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Looking for next project.

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My son and I did this for fun. What a couple geeks or nerds (whichever is cooler). https://t.co/pf7kPiEshd

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@R_Brauninger @GabeBock Didn’t see that coming

[Texas A&M University @TAMU]

Boldly going where no university has gone before.

Texas A&M was on board with @FRosenqvist and @MeyerShankRac for the most iconic finish in Indy 500 history.

📹: @FOXSports, @IndyCarOnFOX

[Texas A&M Aggies 👍 @12thMan]

Simply would NOT be denied.

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@premierleague @SpursOfficial Can you imagine a game this exciting in the NFL team fighting to stay out of the bottom of the league instead of coasting to get an early draft pick?

I think the last three teams should pick last in the draft, not 1, 2, 3. Number 4 from the bottom picks first.

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@AnatoliKopadze so, the well-educated still hold the edge, but its on the deployment side…not in coding?

[mosimmons @mosimmons]

What I don’t like about property tax in Texas. The property taxes are based on current (county) appraised value. If you don’t like the idea of federal ideas that try to tax “paper wealth” instead of realized cash gains you should hate this approach in Texas.

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@TexasTechBurn @KayNaegeli guns up

[mosimmons @mosimmons]

I’m counting on it, yeah!

[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.

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@aakashgupta Kylo in Tomorrowland makes no sense. That was a long time ago…

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@af_academy 108k followers is a heck of and audience to abandon. Would love to know reason, but no longer a timely monitored…so…

[Jack DeLongchamps @JDelongchamps]

Hearing this in person is mind numbing. The buy in of the 12th man is just silly

[mosimmons @mosimmons]

@WallStreetApes @ViKu1111 When done dismantling shadow courts built on Islamic law can we turn our attention to HOAs? Let’s get all the kangaroo courts knocked out in one fell swoop.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: “I really discourage 1-on-1s”

Jensen famously has 60 direct reports. When Stripe founder Patrick Collison points out that this isn’t conventionally considered best practice, Jensen shares his reasoning:

“I don’t do 1-on-1s, and almost everything I say, I say to everybody all the time. I don’t really believe there’s any information that I operate on that only one or two people should hear about… I believe that when you give everybody equal access to information, that empowers people. And so that’s number one… Number two, if the CEO’s direct staff is 60 people, the number of layers you’ve removed in a company is probably something like seven.”

Patrick offers to steal man the other side of the argument:

“1-on-1s are where you provide coaching, where you maybe talk through personal goals and career advancement, where maybe you give feedback on something that you see somebody systematically not doing so well… Do you not do those things or do you do them in a different way?”

Jensen responds:

“I give you feedback right there in front of everybody. In fact, this is a really big deal. First of all, feedback is learning. For what reason are you the only person who should learn this?… We should all learn from that opportunity… Half the time I’m not right, but for me to reason through it in front of everybody helps everybody learn how to reason through it. The problem I have with 1-on-1s and taking feedback aside is you deprive a whole bunch of people that same learning. Learning from other people’s mistakes is the best way to learn.”

Video source: @stripe (2024)

[Cameron Sorsby @CameronSorsby]

Rhett graduated Alpha High two years ago.

In 4 years since he unlocked his own ambition he’s built the largest bike park in Texas and is now running an ecomm business doing 500k in revenue a month.

He’s also a great guy who is always eager to help current students building businesses.

[mosimmons @mosimmons]

@HawkEmDownChris Roger Staubach… grew up in Texas. How about first quarterback?

[Cameron Sorsby @CameronSorsby]

We’re launching a new @alphaschoolatx high school for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Our promise: Make $1m by graduation, or receive a full tuition refund.

Yes, this will be the coolest high school in the world.

And we're building the best team in the world to make it happen.

We’re looking for 2-3 exceptional coaches to help us guide the students towards achieving this aggressive but achievable goal.

You won’t be giving lectures or assigning homework.

You’ll be grilling them on their P&L, driving them to the car wash they bought, critiquing their email funnels, pushing them to do things 99% of the world doesn't believe is possible.

Job posting is live and DMs are open.

[mosimmons @mosimmons]

@KBTXRusty BBB is not what it once was. I’d bet dollars to donuts BBB influence on consumers dips when they stopped printing the yellow pages. I hadn’t thought about that org in a decade or more.

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@ChrisVannini Saw this in 1994. It’ll stay with you much longer.

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@FactsAboutTexas Crystal’s Pizza