Steve Garguilo

I must have this hat.

🚨 Jamie Dimon explains why people are leaving New York "Our head count in Manhattan when I got to JPMorgan was 35,000 and now is 26,000. Our head count in Texas started at 11,000, now it's 33,000. That's what happens." Jamie Dimon on why companies are leaving New York: "Highest individual taxes, highest estate taxes, highest corporate taxes, anti-business sentiment." "When I grew up as a kid in New York City, there were 120 of the Fortune 500 headquarters there. In the 1970s, 60 of the 120 left, including Exxon, GE, IBM, Union Carbide. They're all going to Texas." The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 @HillValleyForum @jpmorgan @ChairmanG

Happy Opening Day Colorado!

A+ thread imo.

We offered $5,000 to whichever employee got the most engagement on LinkedIn in a single quarter. $2,500 for second. $1,500 for third. Plus $500 for anyone who published 20+ times. The result: 24 employees published 581 posts in 85 days. 43,000+ reactions. 28,000+ comments. 34,000+ new followers. 27 new clients signed. $153,000 in new MRR. I remember one guy from our team had less than 1,000 followers when the competition started. Today? 10,000+ followers. The total prize pool cost us about $15K. The return was $153K per month. Every month. Recurring. People need a reason to do things that aren't in their job description. Cash works.

Number of 80°+ days in March in Denver: 1972-2025: 7 days 2026: 8 days #COwx

This guy's sitting in a shopping mall controlling a real excavator. This isn't AI. It's not a simulation. It's a real excavator in a different place just using cameras. Here's my idea: - Rent an excavator - Rent some land somewhere very cheap - Get a one-month lease at a mall kiosk or booth. This is possible. I've done it. Then you test this exact concept. If it goes well, sign a longer-term lease for less money per month. I promise you this could work. Men like me would pay stupid amounts of money to be able to do this. And you have the great combo of using very cheap land and equipment. Also, you'll want to buy the equipment once you prove the model because it's pretty expensive per day to rent. But then you combine it with the high foot traffic of a mall and the short-term one-month lease. How much would you pay to virtually operate this for an hour?

Chick-fil-A is offering free ice cream to families who agree to put their phones away during their meal, as part of an effort to encourage more face-to-face time and less screen use at the table.

Per @IQAir: Denver air quality is now 7th-worst in the world, just behind Delhi, India #COwx

This startup lets you ORDER SUNLIGHT from space to your exact location in 30 seconds 😭

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽‍♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.

Your brain at 2 AM writing a paper you started at 10 PM is operating in a neurochemical state that most productivity systems spend thousands of dollars trying to replicate. Sleep deprivation suppresses your prefrontal cortex. That's the region responsible for self-criticism, second-guessing, and the voice that says "this paragraph isn't good enough." At 2 AM, that voice goes quiet. Not because you've achieved some zen state. Because the hardware running it is shutting down for the night and you won't let it. Meanwhile the deadline is dumping norepinephrine and cortisol into your system, which narrows your attention to a single point. Your brain physically cannot multitask in that state. No checking your phone. No opening a new tab. The stress response has commandeered every available resource and pointed it at the Google Doc. Lowered inhibition plus chemically forced single-task focus. That combination is almost identical to what Csikszentmihalyi documented across 30 years of flow state research. Clear goal, immediate feedback, challenge matched to skill. A 12-page paper due in 8 hours hits all three criteria by accident. The lo-fi beats matter more than people think. Repetitive audio at 60-70 BPM synchronizes with resting heart rate and suppresses novelty-seeking circuits. You stop hearing it within minutes. It becomes an auditory wall that blocks interruption without costing you any cognitive load. It's the cheapest sensory deprivation chamber ever built. And the black coffee at midnight is pharmacologically different from your morning cup. Your adenosine levels have been building all day, so the caffeine is fighting a much stronger sleep signal. The subjective experience of "wired but calm" at 1 AM is a different drug interaction than alert-at-9-AM. Same molecule, completely different neurochemical environment. Every semester, twice a semester, four years straight. That's 40 sessions of accidental deep work before anyone had a name for it. The grade was an A- because the conditions were perfect. Not despite the chaos. Because of it.

This is totally insane. A war correspondent just received death threats from online gamblers who wanted him to change his reporting on an Iranian missile strike so they could collect a payout. One bettor had $900,000 riding on the outcome. He told the journalist he knew where he lived and who his family members were.  This is what prediction markets on life and death actually look like in practice. This is exactly why I introduced the DEATH BETS Act with Senator @AdamSchiff. The DEATH BETS Act would ban contracts on assassinations, deaths of world leaders, and acts of war on platforms like Polymarket. This story shows exactly why that matters.  When you let people place million-dollar bets on whether a missile kills someone, you create a financial incentive to threaten journalists, manipulate information, and profit from human suffering. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

> a founder loses a close friend to depression > spends a year studying neuroscience to understand the problem > builds a hardware startup from scratch to solve it > partners with Harvard Medical School to validate the approach > raises $ 2.1M to bring it to life > ships a product that shows a 72% remission rate in 12 weeks now he’s turning it into a company to help millions this is insane.

LFG 🇺🇸

The Atlantic has a sobering, first-person look at the ramifications of legalized online sports betting. Here are a few of the more telling passages. 1/5

You can just do things (genetically sequence your dog’s tumors and design a bespoke mRNA cancer vaccine to save her life)

this is very cool... make $1M by graduation or your high school tuition is free. This would have been incredible for me as a high schooler the job description:

@NikkiHillPhD @Society4Science If he ever needs anything anytime, happy to help any way I can or connect him to others in my network. Can’t wait to see what’s next for him!

@sdgarguilo @Society4Science The entire experience of finalists week - and of course the awards ceremony - was life changing for him. We're so grateful. Connor has been so warmly celebrated by his school (go Delta!), family, and friends. Thank you for the offer, though, and I will show him this post! :)

17-year-old from State College, PA won the prestigious $250,000 @Society4Science award last night! Incredible!