Aaron Gleeman Quits The Athletic, Gains 1k Paid Subs
6:00 AM CT - @AaronGleeman announced he has left The Athletic rather than be reassigned off Twins beat 10:00 AM CT - he tells @FOS he already has nearly 1k paid subs 🤯 https://t.co/DIoLQc92X1
California's Job Market Pivots to Healthcare, Lower Wages
"Forget AI. The California job market is powered by healthcare" https://t.co/JtusUDsgVe "States such as Idaho are adding jobs in both high- and low-wage sectors. California is undergoing a great labor market transformation towards lower-paid work." https://t.co/t1r2Ff7Rby
Build Sustainable Competitive Advantage with Proven Moat Strategies
📚2048 Ventures Blog Post: A Complete Guide to Business MOATS https://t.co/tU7FGtyZK2 @2048vc // #startuphacks // #VC
Expose the Flaw in Hormozi-Style Cold Emails
Going to start selling an ebook called “Why this doesn’t work” and send it to every Hormozi follower that ends their mindless carbon copy cold emails with “worth a quick chat?”
KKR's BDC Suffers $560M Loss, Private Credit Warning
While Wall Street obsesses over Micron's parabolic 38% week and Nasdaq racing toward record highs, the most important market story today is buried in a 7am press release. FS KKR Capital, the second-largest publicly traded BDC and flagship of KKR's...
Dividends Come From Cash Flow, Not Free Money
Dividends are not free money. They are paid out of free cash flow. Let’s look at the example pictured below. We see three example stocks listed with their 2025 dividend per share listed and their 2025 free cash flow per share listed. When someone...
Identify Audience Barriers to Build Powerful Content Pillars
What is standing between your audience and the outcome you deliver? The thing they need to unlearn, understand, or have in place before your work can actually do its job? That's a content pillar, and you should be creating content all around...
Integration Costs Shift to RPA as APIs Become Liabilities
Software ships at near-zero marginal cost. The maintenance tail does not. Every API is a liability the moment it ships, and a finite R&D budget can only service so much of yesterday's surface area before next quarter's earnings call wins...
Free Bloomberg Terminal Clone Built in Minutes, No Setup
A Bloomberg Terminal costs $30,000 a year. Someone just built one for free. In minutes. With no local setup.
Four Unconventional Policies May Counter Rising Economic Tension
Price controls Nationalization Financial repression Fiscal-monetary coordination @GitaGopinath warns that all four of these policies might form a heterodox response to our current situation of high economic tension. https://t.co/4BUheOAiko
World Indifferent to Hormuz Closure, Shipping Adapts Anyway
Nothing would be better for my maritime media business than pumping doom and gloom: the world is over if the Strait of Hormuz doesn’t reopen. The mainstream press is happy to write that story. I’m not. Yes, the situation is bad. But...
Banks Overstated Tariff Risks; Rollbacks Reveal Bias
Everyone and their mother at investment banks screamed about how tariffs would increase inflation and decrease growth last year, while literally no one seems to care about the impact now that they’re basically being rolled back. I don’t think I’ve...
Turning Postpartum Skepticism Into Women’s Health Unicorn
Imagine pitching the company that would eventually become the first unicorn in women’s health, only to have investors laugh in your face at the word "postpartum". On the latest Lifers, @_KateRyder and I go deep on what it actually...
UP-NS Merger Would Give One Firm 50% Rail Control
"A combined UP-NS could place nearly 50% of U.S. freight rail traffic in the hands of a single company that already has a troubled history of abusing market power to the detriment of American businesses & workers.."...
Goldman Sachs Lifts 2026 Nickel Forecast on Supply Squeeze
May 11 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs raised its 2026 average nickel price forecast to $18,500 per metric ton from $17,200 on Monday, citing tighter Indonesian supply due to reduced ore quota allocations and sulfur shortages.
True Founder Pride: Building a Self-Sustaining Business
The proudest thing a founder can say isn't "I built this." It's "I built this so well it doesn't need me anymore.”
AI Writes Code, Humans Run Forecasting Operations
AI can generate forecasting code. AI cannot install a high-performance forecasting operation inside a company. That still requires a person. Learn how to implement a Forecast Operating System (that your company will actually use). 👉 Register here (500 seats): https://learn.business-science.io/join
Rising Gas Prices Push Long‑Commute Employees to Quit
Notice: Your Employees With A Long Commute Are About To Quit (Because gas prices increase turnover) @DrJohnSullivan https://t.co/m2HOVE6qVZ #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Derivatives Pros Label Michael Selig the Market Joker
“Miller said out loud what a growing number of derivatives professionals, people who actually hedge corn, crude, Treasuries, and currencies for a living, have been muttering for months. Michael Selig is in fact behaving like the joker in a deck...
Buffett’s $100K Salary Shows Purpose Trumps Pay
Buffett takes $100,000 a year in salary. He doesn't ask the board if that's fair. He doesn't need to. "Money has no utility to me." Most CEOs optimize their comp package. He optimized his purpose decades ago. The salary was never the point.
Met Gala Sells Status, Not the Dinner
In English: the Met Gala isn't selling dinners. It's selling association. With a museum, with celebrities, with taste, with status. The meal is incidental; the signaling is the product. https://t.co/NTB0RbMpY9
AJC CEO Resigns After Missing 500k Subscriber Target
NEWS: Andrew Morse steps down as CEO of Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He had set a goal of 500,000 digital subscribers. It's up to 101K. "We set a very ambitious goal," Morse says. "It's still very achievable... What's changed is the timing." My story: https://t.co/HBFq0HUc2b
First Look Inside Cog House: $100B Future Unveiled
the inside story of the legendary Cog House. i believe there have not been any public photos of this place until now (bc we were explicitly not allowed to lol) as an advisor its been awe inspiring to see this company...
OpenAI Deployment Company Launches to Help Businesses Deploy AI
i should start the bens bites ben deployment company to help non-technical people become builders catchy
Adapt or Risk Obsolescence in AI-Driven Workplace
AI is not simply replacing jobs. It is changing how work gets done, which skills matter and how companies are structured. The biggest risk may not be AI itself. It may be failing to adapt to the transition. https://t.co/cU4eQH1gNC
Wrexham Stadium Expansion Opening Date Finally Announced
@VancityReynolds and @RMcElhenney Reveal the Definitive Opening Date for Wrexham’s Stadium Expansion [Exclusive] They also share updates on Deadpool and Mac's Far Cry series with Noah Hawley. https://t.co/vgMmotqLmU
Andrew Morse Departs as AJC President and Publisher
Scoop: Andrew Morse is leaving Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he has served as president and publisher.
Honest Self‑assessment Fuels Growth; Digital Twins Accelerate Evolution
No one is exempt from this process. Having it go well depends on people's abilities to make frank assessments of strengths and weaknesses (most importantly weaknesses). While it's generally as difficult for managers to give this feedback as it is...
Private-Sector Spending Reshapes Economy Beyond Past Stimulus
3/ This private-sector spend is tectonic. Instead of financial engineering, we’re seeing a fundamental re-tooling of the economy. The scale of this investment dwarfs traditional "stimulus" and creates a floor for this cycle that didn't exist in '98. https://t.co/MLigMBxeIO
Promotion Rewards Those Who Scale Beyond Individual Contributions
I have found that the people I've been able to promote over the years have been the ones who are able to scale beyond their own individual contributions. Unfortunately, many people may be great ICs but cannot scale themselves.
AI Shifts Engineering Management Focus, Not Playbook
Should tech managers and leaders run the same engineering playbook with AI in the mix? The ideas might be the same, but the focus is probably different. This @InfoQ piece looks at topics like team metrics, skills development, and guardrails. https://t.co/Tt5YEK3x5J
Schools Earn $200K; $1M Prize Sparks Attendance Race
According to a copy of the event contract that I just obtained via Open Records, the *schools* will also get $200,000 for participating. Winning team gets an extra $150,000 (runner up gets $50,000) Bracket is anticipated to be Neb/Florida vs Penn...
College Tuition Outpaced by Inflation over Last Decade
Here's something most ppl probably don't realize: College tuition has been rising much slower than the overall pace of inflation the past 10 years Seems like good news https://t.co/W4ZPR7WyuH
Trump's Iran War Tactics Undermine US Gulf and European Alliances
With his conduct of the Iran war, Trump is lighting on fire US alliances in the Persian Gulf and Europe. Speaking on MS NOW. https://t.co/xrxgf5Rrgs
Seeking Early Team for Model Optimization Challenge
Mountain: identified. Time to climb. Looking for the early team: low level model optimization and post-training. DM.
Stop Chasing Attention,
The stark reality of getting your name out there + driving revenue through thought leadership: Sooner or later, you have to turn around and face your own ideas. Most people don't want to look directly at it. (h/t Brannan Sirratt...
Amazon Quick Auto-Selects Optimal Models, Freeing IT Teams
The complexity of model selection is growing. Amazon Quick’s ability to self-optimize and select the best-fit model for a task allows IT teams to focus on outcomes rather than backend orchestration. https://t.co/DnLd1tKYSx #CIO #WhatsNextWithAWS #AI #Cloud #ITOps
Antler Residency Launches Zeya Health Amid Funding Crunch
Raising as a first-time founder isn’t easy—especially in a tight funding market. In Ep. 249, Agastya Samat shares how Zeya Health got started through Antler’s 90-day founder residency program. Listen here 👇 https://t.co/9v8A7YZVAs https://t.co/dEFcCzBRfQ
China’s Free‑Trade Push Beats US Protectionism
My take in @FortuneMagazine on China’s FREE TRADE INITIATIVES: “China has eliminated tariffs on African partners, fast-tracking Chinese investment in India, and exporting open-source AI through DeepSeek. While Washington builds walls, Beijing opens doors." https://t.co/ylMhrtrfhr
Greg Abel Emerges as Berkshire’s Next Transformative CEO
Adam @BRK_Student Mead on: * Why Greg Abel Already Looks Like Berkshire Hathaway’s Next Great CEO * Berkshire Hathaway Buybacks: Is Greg Abel Paying More Than Buffett Would? * Why EBITDA Is the ‘Instagram Filter’ of Finance * Could AI Become a Threat to...
STRZ Targets Early 20% EBITDA, Reduced Cash Spend
$STRZ Starting to see cash content spending coming down (big part of original thesis)... voluntarily terminated pay 2 window with universal, originals launching, etc. Expect to hit 20% EBITDA margin target a year early (2027 vs. 2028) and leverage target by yearend...
Europe’s US Exports Shrinking at Pandemic‑crisis Pace
Europe's exports to the US are contracting at a similar rate to what we saw during the 2020 pandemic and the 2008 financial crisis. Via StanChart: https://t.co/glkSUbAlPG
Allstate Grants Offer Real Capital, Not Just Exposure
Founders keep saying they’re tired of “exposure only” cohorts and accelerator programs with no actual capital attached… Well, I found one that’s putting MONEY on the table. 👀 🧵👇 The 2026 Allstate Main Street Grants Program is officially open through Hello Alice in...
DraftKings Switches to Value‑Based Per‑Contract Fees
DraftKings Predictions is moving from a commission structure to a variable fee based on contract price, effective today; this change is "designed to better align fees with contract value," the company wrote in an email to customers New fee structure (per...
College Tuition Outpaces Inflation by Threefold
College tuition is up 672% over the last 40 years. Overall inflation? +198%. This isn’t normal. This isn’t sustainable. This isn’t a good thing. https://t.co/PGwigPNTS1
Nintendo's $13.3B Cash Pile Could Fund 40 yearsNintendo's $13
Nintendoomed? As per Friday's earnings, Nintendo sits on US$13.3B in cash+highly liquid investments (even under the terrible currency rate now). So even if Nintendo lost US$1M per day, they could theoretically continue operating until 2062 in the current configuration. $NTDOY
Stopping Solo Courses Because They're Too Effective
I’m discontinuing all of my standalone courses. 😬 And it's not because any of them are outdated or “stopped working.” Honestly, it's the opposite.
Mittal Urges Focus on India, Ditch Gold Obsession
Sunil Mittal spent billions chasing global acquisitions. Now he says: double down on India and end the obsession with gold that drains foreign exchange.
Searchers Now Demand Answers, Not Just Links
A new generation of searchers is conditioning itself to expect answers, not links. That behavioral shift matters more than any product launch Google announced in April. https://t.co/JwF0FVoHTQ via @gregjarboe, @sejournal
NFL Adds More Broadcast Games in 2026, Fox Gains Slots
NFL now expected to have even more games on broadcast TV in 2026 than it did in 2025 Fox has been going hard after more of these available games, and gets two more standalone windows. Was making a push early on...