply trying to survive.
But after a year, I started pulling together all the connections. The first part I figured out was the people.
Part 1 of the Time Machine: People
Then I figured out the next part. Networks.
And finally, I had to tie in the financialization. Crypto, but it needed a fix.
That’s when I knew I just won my first Nobel, because everything fits. Now, all I’ve got to do is wait for network verification of my work. So here’s where the fun begins, because there’s a ton of work for the network to verify. So I need to speed up attention on it. Here’s how we can do that.
I need to create a trust signal in the economy that stands out. That’s this newsletter, which has a high cost, because it’s pure signal from five years of research. But there’s a chance to get that huge value early. It’s like buying in at the ground floor of a crypto coin, but with actual value behind it. And that’s what we are going to measure with entropy.
Here’s what started this: a friend needed help immediately, because he’s in the UK and they are insane about how quickly they go after you if you miss a mortgage payment. I promised him help, and couldn’t deliver, because the part of the network I thought I could count on failed. So here’s how we can collect this data: anyone who contributes any amount, no matter how small, will be given a lifetime subscription to this newsletter. My friend needs help, and he needs it right now. Send a paypal payment of any amount to info@up4thechallenge.org, and you’ll get the subscription.
The Experiment
This is a way to capture a bunch of random value about the financials of people involved, as opposed to the price of a coin, which collapses the prices to a single point in time, instead of relative to the people on the network. Then, over time, I’ll be able to use data about how they are able to use and validate the information I send out in the newsletter to see how well their outcomes improved over time. With that, I’ll be able to track their performance vs the market. I didn’t have any money to invest in the market or invest in anyone around me, so this is a way to invert that. Now the world can crowdfund me with attention, and I can use that to change it. The information in this newsletter will help your personal economics move at a faster rate than the rest of the economy, and I’m going to be able to prove it at a level that can’t be faked.
The offer to give everyone a paid subscription for sending money to that paypal address is good until June 29th. That’s the day before the Bolt.new World Record Hackathon ends. I started building in public and trying to garner attention. In the process, everyone thought I was insane.
But those who understand me know what’s up. Now, I’ve to to learn to become human again, which is what the first correct prediction I made will allow me to do:
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But I also needed to make one more incorrect prediction. I thought that I would be awarded a Flux investment from 1517. The announcement of that was the one that steered me in the right direction. It seemed like a perfect fit. The one network that was crazy enough for me. And then even they denied me. So I’m going to skip the investment and company building piece and skip to the future.
The only thing that’s left for me to do is write the report. My work will be validated once enough people see it and I’m moving forward with the confidence that it will, because I’ve already validated it.
And by the end of the hackathon, I’ll have enough subscribers to kickstart the new Build In Public University Department of Prophecy Lab, so we can help new prophets before the mobs find them and help them turn their prophecies into economic value.
I’ll see you in July, when we’ll start talking about how to launch safe ASI and make an economy that works for everyone. 👋
~Leo
Gracias thankyou, 🚀💪🦾💚❤️