81 now in San Antonio. So, a friendly reminder or if you just moved to Texas, we have the "12 Seasons of Texas". You are now partaking in "Fool's Spring".

Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make. paulgraham.com/taste.html

Sweden is committing more than €100 million to a sweeping classroom overhaul: replacing tablets and screens with traditional printed textbooks to help reverse falling student performance and sharpen focus. After more than a decade of embracing digital-first education, Swedish

deep self observation without judgment is the highest form of intelligence. aka true metacognition. it is also a very isolating experience.

"Be intelligent. Do something stupid. Live through that feeling of feeling more stupid after acting stupid until it starts feeling smart and insightful or, at least less stupid." -> Rinse and repeat multiple times through your lifetime. Core human experience. Of course AI can't

Daughters are no longer raised to be wives. They're raised to be people. And some people are really not okay with that. They're not being taught to sacrifice themselves for the comfort of others. Not being told that marriage is the finish line. Not being conditioned to make

if you strip away everything transitory, you’re kinda left with only one brutally simple question: can we actually talk? most ppl optimize for attraction, stability, shared goals, etc. but what if they are optimizing the wrong eigenvectors entirely? in its most primitive form

I’m in love with this sentence: “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

“Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with meaning.” This is a lovely point about the value of something we often deride as valueless, from Daniel Smith. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…

Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can't sit still. Your personality is

A Harvard neurologist once told her class something that made half the room laugh, until she showed the scans. "People who cry easily," she said,"have a faster emotional-processing loop than the general population." Their mirror-neuron system fires quicker, their insula lights up

it’s kinda crazy ppl don’t realize everything you ever encounter is a bundle of tradeoffs. products, people, etc. you buy into the whole package or you don’t. there’s no unbundled version waiting somewhere with the rough edges filed off. e.g. the reason apple products feel

[explaining the baghavad gita to a16z] so it’s kind of like a podcast, but they’re on a chariot

A large elephant herd of about 100 was seen swimming across the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India, navigating the waters at Nimati Ghat, a major river port

ai is exposing everyone right now & making legacy entities vulnerable af. even labs are having a tough time shipping features that feel really good end to end. most ppl fail to realize that the hard part of building ai stuff was never access to a good model, it's the

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT (who left us 19yrs ago today) was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

I want to see such indian content creators being celebrated, way more than we do. What an awesome way to remember formulas: Bam Bam Bhole , Sona Chandi Tole 🤩

the craziest part now is that the modern computer probably has to be entirely reinvented, from scratch. pretty much like how jobs & co brought apple ii to market. like not improved. not given a chatbot sidebar or something but really from the ground up like the iphone redefined

WATCH: Taiwanese grandmothers aged 89 and 91 train at the gym. An increasing number of elderly people in Taiwan’s super-aged society are hitting the gym to stay healthy, both physically and mentally.