Dr. Amit Monga

Gorgeous day to be at the Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden at @Stanford today #PaloAlto #Stanford

Travis Kalanick is back. After 8 years of building in stealth, he joins Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg to tell the story of his latest company, Atoms, and its vision to digitize the physical world one industry at a time: 01:32 The a16z & Uber backstory 15:36 Different companies, different rules 21:13 CloudKitchens origins 27:13 An $8 meal delivery 31:58 Building in private 34:59 Computing atoms, not bits 42:54 Autonomous mining 49:02 Ideas are cheap, founders are rare 56:21 From 20,000 employees to 6 1:00:32 Why food came first 1:10:40 Entering a new industry 1:20:21 Parallels to the Industrial Revolution 1:28:26 Who Travis is hiring @travisk @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg

Too many people are directionless, giving room for many forms of “ the answer” to their problems. Go to the gym. Don’t go to the gym. Only do compound exercises. Focus on HRV. Only walk but with a vest. Must sleep 8 hours. Must not oversleep. Must not under sleep. No meat. All meat. All veg. All farm to table. Organic is a scam. No alcohol. No sugar. Natural sugar only. No Rx drugs. Yes Rx drugs. Yes peptides. No peptides. No HRT. Yes HRT. At some point, we will all realize that none of these are the answer. You are looking to fill a hole because your current life has made you an NPC playing someone else’s game by their rules. It’s their game, not yours that is making you unhappy. Find your game and go play it. You’ll probably be happy as a result, do a bit of everything from the list above and will end up living to whatever you’re supposed to - very, very happily.

@chamath @bryan_johnson 💪💪

@bryan_johnson Challenging yourself, feeding yourself, growing yourself, crushing your enemies’ hopes and dreams.

Eager to hear your life advice. What should I be doing?

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Great article and work by the @Joe_Castaldo @globebusiness team

Inside the fastest-growing Canadian AI startup you’ve never heard of theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

@Sirupsen Thanks Simon - you inspire us all!

Globe&Mail wrote a generous piece about turbopuffer theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Ben Horowitz says Silicon Valley is hard to recreate because it requires talent, policy, and culture: "The first is you do need the talent... is there a great technical university that graduates people who know how to build things?" "Many countries have that, that don't have a Silicon Valley. And what are they missing? They're missing the other two components." "The second is, do you have a set of laws and policies that facilitate entrepreneurship, are essentially good for business?" "The third one... is the culture such that young people, the most capable young people willing to make the biggest contribution, do they get status, social status reward?" "That's the thing that's so hard to replicate, and it's so hard to build, and it's so easy to destroy." @bhorowitz

@EliotPence Love it! @EliotPence 💪💪🇨🇦

Be extreme, Canada.  That is not an ideological plea, but an appeal to a forgotten inheritance and a hope that we find it within ourselves to be extreme, again. It is a recognition that to be Canadian is to hold two opposing truths in your mind at once: Canadians are mild and moderate but Canada itself is harsh and brutal. F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas at the same time and still retain the ability to function. Canada is that test, made manifest. Canada is not gentle. It is not mild. It is not moderate. It is extreme in scale. Extreme in climate. Extreme in beauty. Extreme in wealth—of resources, of land, of possibility. It is a country that demands resilience from those who inhabit it, whether they admit it or not. And so we arrive at the paradox: a people perceived as restrained, living within a landscape that is anything but. This is not a contradiction. This is the source of Canadian genius. Because what emerges from this tension is not weakness. It is control. It is discipline. It is a quiet form of ambition that does not need to announce itself to be real. It’s breaking your leg, helping your team score 6 goals and waving to the crowds as you’re carted out on a stretcher. To be a Canadian extremist, then, is to embrace both halves fully. It is to reject the caricature of smallness while also rejecting the need for bluster. It is to understand that politeness is not passivity, and that restraint is not the absence of ambition, but often its most disciplined expression. It is to build in a way that reflects the land itself: vast in scope, resilient in structure, and uncompromising in its standards. Canada does not need to become something else to compete. It does not need to abandon its character to achieve scale. The path forward is not to resolve the contradiction, but to lean into it—to recognize that the tension between humility and enormity is precisely what makes this country capable of extraordinary things. The nations that shape history are often the ones that understand their extremes. Canada’s mistake has been to ignore its own. I am a Canadian extremist because I refuse to.

Great round at @TPC_Toronto five days after the @RBCCanadianOpen @PGATOUR #Golf

BREAKING: Luxury home sales in Greenwich, CT are set to break all previous records this year The trend is being attributed to the historic stock market rally

This is the 4 a.m. routine for the agronomy team at the U.S. Open. “It wakes you up. That way when you’re communicating for the job, you’re a little more receptive to it. You have a chance to shake off some of the cobwebs you may have.” (h/t @GOLF_com)

Not a bad place to win your first pro event....

⁦Looking forward to the final round @thegenesisinv⁩ ⁦@PGATOUR⁩ #HogansAlley #LA #Riviera #Golf

Focus on what you can control. Build something, anything. A product, yourself, a family, your community, a team, a company or organization, relationships. Or help someone else do it. Don't complain or be a victim, ever. #PlayNiceButWin

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Live reaction from Kat Morikawa as her husband wins for the first time in 2+ years.

Another name etched into Pebble Beach history. Congrats, @collin_morikawa 🏆