PROTECT MISSION

“People who have a lot of a status item that you crave, if they have a really a lot of it, they have the power to change your life with the word if they want to. We’ve been seeing this phenomenon since we had medieval kings. You know, like, if someone has power, status, or resources in abundance, the resources themselves exert a gravitational pull on everybody involved, including them and you.”

“And if you ask founders what they want, do you want to go on this slippery slide to mediocrity? Almost all founders are like, no. I’ve just told that was inevitable. But it’s like, no. Actually, and this is what the book is about, there is a blueprint for preventing this if you want to.”

“My theory is that we have basically become indoctrinated to a set of corporate governance best practices that are designed to produce this outcome. And because of that, they’re actually value destroying. We call them best practices, but really, they’re just like the popular or dominant practices. They’re not actually very good.”

“As a result, they don’t build into their organization what I call the, the architecture of institutional longevity. And that can’t just be about the founder or about individual people. It’s gotta be about something bigger, something that can last longer. And in the book, I give examples of companies that have been able to last forty, fifty, a hundred years even though the founder’s long dead.”

“The number one thing they always say is after the IPO, everyone looks at the stock ticker. Next thing you know, you're having a product management meeting, you're talking about product quality, whatever, and someone's like, the market might not like it. And the word might is doing a lot of work in these sentences. We’re imagining what might allow us to win their favor.”

“Vice president JD Vance is expected to arrive in Islamabad today at the head of a US delegation, which includes president Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and special envoy Steve Witkoff. They are to hold talks tomorrow seeking to shore up a cease fire, shaky over Israel and Hezbollah exchanging fire and Iran's choke hold over this trade of Hormuz.”

“A staff wide email from the White House management office put Trump officials on notice over prediction market sites like Koushi and Polymarket. It said it's a criminal offense to use nonpublic information to make money on betting markets about federal policy, military strikes, and war. It comes as a number of suspiciously well timed bets have raised alarms, including 6 figure poly market bets on a ceasefire.”

“The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today. The individuals lying about me are devoid of ethical standards, humility, and respect. Melania Trump also denied that Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump and said she is not one of Epstein's victims. She urged congress to hold public hearings for them.”

“The Artemis two astronauts are preparing for a return to Earth this evening. The three Americans and one Canadian are now under 150,000 miles from home after setting a new distance record during Monday's lunar flyby. They're aiming for splashdown in the Pacific off the coast of San Diego.”

“Hotter temperatures means less sea ice. And for emperor penguins, which rely on sea ice for breeding in his places to rest, it means fewer penguins are surviving. Twice in recent years, the ice has broken up early, causing thousands of chicks to drown in the frigid water. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says emperor penguins are now considered to be endangered.”