I think the future of humanity in space will be determined by the answer to a question and that question is what will happen first the first human born in space or the first combat fatality in space and we're working very hard to make sure it's the former you you need to prepare for it to to be the latter.
Eiichiro Oda is a relentlessly obsessive creative genius who has devoted nearly every waking hour of his adult life to building one of the most extraordinary fictional universes ever imagined.
More control over Microsoft's tech stack doesn't necessarily mean less dependence on Microsoft. They're still in the loop. They're still the one who is sending the bill.
The military museum and the daily news from Bosnia can almost make you think that war is what usually happens. Young men and women and children die. Politicians talk. Relief agencies try to help. And you do notice the museum has no pictures of victims, only heroes.
Dads are not necessarily comfortable talking about consent in the context of sex, which is interesting, right? Because that's where we typically think that that is relevant.
The tension is not whether it's shame or no shame. It's what is worthy of shame, what is not. And leadership is the ability to accept accountability, to accept the need for remediation. And we've gotten to the place where because we don't like the things that we get held accountable for, we just decide there's no accounting to be had.
I'm not letting cynical people make me cynical. I'm not letting insane people make me insane. In some ways, I think this is kind of the hardest task in the world right now to not let them make you like them. To not let cruelty harden you, to not let stupidity make you bitter, to not let outrage pull you down.
It is quite possible that the Supreme Soviet uh the legislature of the Soviet communist system had a higher turnover in its legislature than the House of Representatives currently has in in among itself.
Intelligence is widely distributed. There are a lot of smart people. And so if you think about what actually differentiates those who do well, it's often the complements to intelligence — things like work ethic, integrity, the ability to get along with others, and emotional stability.
And then you go home for Thanksgiving or Christmas and you see the reality and think things are not fine. America, we really value independence, and parents and other elders will downright lie and tell you on the phone that they're fine and they're handling everything and you can just butt out, thank you.
Markets are really good conventional wisdom distillers and that's actually very valuable. In other words, people will say that as a sneer, they're like, 'Oh, this is just conventional wisdom.' And I like, 'No, that's actually really good.'
Intelligence is not sufficient for success. The world is full of intelligent people who don't succeed, and the reason is that intelligence has complements — things like drive, emotional stability, the ability to work with others, and good judgment — and those complements are often more important than intelligence itself.
An 80-year Harvard study found that the biggest indicator of success, longevity, happiness, isn't wealth, it isn't status, it isn't how many abs you have, it is relationships. Not how popular you are, but how many close relationships you have in your life.
As a zookeeper, my job was outreach education. And so I would bring wildlife to schools, to birthday parties, to events in person. And I would teach kids about them... But at that time, I was doing it to thousands of people at a time that I knew were all over the world on this live stream instead of in person with maybe 20 kids at a time.
The institute's territory sits between promising laboratory research and technologies mature enough to attract private investment. Bringing companies and investors alongside earlier could help bridge that expensive gap.
I think that I was always the kid who was getting sent to the principal's office for like having too many opinions and it feels like as an adult it's paying off, you know, like I was like a little producer in training.
I think so many people believed that broadcasting was a bit of a relic of the past in this digital world, but it's actually proven to be the opposite. As things have gotten more fragmented, having a broadcast network is actually a superpower because we're continuing to see ratings growth.
The 'China shock' narrative--that a surge of Chinese imports destroyed American manufacturing jobs and the communities that depended on them--became conventional wisdom in Washington and beyond. But economic historian Joseph Francis argues that the claim is much weaker than it looks.
Brazil has one of the most concentrated banking systems in the world. Five banks control more than 80% of all financial services in the country, and they've been able to maintain net interest margins that are among the highest in the world — often 10x higher than what you'd see in the United States or Europe.
Most of us have ideas about what we're looking for in a romantic partner. But psychologist Paul Eastwick says these preferences are surprisingly poor guides for finding love.
As things have gotten more fragmented, having a broadcast network is actually a superpower because we're continuing to see ratings growth. That has been really helpful as we've been building out Peacock.
What if the results of one of the most influential economics papers of the past 25 years are unreliable? The "China shock" narrative--that a surge of Chinese imports destroyed American manufacturing jobs and the communities that depended on them--became conventional wisdom in Washington and beyond.
Intelligence is probably not the limiting factor for most intelligent people. If you're smart enough to be in the game, the question is really about the other stuff — your ability to stay humble, to keep learning, to manage your own psychology.
When you look at coding, it requires you to be logical and have a very mathematical brain. That's just one dimension to intelligence, but it's considered so valuable and important to Silicon Valley. And so I think when they look at these things and they look at these SAT scores and maths, it's self-serving because that's the stuff that they're good at. That's the stuff that served them well and now they run the world and you know, so we're living in their world.
I think that when I became a mother, I was led into this club that I didn't know existed before. And inside of this club, women are much more willing to become instantly intimate with one another because the act of raising a child is not something a person can do on their own.
Disney, due to what I would term as indifference and negligence, wound up kind of winding the site down. Um but now Silver Bulletin is back at Substack, where we do what we probably should have done 16 years ago, and are monetizing it through a subscription model.
Comcast is splitting off NBCU into an entirely separate company. That's a lot to have going on all at once — and Matt's the guy who has to make sure broadcast, Peacock, and every other platform keeps making you watch.
As a zookeeper, my job was outreach education. And so I would bring wildlife to schools, to birthday parties, to events in person. And I would teach kids about them. So I was the zookeeper that showed up. And then when I started doing this rehab with Bean on stream, I found myself doing the spiel. This is a red-tailed hawk. It's the most common widespread bird of prey in North America. I'm doing the kind of event spiel. But at that time, I was doing it to thousands of people at a time that I knew were all over the world on this live stream instead of in person with maybe 20 kids at a time.
Stories are not just entertainment. They are the technology humans invented to help us understand the motivations and actions of other people, and to communicate our own needs, experiences, and intentions.
It's not like she has her value system, which kind of clashes with what she finds. She's like a Tabula Rasa at the beginning, and she's quite childlike and very open. And so it's not just the way, the very restricted way in which she actually reads the world that appealed to me. I wanted some of that childlike freshness and openness and naivety to survive all the way through the text in her.
Stories, he says, are fundamentally about the negotiation of social life. They're about conflicts between characters, conflicts between desires, conflicts between values. And when we immerse ourselves in stories, we are essentially running simulations of human experience.
I found myself doing the spiel. You know, this is a red-tailed hawk. It's like most common widespread bird of prey in North America. You know, I'm doing the kind of event spiel. But at that time, I was doing it to thousands of people at a time that I knew were all over the world on this live stream instead of in person with maybe 20 kids at a time.
Intelligence is probably one of those things where there's a certain level you need, but beyond that, the marginal returns are pretty low. And actually the things that matter much more are the complements to intelligence — things like work ethic, emotional stability, intellectual honesty, and the ability to sit with uncertainty.
radical innovation can produce extraordinary outcomes, but systematic improvement can be more dependable, especially when paired with a model designed to compound over decades.
We are, in some sense, living inside of stories. We have a story about who we are, a story about our relationship, a story about what the world is like. And these stories shape what we see and what we don't see, what we remember and what we forget.
We went from food being something that everybody was pretty closely connected to just a couple generations ago to, you know, now you'll see Tik Toks where people will say, "I have a lemon tree in the yard of the house I'm renting, but I don't know if they're like edible lemons."
