In 2009 we had a too big to fail tailwind for established companies In this era of government, we have a too important to not succeed mandate for smaller companies Golden era for venture capital and entrepreneurs in critical industries

In 2009, Charlie Rose asked Jensen Huang about Nvidia vs. Intel. The chipmakers weren’t directly competing but Jensen said GPU vs. CPU was a “battle for the soul” of computing and GPUs would be “more relevant” in time. Intel was worth $100B and Nvidia was at $4B. Today, Intel is at $565B while Nvidia is worth over 1,200x more at $5 trillion.

In 2009, Berkshire Hathaway share was down 50% from it’s peak. Charlie Munger was asked about how he felt about this. Listen to his Cold Blooded answer 🥶 Reporter: “How worried are you by the 50% decline in the Berkshire Hathaway share?” Charlie: “Zero. This is the 3rd time that Warren and I have seen our stock holdings fall by 50% or more.” “In fact, you should react with equanimity to market price decline of 50% or more in your portfolio at-least 2-3 times a century.” “If you don’t, you’re not fit to be a common shareholder and you deserve the mediocre results you’re going to get. 🔥

OTD (2009): Much deserved, Jet 👏 Jason Terry was named the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year after averaging 19.6 points, 2.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.3 steals in 33.6 minutes of action. @AcmeBrick // #MFFL#

In 2009, an anonymous inventor created the "token", you contribute computing power, earn tokens, and they circulate, gain value, and trade within a consensus network. The crypto economy was born. More than a decade later, debate over their value still rages. In 2025, a man in a leather jacket redefined the token. Now you contribute computing power, produce tokens and they are instantly consumed in AI inference and reasoning, thinking, coding, making decisions. The AI economy accelerated overnight. Two tokens, same name, same structure. Compute in, value out.

FB marketplace find £20 2009 MacBook in immaculate condition but the HDD was dead. Chucked a 256GB SSD in there along with Ubuntu 24. Thought I would use it as an additional red team box for experiments, siloed, running @pidotdev and being driven by Deepseek V4 0731 Flash from the dual spark cluster. I should install Kali really. Let the fun begin 😎