mattered anyway because that's a measure of influence. So am I wrong that we don't need the blue check? The blue check was just saving you a click, and now I'll just do the click, see the follower account. Which makes me wonder if Twitter ever considered getting rid of the follower account. Imagine that. It would change the service to me to the point where I'd be much less likely to use it because I'm very incentivized by anything I can measure.

Here's a persuasion trick for you. People care more about things that can be measured. So that's why the things that can be measured end up being dominant over the things that you're worried about. And they might even be more important, but whatever's measured gets the most attention. So if you can measure the number of followers, then I'm all in. I'm like, oh, I can compete for influence and I can tell how I'm doing by my number of followers. So that's very incentivizing for me. I'm like, oh I'm in. I like a good competition. So every day if I get new followers, I look at it. I feel good. If I get new followers, I get a little boost of dopamine. So I'm part of the machine now. So the machine is treating me like the chicken that gets a pellet. It's like, oh look at the pellets. You got 500 new users. And I'm like, oh pellet. Give me another pellet. I want another pellet tomorrow.

All right, predictions. Prediction is that the internet dads will become the dominant influence in the country. The internet dads, and that includes women who are sort of fulfilling the role of being the adult in the room. I think it's going to be the internet dads. And part of that is because the media's influence is being diluted by a lot of things, and the internet dad types are adding too much value to be ignored, right? Yeah, or the stepdads, right? The internet's stepdads. So that's what I think.

So let's talk about Stephen King. I don't know if I've ever mentioned, but people who are professional artists sometimes don't have the best grasp of business and science and other domains, but they think they do. Boy, do they think they do. So Stephen King was giving some business criticism to Elon Musk. So here's what Stephen King said. He started out good. He goes, I think Elon, and this is in a tweet, I think Elon Musk is a visionary. Almost single-handedly he's changed the way Americans think about automobiles. I have a Tesla and love it. That said, he's been a terrible fit for Twitter. He appears to be making it up as he goes along. And then later I guess he got some responses to that. And later he tweeted, but Twitter ain't cars and Twitter ain't rockets.

So Stephen King, with all of his analytical writer's ability, has decided that Elon Musk, who didn't know anything about electric cars until he made the biggest electric car company, didn't know anything about satellites until they launched his network of satellites, didn't know anything about rocket ships to Mars until he became the head of engineering because he couldn't hire one, didn't know anything about neural links to your brains until he formed Neuralink, didn't know anything about digital payments until he was part of the PayPal team, didn't know anything about building gigantic machines that bore through the Earth efficiently until he formed the Boring Company. Stephen King, do you see a pattern here? You see a pattern? You know that every one of those things he didn't know how to do until he did them, right? If you could find the pattern, the pattern is he's the guy who knows how to do the things that other people don't know how to do because he figures it out and then he does it. That's who he is. The most basic description of Elon Musk is the guy who can figure out how to do the thing that other people couldn't figure out how to do. That's like his entire brand, is doing the thing that Stephen King hasn't noticed he's good at. The entire situation is that he can do that over and over again. How many times does he have to prove it? And Stephen King hasn't noticed that Tesla can do some things also.

What do all these things have in common except