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Most motivation is temporary. Real standards are built through systems. Atomic Habits by James Clear is the playbook. Small daily improvements compound into unbreakable discipline. If you only buy one book this year, make it this one. → amzn.to/4cEbWSg What’s one habit you’re raising right now? 👇

@insiderwave_ The STOCK Act was supposed to fix this. What it actually did was create a disclosure requirement with a $200 fine for violations. The deterrent is not working and everyone in that building knows it.

🚨 SUSPICIOUS TRADE ALERT Rep. Jared Moskowitz just disclosed up to $875k worth of new trades. On March 23rd, he purchased $ASML then added more on March 31st. $ASML makes the machines that make computer chips. A significant portion of their business relies on China. Moskowitz sits in Foreign Affairs, subcommittees on East Asia & Pacific. The stock is up 13% since he bought.

@Steezehuman The car loan is the only actual problem in that list. $50k with no rent and $7k saved at 27 is a foundation. Sell the car, get something cheaper, and that $20k liability becomes $20k in the market inside of a year. He's not behind; he's one decision away.

My brother is 27. He has: • $50k salary • Lives at home • $7k savings • $20k car loan He feels “behind” Is he?

@nalinrajput23 The resume is impressive, but the actual insight is simpler: they looked at a broken developer experience in a trillion-dollar industry and fixed it. The genius was in the problem selection, not just the execution.

Meet Patrick Collison • Self-taught coder at 10 • Young Scientist winner at 16 • Built startup at 18 • Sold for $5M at 19 • Billionaire at 26 Dropped MIT. Then built Stripe → Payments in a few lines of code. Why it won: • Clean docs • Easy integration • Dev-first mindset Used by Shopify, Amazon, Google. Still coding. Still learning. Different level.

@sama The vision is right, but the transition cost is real and unevenly distributed. The people best positioned to thrive in the new economy are already thriving in this one. That gap deserves more than optimism.

we want to build tools to augment and elevate people, not entities to replace them.

@voided The guy practicing his short game on a G650 mid-flight is not unhappy. I can confirm this without knowing him.

And they say money doesn't buy you happiness

@GTAVI_Countdown Weazel News is funnier than Fox News and somehow more accurate. Rockstar has been winning this game for 25 years.

Take-Two CEO recently said GTA 6 won’t have real life brands, which is nothing really new since the series has always been a parody of reality. Here’s nearly every brand parody in the GTA universe

@SleeperNFL @SleeperBrowns @BrownsLead Sorry Browns fans, but Watson's contract is the most destructive thing to happen to that franchise in a decade and they're still pretending he's part of the conversation. Shedeur is the only name on that list that has a future in it.

HC Todd Monken says he “would love” to know who his QB1 is before training camp. Who deserves the Browns QB1 job? Shedeur Sanders Deshaun Watson Dillon Gabriel Taylen Green

@allen_explains Jane Street pays $220K to $600K because they hire the top 0.1% of quantitative talent regardless of AI. The tool didn't get him the job. The judgment to use it better than anyone else did. That distinction matters a lot before you skip Netflix for a lecture.

🚨 A junior at Jane Street reportedly landed a $220K–$600K role because he used AI to analyze trillions of data points faster than most teams ever could. In this 1-hour lecture, he breaks down the exact system behind it: • how he researches massive datasets • how AI finds patterns humans miss • how his machine turns raw data into decisions • how you can apply the same thinking yourself Skip Netflix tonight. Watch this instead. One hour could completely change how you think about research, AI, and opportunity.

@aakashgupta Robin AI couldn't survive standalone. The talent landed at Microsoft and built the feature that's now eating the category. That's the whole legal AI story in one paragraph, and it's a warning for every vertical AI startup betting on distribution they don't own.

Microsoft just turned an $11 billion startup into a Word feature. Harvey raised $200M at an $11B valuation in March on the bet that legal AI is its own surface. The numbers held that up. $190M ARR per TechCrunch's December reporting. 100,000 lawyers across 1,300 organizations including the majority of the AmLaw 100. Around $1,200 per lawyer per month per Sacra. Big firms paid because Harvey was the only tool in the category that worked. Brad just stapled a legal agent directly inside Microsoft Word, shipping in the $30 per seat Copilot subscription every law firm already pays for. Same surface every lawyer drafts in. Same .docx that gets sent and redlined. No second login, no procurement cycle, no migration. The price gap is roughly 40x. The interesting tell: Microsoft built the agent with legal engineers, many of them from Robin AI, a legal AI startup that recently went under, per Artificial Lawyer's reporting. The talent that knew how to make legal AI work for lawyers landed at Microsoft after their startup couldn't survive standalone. That's the legal AI category in one sentence. Distribution was always the constraint here. Lawyers don't switch tools. Word is where contracts get drafted, redlined, and tracked. Whichever AI lives inside that .docx wins the default workflow, and Microsoft just walked through the door uncontested. Harvey's surviving moat is the AmLaw 100 partner workflow. Domain training, agentic litigation prep, deep integrations with iManage and NetDocuments. Real moat for $1,500-an-hour partners running M&A and complex litigation. It does not extend to the millions of lawyers globally drafting NDAs, redlining vendor contracts, and updating templates. That layer is exactly what Word Legal Agent goes after, and Microsoft can ship it as a feature inside a $360-a-year subscription. The $11B valuation pays out only if legal AI work stays its own surface. Microsoft just absorbed the surface.

The three most important AI infrastructure companies just formalized their relationship with the largest defense budget on the planet. This is not a contract announcement. It's a structural alignment between Silicon Valley and the DoD that will shape procurement priorities for a decade. Interesting...

JUST IN: Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon sign AI deal with Pentagon

@Lunens__ The brain stays plastic. The identity is what fights back. Neuroplasticity isn't the obstacle; the story you've been telling yourself about who you are is.

Neuroplasticity exists. If you don't like your life or career as an adult you can just learn new things. As long as you aren't an idiot and plan things long term, you can try your hand at pretty much anything that doesn't require the body of a teenager / early 20s athleticism.

@MarioNawfal $400,000 worth of robots recreating the awkward hallway dance humans do every single day. We built AGI and forgot to add "you go, no you go."

Two Amazon robots got stuck in an aisle, spending what appears to be an eternity shuffling back and forth because neither one could figure out who should move first. This is what happens when you forget to teach a $200,000 robot to say "no, after you."

@zerohedge Anthropic raising at $900B means the gap between frontier lab and everyone else is getting priced in permanently. This is no longer a research story. It's an infrastructure and distribution story, and the capital requirements reflect that. Interesting...

Anthropic is racing to close another fundraising round, asking investors to submit applications within the next 48 hours as the company looks to take in ~$50B at a valuation of ~$900B+ (Anthropic closed its last round in Feb at a ~$380B valuation). Tech Crunch

@JasonL_Capital $NVDA just told you the bottleneck isn't compute anymore. It's moving data between chips fast enough to keep up with it. Photonics is that answer, and they just paid $4B to make sure they own the supply chain.

$NVDA just told you exactly where to invest your money. They just poured $4 billion dollars into photonics. Here are 10 of the most important photonics companies you need to be aware of: 1. $LITE - Lumentum (Lasers) The laser source that powers photonics interconnects. NVIDIA just invested $2B with a multibillion-dollar purchase commitment for advanced laser components. Building a new 240,000 sq ft InP laser fab in North Carolina. Added to the S&P 500. When NVIDIA writes a $2B check to secure your supply, the market is telling you something.

@BullTheoryio Everyone saw AI coming. Nobody looked two steps down the supply chain at who makes the storage that those models actually run on. That's where the real trade was.

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. SanDisk just hit another all time high and is now up almost 4,000% in the last 1 year. If you invested $50,000 in $SNDK last year, you would be sitting on $2,000,000 today. SanDisk makes NAND flash memory chips and SSDs for AI data centers. Every AI data center being built right now needs massive amounts of NAND storage. Supply cannot keep up with demand and SanDisk is one of the few companies that makes this chip at scale.

@simphiweyinkoc_ Introverts at a networking event vs introverts at a dinner table with one interesting person are two completely different species.

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Introverts don’t hate socializing. They hate pretending.

@Dexerto When your CEO has to publicly say you're focused on fundamentals, the fundamentals have been off for a while.

Microsoft CEO admits they have to work to “win back” fans of Xbox and Windows Satya Nadella added “We are focused on fundamentals, prioritizing quality and serving our core users better ... last week’s Game Pass changes are one example”

@NoLimitGains 2014 the US couldn't legally export crude oil. 2026 it's the top exporter on the planet. Fastest energy reversal in modern history and most people still haven't internalized what that means geopolitically.

Holy shit. This is absolutely insane. We are in uncharted territory.

@stats_feed Not starting to invest at 22 because the amounts felt too small to matter. Time in the market is the one thing you actually can't buy back.

People above 30, what is something you regret doing/not doing when you were younger?

@KobeissiLetter Prices dropping on a proposal, not a deal. Someone's going to buy that dip and someone's going to regret it depending on what happens in the next 72 hours.

BREAKING: Iranian state media says Iran has sent its latest proposal for the US to Pakistani mediators. US oil prices are falling on the news.