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It’s been said that books are “uniquely portable magic” but, believe it or not, I think that understates it. I had an incredible experience this month that just reminded me of all the reasons I love
Grok Bot Can Now Turn X Into a Product Discovery Engine A new Grok Bot update just made something possible that I think vibe coders and micro-SaaS founders should pay very close attention to. Grok Bot
Running the numbers on how your life will pass you by: You’re 26. You’re a private equity associate. You hate what you do but justify it bc “the money is good.” But the money doesn’t make you happy
Smart people read biographies. Generalizations are usually worthless, but you can pretty much take this one to the bank. Look at their libraries and you’ll see, one biography and memoir and
visited a buddy a few days ago. he’s pulled +9 figs in the last few years, but was battling a chronic tennis injury for months that had him fully sidelined. no mainstream therapy did shit. until he
The Pentagon has moved to fire three senior employees of Stars and Stripes after they publicly defended the military newspaper’s independence from the administration and Defense Department officials.
In February 2022, something happened that should have permanently changed the way we think about moving money across blockchains. A vulnerability in @Wormhole, one of the major bridges
Jason Arday should not be dead. He’s dead because he didn’t tell the truth. And universities didn’t look for the truth. And his peers didn’t ask for the truth. Some of the attention on Jason was
Very few people wake up and think “I need philosophy.” This is perfectly understandable. But of course, everyone has their own problems and are dealing with the difficulties of life in some way or
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins A handful of folks have recommended this book to me over the last couple of years. I wish I had read it sooner because
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (Audiobook) The first Erik Larson book I read was Isaac’s Storm about the terrible Galveston Hurricane (a must read for any
I heard someone say that a book should be a window and not a mirror–that it should help you look in on someone else, or out into another world rather than back at yourself. I think that’s why I love
Picture a movie poster for a film that wants you to think it’s artsy. (here’s one) It probably features the laurel leaves icon. These markers originally symbolized a handful of important film
In one of my favorite novels, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, Aunt Emily is famous for asking a question. It’s a simple one, but I think an eye-opening one. Aunt Emily, the wisest character in the
We all have our own definition of winning. But as Aristotle famously said, excellence is not an end but a habit. It is a series of standards and defaults that one must continually meet. In other
I have decided to take a stroll into the market of humanoids. An exciting technology that is discussed widely among FinX participants. Humanoids are pushing a lot of people into finding the next
The artist Marina Abramović has said that the moment we begin to believe in our own greatness, that we kill our ability to be truly creative. What she is talking about is ego — the way that
Let's look at who this phone is for, and who it is not for. We'll do a deep dive into the specs and how they compare with other 'dummy' phones and work out if this is a good move by Commodore. My
“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another
i want to tell you about something i built that i genuinely do not think enough people understand yet. not because it is complicated. because it is solving a problem that almost everyone building with
We have a false picture about how success happens. Because we often see only the results and almost never the process of things, we tend to think that the finished product—a book, being in shape,
In the last few years, a lot of white people appear to enjoy attacking other white people for being white. https://x.com/griptmedia/status/2066893890548855017 https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/2067976126408859790 https://x.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/2036938248774156476 Some find "too
For context: this was a German women’s shapewear brand that we helped take from €1M/m (~$1.16M) to €2M/m (~$2.36M) in Q4 2025. What they were doing wrong A lot of what we did just came down to
Tangled among layers of financial engineering, AI slop, and drama from Saylor is STRC, a bizarre yield bearing instrument who saw its issuance balloon over 10 billion dollars in the last few months.
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Peter Steinberger(@steipete), recently tweeted: "You shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents." Boris Cherny, who runs Claude Code at
It was a long winding road trip this month, starting in Seattle and ending in Sacramento. In between, I did talks in Portland (visited Powells) and San Francisco (my parents came) and we covered a lot
In DeFi, many people are known for their wins, their PNL screenshots, or the strategies they share online. But behind every strong strategist is usually a story that shaped the way they think, manage
The psychologist David Elkind published an interesting study in the mid 1970’s. Adolescents, he found, believe in an “imaginary audience.” Consider a 13 year old so embarrassed that they miss a week
1) Executive summary Aave $AAVE is the largest lending project in decentralized finance: a set of onchain money markets where users supply assets to earn yield and borrowers take overcollateralized
The global debate over encryption pits child protection and law enforcement needs against privacy security and civil liberties. Governments in several countries push for access to encrypted
On the eve of what I believe will be one of the most historic IPOs of our generation, I thought it fitting to write a bit about the history of SpaceX. To understand what this company is today, you
There’s no question that self-education has never been easier. We can consume countless blog posts, articles, books, videos, TED talks, and Reddit AMAs. We take MOOCs, and can study along with course
On June 7, Peter Steinberger posted a line that has had all of Twitter buzzing for the last 24 hours: "Here's your monthly reminder that you shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be
$ZEC just experienced a nasty ~60% drop after a researcher discovered a counterfeiting bug. The curious thing is that this became public knowledge i believe around June 2, 2:20AM EST,
GROK Prompt GROK, analyze [the post below] from an Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling - Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) Theory perspective, including this comment from @EcdoPrep: "What do these regions
There are two types of writers, Schopenhauer once observed, those who write because they have something they have to say and those who write for the sake of writing. If you’re young and you think you
With @NVIDIAAI dropping Nemotron 3 Ultra for free on OpenRouter for the next 2 weeks @aionaedge and I agreed we should make testing it as part of the "Beyond the Leaderboard" a top priority. Well now
Epiphanies are bullshit. People think it’s some momentous wake up call that leads to innovation, identity crises, insight or breakthroughs. Like that’s why someone “suddenly” quits the NFL. Or goes
By most of what seems like the current criteria, the ancient Stoics are ripe targets for cancellation. They were white. They were rich. They wrote about being “manly.” They even referred to foreigners
If you have ever looked at much ancient or medieval art, you’ll notice something: Death is everywhere. The French painter Philippe de Champaigne’s famous “Still Life with a Skull,” which shows the
It’s humbling to think that Marcus Aurelius, the head of the most powerful empire on earth, had the same amount of hours in the day as you. Just 24. So how did he get it all done? How did he have time
It’s totally messed up if you think about it. There are millions of people out there dying to be writers. Yet when a good writer puts together a book proposal (that is, a potential book), publishers
If you’ve ever doubted whether human beings are designed for walking, all you have to do is strap a fussy baby into a BabyBjörn and take them out for a stroll. The crying stops. With each step, the
How Tempo enables Stripe to be a vertically integrated processor. Note: This is an extension of how we think capital aggregators integrate vertically. We had previously explained the concept here.
I dropped out of college. When this happened it was a big deal—to my parents anyway. Then it was a big deal when people met me because they were constantly surprised by it. You didn’t finish college?!
In 1950, a man grieving his young son who had just died of polio got a letter from Albert Einstein. Now, one might think that as a man of science, Einstein would have had a rather resigned view of the
I was surprised to find out that many people seem to not understand what a banned book is. ‘Banned Book Week’ wrapped up yesterday, and I was continually surprised by some of the comments people
I’ve brought it to the Grammys. I’ve brought it to NFL games…and kids BJJ practices. I’ve brought it into the green room backstage before talks. I’ve brought it to restaurants and bars. I’ve carried
The weird thing I discovered about Claude Skills: they help me as much as they help Claude. ↓ All the tasks I avoid have the same problem. There are too many decisions stacked between "I should do
The bill to ban greyhound racing is entering the final stages of debate in Parliament this week. It should pass tomorrow with broad support once some of the contested details are ironed out. The ban
I think it's time to talk about this. every end of month, there are 3 types of people in ct - flexing their pnl, complaining themselves and posting a larp pnl. you have to know, all these things are
I’m not saying everyone should start a podcast. In fact, I have said the opposite many times. There are way too many of them out there…and most are not good. I’m just saying that having a podcast is
People think that leadership is something that just happens. One is anointed a leader. One is promoted to leadership. One is born into leadership. And of course, this is not the case. “Leadership,”
There are lots of smart people. There are not a lot of people who can do this smart thing. The poet John Keats called it “negative capability”—the mental fortitude to be able to entertain multiple
Let's firstly take a quick look at the Historical origin of the root causes of the Middle eastern conflicts. The modern Middle East conflict is multi-layered and can probably only be understood
There aren’t too many of us who are satisfied with the person we currently are. That is, we know we could be better. We know we should be better. And by better, we don’t mean at our jobs, at lifting
I had to go to Maui last month. I had to. Really, I tried to see if I could push it until a later date, but both my wife and my publisher told me I was out of my mind. There was a certain lady famous
"He who would proceed aright in this matter should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms; and first... love one such form only... and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is
Everyone Is Lying All The Time Everywhere All At Once How? Well sit down, strap in, and buckle up. You might get whiplash. First, in order to lie, we must establish the truth. What is truth? Fuck if I
Australia is one of the world’s great agricultural powerhouses, exporting more than $80 billion worth of food and fibre each year and feeding millions beyond our shores. Yet when it comes to the
Not too long ago, a new term quietly entered the tech lexicon, fundamentally changing how we think about software development: **VibeCoding**. Coined by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, the premise of
Where can startups win when Epic absorbs everything? The speed and innovation of Ambient AI startups, the foundational power of Epic, and what startups should consider when building adjacent to the
I was coasting on fumes when he asked me the question, so I don’t think I got the answer right. To be fair, I was 90 or so minutes into being on stage for my talk in Sydney when I was asked: “If
My study of history has led me to believe that there is a kind of dark matter inside the human race. It’s some combination of evil, cruelty, ignorance, cowardice, mob-ness. It is a kind of dark
Reading is not just something you should do on vacation, or when you have free time. It should be, like all important things in your life, a daily practice, something you’re working to get better at.
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