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[Princess @adahadadream]

Irrational optimists > rational cynics

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound. https://t.co/FEmCrdQ392

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The last time Nigeria participated in the International Maths Olympiad (IMO) was in 2019.

The government's reason then was that it was not important enough.

The actual funding required is less than the cost of a brand new Hilux.

This is the most prestigious academic competition in the world, and our children have been deprived of participation for years.

Education has been pushed to the back seat for a long time, while illiteracy has been elevated.

This needs to stop now!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The most important component of writing clearly is simply to have high standards for clarity. Then if you write something unclear, you notice, and ask: what did I mean to say? You can just keep doing this over and over. And if you have high standards for clarity, you will.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[Neto @docneto]

Another well-written piece by @DoubleEph

Don't go buy that house in St Tropez when you exit; instead, get stuck into the rewarding mess that's nation-building.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.

Almost nobody understood what he said.

Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”

Not tech startups.

The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.

The businesses that actually run the physical economy.

They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.

Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”

Software is dead.

The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.

AI ends the contract.

The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.

But customized by whom.

The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.

Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”

That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.

Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.

Let them fight.

Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.

Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.

It collects where the brain meets the business.

Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.

Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.

Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.

Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.

That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.

You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.

The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.

33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.

Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

[Dan Tharp @CoachDanTharp]

“Your talent is your floor, your character is your ceiling”

Absolutely incredible quote by UCLA Coach Cori Close.

[Princess @adahadadream]

Culture is all about feeling + collective meaning making

[Drew Fallon @drewfallon12]

UNILEVER TO ACQUIRE GRUNS FOR UNDISCLOSED SUM IN HUGE VMS SPLASH

Grüns, one of the best stories in CPG of the last decade, has been punctuated with a massive deal to Unilever. The VMS M&A wave is in the early innings!

Financial terms weren't disclosed, but given Gruns' disclosed revenue, growth rate, and Unilever's annual stated M&A budget - it was definitely a big one.

The Numbers
 - Founded: August 2023 by Chad Janis (confirmed a chad)
 - $100M ARR: May 2025 (month 21)
 - $300M ARR: August 2025 (month 24)
 - Last valuation: $500M (April 2025 funding round led by Headline)
 - Profitable within 14 months of launch

Price undisclosed, but the $500M valuation set the floor 12 months ago. With $300M+ ARR at the time of deal announcement, rough benchmarks:

- Huel acquired by Danone for ~3.4x revenue - 2026
- Liquid I.V. / Unilever - ~2.6x revenue - 2020
 - Dr. Squatch / Unilever ~3x revenue - 2025
- poppi // PepsiCo ~3x revenue - 2025

Unilever has been making an all in effort into personal care and wellness, with brands like Liquid I.V. & Nutrafol set to pass $1B in sales, UL is putting together a formidable wellness portfolio. Plus, they spent $1.5B on Dr. Squatch last year.

Early investors include Sugar Capital, Vanterra Capital, and more.

[✒️ @Literariium]

How lucky we are to experience boring, ordinary, uneventful days. Somewhere in the world, that kind of safety is unimaginable.

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world

[Ivan Zhao @ivanhzhao]

The loudest story about AI is a lonely one. One person with an army of chatbots. Other humans are friction.
That gets the future wrong. The best things aren’t built alone.
In a moment of change, we want to remind the world (and ourselves) what Notion stands for:
— Think Together

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

the meanest thing you do to yourself is pretend you don’t want the things you want. shrink the desire before anyone can see it. call it unrealistic before someone else does. and then walk around with this low grade starvation you can’t name because you buried the appetite so deep even you forgot where you put it. wanting things is dangerous. I know. it opens you up to disappointment and to looking foolish and to reaching for something that might not reach back. want it anyway. the alternative is a life of pretending you’re full.

[Kierra | Data Conversationalist🎙 @iamKierraD]

I see the “everybody is winging it” narrative picking up again and…it’s a comfort statement that’s simply not true.

There are people who know exactly what they’re doing. They just look detached from the outcome because they have total trust in their execution.

[Princess @adahadadream]

@aylobabyy I really liked the first 2 episodes, it was less enjoyable after that.

[Princess @adahadadream]

This new season of Industry (HBO) is not great.

[wuruwuru @wuruwurustudio]

E Dey Happen episode 3 is here!

Three housemates. One world. 21,700 frames.

Watch the trailer 👇

[👍 @CLINT419]

some days you feeling like quitting, some days you feel like takin over the world

[Princess @adahadadream]

lol someone recently called me bossy and you know what? I am.

[ki snow ❄️ @kiaraimanii_esq]

Sometimes I realize I might’ve girl bossed a little too much bc now I have a lot of responsibility lmao