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Mark Surfas builds practical leverage.

Writing about AI, real estate, systems, and experiments that hold up in real life. Serious projects, light sarcasm, zero template energy.

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February 2, 2026 2 min

The 9 PM Conspiracy

There’s a conspiracy among successful people that nobody talks about. It’s not ice baths or gratitude journals. It’s simpler.

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Mark Surfas is a tech entrepreneur and real estate investor building durable systems across software, operations, and capital. This site is where ideas get pressure-tested in public.

The subtitle is still "Available for Parties, etc." because humor belongs in high-agency work.

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  • AI copilots that do real work, not demos
  • Property and business systems that compound
  • Writing habits that turn drafts into published assets
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