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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? 👇

@OpenAI 2x faster API revenue growth than any prior launch combined with Codex doubling in a week tells you two things: enterprises are off the sidelines and the coding agent category just became the most contested space in AI.

One week since the launch of GPT-5.5, and it’s already our strongest model launch yet. API revenue is growing more than 2x faster than any prior release, while Codex doubled revenue in under seven days as enterprise demand for agentic coding tools keeps climbing.

Comfort is the silent killer of potential. The workout hurts. Saying no to distractions feels bad. Cold showers suck. That's exactly why they work.

@VastoLorde95 15 years of tech debt cleared by 16 people in 6 weeks. Most companies schedule a meeting about scheduling a meeting about that problem. Impressive execution regardless of what you think about the platform.

The migration in numbers: - Team of 16 engineers worked over 6 weeks. - We reduced our footprint from 6M CPU cores, to just 10k cores. - We are now using the same Grok-based transformer models that power your home timeline. - Eliminated 15 years of tech debt - replaced 1M LOC of Scala with just 50k LOC of Rust and Python

@metzgov Bought it reluctantly. Used it skeptically. Posting about it voluntarily. They got us all.

this post influenced me to purchase a Brick and after using it for a few weeks….. same

@jonbrooks $1,500 a month difference between renting and owning the same house is not a sentiment problem. That's a structural problem and buyers are the only ones being honest about it.

The math broke. You can rent the same house for $2,500… Or buy it for $4,000/month. Buyers aren’t stupid. They’re waiting.

@5149jamesli The Doritos parallel is exactly right. Price elasticity is real and consumer patience has a ceiling. Starbucks is finding out where that ceiling is in real time and the traffic numbers are already telling the story.

If people pay $9 for a coffee, they will sell you a $9 coffee. Recently PepsiCo had to lower the price of Doritos because they kept increasing their prices and people finally had enough and stopped buying it. The easy solution here is stop going to Starbucks. Simple as that.

@redbull Finding out why the blueberry Red Bull got discontinued and filing a formal complaint with whoever made that call.

what are you working on right now?

@PronkDaniel Went to buy a Subaru and accidentally unlocked an employee discount via financial literacy content. That's a new one.

My wife is getting a new car. At the dealership today, one of the salesman walked up to me and asked if I'm Daniel Pronk. He then proceeded to freak out and said he's been watching my channel forever, and has grown a $300K portfolio by consistently investing. It's still crazy to believe that the content I make in my house actually impacts people in the real world I'm just a regular guy sharing my passion. I'm really no different than anyone else. But it's fun when people recognize me and say hello. Also, I'm hopefully going to save a few bucks on her new Subaru 🤣🙏👌

@AdamSchefter Minicamp tryout after two years out of the league is a long shot but Claypool at full potential was a genuine weapon. Green Bay has nothing to lose by finding out if that version still exists.

Green Bay once had an interest in trading for Chase Claypool.

The carve-out for US-built plants is the actual policy signal here. This isn't just a tariff, it's a manufacturing relocation ultimatum. BMW already builds in South Carolina. Volkswagen has a Tennessee plant. The question is whether European automakers accelerate that shift or retaliate first.

BREAKING: President Trump announces he is raising tariffs on cars and trucks coming into the US from the EU to 25%. President Trump says this is due to the EU "not complying with out fully agreed to trade deal."

@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