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On this day in 1995: the first item was purchased on Amazon. It was a book on artificial intelligence.

The average cost of building a home gym has increased by more than 95% over the past 10 years. That means a 2015 budget of $2,500 would require over $4,800 to build the same gym today. This doesn't even factor in the cost of the home needed to house the gym.

“Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day should become the new 10,000 daily steps — a basic foundation of activity to maintain cognitive fitness.” nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opi…

The sign of being a great entrepreneur is not how good your ideas are. It's how clever you can be about figuring out quick, cheap, and easy ways to try them.

En marzo de 1983, con 21 y 23 años de edad, abrimos nuestra primera heladería en 9 de Octubre y Carchi con el nombre Il Gelato Italiano. Hoy con la marca Heladerías “Sorbetto”, llevamos 43 años de heladeros.

#Empresariodelaño | “Nuestro modelo digital, sin sucursales y sin comisiones ocultas, les ha ahorrado a nuestros clientes casi 30 mil millones de dólares en comisiones bancarias desde que empezamos la compañía. Les ahorró también más de 645 millones de horas de espera en filas durante los últimos siete años”, dijo David Vélez Osorno, CEO de Nu Holdings LTD

Jeff Bezos just identified the most expensive bureaucratic failure in the American economy. It fits in one sentence. Bezos: “Why does it take months and months and months to get a building permit? It doesn’t make any sense.” It doesn’t make any sense because a building code is not a judgment call. It is an algorithm. And algorithms should be executed by machines. Bezos: “Miami should have an AI application that reads your building permit for a new house or a new building and it should give you a yes or a no in ten seconds.” Ten seconds. Not three months. Not six weeks. Not whenever the reviewer clears their backlog. Bezos: “If the answer is no, it should tell you the six things you have to change to get a yes.” No ambiguity. No interpretation. No bureaucratic delay dressed up as due diligence. Just a deterministic feedback loop compressing months of institutional friction into a single automated decision. We are competing against sovereign adversaries deploying gigawatt data centers and scaling physical infrastructure at a pace that does not stop to ask permission. And we are losing ground to countries that never needed to. The AI arms race is not only fought in data centers. It is fought in the gap between when someone decides to build something and when the government allows it. Every month this system runs on biological speed is a month that cannot be recovered. The governments that integrate AI into their core civic functions will trigger a wave of physical development the old world could never produce. The ones that refuse will still be reviewing the same forms a decade from now. While the cities that said yes are already living inside the future they built. The bottleneck was never ambition. It was always the man holding the rubber stamp deciding when ambition was allowed to begin. And the stamp is just a rubber version of the algorithm that should have been running this whole time.

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This is one of the most important ideas for founders. Don't hedge. You have one life. Do the thing you *actually* want to do. And do it now. Even if you don't think you're ready: @brian_armstrong

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

Carlos Cueva González: ‘No se puede ser un buen empresario si no se busca, primero, ser una buena persona’ ow.ly/M29K50YimL6

Adults who don’t engage in strength training stand to lose five to 10 per cent of their muscle mass per decade. But an over-fixation on heavy weights can distract from the most important drivers of health. So, is it worth it? ft.trib.al/0IWh7fa

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For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.

Innumerables veces vimos a Messi hacer este gol, pero no deja de ser fascinante la soltura con la que lo hace. El argentino, con su marca personal en el amistoso contra Barcelona de Guayaquil.

The greatest example of natural selection in the wild is people who lost thousands of dollars buying jpegs on the internet

X is full of high performers. It blows my mind that it’s not also full of home gyms. If time is more valuable to you than money, you should have a home gym. It’s that simple.

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