This is why the bars and clubs in New York are empty. This was 10 pm on Friday night:
Not bars and clubs but run clubs and saunas.
People are chasing the same social energy and the same high, but from endorphins instead of alcohol.
Long Garmin / Oura / WHOOP. Short Diageo /
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2006: everyone has a myspace
2010: everyone has a facebook
2014: everyone has an instagram
2018: everyone has a snapchat
2021: everyone has a tiktok
2024: everyone has a ____?
A list of NYC's most exquisite bars and lounges:
(Impress someone by taking them here)
• Le Bain
• Bo Peep
• Nubeluz
• Rose Bar
• Westlight
• Peekaboo
• Chapel Bar
• Swan Room
• The Campbell
• CloudM Bowery
• Raines Law Room
• The Panorama Room
• The Roof at PUBLIC
If you're making $120k to $180k a year in NYC, you're extra prone to lifestyle creep.
This is when you start spending on stuff like:
• $5,000/mo luxury apartments
• $300/mo social club
• $280/mo high-end gyms
• $120 concert tickets
• $40 Ubers
• $28 cocktails
• $8 coffees
$10,000,000 net worth in finance:
- Patek Philippe
- Penthouse on 5th Ave
- Weekends in the Hamptons
- Uber Black SUV
- Loro Piana fit
$10,000,000 net worth in tech:
- Apple Watch 2013 model
- Shared mattress in hacker house
- Weekends in the metaverse
- Motorized skateboard
Equinox Soho is wild:
- packed at 10:30 am (is everyone unemployed?)
- guys wearing shades indoors while working out
- >30% of the ppl here have a personal trainer
- weird mix of ppl both in their 20s and 70s
- probably the fittest ppl I’ve seen in NYC