@bridgemindai Anyone surprised? This is a startup that happens to have received a valuation upwards of 1T. All startups are resource-constrained, outrunning their infrastructure while creating the perception that we can trust them with everything. Sovereign AI is not going away!
@GaryMarcus@GaryMarcus Rockefeller did the same when he promised to ship oil production on Carnegie's rails, committing to volume he didn't yet have. It should just be clear to everyone that this is a gamble on the future. Oracle has the most to lose.
They cut @MikeTrout.
The greatest baseball player of our generation.
The story you have never heard and the lesson to learn:
Back in 2008, I was a high school junior.
I was an up-and-coming baseball player and my first big break was an invitation to the USA baseball team trials.
You see each year USA Baseball brings in 100+ of the best baseball players in the country to try out for the 18u national team.
That year, USA Baseball had arranged for two players each to stay with a host family.
My roommate was a player named, Mike Trout.
Mike had incredible athleticism but was from the Northeast so he didn't come into the event on the "hype train" like some of the top prospects from California, Texas, and Florida did.
We both performed well at the event and made it to the final stage of the trials.
Here USA Baseball chose the final 18 players for the national team.
Mike didn't make those final 18 players.
Fast forward 15 years and Mike is the best player of a generation. A surefire Hall of Famer and arguably one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
Funny, how life works sometimes.
Look the lesson we can all learn from this is life is full of things that are outside of our control.
You will be told no.
You will suffer adversity.
You will face disappointment.
Accept it as part of your journey.
My friends, we focus far too much on the end destination and completely miss the beauty in the journey.
The come up, the adversity, and the struggle are what you will talk about one day.
It makes the destination worth striving for.
So, the next time you face a setback, remember Mike's story.
@JohnJBlatchford Always thought that building was beautiful. About 40 min north in WCH, a classic school was successfully turned into subsidized housing. Excuses.
For context, I am pro-science (it is sad to say that I have to declare this upfront) and our family foundation, the @PershingSqFdn, is a major funder ( ~$100m to date with more to come) of scientific research, but something has gone really wrong with science and our country when anyone who challenges currently accepted science is branded a conspiracy theorist and is censored by major media companies.
The scientific method is about constantly challenging our assumptions. It is about skepticism and deep research to understand and explain new data that are inconsistent with initial observations or conclusions.
Science is an unending search for the truth, and this ongoing search is critical, as what was once deemed to be settled science is often revised or reversed with the passage of time. For example, consider how the science of human nutrition has changed dramatically over time, or hypotheses about the causes for Alzheimer’s. And it wasn’t that long ago that doctors were quoted in ads recommending cigarettes as good for your health.
We should value those critics who challenge the status quo and continue to ask the hard questions. It is particularly important to do so when the economics of the current scientific understanding provide rewards to industry that are in the hundreds of billions of dollars, with the associated unavoidable perverse incentives.
We should seek to answer the concerns of those who challenge the current scientific wisdom. We should not simply dismiss them as conspiracy theorists. Doing so impedes the progress of scientific knowledge, and may cause us to miss opportunities to correct mistakes that continue to cause harm.
@RobertKennedyJr and others have raised important questions about the safety of some vaccines and have sought explanations for the dramatic increases in the incidence of childhood allergies, autism, and other health issues. These are good questions that have not been adequately answered. And I say this from the perspective of someone who is fully vaccinated along with my kids.
RFK may be right or wrong in his theories. That said, his concerns are ones shared by millions of parents and others. Rather than censor RFK and the skeptics, shouldn’t we instead seek to understand the causes for the massive increase in autism and allergic diseases in our children over the last 30 or so years? If vaccines are not the cause for increased autism and other allergenic conditions, then what is the cause or causes?
I think we would all greatly benefit by dropping the words ‘conspiracy theory’ from our lexicon and opening our minds to the possibility of improbable alternative explanations. When one hears something labeled a conspiracy theory, the natural reaction is to dismiss the theory. That is not a good way to get the truth. Conspiracy theories are actually just theories that are labeled as such to discourage further investigation.
I have had my own serious issues with @TuckerCarlson over the years and disagree with him on many subjects, but I have to say he gets its right in this evening’s episode which is worth a watch.
I recommend the Tucker segment at the risk of discrediting everything I have said above for certain audiences. That said, I am a strong believer in seeking the truth from a wide spectrum of observers and media participants.
I encourage you to give this approach a try. When even your worst enemy has an insight you agree with, I have often found it has a higher probability of being true. I think you will find this approach will make it easier to get closer to the truth in an uncertain world.
@Patticus@JtGarwood How much does neural hardwiring play a role? The average ADHD founder is going to go all in and all out for any business they start and are most focused while denting the universe! I think you can have it both ways as an "Ecosystem 2" founder.
"Value your time. It is all you have. It’s more important than your money. It’s more important than your friends. It is more important than anything. Your time is all you have. Do not waste your time."
@naval