The other day, I was walking through a certain Florida theme park—a place built on the legacy of a man who invented beloved characters and vertically integrated his creative vision—when my daughter, Mary, said, “I wish this was Netflix World.” She was quietly humming a song from her latest obsession, K-Pop Demon Hunter. It was
🏍️ Mastering the Terrain: Body Position Secrets for Adventure Bike Riders The rise of the Adventure Bike (ADV) has opened up a thrilling new world of motorcycling, blending the speed of pavement with the ruggedness of off-road trails. But truly excelling on an ADV requires a diverse skillset—a blend of techniques borrowed from different two-wheeled
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The current hype surrounding general-purpose humanoid robots entirely dismisses a fundamental engineering reality: the power density problem. Power density, which is the amount of energy that can be stored per unit of weight (or volume) in a battery, is woefully inadequate to run the kind of powerful, modern AI required for general-purpose tasks. A robot
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🏭 Lights-Out Lessons: Why Auto Plants Prove We Don’t Need Humanoid Robots In 2014, General Motors gave me a tour of the giant Lake Orion plant North of Detroit. Because of automation, the facility was using only about a quarter of the space it was originally built for. Factories have gotten dramatically smaller over time
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Tim Snyder provides a rich background on Ukraine and it’s relationship with the kingdoms before Russia, all the way up to the modern day. He also argues that the war in Ukraine isn’t really about “getting the band back together” (Soviet Union), it’s more about embarrassing Ukraine and showing his own people that Russians are
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From time to time, I still go back and watch this series of reporting by Simon Ostrovsky from Vice News in 2014 during the Russian invasion of Crimea. I remember watching it each day as the situation in Crimea was unfolding. Simon Ostrovsky is such a bad ass for just wondering around and asking Russian
The last few days of news have pained an interesting narrative. This is not financial advice, and it’s also not timing the market, it’s just analyzing data. I’m analyzing the current state of affairs. I haven’t seen this narritve discussed on Bloomberg or CNBC, two financial news sources I pay attention to. Here’s what I
Sometimes, when I’m in public, I look around at all of the random people I don’t know, and I truly celebrate our existence. I take a second to appreciate us. Us! We are literally amazing. We’re all obviously the outcome of 330,000 years of modern human brains doing the impossible to give us existence. And,
One time, I’d had a few drinks and I was sitting with a group of acquaintances and they asked if I believed in God. I tried not to answer, but they kept pushing me. Without me answering, they detected wavering and assumed the worst. They asked “what would you have to see to to believe!?!?”
On one side of this argument, people see billionaires and are disgusted with it. I get it, with Elon Musk in the news almost everyday, it strikes me as similar to the royal family in the UK. On the other side of this argument, there are people that say we shouldn’t tax wealth because it’s