“Forging steel into security.” Why is ship building a big deal, when air superiority is a possibility? Isn’t that pretty old school? Shipbuilding and a strong naval presence are foundational to national defense. Modern navies do much more than project military power; they deter aggression, protect trade routes, and ensure…

While this does look on paper a bit like “the three hour cruise, the three hour cruise“ of Gilligan’s Island… A difference involves the true monetizable productivity gains possible with this now–irreversible technology implementation. The commercial paper bundled with a social-engineering experiment and Dodd-Frank regulations were clearly not creating a…

Get the young men and young women in your lives going on such things, the earlier the better. __________ Jimmy Acton NVIDIA just dropped a gift for anyone who wants to master AI. Completely free. 🎁 No fees. No catch. Just world-class knowledge from the leaders in AI. If you’re looking…

This is why it is a fool’s errand to “depend” on ChatGPT etc. It is an “office intern” that aims to please and sounds credible. That’s the underlying technology. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 sounds familiar, kind of? “A time is coming when people will look for voices that tell them what…

Baby formula, deodorant, and razors are safer apparently in a CVS or Walgreens than the Crown jewels in the Louvre Museum? If France and authorities are worried about the criminals cutting the gemstones down for resale, I can assure you there’s no possibility that happens very quickly. It’s a challenging…

Wait! Infants need to sleep on their backs, I mean on their sides, I mean on their stomachs! Maybe we shouldn’t let them sleep at all! After all they don’t let us sleep at all. 🙂 https://lnkd.in/e-uVfgA9 __________ Kyle ReyesOMG I laughed way too hard at this. Funny ’cause it’s…

The Spirit-Life-Principle we’ve been discussing for 40 years: “ADDITIVE is far better than Subtractive!” Building a life – can do what rules can never accomplish. We readily give up what we no longer need. “Help the child to grow out of clothing so it no longer fits, rather than cursing…

It’s amazing what humans will do. Whether 51 years of colorful skittles candy, or nuclear tests, we give little thought for the long-term ramifications — as long it’s something we like. As mama used to say, “Think before you act!” I didn’t listen much then, either. During the 1945 Trinity…

Perhaps it’s time to raise some Activists with vision for building stuff, rather than just venting opinions about who gets the power and money? See post on LinkedIn

The drone boom, from war zones to weddings, fire-fighting, and 33,000 US companies, has turned the air above us into a traffic jam of signals struggling to stay connected and safe. https://lnkd.in/e3Bh5GQ8https://lnkd.in/e7HQ2D-J With frequencies being used up for controlling the drones, jumping into higher and higher frequencies, up where 5G lives…

Enzo’s and Brenzpizzaco.com — Award Winning Pizza, North American Champion Pizza, time and time again. __________ S. Brenen Morse, CPAWhere It All Began — Enzo’s Pizza Co, Durham NC If you were at Duke around 2010, you probably remember seeing our Enzo’s delivery Mini Coopers weaving through campus late at night. What…

Me thinks Xerxes Wennerstierna nailed it. __________ Xerxes Wennerstierna I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data. I also suffer from: The delusion that clearer charts produce clearer thinking. The bias that more…

JMP: I woke up with these images in my head—maybe the vestiges of a dream of some movie from another year. At first, my feeling was of unease. But then these thoughts emerged. Perhaps in some ways related to the Pavlov’s Hierarchy post: https://lnkd.in/e9eK88hX …. The tendency toward disorder—entropy—is considered a…

“Pavlov’s Hierarchy of Needs” seems to have replaced Maslow’s. Just watch on the news the juvenile political activism — people trying to find meaning in their lives, in vain. Oops. I said watch the news! Pavlov got me! Netflix, crossword and wordle puzzles, coffee, Smart Phone, Social Media, the weather,…

George Orwell’s works are a blueprint for leadership emphasizing truth, accountability, and clear communication. He didn’t just write about power—he showed how using (or abusing) LANGUAGE can shape cultures, organizations, and individual moral choices.Leadership Insights from Orwell• Accountability Over Absolute Power: In 1984, Orwell exposed the dangers of unchecked authority…

“No Data Center required” — maybe the most important words uttered thus far in this new AI civilization. I won’t elaborate here, but some of you will know. __________ Linas Beliūnas Historic: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just hand-delivered the world’s smallest AI supercomputer to Elon Musk at SpaceX 😳 Just hours…

All geopolitical opinions aside, it is fair to talk about the Solution for the mystery of the human heart. In the workplace. In the family. Nations rising up against nations, ethnicities rising against ethnicities. Treaties can be negotiated. Peace is a matter of humility and love. __________ Andrew Roberts Hostages…

A consumer device is successful when the buyer is convinced of the device’s benefit to them – not what it does for data collection and OpenAI. So, does it come in mauve? __________ Ashley Nicholson This will be bigger than the iPhone:OpenAI is planning to add $1 trillion in value…

These guys are definitely NOT stupid. This is NOT a hobby or poorly thought through. Buying time? Yes. Building scale and capacity and depth. Saddling up the fascinated consumer until “when” and for “what”?  There’s only one larger source of sustained revenue and forcing function than Enterprise or the Consumer…

Beneath the Tennessee autumn sky,Where the river bends and echoes fly,A Colosseum of orange and white,Energy that ignites on Saturday night. The crowd pours in like a living river,A hundred thousand cheers cause a shiver.Voices shout a thunderous dare,As “Rocky Top” lifts through the crisp fall air. Suspendered crowd checked…

https://lnkd.in/e6Zxsr36 The snake eating its tail: https://lnkd.in/eJxSrxDk AI’s biggest power play, though not the only one: Here’s how the “Ellison Loop” works: • Oracle signs a $300B deal with OpenAI to supply GPUs. • The GPUs don’t exist yet — but Wall Street doesn’t care. Oracle stock rockets. • Ellison’s net worth jumps…

Eggs are an optional prop — but the LifeLesson of DARING to create “against the norm” is where innovation and world-changing is born. My youth with eggs involved a gas mask and tuxedo and a high school calculus teacher, not a refrigerator or “car wash”. This lil guy’s adventure might…

I guess we are going to need to see what happens in a year or three after “glue“ is used for bone fractures. It’s not all obvious. Broken bones require several key factors to heal properly, including adequate blood supply, proper nutrients, mechanical stability, and a good biological environment. Blood…

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: BEST COLLEGES 2026, Wall Street Journal, 2026 U.S. News & World Report No. 1 Undergraduate Engineering Program -27th consecutive yearU.S. News & World Report Academic Department Rankings• No. 1 Civil Engineering• No. 1 Electrical Engineering• No. 1 Mechanical Engineering• No. 2 Computer EngineeringWall Street Journal’s 2025…

This is quite good advice for living, and for entrepreneur-ing. It’s an Elon differentiator. __________ Jimmy Acton 🔑 Elon Musk’s 5-Step Algorithm for Building (Almost) Anything In an interview at Starbase, Elon Musk explained the method he uses to run companies and ship products, from EVs to rockets. Here’s his algorithm…

Whatever role you have played on this planet, you do have a choice about what is next. If “what will happen to me” or “what will ‘they’ think” influence your next decisions — you are lost, even before you have begun the Real Journey. __________ Dex Hunter-Torricke After 15 years…

“I Robot” becomes “MY Robot” – coming to an ironing board and kitchen and lawn near you soon. If robots make robots that make robots, still somebody has to have a job? __________ Dr. Martha Boeckenfeld Tesla promises Optimus at $20K. This company just delivered a humanoid robot for $5,900.…

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely, pretty and well-preserved, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow! What a ride!’”-Hunter Thompson See post on LinkedIn

The AI Bubble—A Three Hour Tour“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,A cautionary tune,Of Roman lords and techie dreams,And bubbles popped too soon.The mighty world of AI grewLike Rome’s estates of old,With leveraged bets and borrowed coins,Their stories would unfold.The Senators played BRRR with land,And VCs chased the…

A a debt of gratitude owed, kudos, to whoever invented remote working. See post on LinkedIn

Sanjay is a classy guy. You’ll see it here. The future is built, our futures are built on advice such as this. __________ Sanjay Kothari Time has a way of teaching you every important lesson of life! Criticism has been a companion in my journey. Not always pleasant but always…

“But I thought for SURE a Joint Venture with Cousin Bob would be awesome!” Be careful with whom you JV… It’s not always what it’s cracked up to be. See post on LinkedIn

Crows aren’t just background noise—they’re problem-solvers that rival primates. They remember human faces for years, teach their children and children’s children to hate humans that have harmed them, craft tools from sticks, and in Japan, even drop nuts on crosswalks so cars crack them open—then wait for the light to…

Do we know if the laser kills the roots of the weeds? Can this be done by drone? DE will be a really big deal for national defense soon, but “who knew” about the weeds… Josh Peters __________ Dr. Marcell Vollmer Goodbye Glyphosate, hello LaserWeeder! Carbon Robotics has built AI-powered machines…

It has never occurred to me to sell my patents for $1 (nor Can$1). But, what an inspiring story. There are good and brave hearts in the world. __________ Dimitrios A. Karras Breakthrough discovery, breakthrough and innovative scientists, humans above all….. In 1922, a team of scientists arrived at the…

Van Jones, CNN: Charlie Kirk DM’d me before he was murdered. Here’s what he said. In the middle of a difficult debate he and I were having about the murdered Ukrainian woman on public transportation in Charlotte — Charlie Kirk reached out. Charlie Kirk’s surprising message:He invited me to come…

ELITE Capitalism is to naïve markets – as Go is to chess, and checkers is to rock scissors paper. Sleight-of-hand? David Copperfield and David Blaine have nothing on these guys. My first impression is something like, Isn’t this like bundling Dodd Frank paper, hollowing out sustainable value — the ole…

I have to say I was surprised. See post on LinkedIn

Want to become “Superman” in any field? Listen to the Toast to Henry Cavill. A mere 11 years later, he actually became Superman, for real. This is a powerful speech, and rare for many to CHOOSE to be that person. Few in life will distinguish themselves in this way: “Life…

Does anyone really have a right to disagree with the greatest of all time? You can have your opinions but is this really the right time to disagree with the greatest of all time? https://lnkd.in/eSVMU-52 __________ Dennis Berry The most underrated power in success… It isn’t talent, luck, or genius.…

“Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound,” Graphene is 200 times stronger than steel, but five times lighter than aluminum. Graphene can be stretched up to 120% of its length and bent without breaking. One gram of graphene can cover a large soccer football pitch.  As a conductor,…

Make America Orange Again. Go Vols. See post on LinkedIn

Some, when facing an unexpected crisis say, “Oh no!“ The better woman with deeper roots, and the better man with a pure heart say instead, “Watch this!” See post on LinkedIn

As Tyrus points out, fake Christianity doesn’t fool anyone. But when it’s Real, only a crazy person wouldn’t think Jesus was and is powerful and attractive. __________ Izabella J. How many cities burned last night? None. How many people were beaten for looking like the shooter? None. How much violence…