Your calendar was full at 21 and empty at 26 for a reason MIT discovered in 1950. Researchers studied a housing complex called Westgate and found friendship was predicted by one variable above everything else: physical distance between front doors. Students living near stairwells and mailboxes made the most friends. Shared interests, values, personality? All downstream of foot traffic. They named it the propinquity effect. Researcher Rebecca Adams later distilled friendship formation into three conditions: proximity, repeated unplanned interactions, and settings where people let their guard down. A college campus delivers all three automatically, dozens of hours a week of engineered collisions. Adult life delivers zero by default. That's the entire mechanism behind days blending together. Your brain registers novelty from unplanned human contact. Remove the collisions and time loses its texture. The fix is repetition. One dinner party changes nothing. The same gym class, same coffee shop, same pickup game at the same time every week rebuilds the structure school gave you for free. Friendship grows from accumulated accidental contact, so frequency wins. College handed you a collision machine. Adults who stay social just rebuilt one.

CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports U.S. passport holders heading to Europe face long delays from the new EU Entry/Exit System.

There’s a Silicon Valley for tech families… but it’s not in California. It’s in Johor, Malaysia, costs a fraction, has a waiting list, and zero cut-throat competition. It’s the hidden-gem version. I attended an @ns Families session last week, and this is what they're actually building. Network School is already known as the hub for builders and founders. What’s quieter: a fast-growing circle of tech parents raising kids while shipping companies and products. Today we sat down to level up the family side. First problem every parent named in the first 60 seconds: How do you burn off a toddler’s endless energy so they actually sleep at night? Sounds small. It’s not. It’s the difference between a productive day and a completely destroyed one.

Gemini Omni doesn't just build scenes that look real, it reasons about what should happen next. It combines an intuitive understanding of physics with Gemini's knowledge of history, science, and cultural context. Rolling out today starting with video outputs to Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers globally through the @Geminiapp Google Flow, and @YouTube Shorts this week.

Emmanuel Grégoire has won the race to succeed Anne Hidalgo, the transformational leader since 2014, as the next Mayor of Paris. He’s pledged to build on her legacy, continuing the expansion of the City's bike network & growing the city’s network of neighborhood green spaces. 🇫🇷

The city’s transition away from the car, though fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/PENku7n

One of my favorite @DwyaneWade quotes: "Real confidence comes from doing the work." After Game 4 of the 2006 Finals, Wade went to the gym at 3 AM just to shoot free throws. He told his trainer the title would come down to those shots. He was right. He hit two free throws with 1.9 seconds left in Game 5 to take a one point lead in the game and a 3-2 lead in the series. Later, he explained why he wasn't nervous: "You've done it over and over. You've seen yourself do it." He watched the ball go in the net so many times that he knew he wouldn't miss. Most people try to "visualize" success as a form of wishful thinking. For DWade, visualization was a memory. True confidence is the calm that comes from having a mental library of successful reps to fall back on.

From tonight's Claude Code meet up. @balajis opened and then a bunch of NS members and entrepreneurs held a series of lightning talks to share how they use @AnthropicAI to get stuff done.

Monthly cost of living at @ns with a toddler🏴 🏠 $3,000 for family-sized room in a 5-star resort (toddlers stay free!) 🥗 $0 catered healthy meals (@bryan_johnson-inspired, with toddler-friendly options incl. fresh fruits) 🧹 $0 full-service housekeeping (a lifesaver with a little one running around) ⚡ $0 electricity, gas, high-speed wifi (reliable for remote work and streaming toddler shows) 📱 $6 unlimited data SIM (great for staying connected on the go) 👩🏻‍💻 $0 24/7 coworking space (quiet zones for calls, plus flexible hours around nap times) 👩‍🏫 $0 packed schedule of classes (from tech workshops to wellness sessions) 🏋️‍♀️ $0 full access to 24/7 gym (quick workouts while toddler plays nearby) 💪🏼 $0 daily fitness classes 🧊 $0 cold plunge and sauna 🏀 $0 basketball & pickleball courts (toddler loves chasing balls here) 🏊🏼‍♀️ $0 access to multiple pools (kids pool areas make it super family-friendly) 👯‍♀️ $0 community of amazing people (builders, creators, and other parents sharing tips) 👶 $0 NS for the kids drop-off program (daily activities, sensory play with an in-house nanny) 🤝 $0 networking with @solana builders via @SuperteamMY (easy collabs since it's nearby in Malaysia) 🎉 $0 hosting events & meetups (organized crypto workshops and builder dinners right on-site) 🧺 $25 full-service wash & fold laundry (essential with messy toddler clothes) 🍱 $50 dining out & rec (occasional treats) 🚌 $50 average for transportation to KL Total: ~$3,131/month

Jensen Huang: "People with really high expectations have very low resilience." "I think one of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations. And I mean that. Most of the Stanford graduates have very high expectations. And you deserve to have high expectations because you came from a great school. You were very successful. You're top of your class. Obviously, you were able to pay for tuition. And then you're graduating from one of the finest institutions on the planet. You're surrounded by other kids that are just incredible. You naturally have very high expectations. People with very high expectations have very low resilience. And unfortunately, resilience matters in success. I don't know how to teach it to you except for I hope suffering happens to you. And I was fortunate that I grew up with my parents providing a condition for us to be successful on the one hand, but there were plenty of opportunities for setbacks and suffering. And to this day, I use the phrase pain and suffering inside our company with great glee. And I mean that. Boy, this is going to cause a lot of pain and suffering. And I mean that in a happy way, because you want to train, you want to refine the character of your company. You want greatness out of them. And greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character, and character isn't formed out of smart people. It's formed out of people who suffered. And so if I could wish upon you, I don't know how to do it. For all of you Stanford students, I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering."