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Emails.

[Dave Smith @MTGDaveSmith]

I’m saddened to announce that due to declining health I must let my MTG collection go. I have consigned 1000 graded and 5300+ ungraded cards from Alpha to Revised to Kid Icarus on eBay https://t.co/UNuQXQy5Na I would like to thank the community for all the fun since 1994. Cheers!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is extremely concerning

Certified Master Home Inspector says “There is something very big going on in my profession that affects almost every homeowner in this country. This includes anybody buying a home, selling a home, realtors, this all affects you

Right now, right this minute, as I'm talking to you, there is a corporate takeover of all of the software that runs home inspection companies, and I'm gonna explain why it matters to you.”

Home inspectors are legally required to keep findings, reports, addresses, defects, and client personal information (name, phone, email) These companies will now have access to all this data, and these monopolies work in multiple Industries and also sell data

This aggregated data could then be used for rate adjustments by affiliated companies (insurance, lenders, warranties, security), marketing, underwriting and more

Everything will likely be used to increase prices across multiple industries

[Jack @Jackkk]

Kevin O’Leary thinks the highest paying job right now is customer acquisition on social media

“I used to pay those guys $48,000, now I’m paying them $250,000 because you can measure their work based on customer acquisition every week”

“Most of them become contractors, they make half a million dollars a year because they know how to take content, turn it into a 59 second ad on social and acquire 200 customers”

“Those people in their early 20’s are so valuable now. If you know how to use your phone, somebody wants to hire you”

[ryansaplan @ryansaplan]

@KobeissiLetter @grok what does this mean for the cost of oil

[Kathleen Winchell ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 @KathleenWinche3]

This is a wild story if you have a few minutes.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

A signs of maturity is the ability to love one part of somebody and hate another, without throwing the entire person aside the moment you find something about them that isn’t the way you like.

I’ve learned some of my best lessons from the worst people.

Sunday thoughts.

[Peter Attia @PeterAttiaMD]

The following email is what I sent my team last night. I sent a similar version to my patients, also.

***

You’ve put your trust, your credibility, and your hard work into what we have built together, and I take that responsibility seriously. You deserve a complete and honest account of what did and did not happen. I apologize that I did not get this out sooner, but I want to be thorough.

The purpose of the DOJ releasing these documents is clear: to identify individuals who participated in criminal activity, enabled it, or witnessed it. I am not in any of those categories, and there is no evidence to the contrary.

To be clear:

1. I was not involved in any criminal activity.

2. My interactions with Epstein had nothing to do with his sexual abuse or exploitation of anyone.

3. I was never on his plane, never on his island, and never present at any sex parties.

That said, I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me. I accept that reality and the humiliation that comes with it.

***

I want to start by directly addressing the email thread that I’ve been asked about the most.

In June 2015, I sent Epstein an email with the subject line “Got a fresh shipment.” The email contained a photograph of bottles of metformin, a medication I had just received from the pharmacy for my own use. The subject line referred to the picture of the bottles of medication.

He replied with the words “me too” and attached a photograph of an adult woman. I responded with crude, tasteless banter. Reading that exchange now is very embarrassing, and I will not defend it. I’m ashamed of myself for everything about this. At the time, I understood this exchange as juvenile, not a reference to anything dark or harmful.

At that point in my career, I had little exposure to prominent people, and that level of access was novel to me. Everything about him seemed excessive and exclusive, including the fact that he lived in the largest home in all of Manhattan, owned a Boeing 727, and hosted parties with the most powerful and prominent leaders in business and politics. I treated that access as something to be quiet about rather than discussed freely with others. One line in that exchange, about his life being outrageous and me not being able to tell anyone, is being interpreted as awareness of wrongdoing. That is not how I meant it at all. What I was referring to, poorly and flippantly, was the discretion commanded by those social and professional circles–the idea that you don’t talk about who you meet, the dinners you attend and the power and influence of the people in those settings. What I wrote in that email reads terribly, and I own that.

***

I met Epstein in 2014 through a prominent female healthcare leader while I was raising funds for scientific research. At that time, he was widely known in academic and philanthropic circles as a funder of science and moved openly among credible institutions and public figures.

Between summer 2014 and spring 2019, I met with him on approximately seven or eight occasions at his New York City home, regarding research studies and to meet others he introduced me to. I never visited his island or ranch, and I never flew on any of his planes. When I was at his home, it was either meeting with him directly, meeting with small groups of scientists, doctors, or business leaders, and once at a dinner in 2015 with a number of guests including prominent heads of state. In retrospect, the presence and credibility of such venerable people in different orbits led me to make assumptions about him that clouded my judgment in ways it shouldn’t have.

I was not his doctor, though several times I answered general medical questions and recommended other providers to him.

Shortly after we met, I asked him directly about his 2008 conviction. He characterized it as prostitution-related charges. In 2018, I came to learn this was grossly minimized (more on this below). I was incredibly naïve to believe him. I mistook his social acceptance in the eyes of the credible people I saw him with for acceptability, and that was a serious error in my judgment. To be clear, I never witnessed illegal behavior and never saw anyone who appeared underage in his presence.

***

In November 2018 I read the Miami Herald investigative article. I was repulsed by what I learned. Nauseated. It marked a clear and irreversible line between what I knew before and what I understood afterward.

At that point, I told him directly he needed to accept responsibility for what he did.

Hoping to provide the victims from the Herald piece with support, I contacted a residential trauma facility to understand what funding comprehensive care for many victims would require. (Those communications were between me and the facility and were therefore not part of the document release.) I spoke with him and shared that information and insisted that he fund their care, beginning with residential treatment and followed by lifelong therapy.

In hindsight, even attempting to facilitate accountability was a mistake and once again reflected just how naïve I was at the time. Once the full scope of his actions was clear, disengagement should have been the only appropriate response. My intent does not change that, and I regret not drawing that boundary immediately.

***

Nothing in this letter is meant to minimize the harm suffered by the young women Epstein abused. Their trauma is permanent.

I am not asking for a pass from you. I am not asking anyone to ignore the emails or pretend they aren’t ugly. They simply are.

The man I am today, roughly ten years later, would not write them and would not associate with Epstein at all. Whatever growth I’ve had over the past decade does not erase the emails I wrote then.

I recognize that my actions and words have consequences for the people I care deeply about, including all of you. I regret the cost this has placed on you, and I take responsibility for it.

I won’t ask anyone to defend me or explain this on my behalf. If you have questions or concerns, I’ll address them directly with you, my team.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Quick portfolio update:

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

When you die, your life will be summarized into facts about your early life, 1–3 short anecdotes showing your qualities, what you meant to others, and who you’re survived by.

Whatever you’re stressed about today won’t make the list.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

These are actually my goals!

[a16z @a16z]

Marc Andreessen:

"The job is not actually the atomic unit of what happens in the workplace. The atomic unit of what happens in the workplace is the task."

"A job is a bundle of tasks."

“Everybody wants to talk about job loss, but really what you want to look at is task loss.”

"As the tasks change enough, then that’s when the jobs change."

"Ten years from now, is your job title coder, or coder-designer-product manager, or is it just, ‘I build products,’ or is it just, ‘I tell the AI how to build products.’ Whatever that job is called, it’s going to be incredibly important, because the people doing that job are going to be orchestrating the AI."

@pmarca on Lenny's Podcast with @lennysan

[Finding Compounders @F_Compounders]

“Get the fucking money”

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@FamedCelebrity @nytimes Probably direct to brands

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt drops a chilling warning on AI's future

"Within 5 years, AI could handle infinite context, chain-of-thought reasoning for 1000-step solutions, and millions of agents working together.

Eventually, they'll develop their own language... and we won't understand what they're doing."

His final words: "Pull the plug."

This is the man who ran Google talking about the singularity.

2:59 clip inside—must-watch.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

NVIDIA DROPS $5 BILLION ON INTEL - THEN REFUSES TO USE INTEL'S FACTORIES

Nvidia bought 214.7 million Intel shares at $23.28 each. Total investment $5 billion for roughly 4% stake. Announced September, cleared by FTC in December, finalized today.

Context: this is part of "Operation Save Intel." U.S. government took 10% for $9 billion in August. SoftBank added $2 billion. Now Nvidia brings another $5 billion.

The pitch: Intel builds custom x86 CPUs with Nvidia's NVLink, creating integrated AI systems for data centers and PCs. "Historic collaboration" merging two ecosystems.

The reality: Nvidia just halted mass production plans for Intel's flagship 18A chip manufacturing process. Yields hit 55-65%, well below the 70-80% industry standard.

Even a few percentage points of waste costs billions when you dominate 90% of the AI accelerator market.

So Nvidia's keeping all its actual production at TSMC in Taiwan while writing Intel a $5 billion check.

Translation: this isn't a partnership - it's an insurance policy. Nvidia needs Intel to exist as a domestic alternative to Taiwan, but doesn't trust Intel's factories enough to actually use them.

Financial lifeline? Yes. Vote of confidence in Intel's manufacturing? Absolutely not.

Source: Reuters, CNBC

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

The people who outlast everyone else don’t wait until they’re at a 10/10 on the “pain” scale to change.

They recalibrate at a 6.

Most people only adjust when something is completely broken - exhaustion, pain, injury, relationships strained, a business failure, output falling apart.

By then, recovery takes much longer and costs much more.

The most durable people catch the signs early:

- Sleep is a little worse
- Energy dips slightly
- Focus takes more effort
- Recovery takes longer than normal
- Irritability is increasing

Nothing feels totally“wrong” yet, but something is clearly off.

Those are the moment that predict longevity.

Resilience isn’t about how much pain you can tolerate… It’s about when and how you respond.

Stress is often physiological before it’s emotional or cognitive.

The people who win long-term recalibrate when the cost is still LOW - at a 6/10, not a 10/10. That’s how they keep going while others end up opting out. Because recalibrating 10/10 is far more taxing than 6/10.

Durability comes from responsiveness, not denial.

[mert @mert]

one of the biggest mistakes you can make is confusing people optimizing for signal as "not a nice guy"

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@16bitnostalgia Megaman

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@SahilBloom What do you experience that makes this more productive compared to listening to a podcast for audiobook