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This man's credentials will leave you speechless. 7th degree black belt. World's fastest gun disarm. Former Marine. All forged from being forced to kill at age 7. The explosive secret to weaponizing your worst trauma into unstoppable strength:

Here's a test I keep using with enterprise teams. If your AI stopped working tonight, would a person notice, or would only a dashboard catch it? Person notices → ad-hoc AI. Human-driven, self-correcting. If it gets something wrong, you catch it and move on. Blast radius is one person. Dashboard catches it → embedded AI. Running whether you're thinking about it or not. When it fails, it fails at scale, silently, until something downstream breaks. Most teams don't make this distinction clearly enough. They build embedded workflows with ad-hoc tooling and wonder why production falls apart. Ad-hoc needs to be fast, creative, good with half-formed context. Embedded needs to be reliable, deterministic, sharp enough to pull clean signals out of messy systems every single day without getting creative about it. Different problems. Different tooling. Most of the industry is still building for one and hoping it covers both.

Every generation has one trade that creates more wealth than anything else. 1990s: internet 2010s: mobile Early 2020s: AI software Next: commodities. Every tech buildout gets bottlenecked by physical materials. AI needs copper, nickel, lithium, uranium at a scale the supply chain can't support. Discovery rates collapsing. Around 18 years from discovery to production. Demand accelerating from AI, EVs, defense, electrification all at once. The picks and shovels always win the gold rush. Full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=m2mb7S… $PNPN $PNPNF

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Paul Graham trained 30 billionaires while the education system manufactures millions of unemployed people each year. The difference isn't IQ, connections, or luck. It's one number you can't fake, cheat, or buy your way into. Here's the number that most founders never hit: 🧵

In 1959, Charlton Heston was chained to an oar in ancient Rome and rose to win the greatest race ever filmed. In 1968, the same man crashed onto a planet ruled by apes and lived to curse the end of the world. One actor, two landmark films, a proud hero stripped of his power.

Embedded AI (agentic operations, agentic process automation, whatever we're calling it this month) is basically business process automation with better brains. For decades, enterprises ran critical repeatable processes on rules engines and RPA. Take a process that has to run itself reliably and make it work. Now we call it 'agentic.' New name, same ambition. The difference is real capability though. Old BPA could follow rules. Embedded AI can reason through exceptions, learn from past runs, pull meaning out of unstructured data. Not just a rebrand. But the hard problems are the same ones BPA teams were solving 15 years ago. Governance, observability, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, managing failures at scale. We just have to solve them again with systems that are way more powerful and way less predictable. The teams shipping fastest right now are usually the ones who learned from that era. They don't treat governance as an afterthought because they already got burned once. I keep saying the agentic industry renames the same things over and over. This is one of those cases, but at least this time the capability underneath actually justifies the new name.

Mining will create more millionaires than AI over the next decade. Yet everyone is chasing chips and software. Here's why the real money is in what powers all of it: The world is obsessed with AI. Every portfolio, every headline, every allocation decision points in the same direction. But here's what most investors are missing. AI runs on infrastructure. Infrastructure runs on metals. Copper, nickel, palladium, platinum. The physical materials that make electrification, data centres, and energy grids possible. Supply is constrained. From discovery to production, the average mine takes around 18 years. And demand is growing faster than at any point in the last 30 years. This is the setup for a commodity supercycle. And historically, supercycles are where generational wealth gets built in the resource sector. Power Metallic sits at the centre of this thesis. A zoned polymetallic system with copper, nickel, and PGEs. Only a handful of comparable systems exist on the planet. Well funded with C$50 million raised and 100,000 metres of drilling through 2026. While everyone fights over the next AI stock, the real asymmetric opportunity might be sitting underground in Quebec. $PNPN $PNPNF

Eva Longoria is 51 and still has the red-carpet physique she's had for 20 years. Before she was an actress, she was a fitness trainer with a degree in kinesiology. Here are her 7 rules for staying in shape:

One company processes about a third of all US medical records. In 2024, hackers got into it through a single server. That server was missing one basic security setting. The mistake cost over $2 billion and exposed 190 million Americans:

A Western made in chaos became one of the most quoted films of its generation. A careful 3-hour epic, built to honor the same man's whole life, arrived 6 months later and faded from memory. Two films, one lawman, the same 30 seconds at the O.K. Corral.

The new RobotLAB website is live. America's largest robotics integrator, now in one place: every robot, every use case, every industry it already works in. Here is what we built:

In 2012, Best Buy was supposed to be the next retailer Amazon would kill. So its new CEO spent his first week on the shop floor, in a "CEO in training" badge. 7 years later, the stock had more than tripled. Here's what he did instead of cutting:

Jason Momoa is 46 and still built like Aquaman. From Game of Thrones to Dune, he's been Hollywood's go-to giant for 15 years. Here's how he keeps the physique:

Everyone thinks we're running out of copper and nickel. We're not. Remember when the world was sure we were running out of oil? We weren't. We'd just run out of the technology to find it efficiently. Critical minerals are in the same place right now. The earth has plenty. What's constrained is our ability to find it, permit it, and bring it to market fast enough. Here's the twist: AI is actually solving its own supply problem. Real breakthroughs in mineral exploration and processing. Recycling is scaling. Copper and nickel can both be recycled. This isn't "finite resource, permanent crisis." It's massive demand hitting a temporary supply bottleneck. The bottleneck isn't geology. It's capital, timing, and willingness to fund exploration. That's the trade. Not scarcity panic. Timing arbitrage. Full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=m2mb7S… $PNPN $PNPNF

In the 1990s, one company owned the web browser. Almost everyone used it. Then its own engineers made a single decision that handed the market to Microsoft. They didn't get outcoded. They did it to themselves. Here's the mistake every software team should study:

The day he was born, a nurse told his mother she did not have to take him home. Her answer set the course of his life. He grew up to become a Paralympic medallist and world champion. Today Don Elgin runs our events at Kismet. Here's his story:

Two founders started a company in 2001 and never took a dollar of venture capital. 20 years later, they sold it for about $12 billion. No funding rounds. No board. No investors to answer to. Here's how they did it:

Idris Elba is 53. At 45, he won a professional kickboxing match by knockout. He still trains to last 5 rounds in the ring. Here's how he stays fight-ready:

In 2023, two casino giants were hacked by the same crew days apart. One paid the ransom. One refused. The attack didn't start with code. It started with a phone call. Here's what each choice actually cost: