George S. Patton on beating procrastination & taking action:
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."
Game theory proves that people do not act on information. They act on incentives. You can give a person all the data they need to make a better decision, but as soon as that decision threatens their position or costs them something visible, they will try to ignore the data. Before you ever try to convince anyone of anything, map what it costs them to agree. The cost of agreeing is the obstacle, not the argument.
NASA was paying a billion-dollar premium every year to rent its own workforce through contractors instead of just hiring them directly, and somehow nobody thought that was a problem until Jared Isaacman showed up.
BREAKING: All charges against myself, my partners, and the Lodge have been officially rejected.
The seized money and equipment will be returned and we will reopen as quickly as possible, hopefully within a few weeks.
The Grand Jury in Williamson county heard the allegations against us, and refused to authorize proposed charges.
Justice has prevailed.
The damage to our staff and members has been tremendous, and it is now time to rebuild.
We will be putting together a kickoff event in the near future.
In the words of a great man: “you gotta know when to hold'em”
So you’re telling me you’ve arrested more American soldiers involved in capturing Maduro than people on the Epstein list, or politicians who somehow magically became better investors than Warren Buffett the second they took office?
Wild priorities.
People are moral when morality is cheap. The real test begins when doing the right thing costs status, pleasure, money, convenience, or revenge, because a great many principles disappear the moment a man is finally offered a profitable reason to betray them.
Jared Isaacman dropped out of high school at 16 and started a company in his parents' basement with $10,000 his grandfather gave him. Tonight he's on the deck of a Navy ship, waiting to welcome four astronauts home from the moon.
That basement company is now Shift4 Payments. It processes over $200 billion a year in credit card transactions, about a third of all restaurants, hotels, and casinos in the U.S. Went public in 2020. He ran it as CEO from age 16 until he stepped down to take over NASA last year.
He also co-founded Draken International, which ran a fleet of over 100 retired fighter jets whose entire job was playing the enemy in combat training for U.S. Air Force and NATO pilots. He sold it to Blackstone for over $100 million.
He has over 8,000 hours in the cockpit and can fly more than a dozen types of military jets. He personally owns a MiG-29, a Russian fighter that tops 1,500 mph, which he bought from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It's the only one in private American hands. In 2009, he flew around the entire planet in a small Cessna jet in 61 hours and 51 minutes, a world record, to raise money for Make-A-Wish.
In 2021, he paid for and commanded Inspiration4, the first all-civilian spaceflight. Four people with no astronaut training, three days orbiting Earth, $250 million raised for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Then in 2024, he went back up on Polaris Dawn and floated outside the spacecraft, held to it by a 12-foot cable, in the first spacewalk ever done by someone outside a government space agency. That same flight reached 870 miles above Earth, farther than any human had been since the last Apollo crew in 1972.
He took over as NASA's 15th administrator in December 2025. In his first three months, he redirected $20 billion away from a planned space station around the moon and toward building a permanent base on the moon's surface.
Right now he's aboard the USS John P. Murtha, about 50 miles off San Diego. The capsule carrying the Artemis II crew is going to hit the atmosphere tonight at around 25,000 mph. If the heat shield holds (it took damage on its last unmanned test), if the parachutes open, four astronauts splash down at 8:07 PM ET after a 694,000-mile trip around the moon. And the person waiting for them has been to space twice, walked outside a spacecraft, owns the only Russian fighter jet in private American hands, and started his first company as a teenager in his parents' basement. His call sign is "Rook."
BREAKING: WSOP returns to ESPN
The Main Event returns to prime time with a three-night live finale (Aug 3–5) and 100+ hours of coverage.
Poker’s biggest stage is back.
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All-in with this pair! ♦️♠️❤️♣️
ESPN & World Series of Poker (@WSOP) reach multi-year deal to bring Main Event back to ESPN this summer
• Aug. 3-5 | 3-night live finale for Main Event Final Table
• 100+ hours of multi-platform coverage
Details: https://t.co/TXWSr3TWuB
186 members of your “representative government” voted against deporting non citizens for committing welfare fraud
This goes so far beyond what motivated the founders of this country to revolt
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He did multiple tours valiantly fighting Islamists for his country and survived, only to come home and be murdered by an Islamist who was let in so some moronic politicians could virtue signal about diversity being our strength.