Fans who managed to secure tickets in the scramble were celebrating on Friday, while those less fortunate tried not to feel too "paranoid".

I follow him down the wooden stairs as he heads off to find his old childhood bedroom in the basement. It's a neat guest room now, but young Bill spent hours, even days, in here "thinking", as his sisters put it.

Moving to a third world country puts the global financial system and the importance of self sovereignty into a perspective that would have been impossible for me to have if I had lived my entire life in the United States.

The Higher site goes so hard.

https://www.aimhigher.net/

So in the 12th century a Song emperor had to pay a nomad warlord in the north 100k “taels” of silver and 200k bolts of silk a year. He fomented revolt by a vassal warlord to main warlord to take him down. But new guy’s clan took over more territory and the capital and drove the Songs south and they then had to pay 200k taels, 250k bolts of silk. On a shrunken territory/tax base. 

Moral of the story. I don’t know. I’m not sure there’s one. Be a warlord rather than a Song emperor?

The history of China appears to be a history of paying off warlords who then kept coming back for more.

3 DJs I want to see live in 2025:
- Elderbrook
- Joris Voorn
- Anyma

Podcasts

Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Chris Paik is an investor and co-founder of Pace Capital.

Chris is all about intentionality and discovery.

He combines rigorous frameworks about incentives, people, and markets with an insatiable appetite for the new. He is a true original thinker.

We discuss his intentionality, approach to explanations, how culture follows a pendulum, the efficient market hypothesis and other frameworks for evaluating businesses and markets—including his newest on top-down vs. bottom-up companies, how he finds new stuff, the pros and cons of the internet and capitalism, Pace Capital’s values, and the inner-workings of Chris’s unusual mind.

Episode 6 is out now on all platforms, more links below: 

https://pods.media/dialectic/6-chris-paik-intentionally-in-search-of-the-new?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

Chris Paik on incentives, capital, systems, and power:

"The world has two sides: a for-profit world and a non-profit world. There are entities that are trying to drive profits, and there are entities that are not trying to drive profits (governments, religions).

For-profit companies are really good at pushing the world to the way that it will be. They are very bad at being paternalistic. They’ll give people exactly what they want.

The non-profit side is really good at pushing the world into how it should be. It’s really good at being paternalistic. We as individual actors depend on the systems to imbue society with paternalism."

receipts

yin yoga to finish the day! 

my body is feeling pretty good so i will head to the track tomorrow morning to see how my hip flexor responds to a track and gym session 

wish me luck🤞🏾

Memes

Zelensky likened Saturday's strike to "how Russia waged war against Chechnya decades ago. They killed Syrians the same way. Russian bombs destroy Ukrainian homes the same way".

politics

It’s wild that the don’t tread on me people are embracing Curtis Yarvin and authoritarianism. No consistency of thought

Consumers are gonna get rekt & it’s because Mr. Xi have even spoke to tariffs.

legal

That’s why you can incorporate in Texas with Skala.io. Adding Nevada and Wyoming next week.

🚨DELAWARE’S CORPORATE EMPIRE COLLAPSING—META IS NEXT TO FLEE

First Elon, then Ackman… now Zuckerberg. Reports say Meta is considering Texas for reincorporation, following a massive shake-up in Delaware’s once-stable business courts.

The trigger? Judge Kathaleen McCormick’s… https://t.co/ryWXfZ3pP2

Any lawyer still recommending incorporation in Delaware at this point should be sued for malpractice

Elon Musk

That’s why you can incorporate in Texas with Skala.io. Adding Nevada and Wyoming next week.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1885750647938760791?s=46

Founders

Added incorporation in Texas at Skala.io. Adding Wyoming and Nevada next week.

Added incorporation in Texas at Skala.io. Adding Wyoming and Nevada next week. 

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1885750647938760791?s=46

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Jo Toynbee

@jotoynbee