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Matic Serene vs. Handheld Vacuum ⚠️ Warning: The other vacuum is LOUD

Mission S. Authentic. Consistent. Timeless. A glimpse into the future - shaped by our heritage. Mid-engine architecture. A focus on the driver and the driving experience. Call it a love letter.

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My annual tweet. The best thing ESPN has ever produced. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Boston College hosts the Red Bandana game tomorrow night. Please watch if you haven’t seen it, or even if you have.

Let's fix 3 major brands. Which is your favorite fix? Disney+, 47 Brand or Kind? Which major logo should I fix next?

Introducing Cues: Voice & Gesture control for Matic We raised $115M and spent 9 years to make the world’s first intuitive home robot Say you spilled coffee: Point to the spill and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" and it will hear, see, locate in 3D, and go clean on its own. Matic comes with a lot of features: 1. Say "Hey Matic" - it locates your voice, turns, and looks at you 2. Say "Hey Matic, follow me" and start walking. Matic will follow behind 3. Say "Hey Matic, go clean the living room". Since it knows your house map, it navigates and just does it It's so easy, a 5 year old and an 80 year old can use it and it understands 75 different languages. Matic has 8x the airflow, specialised cleaning algorithms for rugs, corners, toekicks, mopping, etc and cleans better than any other robot vacuum. Also keeps improving with software updates. 13,000 families use and love Matic. WIRED magazine gave it a 10/10 (the only hardware to receive this rating in a decade) Buy yours at maticrobots.com and if you don't love it after 6 months, we'll give you a full refund. To celebrate our launch, we're cleaning 300 homes with Matic in San Francisco and New York City. Comment "Matic" below, we'll send you the link to sign up and come to your doorstep to clean your home with Matic.

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day. A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on. The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine. And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday. It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

A Stanford researcher put people on a treadmill facing a blank white wall in a small windowless room, gave them a creativity test, and watched their ability to generate new ideas jump by 60% for no reason anyone in the field could explain at the time. The researcher is Marily Oppezzo. Her advisor at Stanford was Daniel Schwartz. In 2014, they published one of the strangest papers ever released by the Stanford Graduate School of Education. The question they wanted to answer sounded almost silly. Every writer, philosopher, and executive in history has claimed they do their best thinking on foot. Nietzsche said all truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. Steve Jobs held his important meetings on walks. Zuckerberg does the same. But nobody had ever put the claim in a lab and stripped it down to see what was actually going on. So Oppezzo built the ugliest possible test. She got a treadmill. Put it in a small room. Faced it toward a blank white wall. No windows. No art. Nothing to look at. If walking made you creative because of scenery, this room was going to kill the effect. Then she brought participants in and gave them a divergent thinking test. They got a normal object like a button, a tire, a brick, and they had 4 minutes to come up with as many creative uses for it as possible. A tire could be a swing. A tire could be a planter. A tire could be a sculpture. The weirder the answer, the better, as long as it actually worked. Each participant did the test twice. Once sitting. Once walking on the treadmill facing the wall. The numbers came in and Oppezzo said in interviews later that she almost did not believe them. 81% of participants got more creative the moment they started walking. On average, creative output jumped 60%. People were producing twice as many usable ideas while walking on a treadmill in a boring room as they were producing at a desk. She kept expecting the outdoor version of the experiment to blow the treadmill version away. Fresh air. Trees. Sunlight. Something. She ran it. It came out almost the same. The treadmill in the empty room did nearly as well as walking through a park. The scenery was not doing the work. The walking was. The mechanism she landed on is the interesting part. Sitting keeps the brain in a controlled, narrow mode. It is good for one type of thinking, the kind where you have a specific problem and need a specific answer. Convergent thinking. The math problem. The debug. The decision between two options. Walking does the opposite. It gently loads the body with a repetitive rhythm that requires almost no conscious attention, and the brain, freed from having to sit still and focus, starts wandering. It makes loose associations. It pulls unrelated ideas together. It generates instead of narrows. The paper called this divergent thinking. It is the raw creative act. The place ideas come from before they get polished. And walking, for reasons neuroscience is still trying to fully explain, turns the dial up on it. The finding that most people miss is what happened next. Participants who walked and then sat back down at a desk kept producing creative ideas for a while after the walk. The boost did not evaporate the moment they stopped moving. It lingered. Which means every writer and executive who takes a walk before sitting down to think was not just enjoying the walk. They were priming the mode of thinking they needed for the next hour of work. Steve Jobs was not being eccentric. He had accidentally discovered a hack the human brain has been waiting for someone to notice. You do not need a forest. You do not need a mountain trail. You do not need a beautiful window. A boring room and a treadmill will get you almost all the way there. The next time you feel stuck at a desk, the answer is not to sit harder. Get up.

An interesting choice of equipment from US Open champion Wyndham Clark as he dials in on the range. Watch Live at the Range: go.theopen.com/LATR