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Steve Jobs on Failure (1994):

Somewhere in India, the next great founder is building their ambitious idea. It's time to find them. @ycombinator is bringing Startup School to India. We wanted to create something worthy of it, not another event that looks good on a poster. Presenting Vibecon India. [1/5]

This AI bionic robot from the AWE exhibition in Shanghai is so realistic it has people doing double takes.

In 1572, this man watched Catholics and Protestants massacre each other in the streets. Instead of choosing a side, he asked one question and it changed Western philosophy forever. That man was Michel de Montaigne. And his question was devastatingly simple: "Que sais-je?" What do I know? Everyone around him was certain they were right. Certain enough to kill for it. Montaigne watched this unfold and reached a radical conclusion: Certainty itself was the disease. So he retreated to his tower library and began the strangest philosophical experiment in history: studying the one subject he had direct access to: Himself. For 20 years, he wrote about his fears, his contradictions, his pleasures, and his failures. Not to appear wise. But to see clearly. He called the project his "Essays." "Others form man. I tell of him." What he discovered shook Western thought ↓ Most of what you call "yourself" isn't really you. The things we call natural: our values, our sense of right and wrong are almost entirely shaped by custom and upbringing. We didn't choose them, we inherited them. What feels like instinct is usually just habit wearing a disguise. And once you see that, you can't unsee it. His motto wasn't a cry of despair. It was the most honest starting point for any examined life. Because once you stop pretending you have all the answers, something surprising happens ↓ You become free. Free to revise. Free to contradict yourself. Free to say: "I thought one thing at 30. I think something different at 50. Both were real." He also rejected something most philosophers clung to, the idea that the body is beneath us. Aging. Illness. Appetite. Friendship. These weren't distractions from the philosophical life. They were the philosophical life. Real wisdom isn't found by transcending ordinary existence. It's found by paying honest attention to it. Pascal was shaken by him. Nietzsche called him one of the most joyful thinkers who ever lived. Emerson carried him everywhere. All because he was willing to say: I don't have this figured out. But I'm looking. In a world drowning in confident opinions, Montaigne's invitation is more urgent than ever: Stop performing. Start examining. Your contradictions aren't failures. They're data. Your uncertainty isn't weakness. It's the beginning of honest thought. Ask his question. Not once, but daily: What do I actually know? — Thanks for reading! Enjoyed this post? Follow @BigBrainPhiloso for more content like this.

Early in my career, I worked at one of the largest banks in the world. During the tech bust, 6,000 people were laid off in a single day. I was one of them. Here's what that taught me about building wealth:

Planning a one-day work trip should be simple. 
In reality, it’s scattered across tabs, notes, and reminders. Genspark went from zero to $200M ARR in 11 months now Silicon Valley’s first AI agent unicorn.
 I planned the entire thing inside Genspark AI Workspace 3.0 @genspark_ai

I will be speaking at the London School of Economics this month. Another step forward. God is the greatest!

most people feel out of control because they never learned how to build it here's how:

The thing that made you successful is now the thing holding you back. You were promoted because you were the best. The best clinician. The best lawyer. The best analyst. You outperformed everyone around you. Your technical excellence was undeniable. So they gave you the title, the team, and the responsibility. Now you are leading people who do the thing you used to do. And you cannot stop doing it for them. You review their work and redo it. You sit in meetings thinking you would have done it faster. You carry the weight of every deliverable because letting go feels like lowering the standard. Your technical excellence became your identity. It is the thing you are most proud of. The thing that earned you respect. The thing that made you feel valuable. Letting go of it feels like losing who you are. It is not. It is becoming who you need to be. The transition from individual contributor to leader requires you to grieve the old version of yourself. The version that had all the answers. The version that was the best in the room. Nobody tells you that. Nobody prepares you for how disorienting it feels. But the grief is the process.

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Steve Jobs called Bill Hewlett at 12 years old and got a job at HP. Most people never make that call. Jobs wanted to build a frequency counter but lacked the parts. So he looked up Bill Hewlett's number in the Palo Alto phone book and dialed. "Hi, I'm Steve Jobs. I'm 12 years old. I'm a student in high school and I want to build a frequency counter. I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have." Hewlett laughed. Then he gave Jobs the parts and offered him a summer job at HP, building the very frequency counters he had called about. "I was in heaven." Jobs spent the rest of his life thinking about why that moment was possible. "I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help. I just asked." The lesson he carried was simple but rare. Throughout history, the people who shaped the world were rarely the most talented or the most connected. They were the ones willing to make the ask that everyone else had already talked themselves out of. "Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask. And that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them." "If you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far." The phone book that connected a 12-year-old to a Silicon Valley legend is long gone. The principle behind that call never changed.

A side hustle can make you financially free. Sadly, 99% of people don't have one. So here's the 7 best side hustles anyone can start in 2026:

Everyone's talking about Claude. But most people missed the AI that makes it the real money play. Claude + Ideogram AI I used both to create a 90-page eBook. It now makes me $2,000-$3,000 every month. I’ve put 5+ hours of video breaking down my exact system and prompts that turn Claude into a full-blown eBook writing machine. Comment “AI” and I’ll DM you everything.

Breaking: Genspark just hit $200M ARR in 11 months, now positioned as Silicon Valley’s first AI agent unicorn. After using it, the difference is pretty clear. This isn’t a collection of tools. It’s an all-in-one AI Workspace where the work moves forward without switching contexts.

Poor communication kills more projects than bad code Quality communication is clear, concise, direct, and constructive. Most teams fail in one of two ways: - Conflict avoidance lets problems fester. Issues don't get raised. Disagreements stay buried. Decisions get made around what's comfortable rather than what's right. - Excessive friction makes collaboration painful. Every discussion becomes a battle. Every interaction feels like a career risk. Progress stops while people focus on protecting themselves. That’s the real issue. Both modes slow teams down significantly in a way they’re two sides of the same coin. People want to avoid one failure mode, without realizing they fall right into the other one. A healthy resolution requires more finesse.. Tackle problems head on, but resolve them promptly and rationally. Base decisions on facts and data. Be clear on how success looks like; what’s a must-have vs. nice-to-have; what should the team optimize for. It’s very common to go in circles refusing to accept inherent tradeoffs. Seniority doesn't make someone automatically right. Neither does loudness or popularity. The correctness and performance of your product doesn’t care about your team dynamics or who feels like they won. It depends only on objective rules, and how well the team can master its craft and work well together. Leaders need to develop their own, independent judgment, rather than relying exclusively on people’s opinions. This gets harder the more senior one gets, further away from on-the-ground reality. Your model of reality might be simplified, but keep updating it. Use your own map rather than constantly asking for directions. Without this, you’re risking making a decision based on what sounds smarter or more convenient in a meeting, rather than what’s actually necessary.

I had erectile dysfunction, weak stamina, and premature ejaculation, and fixed it naturally in 60 days. Here is the exact routine, meals, and exercises I did:

Researchers just published the first large-scale study on dogs and cancer survival. 55,000 patients. 5 years of data. The survival gap was so large, they're calling for full clinical trials. Here’s how your dog could be improving your survival odds:

An ambitious actress lies and betrays to hold a trophy and feel famous. A Broadway director perfects his art but pushes himself until his body and mind break. All About Eve and All That Jazz. Here's how two films explore the cost of personal ambition and public storytelling: