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Don't Rush Me

 

On Thursday, April 23, 2026, President Trump declined to provide a timeline for concluding the military conflict with Iran, telling reporters at the White House, "Don't rush me". Addressing questions about the duration of the war, which has exceeded initial estimates, Trump stated he was under "no pressure" to finish and argued he has only been engaged for six weeks.


 

Looks just like I remember it.

It took roughly the same amount of electricity to generate this image as it does to fully charge a modern smartphone.




Why do I feel Schadenfreude when you mess up?




Grubhub Roulette


Ordering from Grubhub is a gamble. The company provides no insurance for its drivers, and many rely on personal policies that don’t cover delivery work. If a Grubhub driver damages your property, you’re often on your own.

Other platforms like Uber Eats and DoorDash at least provide limited coverage during active deliveries, making them a safer alternative.




While the NFL's $23 billion empire currently dwarfs the MLS's $2.5 billion market, football faces a looming demographic threat at the grassroots level. Soccer acts as the ultimate semillero—a youth incubator that attracts children and their parents at a much earlier age, largely due to safety concerns and accessibility. If the American soccer pipeline can manage to retain the country's best young athletes before they ever put on pads, it could fundamentally shift the domestic talent pool. Ultimately, securing these premier athletes early on would elevate the speed, skill, and overall appeal of U.S. soccer, slowly draining the athletic pipeline that makes the NFL so spectacular.






Management consultant and author Peter Drucker coined the term knowledge worker in his 1959 book Landmarks of Tomorrow to describe people who use their knowledge and expertise to get work done. Today, AI is making knowledge more accessible to everyone, so success is becoming less about what you know and more about how you use it.




About the upcoming Anthropic and ChatGPT IPO's.

Bull: Anthropic and ChatGPT become the enterprise AI platforms of record, maintaining a technological lead that enterprises are willing to pay a premium for.

Bear: AI models become commoditized by open source, local hardware, and platform integration, causing most of the industry's economic value to flow to ecosystem owners (Google, Microsoft, Apple) and agent/orchestration platforms rather than standalone model companies.



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