Blake
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Blake
@JPMdegen
Technology investor and builder
New York, USA Katılım Şubat 2021
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You did not receive a real education.
Today, we think of education as a litany of scattered disciplines that you study for careerism and social mobility.
But a classical education was different. It taught you the seven liberal arts to liberate your soul...
First, you learned the Trivium:
• Grammar
• Logic
• Rhetoric
Once you could think, speak, and articulate yourself clearly, you moved to the Quadrivium:
• Arithmetic
• Music
• Geometry
• Astronomy
The Quadrivium is about training you to see order in reality itself. Nature has an intelligent design and you are connected to it: you belong in the cosmos.
The difference with a true liberal arts education is not simply what you study, but *why* you study it. A classical liberal arts education taught you how to find God — the Transcendent Good was the end point of all education.
Instead of a set of independent disciplines, education was a deeply interconnected moral pursuit, teaching you to be attuned with truth, beauty, and goodness.
This interconnectedness is why the 7 liberal arts are presented as a wheel.
And have you noticed that the symbol of the 7 liberal arts is strikingly similar to the rose windows of Gothic cathedrals?
That's no coincidence. Rose windows symbolize Heaven, suggesting that reality itself is patterned after them — and this same circular pattern is the symbol of classical education in the liberal arts.
The implication is that the liberal arts liberate your soul by forming you according to the pattern of Heaven itself.
Education is preparation for eternity.
athenaeumbooks.com/welcome
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Yesterday, Divers doing a routine maintenance check at the Converse Reservoir Dam in Mobile, AL discovered an underwater grenade type IED.
The FBI bomb squad had to be called in to safely detonate it.
The Reservoir and Dam are critical infrastructure, and this is being called “an unprecedented threat“
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been made aware of the situation.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU @AnthropicAI THANK YOU @DarioAmodei NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍
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im selling peptides without ever showing my face
the ad above took 14 minutes and cost $0.42
no creator. no studio. no shoot day.
ai ugc just hit the realism layer where nobody clocks it
the peptide market is doing $71 billion a year (bigger than the entire ai industry combined)
the LTV is $2-4k per customer for 7 to 14 years
that math lets brands pay you 5x what every other vertical pays
ai ugc campaigns running on @affiliatenw are paying $2-3 per 1000 views right now and theres barely any supply
drop "stack" and ill dm you the realism stack im running this week (must follow so i can dm)
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this post literally breaks down how to make MILLIONS selling peptides in 2026:




Roman Khaves@roman_khaves
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we spent $2,352 promoting a health app on tiktok.
here's what happened.
most brands are paying $8 CPM for ads nobody watches. this app converted $0.09 per install instead.
we scrapped the whole thing and ran it through Content Rewards with an Adaptive AI slideshow agent instead.
25,638 downloads. $6,635 MRR. 30 days without paid ads.
what changed:
before:
-> paying creators flat fees with no guaranteed results
-> creators posting inconsistent formats with no proven structure
-> briefs going back and forth for days before a single post went live
-> 15-20 slideshows a week if they were lucky
after:
-> brands drop the agent link in their Content Rewards campaign brief
-> creators open it, type a topic, slideshow is ready in minutes
-> 200+ creators posting the same proven format simultaneously
-> 25,638 downloads in 30 days
-> $6,635 MRR. $0.09 per install. 2.82x ROI on spend
same $2,352 and a 16x-38x better revenue outcome than Meta.
the agent writes the story. Void AI generates the slides. exports a PNG pack and MP4 ready to upload.
comment "SLIDES" + RT and i'll send you the agent so you can run this for your next Content Rewards campaign (must be following so i can DM)
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$RKLB Key for the Rocket Lab earnings call today is to get more schedule certainty on Neutron, hopefully more color on the Golden Dome opportunity and more info on the timing on space application opportunities. For the rest I think it will be a walk in the park. Will try to share my thoughts afterwards as well.

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@_mattwelter Is offering pre-warmed accts still something you’re looking to do?
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