I read this book nearly 10 years ago.
In the last decade, I’m not sure there’s a single passage from any book I’ve reflected on more than this one.
“It would be infinitely foolish of me to focus exclusively on a job that many others can do if it comes at the cost of the role that only I can fill. Before we look to be excellent anywhere else, we must first be excellent in our homes.”
Today felt like the right day to share it.
Happy Father’s Day to the men doing their best to lead well both at work and at home.
I'm convinced that 99% of success is just the ability to outlast uncertainty. The one who can tolerate the most uncertainty is the one who will eventually win.
I’ve said this to friends.. and I think it’s a very real possibility.
Once $btc is considered “critical”, it will be .GOV’s best option for BTC stacking.
It won’t matter if Saylor plans for this or is complicit or wants this or not. They could make offer he can’t refuse.
Nobody understands the real endgame that Michael Saylor is playing.
1. 🪙 Accumulate 1 Million BTC into $MSTR (already 84% completed)
2. 🇺🇸Get bought out/absorbed by the U.S. Government for $100B to acquire 5% of the Bitcoin supply with 0 slippage
3. 💰Triple the Bitcoin price and make the U.S. Government another $150B overnight
Michael Saylor isn't building a company, he’s serving the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve on a silver platter.
@Samwise_Ganji Fiat is a sham, the banking class is corrupt, decentralized digital currency and the blockchain are the inevitable future, and the incumbents will fight it to the death.
So basically Bitcoin does this thing every 4 years where the entire market thinks bitcoin is dead because the price gets shitted on over and over and over and then it goes back up and everybody forgets about it and gets mad they didn’t buy when it was getting shitted on.
⚡️The middle class is where the system hides its extraction because the middle class still believes obedience will be rewarded.
The poor are visibly dependent.
The rich are structurally insulated.
The middle class is trapped inside the moral contract of responsibility.
Work hard. Pay taxes. Buy insurance. Save for retirement. Don’t cheat. Don’t default. Don’t complain. Don’t take too much. Don’t fall behind. Keep your credit clean. Keep your kids on track. Keep your career moving. Keep the mortgage paid. Keep smiling.
Then the system taxes that obedience.
The middle class is easy to extract from because its income is visible, its behavior is predictable, and its fear of falling is powerful.
W-2 income can be captured before it ever reaches the bank account.
Property taxes attach to shelter. Healthcare attaches to employment. College aid disappears once income crosses thresholds. Tax credits phase out. Professional licensing, insurance, childcare, commuting, housing, and retirement all become toll booths.
The rich escape through structure.
The poor survive through assistance.
The middle pays retail.
That is why it feels like the most expensive place to live. It is the zone where you make enough to be denied help and not enough to buy freedom. You are too “successful” for sympathy and too exposed for security.
This is also why the middle-class anger is going to grow. These people are the stabilizing class. They follow rules, raise kids, pay bills, fund municipalities, staff companies, buy homes, carry insurance pools, and keep institutions functioning. When they start realizing the bargain no longer compounds, political trust breaks hard.
The deepest betrayal is that income stopped being the path to safety. Asset ownership became the path to safety. The middle class earns income to buy assets, but asset prices keep moving away because monetary policy, debt, housing restriction, financialization, and investor demand pushed the ladder higher. So the worker runs faster while the asset-owner floats.
That is the hidden class split.
The middle class is not poor enough to receive the system’s mercy and not rich enough to command its architecture. It is the payer class. The compliance class. The full-price class.
Bottom line:
The middle class is expensive because it is where responsibility gets monetized.
The system extracts most efficiently from people who still believe playing by the rules will save them.
A new shot literally regrows knee cartilage.
Researchers at Stanford Medicine have identified a novel strategy to regenerate articular cartilage in knees and potentially prevent or treat osteoarthritis (OA).
The method targets 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase (15-PGDH), an age-related enzyme—or "gerozyme"—that accumulates in aging tissues and drives degeneration.
In aged mice, small-molecule inhibitors of 15-PGDH, delivered systemically or via intra-articular injection, promoted cartilage thickening and regeneration of functional hyaline articular cartilage.
This occurred without recruiting stem or progenitor cells; instead, existing chondrocytes underwent transcriptional reprogramming to a youthful state, with reduced populations of inflammatory and hypertrophic/degradative cells and expanded matrix-producing articular chondrocytes.
The inhibitors also reversed natural age-related cartilage thinning, improved joint function, and—when administered after simulated ACL injuries—strongly mitigated post-traumatic OA progression and associated pain.
Human OA cartilage explants from total knee replacements responded similarly in vitro, showing decreased degradation markers and evidence of new articular cartilage formation.
Given that an oral 15-PGDH inhibitor has already completed Phase 1 safety trials for age-related muscle atrophy, the findings open a path toward disease-modifying, regenerative therapies that could delay or obviate the need for joint replacement surgery.
[Agarwal, P., Su, S., Ancel, S., et al. (2025). Inhibition of 15-hydroxy prostaglandin dehydrogenase promotes cartilage regeneration. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.adx6649]
@JohnNaborsShow Dude, no. This is going to be a disaster. I’m sorry, but until we get serious booster $ flowing in, this program is DoA.
I’d find a new team.
The TSA has a 95% failure rate. Not 80%. Ninety-five.
In 2015, DHS sent 70 undercover agents through TSA checkpoints with fake bombs and weapons. 67 got through. That's a 95% failure rate.
One agent set off the metal detector, got the enhanced pat-down, and still had a fake explosive taped to his back that screeners missed. The TSA's response was to classify the test results so the public couldn't see them.
In 24 years, the TSA has not foiled a single terrorist plot or caught a single terrorist. Not one. Its $1 billion behavioral detection program identified exactly one person resembling a terrorist in two decades.
This agency costs $11.5 billion a year. It was created in response to 9/11, but 9/11 was not a failure of airport security. What actually made flying safe was reinforced cockpit doors and passengers who will no longer sit passively during a hijacking. Not the liquid ban. Not the shoe removal.
80% of European airports use private screening. Israel hasn't had a hijacking since 1968. 22 US airports already use private contractors and outperform TSA-screened airports.
Abolish the TSA. Replace it with the model that 80% of the developed world already uses.