This is simultaneously a tremendous achievement (one light day is really far!) and a sobering realization that the universe is an incredibly vast place. In 50 years, Voyager has traveled ~1/1500th of the distance to the nearest star (Alpha Centauri, ~4.27 light years away).

This is one of the most ahead of the curve partnerships of this generation Joshua Kushner Sam Altman

History is defined by the materials we master. But the materials of the past cannot build the future. Radical AI is building scientific intelligence to autonomously discover and manufacture next-generation materials to solve the world's greatest challenges.

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Larry Page: Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it's very hard to fail completely. That's the thing that people don't get.

Flashback to chatting w/ Founders Fund's Luke Nosek when he led the first investment in SpaceX. From old PE Week Wire newsletter in 2008:

Yann LeCun explains that large language models are trained on about 30 trillion words, representing nearly all public internet text. He says it would take a human over 500,000 years to read that much. But a 4-year-old child sees just as much visual data in their first few years

Philosopher-Builder Reading List: Winter 2025/26 12 of the sharpest minds in our network give their recs and reflections ↓

A new meta-analysis on the impact of goal setting on performance found: 1. Process goals had a large effect on performance 2. Performance goals had a moderate effect 3. Outcome goals had a negligible effect

Am changing the Tesla mission wording from: Sustainable Abundance To Amazing Abundance

A Call for New Aesthetics: newaesthetics.art.

many such cases apparently x.com/geoffreywoo/st…

The end of the year is for reflection. After interviewing 75+ elite performers and reading hundreds of studies this year, here are... 25 lessons on peak performance for sport and life: 1. Do real things in the real world with real people. Your nervous system knows what’s fake

“Your job right now is very obvious. You need to build a seamless web of deserved trust with really high-quality people and talk to nobody else.” —Charlie Munger

seven year old musings on a summers day in Australia: "why are rivers called rivers and not 'ocean veins'?"

Insane that Berkshire stock could drop 99% and Buffett would still have outperformed the S&P 500 since he took over. Thank you Kevin Gee

What a privilege

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Cheetahman in waiting

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace…