Machiavelli says necessity is what impels men to take action and once necessity is gone, only rot and decay remain You can't be hungry with a full belly We must stay hungry Onwards brothers to the bull market

Built, Not Bestowed (September 12, 2026) Many people treat wealth as a finish line: get rich, stop working, and enjoy life every day . Those who actually built it rarely see it that way. For them, money is not the end of the work but proof that the work was never only about money. It was about a standard they refused to lower, a problem they could not ignore, a future they had already seen and could not unsee. Philosophy has long drawn this line: pleasure can be consumed; purpose has to be practiced. Comfort asks what you can stop doing. Character asks what you still owe the thing you started. That is why some people grow quieter after success, and others grow more serious. Wealth can buy rest. It cannot tell you whether rest is what you were made for. From the outside, the result is easy to misname. Calling it “luck” costs nothing. It also hides the part most people never see—years of hard work, patience and perseverance, the judgment, the countless late nights, the vision that kept them moving when comfort would have been enough. Luck can hand someone a prize. It cannot teach them how to keep it, grow it, or stay hungry after the prize is already in the room. If you became rich tomorrow, would you stop working—or would you keep building? @cantonmeow @HeidingOut @sheslee @Jimmy_tesla_01 @Hiteshp99

steve jobs built the most valuable company on earth while making choices about his own mortality and his own family that the official narrative still struggles to explain: october 2003. diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. rare, treatable, operable. he delayed surgery for 9 months while trying a fruitarian diet, acupuncture, and herbal remedies. he later told walter isaacson he believed the delay let the cancer spread… his biological father was abdulfattah jandali, a syrian graduate student in wisconsin. jandali later ran a reno restaurant where jobs dined multiple times without either of them knowing. he met his biological sister, novelist mona simpson, for the first time at age 30 paternity of his first daughter lisa was established in a 1980 court case with a 94.1% DNA match. jobs publicly denied for years that she was his. then named the apple lisa computer after her while still denying it he was fired from the company he founded in september 1985 at age 30. the CEO he had personally recruited from pepsi with the line "do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life" cast the decisive vote june 12 2005 at stanford he gave the commencement address. opened by announcing he had cancer. closed with "stay hungry, stay foolish." delivered 14 months after his first surgery. he never sounded sick march 21 2009. liver transplant at methodist university hospital in memphis. he waited in tennessee for a donor match because its transplant list was shorter than california's he parked his silver mercedes in handicapped spaces at the apple campus and drove without a license plate. leased an identical car every 6 months to exploit a california rule that gave new vehicles 6 months before plates were required he dropped out of reed college after one semester in 1972 but kept auditing classes. a calligraphy class he sat in on, years later, became every proportional-spaced font the macintosh shipped october 5 2011, palo alto. respiratory arrest, age 56. his sister mona simpson's eulogy reported his final words: "oh wow. oh wow. oh wow." the man who convinced a generation that design was how something worked made some of the most consequential choices of his own life against his own best interests. and the company he built kept going anyway. which steve jobs story still surprises you?