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Jeff Bezos spent 3 hours on a physics problem with his roommate.
They got nowhere.
So they went to the smartest guy at Princeton.
He looked at the problem and said one word: "Cosine."
That was the exact moment Bezos decided not to become a physicist.
Here's the full story:
Bezos wanted to be a theoretical physicist. That was the plan.
He went to Princeton. He was a really good student. A+ on almost everything.
He was in the honors physics track. Started with 100 students. By quantum mechanics, it was down to 30.
Junior year. Quantum mechanics. He's also taking computer science and electrical engineering classes on the side.
Then he hits a partial differential equation he can't solve.
"It's really, really hard."
He studies with his roommate Joe. Also really good at math.
Three hours. Got nowhere.
They look up at each other across the table at the same moment and say the same name: "Yosanta."
Yosanta was the smartest guy at Princeton.
He was Sri Lankan. His name was three lines long in the facebook (which was an actual paper book at that time).
"I guess in Sri Lanka when you do something good for the King they give you an extra syllable on your name. So he had a super long last name. The most humble, wonderful guy."
They go to Yosanta's room. Show him the problem.
He stares at it for a while.
Then he says: "Cosine."
Bezos: "What do you mean?"
"That's the answer."
"That's the answer?"
"Yeah. Let me show you."
He brings them into his room. Sits them down. Writes out three pages of detailed algebra. Everything crosses out.
The answer is cosine.
Bezos asks: "Yosanta, did you just do that in your head?"
"No. That would be impossible."
"Three years ago I solved a very similar problem. I was able to map this problem onto that problem. And then it was immediately obvious that the answer was cosine."
Bezos on that moment:
"That was an important moment for me. Because that was the very moment when I realized I was never going to be a great theoretical physicist."
He didn't quit because he was bad. He was in the top 30 at Princeton.
He quit because he saw what great actually looked like.
Great wasn't grinding for 3 hours. Great was pattern-matching to a problem you solved 3 years ago and seeing the answer instantly.
He couldn't do that. Yosanta could.
So he pivoted. Computer science. Business. Amazon.
Built a $2.5+ trillion company instead.
The rest is history.
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🚢 Vessels Crossed Strait of Hormuz
🟢 Feb 26 → 132 vessels
🟢 Feb 27 → 128 vessels
🟡 Feb 28 → 98 vessels
🟠 Mar 01 → 18 vessels
🔴 Mar 02 → 7 vessels
🔴 Mar 03 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 04 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 05 → 1 vessel
❌ Mar 06 → 0 vessels
🔴 Mar 07 → 1 vessel
🔴 Mar 08 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 09 → 1 vessel
🔴 Mar 10 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 11 → 1 vessel
❌ Mar 12 → 0 vessels
🔴 Mar 13 → 3 vessels
🔴 Mar 14 → 1 vessel
❌ Mar 15 → 0 vessels
🔴 Mar 16 → 1 vessel
🔴 Mar 17 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 18 → 1 vessel
❌ Mar 19 → 0 vessels
🔴 Mar 20 → 1 vessel
🔴 Mar 21 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 22 → 3 vessels
🔴 Mar 23 → 5 vessels
🔴 Mar 24 → 6 vessels
🔴 Mar 25 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 26 → 7 vessels
🔴 Mar 27 → 4 vessels
🟠 Mar 28 → 12 vessels
🔴 Mar 29 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 30 → 4 vessels
🔴 Mar 31 → 5 vessels
🔴 Apr 1 → 8 vessels
🔴 Apr 2 → 6 vessels
🟠 Apr 3 → 14 vessels
🟠 Apr 4 → 10 vessels
🟠 Apr 5 → 11 vessels
🔴 Apr 6 → 7 vessels
🟠 Apr 7 → 11 vessels
🔴 Apr 8 → 5 vessels
🔴 Apr 9 → 9 vessels
🔴 Apr 10 → 8 vessels
🟠 Apr 11 → 14 vessels
🟠 Apr 12 → 14 vessels
Sources: Windward Maritime Intelligence, Lloyd’s List, PIB India, regional briefings, Maritime News, Kpler Risk and Compliance.
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This is the best breakdown of the war in Ian that I've ever seen.
Very measured, and fair.
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After financing Jared Kushner’s 666 Fifth Avenue property in New York for $1.2 billion, gifting a $400 million private jet to Donald Trump and vast sums of money and luxury in exchange for security, they now realize they've been conned and betrayed by Trump and his family. 😂
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⚡🇺🇸🇮🇷 How Iran actually hit a US F-35 stealth jet. Right now, every news channel is asking the same question. How did an Iranian missile manage to track a fighter jet that even advanced radar systems struggle to detect?
Video credit to the original owner
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Kamal Kharazi — Iran’s senior foreign policy advisor and the man CNN interviewed on March 9th when he said “we are ready for a long war, no diplomacy” — had his home struck today.
His wife was killed.
He sustained serious injuries.
The New York Times reports Kharazi was at the time discussing possible US-Iran negotiations with VP Vance through Pakistan as an intermediary.
The man being used as a back channel for peace negotiations just had his home bombed.
His wife is dead.
Israel struck his residence while he was facilitating the talks Trump said were “going very well.”
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Trump on re-opening the Strait of Hormuz: "Let France do it, they get a lot of oil from the strait. Let the Europeans do it. Let South Korea, who is not helpful to us, by the way…Let South Korea do it. Let Japan do it… This was not part of what I wanted to do."
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The President of Iran just published an open letter on X addressed directly to the American people.
860,000 views. 20,000 likes. 6,500 retweets.
Read it carefully — not for what it says.
For what it doesn’t say.
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🔺 IRGC: From now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed
🔹 The IRGC warns the U.S.: “Our repeated warnings about the necessity to stop terrorist operations were ignored, and today, following your terrorist attacks and those of your Israeli allies, several Iranian citizens were martyred.”
🔹 “Since the main element in designing and tracking assassination targets are American ICT and AI companies, in response to these crimes, from now on the main and effective institutions involved in terrorist operations will be our legitimate targets.”
🔹 “We advise the employees of these institutions to immediately leave their workplaces to preserve their lives. Also, residents of areas around these terrorist companies in all countries of the region, within a one-kilometer radius, should leave their homes and workplaces and seek safe places.”
🔹 “Companies actively involved in terrorist designs will be subject to retaliatory action for every assassination.”
🔶 The list of these companies is announced as follows:
Cisco
HP
Intel
Oracle
Microsoft
Apple
Google
Meta
IBM
Dell
Palantir
Nvidia
J.P. Morgan
Tesla
GE (General Electric)
Spire Solutions
G42
Boeing
🔹”For every assassination in Iran, these companies must expect the destruction of their related units, starting at 8:00 PM on Wednesday, April 1 (Tehran time).”
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Google is basically saying:
“We’ve cut the quantum resources needed to break Bitcoin’s encryption by 20x. We can now break it. We can prove it. We’re just not going to tell you how.
We’ve slowed down research to give crypto a chance. You have until 2029 to figure out a solution. Good luck.”
Many are wondering "what Google saw" that caused them to revise their post-quantum cryptography transition deadline to 2029 last week. It was this:
research.google/blog/safegua…
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So after complete obliteration of Iran and its military capabilities, USA and Israel have achieved the following:
1. Iran’s regime is still in place and is more hardline than it ever was before
2. Iran is selling more oil and at $100
3. Oil sanctions are no longer effective
4. Middle Eastern economies have been devastated and oil infrastructure damaged with medium term consequences
5. Israel is being pounded from three directions with considerable damage that has been suppressed by force
6. U.S. navy has run away from the Persian Gulf
7. Oil prices doubled.
8. Iran now controls 20% of world oil flows which may increase to 30% if Iran decides to close shipping in the Red Sea. (through Houthis)
9. Strait of Hormuz will remain under Iran’s control for foreseeable future.
10. Iran is likely to get out of NPT and develop nuclear weapons.
11. Trump has done so well in the war that he is likely to lose midterms.
12. Netanyahu who used to shamelessly roam around has been mostly in hiding
13. U.S. bases in the Gulf have been obliterated and Iran says U.S. must leave Middle East now
14. The world is likely to experience inflation and low economic growth in the next year.
15. The entire world opinion has changed in favour of Iran.
16. NATO and European allies have refused to participate in the war.
Thank you for your attention to the matter.
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Before the war:
1) Iran didn't control the Strait Of Hormuz, now it does
2) Iran oil was sanctioned, now it's not
3) Iran was not building a nuke, now it will
4) US bases in the Gulf were assets, now liabilities
5) Inflation was declining, now increasing
Definitely winning!
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BREAKING : 🇺🇸 Trump’s own Senator gave him brutal reality check
Trump — We need $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
US Senator — But the SOH was already open before the war? So what was the point of whole war?
You have created a Global Crisis OUT OF NOTHING” 🔥🔥🔥
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In 2006, Philips sold 80% stake in NXP for $8B to PE.
In 2007, Philips started selling 16% stake in TSMC for ~$9B (it owned 28% in 1987 founding).
Philips owned ~50% of ASML at its 1995 IPO and fully exited position by 2007.
Took semiconductors cash outs to double down on lighting technology and medical devices (its largest deal ever wss $5B for sleep & respiratory care firm Respironics).
Could’ve been worth $650B but now worth $27B. Wild.
The biggest fumble in business ever might be Philips spinning off ASML, TSMC and NXP
Philips co-founded ASML in 1984, then co-founded TSMC in 1987, then they founded NXP
They sold each of them for short term profits in the 2000s
ASML is now worth $545B
TSMC is worth $1.76T
NXP is worth $50B
Philips today is worth just $27B
If they'd never sold, Philips would be the largest company in the EU today, worth $650B
Philips CEO Cor Boonstra called it "making money with the success of the past"
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