Casey

It's time to build.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The faster we reach better intelligence, the faster we reach abundance, and the faster we stop having to fight over anything at all.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The most successful people I know are violently allergic to pessimistic, unhappy, and unlucky people.”

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Sean McVay nailed the job description.
Be an elevator.

Lift people to their highest potential.
That's it.
That's leadership.

Not a critic. Not a ceiling. An elevator. 🔥

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

The most effective ambitious people have *internal* drivers, not external ones.

They may want external things, have external goals, but their engine runs on unlimited fuel.

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

Wake up early. Grind hard. Sleep like a king.

[Orlando Economic Partnership @ORLPartnership]

Orlando is more than a tourism destination—it's a growing hub for innovation, corporate headquarters, and high-quality jobs.

Hear Mayor Buddy Dyer and OEP President & CEO Tim Giuliani discuss why businesses continue choosing the Orlando region.

https://t.co/NCoUoiCurf

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

TEDDY ROOSEVELT: "Complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called whining."

[America @america]

Happy 250th Birthday, America 🇺🇸

[Karl Mehta @karlmehta]

Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella are quietly describing the next platform shift:

The PC is becoming a personal AI.

Jensen: "We now have the ability to have essentially an autonomous agent running on the PC."

Not a chatbot tab.
Not a cloud API.
A local agent that can run tools, modify work, and act on your machine.

"I could text my PC and ask my PC to get some coding done... it would fire up the tools on the PC."

Then the hardware punchline:

128GB of memory means you can fit "a couple hundred billion parameter model."

That is the shift from personal computer to personal AI.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Naval Ravikant: The best way to network is through work

“I don’t believe in networking for networking’s sake where you’re just mingling, shaking hands, wearing a name tag, and offering to meet up with people,” Naval begins. “What you’re really looking for is like-minded people who you deeply respect.”

He continues:

“Earned respect is what you’re looking for. You’re looking to earn other people’s respect, and you’re looking for people who earn your respect. And they will earn your respect through their talent, curiosity, good nature, low ego, high drive, and vision.”

Naval argues your networking should just be targeted at finding those people you connect with, and he believes the best way to do this is through work. He gives the audience of college students the following advice:

“The best way to match is through work. It’s not through shaking hands or talking. It’s through working. That’s where hackathons are pretty good. That’s where small projects are pretty good. Any group project you’re in — whether it’s in school or a company — you’ll usually find that there’s one person in the group that’s carrying all the load… Hopefully you’re that person. But if you’re not — if you’re #2 or #3 — be honest with yourself. Find the person who is #1, who is carrying the load, and make yourself useful to them. Trust me it will pay off. It just takes a long time.”

Source: @zfellows (Aug 2025)

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.”

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

This is WILD!

Ray Kurzweil, the futurist who predicted the internet, smartphones, and AI says aging ends by 2032 (Save this)

Kurzweil, now 78 years old, told a live audience that humanity will reach longevity escape velocity by 2032 and he explained exactly what that means with mathematical precision.

Right now, for every year you live, you get back approximately five months of life expectancy from medical and scientific progress meaning you are losing roughly seven months of net life per calendar year.

Longevity escape velocity is the threshold where that ratio flips, for every year you live, you get back a full year or more from scientific progress, meaning your biological clock starts running backward.

Kurzweil's prediction is that threshold hits by 2032 and beyond that point, you do not simply stop dying of aging, you actively get younger every year.

The mechanism is AI-driven drug discovery at a scale that was physically impossible five years ago.

By 2030, Kurzweil argues, AI will be able to take a biological problem, generate millions of potential drug candidates, screen all of them, and run trials on simulated digital populations compressing decades of clinical research into weeks.

This is already happening.

David Sinclair's lab at Harvard used AI to virtually screen 8 billion molecules against aging targets and is now preparing human trials moving from $400,000 gene therapies toward a $100 pill that can reset biological age by 50 to 95% in four weeks.

Sinclair has already demonstrated the ability to reverse aging in mammals restoring sight in mice with optic nerve damage and reversing Alzheimer's symptoms in lab models.

Kurzweil's track record is what makes the 2032 claim impossible to dismiss.

He predicted the internet's global dominance in 1990, the defeat of a world chess champion by a computer in 1998, pocket-sized devices as primary communications tools in 1999, and AI passing professional exams in the mid-2020s, all before anyone else was saying it publicly.

If you are under 60 and in reasonable health, his message is stay alive, stay healthy, and get to 2032.

The tools on the other side of that date will be unlike anything medicine has ever produced.

[a16z @a16z]

Marc Andreessen on how @elonmusk works:

"He has an operating method that he's developed that I would say is very unusual by modern standards. I'm not aware of another current CEO who operates the way that he does."

"The top-line thing is this incredible devotion from the leader of the company to fully, deeply understand what the company does and to be in the trenches and talking directly to the people who do the work."

"Basically what Elon does is he shows up every week at each of his companies, he identifies the biggest problem that the company's having that week, and he fixes it."

"He does that every week for 52 weeks in a row, and then each of his companies has solved the 52 biggest problems that year."

"Someone who used to work in one of the other aerospace companies and went to work at SpaceX said... 'It's like being dropped into a shocking zone of competence.'"

"Most of us never have that experience. Most people are never in an organization where the bar is held that high."

@pmarca with @ChrisWillx

[Zach Brandon @MVP_Mindset]

Steve Kerr shares that one of the most valuable things he's learned as a coach is to stop beating himself up after failure.

"I've had to unlearn the tendency to beat myself up after failure...I'm going to lose. I'm going to make poor decisions that I regret later. But losing sleep over them and beating myself up is not at all productive."

A lot of coaches are great at helping players recover from mistakes, but many struggle to extend that same grace to themselves.

You can prepare relentlessly, care deeply, and still make decisions you wish you could take back.

The question isn't whether you'll make mistakes. Every coach does.

Similar to athletes, the question is how you'll choose to respond after them...For your players and yourself.

📹: Consello

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

We are in the middle of the singularity. The most interesting period in human history. And most people are too busy to care.

[Casey @xTimCasey]

"If the highest aim of the captain is to preserve the ship, it will remain in port forever." Thomas Aquinas