Index funds are not a safe conservative alternative, the S&P 500 had an 89% drawdown in 1929, demonstrating there is nothing safe about the stock market.

Space companies should book a launch before they even know what they're building, as a forcing function.

People only ever buy four things, time, money, sex, and approval/peace of mind, and attempting to sell anything else results in failure.

Despite Astra's math results, AI has not 'solved math', Astra is not building new branches of mathematics or posing interesting new conjectures.

The 'bitter lesson' in finance is that markets are driven not by fundamentals but by static asset allocators, extrapolators, and corporate supply-demand shocks.

Bespoke is betting that Japan's inspection labor crisis makes it the best first market for AI robotics

Accumulated context from AI workflows is the primary competitive moat, not the AI model itself.

The SEC will not allow fully permissionless trading of tokenized equities such as Apple shares due to concerns about sanctioned entities like Lazarus Group, so tokenized equities will require KYC and intermediaries.

Pete Buttigieg observes a pattern in the Democratic Party of backward-looking language, 'reverse,' 'rebuild', and warns this approach will fail to prepare the US for the next 80 years.