Sage advice from Sam Zell:

Josh Best What about all of the defence research contracts with USyd? Do they not teach students anything on defence technology? Do they deny entry to ADF personnel?

Wow… more than 85% of Virginian kids living with a mom and dad at home will earn mostly A’s and B’s, regardless of their race. Grades drop drastically in father-absent homes. Fathers are so important! Brad Wilcox

Interesting

"Eighth graders in the 1980s were more likely to say they had a sip of alcohol in the previous month than today’s 12th graders." derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of…

Steve Ballmer’s enthusiasm is so enjoyable to me. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/acq…

Childhood physical activity associates with adult fitness & lower risks of disease. Cause or effect? In mice, early-life exercise enhances late life metabolism, cardio function, strength & reduces frailty in old age. The epigenome never forgets. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Frightening! More than 50pc of Australian voters now rely on government for their main income. afr.com/policy/economy…

The amount of this 2nd layer and 3rd layer SPVs going on makes you question where we are in the cycle.

It’s weird that serial killers were a thing for like one 30 year period

Uber raised a total of $24.7b across 27 rounds. They have just announced a $20b buy back.

Are the any entrepreneurs in Australia trying to build a new town/city here?

Be great to have one of these in Australia.

Want to protect people to the extent possible, but: Highest salary from Cohort 1 of Gauntlet AI was between $900k and $1m/yr (base salary only.) Handful of folks hired at $600k+ (again base salary only.) Median was $200k. A lot of brilliant engineers you can hire for $200k.

The more you know what you own the more volatility goes from being a risk to an opportunity.

🚨 AI IS NOW DESIGNING PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS THAT LOOK INSANE - AND THEN WORK At LIGO, where physicists measure ripples in spacetime smaller than a proton, AI produced a Frankenstein design no human would dare build. It looked like gibberish. Ugly. Alien. But when cleaned up -

Just in case anyone is in any doubt about why Putin is begging Trump to give him all of the Donbas…

Nothing ‘overnight’ about it. afr.com/technology/ove…

“When you're a child, you have this light within you. We all have it. And it's like this flame that burns inside you. And you hopefully find a direct action for that passion. And in my case, it was film. In Led Zeppelin’s case, it was music. And it strikes me as you go through