Be The One – if Charlie and Erika Kirk can be sacrificial for a Purpose, then we can as well… “The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.” Be the one who listens closelyWhen the noise is way too loudBe the one who sees…

Many in my Engineering School, long before AI, shared the previous years’ tests to study from, in my LXA fraternity. I never did, because I was working full-time while in school. I just didn’t have time to figure out the fraternity system. At some point everyone needs to grow up…

I “laugh” (or cry) nearly everyday over my past—as golfer Roberto De Vicenzo famously said after the 1968 Masters: “What a stupid I am.” Technology changing this quickly is nothing compared to the Changes humans need to make to be the “best versions of themselves.” Make sure the Standard is…

Everyone on the planet knows what happened today. But you may not know this about Charlie Kirk. RIP, Charlie. See post on LinkedIn

Star Trek Universal Translator Earbuds. You OF COURSE recall the Tamarian language conundrum from Star Trek: The Next Generation (Season 5, Episode 2: “Darmok”). Herein lies the problem with these new translating earbuds! The Tamarians speak in metaphors and idioms drawn from their culture’s mythology and history. Instead of saying…

As we say down South, “What a NAS CAR you have!” Experts in Demolition and NASCAR. RenascentDemo.com RenascentDC.com __________ Renascent Demolition At Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of the Indy 500, we gave almost 500 tickets to our employees, customers, and vendors to cheer on our NASCAR driver Ryan Ellis (DGM Racing). What a great day of sun,…

Humans have really messed up this mammal thing. We weren’t meant to be filled with selfishness and hatred and bigotry. It doesn’t suit us. __________ Richard DiPillaDEER MAMA WILL DO ANYTHING FOR HER BABY With nowhere else to turn, a mother’s instincts guided this mama deer to take a dangerous…

A LEADER is DIFFERENT. Whether governance, private sector, or “religion”. While most people settle for posing and the game of “curling”— merely polishing the ice… LEADERS bring the world something far more like hockey, a team sport with strategy and risk and movement and impact and athleticism and passing lanes,…

How it feels to run a startup… Maybe this PLUS getting punched repeatedly in the face?! __________ Trace Cohen How it feels to run a startup… (video by Daniel LaBelle 🏃‍♂️ ) See post on LinkedIn

“These are not solid ‘balls,’ but patterns of probability, stabilized vibrations in the quantum field (or what many traditions have called the aether). “Perhaps this image is less a literal portrait of atoms, and more a map of resonance, a sketch of the invisible dance that makes our visible world…

Perhaps we use AI in a quantum ecosystem – to create passwords that quantum can’t break? Prompt: “What password can you NOT BREAK? Tell me one.” __________ Dr.Shahid Masood 🔐 QUANTUM IS COMING: SOONER THAN YOU THINK, EVERY PASSWORD DIES For 70 years, silicon defined our world. Every password, every transaction,…

Which is worse, the ambitious broken promises of politicians — or the broken promises of billionaires, 70% Democrat in the US and 30% Republican? The “Giving Pledge” is a public commitment by some of the world’s wealthiest people—primarily billionaires—to give away more than half of their wealth to charitable causes…

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”– Thomas Jefferson Integrity is the unseen shield that guards your character, and it is the force that allows others to believe in you, follow you, and respect you. See post on LinkedIn

Get good at SOMETHING! $30,000 (97,000 Dirham, €23,000) in just a few months. This Pokémon card (100 in the world) was sold in London by a friend, yesterday. 50% profit in just weeks. There’s no excuse for not getting good at SOMETHING! See post on LinkedIn

Whatever happened to the good old-fashioned noncompete contracts?! How do top AI researchers leap from companies like OpenAI straight into Meta—and nobody stops them?  To lure leading minds from companies like OpenAI and Apple, Meta has put hundreds of millions of dollars on the table. Some researchers have reportedly been…

I had this conversation with someone from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the DOE, yesterday. Academia and research viewed as “an end in itself” is a very short term and rare luxury.  At some point, quickly, the ideas must be formed: “Here’s how it will change your company or country,…

An idea that rights a wrong, or solves a need, PLUS persevering through pain and fatigue, EQUALS half a chance 😎 https://lnkd.in/e8QhGyMV __________ Linas Beliūnas I think about this Steve Jobs quote at least once a month: “Half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from non-successful ones is pure perseverance” – Steve…

“The Peter Principle.“ Verily verily, a sleepover and a management position are not that different. Does “getting good” at one’s position mean promotion into a management position is automatic? It’s a WAY different skill set! This is a true “sleepover”/manager story, from this week (while us guys were suffering at…

A paid BLM or Anti-ICE or USAID protestor, hired with the title of “intern.” “Activist” jobs exist. The twenty-something was looking for his next job, as he hiked the Smoky Mountain “Klingsman’s Dome Trail” with friends, discussing his paid protester job. True story. One such “intern placement” company is “Crowds…

Maybe don’t “fall for it“? Super-cool so to speak, but not viable for transportation purposes. Building a commercial maglev train line sounds like “Bill and Ted’s EXCELLENT Adventure, from say New York to Boston or San Francisco to Los Angeles, but it ain’t happening. The financial model can’t possibly work…

The hard drive pictured here could hold up to 3/4 of one mp3 song. Though MP3 was not yet invented. 😉 Your terabyte smart phone can fit 200,000 songs, 17,000 hours of music. __________ Nicholas Nouri In September 1956 IBM shipped the world’s first commercial hard drive as part of the…

Life is GOOOOOOD. See post on LinkedIn

This was an inescapable outcome. The Law of Conservation of Mass: In a closed system, mass is neither created nor destroyed over time. Antoine Lavoisier in 1789 presented this Law, foundational in chemistry and mechanics. In addition, total energy in an isolated system remains constant over time, the First Law…

In my early days of trading commodities, currencies, grains, oil, precious metals, and the like – I traded with fundamentals, supply and demand, world events, logistics, legislative influences and the like — rather than technical analysis such as this. Jurrien Timmer is right. This type of analysis is incredibly important and…

This technology, technically known as Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC), was developed by Professor Victor Li at the University of Michigan. ECC replaces coarse aggregates with materials like polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibers, or alternatives, combined with fine silica sand and plasticizing agents. The result? A concrete that bends—rather than breaks—under stress.…

Today. Some criminals didn’t get the memo in DC about the National Guard – or don’t care! In the last decade in my neighborhood in DC, there is absolutely no question about the tripling of danger, going for a run or a walk, or even walking my four blocks to…

The “news stories” about US computing supremacy and AI supremacy, never offer any data – only barely-believable words. With the advent of small modular nuclear reactors (SMNR) and quantum computing, plus new breakthroughs in augmented intelligence, AI, this could change rapidly. But here we are. Thanks James Eagle __________ James Eagle…

Find the need, meet the need! __________ Linas Beliūnas Nailed it! Sam Altman says there’s never been a better time to start a company⁣: “If I were 22 right now and graduating college, I would feel like the luckiest kid in all of history. There’s never been a more amazing…

In 2025, the states most plagued by unemployment are the District of Columbia (5.9%), California (5.4%), Nevada (5.4%), Michigan (5.3%), and Illinois (4.9%). Each state faces distinct economic challenges and structural issues contributing to elevated joblessness: • District of Columbia: Persistent layoffs in professional services and a slow recovery in the…

Time for Change? Often I have sat in rooms of PhD’s impressed with their own brilliance, pontificating, but having lost sight of people and fundamental truths that could change the world.  Maybe the academic “sport” of clever pedagogy and information-shuffling and plagiarism (as we have seen from recent presidents of…

While there are “some” evidences of visitors from outer space, NOTHING is more convincing than this photograph of a “so-called” pet. We are not alone. Three of the Most Famous Anecdotal “Alien Encounter” Stories While no physical proof exists, some alleged UFO encounters have become cultural touchstones — sparking debate…

Happy Birthday Elle Hill (your time zone – so I’m not early, and probably first!) See post on LinkedIn

LLM—“LANGUAGE” is a ridiculous sole means of simulating intelligence. No living creature “learns” that way, solely or even primarily. This makes some sense. __________ Alex Issakova “I’m not so interested in LLMs anymore.” One of the godfathers of AI dropped a bombshell: Yann LeCun, the man who helped create the…

All “signal” – no “noise”. Clearly this is not a sustainable human condition, and it can’t “connect” a human to God. But inasfar as this research is accurate, offering superior human performance and deep human peace, it is an excellent “type“ or “shadow“ or “parable“ of what a quiet Whisper-walk…

500,000 heavy equipment operators in the United States are about to encounter more technology in their world. Remote drones and autonomous commercial trucks aren’t even close to the end of this technology story. This month, August 2025, the highways will start to see autonomous semi tractor trailer equipment. Aurora Innovation…

From Blocked to Booming?!Adobe tried to buy Figma for $20B. Regulators said no. 18 months later, Figma IPO’d at a $67B valuation. First-day pop: +250%Early investors? Generational wealth overnight. • Greylock: $14M → $6.7B (480x) • Index: $3.9M → $7.2B (1850x) • KP & Sequoia: Billions, too.What was nearly a $20B exit turned into…

Nihilism isn’t always a religion. Sometimes it’s just SLOPPY and shallow. But, the result is the same. There is to the universe NO “Value added” by the nihilist or the agnostic or the hedonist. See post on LinkedIn

Something maybe never envisioned by pi: https://lnkd.in/e4j-pehR __________ 𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕄𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤 Have you ever wondered what wonders might be hidden within the digits of π? Envision pi not just as a number, but as the universe’s limitless archive, a non-repeating, infinite stream that may encode every possible pattern: your birthday, our shared histories,…

For millions of parents who need to help their adopted child understand—rather than the normal confused or embittered about “whose tummy” … A bedroom wall photo, while they are yet too young to even ask. See post on LinkedIn

We are still only in the infancy of “augmented intelligence” AI (a.k.a. artificial intelligence). __________ Linas Beliūnas Mindblowing: Google DeepMind just dropped Genie 3 – it can generate an entire world simulation that you can interact with in real-time, just from a text prompt 😳 AI just made world-building as easy…

The first seven minutes after awakening,And the last seven minutes before falling asleep: Fascinating stuff. https://lnkd.in/edF34fqs __________ Lanson Burrows Jones Jr. Neuroscience now confirms that the first 7 minutes after waking are the most neurologically programmable window of your entire day. Your brain lingers in alpha and theta frequenciesthe same…

“Cost of capital” is a big deal in every category of a nation’s economic growth. For example, this quote from a multifamily REIT, divesting themselves of their assets… “Following a thorough board-led process, and despite our successful transformation into a focused multifamily platform with strong operating capabilities, market conditions have…

Which hurts more: switching horses 28 times with 3 hard “bails”… or your GPS dying at mile 537? This isn’t the Kentucky Derby. This is the Mongol Derby. Go Ali! Daniel Woodward Tomorrow, 40+ riders from around the globe will mount up for the Mongol Derby—a 1,000-kilometer stampede across the wild…

So which came first: the chick or the ape? It seems “Throw like a girl” is not so bad afterall, since no other primate can throw at all! Humans are uniquely designed for athletic rotation, throwing, and twisting, thanks to spiral fascia built for torque. Who knew? Chimpanzees and gorillas…

Are there lessons for Afghanistan? Are there lessons for the United States? __________ Dr. Joerg Storm >> From tidal flats to financial titan that’s not fiction. In this video you see a little village where the people lived in slum into a mega city from 3rd to 1st world status…