When you look back, you’ll wish you’d just done the long-term version of everything.

“Advocates for absolute religious freedom should yield to the reality that in a nation with citizens of many different religious beliefs or disbeliefs, the government must sometimes limit the right of some to act upon some of their beliefs when it is necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of all.” —President Dallin H. Oaks, “Faith, Freedom, and the Common Good,” National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

During my address this week at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., I shared that living together in peace requires goodwill among those who differ. Knowing that we are all children of God gives us a divine vision of the worth of all others. I pray to our Heavenly Father for His blessings upon us that we will all seek to be peacemakers.

I was honored to share my thoughts on artificial intelligence in this @diplocourier article. AI is an important topic, and it is something I feel strongly needs moral compass. If you have a moment, I invite you to read the article, and I’d love to hear what you think. diplomaticourier.com/posts/a…

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…

Patterns of unhappy people: - Need social approval - Are reliably unreliable - Feel sorry for themselves - Choose comfort over truth - Refuse to learn from others - Spend more then they make - Use chemicals to alter mood - Make everything about them - Resent the success of others - Confuse motion with progress - Confuse cynicism with intelligence - Promiscious with their attention - Always in love with their first idea - Are alwasy too smart to look stupid - Need to learn everything from mistakes - Build a life that looks better than it feels - Protect their potential by never testing it - Stay loyal to decisions that no longer make sense - Win arguments at the expense of the relationships - Standards for others and explanations for themselves Not a good place to be.

Days of Thunder. Summer 2028.

Be a chainbreaker - Dad’s are everything ❤️

LeBron James

“Elon didn’t earn that money.”

New @TheRewatchables — ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ with me, @SeanFennessey and special guest Steven Spielberg. I mean…. Watch/listen on Spotify (or Netflix) ⬇️⬇️⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/27m…

"No one tells you running is 10 percent cardio and 90 percent negotiating with the voice begging you to quit." - David Dack @DavidDack

Dillon Brooks the greatest hater of all time. He showed up courtside to watch LeBron get swept. This guy is a super villain.

"..we favor businesses and industries unlikely to experience major change." Buffett

Focus is a competitive advantage.

Capitalism is so goated that communists can make millions criticizing capitalism. Lesson there.

Optimism is contagious. Drive is contagious. So are cynicism and complaining.

Financial Times perfectly illustrates our possible futures

I love this idea from Tobi Lutke: “I take the view that I'm a corporate raider. That Shopify went bankrupt and I bought it on a fire sale and I'm marching in on day one, and that previous management was crazy and we need to turn this place around.”