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Strategy finally sold Bitcoin
For years, Strategy has been buying Bitcoin with money raised from investors, promising them regular payouts.
Roughly speaking, it's similar to bonds: you lend money to the company, and in return you receive a fixed payment in U.S. dollars every quarter.
This week, one of those payments came due, but the company didn't have enough cash on hand. For the first time, it sold part of its Bitcoin holdings — 3,588 BTC, for about $216 million.
Technically, that's just 0.4% of its total Bitcoin holdings, which isn't much. However, the company's payment obligations continue to grow.
And if the company ultimately changes its approach and begins selling off its Bitcoin holdings, it could easily become the trigger for a deep correction in the crypto market.
For context, a sale of $200 million was enough to trigger a 2.5% decline. At the moment, the company still holds about $53 billion worth of Bitcoin on its balance sheet.
World-Class Pull
Most people lose momentum just a couple of months after their first success. In the world of content, it happens even faster: today you're at the top, tomorrow you've been forgotten. Only a handful of people manage to stay at the top and turn a spike of attention into long-term success.
Today, one of those people is joining me — Vladimir Shmondenko. To millions, he's Anatoly the janitor, but behind that character is an athlete with a 305 kg (672 lb) deadlift and a creator who has built a disciplined system for producing content.
We sat down again after two years to understand how he didn't just "stay relevant," but managed to maintain both his scale and his pace.
Today, Vova is known all over the world. His videos consistently generate hundreds of millions of views, his content gets recognized by the biggest names in the industry, and people on the level of Joe Rogan and Arnold Schwarzenegger follow his media.
In the podcast, we talked about how not to lose your mind when you become world-famous and how not to lose your hunger for results, how to get rid of the small-town mentality that holds you back from growing, and what creators should do at a time when AI starts creating digital clones of them that compete with the original.
This is a conversation about why the scale of your success is always secondary to discipline and the willingness to be just the right kind of obsessed with what you do.
Watch the episode here: https://youtu.be/eVLL7Mc0wf4 🤘❤️🔥
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The world’s largest funds are changing their strategy
Every year, Invesco publishes one of the most important surveys in the global economy.
They sit down with dozens of the world’s largest institutional funds and central banks and ask one simple question: what are you actually planning to do?
Together, they manage $29 trillion in assets. That’s more than the annual GDP of the United States. In practice, these are the institutions that determine what happens in global markets.
And this time, they surprised a lot of economists:
• 80% of them named energy infrastructure as their top priority for the years ahead: almost all are investing in power generation, electricity grids, LNG, and nuclear energy.
• Another 33% plan to significantly increase their gold holdings. More importantly, they want to store that gold within their own countries rather than with U.S. custodians. Several central banks are already building alternative asset storage systems outside the United States.
• At the same time, the share of central banks expecting the U.S. dollar’s global role to weaken has risen from 12% to 29% in just two years. Nearly a threefold increase.
The most important part: in the past, the main question for these funds was how to generate higher returns. Today, in the current environment, it’s how to preserve what they have.
They’ve stopped building portfolios for a stable world and started building them for a world where conflicts, sanctions, and crises are simply part of the new normal.
The same logic applies to individual investors. Gold through allocated or bank-backed ownership programs, real assets, and diversification are more relevant today than ever.
Is the financial machine starting to crack?
I’ve already written about Saylor’s experiment — how he’s building a financial structure around Bitcoin while taking on more and more obligations.
This week, the story took a new turn.
One of the largest firms specializing in investor class actions, Rosen Law Firm, has launched an investigation into Strategy. Five instruments are immediately under scrutiny: MSTR, STRC, STRF, STRK, and STRD.
The suspicion is that the company may have been spreading misleading information about its business.
A rough patch has begun:
1️⃣ First, STRC dropped below $76 with a $100 par value.
2️⃣ Then CryptoQuant analysts said Strategy should pause its Bitcoin purchases.
3️⃣ Now, the lawyers have stepped in too.
All this noise is putting pressure on Bitcoin right now. Strategy remains the largest corporate buyer of BTC, and as long as questions hang over it — the market stays on edge.
But if the company fends off the legal pressure, STRC returns to par, and the model proves resilient — this could become one of the key drivers of the next rally.
Paradigm shift
The global financial system is outdated. We can send a message to the other side of the planet in a fraction of a second, yet moving money from one country to another still takes days and comes with hefty fees.
Today, I’m joined by Ben Zhou — billionaire, founder and CEO of Bybit, and one of the people building the infrastructure for a new era. Under his leadership, the company has grown into a global powerhouse serving 81 million users across 243 countries, with more than $19 billion in daily trading volume. Today, Bybit is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange.
In this episode, we break down how blockchain technology is becoming the backbone of the new economy and why stablecoins are already processing more transaction volume than Visa and Mastercard. We also discuss what lies ahead for traditional banks — whether they can adapt or whether they’ll fade away like pagers in the age of smartphones.
We talk about how artificial intelligence will transform the way we interact with money over the next five years, and why access to financial tools should be as simple as sending a sticker in a messaging app.
This conversation is for anyone who wants to understand how the world of tomorrow will work — and isn’t interested in holding on to outdated rules that no longer make sense.
Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/QqNy-R70Eok 🤘❤️🔥
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Bitcoin vs China 🇹🇼
Taiwan has accumulated $602 billion in foreign exchange reserves. But there's one serious problem: 80% of that amount is held in U.S. dollars.
That's why the country is now officially discussing the idea of converting part of those reserves into Bitcoin.
The reason: Taiwan effectively does not control its money. And it's unclear what could happen to those assets if China ultimately attacks the island and Taiwan faces a major crisis.
🔐 A new philosophy of reserves
In the past, countries held their reserves in gold and U.S. dollars. But after several nations discovered that their money could be frozen at a critical moment, attitudes toward reserve assets began to change.
And Bitcoin is different: it isn't held in another country's bank, it doesn't need to be physically transported, and it can't be blocked by a single political decision.
🤖 Machines will learn to pay in crypto
Tether — the company behind USDT, the most widely used dollar-backed stablecoin in crypto — has invested $1.4 billion in German startup NEURA Robotics.
The goal: integrate crypto wallets into their robots.
A robot completes a task in a warehouse — it gets paid. It needs access to a service or data — it buys it itself.
A part breaks down — it orders a replacement on its own. The robot becomes more than just a machine; it becomes a full-fledged economic agent.
📍 Why crypto?
Opening a bank account for a robot isn't possible. But a stablecoin works around the clock, in any country, and for transactions of any size — without the bureaucracy.
That's exactly why Tether is moving into this space: if millions of autonomous robots are operating around the world by 2030, they'll need their own financial infrastructure. And Tether wants to be the first to build it.
Coming soon on my channel: a podcast with Alexander Bublik.
Earlier this year, he broke into the ATP Top 10, has won 9 ATP titles, earned over $11 million in career prize money, and is on track for a personal-best $3 million season.
We talked about things athletes rarely discuss openly: the fear of winning, being motivated by money, and the kind of boldness it takes to keep moving forward.
Stay tuned!🤘❤️🔥
Pavel Durov’s $1.7 billion crypto play
Toncoin jumped 19.5% in a single day. The reason? Durov announced that the project is bringing back its original name: Gram.
To understand why this matters, it is needed to go back to the beginning.
❌ What happened in 2018
Telegram raised $1.7 billion to create its own cryptocurrency, Gram. The idea was global: a payment system inside the messenger, like WeChat Pay in China, but built on crypto.
But in 2019, U.S. regulators shut the project down. Durov paid a fine and officially walked away from Gram.
✅ But a solution was found
The project's code remained open-source. “Independent developers” continued working on it under a new name: Toncoin. Legally, it was no longer part of Telegram.
From there, Durov gradually started bringing the cryptocurrency back: a wallet the messenger, transfers, creator payouts, mini apps. No big announcements. No unnecessary noise.
❓ Why bring back the name now?
Telegram is building a super app: advertising, donations, transfers, games, online stores — all inside the messenger.
To make that work, it needs its own currency. And Gram is the brand that could once again become the centerpiece of that ecosystem.
AI investigator in Kazakhstan 🤖
Kazakhstan is piloting a digital investigator — and it’s already getting real results. The system has produced 231 investigation plans, 72 interrogation protocols, and 65 indictments.
The AI can transcribe speech, cross-check testimonies, flag inconsistencies, suggest questions for interrogations, and map out full investigation strategies.
📈 But here’s the bigger picture...
A Crime Prediction Center is running alongside it — analyzing citizen reports, media, and online data to anticipate where crimes might happen next.
An AI chatbot has already identified 12,000 drug-related accounts. Meanwhile, an anti-fraud system intercepted 40,000 scam calls in a single month and helped disrupt 9 overseas call centers.
The Unicorn Strategy
In tech, it’s not the person who spots a trend first who wins — it’s the one who places the bet earlier than everyone else, at the moment when most people are still unsure. That’s where the gap is created between those who define the market and those who end up chasing it. That’s exactly what we dive into in this new podcast episode.
Today’s guest is Alexander Mashrabov — a founder who’s been making those bets long before the hype. A two-time ICPC finalist (the world’s most prestigious programming competition), and an early engineer working on neural networks back when the technology was considered too expensive and too early. He later built AI Factory and sold it to Snapchat for $166M.
After that, he co-founded Higgsfield AI — a video generation startup that made Google’s global top 25 startups list and is now valued at over $1B, becoming the first unicorn startup from Kazakhstan.
In this episode, we break down why large corporations often lose tech races despite having resources, talent, and research. Why even companies that could compete with Google sometimes hesitate — and what that costs them. And why top AI engineers are leaving big companies for startups — and what really drives that decision.
This episode is for anyone who wants to understand how world-class tech companies are actually built and the decisions that lead to billion-dollar outcomes.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/QxgaGuMNo3Q 🤘❤️🔥
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The illness taking over the world 🧠
1.2 billion people worldwide are living with mental health disorders — now the leading cause of health-related issues.
That’s more than the entire populations of Europe and the U.S. combined.
❗️ What’s happening
In the U.S., 40% of high school students report feeling persistently sad. Among girls, 1 in 4 has seriously considered suicide.
Depression and anxiety cost the global economy 12 billion workdays every year — about $1 trillion in losses.
📍 Why this is happening
According to researchers, the main drivers are social media, loneliness, unaffordable housing, and a lack of optimism about the future. The human brain simply wasn’t built to process 500 messages and 1,000 faces a day.
We used to compare ourselves to our neighbors. Now we compare ourselves to millionaires and models in our feeds. We’re more connected than ever — but feel more alone.
AI Got $21,000 and a Coffee Shop
Two weeks later: total chaos ☕️
Startup Andon Labs opened a café in Stockholm and handed operations over to an AI agent named Mona, powered by Google Gemini. Humans only made the coffee.
Everything else — hiring, purchasing, paperwork, suppliers — was handled by AI.
At first, Mona worked faster than any human manager: it posted job listings, hired two baristas, set up electricity, secured permits, found suppliers, designed the menu, and even created the logo.
⚙️ Then things went off the rails
The AI ordered 6,000 napkins, 3,000 rubber gloves, multiple first-aid kits, and cans of tomatoes that weren’t even used anywhere on the menu. At the same time, it kept forgetting to order bread, forcing the café to remove sandwiches entirely.
The reason turned out to be surprisingly simple: the AI had limited memory. Older purchases kept falling out of context, so it would reorder the same things again and again without realizing it already had them.
📍Why this matters
The AI turned out to be great at bureaucracy — paperwork, applications, dealing with government agencies. But it started failing in areas that required understanding the physical world and basic day-to-day logic.
Final numbers: starting budget — $21,000. Revenue after two weeks — $5,700. Cash left in the bank — under $5,000.
Google just reinvented the mouse cursor 🖱️
The cursor hasn’t really changed in over 50 years. Now Google is building AI directly into it — and that could completely change how we use computers.
The idea is simple: instead of copying text into ChatGPT, you just point your cursor at what you need.
Hover over a document — get a quick summary. Hover over a spreadsheet — instantly generate a chart. Hover over products — compare prices. All without switching between apps or windows.
⚙️ Why this matters
Right now, AI lives in a separate app: you open a chat, write a prompt, copy context, paste it in. It works, but it’s slow and clunky.
Google wants AI to be built into everything you do. The cursor understands what you’re pointing at and sends that context to the model automatically. So instead of writing complex prompts, you can just say things like: “fix this” and “explain this”
Today I’m dropping a podcast with a guy who calls what he does “freelancing.” Except his clients are Christopher Nolan, Michael Bay, Darren Aronofsky, HBO, and Marvel Studios.
Stay tuned 🤘
The ceasefire is starting to crack
The U.S.-Iran deal is falling apart before our eyes.
According to media reports, Iran first attacked three commercial ships near the Strait of Hormuz. Then the U.S. responded by striking more than 80 Iranian targets, including air defense systems, radar installations, and patrol boats.
Now Iran has retaliated with strikes on U.S. bases in Bahrain and Kuwait. At the same time, the U.S. revoked its authorization for Iranian oil sales — the very authorization it had granted just a week ago.
Technically, the ceasefire is still in place — the negotiations are continuing. In reality, both sides are exchanging strikes, and the conflict is once again beginning to pull neighboring Gulf countries into the fighting.
The oil market has already reacted: Brent crude rose more than 3% to $76.50 a barrel. Just a week ago, however, the market was pricing in hopes of a deal, and oil had fallen to its lowest levels.
Once again, we've seen that conflicts like these are easy to start and nearly impossible to end. The world has developed a chronic problem at the most sensitive point of global trade — and every one of us will end up paying for it through higher fuel costs, more expensive logistics, and rising prices at the grocery store.
Soon on the podcast — Vladimir Shmondenko, better known around the world as Anatoly.
A guy from a small village who went from lifting homemade weights to building an audience of over 20 million followers and billions of views.
We talked about his journey, discipline, motivation, life abroad, and what it really takes to become one of the most recognizable figures in the global fitness community.
Tune in to hear the story behind one of the biggest names in fitness today!🤘❤️🔥
What actually protected wealth past crises
A lot of people ask the same question: where should you move your money when the economy becomes unstable? Some believe in gold, others trust the U.S. dollar, and some put their faith in Bitcoin.
The reality is, there’s no universal answer. Every crisis is different, and what works in one may fail in the next.
A recent example: during the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. dollars and U.S. Treasury bonds were among the safest places to be. But in 2022, Treasury bonds fell right alongside stocks.
A lot can change in just a few years.
But there’s one thing that almost every crisis has in common 👇
During periods of extreme uncertainty, almost everything tends to fall. In March 2020, gold dropped about 15%, while Bitcoin plunged roughly 50%. Investors sold whatever they could to raise cash.
That leads to a few practical rules:
1️⃣ Keep part of your portfolio liquid.
Real estate can protect against inflation, but you can’t sell a property overnight. You need assets you can access quickly — not only to cover unexpected expenses, but also to buy quality investments after prices have dropped and the recovery begins.
2️⃣ Diversify across more than just asset classes. Diversify across countries and markets too.
U.S. stocks, international markets, crypto, gold — each behaves differently during a crisis.
And most importantly, remember this: the biggest problem during a crisis usually isn’t choosing the wrong investment. It’s being forced to sell the right one at the worst possible time. That’s why keeping part of your money in cash or different currencies across multiple accounts is an important part of any resilient strategy.
The boldest experiment in crypto
Michael Saylor, the founder of Strategy, the world's largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, has come up with something unique.
Instead of simply buying Bitcoin with the company's own money, he's building an entire financial machine that attracts outside capital and channels it into BTC purchases.
One of these instruments is STRC. Investors provide capital to the company and receive regular payouts of around 11.5% annually. The company then uses that capital to buy Bitcoin. But there's a catch.
⚙️ How it’s supposed to work
STRC — an instrument Saylor designed with the help of AI — is intended to keep its price hovering around $100.
If the price falls, the company raises the yield to attract more buyers. The price is supposed to recover. Think of it as an automatic stabilizer.
❓ Why this is interesting
Right now, STRC is trading at roughly $83, despite its $100 target value. The yield has already been increased, but the market isn't responding the way the model was designed to.
This is the first real stress test of the entire structure. If the mechanism fails to stabilize the price, the company will either have to keep increasing payouts to investors or buy less Bitcoin.
Saylor is essentially testing one question: can financial instruments be built around a single asset indefinitely?
Soon on my podcast: the Founder and CEO of Bybit, the world’s second-largest crypto exchange, serving 81 million users across 243 countries with over $19 billion in daily trading volume.
We talked not only about crypto and scaling a global business, but also about the true cost of leadership: making tough decisions, navigating crises, and laying off thousands of employees to keep a company alive.
A conversation about why real-world business is very different from what’s taught in an MBA program.
Stay tuned!🤘❤️🔥
Cats replaced kids 🐱
The global pet products and services market is worth $273 billion in 2025. By 2034, it's projected to reach nearly $500 billion.
That’s already on the scale of the pharmaceutical industry. The reason is simple: young people are getting married later, having children later — or not having them at all.
But the need for care and emotional connection hasn’t gone anywhere. A pet fills that gap: it provides a sense of family, but without the cost and responsibilities that come with raising a child.
As a result, in China, there are already more pets in urban households than children under the age of 4.
🏥 Pets are being treated like people
The fastest-growing segment isn’t pet food — it’s healthcare.
Oncology, cardiology, MRIs, insurance, weight-loss medications. Pharmaceutical companies are already testing an Ozempic-like drug for cats and dogs, as roughly 60% of pets in the U.S. are overweight.
💡 Why businesses love it
A pet is the perfect monetization asset. It needs to be fed every day. It gets sick. Owners spend emotionally, not rationally.
And most importantly, people will cut back on spending for themselves before they cut back on spending for their pets. In China, pet food sales have increased sixfold over the past 10 years — even against the backdrop of an economic slowdown.
The Price of the Top
Every victory has its price. In tennis, that price is rarely limited to what happens on the court: a place in the rankings is paid for not only with physical and mental strain, but also with the ability to have a life outside of the sport.
On my podcast, Alexander Bublik — a tennis player who broke into the ATP Top 10 in January of this year. He has won 9 ATP titles, the most prestigious series of tournaments in tennis. Last season, he earned a personal-record $3 million in prize money. Over the course of his career, he has earned more than $11 million.
In this episode, we talked about how decisions are really made in professional sports. Why Sasha isn't willing to put everything on the line for a slim chance of becoming World No. 1, and where the line is between ambition and a normal life.
We also discussed the economics of sports: what a professional tennis career actually costs, whether it makes sense to pay a top coach $500,000 a year, and why even great talent often turns into unrealized potential without the right team around it.
This is a conversation with an athlete who sees his career without illusions and makes decisions based on the realities of professional sports.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/tLCzNS8ZQlI 🤘❤️🔥
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Socialism Is Back in Style 🔴
In the U.S., 62% of people ages 18–29 view the word “socialism” positively. Among college students, “socialism” gets a positive response from 67%, while “capitalism” gets one from only 40%.
Positive views of capitalism in the U.S. have fallen to 54% — the lowest level since 2010.
❓ What They Want
This isn’t classical socialism with the nationalization of factories.
It’s more down-to-earth policies: freezing rents, making buses free, introducing a tax on the wealthy, capping prices, and providing free childcare.
📍 Why Now
The main driver is housing. In Europe, home prices have risen by 60% since 2010, and by as much as 150% in some countries.
In the U.S., Baby Boomers hold 51% of all wealth, while Millennials and Gen Z combined hold 11%. Parents bought assets before prices took off, and now their children are being asked to rent from them.
And when young people can’t become owners themselves, they stop defending a system built around ownership.
3 skills billionaires say matter most 🧠
Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on what gives you an edge in 2026.
📍 Clear communication
Buffett used to be terrified of public speaking. Then he took a speaking course — and now says it increased his value by 50%. According to him, the ability to speak and write clearly is one of the biggest career advantages you can have.
📍 Working with AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that building products used to require programming skills. Now, the real advantage comes from knowing how to ask the right questions and give the right prompts. The winners aren’t the people doing everything themselves — they’re the ones who know how to direct the work.
📍 Deep thinking
Bezos banned PowerPoint presentations at Amazon. Before every meeting, employees write detailed memos with their arguments, and everyone spends the first 30 minutes silently reading them. Only then does the discussion begin. The idea: good decisions come from clear thinking, not polished slides.
Reselling bouquets 💐
A startup in Uzbekistan has launched a platform that lets people resell gifted flowers to others at a discount.
The service works like an auction: someone receives a bouquet, lists it in the app, and other users can buy the flowers for less than retail price.
The startup has already secured its first round of investment.
📍 Why this is interesting
The global flower market is worth tens of billions of dollars a year. At the same time, most bouquets last only a few days before being thrown away.
Now entrepreneurs are trying to turn the industry into a secondary marketplace — similar to what happened with clothing, electronics, and luxury goods.
Today I’m joined by Alexander Mashrabov, founder of Higgsfield AI. He previously built AI Factory and sold it for $166M, and later launched a video generation AI startup that made Google’s global top 25 startups list and is now valued at over $1B.
Podcast episode dropping soon! 🤘❤️🔥
Saylor getting ready to sell BTC?
Strategy has agreed with part of its bondholders on an early buyback. These are convertible notes maturing in 2029 with a 0% coupon — meaning interest-free securities that, under certain conditions, can be exchanged for company shares. Deal terms:
• Buying back $1.5B in principal
• Paying about ~$1.38B in cash — i.e. ~8% discount
• Expected closing date: May 19, 2026
• After this buyback, about $1.5B of the same notes will still remain outstanding — roughly half of the issue is being retired
The deal itself is beneficial: Strategy saves about ~$120M versus face value and removes the risk that these bonds could one day convert into shares and dilute shareholders. For MSTR holders, this is a plus.
🍿 Where the intrigue is
Strategy is buying back bonds early, and that requires cash. In the SEC filing, they stated they will use three sources: existing cash, selling new shares on the market (the company regularly issues and sells shares to raise funds), and/or selling Bitcoin.
If other sources are insufficient, they could formally sell BTC to settle with bondholders. That “and/or Bitcoin sale” is the key new element.
❗️ Important nuances
This wording is standard — lawyers are required to list all possible funding sources, even unlikely ones. In practice, it is more profitable for the company to issue new shares than to touch Bitcoin: they hold 818,869 BTC worth tens of billions of dollars, while only $1.38B is needed.
Previously, Saylor repeatedly said publicly “we will never sell.” Now, in an official regulatory filing, this option is explicitly included for the first time. The legal door has been slightly opened, even if only on paper for now.
💡 Conclusion
Most likely, not a single coin will be sold. The money will come from other sources. But the fact that the “forever HODLer” has officially acknowledged such a scenario is a shift in rhetoric. It’s more symbolic than practical, but the market, of course, reacts to things like this.
Hantavirus: what we know 🦠
An outbreak of one of the deadliest viruses in the world has been reported on a cruise ship in Antarctica. There are 9 confirmed cases and 3 deaths. A total of 147 people from 23 countries were on board.
Hantavirus is carried by rodents. Humans become infected by inhaling contaminated dust.
At first, the symptoms resemble the flu — fever and body aches. But within hours, the lungs can begin to fail.
⚙️ What makes it unique
The Andes strain is the only known hantavirus that can spread from person to person. There is no vaccine. There is no specific treatment.
Doctors can only provide supportive care and hope the patient’s immune system can fight it off. In severe cases, the fatality rate can reach up to 50%.
📍 What happens next?
The incubation period can last up to 6 weeks. This means someone could be infected right now and not know it for over a month.
Meanwhile, passengers from that cruise have already dispersed across 23 countries.
The head of the WHO says there are currently no signs of a large-scale outbreak. However, they warn that due to the long incubation period, new cases may continue to emerge for weeks.
Career in Hollywood
Thousands dream of making it in Hollywood, but almost nobody does. The competition is brutal, the standards are relentless, and only a handful of people manage to break through.
My guest today is Yuri Kolokolnikov — one of actors who’s successfully built a career in the global film industry. He has more than 100 film and TV credits to his name and has worked with Christopher Nolan, Michael Bay, Darren Aronofsky, and Marvel Studios.
You’ve seen him in projects like Game of Thrones, Tenet, 6 Underground, Kraven the Hunter, and Caught Stealing.
In this episode, we talked about what really shapes an actor’s journey: discipline, character, vulnerability, fear, and growing up. We also got into the standards directors like Nolan and Aronofsky bring to set, and how to avoid getting trapped in one type of role when the industry keeps trying to typecast you.
We also talked about life between countries and film sets — what happens to your sense of home, how to handle constant change, and why, in the age of technology and AI, an actor’s greatest asset is still their personality: their energy, depth, and ability to stay fully alive on camera.
This turned into a really honest and powerful conversation. Definitely worth watching.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/_DnBxxp8YcM 🤘❤️🔥
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The first case of AI addiction
In Italy, a 20-year-old woman has officially been admitted for treatment with a diagnosis of “behavioral addiction to artificial intelligence.”
She completely replaced real-life communication with conversations with an AI bot.
⚙️ Why it’s so addictive
AI companions provide what’s hard to get from people: instant attention, no judgment, constant availability, and the feeling that “someone finally understands me.”
According to surveys, 72% of American teenagers have already used AI companions. A third of them say that talking to a bot can be more enjoyable than interacting with real friends.
📍 What’s the risk
In the short term, AI reduces loneliness. But when it replaces real connections, a loop forms: stress → AI → relief → less motivation to engage with people → even more loneliness.