From Dan Wang’s new book. Interesting thesis. Engineers do tend to think in terms of solving problems. Lawyers profit when there are unsolvable problems. 🇨🇳

Dad: I worked and saved all my life. Instead of blowing through all my money before I die, I will give it to my son. Son: Thank you, father. This will help me raise a family of my own. Freelance Journalist Abi Wilkinson: Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

Thread: How China bought Germany's robotics crown jewel Quick story: I recently called Kuka German in a thread and got called out - "Kuka is Chinese now." This sent me down a rabbit hole. What I found was straight out of Succession, and it reshaped how the West thinks about

SPEAKING OF GOLF there is an excellent Scalia dissent in a case where the Supreme Court ruled that walking was not an important part of golf so the Tour had to give a player a golf cart. Scalia's dissent is epic (Christopher J. Scalia said it's one of his favorites) and features 3 literary

Windows Me

I nearly snort laughed hard enough for the person pooping next to me to hear 🫣

TESBROS Anybody have experience buying a used Tesla straight from Tesla? Plopping down a non refundable $500 deposit for a used car sight unseen feels a bit iffy to me 🫣

Bro

Gaining control of your time is only half the equation—you have to be good at *spending* that time. It's a skill that has to be developed. Hint: Keep skin in the game and continue doing challenging things—but now you can do it on your terms. That's as good as it gets.

Unpopular opinion - jazz is popular with musicians because it lets instruments that should be in the background come front and center in ridiculous self-indulgent solos.

NJ Transit: “The first car on the train is the quiet commute car. Please kindly stfu.” Also NJ TRANSIT : DING DING DING CHOOOOOO CHOOOOOO DING CHOOOO CHOOOOOO DINGDINGDING

He’a not wrong

Walked by a project in Austin this morning where a luxury home builder is building 3 homes on a lot where the exact same developer would have only built a single, gigantic, $4M home only 2 years ago. YIMBY works, Y’all

Well that didn't go as planned

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One acre of corn for ethanol = 25,000 miles in a Ford F-150. One acre of solar = 700,000 miles in an F-150 Lightning. That’s the scale of possibility Bill McKibben laid out on the Energy Capital Podcast. And here’s the kicker: with agrovoltaics, farmers can still use that land.

A boomer

The Cracker Barrel fiasco is an example of why CEOs get paid so much. The consequences of the decisions they make—good or bad—are massive. Since Julie Masino became the CEO of CB, the company has lost *half a billion* in market cap—including $100 million just yesterday. What’s