Last night I started reading the new Adam Ross book “Playworld.” It’s gotten great reviews, best of the year so far, and I loved his previous novel “Mr. Peanut.”

And I was hooked by the very first sentence:

“In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year, it didn’t seem strange at the time.”

And it continued to be that good but my mind was too fogged from the IVIG so I put my Kindle down and picked up my iPad and started scrolling TikTok.

Which serves me up a ton of car videos. If you want to buy a car, you need to be on TikTok, there’s better information on what to buy, when to buy and how to buy than anywhere else online, delivered by passionate, knowledgeable people. They live for this, they’re just not dilettantes writing for a magazine.

But I’m much more interested in the repair videos. If you can solve people’s problems, you’ve got a business.

And besides Royalty Auto Service in Georgia:

@royaltyautoservice

and experts on engines, you’ve got the Chinese woman with practical advice…

You’ll find her interesting, at least I do, check her videos out here:

@dongcheshijie

But as I’m scrolling I come to a clip with some Asian financial guy answering a question from a woman off-screen about DeepSeek, the Chinese AI platform that crashed the market yesterday. Why did it do so?

@alexisanddean

DeepSeek tanks the market. #deepseek #ai #aistocks #stockmarket #stocks #invest #stockmarketnews #news #breakingnews #nvidia #fintok #tech #bigtech #financialfreedom #financialeducation #financialliteracy #finance101 #learntoinvest #china #chatgpt

? original sound – Alexis and Dean

Usually this stuff is so technical, it slides right off the average consumer. But this guy gave a better, more concise, PRECISE, explanation than I found at traditional news sites. Even better than those prison videos that the “Times” and other news outlets are now featuring, you know, with the no-makeup reporters telling their story straightforwardly, sans emotion.

There’s a wealth of talent amongst the hoi polloi, and oftentimes they can do it better. They live for the single subject they’re pontificating on, they’re experts.

The younger generations know this.

The older generations think they know better and judge social media other than Facebook as a complete waste of time, when it’s Facebook that’s an antiquated desert.

Sure, you can get in an endless TikTok loop, doomscrolling.

But if you’re not on, you don’t know what is going on.

Check it out, so you can speak intelligently about the platform and not just focus on issues with China and privacy…which I’ve got to tell you the younger generation doesn’t worry about, they sacrificed their privacy long ago, near birth.

I don’t know this financial guy, I don’t know which side of the political spectrum he is on, I don’t know if he’s as good about everything, then again, in the following video when he’s asked how DeepSeek works, he starts by saying he’s not an expert…unlike everybody bloviating about the platform who’s never been on it:

@alexisanddean

Why is DeepSeek so much better than the current AI the US has developed? #deepseek #ai #aistocks #stockmarket #stocks #invest #stockmarketnews #news #breakingnews #nvidia #fintok #tech #bigtech #financialfreedom #financialeducation #financialliteracy #finance101 #learntoinvest #china #chatgpt #processingpower #gpu #chips #aichip

? original sound – Alexis and Dean

TikTok is the younger generations’ television, network, cable and streaming all in one bundle, and free! If you scroll for a while you’ll get it. That algorithm delivering up what you’re interested in but didn’t know you desired is amazing.