Truth can sometimes be distasteful, and that's good. 💯

Our newsletter aggregating all the key quotes from this week's earnings calls is ready & will be sent out tomorrow morning at 7am ET.

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Here is a snippet of it:

Larry Page: 'Google..is the number ‘1’ followed by 100 zeros. We were trying to come up with a name. We were confused about how to spell this &so we actually spelled it incorrectly. It is a mathematical term & it is spelled g-o-o-g-o-l. So that is the right way Google is spelled'

This great invention called a transistor received little attention when it was launched in 1948:

'The New York Times buried the story on page 46. Time magazine did better, reporting the invention under the headline 'Little Brain Cell''

My newest project: a GPT extension that blends tech with curated insights from BeSci to tackle real-world challenges. It’s all about making theories actionable, from improving decision-making to designing a well-crafted nudge. #BehavioralScienceBot
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An early look at next week's earnings:

$GS $MS $BAC $UNH $ASML $INFY $AA $ISRG $OTRK $NOK $JNJ $BK $FBK $PLD $LBRT $KEY $ALK $ELV $AXP $DFS $TCBI $IBKR $PNC $GNTY $LVS $UAL $KMI $CSX $NOK $TSM $MTB $ABT $TRV $SCHW $OMC $SNV $ALYY $PPG $INSE $JBHT $WIT $SLB $NFLX $USB

Every newsletter becoming a podcast 😉

One of Sweden's most stable banks that has been around for 150+ years.

The bank had an interesting approach to serving customers:

Introducing delve.vc to invest in founders with stellar vocabulary.

Time to delve into the frequency of word usage around the world.

'We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content'
― Émile Zola

That felt insanely good! We finished the story 😎

Just feels like the start of a brand new era for WWE under Triple H & TKO.

#WrestleManiaXL

Look here, we are all trying to figure out this adulting thing so be kind when we make mistakes.

We are trying our best I assure you. 😎

The cool #WrestleManiaXL visual of the Rock: 🔥 🎯

'Google is looking at options including adding certain AI-powered search features to its premium sub services...[its] traditional search engine would remain free of charge, while ads would continue to appear alongside search results even for subscribers'

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Perfectly peaceful away from market noise 😎

My favorite ever riff / slam poetry is from Taylor Mali Taylor Mali who had the perfect retort to an arrogant lawyer at a dinner party who asked a variant of this––“What do teacher’s make?”

For any CFO, mastering capital allocation is non-negotiable.

Here are the fundamentals in just 3 minutes 🧵:

$NVDA after selling shovels for the AI revolution:

Some of us who are not chocolate enthusiasts are watching the global chocolate crisis with fascination: