Holy crap, STAT News is reporting that Eli Lilly & the FDA let 1 person access a powerful new weight loss drug through FDA’s “compassionate use” program, which is reserved for people w/ serious and immediately life-threatening conditions.
That one person is believed to be Trump.
I began my journey. I began my life !!
I firmly believe life doesn’t begin until you take the leap…until then you’re just being a p**sy…and that is no way to go thru life
So, I…
Act like the person you are, not the way they make you act. Noble people shouldn’t have even an atom of baseness. Nobility scorns villainy. You should be able to boast that if gallantry, generosity, and faith were lost in the world, they could be found again in your own breast.
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Things my older colleagues/friends did before breaking into finance (IB/PE/quant):
- wandered India studying Vedic religion
- taught skiing in Chile
- walked the Appalachian Trail
- competed as an amateur boxer
- played jazz in underground bars
Today if you miss your sophomore internship you're basically derailed.
keep it to yourself longer than feels natural. the urge to tell people is the urge to get a little credit before you’ve done anything, and their reaction, good or bad, will move you off the thing. you don’t need their belief loaded on top of yours yet. yours is still fragile. guard it the way you’d guard a flame walking across a windy lot.
An amazing breakthrough by $RVMD that should see the name rally not just on pancreatic cancer TAM but on the “copy paste” potential for them to use RAS being a druggable target for further things beyond pancreatic cancer.
We detailed this dynamic in our 26 Trades for 2026.
Your brain has a tiny RAM. When you keep 7 half decisions in your head, your prefrontal cortex keeps refreshing them and you feel “busy” while doing nothing. Do a 2 minute capture dump on paper, then pick 1 next physical action. Your mind gets quiet fast.
It's a feeding frenzy.
Retail stock trading volume this month is on track to finish 10% above the previous record set during the January 2021 meme stock bubble.
Generate an alternative source of income.
Even if it takes you 10 years to do. Dedicate all of the effort you can muster to do it.
I get it, it’s not an easy feat and I’m not trying to sound like those Bali laptop nomad money grifters here
But you deserve autonomy.
At some point in your life you must experience it.
It has nothing to do with buying fancy cars or watches for vanity.
It allows you to divorce yourself from being under the ruling thumb of institutions that rely on manipulating you with threats upon your livelihood.
They strip you of dignity piece by piece.
Little rules and games of politics you must play by in your career — you, an intelligent adult, forced into a state of docile and dependent infancy. Scurrying on schedules.
Nothing compares to the version of you that is no longer forced to tolerate nonsense.
New forms of self esteem erect your spine to elevate your posture.
You will never love yourself more.
I promise.
TX-35 Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo says she will convert ICE detention center in Karnes County into an internment camp for "American Zionists."
"It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists," she added.
Never let them see you heal. heal in private like an animal that crawls under the house to die, except you don't die. you come back out and they look at you and they can't figure it out. they saw you broken, now you are calm and it is terrifying to them, because they wanted to watch. they always want to watch. your bad year was their best entertainment. rob them of that. close the door. go silent. come back wrong. come back so quiet that the quiet itself makes them nervous. they will ask, are you okay? they don't want an answer, they want back in. don't let them in. you are not a season they can watch and rate. you are a door that closed
A reminder.
As with food, we spent most of our history deprived of information and craving it; now we have way too much of it to function and manage its entropy and toxicity.
Augustine had a word for the vice of the internet age: curiositas. It doesn't mean "curiosity", but rather a disordered desire for knowing stuff regardless of its real value. It is the intellectual twin of bodily lust—the following of ephemeral passions without regard for consequences or what they're leading to. It's the act of knowing stuff as a form of possession; as if knowing everything that the latest Dwarkesh podcast guest had to say has any real value in itself.