Imagine you’re 5 to 10 years in and you wake up to a significant other who you no longer know. At the same time you just discovered who you are, but you cannot live your truth for various reasons. And you end up spending the rest of your life basically as roommates.
In 1987 Nike had $600 million in revenue. Phil Knight was stuck. The company was losing ground to Reebok, burning cash, and nobody inside could agree on what to do next.
He brought in Les Brown to speak to his executive team.
Brown was found abandoned in Miami at 6 weeks old. Labeled mentally retarded at age 9. Failed fifth grade twice. Had no degree, no connections, no money.
By 1987 he was the highest-paid motivational speaker in America. Marriott paid him. McDonald's paid him. General Electric paid him. Fortune 500 companies flew him in because one session with Les Brown changed how their people think.
Nike's revenue crossed $1 billion two years later.
Brown built all of it on one thing he learned by losing everything.
He made a promise to his adopted mother to buy her a house. Worked years to get the down payment. Found a home on the water in Miami. Signed without a title search.
A registered letter arrived weeks later. A $12,000 lien against the property. The previous owner's debt. 30 days to pay or lose the house.
He lost the house. Lost 23 pounds in the process. Packed his mother back into the old neighborhood while the same neighbors who watched them leave watched them return.
He stood in the driveway unloading furniture with his head down crying.
His mother said hold your head up. You have nothing to be ashamed of.
For weeks he couldn't move. Couldn't think. Couldn't plan.
He said the mind works like a gas pump. You cannot start pumping until the previous bill clears. Anger doesn't clear. Humiliation doesn't clear. They sit on the lever and nothing moves.
He told the story of a man everyone in Columbus called Chicken Man.
Woke up at 3am to a house on fire. Got out the window. Heard his wife and children screaming. Ran back. The flames were too hot. He could not get in.
The screaming stopped.
His brother-in-law arrived and started hitting him. Calling him a coward over and over.
When people pulled him off they asked if he was all right.
Chicken Man looked at them and started making the sounds of a chicken. He never spoke again. Drove around the city for the rest of his life with a toy chicken on his car and a photo of his wife in a baby carriage.
Brown said most people walking around are carrying something exactly like that. An event from years ago still running their entire life.
80% of the people you tell your story to don't care. The other 20% are glad it happened to you and not them.
The question is never what happened. The question is what are you going to do about it.
The lecture is free on YouTube. Just over an hour.
Almost nobody has watched it as a precise diagnosis of why capable people stay exactly where they are.
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
Travis is back (with $1.7B from a16z)
Math conjectures are dropping like flies
India's first private rocket reaches orbit
Kratsios drops Science: A New Golden Age
Anduril and Archer bring the Thunder (and Halo)
+ Science, Frontier, Star Axis
What a week for the optimists.
I think robotics is the next 10x asymmetric trade.
I spent the last week writing a deep-dive research report on my thesis and breaking down exactly how I'm building exposure to this sector.
This is the most important financial research I've published all year:
I have MADE over $1,000,000 in the last 2 MONTHS.
The SECRET?
Having a watchlist for every major sector so I can spot rotations EARLY.
HERE IS MY SECTOR ROTATION WATCHLIST:
Memory: $MU $SNDK $WDC
Semis: $NVDA $AMD $ARM $INTC $AMAT
Networking: $AVGO $MRVL $CRDO $ANET $ALAB
Photonics: $AAOI $LITE $COHR $NVTS $GLW
Power / Electrification: $VRT $GEV $NNE
Data Centers: $IREN $CIFR $APLD $NBIS
Defense: $PLTR $KTOS $AVAV
Drones: $ONDS $DPRO $UMAC
Robotics: $OUST $SYM $TSLA
Space: $ASTS $RKLB $RDW $LUNR
Quantum: $IBM $IONQ $QBTS $RGTI
Nuclear: $OKLO $SMR $CCJ
Fintech: $HOOD $SOFI $AFRM
Autonomous: $JOBY $ACHR
The biggest winners come from finding the next sector rotation before everyone else.
I will HELP you be EARLY to the next rotation.
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I’ll only say it once.
This might be the fastest way to hit $1 million by the end of 2026:
$MU (Micron Technologys) → $940 ust buy
$INTC (Intel) → $106 Must buy
$TSLA (Tesla) → $415 Must buy
$ARM (Arm Holdings) → $358 Must buy
$RKLB (Rocket Lab) → $110 Must buy
$NBIS (NEBIUS) → $240 Must buy
I often get asked why I don’t turn this into paid content, but for me, sharing stock information is just a hobby. I’m not financially struggling, so I choose to share it for free.
NFA
I’ll say this once. These 8 stocks are going to make generational wealth for many by year end…
1. ServiceNow ~ $NOW
2. Nokia Oyj ~ $NOK
3. Nebius ~ $NBIS
4. Micron Technologys ~ $MU
5. Circle~ $CRCL
6. Intel ~ $INTC
7. Rocket Lab ~ $RKLB
8. Marvell Technology ~ $MRVL
These names will be your next wave of opportunities that you need to take advantage of.
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I'm going to retire dozens in 2026 and will change lives 🙌
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