Jacob Clayton

The US needs supply chain traceability infrastructure to achieve the objectives in the NSS. At today’s Hill & Valley Forum, @RepMoolenaar stressed: “The supply chain issues with rare earth and some of the critical minerals … [for] defense industrial base as well as the commercial supply chains are really important.” @jacobhelberg added: “Every layer of the supply chain has become a theater of strategic consequence, and every supply chain decision is a geopolitical decision.” He noted the minerals, ports, corridors, factories & energy assets powering global semiconductor & tech supply chains “must stay in trusted hands.” Time to build resilience. @SagintInc

60 MINUTES: Iran still has nearly 1,000 pounds of highly-enriched uranium — "enough material, if you enrich it just a little bit more, for 10-11 nuclear bombs." "Iran has been lying about its nuclear weapons effort for over 20 years now."

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.” — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

To address the financing for the reindustrialization - @SagintInc is tokenizing the supply chain for raw materials.

“Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight.”

Loved this video mashup. Good luck to all the entrepreneurs doing the hard, meaningful work of building! 1. Value is everything Build something people genuinely want, not something clever. A business only works if it creates value and can capture it. 2. Solve real, painful problems The strongest companies remove friction, save time, or eliminate frustration. If it feels optional, it likely is. 3. Distribution matters as much as product A great product without reach is invisible. Winning companies obsess over how they get in front of people. 4. Focus is a competitive advantage Most people dilute their energy. Great founders concentrate on a few high-leverage moves and ignore the rest. 5. Speed compounds Iteration beats perfection. Launch, learn, refine, repeat, faster than feels comfortable. 6. Simplicity scales The best businesses are easy to understand, easy to use, and easy to explain. Complexity is friction disguised as sophistication. 7. Mindset is not soft, it is structural Resilience, long-term thinking, and tolerance for discomfort are not personality traits, they are requirements. 8. Build for longevity, not noise Short-term hacks create spikes. Enduring companies are built on trust, brand, and consistency. 9. Leverage is the force multiplier that transforms effort into scale. Technology, media, capital, and people multiply output. The goal is not to work harder, but to work in systems that scale. 10. Execution is the separator Ideas are abundant. Relentless, disciplined execution is rare. The essence : find a meaningful problem, solve it simply, distribute it aggressively, and execute with focus over the long term.

.@POTUS: "Do not listen to the craven and cowardly voices who tell you America needs to think small, or to shrink from our duties or potential... We are the inheritors of the most incredible civilization that has ever existed, and our task is to defend it." 🇺🇸

Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz and the US Navy is still in position to blockade Iranian ports. The Iranian regime knows that it faces economic disaster if it does not accept President Trump's terms. The US is clearly in control.

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” — Leo Tolstoy

It's pretty much every day. You need an infinite well of "fuck you, watch me" energy to plow through.

Just left the From Mine to Motor panel at UGA @universityofga My take: “You can’t secure what you can’t trace. If we don’t know where a mineral came from or who touched it - that’s not a data gap, that’s a risk exposure.” The mine-to-motor chain needs verified, auditable provenance at every node. That’s what we’re building at @SagintInc

“To be happy you must eliminate two things: The fear of a bad future and The memory of a bad past.” —Seneca

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says an executive order mandating banks to collect citizenship information from their customers is “in process,” according to news outlet Semafor bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

In 2014, the same copper sitting in Qingdao port was pledged to multiple banks simultaneously. The atom was real. The bits were not. Hundreds of millions in losses. And nothing in the tokenization stack being built today would have caught it. The problem was never at the ledger level. It was in the space between the physical asset and the claim made against it. That space is Representation Risk. SAGINT® measures it before the default, not after.

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“But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.” -Teddy Roosevelt