The Angel Oak is a very old Southern live oak near Charleston, South Carolina, thought to be around 400–500 years old.
Its massive canopy spreads over 17,000 square feet, some of its branches have touched the ground and grown roots
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.
To anyone who thinks animals can't feel loss.
It's been 6 months since the dog passed and his friend cat still cuddles his collar every night before bed.
Elon Musk just told a story that should terrify every AI company on Earth.
His son Saxon is autistic.
Saxon couldn’t understand why the family went to restaurants.
You can get the same food delivered.
You can call your friends over.
You can eat better at home for half the price.
So why go?
Musk: “He had an epiphany and said, ‘Oh, the reason people go to restaurants is to hang out with strangers.’”
A kid who takes the world literally just decoded something the rest of us never thought to question.
We like being around people we’ll never know.
Look at what we already built.
Delivery apps so you never wait in line.
Remote work so you never share an office.
Self-checkout so you never talk to a cashier.
Every innovation of the last 20 years was a bet against human proximity.
Every one paid off.
Until it didn’t.
Loneliness is now a public health emergency.
Depression has doubled since the smartphone.
The average American has fewer close friends than any generation in history.
We didn’t remove friction.
We removed the thing friction was hiding.
Now look at what’s coming.
AI agents that handle your emails.
AI companions that replace your conversations.
AI assistants that make every human interaction optional.
Same playbook. Same bet.
Except this time we’re not engineering out strangers.
We’re engineering out humans entirely.
The coffee shop where nobody knows your name.
The subway where no one speaks.
The restaurant where you’ll never see that couple again.
Those aren’t failed connections.
They’re the background radiation of belonging.
We don’t just need people who know us.
We need to exist in rooms full of people who don’t.
That’s what a kid understood at a dinner table that billion-dollar companies still can’t grasp in a boardroom.
We spent 20 years building a world you never have to show up to.
AI is about to finish the job.
And nothing it builds will ever replicate sitting in a room full of strangers and not feeling alone.
Visited Nara, Japan the other day and it was incredible 🤯 - once in a lifetime experience bowing with deer as I fed them…. Some are definitely feisty and will nip at your 🍑 - and the magnificence of temple Tōdai-ji is beyond WOW: pictures and video will give it no justice…
1985 — lazy Saturday mornings
matted, tangled hair
purple Rainbow Brite nightgown
sugary cereal
until it burned the roof of your mouth
you’d press it with the tip of your tongue
pull it out
look at it between your fingers
curiosity
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The feeling of coming home from school,
no phone, no feed,
just a snack, a cartoon, and the quiet belief
that the world made sense.
Now every click is a psychological operation.
Even cereal commercials got replaced with ritual code.
I miss not knowing.
I miss thinking adults knew what they were doing.
I miss living in a world
that hadn’t yet sold its soul for dopamine metrics.
Bring back recess…
Before the playground got replaced by the algorithm.
Sometimes you take a beating.
Sometimes you give one.
But you NEVER tell the adults.
Growing up on a military base came with rules.
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You may optimize your body with good food, exercise, sleep and supplements. But that’s not enough. You’re barely scratching the surface. You can’t forget the spirit- for that you have to do a lot of hard stuff, stuff that make you ask ‘why’.
I have a co-worker who never announces anything. You don’t know she applied for a promotion until she’s already in the new office. You don’t realize she bought her own place until she casually mentions “heading home to finish painting.” She doesn’t post milestones. Doesn’t crowdsource opinions. Doesn’t invite commentary.
I used to think she was secretive. That success was supposed to be shared loudly. That excitement needed an audience.
Now I see it differently.
She moves with intention. Quiet. Focused. Certain. Her plans are protected while they’re still fragile. Her joy isn’t diluted by outside noise. She lets things grow roots before she shows the world the bloom.
It isn’t secrecy. It’s discernment. It’s peace. It’s self-trust.
Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who build their lives softly, without applause, and let their results speak when they’re ready.