I think that we've enshrined a lot of cultural assumptions about women and their reproductive capacity in the terms for their organs and terms for things happening in pregnancy and their reproductive decisions, I guess. It's like a really messed up form of metonymy where the organ, like the incompetent cervix, the hostile or geriatric uterus, is standing in for how our culture is stereotyping women.
I think we're wired to do hard things. And that's kind of perverse, but you know, the marathon has become one of the great bucket list items. I think people get something real out of pushing limits they didn't know that they had.
A concentration of a few good people solving problems far in advance—and at a fraction of the cost—of other groups by applying the simplest, most straightforward methods possible to develop and produce new projects. All it is really is the application of common sense to some pretty tough problems.
Real optimists are not cynics. You want critics in the organization, you don't want cynics because cynics don't trust you. Critics want to challenge the logic, they want to challenge the thinking, they want to interrogate, but it's not distrustful.
My May 2026 approach to prompting is I've completely I've completely given up on like yelling at AI. And I'm like good now. Yeah. I do more like cognitive behavioral therapy with with AI now. Like I do more CBT. I try to like reassure the AI.
Both sides now openly acknowledge that the US and China no longer see trade and technology as economic issues alone. They see them increasingly as national security weapons.
Larysa delivers more than just mail. She brings income and also groceries, medicines, the news and a familiar face to chat with for those living in isolation.
Litigation finance is simply treating litigation claims as financial assets. You know, when you think about what litigation is, stepping back, it's just an effort for the most part to get money to move from one party to another.
Being a child prodigy, uh, as it has been mentioned, and I'm kind of glad that's stopped being the number one thing that's been said. But it's funny because being a child that does a lot in food um, is very different than being a child that does a lot in music or art. Um, because there are literal age restrictions on your potential to succeed.
My May 2026 approach to prompting is I've completely I've completely given up on like yelling at AI. Like just freaking do this. I've stopped doing that. And I'm like good now.
For most of human history, people went about their daily lives with a worm or two (or fifty) in their guts. Only in the past century, with pharmaceuticals and sanitation practices, have we made significant strides towards deworming the whole of humanity. And that's typically been thought of as a good thing, because having too many worms in your body can–quite literally–suck the life out of you. But is it possible to have… too few worms?
If you think you're a stock picker, just keep in mind you're competing against an algorithm that looks at millions of points of data designed by a ton of PhDs making a lot of money all in a room who do nothing but try and pick up on signals. And you're watching CNBC or deciding because you see a long line outside of Chipotle that you're somehow informed on the markets.
It's another thing to have a frictionless gambling app on your phone where you can lose multiple mortgage payments on Malaysian women's doubles badminton, right?
What I'm talking about is the same thing that we hear from CEOs around their energy that they get from change. Um their vision that things can be better for employees and for citizens.
I wanted to do this for the rest of my life, but I wanted to do it at a much much larger scale. So then two years later at 22 years old, I came up with a plan. And the vision was to build an animal sanctuary that nobody visits, or at least not in person.
It's a true overnight success. Uh we'll show you some charts of the valuation. Lots of troughs of disillusionment, but Andrew and the team powered through and wound up finding the perfect application for their technology at the perfect time during a mega cycle
most of the ones I talked to you say tax us more because we need more capital to run our businesses, and it's been a stranglehold on that because of our obsession with property.
With the US more than 50 years behind China in critical mineral supply and grid infrastructure built on systems designed a century ago, they examine where the real bottlenecks are and how to move faster.
Amid the barrage of messages and misinformation swirling online and on Capitol Hill, about what damage U.S. military sites incurred during the conflict with Iran, a Times analysis of satellite imagery shows 18 sites in seven countries were hit.
If you do not want everything to be owned by a tiny elite, you have to aggressively tax extremely high levels of wealth. Because otherwise, if you're Jeff Bezos, what is he worth? $300 billion, right? Even if he makes 5% a year, he's making $15 billion a year, right? And it's just going to grow, right? It's going to grow unbelievably quickly.
Stress is less about what you're facing and more about believing you can cope. This isn't positivity. This is regulating your nervous system, framing stress as an opportunity for growth and accepting sensations, even knots in your stomach, lowers cortisol and allows you to persevere.
In 2009, an old man died in a California nursing home. His obituary included not just his given name, but a long list of the pseudonyms he'd been known to use.
If you're Jeff Bezos, what is what's he worth? $300 million, $300 billion, right? Even if he makes 5% a year, right? Which he's going to make way more than that. Even if he makes 5% a year, he's making $15 billion a year, right? And it's just going to grow, right? It's going to grow unbelievably quickly.
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