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“The lesson here: we must not confuse the impulse toward self-improvement with cravings for material success. To improve our circumstances, we should strive to improve our character.”

Here's my 2-minute summary of the changes that happened, in many countries, since The Anxious Generation was published 1 year ago. It's a video summary of my essay in @TheFP today:

Smells like Germany losing World War II.

Remembering the crew of STS-51L (Challenger) who were lost on this day in 1986, 73 seconds after launch. Scobee Smith McNair Onizuka Jarvis Resnik McAuliffe We will never forget the lessons learned at such a high cost.

I preferred it when football coaches looked like they knew who killed Kennedy. “Fran, it’s 3rd and 10. Let’s go deep with a corner route. It was the Cubans. Johnson knew.” “What?” “Corner route, let’s go.”

Remember, it didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with politicians dividing the people with ‘us vs. them.’ It started with intolerance and hate speech. When people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye, it became a slippery slope to genocide.

What are the chances that @deepseek_ai’s hedge fund affiliate made a fortune yesterday with short-dated puts on @nvidia, power companies, etc.? A fortune could have been made.

The "Art of the Deal" tells you to negotiate from a position of strength. This should dictate that on "day one" President Trump initiates a maximum pressure campaign on Russia in support of Ukraine. Then on day 121 or 181 give President Putin a call.... https://t.co/wFWlaOz1vL

Peace negotiations happen when one side is crushed, or believes they will be. Putin thinks he is winning. Zelensky is running out of men. “If Putin senses that Trump and his new team are trying to appease the Kremlin, he will become more aggressive, not less.

Who is making sure we destroy or secure all the Syrian chemical weapons?

If you don't think Reagan would be on the side of Zelenskyy against Putin, you either don't know Reagan or you're deluding yourself.

Bessent looks likely for Treasury-- This recommendation is good enough for me--- "What they're saying: Stan Druckenmiller, a legendary hedge-fund titan who has known and worked with Bessent for four decades, told Axios he "can't think of an area in global investing that he hasn't

Joe Biden should have stepped aside in January, not July, and then given whoever emerged as the nominee permission to talk about him however they wanted.

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A reminder: it is inspiring that people are willing to wait in line for hours to vote, but let's not forget that it is *100% unnecessary*. Making it easy for people to vote is a solved problem. Plenty of countries do it. We could do it. We choose not to. It's a choice.

Well, the sun went down an hour earlier tonight & it was dark by 6. Great work everyone.

Never, if possible, lie down at night without being able to say: I have made one human being, at least, a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."  Charles Kingsley #QuietTime

For some reason, I have been thinking about this moment a lot today. It's from John McCain in 2008 at a town hall. The woman begins to espouse conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's nationality. He immediately shuts it down. "No ma'am. He's a decent family man."

Market forces got us into this mess, and market forces can help get us out, when channeled by entrepreneurs who see the vast market of dissatisfied parents and teens. Jess Butcher explains, at https://t.co/jM1YTSTnyn https://t.co/XcKzP7tm5X

Our Generals that kicked Hitler's Generals asses.