You need to stop and read this again… Warren Buffet’s final words of advice from his very last annual letter 🥹 "One perhaps self-serving observation. I’m happy to say I feel better about the second half of my life than the first. My advice: Don’t beat yourself up over past mistakes – learn at least a little from them and move on. It is never too late to improve. Get the right heroes and copy them. You can start with Tom Murphy; he was the best. Remember Alfred Nobel, later of Nobel Prize fame, who – reportedly – read his own obituary that was mistakenly printed when his brother died and a newspaper got mixed up. He was horrified at what he read and realized he should change his behavior. Don’t count on a newsroom mix-up: Decide what you would like your obituary to say and live the life to deserve it. Greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money, great amounts of publicity or great power in government. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless. Whether you are religious or not, it’s hard to beat The Golden Rule as a guide to behavior. I write this as one who has been thoughtless countless times and made many mistakes but also became very lucky in learning from some wonderful friends how to behave better (still a long way from perfect, however). Keep in mind that the cleaning lady is as much a human being as the Chairman." And then today, his last letter to shareholders as chairman…

This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read 😂 Three hiking novices asked Gemini how to climb 14,179-ft Mount Shasta. It packed them for an 8-hour day. They left camp 3 a.m. They were supposed to summit by 7 p.m. Gemini said pack simple carbs, not fats, because fats “take too long to digest” Horrible advice 😂 Phones died. Backup chargers died. One person blew their knee out. Night fell on them at 11,000 ft in Mud Creek Canyon, with no extra layers. They survived but barely. “We relied too much on AI rather than our own critical thinking.” You think? 😂

Ohh there’s a good back story! Walmart didn’t just “resist” Tap to Pay… they waged a full 12-year cold war against it starting the exact day Apple Pay launched in 2014. They helped lead a secret retailer cartel called MCX that tried to kill Apple Pay with their own competing system called CurrentC, which spectacularly flopped and died. The reason is data. Apple Pay hides your card so the store never sees the real number or full identity. Walmart Pay forces you into their app so every single item you buy is permanently linked to your profile. They wanted surveillance more than customer convenience. They lost!

The full story here is NUTS 🤯 TLDR dude hikes 6.5 hours to avoid a helicopter medical bill impaled while his friends make kebab jokes… > 32yo ER nurse named David is day-hiking Montana’s tallest mountain with his boys
 > He slips on a rock near the top and full-on impales himself on his own trekking pole that goes clean through his lat with like 8 inches sticking out both sides 
> nurse brain kicks in immediately, checks himself, realizes nothing vital got hit and he can still breathe fine
says screw the helicopter bill and just starts hiking the entire 10 miles back down with the pole still stuck in him
 > takes SIX AND A HALF hours, friends are spotting him the whole way, one even runs ahead to warn families so kids don’t see this gnarly shit
 > about 4 miles from the car they realize they’re actually gonna make it… and start cracking kebab jokes 😂
 > dude never complained once, stayed in weirdly high spirits the whole time
 > walks himself all the way to the trailhead, gets the pole pulled out later at the hospital, and already says he’s going back next year to finish the summit

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