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[Boy @Nergock]

@trentwya_ @notcee_fan Leave it to a genius to nix it. This was the same guy that wanted to replace the PayPal name.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jeff Bezos spent 3 hours on a physics problem with his roommate.

They got nowhere.

So they went to the smartest guy at Princeton.

He looked at the problem and said one word: "Cosine."

That was the exact moment Bezos decided not to become a physicist.

Here's the full story:

Bezos wanted to be a theoretical physicist. That was the plan.

He went to Princeton. He was a really good student. A+ on almost everything.

He was in the honors physics track. Started with 100 students. By quantum mechanics, it was down to 30.

Junior year. Quantum mechanics. He's also taking computer science and electrical engineering classes on the side.

Then he hits a partial differential equation he can't solve.

"It's really, really hard."

He studies with his roommate Joe. Also really good at math.

Three hours. Got nowhere.

They look up at each other across the table at the same moment and say the same name: "Yosanta."

Yosanta was the smartest guy at Princeton.

He was Sri Lankan. His name was three lines long in the facebook (which was an actual paper book at that time).

"I guess in Sri Lanka when you do something good for the King they give you an extra syllable on your name. So he had a super long last name. The most humble, wonderful guy."

They go to Yosanta's room. Show him the problem.

He stares at it for a while.

Then he says: "Cosine."

Bezos: "What do you mean?"

"That's the answer."

"That's the answer?"

"Yeah. Let me show you."

He brings them into his room. Sits them down. Writes out three pages of detailed algebra. Everything crosses out.

The answer is cosine.

Bezos asks: "Yosanta, did you just do that in your head?"

"No. That would be impossible."

"Three years ago I solved a very similar problem. I was able to map this problem onto that problem. And then it was immediately obvious that the answer was cosine."

Bezos on that moment:

"That was an important moment for me. Because that was the very moment when I realized I was never going to be a great theoretical physicist."

He didn't quit because he was bad. He was in the top 30 at Princeton.

He quit because he saw what great actually looked like.

Great wasn't grinding for 3 hours. Great was pattern-matching to a problem you solved 3 years ago and seeing the answer instantly.

He couldn't do that. Yosanta could.

So he pivoted. Computer science. Business. Amazon.

Built a $2.5+ trillion company instead.

The rest is history.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🚢 Vessels Crossed Strait of Hormuz

🟢 Feb 26 → 132 vessels
🟢 Feb 27 → 128 vessels
🟡 Feb 28 → 98 vessels
🟠 Mar 01 → 18 vessels
🔴 Mar 02 → 7 vessels
🔴 Mar 03 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 04 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 05 → 1 vessel
❌ Mar 06 → 0 vessels
🔴 Mar 07 → 1 vessel
🔴 Mar 08 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 09 → 1 vessel
🔴 Mar 10 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 11 → 1 vessel
❌ Mar 12 → 0 vessels
🔴 Mar 13 → 3 vessels
🔴 Mar 14 → 1 vessel
❌ Mar 15 → 0 vessels
🔴 Mar 16 → 1 vessel
🔴 Mar 17 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 18 → 1 vessel
❌ Mar 19 → 0 vessels
🔴 Mar 20 → 1 vessel
🔴 Mar 21 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 22 → 3 vessels
🔴 Mar 23 → 5 vessels
🔴 Mar 24 → 6 vessels
🔴 Mar 25 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 26 → 7 vessels
🔴 Mar 27 → 4 vessels
🟠 Mar 28 → 12 vessels
🔴 Mar 29 → 2 vessels
🔴 Mar 30 → 4 vessels
🔴 Mar 31 → 5 vessels
🔴 Apr 1 → 8 vessels
🔴 Apr 2 → 6 vessels
🟠 Apr 3 → 14 vessels
🟠 Apr 4 → 10 vessels
🟠 Apr 5 → 11 vessels
🔴 Apr 6 → 7 vessels
🟠 Apr 7 → 11 vessels
🔴 Apr 8 → 5 vessels
🔴 Apr 9 → 9 vessels
🔴 Apr 10 → 8 vessels
🟠 Apr 11 → 14 vessels
🟠 Apr 12 → 14 vessels

Sources: Windward Maritime Intelligence, Lloyd’s List, PIB India, regional briefings, Maritime News, Kpler Risk and Compliance.

[Boy @Nergock]

@cturnbull1968 Trump and Truth 😅

[Boy @Nergock]

@Acyn "He likes crime I guess." - Mr. Pedo

[Boy @Nergock]

@MyLordBebo The discarded the umbrella issue similarly to how he discarded the mess with the Strait of Hormuz.

[Boy @Nergock]

@Mayhem4Markets Well, it's not like Timothy Cook has a technical aptitude either.

[Lj Priest (Formerly Trader Jill) @RealTraderJill]

This is the best breakdown of the war in Ian that I've ever seen.

Very measured, and fair.

[Boy @Nergock]

@aashisjo @b05crypto

[Aashis Joshi @aashisjo]

After financing Jared Kushner’s 666 Fifth Avenue property in New York for $1.2 billion, gifting a $400 million private jet to Donald Trump and vast sums of money and luxury in exchange for security, they now realize they've been conned and betrayed by Trump and his family. 😂

[Boy @Nergock]

@masuzafi How does the amount of lives saved exceeds the number of pills confiscated by 10x?

[Defense Intelligence @DI313_]

⚡🇺🇸🇮🇷 How Iran actually hit a US F-35 stealth jet. Right now, every news channel is asking the same question. How did an Iranian missile manage to track a fighter jet that even advanced radar systems struggle to detect?

Video credit to the original owner

[Boy @Nergock]

@MARKOCANDIR

[Boy @Nergock]

@anishmoonka It cost $750 to produce a 2 carat diamond in a lab.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Kamal Kharazi — Iran’s senior foreign policy advisor and the man CNN interviewed on March 9th when he said “we are ready for a long war, no diplomacy” — had his home struck today.

His wife was killed.

He sustained serious injuries.

The New York Times reports Kharazi was at the time discussing possible US-Iran negotiations with VP Vance through Pakistan as an intermediary.

The man being used as a back channel for peace negotiations just had his home bombed.

His wife is dead.

Israel struck his residence while he was facilitating the talks Trump said were “going very well.”

[Boy @Nergock]

@sahilkapur Epstein was nice to him.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Trump on re-opening the Strait of Hormuz: "Let France do it, they get a lot of oil from the strait. Let the Europeans do it. Let South Korea, who is not helpful to us, by the way…Let South Korea do it. Let Japan do it… This was not part of what I wanted to do."

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The President of Iran just published an open letter on X addressed directly to the American people.

860,000 views. 20,000 likes. 6,500 retweets.

Read it carefully — not for what it says.

For what it doesn’t say.

[Boy @Nergock]

@Jeremybtc While that story reads like a high-stakes Silicon Valley thriller, it is entirely fictional. It’s a classic example of "tech fan fiction" or a viral "copypasta" designed to farm engagement on social media.