I’m continuing to evolve 🙏🏼 @RayDalio

Henry Ford was generally a racist and a bad person, but he understood something our current broligarchs have completely forgotten. He said: I have to pay my workers enough to afford the products they’re building. Give them a house, decent schools, reasonable healthcare. If I do that, they’re not descending on my Dearborn mansion with pitchforks while I eat my caviar. We’ve lost that plot entirely. We have broligarchs who want to be trillionaires and they’re missing the lesson that a deeply flawed man figured out a hundred years ago. Capitalism works, but only if people believe the game is worth playing. Right now they don’t and history is very clear about what comes next.

Must watch from @smerconish The findings suggest that socioeconomic conditions, stress, sleep, and environment may have a greater impact on brain development than many people realize.

Tough habit to break as it’s the opposite 🙃 of what school teaches you for at least 12 years @garyvee @Codie_Sanchez 🫶🏻 @KendallCRE

Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning? Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.

People will be studying Wemby’s two-week summer retreat with Shaolin monks in the Chinese mountains for decades to come. Best details from Ramona Shelburne: ▫️slept on three single-beds pushed together and woke up 4:30am each day ▫️meditated several times a day with 100 other monks and length was determined by burning incense wick (“Thirty minutes was doable. But sometimes the incense burned for 90 minutes,…[it is agonizing for someone] 7-foot-4 to sit cross-legged at all, let alone silently for up to 90 minutes, without moving.”) ▫️spent 6-8 hours a day learning Shaolin kung fu poses (“Master Yan'an said he designed Wembanyama's customized martial arts training to emphasize controlling his center of gravity, which would generate force from different positions and resist external forces, to mimic the double-teams and physical play he'd face from NBA opponents.”) ▫️ “One day he told Wembanyama to dribble a basketball up another dangerous mountain route to Sanhuangzhai, a monastery deep in the Song Mountains. The hike traversed cliffside plank paths, suspension bridges and ancient forests, and was five times as long as the one to Bodhidharma Cave. The trail forces you to climb roughly 2,500 feet in elevation across uneven ridges and stone. Master Yan'an said it would take an average person seven to eight hours to reach the end. Wembanyama did it -- while dribbling a basketball -- in four and a half.” ▫️On the 6th night, he did a pitch black hike in the Bodhidharma Cave (“There were no lights anywhere,” Master Yan'an said. “You can't see anything. The only way to go is step by step. Listen to your breath and listen to your heart. Feel each step with your foot. Use your awareness. The entire point of this training…was to free your mind from fear and trust your awareness to guide you.” ▫️”Wembanyama ate the same strict vegetarian diet as the monks while he was there, in accordance with Buddhist principles. But several times a day, his team arranged for a Sprinter van to pull into the monastery, pick up Wembanyama and drive him outside the walls of the temple, where someone would deliver a high-protein meal from a local restaurant. He would eat it inside the Sprinter van, dispose of any remaining meat, then be driven back inside the temple.” *** Full profile here: espn.com/nba/story/_/id/4881…

The apps we use we must recognize are designed to be addictive. If you don’t believe me ask the parents of any teenager. Adults are not immune. First great suggestion from @briansolis in LifeScale was TURN OFF notifications. I was constantly in FOMO checking. Huge change 🥊

You can't automate your way to innovation. And you can't cut your way to growth. briansolis.substack.com/p/ai…

What?!?! Why???

We are at the beginning of an historical inflection point with #AI . Let’s not waste it. 🙏🏼 @briansolis

The Trump administration has announced it will dismantle a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans. The decision is sparking alarm among experts that US is taking eyes off the oceans at a dangerous time. cnn.it/4o6VYFy

History will be very kind to Pelley. Not so much to CBS News.

Brian Solis Included in Wharton AI Agent Adoption Blueprint | Let's Data Science 👏🏼 @briansolis letsdatascience.com/news/bri…

"American kids can’t read or do math anymore. 90% of parents think their kid is at grade level. Only 28% are. And now, kids are addicted to AI for cheating. That’s why we built Koji to coach you to think, instead of doing the thinking for you." @ScribbleVC company @brilliantorg, led by founder/CEO @suekhim, launches the first AI tutor that gets kids to...think! Brilliant - and needed in the world.

26 predictions for 2026: 1. Gemini will be the most used AI model because it’s baked into Google and people will use whatever shows up by default. 2. Substack will become the YouTube of writing, where a small group of writers get most of the attention. 3. LinkedIn will be full of AI slop, which will make real human writing way easier to spot. 4. Hyper-local creators will become mini celebrities in their cities and drive real business locally. 5. Facebook’s organic reach will be wildly underpriced compared to every other social platform. 6. Meta’s AI glasses will start going mainstream because they don’t ask people to change how they live. Even my wife has one. 7. YouTube will be the number one place for views, brand building, and growing a business. 8. Amazon will keep winning retail because people say they want Etsy but click Amazon when it’s time to buy. 9. Zillow will fight the entire real estate industry to assert its dominance and own more of the home buying and selling process. 10. Email will beat paid social ads for most small and mid-size businesses. 11. Direct mail will grow again as a marketing channel because email inboxes are full and physical mailboxes are mostly empty. 12. PDFs will stop working as lead magnets and get replaced by free tools and simple apps. 13. Investors will stop caring about boring 15-slide pitch decks and pay more attention to live demos and real working products. 14. Small niche creators will build tools and apps because they have distribution, but most will never get SaaS-level valuations. 15. AI that brings in customers and revenue will beat AI that saves time and costs for small and medium businesses. 16, Platforms like Coinbase, DraftKings, FanDuel, and prediction markets will grow in 2026 even as most users lose money. 17. More people will put new money into index funds than into buying homes in 2026. 18. Bitcoin will be owned by fewer people, but those people will own a lot more of it. 19. Private credit will be the biggest winner among boring asset classes and will attract retail investors who have never had access before. 20. When SpaceX goes public, it will make people remember why they liked investing in the first place. 21. Tesla will keep dominating while Elon Musk becomes so rich that even people who hate him will have to admit he won. 22. Avengers: Doomsday and The Odyssey will carry the box office and make the business of Hollywood look healthier than it really is. 23. Interest rates will come down a bit, but borrowing money will still feel expensive. 24. Lawyers will stay busy cleaning up dumb mistakes AI puts into contracts. 25. People will watch phone-style content on their TVs while using their phones as a second screen. 26. Comedy creators will dominate watch time because they give people a quick break from being online and overwhelmed all day.

First step is to require any hospitals that enjoy Non Profit Tax Benefits, to publish monthly all of their actual General Ledger transactions and invoices. You are non profit. You are being subsidized and often funded by taxpayers. We are your stakeholders, along with patients. There ain't a damn economic thing that you can't show. And no, Medicare Cost Reports are not comprehensive accounting reports.. They are pretty much useless for this. Second step is to make all NDAs and Confidentiality Agreements for any financial healthcare agreement, illegal It's beyond insane that US Senators, and POTUS, can't see what the federal government is paying for medications being provided through TriCare. With these sources of data, then, and pretty much only then, could proponents of M4A begin to figure out a plan

Being busy is not the same as being productive. The 80/20 principle, also known as Pareto’s Law, dictates that 80% of your desired outcomes are the result of 20% of your activities or inputs. Once per week, stop putting out fires for an afternoon and run the numbers to ensure you’re placing effort in high-yield areas: What 20% of customers/products/regions are producing 80% of the profit? What are the factors that could account for this? Invest in duplicating your few strong areas instead of fixing all of your weaknesses.

Happy 118th Birthday to Ian Fleming, creator of the iconic James Bond (and Caractacus Potts!). Whilst we wait to hear who might be taking on 007's mantle next, you can celebrate with the books themselves or more on the films, quips and cocktails: waterstones.com/author/ian-f…