James Kirk

I have a great idea. I am going to spend a trillion dollars so I can make $10 billion a year in profit, if all goes well. That’s a 1% annual return – IF it works out. Who’s in? Don’t worry about the risk that it might not work out!

We are witnessing a revolution in medicine driven by AI. Dreams are turning into reality right before our eyes. Obesity is becoming a problem of the past. Eli Lilly's triple agonist, retatrutide, melts fat away, and with it the many downstream consequences of obesity. Since the Industrial Revolution, obesity has grown into one of the most serious problems of modern civilization - and now it is being solved. Literally. Cancers that were once untreatable are becoming treatable thanks to new medicines: melanoma, pancreatic cancer, and many more. And that's before mentioning the other benefits of GLP-1 agonists, such as their anti-inflammatory effects. We are entering what Demis Hassabis calls the "golden age of science." Anyone willing to open their eyes can see it. Science is unfolding in all its potential right in front of us. I couldn't be happier, or more grateful - grateful to witness this.

The pilot of the USAF F-15E shot down over Iran had been shot down just weeks earlier by a Kuwaiti F/A-18C - The High Side

Never underestimate the power of a woman. 👇 When a man tried to rob a woman waiting alone for an Uber outside her apartment, he picked the wrong one. That woman was UFC fighter Polyana Viana. (This happened in January 2019) She dropped him with two punches, a kick, and choked him out until police arrived. This is the ultimate FAFO.

Men dodges arrows in shootout between tribes, Papua New Guinea 2025

To prepare for playing a 40 year old virgin, Steve Carell consulted me twice.

In 1904, Ota Benga was kidnapped from Congo and taken to the United States, where he was put on public display alongside monkeys. Benga, who was around 4 feet 11 inches tall, became a public attraction because of his appearance and filed teeth, which were part of a cultural tradition in his tribe. Zoo officials locked him inside a cage with an orangutan, forcing him to live and sleep beside the ape. They even gave him a functional bow and arrow so he could protect himself if necessary. However, he often used it on visitors who mocked him instead. After he was finally freed from the zoo, he desperately tried to find a way back home to Africa. But when World War I broke out, passenger ship travel across the ocean was halted. Realizing he would be trapped in America forever, Ota Benga took his own life in 1916.

A 12 year old boy was riding his bike when a neighbors dog charged him, tackled him off the bike, bit his shoulder, and nipped at him multiple times as he ran for safety. The dog also bit his ear. The boy needed stitches and is now traumatized. He is too scared to go outside or ride his bike. Metro Animal Services took the dog after the owners surrendered it but many people online claim the dog was just 'being playful'.

Never forget when Jim Cornette was terrified when the lights went out, after boasting that there was no viable contender for Yokozuna's WWF Title Then he turns around and The Undertaker appears That face to face between Taker and Yoko was insane 😭😭

Notes on 100+ Recent Technical Interviews I interview a ton of engineers. Recruiting is the single most important technical CEO activity. Here are a bunch of impressions 1. There is a severe ZIRP engineering overhang that is currently washing out. They're getting laid off, managed out, etc. after having been massively overhired around 2020-2022. This is worst for Tier-2 big tech (think PayPal, Bill, etc.) but also FAANGs. These are overwhelmingly bad engineers. 2. This flood of unqualified but good-on-paper candidates makes this the hardest SF hiring market I have ever seen, due to the amount of nominally strong-looking candidates that you need to grind through. 3. I am highly skeptical of "AI as a cause for engineering layoffs". I think this is a large-scale polite fiction -- the companies don't want to admit they overhired, the engineers don't want to admit they are bad at their jobs. Everyone's blaming AI when it's really just the market rectifying itself. 4. Many of these engineers appear never to have had a real engineering function at their corporations. They're sitting in meetings, "making decisions about technology" but are unable to write software. I leave many interviews baffled by what exactly they were doing for so many years, let alone what their manager was doing. 5. I have interviewed some engineers from FAANG companies so shockingly nontechnical that I am forced to conclude that there is either (1) a lot of resume fraud going on or (2) that there are kickback grifts within those organizations -- people hiring their cousins and splitting the pay, that kind of thing. I have no other explanation. 6. There's a fun side-effect where after interviewing 20+ people from certain small but public companies, I actually feel like I am gaining a short sellers' advantage: there are financial technology companies out there that, knowing what I now know, I would never deposit a single dollar into. 8. Based on this "exhaust" data, and extrapolating a little bit, maybe aggressively so: I think folks like @pmarca are basically right when they say that ~every tech company is overstaffed by a factor of 2-4x. Whatever the reason -- staffing ahead of need, monopolizing certain engineer types (Google-style), headcount-driven promotion incentives, the reality is that a lot of these companies are not being run for the shareholders. The aggregate SBC expense is insane, and I expect this is going to get rectified eventually. I'm sure that AI will play a role in rectifying this -- but I fear that people are going to blame AI for taking people's jobs when the reality is that the jobs were already long-gone, possibly always useless, but the highly-paid butts-in-seats remained. People will be mad at AI for taking away their lucrative sinecures. Maybe that's the same effect from a public policy perspective, but it feels different morally.

Lotta Harala 🇫🇮 Finnish hurdler.

The CEO of ServiceNow, just put $3 million of his own personal money into the stock. Bill McDermott also canceled his automatic stock-selling plan, the kind CEOs schedule months in advance to sell shares, and started actively buying instead. He believes it's "a once-in-a-generation moment." Four other ServiceNow executives followed suit.

There’s never a dull moment of CTA Blue Line, it’s catching up with the Red Line & quick.

Ladies, please stop doing this to yourselves. Who thinks this looks good?

81% on welfare. The other 19% own the companies billing Medicaid. Foreigners are stealing Americans’ birthright. This has to end. Our first hearing on Ohio’s Medicaid fraud scandal is tomorrow.

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that 1 year ago, on a Charlotte NC city bus... ...a White 64-year-old Navy Veteran was beaten and paralyzed by a Black man who broke his neck The veteran is a quadriplegic now. His attacker walked out of jail 3 months later.

Can you imagine getting a face lift and a week later you're in jail

To all young black men, the only thing awaiting you in a life of crime is being murdered on the streets or prison. I wish content like this became more viral to keep men out of the streets. Heed his warning or become his cellmate.

Neuralink is testing a device to help restore vision in people born blind Early human trials are expected late 2026

Being my Girl right now is like investing in Bitcoin back in 2009