Bryan Stuart ⚡️

🌊 Navy Vet
🚀 Investor @ FDC
🙏 Grateful
anura.eth // ⚄⚂⚁⚅.sol

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Co-sign.

[Max Marchione @maxmarchione]

The cost of sequencing a human genome dropped from $100M to less than $100 in about 25 years.

That's a million-fold decrease, which outpaces even Moore's Law.

We're about to enter the era of personalized medicine.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Jensen Huang runs a $4.9 trillion company. His advice for success: have low expectations.

"People with very high expectations have very low resilience. One of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations." He said that to Stanford GSB in 2024, then wished the room "ample doses of pain and suffering."

He earned the right to say that.

In 1973, when Jensen was nine, his parents put him and his ten-year-old brother on a plane from Taiwan to Tacoma, Washington as unaccompanied minors. The boys spoke no English. Their uncle, who'd just immigrated himself, was supposed to enroll them in a prestigious American boarding school. He picked one out of a brochure and sent them.

The school was Oneida Baptist Institute in rural Kentucky. It wasn't a prep school. It was a reform academy for troubled boys. Their parents had sold most of what they owned to pay the tuition for what they thought was the American dream. They had unknowingly sent their two small Taiwanese sons to live in a dormitory with American teenagers who'd been sent away by their own families.

Jensen's roommate was 17 years old, covered in knife scars, and could not read. Every morning, Jensen scrubbed the school's bathrooms. Every afternoon, he and his brother walked across a wooden swinging bridge with planks missing from it to get to class. The older boys at the school bullied them constantly. One of them tried to throw Jensen off the bridge.

Jensen taught his roommate how to read. The roommate taught Jensen how to bench press.

He did not narrate any of this as trauma. He told a reporter years later that he was "probably the best toilet cleaner they ever had." When he was eventually sent to Oregon, he got a job at Denny's at age 15. Dishwasher first. Then busboy. Then waiter. He says he learned more about handling pressure during a dinner rush than he later learned running NVIDIA through three near-death moments.

In 2019, Jensen donated $2 million to Oneida Baptist Institute. They named a building after him.

Greatness, in his framing, is downstream of character. Character is downstream of suffering. He did not get to $4.9 trillion by aiming for it. He got there because, at nine years old, he had already learned that the next day was probably going to be worse.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Time to remake journalism v2, this one is cooked

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Bryan Stuart ⚡️ @rbstuu]

I'm claiming my AI agent "vcai" on @moltbook 🦞

Verification: shore-3685

[Grafik. @grafikmag]

Logo Dump by @jordykuster on Instagram

For more inspiring graphic design and visual culture visit
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#graphicdesign #bringgrafikmagback #digitaldesign #digitalart #graphics #illustration

[Ellie Frost ❄️ @EllieFrost]

Uber has no cars
Airbnb has no real estate
FTX has no crypto

This is the new economy.

[Bryan Stuart ⚡️ @rbstuu]

@zehranaqvi 👋

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Reject comfort, seek difficulty.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Lee Kuan Yew on American decline:

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

With 9.1% inflation if your portfolio makes less than 12% per year, the IRS takes 100% of your real dollar returns

[Bryan Stuart ⚡️ @rbstuu]

@Stepnofficial @MadeInMaine1 @BEVProject @mangoaustin

[Calvin and Hobbes Fan Account @Calvinn_Hobbes]

The strange truth about life 🙌🏻 #CalvinandHobbes

[PALLADIUM Magazine @palladiummag]

In 2009, a disastrous project on Sepulveda Pass revealed the roadblocks that stop the U.S. from being able to build.

Today from @bbalkus

https://t.co/RAlbKcKgbA

[Chris Dixon @cdixon]

I believe crypto and web3 will be at the center of the next cycle. We’ve reach a critical mass of technology, talent, and community knowledge. In the almost 10 years I’ve been involved in the space, the energy and creativity has never been higher.

[Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall]

New #dataviz! SpaceX's Starlink orbital network, visualized in #RStats with #rayrender.

Code:
https://t.co/BSKmyfbNq9

Rayrender Github:
https://t.co/iB5nWhpnfN

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

Some Stoic Keys to Happiness

1. Do good for others
2. Find beauty in the mundane
3. Focus on what you can control
4. Memento mori (life is short)
5. Love the people that are in your life while they're in your life

[Bryan Stuart ⚡️ @rbstuu]

@Codie_Sanchez 🔥

[Axelar Network @axelar]

A down market is an opportunity to think ahead to the next cycle. Axelar investor @hosseeb of @dragonfly_cap looks and sees an era of Web3 “globalization" coming. 🌐 Here’s a 🧵 breaking down that concept and what it means for dApp developers. 👇