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"If you tie money to suffering, you’ll reject easier paths when they show up."

Malcolm Gladwell explaining why some people succeed and some don't.

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture. I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back. His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra. Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach. Here's the story almost nobody tells you. Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds. The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away. The decision quietly changed how the world learns math. For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb. Strang inverted the entire curriculum. He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood. His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct. The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room. For 62 years. The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet. Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos. His final lecture was in May 2023. The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out. His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right. That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management. The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home. 20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge. The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free. The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

Difference is clear

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The Billionaires don't have bank accounts like you and I. All they have is art collections, Yachts, Mansions ,Stocks. None of it gets taxed until they sell it. So they just never sell it. They borrow against it instead. Live off the loans. Pay almost nothing. Then when they die, their kids inherit it all tax-free. The wealth never gets taxed, It just gets passed down. And we wonder why the gap keeps getting wider.

Sam Altman: “If I were 22 right now, I'd feel like the luckiest kid in history." 60 minutes dissecting the brain of the OpenAI founder. An interesting watch.

Elon Musk emphasizes a "first principles" approach to problem-solving, which involves breaking down complex issues into their fundamental truths and then reasoning up from there.

i am a delusional optimist and i will win

This is completely amazing 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

بادی النظر یہ فیصلہ دینے والے جج کو کوئی اتار دے تو خدا کا ولی قرار پائے۔

Elon Musk just diagnosed the disease no one admits they have. Life has become a triage ward. Pay the bill. Dodge the crisis. Survive the week. Repeat until dead. Musk: “Life cannot just be about solving one miserable problem after another. That can’t be the only thing.” Most people can name every problem they are running from. They cannot name a single thing they are running toward. That is the disease. You did not lose your purpose. You replaced it with maintenance. Musk: “There need to be things that inspire you. That make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity.” Glad to be part of humanity. When was the last time you felt that. Not relief. Not distraction. Not the dull numbness of a weekend burning down to Sunday night. Actual gladness that you exist. Most people cannot answer that question. Not because the answer is painful. Because they have never been asked. We have spent decades staring at the floor. Sweeping the same dirt into the same corner of the same room. Musk quotes Tsiolkovsky: “Earth is the cradle of humanity, but you cannot stay in the cradle forever.” The cradle is warm. The cradle is safe. The cradle is small. And a species that refuses to leave it is not being cautious. It is dying slowly in the only room it has ever known. Musk: “It is time to go forth, become a starfaring civilization… and expand the scope and scale of human consciousness.” Look up tonight. Billions of galaxies. Trillions of stars. An ocean of light stretching 93 billion light years in every direction. And one tiny wet rock figured out how to wonder why it exists. We are not passengers on this planet. We are the universe waking up. And right now the only conscious thing in the universe is trapped in one room arguing about the electricity bill. The problems will never end. There will always be another fire. But you were not built to fight fires. The universe was dark for 13.8 billion years. Then it opened one eye. You.

“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists” ~Nikola Tesla.

> It was never about oil > It was never about nukes > It was never about the files All the war and sanction it was all about collapsing the world economy so china can't over the US as the sole superpower of the world. This is scorched earth.

The reason Iran has an iron will and an unbreakable backbone is because Khomeini’s revolutionary courts executed at least four top-ranking generals by firing squad. Pakistan is in desperate need of a similar purge.

مسٹر عاصم منیر ہمارے لئے امریکہ سے بہت سارے پیغامات لائے تھے۔ ایک پیغام یہ تھا کہ ایرانیوں کو بتائیں کہ ایران کا سمندری محاصرہ امریکیوں کو بےوقوف بنانے کے لئے ہے۔ ہم کسی ایران جہاز پر نہ حملہ کریں گے نہ کسی ایرانی بندرگاہ کو ٹارگٹ کریں گے۔ ایرانی پارلیمنٹ ممبر سید علی یزدی خواہ

John McAfee, in one of his final messages to the world: "Is there a deep state? Yes. Can we fire these people? No. Can presidents fire them? No." "It's designed that way so that political parties and political interests cannot affect the deep state." "Do you understand the nightmare of our situation, people?" "Wake up people, please."

She brilliantly explained how to cultivate the mindset necessary for achieving unlimited success.

In 1983, Steve Jobs predicted the next 50 years of technology. His predictions: • iPhone • Internet • Softwares • App stores • Artificial Intelligence