Nicole Behnam

Nicole Behnam

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✨STUDY THE GAME✨ helpful perspectives about lots of things. Remember to relax, it’s just a game.🎙️INTERVIEWS: @beyondwithnicb

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Humans are terrible at distinguishing between familiarity and truth. The more they see something, the more it metabolizes into conviction. This is why propaganda works, why self-concept calcifies, and why the stories people tell about themselves become the cage they can no longer see. And now we have AI, purpose built to give you more of what already feels true. Strap in

If you’re in tech and want press coverage, be aware that some outlets/reporters often trash and misrepresent their interview subjects. But also know, even if you do go on an independent podcast, they will still clip your sound bites, strip the context, and write headlines that mislead their audience and has nothing to do with what you actually said. The only way to win is to build an audience that comes to YOU first, so by the time the hit piece drops, the jury’s already in

one day people are mad about someone not being introspective, and the next they are fighting over organic vs. paid ads. everyone’s an expert until the topic changes. then they’re an expert at that too.

Every successful company I can think of started out doing something that bares only a passing resemblance to what they eventually became successful with. Twitter began life as Odeo, a podcasting platform. Airbnb was originally conceived as a solution for conference attendees. PayPal started as a way to beam money between handheld personal organizers. Netflix, for example, started out as a video-rental-by-mail (with due dates and late fees) before eventually morphing into a subscription service, and then (9 years after launch) to a streaming company. None of these companies could have gotten to where they are – which they did by twisting and turning their way to eventual success – if they had never taken that first step and collided their initial idea with reality and got testing. Ideas, Fear, Idea Validation, Failure, and then if you’re persistent and a little lucky, Success.

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

More than half the population in Los Angeles is surviving on a diet consisting of oat milk Matcha lattes and peptides, and a skin care regimen that includes carcinogenic sunscreen. I will not participate. You shouldn’t either

a man who thinks you’re brilliant and funds you > a man who thinks you’re retarded and funds you. same money. completely different marriage.

People in media need friends in tech and friends in hospitality and friends in finance and friends in law. The most dangerous thing you can do in any industry is operate like your lane is the only lane, but few people actually understand the value of an ecosystem. They’re too focused on the transaction in front of them to see the network they’re slowly dismantling.

Jensen Huang on All-In explaining what he would have told Dario and the Anthropic team to do differently to try to change the outcome and perception re: the Department of War Situation: “The desire to warn people about the capability of the technology is really terrific. We just have to make sure that we understand that the world has a spectrum and that warning is good, scaring is less good.” The most dangerous thing you can do with powerful technology is make people afraid of it before they understand it.

I’ll happily pay for a Substack or X subscription for a writer I like, but the second a media outlet hits me with a paywall I opt out

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