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OMG, this is the most pivotal moment in trucking history since Deregulation. It could be an extinction event for 30-50% of all freight brokers. Matt Lefler and I will be on the air at 11AM ET to discuss. Live, streaming on X.

Sam Altman: “No matter how great your idea is, no one cares.” Sam is asked what a founder should do if they have an idea but don’t want to talk about it because a big company might steal it. He responds: “Here is one of the things that takes founders a long time to learn: No matter how great your idea is, no one cares. Everybody is so distracted that you could probably put that idea with exact instructions for how to implement it on Tim Cook’s desk and take no risk.” Sam continues: “Extreme secrecy among founders is a bad sign. You want to keep some things secret for sure, but you should be willing to talk about the broad sketches of what you’re doing because you need that to recruit people, to get investors, to get customers.” Talking about your idea is also how you get feedback from other really smart people. Sam gives his own experience with Y Combinator as an example: “We at YC talk about everything we do. We talk about how to operate. We give our best possible advice. I have given talks before to rooms of people that want to start accelerators. And I say: ‘If you want to start an accelerator, here is exactly what to do step by step, and here are the mistakes to avoid step by step.’ And people always say, ‘Are you crazy? You’re giving away YC secrets.’ And we are, and yet no one ever listens… It was hard for me to learn this lesson of not fearing this… But don’t be afraid of telling people what you do.”

Chaos erupts at Guadalajara International Airport in Jalisco, Mexico, as the CJNG Cartel launches attacks outside and potentially inside the airport, as retaliation for today’s successful elimination of CJNG leader El Mencho.

🇺🇸 MOVE TO AUSTIN - BEFORE YOUR LANDLORD STARTS CHARGING FOR “NATURAL LIGHT” Welcome to Austin, where the yoga mats are eco-friendly, the brisket is religion, and the guy next to you in line for tacos might be a VC, a DJ, or both. If you’re still clinging to your rent-controlled shoebox in SF or some East Village walk-up with “character” (read: black mold), it’s time to admit it - you’ve lost the plot. Austin isn’t up-and-coming anymore. It’s up-and-arrived. And not just because Joe Rogan bought a compound or Elon sends rockets from down the road. It’s because every halfway clever, vaguely ambitious person from New York, LA, London, and anywhere else with outrageous taxes and zero parking is doing the same thing: packing a Peloton and moving south. Yes, we get it - you loved your coastal bubble. The overpriced matcha, the performative wokeness, the monthly rent that costs more than your parents’ mortgage. But deep down, you know it’s unsustainable. And as much as you sneered at Texas in 2015, you're now asking which neighborhood is “like Silver Lake but with more paddleboarding.” Here’s the dirty little secret: it keeps getting better. Every year, more world-class chefs, coders, artists, and ex-bankers-turned-ceramicists show up. That “Keep Austin Weird” sticker isn’t ironic - it’s prophetic. Because this city doesn’t just tolerate your quirks. It profits from them. The bars are still cheap, the music is still live, and the startups are still hiring. You can walk your dog past a crypto VC’s house and a backyard punk show in the same block. It's Soho House meets dive bar energy. With heatstroke. Of course, the locals will grumble. “Y’all are ruining Austin.” Maybe. But they’re also selling their bungalows to you for $2.3M and retiring in Dripping Springs, so let’s not cry too hard. Gentrification guilt comes free with your Topo Chico. So, should you move to Austin? Only if you like good food, good weather, and the smug satisfaction of knowing you got out of your dying megacity before it turned into a Netflix dystopia.

Uber drivers are reportedly avoiding passengers so that rides get canceled, allowing them to earn payment while saving on fuel. These people should lose their jobs.