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“So like there was this company, I remember discovering called G Fuel. They figured out that Twitch streamers were undervalued assets. And so what GFuel did was it went to all of them and it ran basically the Nike playbook with streamers. So they would go to the popular streamers, they'd say, hey, we want to develop a flavor just for you, a shaker bottle that's your colors, your branding, and you're gonna get a cut of the affiliate revenue. And they partnered with all the top streamers, which was not that hard to do at the time. And so they went zero to 100 million in sales. And guys like you and I had never heard of them, because they did it just within this gaming bubble.”

“And he was making the point, essentially, that this is a technology that's very horizontal in the sense that it will be, unlike the iPhone was obviously this great invention with the smartphone, but it sort of was more of a vertical thing. It allowed us to do a bunch of stuff, but through that one apparatus. This is something that will be integrated into every layer of everything. We see it with the internet, with the internet of things, where your fridge is online now, you know?”

“Looks maxers are an offshoot of that ideology that is slightly less fatalistic.”

“I think, a lot of people don't really understand, like, the biological and physiological factors that make us x x versus x y. We know that most of the research in health and sports science has been done on men and generalized women, even small things like aspirin for heart attack. There were no women who were in the original study. So they're looking at men and generalizing to women.”

“So he had half a million subscribers. He was doing videos that were getting a million views, but it wasn't what he wanted as a creator. As like the artist in him was not like, this is it. And he walked away. And I just want to point that out because walking away from that, and then not just walking away from that and trying to build back up to that, but like when you're doing TBPN and you're going live every morning and you don't get to go on vacation because you got to be live every morning and you're dressing up in your suit, you're showing up at the studio, and you look at that number on your live stream and you've got 3,000 people watched today. Do you know how hard that is mentally as a creator who was just seeing that same number on YouTube be 1 million?”

“Luther Vandross and Phil Collins have been eligible for the Rock Hall for twenty years and Sade for almost as long. They're all in the class of 2026 along with British post punk legends Joy Division and their spin off group New Order. Two more British acts, Iron Maiden and Billy Idol, made the cut this year after being active since the nineteen seventies.”

“The primary driver of political survival in Latin America right now isn't necessarily about who is in the White House, but who can keep prices stable. Inflation was the killer for the previous generation of leaders, and the current crop is obsessed with not letting it spiral out of control. If you lose control of the currency or the price of bread, no amount of geopolitical dealmaking can save your administration.”

“The UK has begun denying certain intelligence sharing requests out of concern over US military actions in the Caribbean because they do not align with British foreign policy.”

“We also see that about four years before that one point in time in menopause, there's an incredible decrease in our gut microbiome diversity, which then exacerbates the body's ability to store body fat because we start having an overgrowth of the phyla that is obesogenic or prefers to grab all of the energy out of all the food they're eating and make you crave simple carbohydrates.”

“So like there was this company, I remember discovering called G Fuel. They figured out that Twitch streamers were undervalued assets. And so what GFuel did was it went to all of them and it ran basically the Nike playbook with streamers. So they would go to the popular streamers, they'd say, hey, we want to develop a flavor just for you, a shaker bottle that's your colors, your branding, and you're gonna get a cut of the affiliate revenue. And they partnered with all the top streamers, which was not that hard to do at the time. And so they went zero to 100 million in sales. And guys like you and I had never heard of them, because they did it just within this gaming bubble.”

“Number one was it was just avoiding trends, avoiding the herd, thinking for yourself. Whenever we looked at any companies, Peter always took a very orthogonal view to most people. Instead of just doing a spreadsheet and trying to analyze this investment, why don't we think about why are we even seeing this investment?”

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“Israel says that it will have full control of the Lebanese town of Bin Shabeel, quote, within days. The town has become the center of intense fighting. It's part of land that Israel says it's seizing from Lebanon to create what it calls a buffer zone so Hezbollah can't fire rockets into Israel. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli defense minister Israel Katz both joined invading troops inside Lebanon over the weekend.”

“The US housing market remains in a slump. According to the National Association of Realtors, sales of existing homes fell 3.6% last month. For homes that did sell in March, the average sales price was just under $409,000. Freddie Mac says mortgage rates, which briefly dipped below 6% this spring, are now averaging 6.37%.”

“Cold plunge. Oh, yeah. I caused an international shit storm with this one. The ice water, the ice bath that comes along is way too cold for women. It causes more of a sympathetic drive. And once we get over that sympathetic drive, then the responses for parasympathetic still are not as robust as we see for men. So we're looking at 55 degrees Fahrenheit, around 14 to 16 degrees Celsius. It is in the research.”

“I believe what they found was that it's not that the clips job, the clips are there to promote the live show. It's that the live show is there to produce the clips, and the clips is the product. And we do this four hour live stream as a farming exercise to just farm 20 great clips a day. And if we do 20 great clips a day and we're on your feed where you're already browsing and where you're hanging out and we give you 10 seconds, 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 40 seconds of entertainment, of insight, of a great sound bite, well, we've done our job. That's the show. The show is this distributed thing, not one central long form thing.”

“The rise of artificial intelligence and large language models dominated not only the economy but has also been at the root of a Hollywood double strike conducted by Writers Guild of America and a SAG APTRA strike. These were part of a larger phenomenon of labor strikes across the country, in which such large diverse groups, such as Teamsters and Auto Workers won new contracts.”

“are we seeing a 'bearish flag' formation leading to new yearly lows”

“The Americans are led by vice president, JD Vance, and the Iranians by the parliament speaker, Mohammad Baher Ghalibaf. The negotiations are based on a 10 Iranian plan that includes an end to attacks and sanctions on the country. Analysts warn negotiations will take time, and it's unlikely one meeting will resolve this conflict.”

“We have a special friend with us here as well, Colin Roche, who has done great work with finance, economics, and he's got strong opinions.”

“They're recovering from the trauma that they experienced living in captivity. And for them to open up and trust you while you are there with them, helping them work through it, it's indescribable.”

“The Southern California Music Festival, which has been running for more than twenty five years, is one of the hottest tickets of the festival season. And the Colombian star, Carol G, will make history on Sunday night as the first Latina to ever headline the festival.”

“The four Artemis two astronauts are now heading in get to medical evaluations, this after a ten day journey to the far side of the moon. The spacecraft had a near perfect return to Earth Friday evening, landing in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of San Diego, and then the astronauts were imported into a ship.”

“Mogging is when you prove yourself superior to someone else. So, if you're more attractive than another man, you're mogging him.”

“So, early on, I was working on, like you said, like messaging apps, social media apps, basically. And hey, guess when all the social media apps were made? Between 2004 and 2012. And then I'm, you know, so I'm 10 years late to the party and I'm starting to think about, like, hey, what if I made, like, a place where you could post photos and send videos to each other? It's like, yeah, it's called Snapchat. So the things I was working on was the last waves opportunity. Now, that sounds stupid. Why would you do last waves opportunity? Well, the answer is it's pretty understandable because that's proven to work and I'm trying to, I'm so insecure and like have such a lack of a spine that I'm just gonna go towards what I think might actually work and I'm using what has already worked.”

“I'm Corva Coleman from NPR News. And here are today's top stories.”

“So, early on, I was working on, like you said, like messaging apps, social media apps, basically. And hey, guess when all the social media apps were made? Between 2004 and 2012. And then I'm, you know, so I'm 10 years late to the party and I'm starting to think about, like, hey, what if I made, like, a place where you could post photos and send videos to each other? It's like, yeah, it's called Snapchat. So the things I was working on was the last waves opportunity. Now, that sounds stupid. Why would you do last waves opportunity? Well, the answer is it's pretty understandable because that's proven to work and I'm trying to, I'm so insecure and like have such a lack of a spine that I'm just gonna go towards what I think might actually work and I'm using what has already worked.”

“Gallup has found a 17-point drop in the percentage of US adults who say religion is an important part of their daily lives... such a large drop is rare among the 160 plus countries it studies.”

“If we want to improve bone density, we need a multidirectional stress coming up. When I talk about jump training, so many people, especially perimenopausal women, like, I can't my joints hurt. It's like, I'm not talking about plyometric high box jumps. It could be something as simple as a toe raise and a hard heel slam because you're dropping hard and absorbing all those forces. That's a multidirectional force to the skeletal system.”

“I think of all of the things I've heard recently, the most fascinating is this word, skibidi. That was the first one that came up at my dinner table as well. Rizzler is connected to this word rizz. But skibidi seems to be able to be thrown in almost anywhere. And nobody, including my kids, can tell me what it really means. I think that's part of the whole sort of exclusivity of each generation's use of language.”

“I'm kind of in shock. I wanted to feed Mundy and Tara close together. And so I fed Tara over here. She picked up her food and brought it right over to the fence line here so she could be eating with Mundy. So you tell me what that means. I think that is really good.”

“The negative perception around AI is now worse than ICE... as electricity prices keep rising, they increasingly blame AI.”

“Every leader in the region is operating on a four-year clock. They know that while there is high value in being close to Trump right now, that relationship has an expiration date, and they are trying to squeeze as much investment and trade benefit as possible before the wind shifts again. They are focused on short-term wins because the long-term political landscape in the U.S. is so volatile.”

“No mediocre worker is safe. The bar for keeping your job just went up.”

“What we're seeing is a pivot across the region. Leaders from both the left and the right have realized that the most effective way to deal with the current US administration is through direct, transactional dealmaking rather than ideological posturing. This 'orange shift' is less about shared values and more about understanding how to navigate the specific style of the Trump White House to secure national interests.”

“There are a 153 studies in the systematic review. Of it, the conclusion was women 18 to 60 should be using three to five grams of creatine supplementation to optimize and improve overall health. Anything about the brain, the heart, the gut, the bone, everything requires creatine. For women, by the nature of being women, we have less lean mass than men, so we have less stores.”

“For Amy Jackson... her premium is going from under $300 a month to $1250. You know, for them, a thousand bucks is probably nothing... but for me, that's half of my wage.”

“57 of 77 forest service labs nationwide are on a list to shutter. Scientists at these labs study everything from pollinators to wildfires. The agency said this week the closures don't mean an end to research. It's just relocating small teams to other spaces.”

“VC needs innovation. The incumbents won't do it. And circa 2005, the concept was founder friendly. If you looked at all the most successful companies, they were founder run all the way to the end. And so the premise was let's give founders back control of their companies and unilaterally support them in building that.”

“The 118th United States Congress convenes following the 2022 midterm elections for the next four days, 15 sessions transpire to determine the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This is the first time that a House Speaker was not determined by an initial vote in over 99 years.”

“So he came to my house about a year ago and he was like, yeah, I'm thinking about putting together a hostile takeover of Take Two Interactive. I'm like, Take Two Interactive? What is that? Is that the, do they make video games? He's like, yeah, they make NBA 2K and they make Grand Theft Auto. And I was like, do you know anything about a hostile, what is a hostile takeover? He's like, yeah, this will be my first. And I was like, you're insane.”

“If you're going to create a stress without food, you're not going to create a really strong stress. You feel like you are. But from the body, from a cellular level, it's not as strong of a stress to create the adaptation that you want. You're gonna have more catecholamine, so that's your cortisol and your breakdown hormones that are being produced so that it can fuel your workout. Let's just take that negative stress away by putting a little bit of food in before you go training.”

“looks maxing is a community of mostly men on the internet who are dedicated to making themselves more attractive by any means necessary.”

“Today roughly a quarter of US enriched uranium comes from Russia, a ban on those imports takes full effect in 2028, and the advanced reactors everyone is counting on to power the next wave of data centers have no reliable domestic fuel source. Scott believes enrichment is the single bottleneck to a nuclear future, and that the window to solve it is narrow.”

“Bitcoin cycle lows are projected for late 2026.”

“Lula has surprised many people who expected a much more radical left-wing economic agenda. Instead, he’s been relatively pragmatic on the fiscal side, working within the constraints of the Brazilian system to keep the markets calm while still delivering on his social promises. The economic performance under his watch has been better than many analysts predicted when he first took office.”

“Oil prices went from what was the high 115 116 to 94 today... it's an 18 or 20% drop off.”

“The rise of artificial intelligence and large language models dominated not only the economy but has also been at the root of a Hollywood double strike conducted by Writers Guild of America and a SAG APTRA strike, these were part of a larger phenomenon of labor strikes across the country, in which such large diverse groups, such as Teamsters and Auto Workers won new contracts.”

“And I would say the biggest thing that stood out to me when you were talking was, you talked about paying people more. And this is one of the great asymmetric arbitrages that exists, which is that the person who is truly great is worth somewhere between 10 and 100 times the average person. But they'll never cost 10 to 100 times. In every other industry in all of history, it's like the A plus person versus the B plus person is getting paid 10% more, 30% more, 50% more, even 150% more max, but they're generating 1,000% more of return of work. And so the mindset shift has to be there of like, the whole game is find the best people.”

“A sharp spike in gasoline prices during the war triggered a surge of inflation last month. Consumer prices in March were up 3.3% from a year ago. That's the biggest annual increase in twenty two months. Stripping out volatile energy and food prices, core inflation was 2.6%, high enough to make the Federal Reserve cautious about additional cuts to interest rates.”

“The dominant political story of the year has been the 270-day-long speakership of Representative Kevin McCarthy, whose slim majority in the House of Representatives has enabled a far-right rebellion to exert more weight over the lower chamber. The battle between the rebellious Freedom Caucus and McCarthy has been at the heart of an averted debt ceiling crisis and the annual budget debate nearly devolving into a government shutdown, all culminating in the removal of McCarthy on October 3rd.”

“Additionally, the latter half of the year saw many large mergers and acquisitions, some of the largest announcements being in oil and gas with ExxonMobil's purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources for nearly $60 billion and Chevron's acquisition of Hess Corporation for $50 billion, both in October and pending regulatory approval prior to closure.”

“Another theory is that I'm keeping you listening. The rising intonation suggests there's more to come. Hooking people in. When it comes to social media video, if I can complete a video retaining someone's attention, it's more likely to perform better on the algorithm. So actually what's possibly happening is creators are furthering linguistic innovation based on algorithmic direction, which is fascinating.”

“So he had half a million subscribers. He was doing videos that were getting a million views, but it wasn't what he wanted as a creator. As like the artist in him was not like, this is it. And he walked away. And I just want to point that out because walking away from that, and then not just walking away from that and trying to build back up to that, but like when you're doing TBPN and you're going live every morning and you don't get to go on vacation because you got to be live every morning and you're dressing up in your suit, you're showing up at the studio, and you look at that number on your live stream and you've got 3,000 people watched today. Do you know how hard that is mentally as a creator who was just seeing that same number on YouTube be 1 million?”

“The explosion of looks maxing into the kind of highest reaches of pop culture was really due to one guy. And he's a guy who calls himself Clavicular.”

“The autonomous taxi service began operating on Bay Area freeways Wednesday morning... Waymo is also adding freeway routes to Phoenix and Los Angeles.”

“Producing each penny was costing the US government nearly 4 cents, and ending production would save the US more than $50 million a year.”

“So William Randolph Hearst, I think he was born in something like 1860. William Randolph Hearst was a larger-than-life character. So we went to Harvard and kind of took over the clubs system. He convinces his father, Dad, I graduated college. I need something to do. Can we please buy the San Francisco Examiner? But William Randolph Hearst, he realized that he loved newspapers. And so he builds up the examiner a little bit. And what he did was sort of what modern journalism and media is today. Have you heard of this phrase called yellow journalism? So basically, up until like the early 1900s, newspapers were boring. And so William Randolph Hearst, who's this young, charismatic guy, he was like, make the headlines bigger, add photos. And then the phrase, if it bleeds, it leads. It came from that era.”

“And that's part of this homogenisation that social media brings, that the kids are using the same slang globally. When I was at school, the words that we would use to describe a really bright person or a less bright person might be different from the words used by someone who was brought up in a different part of the same country.”

“A lot of the words are being innovated within in-groups and then they get introduced to the mainstream. We're seeing a lot of vocabulary coming from black and Latino LGBT culture in the US. We're seeing loads of expressions coming from that, like 'it's giving', 'slay', all come from those spaces. We see the words leave these peripheries and leave these subgroups they become mainstream and it's these words that then become more widely adopted.”

“I've got to have a domain registry. I've got to point that to a website host, and I've got to have my own email kind of set up through Gmail. I've got to point that to the domain. And it's not hard. It just kind of strikes me that this day and age, kind of like, you would have thought it would be all the one thing. I know it's not a naive thing to say at one level, because I know it's difficult, and you do have different options, and the choices are good and all that kind of stuff.”

“Because Japan hit the, like, silver tsunami a little earlier, they have this interesting thing where they're giving away free houses or super cheap houses, sometimes free. They're called Akiya's... there's over 8,000,000 IKEAs that are being given away by the government, or, again, sometimes for very cheap.”

“Four out of every five are run as for profits, and half of all the operators in the industry are clearing annual returns of 20% or more than it costs to operate. With 850,000 older Americans living within assisted living, the rents are getting jacked up.”

“We never keep our entire portfolio on an exchange.”

“I want you guys to guess what the fastest growing sports are... number two, I would have never guessed. Alpine touring. I don't even know what that really is. I think it's just, like, off off country skiing. And then I have never heard of what is winter fat biking?”

“What about the billions of people around the globe that are, you know, 65 plus that are just gonna need physical human support? So nursing's one area. Also, the the rest of that stat talks about in Japan, the number of nursing homes has risen nearly 50% over the last decade.”

“Americans are increasingly saying they won't pay their taxes this year as a political protest. Here's what could happen to them.”

“If anyone's ever been to an f forty five or an Orangetheory, I know they already have targets on me, so I'm happy to just talk about them now. You're sitting forty five minutes at an intensity that isn't high intensity. It feels that way because we've all been conditioned to come out of a workout feeling really sweaty and wasted, but that's not effective. So it's not hard enough to be hard to invoke change. It's not easy enough to be easy for recovery.”

“It's evolving really quickly. And if you think about in the past how languages developed and changed, a language will always change because our needs as people change and different and new things happen. Today, if you're consuming mass media in social media, you're actually seeing a very diverse array of different voices from around the world.”

“Baseball's new automatic ball strike system could be making games a little longer so far this season with the time of a nine inning game creeping upward to two hours and forty two minutes through this weekend. That's up four minutes from last season, and that's all after the league successfully brought down the length of length of games in 2023 by introducing a pitch timer and other rules.”

“I've told my kids that we're going to work together, but in the reverse. So I think most people who build business and become successful, they want their kids to inherit the business, to take over the business. That's not my plan. But what I've been telling them is, I'm gonna work for you. I was like, when I retire, my goal, like I wanna be, I'm gonna work on whatever you're, I'll be your intern, basically. And they're like, but you're gonna have to pay me. And I'm like, okay, I guess I'll pay you then. They're like, you have to pay me 10, $10 bucks, which is what they call money.”

“Gonzalez's resignation announcement came hours after California Democratic representative Eric Swalwell also announced his own plan to resign. Swalwell is facing allegations of sexual assault and misconduct from at least four women. Gonzales had already dropped his bid for reelection after being forced into a primary runoff and the launch of a congressional ethics investigation into his behavior.”

“One thing I did well, and it was entirely luck, was I bought the domain strawman.com 10 years ago. I would say I paid a thousand bucks for it or something. I regularly get offers for it through GoDaddy or CrazyDom. I forget who it is even now. Yeah, but it was like the dumbest thing in the world. Like I just, I'm half, not even because I'm too lazy to sort of change everything, but it's sort of like to 10X return or something like that.”

“I believe what they found was that it's not that the clips job, the clips are there to promote the live show. It's that the live show is there to produce the clips, and the clips is the product. And we do this four hour live stream as a farming exercise to just farm 20 great clips a day. And if we do 20 great clips a day and we're on your feed where you're already browsing and where you're hanging out and we give you 10 seconds, 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 40 seconds of entertainment, of insight, of a great sound bite, well, we've done our job. That's the show. The show is this distributed thing, not one central long form thing.”

“I've told my kids that we're going to work together, but in the reverse. So I think most people who build business and become successful, they want their kids to inherit the business, to take over the business. That's not my plan. But what I've been telling them is, I'm gonna work for you. I was like, when I retire, my goal, like I wanna be, I'm gonna work on whatever you're, I'll be your intern, basically. And they're like, but you're gonna have to pay me. And I'm like, okay, I guess I'll pay you then. They're like, you have to pay me 10, $10 bucks, which is what they call money.”

“2021's inflation surge moderated in 2023, while the Federal Reserve continued to raise its interest rates in the first half of the year. The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25% from 4.5% to 4.75%.”

“We see from a randomized controlled trial that came out last month that those people who lift on the heavy end, both men and women, lift on the heavy end get more prefrontal cortex neuro conductivity. So that means they're actually empowering the neurons in the prefrontal cortex more so than those people that are lifting moderate weight or body weight. Only the heavy end of lifting really does affect the prefrontal cortex.”

“was the recent bounce off $65,650 the bottom?”

“It was really dumb. I think it's really dumb for OpenAI. I think that HubSpot bought a media company, my media company, and it makes sense because they were using it to sell $20,000 a year software, and there's a direct attribution. With OpenAI, they already have a billion users. I don't understand how there's any growth related to this, other than it's just a cool thing to own.”

“General Matter is attacking one of the most interesting bottlenecks in The United States, the enrichment of uranium to create power in nuclear power plants. We don't do any of that in The United States today. We've outsourced it overseas for years. Scott and general matter are seeking to reverse that through the enrichment of uranium here in The United States.”

“When I was back in the day when Interbike was in Las Vegas, I was sharing a cab back to the airport, and this guy got in and he didn't look healthy at all. And he was talking about how he's gonna go on a bike ride, but he had to use his beta alanine and beet juice first. And I was like, what are you talking about? He goes, oh, yeah. Well, that's how I can go hard on my bike. I was like, have you tried training without it? He goes, why would I do that?”

“So William Randolph Hearst, I think he was born in something like 1860. William Randolph Hearst was a larger-than-life character. So we went to Harvard and kind of took over the clubs system. He convinces his father, Dad, I graduated college. I need something to do. Can we please buy the San Francisco Examiner? But William Randolph Hearst, he realized that he loved newspapers. And so he builds up the examiner a little bit. And what he did was sort of what modern journalism and media is today. Have you heard of this phrase called yellow journalism? So basically, up until like the early 1900s, newspapers were boring. And so William Randolph Hearst, who's this young, charismatic guy, he was like, make the headlines bigger, add photos. And then the phrase, if it bleeds, it leads. It came from that era.”

“I would highly, highly, highly encourage listeners to roll their sleeves up and just start playing around with this. I mean, it'll be overwhelming at first, and it'll be frustrating, and you'll take a lot of backward steps, and you'll hit the wall, and all these kinds of things. But I think it is beholden to us to do a lot as investors, rather than reading what some muppet on Twitter thinks and how it all works.”

“Nayib Bukele has rewritten the playbook for political popularity in Latin America by focusing almost exclusively on security and a high-gloss social media presence. Even with concerns over civil liberties, his approval ratings remain the envy of every other leader in the hemisphere because people feel safer than they have in decades. He’s created a brand that other leaders are desperately trying to replicate.”

“When we look at wearables, the algorithms are based on male data. There are a lot of women who are like, what's going on? My Garmin's yelling at me. You're in the red. What's going on? You're sick. But, actually, they just ovulated. And these algorithms are not picking up the fact that when we look at physiology for women, there's an inherent change across the menstrual cycle with regards to autonomic nervous system.”

“I really think that if somebody created some kind of, thing for, you know, out of shape, middle aged guys to do. They'll do it. And I think if you make it if you brand it almost like as the, the non fit person triathlon, and it's gotta have, like, some version of eating and drinking being one of the legs, dude, that's the next tough mudder.”

“Therein lies the opportunity. Therein absolutely lies the opportunity. I can imagine, like with the internet, like the smartphones, like TV, radio, electricity, all of these things, you will find when we look back in 20 years' time, that 99.9% of companies that were quote unquote AI don't exist anymore. But the 0.1% that do are probably the biggest companies.”

“So he came to my house about a year ago and he was like, yeah, I'm thinking about putting together a hostile takeover of Take Two Interactive. I'm like, Take Two Interactive? What is that? Is that the, do they make video games? He's like, yeah, they make NBA 2K and they make Grand Theft Auto. And I was like, do you know anything about a hostile, what is a hostile takeover? He's like, yeah, this will be my first. And I was like, you're insane.”

“Claudia Sheinbaum has managed to maintain the high approval ratings of her predecessor by focusing on continuity and robust social spending. She is navigating a very complex relationship with Washington while ensuring that her domestic base remains satisfied with the direct transfers and economic stability. Her challenge is balancing that populism with the very real requirements of the US-Mexico trade relationship.”

“It was really dumb. I think it's really dumb for OpenAI. I think that HubSpot bought a media company, my media company, and it makes sense because they were using it to sell $20,000 a year software, and there's a direct attribution. With OpenAI, they already have a billion users. I don't understand how there's any growth related to this, other than it's just a cool thing to own.”

“Mass shootings in 2023 have also continued in high numbers, with 528 occurring as of October 2 according to Gun Violence Archive. Events included a mass shooting inside a house in Enoch, Utah, where eight members of a single family were killed, and another at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California, where eleven people were killed following a Lunar New Year celebration.”

“they tap their facial bones with a hammer on the theory that by causing lots of microscopic damage to the bone, it will grow back bigger and more attractive.”

“And I would say the biggest thing that stood out to me when you were talking was, you talked about paying people more. And this is one of the great asymmetric arbitrages that exists, which is that the person who is truly great is worth somewhere between 10 and 100 times the average person. But they'll never cost 10 to 100 times. In every other industry in all of history, it's like the A plus person versus the B plus person is getting paid 10% more, 30% more, 50% more, even 150% more max, but they're generating 1,000% more of return of work. And so the mindset shift has to be there of like, the whole game is find the best people.”

“He was starting to already thinking about this probably even more than he was talking about and probably thinking which companies are doing this well. He was talking a lot about we'd made all this progress in the world of bits, but not in the world of atoms. You could be on your cell phone, and it was interesting. And then you look around, and nothing's changed in fifty years.”

“The Kaiser Sose principle says the other side has to think that you're 1% crazier than they are so that they become nervous.”

“2021's inflation surge moderated in 2023, while the Federal Reserve continued to raise its interest rates in the first half of the year. The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25% from 4.5% to 4.75% during its February meeting. This followed a period of intense focus on fiscal policy and banking stability after the failure of several regional banks.”