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The most interesting ideas from history, psychology, and philosophy

[Cleared Improve @ClearedImprove]

Never stop developing as a person.
Never stop prioritising yourself.
Never stop loving your friends.
Never stop loving your family.
Never stop loving yourself.
Never stop being kind.
Never stop learning.
Never stop giving.
Never stop.

[Aria Westcott @AriaWestcott]

Breaking: Your period tracking app knows more about your body than your doctor does. And it has been sharing that data with Facebook and Google.

The FTC proved it. Here is the full story and what to switch to:

[Future Stacked @FutureStacked]

China just built an AI collar that translates your pet’s sounds and emotions in real time with 94.6% accuracy.

Pet owners are about to find out things they were not prepared to hear.

[The AI Colony R&D @TheAIColonyRD]

Monako Glass just launched, the world's first wearable Linux computer built into a pair of glasses.

It runs Claude Code, Codex and any coding agent fully on device, so you can build and ship from anywhere. No laptop needed.

Made for developers who want their setup to go wherever they do.

[The AI Colony @TheAIColony]

$70/hr Remote Jobs, No Interview Required.

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

Barack Obama on why he's glad he can't run for a third term:

In this exit interview, the outgoing president is asked whether he's relieved that term limits mean nobody can pressure him to stay.

His answer starts not with himself, but with George Washington.

"George Washington is one of our greatest presidents not just because he helped to lead the revolution but because he had the wisdom after two terms."

At the time, Obama explains, there was no constitutional prohibition on Washington continuing. He was being pressured by people insisting he was the only one who could hold the young country together.

He stepped back anyway:

"He had the wisdom to step back and say I do not want to set a precedent where I am president for life."

Then Obama brings it back to his own situation, with a joke:

"If I were able to run for a third term, Michelle would divorce me. So it's useful that I don't have that choice to make."

That line opens up the real heart of the conversation: his family. Obama recalls that Michelle was never wild about politics.

As she once put it to him:

"I try to organize my life not to have a lot of mess around, and politics is just a big mess."

He remembers telling her he was thinking about running for president, and her response:

"I think you would make an outstanding president, and I would work so hard to make sure you were president. You're the kind of person we need, if I weren't married to you."

Now, he says, the women in his life are ready for something different:

"All the women in my life are looking forward to being able to live a more normal life."

But not entirely normal.

The family is staying in Washington DC, unusual for an exiting president, and Obama is candid about why.

It comes down to his daughter, Sasha, a sophomore who's doing well at her current school:

"If you have a teenager and you really want to make sure that they never talk to you again, then pull them out of high school right in the middle of sophomore year."

So they're staying.

Underneath the self-deprecating humor, he describes himself as "the old guy at the bar where you went to high school," just kind of hanging around, sits a quieter point about sacrifice:

"They've made so many sacrifices… I want to make sure that they get the ability to have what's best for them."

[Black Edge @BlackEdgeFund]

Bill Gates on what Warren Buffett's calendar taught him about time:

Bill Gates built his career packing every minute.

As he recalls it: "I had every minute packed and I thought that was the only way you could do things." Then Buffett showed him his calendar, and it changed how Gates thought about time entirely.

Buffett's calendar looked nothing like that.

Whole days sat blank.

Flipping through it, Gates notes: "he has days that there's nothing on." One stretch was almost comically empty. As Gates describes it: "this is the week of April of which there are only three entries for a week." One of those rare entries was simply to file tax, prompting Buffett to joke, "Yeah, there'll be four maybe by April."

Asked what the lesson was, Buffett explains:

"that you control your time and that sitting and thinking may be a much higher priority than a normal CEO who, you know, there's all this demand and you feel like you need to go and see all these people. It's not a proxy of your seriousness that you filled every minute in your schedule."

Then he gets to the part that reframes time as the scarcest asset of all:

"And people are going to want your time. It's the only thing you can't buy. I mean, I can buy anything I want basically, but I can't buy time."

He closes with this:

"And so to have time is the most precious thing you can have. I better be careful with it. There's no way I will be able to buy more time."

[Entrepreneurs on X @entreprneursonx]

Top 10 books to help shape the minds of business owners.

Every entrepreneur should read these (THREAD):

1. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

[High Signal AI @HighSignal_AI]

Nick Bostrom on why AGI may be the last invention humanity ever makes:

Bostrom explains that the ceiling for intelligence isn't biological. As he puts it: "The potential for intelligent information processing in machine substrate could just vastly outstrip what biology is capable of."

From there, he argues that reaching artificial general intelligence wouldn't be a stopping point, it would be a launch point:

"I don't think we would go all the way up to fully human level AI and then suddenly it would stop there."

Instead, he expects superintelligence to follow quickly. He frames it as the next step in a long arc of automation that began with physical labor:

"All human labor, not just the muscle labor that we started to be able to automate with the industrial revolution with steam engines and internal combustion… we have digging machines that are much stronger than any human strongman. But we will then have machine minds that can outthink any human genius scientist or artist."

This is what leads Bostrom to his central claim that AGI represents a threshold unlike any technology before it:

"It's really the last invention we will ever need to make, because from that point on, further inventions will be much better and faster made by these machine minds."

His conclusion is that this wouldn't be just another technological shift. It would reshape the very terms of human existence:

"It will be a very fundamental transformation of the human condition."

[Metav3rse @themetav3rse]

A startup founder turned his wedding into a viral marketing experiment and sold ad spots on his wedding suit.

26 startups bought patches with each brand on his jacket.

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[Uncover AI @uncover_ai]

A San Francisco home just listed for $2.9 million and is accepting OpenAI and Anthropic stock as payment.

The property sits in Duboce Triangle, one of San Francisco's most sought-after neighbourhoods. Buried in the Zillow listing is a detail that would sound absurd anywhere else in the world.

Here's what this tells you.
> AI workers are getting rich on paper.
> But their wealth is locked in private company shares they can't easily sell.
> A home seller looks at that and sees an opportunity.
> They accept the stock instead of waiting for cash.

What makes this interesting:

A regular homeowner looked at OpenAI and Anthropic stock and decided it was worth more than the risk of holding it.

That a private share in an AI company was a better bet than waiting for a wire transfer.

This is a cultural shift that signals something bigger, when private AI stock starts showing up in real estate negotiations, the money has already moved, the rest of the world just hasn't caught up yet.

This works as a snapshot of exactly where Bay Area wealth is sitting right now, and it's locked in pre-IPO shares, looking for somewhere to go.

The future of compensation in tech might not be a salary at all. It might be equity in a company the public isn't allowed to buy yet.

[NutriScience @Nutri_Science_]

You can burn fat the moment you wake up.

These are 8 breakfast combos that helps melts belly fat for the rest of the day together:

1. Avocado + Eggs

[Dr. Biohacker @Dr_Biohacker]

Signs you have insulin resistance (& don’t realize it):

1. Foam when you piss.

[Longevity Code @LongevityCode_]

The most powerful nervous system doctor in the world:

Magnesium.

It heals fatigue, anxiety, depression, sleep, and even ADHD.

Here’s what it is (& how to use it):

[Business Nerd @Business_Nerd_]

Sam Altman on how brutal OpenAI's early days really were:

"No one is as honest about how bad the bad early days are as they should be because it's so embarrassing in retrospect."

Altman is candid that the beginning of OpenAI was genuinely tough. The technology wasn't working well, and the team had little to show for their efforts.

"We were this extremely ragtag group of people. We were mocked by everyone serious in the field. But more than that, we just didn't have working technical progress."

There were small wins along the way. He points to one project in particular:

"We even did Dota, which was great and was what let us raise the money from Microsoft that let us do the GPT series. But it was deeply unclear how we were going to make AGI, and we were unbelievably outgunned by DeepMind at the time."

The skepticism from outside was relentless:

"A lot of people were like, 'Why are you even doing this? DeepMind is untouchable.'"

What's striking is how little of today's landscape existed back then:

"No one had figured out the idea of language models. Certainly no one had figured out the idea of putting an API around one or releasing ChatGPT."

The thing that carried them through wasn't a clever strategy. It was persistence in the face of constant scarcity:

"We just kept putting one foot in front of the other, but we were constantly not able to find enough money or compute or people. And you just keep going, and eventually something works."

The lesson @sama keeps circling back to is that the embarrassing, uncertain early days are the norm, not the exception even for the people who go on to define an entire field. Survival came down to continuing to put one foot in front of the other when there was no money, no compute, and no proof the bet would pay off.

If you're in the messy, unglamorous middle of something right now, that might be the most useful thing to remember: the people you admire were once mocked, outgunned, and unsure too. They just kept going.

[Business Nerd @Business_Nerd_]

Demis Hassabis' advice for the AI era: immerse yourself in every tool available until you're "almost superpowered." Then apply that edge somewhere new. That's where the billion-dollar companies get built.

[High Signal AI @HighSignal_AI]

One creator. 3 days. A $40 budget. The result: a WoW-style gladiator clash with orcs, trolls, and a massive white bear warrior that looks like a AAA game cinematic.

🎥: GD-Zzsheep

[Black Edge @BlackEdgeFund]

Rande Howell shows that mastering the markets begins with mastering yourself

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

Heath Ledger had to keep licking his lips to hold his Joker scar prosthetics in place.

Instead of hiding it, he leaned in and made it the character's signature

[Cleared Improve @ClearedImprove]

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[Cleared Improve @ClearedImprove]

By 1910s, Coco was no longer just a sewer. She was a revolution.

In a world where women were trapped in endless fabric, she gave them freedom with chic blouses, trousers, and the legendary “little black dress.”

She turned femininity into power. By 1920s, her empire was booming, and Chanel No. 5 was on every vanity table in Europe.

[Cleared Improve @ClearedImprove]

Coco Chanel died in 1971 in her luxury suite at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, the same place she had once lived with her SS lover during the occupation.

Her name still shines in fashion. But history knows she was both a genius and a traitor.