People are very aware of the power of *one wrong decision* to influence your life... The wrong spouse, decision to drive drunk, or even the wrong choice of career…but remember: *One Right Decision,* can change the course of your life too....look for them.

Harsh truth nobody told you about success: Rent is due every single day. You never really make it. And coasting isn’t an option. Every single day, you have to fight to keep your seat at the table. Because the day you stop doing the work is the day things start to fall apart. There's an old saying that I love: Every morning in the savannah, the gazelle wakes up and knows it must outrun the lion or be killed. The lion wakes up and knows it must outrun the gazelle or starve. Whether you're the gazelle or the lion, when you wake up in the morning, you'd better start running. Rent is due daily. Pay it with pride.

I recently wrote about why we need to treat models as insider risks, with security controls sitting outside the model itself. Today, we're putting that principle into practice by expanding Project Perception with new capabilities to help continuously assess agent risk, adapt permissions, and contain threats. blogs.microsoft.com/blog/202…

These 3.5 seconds did more to fortify American Identity than any establishment politician or political party in the last generation. 100 years of neoliberal rule was vaporized in 3.5 seconds. Rejoice, we are still America. 🇺🇸

Chamath Explains the AI Boom’s Achilles Heel “Doesn't matter what you do, doesn't matter what you claim to do, you're going to get run over. You're going to be roadkill. If the bond market walks the 10-year up to 5.5 and 6%, which has nothing to do with AI, it has everything to do with debt to GDP and a bunch of other factors in broad-based Western economies, any business model that thrives on a financing spread gets cornholed. Any and every, all of them. It will not matter when the 10-year’s at 6%. It won't matter. As long as we can keep that from happening, we're going to be fine. So what's the most important way, I guess, post these midterms to keep the party going? You have to really start to focus on deficits, and you have to find a fair trade where the bond market backs off. And I think you can see it in the tape, meaning if we start proposing huge spending programs, they're going to walk the 10-year up. That then has a negative cascade to everything. If, however, the posture becomes much more about keeping everything calm and like, ‘Let's just tone things down and let's find the waste in the system and squeeze it all out,’ I think people will respond very favorably. The last thing I will say is these are like Achilles' heels, meaning all of the asset value that's getting built up, but just like the great warriors, you just slice the Achilles tendon and they just crumble to the knees. I just want to point out, this is that thing. There is no other thing. Meaning, all this other stuff is complete goodness, but the fact that you need to finance these things in a variable rate model as a spread to the risk-free rate is the big problem in these businesses. And you need to essentially have Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Nvidia backstop all of this in a worst case scenario because that's the only way you can withstand a one or two-year correction in this market.”

Founders are often puzzled when investors reject them for what seem like stupid reasons. There are two possible explanations: (a) the investors actually are stupid, or (b) they just dislike you, and are making up the reason. And that or is not a xor.

This guy on Reddit built a free widget that watches your Claude usage limits for you It shows your current session, weekly and plan limits, updating every minute, and it spends zero tokens doing it It also shows which of your Claude Code sessions are working, which are waiting for you, and which are idle The best part is the mascot. A small pixel character lives in the widget and reacts to your usage It sleeps when nothing is running. It runs while a session works. It sweats when you get close to the limit At 100 percent, it lies on its back He built the whole thing with Claude Code, and it is free and open source One person solving the small daily annoyance of every heavy Claude user

Turns out the future does have flying cars

we're so early in enterprise ai adoption enterprises buy "ai" from anthropic and openai who have no idea how to show enterprises what ai can do concretely, labs need playbooks that don't exist most public company ceos can't mention a single task that 2x productivity by ai

No one likes to say it, but not being "on time" is disrespectful. No one thinks you're busy, they think you're a poor time manager. - Get yourself together - Be timely The person you're meeting with deserves your best.

No matter how badly you want to avoid it, it's almost impossible to be incredibly successful without looking like an idiot for some period of time.

Nobody tells you this: Routines have a dark side. When your routines become too rigid and complicated, they become a source of stress. Routines meant to serve you can start to feel like they own you. I try to follow a 90-10 rule: - 90% disciplined compliance - 10% open flexibility That means 90% of the time, I'm locked in with my structure, but 10% of the time, I give myself the space to let life happen freely. It's directional more than exact. Just a rough compass in the back of my mind. I used to struggle a lot with being too dogmatic in my routines. I’d get routine anxiety. My 90-10 rule changed that for me. The 90% keeps me structured and in flow. The 10% gives me the space to embrace serendipitous opportunities and adapt to random chaos of life. Routines should serve your life. Not own it. Highly recommend adopting a 90-10 approach.

You can spend 5 years, working harder than anyone else, writing the best book in the world, but if nobody knows about it, then you will not be a successful author. This is the downfall of most creatives. They hate marketing, but marketing is 80% of their success.