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To Love & Serve Others,
By sharing ideas about life & investing.

[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…

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

America faces more than a chronic disease epidemic that threatens our physical health. We also face a spiritual malaise that undermines our mental health.

Our children are increasingly isolated, fragmented, and anxious, spending more than 8.5 hours a day on screens.

This summer, put down the phone and reconnect with nature, family, and community. It's time to Take Back Your Health. Eat Real Food. Get Active. Together, we will Make America Healthy Again.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[Tony Robbins @TonyRobbins]

Reminder: class is in session. It's called LIFE. Don’t waste a minute.

— from Saint-Tropez, with love

[Bentley @bentleyberrier]

@RyanReeves_ I see, in that case I would have the following companies:

1. Tesla
2. Google
3. Amazon
4. Nintendo
5. HOOD
6. BRKB
7. (SpaceX)
8. (Anduril)
9. (Open punch card)
10. (Open punch card)

Optimizing for holdability & narrative durability

-but I'm unable to not peek for 10 years 😆

[Balaji @balajis]

If you’re in the Singapore/Malaysia area, we have a Replit Agent 4 hackathon tomorrow at Network School.

There will be a tutorial, a little remote guest appearance by my friend @amasad, and a hackathon.

Here’s the event link:
https://t.co/s0JM5sLVSO

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Vice President JD Vance: “My advice to young men who are thinking about becoming fathers who are about to have babies is, you're never ready”

“It will be shocking. It will be crazy. It will be the most difficult and the most rewarding thing that you’ve ever done.”

"I would do it all again; in fact, I have one regret, it's a slight regret. I wish we had started early and had more”

Don’t wait until everything is “Perfect” to have kids. Children are what perfects life.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

🚨 President Donald J. Trump announces that ALL working Americans can have access to a retirement plan that will match their contributions by up to $1,000 each year.

HUGE!

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

Can’t stop thinking about this from @ericjang11

[Vlad Tenev @vladtenev]

Thanks for the thought-provoking piece.

My main critique is that you are overemphasizing flashy but low probability events like “left-handed bacteria,” while merely giving lip service to the risk of extreme economic concentration of power, which is very real and materializing as we speak.

Anthropic is reportedly raising funds at a $350B valuation, and the wealth created thus far has been concentrated into a few hundred (perhaps more like dozens) high net worth individuals / institutions. It’s looking increasingly likely to me that none of the leading AI labs will IPO until they reach valuations in the trillions, at which point retail investors will finally be able to get shares. In order for retail to get a 100x return on these investments, which was achievable for Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, the valuations of the AI labs will need to reach hundreds of trillions of dollars, meaning it’s likely too late for a more equitable redistribution of wealth.

Simply put, you are currently exacerbating the problem. The consequences of this are that voters may take matters into their own hands and push for either or both 1) more aggressive / nonsensical forms of redistribution — the CA Founders’ Tax is just the beginning or 2) a drastic knee-capping of the AI industry in America, which make the CCP dominance scenario more likely.

The solution is to enable retail ownership now, increasing the number of Americans with economic exposure to Anthropic and other AI labs from hundreds of people to millions.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Merry Christmas! Love you all ❤️

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

Massive momentum from small business to large enterprise. Let’s celebrate America’s 250 by making every child a shareholder in the future of America! And yes, Altimeter is in! Reply Tweet if your company is in! 🇺🇸🇺🇸@InvestAmerica24

[Bentley @bentleyberrier]

@RobinhoodApp Snack time😄, thanks @RobinhoodApp !

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Based on everything I’ve seen, a simple recipe can work: focus on what’s in front of you, design great days to create a great life, and try not to make the same mistake twice. That’s it. If you really want extra credit, try not to be a dick, and you’ll be a Voltron-level superstar.

The secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.

Feeling as though you are trying too hard indicates that your priorities, technique, focus, or mindfulness is off. Take it as a cue to reset, not to double down. And take comfort in the fact that, whenever in doubt, the answer is probably hidden in plain sight.

What would this look like if it were easy?

In a world where nobody really knows anything, you have the incredible freedom to continually reinvent yourself and forge new paths, no matter how strange.

Embrace your weird self.

There is no one right answer . . . only better questions.

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

I made an editable version in Google Sheets, if you also want to become the greatest baseball player of all time:

https://t.co/X7yNXWShhQ