Jack Raines ✓
@Jack_Raines · New York · joined 16 Jan 2012
Author of Young Money, a guide to making the most of the opportunity costs of your 20s. Investing @slow
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My level 3 take here is that leveraging AI for writing is neither good nor bad and the relevance and digestibility of the message is most important, but “words” are no longer sacred in 2026.
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My mental model for written content is that anyone who coincidentally started publishing articles in 2025-2026 and wasn’t previously blogging is Claude-posting.
Not good or bad per se, but it is safe to assume AI until proven otherwise.
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Who is Sequoia’s ghostwriter? They’ve been cranking out articles like crazy lately.
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Best recent use of GrokBot was having it find and cancel all of my useless subscriptions.
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the Subscription Economy was always unsustainable in its latest iteration, which is why substack is struggling (among other things). it's out of control. i woke up last week with anxiety about whether or not I cancelled my subscription to the 7-day free trial of ESPN+ streaming
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Humbled and honored that Young Money is the performative read of the year for young folks at @OpenAI.
Y’all should buy some copies for your young tokenmaxxers https://t.co/WthIhVAKCo
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🚨ATTENTION, CREATORS🚨
We @slow are hosting a bootcamp next week in NYC to teach creators how to build all sorts of fun AI bots to automate all of the tedious parts of their businesses.
Sign up below:
https://t.co/c284qUTGPv
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Can confirm that Brian cooks. ROI is basically ♾️ for UGC folks who sign up
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Yo @yrechtman @nathansnonsense check this out
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slopcannon has crossed $500k ARR https://t.co/FcFCMNt9p0
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@Jack_Raines Just ordered a copy, congratulations again 💪
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🚨NASDAQ BOOK MOG🚨
Posted up in Times Square for the rest of the day absolutely BOOKMOGGING central Manhattan.
Come say hey and bring a copy of Young Money. Sitting outside the Starbucks https://t.co/sAXoSylr38
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@Jack_Raines I was walking around a bookstore today and saw your book. I just had to grab a copy.
Can’t believe seeing it in person was the first time I had awareness you wrote a book! You really should have been tweeting about it and promoting it on this site. Can’t believe yo
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@Jack_Raines Read it and finished in 2 days. Fantastic read and amazing work.
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🚨 IT'S OFFICIALLY PUBLICATION DAY 🚨
Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties, is now available anywhere you buy (or listen to!) books. Snag your copy (or 5) below, and once you've read, please make sure to leave a review!
https://t.co/cA7NHIDsGQ https:/
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@Jack_Raines I remember someone sending me this banger way back before I knew you. One of the few articles I have bookmarked and still just as impactful today as it was when I first read it. Congrats G, book is going to change a ton of lives I am simply certain of it
https://t.c
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Young Money is a book on opportunity costs. Most specifically, the opportunity costs that come with that transitional period between “youth” and “adulthood.”
Your 20s should be a fun, exciting, adventure-filled decade of life. But they’re also filled with stress. Anxiety. You
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Anxiety and uncertainty are the biggest obstacles facing young folks today, and it’s my hope that this book can help a few of them navigate this highly-fun-but-equally-uncertain phase of life.
If you’ve followed my work for a while, or if you’re new here but you liked this post,
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Some news: I wrote a book!
For the last few years, I've obsessed over the idea of "opportunity costs," particularly with how to make the most of each stage of life before it's gone. From that obsession came Young Money. Pre-order here (and more below):
https://t.co/vrumFRxJFi
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"It’s a damn shame that Jobs, Simons, and Knight didn’t spend every moment of their early adult lives grinding out 90-hour weeks. If they had, they might have achieved some semblance of success in their careers."
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Against accounts of the same size
18 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.
Median views2 397this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %3.19%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.58%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 2 397 | 924 | 2.59× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.19% | 3.62% | 0.88× |
| Engagement rate | 0.58% | 1.52% | 0.38× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes62.3%2 937 in total
Reposts2.7%129 in total
Replies6.8%319 in total
Quotes1.8%87 in total
Bookmarks26.4%1 246 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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