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“Rockefeller would focus in on the highest priority. When he gets into the oil refining business it has no barriers to entry. It costs $1000 to start a refinery and only requires a few people to run it. And one thing he notices is that transportation is the largest expense. It costs more to ship a barrel of oil, than to refine it. So if transportation is your highest priority that means the location of your refinery is key. 

The site that he chose was genius. He selected a location that was next to both the railroad and on the banks of a river. Why? Shipping by water was 50% cheaper than shipping by rail.  If something is your top priority you should spend the majority of your time thinking about how to develop an edge there.” —From episode 405 “How Rockefeller Worked”

Michael Caine es un maestro total, y aquí está dando una lección👌 Impresionante ♥️

AI chatbot therapy is growing fast. But it’s also facing pushback — including in Latin America — over mental health risks and privacy. When you share personal thoughts with AI, what happens to them? I asked my chatbot. 🎬 Produced with my friend and creative partner @iqblanco

Would you search for water in a desert? Not unless you’re an AI data center. Huge shout-out to @iqblanco for producing this first LatAm Prompt video. 🎥More to come! Read & Subscribe here latamprompt.substack.com/p/burning-wate… Read the El País story english.elpais.com/technology/202… @dandiba @pjarandia

This makes a lot of sense.

Today in 1945, George Orwell published a devastating critique of Communism. Animal Farm reveals why every communist revolution follows the same tragic pattern: liberation to corruption to oppression. Here are 10 truths from Animal Farm Orwell warned us never to forget 🧵👇🏼

10. The working class’s loyalty becomes their exploitation Boxer, the hardworking cart horse whose mottos are “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right,” collapsed from overwork. Instead of retirement, Napoleon sells him to a glue factory for whiskey money while telling the animals he died in a hospital.

¿CÓMO LO PODEMOS RESOLVER? 👮‍♂️🕺🎶 youtu.be/cyE4l-JuXP8?si…

This clip by Ezra Klein for the New York Times Opinion Desk is well worth 7 minutes of your time, because it challenges your thinking regardless of which side of the fence you sit on. My position has always has been and remains, that this story may be like crack cocaine to those who can’t live a day without outrage, but to many who have been the victims of such abuse, they are being forced to relive it every day for nothing but political point scoring and social voyeurism. This is going to go on and on, because people are making money from it while victims of abuse retreat into their nightmares and nobody gives a damn. It sickens me as the father of a daughter who has lived this nightmare. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNdmYFdwb/

This Hank Aaron tribute is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen at a professional sporting event. Wow.

no one does transitions like park chan-wook

Anyone else?

This video alone has 3.2 million views on TikTok that is how you win by earning hearts of young gen - Zohran Mamdani

We need a champion for those who have been attacked, smeared, and taken for granted by an authoritarian regime. Leo Martinez has the right experience to represent #VA11 in Congress and carry the torch forward for everyone who calls Virginia home.

@OrlvndoA Jala Bola, Orlan Do

Hace 80 años se logró la paz en Europa bombardeando Berlín.

Thank you to Gaby, co-owner of @ArepaZone, for sharing your story of how you are creating jobs and bringing a taste of Venezuela to Fairfax County and the DMV area. Immigrants like Gaby make our communities stronger and contribute millions to Virginia’s economy.

Popular wisdom, #VA11 #NoKingsProtest

As someone who has lived through authoritarianism, this brings bad memories. It’s time to speak up and denounce this abuse of power by Trump and his cronies. @AlexPadilla4CA is a friend, and a fighter. Your voice won’t be silenced by this coward attack. We’ve got your back.

@OrlvndoA Tú si eres jalabola

La culpa la tiene la tiranía de Maduro, que ha entregado pasaportes a terroristas de Hezbollah para viajar por el mundo, que ha alentado la dispersión de bandas criminales y que emite pasaportes a discreción, sobre todo a su gente —mientras se los anula a los buenos. La culpa la tiene el venezolano que asesinó a Laken Rilley, o a Jocelyn Nungaray. La culpa la tiene el venezolano detenido en Connecticut por traficar armas o los venezolanos que alquilaron ilegalmente motos de agua en Texas, que resultó en la muerte de una chica. La culpa la tiene el tuerto Andrade, que lavó miles de millones de dólares de PDVSA en EEUU. La culpa la tiene Alex Saab, que también delinquió en EEUU. La culpa la tiene el régimen, la corrupción, la persecución y el asesinato, que provocó la mayor crisis migratoria del hemisferio Occidental. Que hizo que Venezuela fuera peor que Burundi o Haití. Si usted quiere culpar a un Gobierno, legítimamente constituido, que ejerce libremente su soberanía, usted es víctima de su cautiverio ideológico. Pero además, usted está exculpando a los verdaderos responsables: al venezolano malandro, en todas sus presentaciones, hijo predilecto del chavismo.