The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh to the Fed board as April CPI printed 3.8%, the hottest since May 2023, with the chair vote expected today. Trump landed in Beijing for a summit with Xi on trade, Iran, and Taiwan. Somali pirates hijacked three ships in ten days as the Red Sea becomes a second no-go zone alongside Hormuz. The UK's 30-year gilt yield hit its highest level since 1998 as 83 Labour MPs called for Starmer to resign.
“The conversations you keep avoiding are the ones your future self wishes you'd had today.”
“You will not remember most of today. But someone in your life will remember the way you made them feel. Lead with that.”
“Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between a real threat and an imagined one. But you can. That distinction is the entire game.”
April CPI printed 3.8% headline and real wages turned negative for the first time in three years, which means Americans are getting poorer in absolute terms while the incoming…
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“To know and not to act is not yet to know.”
— Wang Yangming
Identify one thing you have known you need to do for more than three days. Do not plan it further. Do it today, even partially, even imperfectly. The doing is not the result of the knowing. It is…
In 1880, Oliver Heaviside described a problem that every electrical engineer encounters on the first day and never fully escapes: when a signal passes between two systems with different impedance characteristics, most of the energy reflects back…
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