Livin' the Dream

Blending engineering, mechanics and business for 25 years.

I like finance, listening to VC's opine and crypto.

No financial advice given, only my opinions.

[Livin' the Dream @TheBookonSales]

@elonmusk I can't wait for Grok to use Cursor

[Livin' the Dream @TheBookonSales]

@mtaibbi Lol

[BeerSmith @beersmith]

I just released the BeerSmith 4.0.21 build for all platforms on the main download page - https://t.co/imMdohXM6p Release notes here: https://t.co/mpyg2A2Bz3 #beersmith #hombrewing

[Livin' the Dream @TheBookonSales]

@WilsonCompanies The real unlock happens when you ask "How can I use AI to increase the productivity of my value?"

[david friedberg @friedberg]

I would like to see you make a voluntary contribution of 5% of your family’s $200M net worth to the government for important healthcare, childcare, and jobs. Don’t worry, it’s just one-time. Your $10M contribution will provide free childcare for over 1,000 California kids for a year! Once you’ve made your personal contribution to a more just and equitable society, I’ll support all your other asset seizure ideas. But you gotta go first…

[Livin' the Dream @TheBookonSales]

@chamath @ikirigin @TheFlowHorse Elon level focus

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

@elonmusk I support antimatter propulsion.

[Livin' the Dream @TheBookonSales]

@elonmusk @Selene_Mariposa Love HEB

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Elite admissions select for one trait: getting the known answer faster than anyone else. 18 years of optimizing against an answer key someone already wrote.

AI just made the answer key free. Everyone has it instantly now.

So the kids trained hardest to win spent their whole lives mastering the one thing that's now a commodity. The premium moved to the questions with no answer key yet.

We need a new training.

The new training is about one thing:

How to be the first person standing in a new land, exploring it, preparing it for the coming billion people who will need it. The future will be built by these people.

And there is a lot to build.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

World Cup tourists fall in love with middle America — raving about Waffle House at 1 a.m., Buc-ee's gas stations, and strangers driving them to stadiums in the rain. Oxford Economics expects 1.24 million international visitors for the tournament, and their viral posts are showcasing a side of the country most foreign media never covers.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is biblical.

A woman in her eighties. Ten years into Alzheimer's. Hadn't spoken a full sentence in five years.

Takes one, 5 gram dose of psilocybin.

She slept 19 hours and woke up and spoke for hours about her life, recognized family and held real conversations. She regained bladder control after five years, walked on her own. and dressed herself. Gains held for weeks.

[Livin' the Dream @TheBookonSales]

Dr. Tire.

@MrJerryOC

[Jerry O'Connell @MrJerryOC]

'A LIST!' You get a follow @mySA

[Marcus Lemonis @marcuslemonis]

For all who are complaining about the @SpaceX valuation for its IPO, it’s a free market. Don’t buy it.

For those who believe in future and @elonmusk , it’s a free market, buy it.

RT If you are going to invest

[Livin' the Dream @TheBookonSales]

This is awesome

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

I was seven years old when America made it to the moon. Too young to fully appreciate the significance of that accomplishment, but old enough to assume – logically, I think – that we would have surely ventured a whole lot farther by 2026. But we didn’t, and I think I understand why. We were in a space race, and we won. But, when the race was over, we had to reconsider our motivation in every category, including cost, risk, and so forth. In the end, I guess we had bigger fish to fry.

Later that same year, Concorde broke the sound barrier and proved that supersonic travel for non-astronauts was for real. The implications of that were a lot more impactful, potentially, to a lot more people, and the possibilities were intoxicating. In the early seventies, lots of smart people in the aerospace industry predicted extraordinary advancements in the coming decades, to the point where most everyone agreed that we’d be able to fly from Los Angeles to Paris in under two hours by 2000. But of course, we didn’t. We just kind of…slowed down. It was if someone, somewhere, decided that air travel should not exceed the speed of sound. That we were going fast enough, and that was that. Weird, right? Unlike every other form of technology, we simply gave up on going faster, and today’s guest is determined to change that.

His name is Blake Scholl, and he plans to bring commercial supersonic flight to the masses by 2029. His company is called Boom, and his airliner, Overture, aims to cruise at Mach 1.7 (twice the speed of today's jets), cutting flight times dramatically, such as London to New York in just 3.5 hours or New York to Rome in under 5 hours. Overture is designed to carry between 64 and 80 passengers and run on 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel. Major carriers, including United Airlines, American Airlines, and Japan Airlines, have already placed orders and pre-orders.

I find the whole endeavor to be utterly fascinating, as well as our conversation. The whole this is here, and worth your time. Especially if you've come to the conclusion that air travel is ripe for a massive upgrade. https://t.co/ZEwcKVhPGU

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

Whenever someone tells you they hate to brag, you can rest assured they’re about to do that very thing. In the long history of the world, no one has ever said, “I hate to brag,” and then proceeded not to brag. It’s like taking a rental car to a car wash. It simply doesn’t happen. So, before I boast about another extraordinary accolade for my grandfather’s whiskey, I just want to take a moment to tell you that I won’t be taking a moment to tell you that I hate to brag. Instead, I’ll just cut right to the chase and tell you that The American Distilling Institute has just determined that Knobel Tennessee Whiskey is the best Tennessee Whiskey in the world. It says so, right here in Forbes. https://t.co/u32X5Xzs2C Better than Jack Daniel's, Uncle Nearest, George Dickel, etc.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re wondering if the American Distilling Institute is a legitimate organization. Well, that’s a reasonable concern. Many people in this industry, (especially those who hate to brag), rely on endorsements and praise from various organizations that exist purely to heap praise upon those who pay to receive it. So I asked the AI if the ADI was legit, and this is what I learned.

“The American Distilling Institute is the oldest and largest craft spirits trade association in the world. It's the primary governing voice, educational resource, and overall advocate for small-batch, independently-owned distilleries. ADI is widely respected for its educational programs, industry conferences, and lobbying efforts to support small distillers. They’ve also run the International Spirits Competition since 2007, the most prestigious blind-tasting competitions in the spirits world. Winning a medal here carries significant industry weight.”

Obviously, when you’re going out of you way not to brag, it’s important not to sell past the sale, but it’s equally important to understand that in the spirits world, many competitions are nothing more than "pay-to-play" marketing schemes. However, there's an undeniable consensus among experts that the ADI International Spirits Competition is unexampled for its strict integrity and blind tastings. Expert panels taste spirits without knowing the producer or brand, and every entrant is provided written feedback to every single submission, helping craft distillers improve their products.

According to Chat GPT, “If Knobel wins "Best of Category" or a medal from the ADI, it is a genuine stamp of approval from qualified industry expert, not a bought endorsement.”

In other words, my grandfather’s award winning whiskey keeps on winning awards, and online sales still benefit the Mikeroweworks Foundation. I'm not bragging; I'm just telling you the ADI says we make the best Tennessee Whiskey in the world.

Try a sip, and tell me if you agree.
https://t.co/aEBGbjJGWw.

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

Like many of you, I was troubled by my last guest. I’ve followed Jason Ladayne for over a year, and I’ve seen him do things with a deck of cards that left me flabbergasted, amused, bemused, amazed, and occasionally, gob smacked. Most of it, however, can be explained by raw skill. Jason is one of the best card mechanics to ever live, and when the cards are in his control, he can conjure up anything. But what he does in this clip takes things to another level.

Watch it and tell me what you think. I cut the deck several times when his back is turned. There’s no way he can see what I’m doing. After the final cut, which is left entirely up to me, I take three cards off the top, and put them into my shirt pocket. Jason tells me to remove one. Any one. I doesn’t matter which. And somehow, he knows what it is. Likewise, the other two.

How?

On the other hand, do I really want to know? I think I do. But the world is more interesting with a bit of mystery, right?

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Apollo’s Chief Economist: Zero Evidence of AI-Related Job Losses