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Steve Jobs’ secret to winning: It’s better to be a pirate than join the navy.
Being a pirate meant moving fast, unencumbered by bureaucracy and politics. It meant being audacious and courageous, willing to take considerable risks for greater rewards.
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Stock Buying checklist from Philip Fisher
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Kalshi COO and the world's youngest self-made female billionaire Luana Lopes Lara on why waiting for the "right time" is just a way of sabotaging yourself.
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Stanley Druckenmiller on how great traders think about risk
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Avoid self-destructive behavior as an investor:
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A day in the life of a Wall Street fixed income salesman, in his own words:
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David Paul argues that for 95% of traders, the problem isn't their strategy. It's their position sizing
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Warren Buffett:
“All these economists with 160 IQs and spending their life studying it. And can you name me one super wealthy economist who’s ever earned money out of securities? No.”
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Citadel's Ken Griffin says AI now powers roughly 25% of U.S. stock trading
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❗️The anti-aging and human enhancement race has gone geopolitical.
Governments are treating longevity as a strategic technology.
🇷🇺 Russia committed $26B. Putin made longevity a national priority: organ printing, genetics, cryotherapy.
🇨🇳 China’s biotech plan targets gene therapies, brain-computer interfaces, and AI-designed medicines.
🇦🇪 The UAE launched a national longevity initiative backed by sovereign wealth, offering some of the world’s fastest clinical approvals.
🇸🇬 Singapore is funding longevity research and recruiting elite biotech founders from around the globe.
Meanwhile, the private sector is moving even faster:
• Life Biosciences injected the first reverse-aging therapy into a human.
• NewLimit raised $435M to pursue age reprogramming.
• Retro Biosciences secured $1.8B to extend healthy lifespan.
• Isomorphic Labs raised $2.1B to use AI for drug discovery.
• Neuralink already has 21 human implants. Merge Labs entered the race with $252M.
• Altos Labs launched with $3B backing cellular rejuvenation.
Every major power. Every top biotech founder. Every serious AI lab. They’re all converging on the same objective: Extending human capability and healthy lifespan.
The longevity race has officially begun.
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“You don’t need a genius IQ to win at investing. You need discipline and the courage to be realistic.” — Warren Buffett
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“Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.” - Warren Buffett
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Mastercard $MA is one of the cleanest setups to outperform the S&P over the next 5 years.
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What’s going on in Japan?
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Jensen Huang is telling everyone what to buy.
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Annual returns for Mastercard since 2010:
🔴 2010: -12.73%
🟢 2011: +68.76%
🟢 2012: +33.36%
🟢 2013: +63.73%
🟢 2014: +3.30%
🟢 2015: +13.63%
🟢 2016: +8.90%
🟢 2017: +43.62%
🟢 2018: +24.19%
🟢 2019: +57.37%
🟢 2020: +17.65%
🟢 2021: +2.23%
🔴 2022: -6.26%
🟢 2023: +22.98%
🟢 2024: +24.81%
🟢 2025: +9.28%
🔴 2026: -12.77%
Mastercard is currently having it's worst year in the last 15 years.
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Me everytime the market pulls back 1.5%:
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Sergey Brin thought retirement would be the reward.
In 2020, the Google co-founder stepped away with enough wealth to do virtually anything. His plan? Relax, spend time in cafés, study physics, and enjoy life after decades of building one of the world’s most influential companies.
Then the pandemic hit.
The cafés closed. The world shut down. And something unexpected happened.
Brin found himself drifting. Without difficult problems to solve, teams to work with, or ambitious goals to chase, he felt his mind losing its edge. He later admitted he was spiraling and not feeling as sharp as he was used to being.
So he returned to Google.
Not because he needed the money. Not because the company needed rescuing. Because he needed a challenge.
What started as spending time on an unnamed AI project eventually became Gemini — Google’s flagship AI model and one of the company’s biggest bets for the future.
Looking back, Brin says staying retired would have been a mistake.
His experience reveals something many people never consider: the problem isn’t always work itself. Sometimes it’s the absence of purpose, curiosity, and meaningful challenges that weighs heavier.
For Sergey Brin, retirement wasn’t freedom. Building again was.
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Millennials and Gen Z are wealthier at age 34 than previous generations were at the same age:
🟨 Millennials/Gen Z: $347,000
⬜ Gen X: $283,000
🟧 Baby Boomers: $257,000
That’s roughly 23% more wealth than Gen X and 35% more than Baby Boomers, adjusted for inflation.
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Trading psychologist Rande Howell on why most traders self-destruct:
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Peter Tuchman says some of the biggest mistakes on Wall Street start with easy money
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Charlie Munger on the difference between today's tech giants and the Nifty50 bubble:
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Isaac Newton lost a third of his $6 million fortune in the 1720 market crash
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Spacex conducts record-breaking IPO
SpaceX has gone public, raising $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation. This marks the largest initial public offering ever recorded.
As a result, Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire. The event is notable not only for its financial scale but also for its significance to the technology and space industries.
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Semiconductors now make up 19% of total hedge fund net exposure.
This is the most concentrated hedge funds have ever been in one single sector.
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Warren Buffett says the best inflation hedge isn’t gold, real estate, or railroads. It’s a business that barely needs any capital.
His favorite example? See’s Candy. Berkshire bought it decades ago, invested very little additional money, and it went on to generate around $1.5 billion in pre-tax profits.
Why does Buffett love businesses like this? Because when prices rise, they can make more money without constantly pouring cash into inventory, equipment, or operations. His dream business is even simpler: A royalty business that just collects a percentage of someone else’s sales every month. No inventory. No factories. No headaches.
Charlie Munger joked that it took them years to fully appreciate this lesson.
Buffett agreed: “Continuous learning is absolutely required.” So why does Berkshire own railroads today? Not because Buffett changed his mind. Because there simply aren’t enough See’s Candies in the world to invest Berkshire’s mountain of cash.
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“If returns are going to be 7 or 8 percent and you’re paying 1 percent for fees, that makes an enormous difference in how much money you’re going to have in retirement.” - Warren Buffett
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"If you want to be successful in business and in life, you have to create more than you consume." - Jeff Bezos
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7 Important Financial Ratios to Learn:
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