Darren Larson

Cooperative purchasing, futurist, father of two active kids and a supporter of my entrepreneur wife. Proud University of North Dakota alum. Romans 1:16.

[Darren Larson @darlarso]

Whoa

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Average 30-Year Mortgage Rate in the US…
1970s: 8.9%
1980s: 12.7%
1990s: 8.1%
2000s: 6.3%
2010s: 4.1%
2020s: 5.3%
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All-Time Low (Jan 2021): 2.65%
2023 Peak (Oct 2023): 7.79%
Today's Rate: 6.58% (highest since Aug 2025)

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

Boise State has installed a brand new blue turf field with a couple cool upgrades as they enter a new era 👀

• PAC-12 logo as they leave the MWC

• Added the State of Idaho at 35-yard lines

• Orange 2-yard lines honoring Heisman finalist running back Ashton Jeanty (wore #2)

• Orange 11-yard lines honoring Heisman finalist quarterback Kellen Moore (wore #11)

The most unique field in sports 🔵🟠

[Darren Larson @darlarso]

There is a lot of truth in this post about owning a home. https://t.co/Y9N2d3Jzyc

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

The Buffalo Bills have just released their new logo for the upcoming 2026 season.

🤦🏻‍♂️ 🤣 🤣 🤣

[Andrew ₿entley 🇺🇸 @AndrewBTC]

https://t.co/Z0hs43Vu87

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Setting up Trump Accounts for your kids is the easiest financial decision ever. https://t.co/4ps8fbrT8R

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

Sec. Bessent on Trump Accounts: I encourage everyone with a child 18 or under to open the accounts, because we have over 80 corporations that are going to put money into Trump Accounts—and we think that up to 20 states may also contribute to these accounts. This is a game-changer.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: 2026 World Cup officially sets new all-time attendance record, surpassing the 1994 record with 48 matches still to play.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor to retired Marine Maj. James Capers Jr. for extraordinary heroism during a four-day mission in Vietnam, where he continued leading his team despite severe wounds and heavy blood loss, refusing evacuation until every member of his patrol was safely aboard the extraction helicopter.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Nearly every company on this map traces to a single decision made in Pasadena in 1930.

That year the Guggenheim family paid to bring Theodore von Kármán to Caltech to run its aeronautics lab. His graduate students, a crew known on campus as the Suicide Squad, lit their first liquid rocket motor in a dry riverbed north of the Rose Bowl on Halloween 1936. That test site became JPL.

The aircraft industry stacked in around it. Lockheed, Douglas, Northrop, and Hughes built planes across the same basin through WWII and the Cold War. Each generation of engineers trained here, then trained the next batch, then sent their kids to the same schools.

The talent never left. That is the whole story of this map.

SpaceX headquarters sits at 1 Rocket Road in Hawthorne, inside the old Northrop plant that built aircraft on that spot for 70 years. The same building once turned out 747 fuselages. Elon put the rocket factory there because the workforce was already standing in the parking lot.

You can move a headquarters with a single post. No one has figured out how to move tens of thousands of aerospace engineers and the knowledge sitting in their heads. When the SpaceX HQ move to Texas got announced, this map barely lost a dot.

The startups are new. The cluster feeding them is almost a century old, and it compounds every year a fresh graduate walks out of Caltech or USC into the company next door.

[Darren Larson @darlarso]

Awesome indeed

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Darren Larson @darlarso]

Michigan

[College Basketball Report @CBKReport]

The highest combined NBA earnings by college in 2026, headlined by their leading earner 💰

[Darren Larson @darlarso]

@RampCapitalLLC Uncharted territory indeed

[Darren Larson @darlarso]

@EEriksonbf @Houseofyogi You wonder if that was part of the plan all along…the renovation of Soldier Field allowed the removal of the National historic designation and now the team leaves and the stadium can be demolished

[Jacob Turner @TheJacobTurner]

A PARENT’S JOURNEY THROUGH YOUTH SPORTS:

Age 5: “He’s got a cannon.”
Age 6: “He’s the fastest kid out there. Coach said so.”
Age 7: “Rec ball isn’t challenging him anymore.”
Age 8: “We tried out for select. Obviously made it.”
Age 9: “$2,800 for the season. Plus uniforms. Plus tournaments. Plus hotels.”
Age 10: “Cooperstown is basically a family vacation, right?”
Age 11: “He needs a hitting guy. And a pitching guy. And probably a mental performance coach.”
Age 12: “I’m not a crazy sports parent. The OTHER parents are crazy.”
Age 13: “We changed schools. For academics. (And also baseball.)”
Age 14: “Showcases are a requirement at this age.”
Age 15: “Ya his ranking just ticked up. We’re cooking.”
Age 16: “He just needs to get seen by the right school.”
Age 17: “The D1 schools want him to walk on. He’ll earn a spot by sophomore year.”
Age 18: “Okay, D2 is actually really competitive.”
Age 19: “He’s redshirting. Strategic.”
Age 20: “He’s focusing on school now.”
Age 21: “You know what? He’s so much happier.”

Roughly 7% of high schoolers play in college.

About 1.5% of those get drafted.

Less than half of draftees ever play one day in the big leagues.

The odds of our kids going pro are somewhere between “struck by lightning” and “find a $100 in old shorts.”

I love youth sports (all my kids play a bunch of them) just keep a good perspective my friends. ✌️