Love seeing these videos every year but they make me incredibly nostalgic for women-only feminine spaces. Sororities. Cheer camps. Ballet. Beauty pageants. These hyper feminine spaces and rituals all but disappear after your early 20s and turn into something else. There are women’s groups, but they’re very different. I think this is part of why one’s 20s are very lonely. You lose these ties and spaces overnight.

At the point a normal young woman is crying in public desperation about how she’s signed up to become an egg donor as she can’t afford children or a home because of debt from education, we need to ask ourselves why we allow and encourage this. This is utterly horrific.

Amazing to watch the @RadiantNuclear team execute relentlessly. So many “firsts” for this company it’s hard to keep track! Congrats on this achievement!

I love showing the 2000 comparison chart, focused on top ten. Of the top ten companies in 2000, three were American tech companies. By 2025, eight are American tech companies, some of which weren’t even founded until after 2000. The story of the Second American Century is technological supremacy. America is winning on innovation, business and scale.

Recently I was asked how I deal with screen time and technology usage as a mother of young children. I’m definitely not anti screen, though our kids are too young for the question of “Would you give them a phone?” But my rule for tech is simple, one I call The Production Principle: “Produce more than you consume.” It’s easy to measure and remember. And it’s the rule guiding tech usage in our house for everyone, child or adult. If kids are sitting on their phones scrolling social media and consuming memes and slop without your knowledge, that’s not good and probably not very healthy. But if they’re making things, coding, interacting with videos that teach them to build things online and off, that’s generally a positive thing, especially if you’re engaged in these activities with them as a parent. Computers and screens govern so many fields today. By the time my children are teenagers, I imagine screens and code will govern much, much more of the world around us. I don’t plan to hide this from them because I don’t want them to be afraid of the modern world, or to sense that they can’t control their relationship to it. Instilling the Production Principle early changes their relationship with technology. It becomes theirs to master, not a nebulous thing to fear.

Infrastructure is destiny. On the Moon, nuclear reactors are this generation’s flag. China intends to put a reactor on the Moon by 2035 — we must beat them. cc: @DougBernauer

The most lucrative story arc of our era is the inversion of good and evil. One could say it’s the most common and profitable arc of the 21st century. Wicked is the simple example of this narrative: taking a well-known story that everyone remembers from childhood and inverting the hero and villain, telling the story with “empathy” for villain and a complete revision of the backstory. Wicked is the second-highest grossing musical of all time at $1.7 billion, just after the Lion King, which debuted six years prior. It’s the highest-grossing musical ever adapted for film, earning $750 million at the box office. But look around and you see the Wickedification of every narrative. It’s a seductive and powerful formula. There’s no story arc I’m more skeptical of, mainly because it’s so easy to write and highly lucrative for its authors.

Positive sum versus zero sum. In tech, you make money and influence on the upside, so casting the net wide and consistently filling the funnel with new people and ideas is incentivized and rational. Being too protective of network or capital means you miss the big one, and consistent big ones is power. In Washington, every two years the board shifts. Elections are zero sum, and you have to fight for every vote. Casting the net wide will break alliances and threaten orders or coalitions that have been built over decades. Everyone responds to their incentives, but best to know where you play best. People who excel in positive sum games are usually pretty bad at zero sum.

Saturday mornings at Home Depot. Greatest country in the world. 🇺🇸🔨🚀

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