Love beats fear, every time. Proverbs 27:17
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In December 1960 the most famous writer in the world was checked into the Mayo Clinic under his own doctor's name, officially for his blood pressure, and given up to fifteen rounds of electric shock to the brain, and when he came out he could no longer write a sentence, and six months later he was dead.
Ernest Hemingway was 61. He had the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer, the houses in Cuba and Idaho, and a head that had been battered more times than anyone could count. He had been blown up by a mortar in Italy in 1918, split his skull open in a London car crash in 1944, been thrown from a motorcycle by a shell in France the same year, and walked away from two plane crashes in Africa on consecutive days in 1954, the second leaving fluid leaking from his skull. He drank enormously. By 1960 he was paranoid, convinced the FBI was following him, unable to finish the Paris memoir he had nearly completed.
The Mayo psychiatrist, Howard Rome, treated it as depression and gave him the treatment of the day. Electroconvulsive therapy was the modern answer in 1960, quicker than analysis and tidier than the lobotomy it had replaced. Hemingway went home to Ketchum in January.
He was worse. Asked to write a single line for a presentation volume for the new President Kennedy, he sat at his desk for a week, could not do it, and wept that it just won't come anymore. In April his wife Mary found him in a state that terrified her, and he was flown back to Rochester for another course of shocks.
At the Mayo he told his friend A.E. Hotchner what the treatment had done. His memory was his capital, he said, the thing his whole trade was built on, and they had wiped it and put him out of business. "It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient."
The clinic discharged him at the end of June as improved. On the morning of 2 July 1961, at home in Ketchum, he took his own life.
The psychiatrist who has studied his head injuries most closely, Andrew Farah, argues that the man in Rome's office was not simply depressed but living in a brain wrecked by a lifetime of concussions and drink, and that electricity was the last thing it needed. The FBI files released in the 1980s showed he really had been watched for years, which is a hard way to learn that a patient's paranoia was partly a report.
None of that got a hearing in 1960. The diagnosis was in the textbook, the treatment was in the textbook, and the patient's complaint that it was taking his mind was in the textbook too, listed as a side effect, expected and temporary.
They treated the most observant man in American letters for being wrong about what he was seeing, and the last thing he saw clearly was what they had done to him.
Robert G retweeted
Soreness is not required to build muscle:
- Strength, explosiveness and hypertrophy all improve without it. That's a myth
- Andy Galpin's golden three for keeping inflammation low: above 1000 mg EPA per day from food or supplements, vitamin D, and magnesium malate
- Magnesium malate is particularly effective at offsetting delayed onset muscle soreness
- If a muscle is still sore it isn't recovered. Don't train it yet
- You still want the inflammation from the session itself. That's the stimulus for change
@hubermanlab
Robert G retweeted
Somebody almost sold Graceland out from under the Presley family.
A real foreclosure auction, publicly noticed, 13 acres in Memphis.
A woman in Missouri named Lisa Jeanine Findley invented a lender. Naussany Investments and Private Lending. It didn't exist.
Then she invented a loan. Claimed Lisa Marie Presley borrowed $3.8 million against Graceland in 2018 and died in 2023 without paying it back.
She forged Lisa Marie's signature. She forged a Florida notary's stamp. That notary said in Riley Keough's lawsuit she'd never met Lisa Marie Presley and never notarized a thing for her.
Then she did the part that should get your attention.
She filed a fake deed of trust with the Shelby County Register's Office.
And it was recorded.
She posed as three different people, demanded $2.85 million from the family to make it go away, and when they didn't pay, scheduled the auction for May 2024.
Riley Keough sued. A judge blocked the sale.
Findley's response was to claim the real criminal was a Nigerian identity thief who had stolen her identity.
She pleaded guilty to mail fraud. 57 months in federal prison.
Here's why it got that far.
County recorders are required to accept documents that meet basic formatting rules. They don't verify that a signature is real.
A forged deed can sit in the public record for years before anyone notices.
This scare gets marketed hard.
It's rare. FBI data shows 9,359 real estate fraud complaints and $173.6 million in losses across all categories, and title theft is only a piece of that.
And the companies selling you protection have every reason to make it sound worse.
But the risk isn't spread evenly, and retirees sit right in the target.
Criminals go after property nobody is watching. Vacant land, vacation homes, rentals, inherited houses, and anything owned free and clear, because no mortgage means no lender watching the title.
ALTA found 85% of seller impersonation fraud targets vacant land. The Realtors found only 12% of cases involved owner-occupied homes.
Four things to do:
Sign up for property fraud alerts at your county recorder. Many counties offer it free and it emails you when anything gets recorded against your name. The FBI recommends exactly this, and it's most of what the paid services sell.
Pull your own deed once a year. Most counties have it searchable online.
Watch the mail at the empty property. Mail that stops, a bill from a lender you don't recognize, a tax notice going somewhere else. Those aren't clerical errors.
Read your title policy. Some cover forgery after purchase. Many don't. Find out which one you have before you need to know.
If it happens, you're filing a quiet title action to get your own house back. Uncontested runs $1,500 to $5,000. Contested runs a lot more.
They almost took Graceland with a forged signature and a company that didn't exist.
Robert G retweeted
In Colorado, researchers gave breastfed babies puréed beef as their very first solid food instead of the iron-fortified cereal on every weaning chart, and the beef babies grew bigger heads.
Nancy Krebs took 88 babies, breastfed and four months old, and split them at random.
From five months, half were spoon-fed puréed beef. Half got the iron-fortified baby cereal American paediatricians had handed out as first food for generations.
The babies took to the beef just as happily as the cereal.
Between seven and twelve months, the heads of the beef babies grew faster. The amount of zinc and protein a baby took in predicted how much its head grew.
Her team kept going. Breastfed babies given more protein from meat grew longer, without putting on extra fat.
Then they took formula-fed babies and gave half of them meat purée and half of them yoghurt, cheese and whey from five months to a year.
The meat babies climbed up the growth charts for length. The dairy babies slipped down them, and got heavier for their height instead.
At two years old, the difference was still there.
The World Health Organization now says babies should have meat, fish or eggs every day from six months if they can.
The jar on the supermarket shelf still says baby rice.
Robert G retweeted
Marc Andreessen revealed how Harvard Business School was built on a broken 1941 theory, and how it's now collapsing...
Andreessen co-founded Netscape in 1994 and a16z in 2009.
He has sat on Meta's board since 2008.
He has spent 30 years backing founders and watching managerial CEOs lose to them.
The pattern traces back to one book: James Burnham's The Machiavellians (1941).
Burnham argued every great company had been founder-run.
Henry Ford ran Ford. Bob Noyce ran Intel.
Today, Elon Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink.
Then, he said, something broke.
Between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new philosophy replaced the founder. It was called managerialism.
The professional manager would now hold a portable skill, usable across any business.
The consequences were:
- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Business School
- Management as a universal skill
- The 1970s conglomerate
"That assumes the managers are going to do a good job," Andreessen says.
For 30 years, they haven't.
Managers can run something static, he says. Soup is soup. A bank is a bank. A car is a car.
But when the industry changes, the manager freezes.
Look at SpaceX.
"Imagine being a professionally trained manager, trained at a top management school, working for a rocket launch company, competing with SpaceX."
Then Elon's rockets started landing on their butt.
"Your management skills ... what good are they at that point?"
Andreessen's conclusion:
"You're much more likely to build something important in the 21st century if you start with the founder and train them on management."
Robert G retweeted
Over twice the risk of dementia associated with statin use. They also found a dose-response relationship.
"Statin use was associated with significantly increased dementia risk in both cohorts (discovery: adjusted HR 2.22; replication: adjusted HR 2.54)."
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Robert G retweeted
“When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.”
— Edmund Burke
Self defense has shifted from kinetic to information. Both are necessary.
Second amendment vibes.
If a case won't earn a lawyer at least $5,000 in fees, most won't take it. AI is starting to change that math.
Eve co-founder and CEO Jay Madheswaran joins a16z's Alex Rampell to explain how AI can automate plaintiff law from the first client call through settlement, and how one firm used Eve to go from about 100 clients per attorney to 500.
They also discuss why legal software is secretly a labor market, why a single case can take 10,000 back-and-forths, why agents may soon negotiate with other agents, and what happens to the legal system when filing a case gets dramatically cheaper.
0:51 Plaintiff law vs. Big Law
3:50 Why lawyers won't take a small case
8:42 How AI grows a law firm's revenue
13:57 From 100 to 500 clients per attorney
15:53 Legal software's hidden labor market
20:25 Why Eve beats raw AI models
27:00 When both sides have AI
29:13 What's left for human lawyers
33:01 A lawsuit filed by AI in 4 hours
35:15 Can a small firm hit $1B in revenue?
39:16 Law's shift to outcome pricing
46:08 10,000 touches in one case
49:37 How AI beat the Thanksgiving trick
YouTube: youtu.be/iRMmPjunm3Q
@jayanthmadhesw1 @arampell
Robert G retweeted
I’m in the process of convincing my mother. The road would be a lot safer for everyone 😅
98-Year-Old Man Buys His First Self-Driving Tesla Model Y And Is Blown Away
“I've been driving it probably 2-3 months, and it's not made an error in its driving. In fact, the other day it stopped - a chipmunk was crossing the road, and there was no other traffic, and it did not run over the chipmunk … For somebody that's 98-years-old, this is a real treat.”
Robert G retweeted
Contaminated Halloween candies:
- Butterfinger: cadmium 20.07 ppb (15% safe-harbor level)
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups: cadmium 50 ppb (37%)
- Kit Kat Snack Size: lead 12 ppb (72%), cadmium 34 ppb (25%)
- M&M’s Milk Chocolate: lead 6 ppb (36%)
- Twizzlers: arsenic 16.6 ppb
- Sour Patch Kids: lead 7 ppb (42%)
- Hershey’s Milk Chocolate: lead 14 ppb (84); cadmium 63 ppb (46%)
- Hu Salty Dark Chocolate: ~30 ppb lead (162%); ~30 ppb arsenic
Health guideline uses Prop 65 reproductive-toxicity safe-harbor levels and assumes 30g of each candy eaten per day. All these samples’ lead results were below the FDA’s 100 ppb guideline for candy frequently consumed by small children.
Detected contaminants does not mean a candy is unsafe.
Full candy reports on Oasis
Robert G retweeted
Hey @grok, do growing children need MORE protein per pound of body weight than adults to maximize their genetic height potential?
How much protein should kids eat at different ages? Can extra protein help them grow taller?
Use the strongest scientific evidence.
Robert G retweeted
Your brain makes one of the most powerful psychedelics on Earth.
Right now. As you read this.
It’s called DMT. And a new documentary is digging into why.
DMT Quest 2 hits IMAX Tue 11/17/26 in Austin, TX. @dmt_quest
This is the trailer. My thread will talk about the first film. 🧵
Robert G retweeted
The pinealon acute causes the super deep sleep that feels like a coma when neuro inflammation is high. That fades with time
The epithalon moves the circadian cycle back. Feels like I wake up before sunrise no matter where I am in the world
The Vilon seems to unlock a hidden energy currency. Don’t know how. Maybe some immune mechanism.
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网景创始人 、硅谷顶级投资人Marc Andreessen 在访谈里坦言，他看到了科技史上最可怕的一道认知鸿沟，
传统巨头以为 AI 只是个降本增效的插件，而新一代 AI 原生团队，正在用完全非人的组织效率掀翻整个商业版图。
当年写出网景浏览器、见证了整个互联网三十年兴衰的 Marc Andreessen，坐在 Ben Horowitz 面前直接发出了感慨，
如果 1994 年我们做 Netscape 的时候就有今天这种 AI 工具，那简直不可想象。
现在绝大多数传统巨头和现有企业，依然在用改良软件的旧思维去看待大模型。
在他们的组织逻辑里，AI 只是一个高级功能，用来给现有业务做个插件、在钉钉里加个智能助手、或者把客服团队砍掉 20% 省点成本。
他们以为自己在拥抱变革，其实只是在给老旧的蒸汽机打补丁。
但真正恐怖的事情，正在那些刚成立的 AI 原生团队里发生。
那些创始人对 AI 能力的理解，跟大厂完全不在同一个平行宇宙。
他们每周都在看着底层技术飞速进化，而且他们压根不会把自己定义成一家软件公司、硬件公司、甚至是一家 AI 公司。
以前创办一家公司，你的组织架构是按人类的协同瓶颈搭出来的：
招产品经理写文档、招工程师写代码、招法务改合同、招运营做投放。
因为人类的脑力带宽有限，所以必须靠庞大的部门和管理层级来支撑业务。
而真正的 AI 原生物种，是用机器智能作为最底层的骨架。
两个人加上一整套自动化 Agent，可以直接把从市场洞察、软件工程、全栈设计到商业销售的链路全部跑通。
他们不是在效率上快了 30%，他们是在组织形态上彻底跨越了一个物种。
大厂的盲区，从来不是买不起算力，而是他们无法理解组织本身才是最大的负债。
当现有企业还在开会讨论如何把 AI 塞进现有的业务流程时，新一代的野蛮人正在用完全超越行业界限的方式，把传统的业务流程连根拔起。
未来拉开人与人、公司与公司之间差距的，根本不是你用了哪个模型，而是你到底是在用新工具维持旧世界的体面，还是用新世界的底层逻辑，重新定义了自己能做的事情。
Robert G retweeted
Mainstream neuroscience reduces the vagus nerve to a soft metaphor for relaxation, framing it as a tool for safety and social connection. This domesticates a system that is fundamentally predatory. The Nemertean Theory suggests the vagus descends from the toxin-shooting proboscis of ancient worms. It began as a weapon for envenomation and immobilization, not a mechanism for empathy.
The transition from the Ediacaran Period to modern myelinated fibers was not an evolution toward gentleness; it was an evolution toward precision in dominance hierarchies. While the 80/20 afferent-to-efferent ratio is often cited to highlight sensory feedback, the actual architecture—specifically the microtubule-driven signaling and RNA homology with predatory ancestors—points toward a system designed for high-stakes competition and speed.
We must stop viewing high heart rate variability as a sign of being relaxed. In elite performers, vagal tone represents the ability to sustain command under pressure. The nerve's asymmetry—the right vagus dominating the sinoatrial node—allows for rapid shifts between sympathetic intensity and parasympathetic recovery. This is not about avoiding stress; it is about the mastery of it.
The vagus is an ancient predatory organ. Its highest expression is found in deep focus and decisive action, not passive rest. Rest is merely the recovery period between hunts, a biological necessity for a system that evolved to dominate its environment for over 600 million years.
skool.com/vagus/classroom/da…
Robert G retweeted
The things to protect are your attention, confidence, and those things that bring you joy.
#JoePolish #GeniusNetwork #Focus #Joy #Boundaries #Mindset #Entrepreneurs