Ben Horowitz on the rap group he started at 18, and why hip-hop became the source material for how he thinks about business: "I was probably 12 when Rapper's Delight came out... The first one where I was really like, 'Oh, this is gonna be very different,' was when Run-DMC's Hard Times came out. This has a whole other feel to it than anything I've heard." "The thing that made me locked into hip-hop: I went to school in New York. I have this friend who I grew up with who had gotten shot in the face in some kind of gun accident, and he was blind... I'd call home to my mom: 'Is he gonna be okay?' She's like, 'He hasn't spoken to anybody since he's been shot.'" "Being a dumb 18-year-old kid, I was like, 'Hip-hop is so great. You can have nothing and you'll rap about your shoes. He needs that feeling.' So I would record the DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chill Out show. Everybody else would be out Saturday night, and I'd be recording. And I would send him the tapes." "Then I called home to see how he's doing, and they're like, 'Well, he's talking now, but all he'll talk about is hip-hop.'" "When I went out that summer, we started a hip-hop group called The Blind and Def Crew. Blind and D-E-F. We rapped about being blind. I wrote most of the lyrics: 'The Blind Def Crew, you know we're fly. Three of us, but we got four eyes.'" "Hip-hop is very business oriented, particularly in the early days. When I started writing on business, so many of the ideas came from those old hip-hop songs. So I started putting the lyrics at the top of the post to give credit where credit was due." @bhorowitz w/ @MotownIni

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A little Chinese girl ran into a blind gentleman and his guide dog. 👧-"How old is he?" 👨‍🦰-"Almost 8." 👧-"He's so big! I thought he was 12." 👨‍🦰-"Haha, he'd retire at 12!" 👧-"When he retires, will your eyes be healed?" 👨‍🦰-"Thank you for your blessing. I think they will." She doesn't understand the limits of medicine, but in the purest way possible, she lights up a miracle of restored sight.

Neuralink is planning its first Blindsight implant later this year, aiming to restore limited vision even for people who have lost both eyes, their optic nerve, or were born blind Over time, it could potentially go beyond that and offer enhanced or even superhuman vision

The headset crackled at 2:47 AM. I was a 22-year-old airman on radio watch at Yokota Air Base. The voice on the other end was a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force pilot flying blind over Sendai in zero visibility. His fuel was critical. Every single Japanese runway in the region was flooded, cratered, or without lights. His superiors couldn't be reached. He switched from flight English to his own language and whispered one phrase into the sky: "Tasukete kudasai." — Please help me. A dozen American airmen in that tower froze. Our commander's eyes went wet. The master sergeant next to me — a 25-year veteran who had flown in Desert Storm — slammed his hand on the console and shouted so loud the headsets rattled: "LIGHT THE WHOLE DAMN RUNWAY. CLEAR EVERY STRIP WE HAVE. OUR BROTHER IS COMING HOME TONIGHT." Within 90 seconds, Yokota lit up like Las Vegas. Every available fire truck lined the runway. Every available medic was standing by. NOBODY tells Americans what happened in the radio tower at Yokota that night. March 11, 2011. 2:47 AM. 7 hours after the quake. A JASDF F-2 pilot had been airborne for hours searching for survivors. Every runway on his home island was unusable. He wasn't allowed by protocol to land at a US base without approval. Protocol was dead that night. Did Yokota tower stand on bureaucracy and send him away? NOT. A. CHANCE. They cleared him in under 90 seconds. They lit every landing light they had. They scrambled fire crews and medics in case the fuel-starved F-2 crashed short. He touched down with 60 seconds of fuel left. When he climbed down from the cockpit, the Japanese pilot — a stoic career officer twice my age — walked straight up to our master sergeant. He didn't salute. He didn't bow. He hugged him. And he wept. The master sergeant whispered back in broken Japanese: "Arigato for trusting us, brother. You are home." That is the United States Air Force. That is what "ally" actually means at 2:47 in the morning.