I’ve always wanted to tell the story of Wukong to the world in my own way. Not as a legend frozen in time, but as a mirror of the world we live in now. This album is only the first chapter of a much larger story.The journey of Wukong has just begun. ROCK THE HEAVENLY PALACE is now out on all platforms. Link in bio.

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In 1990, the World Wide Web was invented on Steve Jobs' computer. Steve ignored it. This is the story I tell in my new book Steve Jobs in Exile. Here is what it should tell the rest of us about the moment we are in now. Steve was running NeXT, an unsuccessful computer company. He had been pushed out of Apple five years earlier and was burning his fortune trying to build a successor to the Macintosh. The machine NeXT sold was a matte-black magnesium cube -- expensive and beautiful and not selling. In October of that year, on the other side of the Atlantic, a British physicist named Tim Berners-Lee took delivery of a NeXT Cube at CERN, the physics laboratory on the Swiss-French border. He used it to invent the World Wide Web. The web ran on the Cube for its first year of existence. The revolution was happening on Steve's hardware, and yet Steve ignored it. Here is the question I keep thinking about from my book. If Steve Jobs, the most visionary tech mind of his generation, missed the Web, the most civilization-shaping tech of his lifetime, how are the rest of us supposed to see anything coming? Berners-Lee had been asking his boss at CERN for a NeXT Cube for months. His boss finally signed off, hoping to test the exotic Cube. "He suggested that I should buy one of these NeXT machines I'd been talking about so enthusiastically," Berners-Lee later told Fresh Air. "And if we needed a sort of test project to run on the NeXT machine ... 'Why not just do this hypertext thing you're talking about?'" The "test project" evolved into the World Wide Web. The problem Berners-Lee was trying to solve was not a glamorous one. CERN employed thousands of scientists from over a hundred countries, most cycling through on short assignments and taking their knowledge with them when they left. Berners-Lee was trying to keep institutional knowledge from walking out the door. He wanted a system that worked the way human memory does, where any piece of information could connect to any other without permission or central control. Through late 1990, he coded in his gray-floored office. The Cube's object-oriented system let him build in months what would have taken a year on anything else. By December, the first website went online. The World Wide Web now existed, running on a single black NeXT Cube in CERN's Building 31. Berners-Lee scrawled a warning on it in red ink: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!" Underneath the elegant interface he was building HTTP, HTML, and the server software that would deliver web pages. These three inventions would form much of the invisible plumbing of our modern connectivity. When a colleague of Berners-Lee's brought a demo of the Web to NeXT's headquarters in California, he could not get anyone there to pay attention. Nobody even dared show it to Steve, afraid he would dismiss it. NeXT was busy with its own internet plans, which Steve eventually killed. So back to the question. If Steve Jobs missed the web, how are the rest of us supposed to see whatever comes next? The honest answer is that we cannot. Nobody can. The rest of us are not going to outpattern-match Steve Jobs. But here is what I learned writing Steve Jobs in Exile. Transformations almost always begin in obscurity, on the margins, solving boring problems with boring tools. The web did not look revolutionary in 1990. It looked like a tool for sharing physics papers. We are in another such moment now. AI is the obvious changemaker. But the biggest transformations are rarely the obvious ones. The next one is happening somewhere right now, and it is trickier to spot than any sweeping proclamation about AI. We will recognize it, if we recognize it at all, from the unglamorous work few people are focused on. I will not speculate on what Steve would have made of AI today. But if he could miss the Web, the rest of us are going to have to look harder. Photo of the original CERN NeXT Cube courtesy of Robert Scoble.

Time to update your talking points and it’s time to tell the truth to the American people. Since 2019, California has no peers in the developed world: 40% growth. CA dominates in research and development — our success is not by chance, it’s by design. 18% of the world’s R&D right here in the Golden State.

More than 40 global media outlets are coming together as the One Free Press Coalition to bring attention to fellow journalists who are being threatened for seeking to tell the truth. This year’s “10 Most Urgent” list focuses on journalists who are targeted for “terrorism” or “anti-state” charges around the world. #OneFreePress#

Elon Musk just proved that the body is optional. A quadriplegic sat motionless in a chair and played a video game using nothing but thought. No hands. No voice. No movement whatsoever. Just a decision firing across a chip the size of a coin. Musk: “You just lie there and think, and you can move the mouse cursor around the screen and click things.” Download software. Browse the web. Navigate a screen with the same effort you use to remember your mother’s name. Without lifting a finger. Because he can’t. And now he doesn’t have to. That isn’t a product demo. That is a quadriplegic man doing with silence what you do with your entire body. And this is the version with a thousand electrodes. Musk: “I think ultimately you need something which has probably a hundred thousand or a million electrodes.” A thousand gave us telepathy. A million gives us something that doesn’t have a name yet. Musk is honest about how far this still has to go. He’s not overselling it. He’s underselling it. Because the part that should keep you up tonight isn’t what Neuralink still has to build. It’s that the line between human thought and machine action already disappeared. And the world just kept scrolling. Musk: “Our human brain has a lot of constraints. We only have about maybe 10 watts of higher brain function.” Ten watts. That’s less than the light inside your refrigerator. Every empire ever built. Every symphony ever written. Every theory that bent the arc of history. Ten watts of wet biological circuitry. Musk: “It’s not bad for a bunch of monkeys.” He’s not joking. He’s framing the question nobody wants to sit with. If ten watts of constrained primate hardware produced Shakespeare and general relativity and nuclear fission, what happens when the constraint disappears? Not when the brain gets faster. When the wall between thinking something and doing something no longer exists. The entire history of human tools has been one long negotiation with the same problem. You think something. Then you spend hours, years, lifetimes turning that thought into reality. Your hands. Your voice. Your body. Fire shortened the distance. Language shortened it more. Writing. The printing press. Electricity. Code. Every invention ever built was a cruder, slower translation layer between the mind and the world. Neuralink isn’t another layer. It’s the elimination of translation itself. Diamandis: “It’s a matter of when, not if.” Musk didn’t push back. He just kept discussing electrode counts like an engineer reviewing specs on a vehicle that already left the ground. That calm is the tell. The philosophical event already happened. A thought left a human skull, entered a machine, and executed a command in the physical world. No hand touched anything. No mouth spoke. A man thought the word “move” and the screen obeyed. Every tool before this was a prosthetic for intention. This is intention, naked, arriving without a body. The oldest question in philosophy was never about what we can build. It was about where the mind ends and the world begins. Neuralink just made that question obsolete.

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X is the most powerful platform in the world. Today, the Prime Minister of India himself used X to fact-check a major news claim and directly tell people the truth. That’s the power of X. X is not just a social media app. It is the world’s real-time public square.