I got my glider rating in California’s wine country, which is a beautiful place to fly. But the Alps are on a whole other level. During one flight this week I started in Innsbruck, Austria. I turned the engine off above the airport and soared to Germany, over to Switzerland, through Italy before returning to Austria to turn on the engine and land later in the day. Just an amazing area to soar in. Has to be the best way to see the Alps. Will be back!

FIREFLY ANNOUNCEMENT PANEL – Awesome Con 2026 youtu.be/ou27uZqQJaQ?si=ODkY… via @YouTube

I think tech founders like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Larry Ellison (all well-accustomed to risk) just realized that the main value of everything they have built is to have a chance now to bet it all on AI. That’s how historically important AI is. It’s the most consequential thing humans CAN ever do.

This take from the @PirateWires Daily 👇 My take: crummy jobs early in life build perspective and appreciation for better jobs later in life. Make your kids work minimum wage jobs in their "time off."

This take from the @PirateWires Daily 👇 My take: crummy jobs early in life build perspective and appreciation for better jobs later in life.

How it started. How it ended. (Dream Machine)

Okay, this is fascinating.

Gently, softly, calmly, let’s talk about what’s happening in DC right now. Friends, have you ever been through a ZBB process? If not, let me give you my take. So, in a corporation where expenses are out of control, you have to put the entire company through a zero based budgeting process. It is one of the most painful things that people in a company experience. You basically have to justify every. single. expense. And you also cut a bunch, and then only add back after you’ve gone through a proper ZBB cycle. The US government is going through a ZBB right now. And that is necessary because spending is out of control. The complexity is so vast that I expect it will take AI to decipher. You cannot tell me that a government that accidentally wires hundreds of millions of dollars to the Taliban has its finances in order. That signals an underlying disaster. That signals bad stewardship of resources. In fact, it is a disaster. Over the last 20 fiscal years, the US government has made ~$2.7 trillion in "improper payments," according to the US Government Accountability Office. Trillion! With a T! That financial management disaster was not caused by @elonmusk. And there is no painless way to clean it up. Elon is doing what any executive would do walking into a giant mess. You ZBB and then build back. So, I don’t believe that America is going to be on the wrong side of global right and wrong, as some are saying. I don’t believe that America is going to be permanently isolationist. I do believe that unwatched finances will get out of control in any human system, and that the GAO has been trying to ring this bell for years, and that scaled complexity requires scaled financial management. Because the US has the largest budget in the world, it will now go through the single most complex ZBB ever undertaken in the history of the world. Some states do ZBB, but it's never been done at the federal level. President Jimmy Carter tried, but the bureaucratic systems were too complex, and President Ronald Reagan abandoned the attempt. So, if there is one person in the world chosen to lead this Grand Canyon of projects, we would hope for the president to choose one of the best capital allocators on the planet. Better if that human is also one who can leverage AI and technical talent to manage the massive complexity. Anyone who has lived through a ZBB at the corporate level will tell you that it’s hell and everyone hates it. This is why I feel really bad for federal workers -- I have a lot of empathy for civil servants and people doing a great job every day for the United States. No doubt, the uncertainty is trying and stressful for many. It's an unfortunate situation. So, that's my take. I don't want to speak beyond what I know and can observe from the other side of the country. I've worked both in the private sector and the public sector -- the cultures are different. And an Elon-Musk-style culture is going to be the most hard core of them all. No doubt, it's jarring. It's gonna be a lot. But what I also know is that every time I have ever doubted Elon, I ended up being the one who was wrong.

This is a huge day for @X. My documentary, Cancer: A Food-Borne Illness, is finally here. It is only on this platform that I am able to release a film that challenges big food conglomerates and mainstream health claims without fear of censorship. Here is the story of how I, an 18 year old girl, spent 2 years relentlessly searching for the for the true cause of cancer. Here's what I found:

We blame butter for what bread did. We blame salt for what sugar did. We blame red meat for what seed oil did. We blame the couch for what everything in moderation did. This is why most people will live their entire life, confused about what it takes to be healthy.

“At SpaceX we specialize in converting things from impossible to late.” Elon Musk

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It’s sad that a cartoon understands nutrition better than the FDA, USDA and CDC This is why we need a Metabolic Revolution

JUST NOW - JILLIAN MICHAELS GETS A STANDING OVATION, for this EPIC PRESENTATION about the Chronic Disease Epidemic, one she describes as "an extinction level event". THIS IS A MUST WATCH "What has happened to us? I'm here to tell you, in the late 70's and the early 80's, a sinister series of events converged to change food and subsequently health indefinitely...[we were] blindly trusting that the powers that be would never betray us...it seemed unthinkable to question whether a corporation would poison us for profit [and] it was this betrayal of trust that allowed them to insidiously infiltrate EVERY PART OF OUR LIVES" This is one of the best overviews I've ever witnessed on how the whole system has been rigged, in what is essentially a "bad health by design" framework As Jillian Michaels says emphatically - People have been "sacrificed at the alter of corporate greed"

⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI Education company called Eureka Labs. The announcement: --- We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native. How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case of physics one could imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman, who is there to guide you every step of the way. Unfortunately, subject matter experts who are deeply passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient and fluent in all of the world's languages are also very scarce and cannot personally tutor all 8 billion of us on demand. However, with recent progress in generative AI, this learning experience feels tractable. The teacher still designs the course materials, but they are supported, leveraged and scaled with an AI Teaching Assistant who is optimized to help guide the students through them. This Teacher AI symbiosis could run an entire curriculum of courses on a common platform. If we are successful, it will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large amount of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted). Our first product will be the world's obviously best AI course, LLM101n. This is an undergraduate-level class that guides the student through training their own AI, very similar to a smaller version of the AI Teaching Assistant itself. The course materials will be available online, but we also plan to run both digital and physical cohorts of people going through it together. Today, we are heads down building LLM101n, but we look forward to a future where AI is a key technology for increasing human potential. What would you like to learn? --- @EurekaLabsAI is the culmination of my passion in both AI and education over ~2 decades. My interest in education took me from YouTube tutorials on Rubik's cubes to starting CS231n at Stanford, to my more recent Zero-to-Hero AI series. While my work in AI took me from academic research at Stanford to real-world products at Tesla and AGI research at OpenAI. All of my work combining the two so far has only been part-time, as side quests to my "real job", so I am quite excited to dive in and build something great, professionally and full-time. It's still early days but I wanted to announce the company so that I can build publicly instead of keeping a secret that isn't. Outbound links with a bit more info in the reply!

There's a whole subculture of hawking as a sport. Here is a shirt I was given in 2015. The president of the club hosted me and showed me around the grounds during one of their competitions. (My company makes flight electronics which folks with falcons and hawks can use for training.) Hawking is a sport in which both dock workers and CEOs mix in comradery and love of their (quite expensive) birds. Hawks hunt horizontally. They chase down prey across the ground. I was invited on a hunt out by the Amazon warehouses in windmill country of Northern California. We spread out in a line in a plowed field, with the owner of the hawk in the middle, hawk perched on arm. We walked until we spooked a hare out of a burrow. It took off away from us. The hawk screamed and launched after it. The hare accelerated instantly. As it ran it probably touched the ground every 20 feet or so, "flying" between hops at about waist level. The hawk only slowly accelerated, but eventually caught up and attacked. The hawk sunk its talons in the hare, but the hare bucked the hawk into a huge thorn bush on the side of the field that it was heading for. We were all running to the site where the hawk was now spread-eagled (ha) in the thorn bush. Along the way the own stepped in a hole and badly twisted his ankle. But we eventually got there, the hare nowhere in sight. With tears in his eyes, the owner gently began picking the hawk out of the bush, with some small loss of feathers. Right when he had finished and the hawk was back on his arm, the hare decided to jump out of his hole and take off again. The hawk screamed again and once more the chase was on. This time it ended in the hawk stopping, out of breath, on the other side of the field. My takeaway: good grief, hares are fast! Falcons hunt vertically. They are trained to go up on stoop (if trained well) to very high altitudes (1000-3000 feet). Then when they spot prey, they dive down at speeds up to 275 mph to catch their prey. At a falconry competition, they will give each competitor a time slot. In that time slot, you can choose when to send your falcon up on stoop. Extra points for higher altitude. Then when ready, they call for the release of a pigeon, which takes off like a bat out of hell for the opposite tree line (and safety). Before you feel sorry for the pigeon, like rodeo bulls these are much more experienced than the falcons which hunt them. They RARELY get caught. The winner the day I watched managed to knock a feather off. Extra points for trying to attack more than one (tenacity). People have some fascinating hobbies...