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I don't know how, but this will end badly

Office to data center conversion "The former headquarters of Cboe Global Markets Inc will soon house 33 megawatts of capacity and bring in rents much higher than the average downtown office building" bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…

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Everyone’s a fucking broker these days. Spend enough time around real estate, PE, finance or any industry where large amounts of money move around and eventually you’ll notice something: Everyone’s a fucking broker. Someone knows a family office, the “owner,” the off market deals, the capital, etc. There are increasingly 5 plus people standing between the two who actually need to speak to each other I understand why. Because I lived it, and still do, to an extent. It’s one of the most seductive businesses in the world when you’re ambitious and don’t have capital. All you need to start is to know one person who wants something and another person who might be able to give it to them. Start up cost is effectively, ZERO. And when a transaction is big, the math is intoxicating. A $200m deal at 2% is $2m. So you start thinking: Why build a shitty little 20k a month business when I could make $2m with little to no effort? Sadly, this is a trap. The actual dynamics of this business are more like Potential fee x probability the deal closes x probability you actually get paid x opportunity cost x uncertainty from the stress to hold / # of hidden brokers in the deal Now it’s a completely different profile On top of this, you own nothing. You can hardly NDA a relationship. You may not even truly own the relationship. You may at best, own permission to participate in one conversation for some period of time, which is an extremely fragile asset (if you even want to call it that) Proximity to $ is not the same as owning the leverage and brokerage makes it really easy to confuse this fact Said different, you are at the mercy of everyone else. Think of everything you can that could blow up a deal. They are likely all first order. Try and imagine the second and third order things that could blow up and deal and you’ll start to realize it’s a shitty way to make a living. A few other high level observations about the business - most people don’t actually have the access they claim and if they do, blink, and you’re in a 5 person broker chain - brokerage creates endless motion (calls, emails, intros, nds) and you can burn so much time without actually improving your position - ambiguity survives longer than it should in this business vs an operator led business like ecom. This can lead to making detrimental decisions, believing the $ is a sure thing when in fact it’s not Which leads me to my final point. The psychology will fuck with your head because you’re living in a permanent state of anticipated payoff. So you start to treat a “closing next month” as income received. Then you start making serious life decisions based around an imaginary number. The number you should be underwritten is ZERO. Nothing matters until it’s in your account. But us humans, we don’t live this way. This mindset is a one way ticket to blowing yourself up The best brokers aren’t really brokers anymore. They cultivate one relationship. They know what they care about and go find it. They anticipate problems, structure around them, protect trust, among other things. If removing yourself from the transaction makes it easier, you aren’t creating enough value. This should be a key evaluation metric. There’s nothing wrong with making money as a broker, but you likely don’t understand the full risks of the game you are playing. You must evaluate them and accept them. If your entire economic value disappears when two people learn each others phone numbers then you don’t have much of a business. The goal is as always, to own something that isn’t dependent on the outcome of two other parties who you don’t control to agree to something you benefit from.

This is deeply disturbing: Anthropic secretly invited religious leaders to SF to advise them on AI safety, had them sign NDAs, but then primarily tried to convince them Claude has a soul & moral standing, all while wining & dining them to the max. 1/ tinyurl.com/preview/296b5z8z

A poetic thing about skateboarding is that you were more likely to get hurt if you went slow. But it doesn’t matter. Skateboarding is dead. Never hear wheels rolling down the street. And 12 year old Japanese girls are doing tricks that the stars from my childhood could never.

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