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[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

Just read Rickover’s old submarine interview ritual again—the sawed-off chair that forced you to sit ramrod straight. Accountability wasn’t optional; it was engineered into the furniture. In a world of diffuse responsibility, that kind of brutal clarity still hits different.

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

Serendipity used to feel like wasted time—a delayed train, an off-topic conversation. Now I see it as the unoptimized path that actually matters. Efficiency gets you to the destination. Wondering gets you somewhere worth arriving.

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

@patrickc @billclerico 💯

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

Are humanoid robots the next Segue?

[Christopher Bloomstran @ChrisBloomstran]

Berkshire released its 2025 annual report this morning with Greg Abel’s first letter to the shareholders. The letter was a good summary of operations, confirming Greg understands capital allocation and is the right person to lead Berkshire and maintain the culture. However, 1/

[Christopher Bloomstran @ChrisBloomstran]

Happy to share the Semper annual letter. We posted it to the website last night. I attempted a section on the improbability of adequate return on capital in the AI arms race. With the retirement of Warren at Berkshire, be sure to see the unreal statistics.
https://t.co/hT4d5pHw54

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

@pbeisel Something I don’t understand yet is that without any manual controls how does a Cybercab passenger / driver do things like navigate tricky parking spots, garages, etc.?

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

@stephenrobles Great to have you on MPU! But Fishkill?! Wappingers Falls? 😀 from an ex-IBMer here who also did time in Poughkeepsie dealing with big IBM mainframes!

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

Memories of growing up in the 1950’s

[Flightradar24 @flightradar24]

Last night’s #SuperBowlLX private jet exodus was wild! Five Bay Area airports (SFO, SJC, OAK, LVK & HWD) together saw a 1,136% increase in bizjet departures during the immediate post-game hours—compared to the previous Sunday. 🏈✈️

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

I was listening to a podcast this morning with Reid Hoffman and a colleague talking about how they used agents to translate their podcast. Hmm. Interesting idea. So I went to Gemini and simply said: “Please translate the last blog post at https://t.co/75OscMd31R into French.” Amazing! And then I asked it to do Hindi, Spanish, London cockney taxi driver, etc etc. Fun but also so powerful!

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

In the days of the "vertical hold," we learned a hard truth: the picture never stays locked forever. We spend so much energy trying to keep our lives from "drifting," but maybe the adjustment is the whole point.
Read: https://t.co/RTdEvfrJbm

[Pat Grady @gradypb]

https://t.co/FBs5ZCwi5o

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

Carving Away https://t.co/tOeEemyo24

[Andrew Ross Sorkin @andrewrsorkin]

Great, great piece by Seth Klarman in @TheAtlantic…https://t.co/RmZVHvWDcy

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

@gilbert @djrosent This was a superb conversation! Thanks for doing and sharing it. 🙏

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

@appenz 💯

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

@pbeisel 💯

[Scott Loftesness @sjl]

@bscholl @CrusoeAI Love this kind of innovative smarts! Congratulations and LFG!